The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-10 00:00:00

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lIoCIK Nl MURDER A NI) 11 UTItATION
OF 'THE PODY. :7

Vcst,.-rday morning w,.3 d scovfrtd, at Waterloo
kaitigef: the. maughd and mutilated -1331y.0f a gea•
lenntir who had Sivarently hein. b arously mur-

derecU" The discovery wai made in the following

Yesterday morning, at half-put eight o'clock,
Lwo youths, accompinied by an elder brother,
waited upon Mr. Superintndent Durkin; of the F
flivision, at the Bow-street" station; and ma,le a
statement to the effect that the two youths were in
boat.rowing on the river Ttiqines that morning
between five and six o'clock, and as they- were about

to pass throwh one of the arches of,Waterloo-bride
their attention was attracted by a bundle on one
of the bnitrk-sses. They pulled up as soon as pos-
Nei in order to seize what. they con idered a
prize. When abreast of the buttress, theydiscovered
that the bundle which they had 'noticed was a large
travelling or carpet bag. With the assis'ance of
their oars they succeeded in getting the big into
the boat. They then discovered that it was tightly
corded, and that in addi,ion there was some ten or
twelve yards of string. This has led the police to
the belief that the cord had been used for the pur-
pose .of quietly droppiflg the bag into the river
.without making any plash or sound, which.would
at once have called the attention of the officers of
the Thaines police station, which is moored off the
spot, or of the numerous watermen who' ply off the
staiis on either side of the bridge ; but instead of
the fang going into the water and tit:satin with the
tide to some other spot, or fronvtlie circumstance
of the, cord not being sufficiently long to swing it
into the water, it lodged Upon the buttress, where it
was found. When the boys got the bag into the boat
they found it was excessively heavy, and as the
..ide was running very strong at the tiny., all their
energies were requiled to manage the boat. They
the; decided to take the big borne lefore they
opened it. Upon arriving at their residence they
communicated the fact of the finding of the bag to
their elder brother, who at once proceeded to ex-

amine the contents. On cutting the string and
pebing the bag, one of the most hor:ible spectacles
that it is possible to imagine piweeted itself to their
view—portions of a hutna,n body, bones from which
the flesh had been rudely torn off, and girrnents
saturated with blood.

Immediately on finding this to be the case, the
&der brother [there are cert in reasons why the
names of either the finders of the body or the bro-
ther are not given at pre ent, but their names and
addresses are known to Mr. Superintendent Durkin],
accompanied by the two youths, repaired to Bow-
street station, taking with them the hag. After slat-

ing the mysterious nature of the finding, and what,
as far as they had discovered, the bag contained, Mr.
Superintendent Durkin deemed it necessary to send
for Mr. Painter (the divisional surgeon), of Cathe-
rine-street, Strand, who at once came to the sta-
tion, and an examination of the bag .and its con-
tents then took place.
The result of the examination, which was most
1 carefully and minutely made by Mr. Painter, in
presence of Mr. Durkin showed the bag to contain
a great number of the different portions of a human
body of the male sex. The parts found consisted
of the legs, arms, nearly the whole of the spinal
coluinn the buttock joints, and.the shoulder joints.
The whole of the head with several cervicles of the
vertebrae, the hands and the feet wore abs'.-nt.
With regard to the condition of the remains, it wts
found that the greater portion of the flesh had ben
very roughly removed. There were however,
some portions of the muscles remaining on the
limVis. These were impregnated with a saline
matter, as if the body had been placed in brine or
tal'ed, and it is the opinion of the surgeon and
police that such a course had been adopted in order
to prevent any smell which might arise from de-
composition before the diabolical arrangements
had been concluded for the dispouil of the
body. There were in all about 20 piece!, the large
bones of the legs and arms having been rudely
sawn into pieces ; the former having b-en divided
near the joints of the knees and thigh, and
one of the knees had been torn asunder, portions
of the muscular flesh and teguments remaining on
the different pieces of bone. It would appear that
the brine or salt had not -penetrated through the
entire body, the sockets of the hip joints having
on them some amount of flesh, which hid become
decomposed. This one fact leads the sutgeon to
surmise that the murder had been perpetrated
some clays ; but upon this point no certainty pre-
vails in consequence of the preparation usad having
tended to preserve the other portions of the flesh
remaining on the bones. From the absence of the
head, it is impossible to guess oven at the axe of
the unfortunate man, but from the appearance of
the bones of the liMbs, Mr. Painter is of opinion

that the deceased was a full-sized, flue, robust man.
In the bag was also found an overcoat, made of
a brown mixture, the sleeves lioul with red silk,
.he front fly-faced with black silk, and the tails
linecl.with black alpaca. It contained two pockets
babied, and one breast pocket. This coat, which
was made of a very fine material, such as on'y a
person in a good position in life would be likely to
wear, was literally cut in two up the bielr, and
contained several holes in front, about the left
breast and lower part, evidently made with some
sharp instrument, and was much blood-stained.
There was also a single-breasted black cloth frock-
coat, made of good material, lined with black alpaca,
and having a cloth button loop attached, with a
bi east pocket outside. This coat was also in two pieces
cut up the back, saturated with blood, and having
holes in it about the left breast andskirts, correspond-
ing exactly in number and %ize with those in the over-
coat. There was also a double-breasted black clath
vest, with buckle strap behind, and, like the two
preceding garments, cut up'tbe back, acid in two
pieces. The waistcoat also had holes in the front,
by the left breast, similar to those in the coa's. A
pair of trousers was also found. They, were made
of rough Oxford mixture, or Tweed, with fly
front, small yellow waistband, and rri-tal buttons.
These also were-cut up the back, saturated with
blood, and had several holes about the abdomen.
Two shirts were also found in the bag, ono of which
was made of fine long cloth, with loien front,
wristbands, and collar, the front being plaited in
small plaits, stitched up, and having two very small
white bone buttons. The other was an under shirt
of merino, with c veered buttons. Both these arti-
cles were soaked with blood, and had correspond-
ing holes in front. They were likewhe cut com-
pletely up the back. There were also a pair of
elastic lawn drawers with one metal and one bone
button on the waistband. These were cut, and had
boles in them the same as the trousers, and were
saturated with blood. There were was only ono sock
in the bag, and that was a thick white cotton one.
There- are no initials, or name, or ma:k of any
description on any one of the articles above enu-
merated that tend to throw any light on the mat-
ter as to the identification of the deceased.
From the above description of the articles of
wearing apparel discovered with the mangled re-
mains in the bag, it will be seen that every one of
them contains holes exactly similar in size, posi-
tion, and number, and not the slightest doubt is
entertained that they were caused by some pointed
instrument, such as a knife or dagger ; CODS -
quently it seems certain that the deceased must
have been murdered by being stabbed with such a
weapon, and it it also clear that the deceased bad

been stabbed a great many times, as there are no
fewer than seven punctures in the c!othos is the
immediate vicinity of the region of thi heart, while
there are several others about the abdomen.
'One extraordinary feature in this szLso is that

while the various articles of clothes, together with
the portions of the mangled body, were quite wet with
water, the bag containing them was perfectly dry.
It would seem, therefore, that the clothes and re-
mains had been placed in the big a short time before
it was deposited where it was found, and also that
the bag must have been placed on the buttress ; for
had it floated from any part of the river, and then
lodged on the buttress, the bag must undoubt dly
have besn wet. It may be moutioned that the bag
iu which the remains were found is a full s'zed tra-
veling carpet bag with two handles, and had evi-
dently seen some wear. There are no marks on it,
but it has a patent lock, which was not fastened,
for whoa found it was secured by a piece of cord.
Iu the inside of the frame there is a partition, but
the lining has been torn out, emstiquently its
contents had been indiscriminately thrust in.
From_ the fact that the clothing was cut up the
bacK it is the opinion of thoso who are investigating
the case that after life was extinct the dec3ased had
been laid on his face and his clothes deliberately
ripped off his body by the assassins for the purpose
of cutting off the flesh and dividing the limbs.
The examination by the surgeon having proved
beYond a doubt that the remains were those of a
gentleman who had been murdered, Mr. Superin-
tendent Durkin selected some of his most active of-

ficera to investigate the case, with a view, if pos-
sible, to unravel the mysterious and extraordinary
circumstances by which it is surrounded, but un-
fortunatly up to this time very lit le has been as-
certained. We may mention, however, that one
point appears to be satisfactorily esta'ilished, viz.,
that the bag was deposited in the place where it was
discovered by a female, for it had been ascertained
that a rather elderly woman passed through the foot
passenger's toll-gate about 12 o'clock on Thursdiy
night. The money taker on duty at that timeremem-
bars a person came up with a lz.rge carpet bag, which
appeared to be very weighty, and owing to the nar-
rowness of the turnstile she was nimble to pass
through with it. The money-taker accordingly
i himself lifted it over for her ; and he asserted on
hearing of the discovery, that he took particular
notice of the bag, as it had a flower worked in the