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London, England, 1860-09-03 00:00:00

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From the earliest ages of society a belief has pre-'
vailed that undo: could never be hidden. The
fearful nature ,of the crime was
, to removeit• from the ordinary category of offenees.z
Against this_ terrible widiednesr3 waB "God's rd:/4
verige" especJally.denouneed, and: not denounc6d
vain. Other crimes might rem nip ;uuel4ecteaa-iir
unconfessed, but when murder had been done some
my-steriona agency was suppmed to be.at-avork,_
which, sooner or later, would being the guilt to',.
light. It was held, indeed, formerrly that even the
laws of nature were suspended. The birds of the ,
air, the leaves of the forest, and the dumb animals
of the field could talk of the matter. The stair of
man's blood could never be.effaced. It cried from the
ground against the murderei till. retribution over-
took him, and, even when all these signs nod por-
tents had proved unavailing, there was a last re-
source which coulil never fail. An irresistible
inipulse turned the murderer against hiniself.
The consciousness of guilt, either embodied in'
the apparition of • his victim or -presented 'in some
dreadful form, beset him night and day, .611, at
length, in despair and exhaustion, he surrendered
himself to justice, or otherwise paid the solemn
forfeit of life for life. Such were the convictions
entertained everywhere and by all people upon this
subject. The proverb said" Murder will out." and
proverbs speak the language of truth. as learnt
from the lessons of experience.
Sorry should we be to part from a belief so natu-
ral and so wholesome as that we have described,
but we must needs say that of late the crime of
murder has not been so invariably followed by
to the
de-
tection as the ancient maxim presumes. We are
not speaking of the cases of alleged poisoning, in
which it has been feared that death was inflicted
with elaborate artifice and consequent impunity.
In. those cases there is always a possibility of origi-
nalßa ataistlftsatisfaction
misconception.cattionan oyf
a rate,
ju.
y really violated, and therefore, whatever may be the
weight of suspicion, there is no solid ground to
build upon. Very different, however, is, the..u.sp.ext
i-tPhea thatr Perhaps
atnphosetthbe sanctuaryereebeen proved
of life was
was no murder
of the case in examplei which have been recently
presented. There it is certain there was murder—
murder of the most foul and barbarous kind, and
yet the criminals remain undetected up to this very
hour. It is positively certain that the unfortunate
widow at Stepney did not beat ont her own brains,
and that the poor little child at Road did not cut its
own throat. We may even say that, on the face of
things, it appears as if these crimes ought both to
have admitted of discovery with more than ordi-
nary ease ; whereas both remain shrouded in dark-
ness still.

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rate of 3 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of
£B3l for the next account.
The capital account showed that £479,186 had
been received and £479,135 expended, leaving a
balance of £5l.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, congratulated the proprietors on the increas-
ing prosperity of the undertaking.
Resolutions were passed adopting the report, de-
claring a dividend at the'rate of 3 per cent. per
annum for the half-year ending the 30th of June,
'and re-electing the retiring directors and auditor.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

The murder at Stepney was committed, in one
respect, under circumstances undoubtedly favour-
able to the escape of the assassin. So secluded and
unsocial were the habits of the victim that it was
not until the fourth day after her death that the
fact became known. That at least appears to be the
necessary inference from the evidence obtained. Mrs.
Emsley was seen alive at the window of her own
house about 7 o'clock in the evening of Monday, the
13th of August. She was seen by two witnesses, both
of whom lived exactly opposite her house. She was
never seen alive afterwards, nor could any access be
obtained to her dwelling, though many attempts
were made, from which facts, as well as frqm the
state in which the corpse was found, it is reason-
able to conclude that such an interval elapsed be-
tween the deed and its discovery. Excepting, how-
ever, for this one circumstance, all the chances of
epopulous and bkunsoywtn h, o rao nudg I
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fthe case would seem to tell against the murderer.
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abutted, besides, on one of the principal arteries of
London. Nothing, indeed, could be more marked
than the publicity of the situation. The deed, again,
was committed, in all probability, before dark, for
it was particularly noticed that the shutters of the
front parlour, which the deceased used to close
about dusk, were not closed on the fatal evening—
a fact plainly suggesting that her life was taken
before the hour of closing. That time—the period
between 7 o'clock and dusk, in the month of
August, is precisely the time when a street like
Grove-road would be most full of people, looking
about them, loitering on the pavement, or standing
at their own doors for the coolness of the air. It
seems clear, indeed, from an accumulation of cir-
cumstances, that this must have been the hour at
which the murder was done, for the deceased was
found lying in the top room of the house, and fully
dressed, whereas her bedroom was on the first floor,
so that she had not retired to rest. The doors, too,
were found unlocked and merely on the latch,
showing that no violence had been employed to
effect an entry. The obvious conclusion from all
this is, that the murderer must have been admitted
to the house before it was shut up for the evening,
at an hour, probably,when the unfortunate woman,
suspicious as she was, was willing to do business.
Assuming, too, that these inferemees arc correct, the
last day's inquest brought to light a fact of an extra-
ordinary character. A witness living nearly opposite
deposed that on the Tuesday morning she saw the
window of the top front room opened. " I mean,"
she added, " I saw it moved by a hand." This
would prove either that the murderer was in the
house ail night, or that he returned in the morn-
ing, and deliberately, for some purpose of his own,
opened the window of the room in which his victim
lay. And all, this occurs in a neighbourhood so
populous and so observant, that we are told when
the poor woman was last seen, and how her house
looked, and who came to knock at her door hour
after hour, and day by day
Of the Road murder we can only say that for
iniquity and mystery it is without a parallel. In
that case none of the common incentives to the
crime could have existed. The poor little victim
had no property to be carried off, and could have
created no enemies. It seems, indeed, as if he must
have been seized in his sleep, and put out of the
world before he could wake to consciousness. If,
however, it is truly alleged that the house was
not forcibly entered from the outside on the night
of the murder, the conclusion becomes inevitable
that some person under that roof was concerned in
the deed. How strongly these persuasions are enter-
tained will have been seen from a memorial which
we recently published, and which prays the H°'
Secretary to grant a special commission for inve_fo.l
Intl; a
crime h.wTinhn.gecot
gating a crime so strangely concealed-
s
out of a room in 'which its
realists rest upon the fact that the area ofts"re, as the
manifestly circumscribed, and urge
down stairs into the
foundtha among
criminal or an accomplice must
b,ht to effect the
tne pre:lift:lns
certain specified persons, the law
noout by ordinary
discovery by extraordinary
means. It is certainly an
an-
cdheirlditsshpoaurlednthsa,vreoobr
anntadied
nurse was sleeping,
ucradrerr ed , h Wit out a clue being
garden, and there
left to the perpetr.asto„
pietset°of these two
r into the Road murder has been,
utterly fruitless; we believe, the Stepney inquest
has been suspended by the coroner as altogether
without promise for the present. The adjournment
was even sine die, simply, as the coroner remarked,
because there was no such evidence in his possession
as would justify him in fixing a time for resuming
the investigation. We cannot but regard *hese ex-
amples as exceedingly discouraging, and we hardly
know, indeed, what interpretation to put upon them.
casTehs.atTithrineqvuerYl
Are murderers more subtle than formerly, or the
officers of justice less acute ? What are the con-
ditions which are turning the balance of chances
in favour of the criminal ? To these questions we
see no obvious reply •, but it deeply concerns the
interests of society and the character of the nation
that murder should be deprived of that impunity
which it seems beginning to enjoy.—Times.

A HUMAN SACRIFICE.—A strange affair is related
in the Russian journals :—At Moscow, 10 nights back, the
occupiers of a vast house at the corner of Great West-street
were awakened by the glare and crackling of a fire, and on
getting up found that a large pile of fuel, consisting of logs
of fir trees which had been collected in the courtyard,. was
in flames. The conflagration was extinguished as qiuckly
as possible. On examining the remains of the fire, the cal-
cined bones of a woman were found, and it turned out that
a widow, named Theleska T—, about 40 years of age, who
had li, ed in the house, had disappeared. Nothing could be
heard of this woman, and as she had repeatedly declared
that in these times the sacrifice of human victims was neces-
sary to appease the wrath of God against sinners, the con-
clusien was come to that she had lighted up the fire ena
placed herself in the midst of it to be consumed. In the
Russian Empire, the Moscow journals state, self-cram the
from motives of religious fanaticism, is not rare. !, st
province of Olonetz, for example, in the course 1.....,t
spring, not fewer than 15 persons, men and wonis_,,/guif—g
themselves to death in the belief that they were Pen"
an act pleasing to God.
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