The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1863.

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PROPHYLACTICIC,BASHING, IN frOORA7IIIO.
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re for it refreshes the memory." Bat the Went for wann
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MILITARY CANTEENS for OFFICERS.
LS each.
Compriabrg TABLE K SIVE* SPOONS, PORES. Lc.. Lc..
NO CHARGE MADE FOR THE OAK PLATE CHESTS.
Zies7 other Size and Price tip to the Sum of L2OO each, kept in
Stock.
MAPPIN BROTHERS, SILVERSMITHS and CUTLERS,
m, REGENT STREET, a4o M and 28, KING WILLIAM-
STREET, LONDON BRIDGE.
Same Prlcee charged at both lioness as at their
MANUFACTORY—QUEEN'S PLATE and CUTLERY WORKS,
SHEFFIELD.
OBSERVE THE ADDRESS.

(PRIZE MEDAL AWARDED.)
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DESPAinTCH BOXES, WRITING end DRESSING CASES, and
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Also Alien's Barrack Furniture Catalogue of Portable Bed
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own tree.
J. W. ALLEN, Manufacturer and Patentee, 37, Welt Strand.
Leedom W.C.

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MR. MILES (Alfred Webb Miles), 73, Brook-
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approval all the
NEW TROUSERS PATTERNS
for Spring and Summer wear, which will be found is greater
variety and better than ever. The continual remark of gentle-
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summer trounces
EVERYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES removes from Bond-
Meet In 1859.

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house to house police inquiries whatever were inade,
in this little street, although it was rendered so
notorious in connexion with this ease that the win-
dows of two dwellings were broken by a mob who
believed the inmates had something to do with the
child's abduction. If such inquiries had been made
what must have been their scope and character, and , I
how much intelligence and energy could the 1
in-
quirers have shown, when they failed to learn that
WILLIAM HENRY CLARKE was employed at the nur-
sery-ground we have mentioned, and that he had
been twice before charged with decoying little girls
into the garden under his charge for brutal pur-
poses ? A surgeon lives in William-street who
bad examined one of the children formerly
assaulted by CLARKE, and yet he was never
asked if he knew of any criminal attacks
upon young girls in the neighbourhood. Nobody
iappears to have been consulted who could throw
any light on the mystery, and the public imagina-
tion was left to run riot. It is too much, we
suppose, to expect that in such a case the books
of the local police-office, within a third of a mile
of the place, should have been searched for
all cases of crimes against children that had
been recorded for the previous six months. Such a
mode of searching would have implied a settled
determination to exhaust all chances of discovery
in the neighbourhood before flying to those
romantic solutions of the mystery which only sug-
gest themselves to earnest students of bad fiction.
We are not disposed to dwell too severely upon
this presumed omission to search the police records,
but we must certainly ask why the character of
every person in William-street was not inquired
into. If Mr. Rows, the proprietor of the nursery-
ground where the dead body of EuzasEru HUNTER
was found, had been spoken to pointedly on
this subject, the statement that he would doubt-
less have made about the propensities of
his servant—Wmciam HENRY CLARKE—MCKIM
have materially narrowed the circle of inquiry.
The police might not, at that period, have been
induced to search for a dead child, but they would
have had their attention directed to a man who
had tampered with two female children—one in
October, 1861, and another in January, 1862.
During the nineteen days that WILLIAM HENRY
CLARKE remained in Mr. Rows's service after the
disappearance of ELIZABETH HUNTER, before he
was discharged for suspected dishonesty, the ques-
tion of his guilt or innocence might surely have
been set at rest by a couple of active officers. The,
memory of all the circumstances connected with
the abduction would then have been fresher than
it is now, though it has been kept alive by the
strong desire which the public have always felt to
see this great mystery solved.
The discovery of the mangled remains of Em-
remit HUNTER in Mr. RowE's garden is not, of
court*, due to the police ; we could hardly ex-
pect this after so much systematic neglect of
William-street and its inhabitants. A boy
accidentally dug up the body last Monday, and
the police were then set in motion by that " in-
formation " which they always seem to be waiting
to " receive," but seldom willing or able to seek.
They have arrested the suspected murderer, and
have indulged in the mummery of putting the nur-
sery-garden in charge of an officer, but they can
hardly regain the ground they have so foolishly
lost. Even the chain of evidence appears to have
been completed without them, and they can do
little more than follow where they ought to lead.
Whether we look at the unthinking aid given by
the Home Office in this came by the offer of a
mere reward, or the break-down of police officers
and men, a more scandalous instance of general
police incapacity has rarely come under our notice.
Although the Session is now at its last gasp, we
trust thatsome member of Parliament will take such
a notice of the whole affair as will lead to immc-
diate investigation, if not to reform.