The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-05 00:00:00

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halt from Dover_ Nothin,, fu_ wa3i a Ird
of the party until the lifeless bod. tlae)your‘ivoni en
were discovered on the grass, in the parish of eve' e.
Perne, by an employ of the South Eastern ItailYv ay
Company, named Curling. Thii man was walking al,
mg
by the edge of the seas, about seven o'clock on Suartay
morning, when he observed what he supposed to be two
females lying asleep on the grass, heneeth the spot oio
which he was standing. He proceed there chiefly omit
of curiosity, and was horror-struck on finding that the
first fenale he came up to had been murdered. The
bodies were about twelve paces apart. He immediatitly
ran for assistance, and by .8 aiclock Superintendent Ste,tr,
of the Folkestone division of the Kent constabulary a,r,d
other parties were irr -ittendance. Upon the bodges
being examined by 16:- Bateman, a surgeon, it was
found that each had received four Attabs about the
breasts, and that three on each bodyitiveere fatal. The
eldest had also received a,cut througli,the band, as if
she had resisted the murderer's atta,ckijand her clothes
were also disarranged. It is but right to state that,
upon examination, it was discovered that some one had
recently bad sexual intercourse with the elder girl ; and
horrible as it appears, it is, therefore, only fair to as-
sume that the soldier csntmitted the first of his diabolical
crimes while his unfortunate victim was receiving hie
embraces. Tne other poor girl was probably attracted
to the spot by the cries, and she then must have fallen a
victim to the we,pan still reeking with the blood of her
sister. The bodies were removed to the nearest public_
house and an inquest opened before Mr. T. T. Dela-
sause, coroner for the district, yesterday, and subse-
quently adjourned.
The superintendent constables of Folkestone, Wing.
ham, and Canterbury, and the police immediately com-
menced a vigorous search after the murderer, and he was
traced to HaOree, about five miles from Canterbury,
where be posted two letters, one addressed to the mother
of the deceased, and the other to the captain of his com-
pany. They were both written in German. In the
former the wretched man alluded to the intention of the
girl (Caroline) to go to Woolwich, at which he appeered
much hurt. He also expressed sorrow ft r what he had
don,. The murderer was afterwards seen in the '-`
of Chatham, about three miles from Canterbury, where
he subsequently attempted to commit suicide. Observ-
ing some labourers coming along the road towards him,
near the viaduct of the South Eastern Railway, the
murderer took out his knife, and plunged it into his body
three times. The men ran up to him, and Mr. Bond, a
surgeon, was quickly in attendance. He found him
entirely pulseless, but after administering a little stinau•
lant he rallied, and was removed to the Kent and Can-
terbury Hospital. Mr. Reed, another surgeon, then
examined the nature of the wounds, and found that the
knife had passed through the lungs, and that the-unfor-
tunate man was in a very critical state—indeed, it i s
hardly expected that he can live. It was about 5 o'clock
this afternoon when he was discovered ; he bad the two
cloaks belonging to the murdered girls, turned inside
out, and wrapped round him, with the view of hiding
his uniform.