The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-15 00:00:00

1 THE LAT!' .13()RRIBLE MURDER AND
MUTILATION.
) LATEST PARTICULARS--(THIS DAY).
Up to the time of our going to press the clothes
found with the remains in the carpet-bag had not
been identified, notwithstanding the many thou-
sands who have inspected them. Seven days have
now elapsed since the remains were found, and
not the slightest clue of any kind has been dis-
covered by which the guilty parties can be traced,
and we fear from the manner in which the investi-
gation is proceeding thet it will turn out a failure.
We are inclined to believe that the fault does not
rest so much with the police uhe have the case in
hand as those under whose direction they act. To
show the loose manlier in which the case is being
investigated, we have only to remark that the police
up to the time of the inquest were under the im-
pression that the eothes were wet when taken out
of the bag by Kilsby, instead of which, we find
from his evidence before the coroner that they
became saturated and dirty by his laying them in
the wet muddy water in the bottom of the boat.
Then, again, there was the absence of one sock and
the necktie, a circiunstanes at the time that greatly
puzzled the authori ies, but after some days had
passed over, the articlei were brought to them by
one of the boys, he having found them in the boat
—showing clearly that the search by the police had
not been of that minute and careful character which
the circumstanees of the case imperatively called
for. But probably the most inexplicable
portion of
the mj stery is the doubt that still rests in the
minds of the authorities relative to the sex to which
the remains belong, the manner in which they have
been mutilated, the period when it was done, and
the wound on the breast, for beyond all doubt the
shirts do not present that bloody appearance fairly
to be expected from the committal of so foul and
.dastardly a murder al the cuts in them would
lead to believe. The day following the commence-
mencement of the inquiry before the coroner, a
gentleman of eminence in the profession of anatomy
spent a considerable time iu examining the bones,
&c., with Mr. Painter, and the result of his exa-
mination, we are inforni.d, want to corroborate
all the opinions expressed by Mr. Painter before
the coroner, but for some reason best known to the
police, the name of the gentleman is withheld—a
manifest injustice to Mr. Painter, for it is only
fair to him that the name should be given, espe-
cially as the authorities do not appear to ,be satis-
fied with -the corroborative opinion, because we
underAand it is their intention to call in (if not
already done) a professional gentleman, to report to
them his opinion that they may be fortified in the
course they will be called upon to pursue. Such a
proceeding must naturally cause a great distrust in
the public mind, and lead to the inference whether
the authorities have not some misgivings of its
being a murder and how the remains were placed
on the buttress. It will certainly be a most extra-
ordinary circumstance if the opinion expressed
shortly after the discovery of the remains that it
was a medical student's hoax, should turn
out to be true, and remembering Mr.
Painter's evidence as to the conformation of
the pelvis, that the bones are portions of two human
beings instead of one. We fear the public mind
will not be relieved from the suspense and anxiety
under which it at present labours for a considerable
period, and we regret to have to add our fears that
reports of an unsatisfactory character will gain cre-
dence from the ignorance or reserve of the police
in communicating circumstances in connection with
this, to say the least of it, most mysterious affair,
that might otherwise appease the public mind, and
in all probability tend to the furtherance of the ends
of justice.

The authorities at Bow-street -police-station, are
ignorant of the circumstance connected with the
finding of a human skull near Greenwich, as
stated in some of the morning journals.
The carpet bag, and clothes found with the re-
mains aro now being hung on a line across the yard
at the back of the station for better examination,
to which the public hare free access. Throughout
the day thousands of persons, consisting of men,
women, and children, gt atified. their morbid
curiosity by a minute inspection and examination
of them.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN THE REGENT'S
CANAL.-SUSPECTED MURDER.

Last evening, shortly before 6 o'clock, consider-
able alarm was created in consequence of the dis-
covery of the bodyof a male person in the Regent's-
canal, at Twig Folly-bridge, Green-street, Bethnal-
green, under very mysterious and suspicious
circumstances.

It appears that a young man named George
Goathy, a labourer, was standing on the bank of
the Regent's-canal immediately at the rear of the
Queen's Arms public-house, when be suddenly saw
a human body rise to the
surface of the water in
front of him. He raised an alarm and called seve-
ral men to his assistance, when
the body was got
on to the towing path. The ,body presented a 1
shocking spectacle, there being two large incised
wounds in the neck, from which blood was issaing,
and there were also several contusions on the face
and body,
evidently the result of considerable vio-
lence. The hands were much bruised, and the body
had only been in the water about two days.
The deceased wasconveyed into the Queen's Arms,
whets a police constable of the K division took
charge of the body,
while another ran for Mr. R.
Meldola, the surgeon,
of Green-street, who attended
with promptitude, and ordered the body to be 1
stripped, which was accordingly done, when it was
found to be that of a man, apparently 30 years of
age, 5 feet 10 inches in heieht, light hair, and fair
complexion. There were two cuts, about an inch in
dep.h, in the front of the throat inflicted
examination
inflicted before
death, and the general t
result of
was, that the deceased had come by his death by
some foul and unfair means. The marks on the
face are similar to those which might be caused in
fighting. When the body was taken out of the
water, he was without coat and waistcoat ; his shirt
sleeves were tucked up, and certain parts bore
marks of blood. The deceased's clothing only con-
sisted of a pair of corduroy trousers, a blue striped
shirt, a black neckerchief, and lace-up boots with
brass eyelet holes. The latter articles were nearly
new, and in the too were bob-nails.
The police searched the pockets and found a to-
bacco box, marked "J. p.,,, a clasp knife, and a
quantity of handbills.
ie and
ualrsd left
their Last night several active officers of the K divi-
sion made inquiries in the mighbourhood of the
canal, and ascertained from persons living near the
spot where the deceased was found that on
tworn the
morning of Monday last, between
n d
videld
o'cli )c,k,
police,"and,tatrlothuoseudghbsyevceriraelsiohof ( u
their beds, they were unable to learn the cause of
the outcry, or make any discovery.
The spot where the body was found is a very
dark and lonely place, badly lighted, and danger-
ous for foot passengers after midnight.
throughout the whole of
The police of the district forwarded a full de-
scription of the deceased
the metropolis, but late last night the bodyhad
not been identified.
The
body
placed in a shed at the back of the
Queen's
where the inquest will take place
• •
this afternoon before Mr. William Baker3 the
coroner.
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BARON Pozaio.—A letter dated Naplee, Oct. 3, says:
" Amongst the news from the provinces I can also give
you some from the prison
in
IVlontesarchio. Baron
Poerio bad been very ill again n consequence of suffer-
lugs induced by the dampness of his prison. He had
Tux GOVERNMENT CONTRACT SYSTEM.—The London,
Norwich, and Northampton, Boot and Shoe Company,
back,fli c
ot e
on which
with eboer e
hadthr
blister=,"oat al
the usual pains in
ibhs eneitnhetifr Monthly Circular, make the following statement
with regard to the management of the Government con-
tract business :—" It should be publicly known that the
treatment of our manufacturers by the Government has
been most unfair and unjust, and such as must neces-
sarily prevent respectable tradesmen from tendering ;
tly Government, at the present time,
caorenserlauthenerbetghgears than buyers of goods. Much of
this arises from the caprice exercised in rejecting goods
for the most trivial and unavoidable deviation from
sample, not in any way affecting their value or
their durability. The parties employed to receive
of
soundl fel ei
onnoget he
moansexPa° crst band,loyn to h geta th em .
such goods appear to overlook the fact that boots and
alike, as if moulded in a machine. On
shoes are made by many hundreds of different work-
it is well known that the rejected goods
e been bought by °there, who have
people, and therefore the
. impossibility of every pair
passed by the official Cerberus.
The ultimate result of this absurd system will throw the
Government wholly out of th
i s market, and their orders
ocrreddi to ted
outhtaai
will be rejected while there s a sufficiency of any other
work.that,
from the trade what
$ notwithstanding the
difficulty of the b
ilea
they require, at one cf the recent public sales of stores
about 15,000 pairs of fresh-made and perfect goods were
d
isposed of by auction at a ruinous sacrifice? How can
Will
this be justified ? [By red-tapism now, of course, as
I heretofore.—ED. Surf,]