The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-27 00:00:00

TEE STOUR-BRIDGE OBSERVER

The flooded state of the Seine has enabled a steam
yacht belonging to the Marquis of Atha to make a passage
by water to Paris from London.
'be Queen of Denmark, accompanied by the Prin-
cellPof Wales and the Princess Thyra, paid a visit to the
Empress Eng&lie, at Cannlen-park, Chiselhurst, on Tuesday.
The Queen and Princees Beatrice attended Divine
service in Balmoral Castle on Sunday. The Rev. A. Campbell,
minister of Crathie, officiated.
Lord Derby was the only Minister absent from the
Cabinet Council held on Monday.
The last of the Dundee whalers have now arrived
in the Tay. The fishing has been a poor one, the total
catch of the thirteen vessels being seventy-seven whales,
yielding 750 tuns of oil.
Inquiry of a father, respecting an intended son-in-
law, of a friend—" And you are quite certain respecting his
probity f" " Perfectly; he must have a large stock of it, as
he never has been known to dispense any of it."
The John Bull states that a powerful organisation is
now in course of private formation, and will shortly be an-
nounced, to be called "The Society for the Rejection of the
Burials BILL'
A number of gentlemen of New York fond of field
sports have taken decisive steps towards the organisation
of a fox-hunting club. Ten thousand dollars are to be sub-
scribed for the purpose, for the erection of a suitable
kennel and the purchase of a pack of hounds.
The mill-owners of Dundee have intimated their in-
tention of increasing the wages of their employ es to the rates
in force previous to the recent strike, the jute trade, which
has for some time been in a declining condition, having now
manifested symptonas of returning prosperity.
The Right Hon. W. E. Baxter, M.P., speaking at
Dundee on Monday night on behalf of the London Mission-
ary Society, gave some details of the work of the organisa-
tion in Africa. Alluding to the share it had had in contri-
buting to the cause of discovery in Africa, he said the society
was about to enter a fresh field, a ferret incognita in New
Guinea. Mr. Baxter expressed a hope that a system of
centralisation, as opposed to isolation, would be adopted
in future missionary undertakings.
Australian statistics shows that insanity of a violent
kind prevails to a frightful extent on that continent. In 1801
there were HI inmates of asylums in South Australia, being
one to 750 inhabitants. In 1870 they numbered 307, and at
the close of 1871 there were as many as 324, or one to 524 of
the population. These figu-es do not represent the entire
list of the insane, but include only madmen and other
nmates of the asylums.
Mr. George Smith, of the British Museum, who left
London on the 4tla inst. on his third expedition to Asia
Minor, says that owing to the disturbed condition of that
country his application for a permit from the Turkish Go-
vernment has been unsuccessful. Mr. Smith Bays he will
therefore be unable, for the present at least, to prosecute
his Assyrian explorations, and will return to England about
the commencement of the new year.
Speaking at a meeting of the electors of Dumbarton,
Mr. Fortescue Harrison, member for Kilmarnock, alluded to
the attitude of the Northern Powers in the affairs of Turkey,
and said that their action was calculated to draw the Porte
into a resistance which would result in a religious war. In
such an event, we most be prepared for any disturbance in
our Eastern possessions, containing as they did millions of
Mahonsedans too ready to take up arms at the cry of " Faith.
A- married woman named Boyon has been condemned
to death at the Lot Assizes for murdering her seven chil-
dren and a granddaughter by pushing needles into their
bodies. She had ten children, seven of whom died under 12
mouths old, but it was not till the death of her grand-
daughter that an investigation was made. Her apparent
motive for this last crime was that the child might die before
its father, who was in a desperate condition, and that she
might thus secure part of his property, to the prejudice of
• her daughter-in-law, whom she detested. When asked how
she came to think of sticking needles into her children's
bodies, she stated that at the publichouse she kept there was
one day a conversation on infanticide, and it was said babies
did not suffer when murdered in this way. The jury in this
case could discover no extenuating circumstances.—Paris
Correspondent of The Tames.
The Zoological Society have jiist received a welcome
addition to their menagerie in the shape of a Betas antelope
(Oryz Beisa), transmitte4 to their gardens as a present by the
Sultan of Zanzibar in recognition of the interest which he
took in them when he visited this country. The society's
collection previously contained a female of the same animal,
presented by Admiral Arthur Cumming in 1874; the recent
addition, being of the male sex, renders the pair complete.
The Besia antelope (one of the most beautiful of the Oryz
group) is very seldom brought alive to Europe. The two ex-
amples now in the gardens are the only two ever received by
the Zoological Society of London, and we are told there is
but one single specimen in any of the Continental gardens.
The consumption of snails in France iduring the last
ten years seems to have increased considerably, for accord-
ing to reliable statistics it would appear that there are daily
received in Paris alone 91,0001 b., which shows what an im-
portant article of food this animal has become. It is
believed that they were first brought into notice as edibles
In the inland departments, where oksters were unobtainable,
and which they have been found to replace satisfactorily;
but anyhow our neighbours look on them as possessing
highly nutritive qualities, an opinion which seems borne out
by the analysis published by the well-known Payen, and they
have long been recommended for diseases of the chest on
account of their being supposed to contain a sort of
sulphurous oil, called ifelicine.
The New York Herald has just opened in Paris a
new office, and in connection with it a reading-room, which
is likely to be a great boon to travelling Americans. The list
of periodicals taken in is itself a curiosity. Not only is every
State in the Union represented by several, and every great
city by a multiplicity of newspapers, but every trade has its
journal, and every faith its organ Among the foreign news-
papers published in America and to be found on the tables of
this reading-room are two in German, three in French, one
in Italian, four in Spanish, and one in Swedish. There are
no legs than eighteen American illustrated journals and five
serials. The readers will of course, find the principal Eng-
lish and French newspapers. The idea of the projector is to
make ,the office a bureau de renseignements for Americans,
who will unquestionably be grateful for facilities which are
not provided for any other nationality.

tioneer and learned that he had not had any acquaintance
with Mrs King. Henry Wainwright then said it was another
Mr Frieke—a diffetent man altogether. Then the auctioneer
remembered that in August he had received a letter from Mrs.
King which at that time he was quite unable to understand.
After describing at some length the model of the premises
No 215, Whitechapel-road, the Solicitor-General said that
soon after Rogers, Henry Wainwright's manager, went to
live there in October the porter complained of a bad sitell in
the yard, and steps were taken by the parties annoyed by it
to protect themselves against it. In January Mrs. King's
boxes were given up by the prisoner to her father, and her
friends' inquiries about her were practically at an end. In '
February the prisoner Thomas borrowed money from Mr.
Lewis on the security of a bill accepted by his brother Henry,
and with it he established himself as an ironmonger at the
"Hen and Chickens," Borough. In June he was sold up, and
Lewis put a man in possession, and locked up the premises
with a new padlock, the key of which subsequently came
into the possession of Henry Wainwright. The latter paid
Miss Wilmer° for the maintenance of the children for some
time, but since June he had given her no money, and she
had been very urgent with him for help. -Under the
mortgage of the lease of No. 215, which Henry Wainwright
had given as security to Mr. Behrens, from whom he had had
a loan; the latter offered the lease for sale in July, 1875, and
in August he put Mrs. Izzard to live there. The
sale of the premises was imminent, the smell would
have led to the discovery of the body, and hence the
necessity which lay upon the prisoner to remove the body.
He caul(' not do that so long as any one lived in the
house. Mrs. Izeard was removed from the occupation
in August, 1875. and then Henry, having access to the
premises, was at liberty to accomplish his object On the
10th of September Henry bought some rope, and the same
day Thomas purchased a chopper or hatchet and a shovel.
About nine o'clock on the morning of the 11th the two pri-
soners were seen standing together near the shop of Mr.
Martin, where Henry was employed, by a young man who
noticed that Thomas looked exceedingly pale and ill, and
that he had shaved off his moustache. At four o'clock that
morning Henry Wainwright asked a fellow-workman named
Stokes to help him in the removal of some parcels from No.
215, and Stokes assisted to carry them to Whiteehapel
Church, where, while Henry went for a cab, Stokes
looked into one of the parcels and saw a human head
and hand. Henry returned and drove off with the parcels
(taking up Alice Day on the way), into the Borough, where
the cab pulled up at the Hen and Chickens. Stokes had fol-
lowed, and informed two constables, who seized the parcels
and apprehended the prisoner after he had made an effort to
escape by offering £2OO if they would let him go. The officers
found at the Hen and Chickens a cellar that was perfectly dark,-
and within it a part-had been built up, but there was t hole
In the wall just large enough for a man to pass. Theienner
cellar had some loose earth, and props supporting the floor
above, and it was just the place for concealing the body that
the prisoner desired to be rid of. At No. 215 the police
found the chopper, the shovel, the grave, and in the latter
some rings, buttons, and chloride of lime and a grate which
contained some matters that would be produced in evidence/.
The human: remains were medically examined, and
It was found that two bullets had broken the skull
and entered the brain, while a third had lodged
in the hair pad. The examination left no doubt that
the body was that of Harriet King. Thomas Wainwright
was not apprehended until the 2nal of October, when, in
answer to the oharge of being an acolssory after the fact, he
made a written statement in whiO he admitted having
bought a spade and chopper for Hensy. The evidence which
identified Thomas as the man calling himself Frieake who
went to see Mrs. King would be strefngthened by that of the
landlord of a public-house in the neighbourhood of Sidney-
square who knew both the prisoner, who would say that
about the first week in September they were at his house,
and that Thomas went out with a bottle of champagne.
Mrs. Foster would sat, that "Mr. Frieake " drank a
bottle of champagne with Mrs. King one night early.
in September, and that she had to send out for champagne
glasses, which wire borrowed from the same public house.
The letters signed "B. Frieke " would be proved to be in the
writing of Thomas Wainwright. The key of the" Hen and
Chickens" " was handed to Henry by Thomas, and the re-
maining evidence against Thomas has been already named
in the case against Henry. One or two must have cut up
the body on the night of September 10, and the next morn-
ing the two prisoners were seen together, Thomas looking
pale and ill ; and the remark of a passer-by was made to
him that he had shaven off his moustache. The Attorney-
General, in conclusion, said that the case against Thomas
was not so strong as against Henry, but it was for the jury
to say whether any explanation could be given of all those
acts which was consistent with innocence. If no such ex-
planation could be given, or it the only explanation pos-
sible were based on the supposition of guilt, then in that
case he claimed their verdict.
At the conclusion of the Attorney-General's speech
the court adjourned for half-an-hour for luncheon,
after which the trial proceeded.—The following is a
condensed account of the evidence given :
.Tourt BUTLER, surveyor to the metropolitan police force,
proved the accuracy of the model of the premises in the
Whitechapel-road, and plans of the route taken by the cab
from Whitechapel-road to the Borough were put in.
Witness also produced a model of the "Hen and Chickens"
premises in the Borough, showing the cellar, which was
supported by props. •
Cross-examined by Mr. Besley : In the premises at the
"Hen and Chickens" there is uo.door from the top of the
stairs going into the cellar.
By the Lord Chief Justice: When an excavation was made
to form the cellar a lot of loose earth was left there.
ALFRED PHILLIP STOKE said he lived at 34, Baker's-row,
Whiteehapel, and was a brushmaker. In September of
this year he was in the service of Mr. Martin, a brushmaker,
Henry Wainwright being with the same employer. He had
known the prisoner between seventeen and eighteen years,
Henry having carried on business in Whiteehapel-road as a
brushmaker, witness being in his service. Henry Wainwright
was about a month out of employment before he went into the
service of Mr. Martin. That prisoner then lived at School-
house-lane, Chingford. In September in the present year
witness remembered having some conversation with the
prisoner Henry about a chopper and shovel. On the fol-
lowing Saturaay afternoon, in the presence of Mrs. Martin,
Henry asked witness to carry a parcel for him. Witness
said he would do so with pleasure, and they went to the
back of the premises, No. 215, together. Prisoner opened
the door, and asked witness to go upstairs and fetch down
a parcel. Witness went upstairs, and being unable to find a
parcel, returned to prisoner and said so. Henry Wainwright
said, "Never mind Stokes, I have found them where I placed
them a fortnight ago, under the straw." Witness saw two
parcels in black American cloth tied round with rope, and
prisoner said they were the parcels he wanted witness to carry.
Witness lifted them up, and, saying they were too heavy for
him, put them down again. Prisoner said, "Wait a bit,
Stokes, here are tile shovel and chopper I want you to
sell for me." Witness replied, "All right, sir ; ' and
picking the latter up, asked what it was upon it that stank.
Prisoner replied that some dirt had got on it, and then wiped
the stuff off with his hand and laid the chopper on the floor.
Prisoner s-rid, "Come along, Stokes," and witness having
picked up both parcels said, "1 cannot carry them : they stink
so bad, and the weight-of them is too heavy for me." Prisoner
replied, "I will take one of them from you at the bottom of
Vine-court." As witness walked to the door prisoner said,
" Wait bit, Stokes ;let me see whether old Johnson is watching
us." Johnson was a painter, living close by, and was gene-
rally looking out when anything was moved. In a minute or
two prisoner added, "No one is looking, eome on." Before
leaving the warehouse witness noticed a hammer up against
the wall. Outside, prisoner took one of the parcels, and they
walked to Whitechapel Church' a distance of about a quarter
of a mile. Witness said he must have a rest, as the things were
so heavy, and prisoner said, "For God's sake don't drop it, or
you will break it." At Whitechapel Church Wainwright
put down his parcel beside that of witness, and said he
would get a cab. While he was away witness looked
into the parcel he had carried—he felt as though he must
do it • and the first thing he saw was a human head, and
then, it;
further, he saw a hand In about five minutes
prisoner returned with a four-wheeled cab, and prisoner put
one parcel and witness the other into it. Remarking that he
would see witness again at seven o'clock in the evening, pri-
soner got into the cab, and it drove off, by prisoner's direction,
towards the Commercial-road. Witness ran after the cab,
and it stopped outside a chemist's shop in that thorough-
fare. Prisoner got out, went away for a minute or two, and
returned with a young woman, who appeared to have
been waiting for him; the two re-entered the cab, which,
by the direction of the prisoner, was driven towards the
Borough. Witness called the attention of two constables to
the cab in Leadenhall-street, and asked them to stop the cab,
but they laughed and walked away. He was nearly exhausted,
but ran after the cab again, and saw it stop at the Hen and
Chickens. Witness, seeing two other constables, spoke to
them, asking them to stop Wainwright. The policemen
arrested prisoner, and witness went back at once to his em-
ployer and told him what had occurred. The conversation
with reference to the shovel and chopper took place at Mr.
Martin's when witness had bought for his employer a scale
chain. Wainwright said it was very useful, and said he had
a chopper and shovel to sell, which he wished witness to sell
to Mr. Martin.
Mr. Poland: In whose name were you to sell them?
Witness was to say they were his. He had known Alice
Day three or four years as a ballet girl employed at the
Pavilion Theatre, and had seen her with prisoner Many
times. Witness knew Thomas 'Wainwright, but could not
say where he was living either in September, 1874, or Septem-
ber, 1875. He first noticed a smell at the Whitechapel pre-
mises in the July of the present year.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bosley: I have known Thomas
Wainwright seventeen or eighteen years, but have always
done work for him out of the house. Sometimes I used to
take the work back to 281, and sometimes to 215, until the
27th of November, 1874, when the fire took place. I have
sometimes been two or three hours at a tune on the premises
waiting for a job at all hours of the day while business was
going on. I am thoroughly familiar with the premises at
215, where there was an ordinary glass shop front fronting
the street. When the door was opened you could see right
from one end of the warehouse to the other—there was no
partition whatever in the way.
By the Lord Chief Justice: It was not fitted up as a
retail shop, but rather as a wholesale warehouse.
By Mr. Besley : The length of ',the warehouse was fully
80 feet, and owing to it having skylights you could see
very distinctly over the whole ,of it, except the stone
flags during the day time. At flight the warehouse was
lighted with three gaseliers, so that it was very light in
the evening. Ido not remembo whether I was at No.
215 in September, 1874 ; I dare say I should have been
there with goods, but I cannot say positively. After the
fire the business was carried on at No. 215. There were
; two persons always employed there during the day time
;as clerk and porter. I do not remember ever going te
[the back part of the warehouse until after the fixtures had
been taken out. I ceased to work for Henry Wainwright
!about the end of last June. It was in June or July that I
:noticed a bad smell about the warehouse, which I supposed
'arose from the dirt or the cabbage leaves. I had noticed a
disagreeable smell before, but I thought it was particularly
strong just then. lam sure I mentioned the existence of
that smell when I was examined before the magistrates. I
believe I also mentioned before the magistrates Wainwright's
expression, which I repeated to-day, "All right, no one is
looking, come on." i also mentioned before Omit old
Johnson, the painter.
The Lord Chief Justice: Where did you mention these
matters?
Wilness : I cannot say, my lord, but I know I mentioned
them somewhere—either before he coroner at the police-
court, or at the Treasury when they were taking down my
evidence.
Mr. Begley: Well, I shall be very much obliged to Mr.
Attorney-General if he can point out that remark, "All
right, no one is looking," on any of the depositions.
Witness : I know I said it before somewhere. Henry
Wainwright told me to wait while he looked to see if old
Johnson was watching. and afterwards he said, "All right,
no one is looking*, come on."
By Mr. Be:ley : I am not sure that I ever repeated that
last remark of toe elder prisoner before to day. lam sure
that I never mentioned before that when I took up the
parcels I said "They stink so bad that I can't carry them."
Cross-examined by Mr. Moody: When I first went to work
for the Wainwfights seventeen or eighteen years ago Thomas
Wainwright was quite a boy.
Re-examined by the Attorney-General: I remember the
father of the Wainwrights carrying on the businees. He died
thirteen years ago, and then the business was carried on by
William and Henry, and afterwards by Henry and Mr.
Sawyer. Ult:mately Henry had the business to himself. Part
of the flocring of the sloop at No. 215 was raised above
the rest, and was used for storing paint brushes. That
formed a separate room, with a separate door in a partition.
The partition was there when I used to work for Henry, but
it was pulled down in June or July last. The hair used in
the manufacture of brushes does smell unpleasant at times.
I thought the parcels contained hair. •
The Lord Chief Justice: Was anything said by Wainwright
to lead you to suppose that?
Witness: When we were on the road to 215 he said, "We
must have hair to finish a job."
police-constable TURNER 4$ M, examined by Mr. Beasley.
On the 11th of September I was on duty in the Borough.
At fon; ininutes past five o'clock the witness Stokes came
up arid made a communication to me. Her seemed much
exhausted. In ,:onsequence of the statement I went to
a cab which was drawn up at the end of Southwark-street.
I saw Henry Wainwright in the act of getting out as
the cab was stopping. Ile had a parcel in his hand. I
walked on the other side of the road to see where he went
to. He went to an empty house called the "Hen and
Chickens," put the parcel on the pavement, opened the
door, and went in with the parcel. I then went back to
the cab, which was about 45 yards off. While I was stand-
ing near the cab, Cox, 290, came up. There was a woman
in the cab whom I know now to be Alice Day. There was
a parcel on the front seat of the cab. It was a parcel 18in.
long and about Pin. wide. I had some conversation with

the woman while I was waiting tor the pawner Henry to
come out. When he came out he put the bolt on the door
and came towards the cab. He went to the off cite of the
cab, opened the door, and took the parcel in his
hand. I said to him. "What have you got there?
and he replied, "Why do you interfere with me?
I am only going down to an old friend of mine."
I walked by his side till we got to the "Hen and
Chickens, the door of which was shut. He seemed
to want to pass by, but I caught .hold of him and he
stopped. I said, "Do you live here W and he said, "No."
I said, "Have you got any business hers?" and he said
"Yes, and you've not." I said, "Go inside." He seemed
very reluctant to 'go in, and Cox then joined me, and we
pushed him inside. When we got inside I said, "How
came you in possession of the place? I thought it belonged
to Mr. Lewis." Ile said, "So it does now. Say nothing
and ask no questions, and here is £5O each for you." Cox
then barred the door up from the inside. He had the parcel
In his hand at the time. I said to him, "What did you
do with the first parcel you took*?" He replied that it
was only on the first floor. I requested Cox to see if it
was there. I meanwhile held the prisoner. We walked
about half a dczen steps further, and I then saw the parcel
in a dark corner near the cellar steps. When Cox returned
I said, "Gel hold of this man, and we'll see what's in the
parcel." I put the parcel on a counter in the shop, and I
then became fatly aware of the extent of the stench. Before
I proceeded to examine the contents the prisoner said
"Pray don't open It; don't touch it, whatever you do." I
pulled the cloth open, and my fingers came across the skull.
I took hold of the prisoner, and Cox went for the cab, which
• was still in the same place. The prisoner said, "I'll give you
Zloo.—l'll give you A2OO, and produce the money in twenty
minutes, if you let me go." The prisoner still held the
second parcel in his left hand. Cox took and deposited the
drat parcel in the cab, and then came for the second. The
Prisoner,drew himself round, as if to throw it away. All the
parties were then driven to the station-house.
• By the Lord Chief Justice : The cab was about 4011. or 45f t.
from the door of the "Hen and. Chickens."
Examination continued : On the way to the station Alice
Day said, "Mr. Wainwright, you have done a line thing for
me." He made no reply. The parcels were examined at the
police-station, and were found to zontain portions of a human
body much decomposed, and the features not recognizable.
There was hair on the head very much clotted with blood.
Mr. Larkin, the surgeon, saw the remains, and then in the
same evening they were taken o St. Saviour's dead-house,
The same evening the prisoners were charged with having
in their possession a human body, decomposed, supposed to
have been murdered. Both prisoners then made astatement,
which was taken down in writing by Inspector Fox.
Cross-examined Mr Besley : You spoke to Wainwright
and said, "What have you got there? "—Witness : Yes.
And he laughed and said, "It's all right, policeman, I'm
only going down to a friend of mine? "—Yes.
And did he not offer to go to Mr. Lewis with you?—Yes.
Did he not use the single expression, "Don't touch it,"
when referring to the parcel? You seem to be a little more
emphatic to-day.—He said what I have mentioned.
Police-constable Cox was next examined. He
was standing by the cab and saw Henry Wainwright coins
up towards me. • He was smoking. He opened the cab
door and took a parcel out. Turner then asked him what
he had got in that parcel. He took the eigar out of his
mouth and laughed, saying, "It's all right, policeman;
lam only going to a friend of mine." He then turned to
me and said, "Why do you interfere with me ?" I said,
"We have received information that there is something
wrong." They then went towards the "Hen and Chickens,"
having left a third policeman in charge of the cab. I
followed. I overtook them near the door, and heard some
altercation going on and Wainwright say, "You had better."
When we got into the place Turner said, "Row did you
come into possession ?" Prisoner said, "Coma with me to
Mr. Lewis, and we'll soon settle the matter • say nothing, ask
no questions, there's £5O each for you." 1 said, "No, we're
going to do our duty, and we don't want your money." I
then said, "Wait, Tamer, till I fasten the door." There
was then a crowd outside. I did fasten the door, and
Turner said, "Where is the first parcel you brought
in here ?" The prisoner replied, "It's only on the
first floor," I went up live or six stairs, when Turner
called out, "Come down, Cox, it is here in the
corner." I came down and took hold of the prisoner, while
Turner went and fetched the parcel out of the corner and
put it on the counter. Prisoner said twice, "For Heaven's
sake do not touch it." The counter was at the extreme end
of the shop. Wainwright and Day were then taken to the
station, and the body to the deadhouse.
Cross-examined by Mr. Besley : We could not see the "Hen
and Chickens" from the cab.
The Court then adjourned at a quarter to five until
ten o'clock the following morning; and, according to
, usage on such occasions, the jury not being allowed to
separate Pending the trial, were escorted to the
Cannon-street Hotel by an officer of the Court to spend
the night.

The precincts of the Central Criminal Court were
again crowded on Tuesday morning by persons anxious
to gain admission, and the interior of the Court was
filled at an early hour by an auditory, of whom a large
proportion were well•dressed ladies. The Lord Chief
Justice took his seat on the Bench precisely at ten
o'clock; and in a few moments afterwards the pri-
soners were placed in the dock. They exhibited the
same perfect self-possession which marked their de-
meanour on the previous clay. The jury having
answered to their names, the proceedings commenced.
WILLIAM ANDREWS, cabman, who was the first witness
examined, said he remembered the 11th of September last.
when he was called from his rank in White Chapel by a (gen-
tleman. He identified the further prisoner (Henry Wain-
weight) as the gentleman. He pulled to the corner of Church-
street, and the gentleman put two parcels in the cab and got
In himself, ordering witness at the same time to go on until
he was stopped. Witness was told to stop in the Commer-
cial-road, and having done so the gentleman got out, re-
turned with a female, and both got in together. Witness
then received directions to go over London-bridge and drive
until he was stopped. He was told to pull up at the corner
of Southwark-street, and did so, upon which the gentleman
alighted, took a parcel out, and walked away. Witness then
saw two policemen come up, and take prisoner to the station.
Cross-examined by Mr. Besley : He did not know what the
charge was upon which the prisoner was arrested. He was on
his box when the parcels were put in the cab, but standing at
the horse's head when they were taken out.
ALICE DIY was then called. In answer-to the Attorney-
General, she said : hive at 5, Queen's-court, Commercial-road.
Before the 11th of September, this year, I was at the Pa-
vilion Theatre engaged in the ballet. I had held that en-
gagement for some years. I have known Henry Wainwright
for about five years, and became acquainted with him at the
theatre—behind the scenes. I used to go to the theatre and
take refreshments with him. I have not been alone on all
those occasions, very often other girls have been with me. I
live in the neighbourhood of Greenfield-street. Whitechapel,
and remember that on the afternoon of the 11th of September
Henry Wainwright met me at the corner of the street. It
was about ten minutes to five o'clock when I saw him walk-
ing in Greendeld-street.
Did you meet him by appointment ?—I did not.
The Attorney-General : What did he say to you
Witness : He asked me to go for a ride with him Relax as
Londoiebridge. I said, "Ys, if you will bring me buck by
a quarter past six." He said he would. That was My time
to co to the theatre. We went into a four-wheeled cab he
had waiting, and I noticed that there were two bundles
wrapped in black American leather, and a black bag. We
drove away towards the city and over London-bridge.
The Attorney-General: Were you talking as you went
along?
Witnes3 : No, he gave me a newspaper out of the black bag
to read. He was smoking a cigar. When he gave me the
newspaper to read he said, "Don't speak to me, I'm think-
ing." The cab drove over London-bridge and stopped in the
Borough. I noticed a smell in the cab, but I thought it came
from the American leather. When the cab stopped he took
a parcel and said, "I am going round the corner to take this
to a warehouse, and when I have delivered it I will come
back for the other." Some policemen came up, and we were
taken into custody. Henry knew where I lived; he had been
to my house several times.
Do you know Thomas f—Yes.
Have you known him long I—No, not very long; about
twelve months I should think.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bexley: Was Henry Wainwright an
ordinary acquaintance of yours I—Yes, only an ordinary
acquaintance.
Mr. Besley : There never was the slightest impropriety be-
tween you ?—No, never. I have been going to the Pavilion
Theatre for four or five years, and lam also a dressmaker. I
did not know that Henry Wainwright had a business con-
tract with the police. I often saw him at the theatre; and I
believe he supplied the proprietor with brushes and mats.
He has spoken to me and the other ballet girls often for ten
minutes or a quarter of an hour. Ile used to give us refresh-
ment, both in the theatre and outside.
The Lord Chief Justice : What do you mean by outside?
Witness: At a public-house in the Baker-road.
Mr. Besley : In fact some of the young ladies have been
rude enough to ask him for refreshments sometimes?
Witness: Oh, yes, very often. When I was in the cab with
Henry Wainwright and the parcels the smell I noticed was
so faint that I was quite satisfied when he told me it only
arose from the American cloth. I used sometimes to go to
she theatre with him.
Re-examined by the Attorney-General: When I say "the
theatre" I mean Covent Garden or some such place. I also
went with him to the Grecian Theatre.
MATTHEW FOX, inspector of the Metropolitan Police
Force, said he was on duty on the 11th September at the
Stone's-end Pollee-station, Borough, when the prisoners
Henry Wainwright and Alice Day were brought in. When
they were first brought in the constable Turner said he
thought the man and woman with two parcels were wrong.
Witness asked Henry Wainwright what was in the parcels
and where he obtained them, and he replied, "I do not
know what they contain; a gentleman gave me them to
carry." Witness took the parcels into the yard, examined
them, and then sent for a surgeon, who saw them. Be then
erdered the prisoners into the dock.
The Lord Chief Justice: What do you mean by the dock
rWitness: What they term the dock at police-stations—an
Iron rail behind which prisoners are put. He said to the
prisoner, "I charge you with having the remains of a female
In your possession believed to have been murdered." Henry
Wainwright referred him to Mr. Martin, and that gentleman
was sent kir. Prisoners were again put in the dock, when
Wainwright made a statement to the effect that the remains
had been given to him by a man to take to the "Hen and
Chickens," and that he was to be paid for doing so. 'Witness
then gave details of his visit to the warehouse in White-
chapel. He found there, he stated, a chopper, a shovel, and
a pocket knife. The chopper he produced.
The Lord Chief Justice: It is a common little axe.
Witness said there was a deal of matter on the chopper,
and it smelt strongly and like the dead body. A smell
seemed to come from under the boards in the basement, and
the boards appearing loose they were removed. He took up
the joists and found an opening in the earth. He produced
hair found in the hole.
The Lord Chief Justice : By-and-bye, gentlemen, I suppose
we shall have some of the hair taken from the body.
Witness produced some hair taken from the body, and
the Lord Chief Justice marked the separate portions and
handed them to the jury for inspection ] Ills lordship
added :—lt strikes me that one piece is rather darker than
the other. -
Witness said one lot had been partially cleaned. Witness
then produced a piece of rope which had been found in the
hole, and the following articles, which he had received from
various persons :—Two rings, twej et buttons, two mord et
buttons, two earrings, a pair of boots, a pad which had been
worn in a woman's hair, and three bullets.
• Cross-examined by Mr. Besley : When the charge was
' taken against Henry Wainwrigat the two parcels taken
from the cab were in the station. Witness told Wain-
wright that he would be charged with having in his
possession a body supposed to be murdered, but before
that he had taken his address which the prisoner gave as
78, New-road. Witness went to 78, and searched the house.
Among the things he took from Henry Wainwright were
27 keys. In searching the premises at 215, Whitechapel-
road his attention was mainly directed to the spot where the
loose boards were by the smell. He had never stated that
fact in his evidence before. He attended all the examina-
tions, both at the police-court and at the coroner's inquest.
He showed the earrings to several of the witneeses in order
to see whether they could be identified as the earrings of
Harriet Lane. The ashes from the grate in No. 215 were
microscopically examined by Mr. Bond.
Mr. Healey: Have you heard any suggestion made that
Henry Wainwright has made a confession to you ?—Witness:
No, 1 have not blr. Besley have you seen it so stated in
the Weekly Dispatch newspaper or elsewhere I—Witness:
No, I have not. Mr. Begley: There is no truth in any such
statement 2—Witness : Oh, no, none whatever.
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The Lord Chief Matte° : Do you imean to say that any such
statement has appeared in a newspaper?
Mr. Beslcy : Yes, my lord. I was asked to call your atten
tion to it, but did not think it worth while.
The Lord Chief Justice : It is most improper.
Mr. Healey then read the paragraph referred to from the
Weekly Dispatch, stating that Henry Wainwright had made
a confession to the police, from which It appeared that
Thomas Wainwright had really committed the murder, and
that Henry load cut up the body afterwards. '
The Lord Chief Justice : It is a very great pity that any
such statement should be made.
Mr. Besley said the paragraph went on to declare that,