The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-02 00:00:00

THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT NORWICH.

Since the publication of the particulars which
appeared in the Express of Monday, the police have
been unremitting in their endeavours to trace other por-
tions of the body. On Monday morning having procured
doe., they proceeded to search the fields nail hedges in the
suburbs of the city. The result was the discovery of in-
testines, lungs, and a portion of the viscera, all of which
were immediately submitted to the inspection of Dr. Cope-
man, Mr. Dalrymple, Mr. Nicholls, and Mr. Norgate.
They were ordered to be at once placed in a solution of
chloride of lime, and upon examination they were found to
be in a very ti composed state, and to have been chopped up
into pieces of about three inches in length. This was evi-
dently not the work of a medical man for the purpose of
scientific ezemination. These portions were originally found
in a sewer galley in Bishopgatoostrect, here they were taken
by a lateitiring man, ignorant of their nature, and thrown
upon a dungheap. Dr. Cops Mall gave it as his opinion that
the lunge were those of a healthy person. The officers
ulso succeeded in recovering several more pieees of flesh,
one of which was upwards of a pound in weight. These
arc declared by the medical gentlemen to whom the case
has been referred to be portions of the same body. It
should also be stated that near the dungheap in Bishop-
gate-street were found several pieces of linen and woollen
fabrics stained with blood, all of which have been carefully
preserved by the saiwrintendaut of police.
The next step taken by Mr. Yarrington was to have the
river Yore and all its tributaries carefully dragged, the re-
sult of which was the discovery of a black velvet bonnet,
evidently the property of a person in a respectable sphere
of life.
Difficulties have been thrown in the way of the police by
the extreme height of the grass in the neighbourhood of the
city. and although dogs have been sent in various direc-
tions, it is confidently expected that more discoveries have
yet to be made. In a held where several large pieces of
flesh had been found, and to which the especial attention
of the police hail been directed, a discovery of a very import-
ant character was made at a late hour on Monday evening.
During the day a body of men were set to mow clown the
grass, and, in doing so, their scythes came in contact with a
hard sulntance, which they found to be the thigh bone of a
human being. This circumstance wan immediately reported
to the superintendent of the city police, and Dr. Copeman
Was called upon to examine it. He found that the flesh
had been torn away from the bone, and that the bone itself
bad been AIWA nearly through with a rough instrument.
This part of the body was found at a place called Ilellesden,
near St. Augustine's Gate, in the immediate neighbourhood
of Norwich, and in an entirely opposite direction to that from
which other portions have been taken.
During the whole of Monday and yesterday pieces of flesh
have been brought into the city station-house by persons
who are conducting the search, all of which the surgeons at i
once declare to he portions of the same body. They ire
placed in spirits of wine ter preservation.
It has been clearly edablished that the murdered woman,
whoever she may be, was not an inhabitant of the city of
Norwich at the time of her death. It has also been satis-
factorily ascertained that the work has not been that of a
s• resurrectionist." for it is established on the clearest me-
dical testimony that the hotly has never been interred. It I
hasalso been proved to the satisfaction of the surgeons that I
the person, portions of whom have been found, died by vio-
lence, the hands being clenched and the toes contracted,
which would not have been the case in death from natural
causes.
As soon as any identifiable portion of the body shall be
found an inquest will be opened by the coroner. Those
alratly discovered arc incapable of identification.
Yesterday a young man, named Eaton, was brought
before the Mayor charged with being an accessory of the
murder. The precise nature of the examination did not
transpire, as the inquiry was of a private chars cter. After
hearing the evidence of a man named Garrard, to whom it
appears the prisoner had made some statement, the magis-
trates did not feel themselves justified in detaining the man
Eaton. He was, therefore, discharged, but it is understood
that he will remain under the strict surveillance of the
police, in case anything else material should transpire.