The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1857.

THE MUTILATED BODY AT WATERLOO

DZIDOZ

THE INQUEST.

The adjourned inquest on the remains of the
human body found at Waterloo-bridge was resumed yester-
day before Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, at the
Strand Union Board-nom, Bow-street, Covent-garden. The
Miming evidence was adduced:
Samuel Ball, 10 Grove-place, Waterloo-road,
dealer, dated, that on Thursday, October 11, betweearst
12 o'clock at night, be was gotng over the bridge
(Waterloo) from the Strand side. He paid his money, and
beds Mr. Errington, the tollkeeper, red night. He got es
far ea the tint rooms on the bridge, then polled out him pipe,
and said to himself he would go and get • light. He went
beck to the toll-gate, and was going to sak for a light, when
be saw • party thee dressed in female attire—a short pers.
He heard Ervington say, "If you cent lift the
bag yourself, why don't you ask some one to help
you I' Saw Erruigton lift the bag over • it woe
a carpet bag. Did not notice the size, or whether it bad
baths, sides. Errington lifted it over sideways, and IPA the
woolen took it witness got sight of her features—her fell
Mee. She hod a sallow complexion and rather funk= eyes,
ands mark like a mole on the left aide of the nose; there was
a hair on it. The hair of the head looked a kind of • white,
not • natural colour. As We came through witness weal
along and overtook her. Could not describe her draw Did
not see Ow after he passed her. There woe • tallish man es
Ike other side of the [ride., walking easily towards the
Strand. He saw the man der he pawed the kaiak. Did
sot mace him; he wail on the other odds of the way„ _Oast
the Siat news ea the Surrey side. Wflarsould not Semidry
the hag. The wawame fiedm Moown pew pared besides as
undid It lir sm.
Mr Illabeed Budd Painter, the pollee surgeon, stated that
Dr. Taylor had been associated with him in examining the
remains which had been shown to the jury on the former es-
casion. He had in his last examination omitted Me/ideate one
or two point" he now ',imbed to add. The day after the last sitting
of the inquest, he made farther examination of the remains,
the chief result of which was that, in addition to conlirmiag
him previous opinions, he di acovered a fact which set the
question of the sex of the denied at rest, and he was rasa
that the doomed was of the male sex. He should elm have
stated= the former occuion that, feeling the importance of
serving the remains of the bowed in an unaltered
he placed the 23 portions in an antiseptic solution bat bears
doing which he separated a portion of muscle with SOW of
the saline particles he before spoke of, and placing these in a
bottle retained them carefully in his own Immediate peewee-
eon. Thin bottle with its contents he had since handed to
Dr. Taylor for analysts.
Dr. Alfred Swain Taylor sworn, said-1 em • Fellow of
the College of Physician., and a Fellow of the Royal Sodi.
I have made an examination of the remains of the body
shown me by Mr. Painter, under an order of the Secretaryof
State. I have made an 'minis, and gone into the whole
CM, end have drawn up my report on the whole cue. It is
as follows :—" I hare nude an examination of thew remains
on three separate ea:aeons, viz., on the Dith, 19th, and 21st
of October. They were shown to me on each occasion by the
divisional sarreas. Mr. Painter,in the presence of Superiatead-
eat Durkin. Than remains an part. of • human body, sad,
making due allowance for the miming portions, they admit
of en accurate adjustment to each other. Twenty-three
plume of the body were shown tome, consisting chiefly of
bone with the flesh adhering to them. The Hash had been
roughly cut from the bones, apparently with the
view of removing as much of it as possible, and
the parts had been cut and awn into small
lengths, probably to reduce their bulk, and to allow
them to be parked within. small space. The trunk, including
part of the chest sad wine, basbeencut Into eight pieces; the
upper limbs have been cut or sawn into six , and the lower
limbs into nine pftices. The deficient portions are the heed,
with the greater part of the spine—namely, 14 out of 24 ver-
tebra (7 rervicle and 7 upper clonal), the heads, the irea
and some portions of the left side of the chest. The whole et
the viscera of the chest and abdomen are also &Semi (a
drawing, which accompanied the report, Wowing Mee mining
portions, was here put in). When compared with the avenge
weight of the body, the quantity found I. small. The 23
pieces produced, after soaking in brine for some days,
weighed only 18 pounds. This is about ono-eighth of the
average weight of the adult body.
These remaine have been examined especially with a view
to the solution of the following ciliation. •
1. The sex, age, and stature of the dowsed.
2. The presence of any physiological or pathological peas-
Hanel,. in reference to identity.
3. The prune's of any marks of violence with !einem
to the probable canoe of death.
4. The general condition of the remens, with a view to
determine whether they are parts of a disewted body, and
whether they had undergonesay chemical process for the
purpose of preservation.
6. The length of the period which has elapsed since the
death of the deceased.

1. Oki ♦ND AT,TURE 07

It in tutnecothary to deal with a gaieties sometimes raised
on theth occaserne, whether the remains, or any portions of
them, ere those of an animal. Beyond sll doubt they are
parts of a human body. and there are no duplicate portions,
such as are commonly found when bodied bath been used for
the lawful purposes of dissection. The pert. found belong to
one end the same body. The sex is also placed beyond all
doubt—Abe length and mathiventhe of the breed of the upper
and lower limbs, the marked characters of the ridges and
promise, the form of the pelvis, the dimensions of tho
part called the inlet, the narrowness of the spath
in the arch of the pubes clearly Indicate that the decanted
was of the male eel. Thin is confirmed by the remains of
• portion of the anatomical structure of the male, still ad.
bowing to the arch of the pubes on the right side. An
attempt has obviously been made to destroy all trace, of the
sex, and this, so far as the soft parts are concerned, has been
effected on one side of the arch of the pelvis, but not on the
other. Three sexual parts have not been dissected, but
rudely mutilated, and irregularly rut on the two aide. after
death. The firmness, solidity, sire, and weight of the bones, the
complete oseilleation of the ends of the long bones, and the
thicknese of the shafts of the thigh bones, compared with
the space occupied by the medullary cavities, are conditions
which chow that the deceased had reached • full adult
sge, which I would assign, presumptively judging from the
appearance of the skeleton, at from 30 to 40 yes's.
2. PH Y414,14,i1CAL of PATHOLOGICAL PRCITJAHITIEP.
The bona preemeted in no part marks of malformation,
disease, united fracture.. or mechanical *1,1,7, az
that which had bean produced after death by sawAng.Vg Rome_
of the joints ware fixed with the sawn portions of the hones
in an unusual direction. The head of the tight thigh bone
remaining in the hip joint was Had or bent on the trunk
at an angle of 45 deg. ; the knee was also firmly flexed on
this aide at an angle with the thigh. The left arm
(bmineena) was fixed in snob a direction as to be widely
sepa-
rated from the left aide of the body, instead of lying parallel
to it—and on this aide the fore-arm was firmly bent on the
arm at the elbow joint at an angle of 45 deg. On the right
Me, viewing the direction of the bones as fixed by the por-
tions left in the joints, the fore-arm was bent on tho upper
arm at an angle of 80 deg. On examining the joints it was
found there wee no eminent-lon or other disease to amount
for this HAITI Hexed condition of the upper or lower
limbs on the ht side, and the upper limbo on the left aids.
I infer from le examination that the limb. had not bons
relaxed since they had undergone the rigidity of
death, that the body bad been cut sad sawn while in this
rigid state, and that the mode In which it was subsequently
treated, to which t shall presently refer, tended to preserve
the fixed condition of the joints as a result of cadaveric
rigidity in a constrained pieture. The small portions of din
remaining on the wrists and the right knee, are rather thickly
covered with long dark hairs.

3.—MAIMA7r aLrNce.—THE CAt..l! OT oraeo.
The cutting and *awing of these remains took place after
death. The rutting has been effected roughly with • knife,
while the mewing has been performed in the shahs of the long
hones with a fine saw. In one portion of the left ire of the
chest, comprising the second, third, and fourth ribs, with
one-half of the chest bone attached, there is an aperture
in the fifth presenting the appearance of • deb.
It le situated M front between the third and fourth ribs, oar
their junction with the chest-bone. It has peastrabd the
cavity of the cheat, and presents,men from the inside, an
opening of about 6-10tha of an Mob in its acts,which
fa obliquely placed, but inclined to a vertical thritedr. As-
suming that this wound had been Maimed during life ft
would have ted the heart, and have produced rapid,
if not imm diate death. The muscles of the chest through
which ails etab had posed were for some ram armed of a
dark red colour, evidently produced by blood which had been
eared es • result of this wound. This appearance is unlike
that produced by a cut or stab In • cold dent body in which
circulation had ceased. The edgem of the wound era
rear, and this fact, together with the infiltration
of the moires with blood, which even the soaking in liquid
for • week had not removal, lead me to the roerlonen that
Or wound woe raided on the altered, either during life
or within a few ornate of death, i.e.. while the body was
warm and the blood was liquid. There is no other mark
of violence during life, or any other appearance b the
remain which points to attar of death. The deceased may
have actually died from • fracture of the skull and Wary to
the brain, or from • stab in the abdomen allectintinzenlerge
bloodvessel. As the organs of the chest and •
not foethernaing, any opinion of the taus of death must be
a matter of opecniation. The ribs sad mmustle• of the right
aide d the chest (which are oomph*, be three pieoas), whin
placed together and suumineal, prevent an marks of stabbing
or fracture. Airy aorta wound an Ur cheat, therefor%
must have her ea the lea side. The let, 6th, and 6th ribs,
with their attached webs, are wanting en this MO. There
may have an elate bthe spaces between these adeadnertbe
which weehlhaly indeed the law bilattwiewie of the chest
or the Wet Wt.