21 MARCH 1840, Page 5

On Monday night, Mr. John Templeman, an elderly man of

small property, living in a cottage in Pocoek's Fields, Islington, near the Barnsbury Road, was murdered, by persons whose object evidently was plunder. Mr. Templeman, though really in narrow circumstances, wished to have his neighbours suppose that lie had hoarded money and was very wealthy. On Monday last, he went out to collect rents of houses due to him ; and when he came home in the evening, told a woman who was in the habit of preparing his meals and cleaning his room, that his tenants had paid him in silver. He appears to have gone to bed at the usual time ; but on Tuesday morning, the daughter of the woman having called at Mr. Templeman's cottage with some writing- paper he had ordered to he bought, found the door fastened and the shutters down. She told her mother ; who went to the cottage, and, looking through the window of the bedroom, on the ground-floor, saw the body of Mr. Templeman, his hands tied together with a cord, a bloody stocking fastened over his eyes, and his bead smashed and bleeding. Instead of going to a policeman, she waited till eleven o'clock ; when her son-in-law, Francis Cipriani, a Frenchman, and private watchman at Sadler's Wells Theatre, called upon her ; and she acquainted him with the circumstances. Cipriani went to Mr. Her- bert Teinpieman, grandson of the deceased, a solicitor, residing in Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square ; but said nothing of the murder to the Police; who, however, soon obtained information of it, and pro- ceeded to the premises. Cipriani was taken before the Hatton Garden Magistrates, and remanded on suspicion ; but on Wednesday he was re- leased, there really being no evidence against him. Three other per- sons have since been arrested,— Richard Gould, a man of bad charac- ter, and John and Mary Ann Jarvis. Gould was known to be intimate with the woman Jarvis. From evidence given on Wednesday at the Hatton Garden Office, it appears that Gould was out nearly all Monday night; that he was seen washing blood-stains of his clothes on Tuesday morning by Mary Anne Allen, at whose house lie lodged; and that lie made use of several expressions which struck her as strange—such as that " many poor fellows would rather be hung than transported," and that he did not believe in the Bible. A stocking con- taining 41. 19s. in silver was found concealed in the roof of Mary Allen's cottage. At Jarvis's, the bed-clothes were stained with blood ; and a chisel was found, which fitted marks in the windows of Temple-

man's cottage, which it appeared had been forced open. Other minute circumstances were mentioned tending to increase the suspicions against the prisoners ; and they were remanded, till further evidence could be procured. Gould, Jarvis, and his wife, are all about the same age— twenty-four.

On Thursday, the prisoners were again brought up ; and Allen, at whose house Gould lodged, stated some particulars of Gould's move-

ments on Monday and Tuesday, tending, though but slightly, to in- crease the weight of testimony against hon. The most important cir- cumstance was the disappearance of a sharp knife on Monday. Allen

gave his testimony very much like a person eager for the convic-

tion of the prisoner. Gould said that the stains of blood on his clothes were old stains, and he wished them to be examined closely by the sur- geons, who would find that such was the fact. When he was accused of the murder, he said, alluding to his own indifferent character—" Ay, give a dog a bad name and hang him."