The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-23 00:00:00

Td B "THAMES MIIRDI&"

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The sasplaions of the polio* that the mutilated bed,
of the woman found to the fl wee was ni,t that of
Mtn Gilley, is 'supposed by the witnesses' at the In-
quest, tarns out to he °erne.. A detective found Mrs.
tkilley on Wednesday morning, about nine o'cleek.
sralklog along one of the streets in the vicinity of
Kings-toed. . .

0; beM—g-sessosted. she at onoe answered to her 11AUNI,
sad admitted that she had for sore time been lodging
with Mrs. Christian, at Battersea, but exhibited a dis-
inclination to give the eddying of the plows er plumes are
has been stopping at since she left Mrs. Chriailan'a She
'mooted, however, to airompany the polio, to Moot-
land 7.rd, where she was taken to the detective
department; but still evincing an objeatkra to give the
adorer of her Mte abode, the pollee had nothing sir to
do but to send for some of the letterer who bad been
examined it the inquest for the purpose of identifier
tion•

Mrs. Ceiley fully enswers the deecription given other
by Mrs. Christian. She is • toll woman with cluk hair
and rattier masculine nest of feature. She has hair too
on the lip, as 'wont to by Mr. Christian. There is no
evidence however that she has came into the possession
of any weelrh, for she is plainly, not to my poorly,
dressed, and wear. no jewellery whatever.
On being questioned as to the reason why she had
not come forward, cod so hsve saved the attention of
the public and the Cme of tt• pollee Mr. Call., meueed
herself by skiing tbat sti• had been t Cgotlacd with a
gentleman and that do' was so horrified with the story
of the nio;der in the Th iihee that she brof r‘fined
read it or to listen to .4 amount of it. On Wednesday
afternoon she was taken to tier old 'Mateo in flatter-
ies-field., where Mrr. Cbristoon saw again in the flab
the women ehe had iudentlied al the mutilated
Though the efforts of the polio, to run down the
murderer of the ...an found in the Thames have
been unavailing, untiripg endeavours sre toeing made
for'she put p i.e. Nearly all the information received "
on matter. which beemed to indioste a connexion with
this terrible crime has but. eihausted —in other words
all the statements made regarding women missing,
men who ha.* euddenly dimple-seed after being seen
with a person after the style of the deosaved. women
seen on barges up to • certain date, and not seen after.
wards, end others, have all been closely investigated,
and every person has been satisfactorily amounted for,
Os man was searched for and found at Brighton. The
suppoeed miming women in that case wee found to be
the wife he had desertel, and so she had become
ehargable to the parish, the man bad the unpleaaant
task of fasting It. respoosib titles to the root-law in
order to deer himself of ax.swering further for her
absence. dome -cry cireumsteatial stories have been
brought to the police. but they have failed to be of any
ass when investigated by Scotland-yard.
The mutilated corpse, in the oondiiion in which the
pieces have been skilfully put together by Dr. Haden,
bait been most successfully photographed. arid the
features are eo charactertatis and pronounied tits% any
one whs knew the woman could hardly fall be record,*
her. Indeed, recognition by the portrait will be tat WWI
difficult than by viewing the corpse. Tame Is no
Intention on the part of the pollee to keep thio photo-
graph entirely to themselves, but they desire that it
should not be mate • means of merely gretilying
morbid ourio.ity, and any persons who satisfy the
police that they ban proper reasons for inspecting the
remeins will bc permitted to see the pic.ure.
The marsh In the Thames has been continued, in the
hope that the hands, or some remnants el olothiag,
would be diseovered. The hands would hays enabled
some judgmeet to be formed as to the eondition In life
et the murdend woman ; but Ibis not improbable that
this WS4 purpoesdr made impossible by the murderer,
and that the hands have ben ea eff-ctually destroyed
as it was intended the fade should have been. It would
have been inipmidele at nay time to identify the woman
but for the Mssovery of the (see and ocalp, and these
had • narrow swap* of being swept out to sea, where,
it is feared, the elothiog mast have, gone, even if it were
eget into the river at the some time as the pieces of the
body.

It ie a matter of remark that the police have had
fewer oommuniettioas ooncieralag this murder than la
say other prerloaa ease of "mystery." to aU eases of
Cub* hitherto, besidee oommuoiastiona 000taltelsg
pilaus of information of more or las Intermit, some
eple, sod not ifs, fired with to. desire of emulating
Maar Allan Poe in lima Mystery of Marie Rog, hare
written their views of probable theceise. In nearly all
mem hitherto timers has beea solos slue, however alight.
lo tho as.. of the "Waterloo tragedy" there was the
earpet-bag to addition to the roman., whit' in the as..
of the Ctorsen-stroet murder the woman was known and
It. wee was both seen and beard. But to this ease there
are oaly thee plotter of dab.

ANOTHRR HORRIBLE DISCOVERY.
Oa Tuesday on a roof at Whits*lupe! woo found a
baokrit containing Om skull of a male adult, with Lail
Cho scalp straoliod, and ha a condition aliorriog rata
must for porno time pad have buss sating away lb.
II *eh.