The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-12 00:00:00

SWEDEN.

The official journal of Stockholm publishes a
royal decree authorising the loan of 15 millions of
francs, Toted by the States for the construction of
railways. Negotiations had been already entered
into with the home of Merck, of Hamburg, to ob-
tain the amount.

THE SUPPOSED MURDER AND HUTT-
L.d7ION OP THE CORPSE DISCOVERED AT
WATERLOO-MIDGE.

The intense sensation which was created many
pant ago by the fret cbscoveey of Oreensere's crime hie
even been eorpieecd by the painful feeling which the &moo-
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Tery of the mutilated remains at Wsteri;o•bridge— hie raised
in the public mind. The mystery which envelopes the whole
affair—the certainty which now exists that an elderly woman
mutt have borne a principal share in the deed, and that with

her, probably, ea man y sethree or four othereWees partaker;
In the awful crime, render it a subject of most painful into-
rert. Daring yesterday afternoon hundreda Rocked to gaze
upon the spot where the remains were found, and crowds re-
mained in the vicinity of Bow-street, evidently in the vain
hope that they might hear of some clue having been sseer-
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tamed u to the murderers ; but nothing, of cottroo, bus-

Find to reward the patient et:Nestle; with which they

evidently waited for intelligence.
Wo er3l not attempt to impose upon our rewire by safes
that the ends of justice may be defeated by premature dis-
closures, for, unfortunately, beyond the fact that one of the
moat horrible murders that have ever stained our criminal
annals bee been committed, there is nothing whatever to
disclose, and up to the present time not the slightest clue
has been obtained as to Its perpetrators. The police base
their hopes of their detection—first, on the chance of the
clothe" being recognised; secondly, on the ownership of the
carpet bag being traced; and, thirdly, upon finding the
cabman who drove the woman with her ghastly load to the
neighbourhood of Weterioo-bridge on Thursday night.
There is not the slightest possibility of recognising the
deceased by the remains which are in the hands of the
police. In fact, these are nothing more then a pile of
bones, on which the mucks and large tendons hug in
rugged tatters; all the firth and skin, except • small portion
of the breast end under one armpit, having been completely
hacked away. Both the thigh, log, and back bones have
been sawn a-under, in order, doubticas, to pack them in a
small competes in the vestal of beim, in which they have
evidently remained from two to three weeks. From these
,elks of humanity, therefore, no clue as to who the dreamed
was can be hoped, and, if the awful mime be ever brought
home to the guilty persona, It will be as we
have said—by means of the clothes, the carpet beg,
and the cabmen. The chimer which the former offer are
not very strong. The clothes, which have evidently once
been good end of superior quality, are so torn, rained
with blood, marked with earth end whitewash, and,
above all, Do shrunken and altered by long immereion in
strong brine, as evidently to have totally changed them
from the appearance which they must have presented when
clean and new end worn by the unfortunate deceased.
they are far from being quite unrecognisable, though at the
first glance few would suppose it possible that they were the
clothes of a well-dressed gentleman. Experienced balers
who have been brought to examine them express a
decided opinion that they are of foreign make. From
the number of persons who examined them at the Bow-street
Police elation on Saturday, anxiously seeking for some trace
of missing friends or relatives, it would seem that ruder-
cue disappearances must be of very frequent occurrence in
this metropolis. No les' than eight or nine gentleman went
on Saturday read yesterday to the station, each of whom was
searching for tome clue to the discovery of persons who,
within the last month, without any known reason, have dis-
appeared, and never ainco been heard of. No one, however,
recognised the clothes which were found with the remains.
A minute examination of the dress and the condition in
which it is at present seems to show at least the manner in
which the murder was committed. There are marks of
three stabs in the back, between the shoulders, three in the
abdomen, and no leas then seven exactly over the region
of the heart. All these are clean cuts showing that they
must have been inflicted with • double-edged knife,
about the thickness of a crown-piece in the centre—a
puird-bladed weapon similar to those called Spanish
knives. The waistcoat is not pierced, so that it must have
been unbuttoned at the time the murder was committed.
The trousers, also, most have been partly undone, as they
ere ;only punctured in one spot, though the shirt ahows
marks of three stabs having been inflicted. if any conclu-
sion can be founded upon these appearances they would
certainly lead to the belief that the deceased must have
bren first gabbed from behind, and that then a desperate
struggle awned, for the other wounds in the back and
abdomen are wide apart, se if the &reliant struck
slim and where he could. As the deceased became weaker
and offered less resistance the finishing wounds in the
heart sneer to have been given with ferocious rapidity.
They almoet all lie within the circle of a crown piece, and
must therefore have been Bruck as rapidly lithe hand could
rise and fall. The beck of the greatcoatarked with
white, as if the murdered man had struggled hard with his
back against • white or lightly papered wall. After the sr
susinatioa had been effected it is supposed that the body
must have been left as it fell upon its face for twelve or
twenty-four home, as the blood has completely saturated ell
the front parts of the dream. The cute, waistcoat, shirt,
and trouser, also, are all split down the back in two halves.
and the sleeves of the costa ripped open, which leads to the
'apportion that the body must have become perfectly rigid
and in a contorted and unnatural position before any attempt
was made to remove the dress.
The hopes which exist of the carpet bag being traced
are founded upon the fact of its being • comparatively new
and very peculiar one, with the toads mark of a shopkeeper,
a la. Bd." in ink figures on the handle. The bag itself,
though nearly new, ie extremely old-fubioned with regard
tee form, being nearly three feet deep and two wide; in
f set, its great sire end pcul'er appearance would place its
I lentifleation by those who had once ern it beyond the
p oxtbility of doubt. That ties beg containing the remains
wee the one which was carried on the bridge by an
elderly woman on Thursday night is distinctly established
by the statement of Ethering ton the toll-taker. Etherne-
t= was himself formerly a constable in the A divi-
sion, and remarkable for his shrewdness and caution, and
this fact, coupled with the peculiar circumstances which he
martens, apparently place the accuracy of his testimony
beyond a doubt. He states that the woman came from the
Middlesex aide of the water, and paid the toll at the western
tollgate. Hs took the toll, and saw that she had with
her a brown paper parcel tied with cord; it was long,
bulky, and apparently heavy. She had also the carpet-beg
in which the remains were afterwards found, and
which also award full and heavy. His attention waa
particularly directed to the women in =sequence of
her turning the turnstile twice while endeavouring
to get the carpet bag through. He spoke to her about this,
said that he would have to pay the money himself, and that
she should have been more careful. The woman did not
reply, but looked at him steadily while be lilted up the
carpet beg for her and placed it on the top of the turnstile.
She then muttered something in a very gruff voice to the
effect that it could not be helped, took the carpet bag and
walked slowly away. As it was thought possible from the
gruffness of the voice that it might have been a man in
ROINAII'M clothes, Etherington hoe been questioned on this
point, bat in positive an to its being • woman, as be sew
her face moat distinctly, and furthermore that he remarked
she was short even for • women.
The police who ere engaged in endeavoneng b penetrate
the mystery which surrounds the whole case believe that •
womaa as unequal to cam ing • heavy weight as the woman
at the btidge evidently showed herself to be mast either
have been isolated by male sccomplteea or have diis en to the
neighbourhood of the bridge in a cab. Agorae the former
supposition Is the fact that none of the police in the vicinity
of :Wellington-street have seen persons carrying bundles
such as described, though the carpet bag could not have
escaped attention and remark had it been so conveyed. On
the other hand, the most minute inqub :es have been set
on foot among the cabmen throughout the metropolis as to
whether any one answering the description of the woman
with a carpet bag and bundle, • or any ono at all with a
carpet bag and brown paper parcel, was set down in the
neighbourhood of Waterloo-bridge en Thursday night.
As yet these inquir ice have elicited nothing, though it is rill
loped that, as the detail, of the atrocity committed are widely
spread, information on this point luny be obtained. TM
police are inclined to the opinion that in car of no cab
having been employed the murder must have been peeps.
tested at some of the houses of ill Jule which are numerous
enough almost within a stone's throw of that end of the
bridge. •
Of course, the meet vague and contradictory rumours
have been circulated everywhere as to the discovery of the
other portions of the body. Though some of these reports
and rumours were in the last degree &beard, they woe all
earefally sifted and inquired ioto, and some of than or
tally bore and unexpected fruits. We may here mention
that the police entertain little hopes of recovering the beide
hands, or fast of U.* body. In their opinion them member
were in the brown paper parcel taken on to the bridge, ma
have been thrown into the river. Every part brit War
direly beneath the bridge, ton both the eastern and welters
aides, ban been carefully dragged ; but, as might have been

atleipaled is • smelt for en ma a : parcel, and one
so Wady to bowled sheet by the slightest cum*
net mom It we solitiently stated yesterday that the
pity parties hed hue traced, and that the woman who
ranted the bq on to the bridge had been apprehended. We
egret to mg that don Y tat the least truth for such war-
leas. Literay nothing mere ins known at a late bow
het sight then was known within an hour after
the rid remelas were he the bands of the
eadiritiss; set only he. we des been obtsined, but nothing
whitener hoe bee tidied that would even led to the hope
lbe le rimy Wog ••sat••l4 cleared up. Nevertheless,
Kr. Illigmalikoldent Durkin le indefatigable in hie er
deeeemes end le rahansting all the resources of the dolm-
en pals • I hie stsmit• to bring the matter to itgat.
Amos Welelemgmem err of information which he re-
celled es fkleirag, ell awe or less inelerant and value,
were two ceimmeeelkne.—ene to the effect that a bag sup-
posed to err& eaealhig reareciel with the runlet bad
bees weird adhere at Sorbs* the odor etatliag thst the
heed of • ale heed bars food diehdy tortaid wrier the
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Lodi* eastahrtng, wow other mane, • pletsksee
sad rte bedlam, all being the pet remit et
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perestes Y forsesiridese the podee Mad that
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bees. This rowdies he dryly gm& sad arm
melee fooreses of the way wikk i mace Ordure
pewee their erateireel ewe The riser upon the
resin Tel be bell le-day, girt the ordeal eridence will
show that bored • des% err of the reel deliberate
murders which we have bed to record for may years bee
bee committed.