The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-22 00:00:00

THE MURDER AT STEPNEY.

Up to yesterday evening nothing had transpired
positively tending to implicate any one in the
murder of the unfortunate woman Mrs. Emsley.
For the present indeed the matter is invested with
almost as much mystery as the tragedy at Road,
although some of the most experienced detective
officers from the head-quarters of the metropolitan
police in Scotland-yard, in addition to the local
divisional police, are actively engaged in endeavour-
ing to throw fresh light upon it. A rumour was
current last night in the vicinity of the murder that
the relatives of the deceased intend to offer some
considerable reward for the apprehension and con-
viction of the assassin. This, or a similar step on
the part of the Home Secretary, would doubtless
stimulate exertion, and the more so if it were offered
quickly, when the matter is fresh in the public mind.
It is said there are circumstances pointing to a cer-
tain conclusion, but as to the nature of them, and
the course of action being taken, the authorities
occupied in the investigation are obliged for the
present to manifest a necessary reserve, as well to
prevent their exertions being baffled as, in the event
of being on the wrong scent, to keep secret the fact
that they were ever set on foot in that direction,
lest, in a matter so delicate, suspicion should possi-
bly alight upon an innecent person. Those engaged
in the inquiry seem sanguine of success, and there
is a general belief that the murderer will, before
long, be in the hands of justice. On Monday even-
ing, after the inquest had been adjourned, the body
of the deceased, at the instance of Mr. Rose, who
had acted as her solicitor, was placed first in a
leaden and then an oak coffin, and removed from
her late residence to the Tower Hamlets Cemetery,
not, however, for immediate interment, but to be
placed in a repository there, and so to remain for the
present. It is supposed by those best acquainted
with her affairs that she might have had £5O or
£lOO in the house on the Monday night on which it
is presumed the murder was committed. The man-
ner in which the £4B odd was found secreted in her
coal cellar on Monday morning last, when the
house was being searched, assuming it was placed
there by her own hands, is a little suggestive of
her penurious turn of mind, and it may be of an ap-
prehension that the knowledge other wealth might
conduce to an attempt at robbery or violence. It
was discovered underneath about a ton of coals—
£32 of it; in gold, being wrapped in a piece of wash-
leather, and £l6 25., in silver, was in a tin case;
the whole being rolled in a piece of dirty printed
cotton. It was her habit to lodge sums
of money in the London and Westminster
Bank, on deposit notes, but never for any length
of time, for she held bankers' interest in small_
esteem, and—the money being readily available,
in that shape—she was always seeking opportu-
nities for a more profitable investment of it. With
this view she bought little patches of house property
in some of the most wretched parts of Bethnal-
green and the surrounding neighbourhood, the
rents of which she spent the most of her time in
collecting personally from a humble class of people,
to none of whom she gave, on any pretence, more
than a week's grace, and in case ofnon-payment had,
immediate recourse to a speedy process of ejectment
unknown to the law. She owned whole streets in
some of the most poverty-stricken districts in the
east of London, in one of which, Barnsley-street,
she was engaged collecting rents on the afternoon of
Monday week, the day on which she was la.s't seen
alive; and she had also property at Romfor d, Da-
genham, Barking, Peckham, and other places
within a moderate radius of London. Except a
niece, she appears to have had no blood rogations,
but since her death several persons have turned up
to claim kindred to her, none of whose pretensions
as yet stand the test of examination. Not long ago
she intimated to a friend her intention to devote
most of her wealth to the endowment of an alms-
house after her death, and it is said consulted her
solicitor as to the preparation of a will cai Tying out
her views in that and other respects, but bier violent
death supervened before the wish was embodied
in legal form. All her deeds and muniments she
kept deposited in her own house, and on art exami-
nation yesterday by her solicitor they were:all found
in order and intact. About 17 years ago, be ing then
a widow, she married her second husband, Mr. Ems-
ley, now dead, and on that occasion some property she
had in her own right was settled in her i nsterest in
trustees, who have ever since continued to act for
her. The second marriage is said not to ha ve been
a happy one, and since her husband's death she has
maintained little or no intimacy with his ry :lations.
About the beginning of this month she bought £l6O
worth of paperhangings, part of a bankruplls stock,
which she kept stored in her house in Grave-road;
and it is thought that this had somethia ig to do
with her death, the suggestion being that the mur-
derer had obtained admission to her houste on the
pretence of buying some of the paper, an that it
was while a bargain was being made for it that she
received the blow which deprived her of

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