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

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centre of the material of which it was made. He
has, „we unds<Tstand, been shown the hag in_ hicl
.the remains were found, and cxwes,,ies his,
to- swear thit it is" the one -w hiCh 'he a the
woman'ii,hand, and which lie lifted over the tura-
. stile for her on Thursday night. At that time
there was no. cord attached`to it ; so. it Would 'ap-
pear, should this -turn-out t, b 3 the one, that the
woman must .have fastened' the cord to it as she
putted along the bridge, and bare lowered it on t
the buttrets fr *vote of the recesses of the br:clgo.
The police are using every.exertion to discover this
woman, and we truss that ore long she will be in
the hands of justice.
The Al ater has been communica,ted to Mr. Bed-
ford, the cor.mer. for Westrininster, and an inques-
will b,3 held on the remains, which are lying at the
Bow-street station, together with the clothes, by
means of which it is hoped the murdered man may
be identified. •

. At a late hour hat night tha police authorities
were put in possession of a description of the femalu
who passed over the bridge with the bag containing
the mu ilated remains of the murdered man on
Thursd'iy night. She is described as being of ehort
stature and rather. stout, about 50 or 60 years of
age, pale complexion and grey hair. She was
dressed in a black silk mantle, and a drab silk .or
satin honnet. When spoken to by Harrington,
the money taker at the bridge, she answered in a
very gruff and masculine tons of voice, evidently
assumed-.to throw off suspicion.
In ad lition to the above description some new
features of si:ane.importance have came to -light
The woman, whoeveishe is, passed on to the bridg,
from the Middlesex side, and besides the carpet-ba.:

she carried a brown paper parcel of so:ne what large
dimension.. That parcel is now supposed to hay,
contained the head and other parts of tilt body
which are missing, and it is bAteved that the wo-
mau luwererl that parcel into the water, and that it
floated away with the tide. Should such be the
case, it no doubt will be discovered, for a strict
watch will be kept on the river Thames.
The police have had their attention drawn to the
circumstance that if the bag and parcel had been
brought from a distance they. must have been con-
veyed iu a cab or other vehicle to tl:e neighbourhood
of the bridge, as their weight would render it im-
possible far an elderly woman to have carried them
far herelf. The authorities therefore have adopted
tnelsure3 for aieertaining, if possible., the different
vehicles that were discharged in the neighbourhood
of the Strand or Waterloo-bridge on the Thursday
night.

Another point of some imperfauco in elucidating
the mystery which surrounds this horrible affair is
the fact that the pockets in the various articles of.
clothing-found in the bag were turned inside out,
and not a single article was found in any of them.
The infironce ti be drawn from this is that the
uufortunte man must have been robbed.

From a further examination of the remains by
Mr. Painter, the divisional surgeon, and other
medical gentlemen, it would seens that the deceased
must have been stabbed while in a reclining position.

LATEST PARTICULARS.—(This Day.)

The particulars connected with this mysterious
murder appear to be as intricate and bid fair to
baffle, for the present, the vigilance of one of the
bast detective police force that ever existed, and to
create as much, if not greater iaterest on the part
of the public, than the notorious cases in which
Glod, and Greenacre, and the Mannings were con-
cerned, and for which they paid the penalty of their
lives. The more the affair is investigated the
greater isthe mystery in which this horrible matter
is involved.

Throughout the morning our reporter has been
vigiiently engaged in collecting as many particulars
as possille in connection with the affair, and we
ere enabled to lay before our readers such facts as
we believe can be relied on, allowance being made
for the crude manner in which they are put forth,
from the shortness of time id which they had to be
gathered.

It appearg, then, that the carpet-bag containing
the horribly mutilated remains was found on the
third buttress of Waterloo-bridge, on the Middle-
sex side of the river west ; but the molt extra-
ordinary part of the case is, and which shows that
the hand of Providence, sooner or litter, brings
such diabolical acts to justice, that the carpet bag
should have lodged on the part of the buttress where
it was found. The buttresses of this bridge are in the
form of an elongated double eliptic, pointed east and
west, the upper part from which the span of the
bridge springs being convex. That the bag was
found there, there is no reason to doubt, from the.
riiid examination Which the lads who found it
hive undergone, and the coherence of their state-
ments.

Another ppint will probably attract the at-
tention of the public, and suggest the question
how it is possible for the toll collector at the Water-
loo Station to -be so positive as to a woman pass-
ing with a carpet bag and parcel, and to be able
to indentity them. The answer, however, is very
plain and obvious to any person who has had oc
casioa to cross the bridge at a late hour. The
practice observed is to close one of the turnstiles
on each side of the bridge, causing passengers from
each side of the water to pass through two only
where there is kept a good light ; bat not so their
egress, bemuse the four turn-tables, through which
persons pass, on leaving tl.e bridge, are open, and
a party might leave the bridge on the dark side
unobserved.

The toll-keeper Etherington, who was on duty
at Waterloo-bridge at half-past eleven on Thursday
night, distinctly remembers a woman coming to the
toll-gate for foot passengers, and placing the carpet
bag, which he has since identified, on the iron
shelf, which it will b 3 remembered is at the side d
the turnstile. The woman was so agitated
that she did not proceed through the turnstile
in the usual manner, in consequence of which
the man had to assist her with the bag,
and placing his foot upon the spring of the turn-
stile, ho allowed it to rotate in the usual manner,
tint she did not pass at the moment as passengers
are expected to do, aril when she had passed
through, the dial necessarily recorded the passage
of two persons instead of one, and the toll-keeper
was deficient a halfpenny in his cash, a circumstance
which caused him to ret in a vivid recollection of
the woman and her burden. Besides the carpet
bag, she had wail her a brown paper parcel which
it hts since been supposed contained the. head,
h4nds, attd feet of the victim of this mysterious
affair. Site walked with an ungainly gait.,
and had .whi'e or light-coloured hair. From the
development of the bones, and the hair found in
the arm-pits and at the kick of the knees, it would
appear that the mangled person was a min abtait
3') years of ag.-, of muscular habit, and of not very
dark complexion.

At present the information gleaned by the
police relative to the supposed murderess, is
very slight. They have their eye on t
women, and there is every reason to believe
that they are on the right track, and that
ultimately their suspicions, as to the one, will be
realised, and that it will be proved beyond doubt
that she was the person who passed the turn
with the carpet bag and parcel on Thursday night.
As yet the police have gleaned no information
relative to the unfortunate victim, and it is only
by the clgthes that they can hope to do so. On a
personal inspection of them we can state that they
appear rather the worse for wear, and as if th( y
had been saturated in dirty water. The only th'ng
peculiar about them is the coat, which has what is
called by tailor's a " tab," -or pieze of cloth with
which to fasten it over in front, instead of links, the
more usual plan. The waistcoat is of black cloth
with a roll c ,llar and four buttons in front. Six
or seven persons have inspected -the clothes this
morning, one of them, Mr. Weaver, a tailor, fancies
he has a slight knowledge of the coat. To identify
these is of the utmost importance, for by that Mr.
Superintendent Durkin, who has been most inde-
fatigable in his endeavours to unravel this extraor-
dinary trauedy, hopes Ultimately to discover the
murderers, from being able to trace the movements
of the murdered man from his leaving home to where
the foul deed must have been perpetrated.
Another extraordinary fact connected with the
affair is the mutilation of the clothes, and from an
examination of them we are enabled to state tha•
the wounds found on the body must have been in-
flicted on the unfortunate man when he was par-
tially dressed. There are seven cuts or stab-
in the shirt and under-shirt correspond-
ing with wounds on the body, but there
are none on the waistcoat or coat, ,but there is
a rent on the left breast of the coat on the outside,
but not on the inside.
The carpet bag in which the remains were found