The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-12 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 18i17.

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THE SUPPOSED MURDER.

The intense sensat;en—Which was, created Many
years ago by the first discovery of Greenacre's crime
has even been surpassed by the
painful feeling which
the discovery of the mutilated remains at Waterloo-
bridge has raised in the public mind. The mystery
which envelopes the whole affair—the certainty
which now exists that an elderly woman must have
borne a principal share in the deed, and that with
her, probably, as many as tin ee or four others were
partakers in the awful crime, render it a subject of
mo-t painful interest. During yesterday afternoon
hundreds flocked to gaze upon the' spot where the
remains were found, and crowds remained in the
vicinity of Bow-street, evidently in, the vain hope
that they might hear of some clue having been
ascertained as to the murderers; but nothing, of
course, transpired to reward the patient expecta-
tion with which they evidently waited for intelli-
gene,.

• We will not attempt to impose upon readers by
Saying that the ends of justice may be defeated by
premature disclosures, for, unfortunately beyond
the fact that one of the most horrible murders that
has ever stained our criminal annals has been
committed, there is nothing whatever to dis-
cloe, and up to the present time not the
slightest clue has been obt lined as to its perpetra-
tors. The police-bane their hopes of their detection
—first, on the chancy of . their clothes being recag-
nised; secondly, on the ownership of the carpet bag
being traced; and, thirdly, upon finding th cab-
man who drove the woman with her ghastly load
to the neighbourhood of Waterloo-bridge on Thurs-
day night. There is not tfiw-althtest possibility of
recognising the deceased by the remains which are
in the hands of the police. In fret, these are no-
thing more than a pile of bones, on which the
muscles and large tendons hang in ragged tatters ;
all the flesh and skin, except a small portion of the
breast and under one armpit, having been com-
pletely hacked away. Both the thigh, leg; and
back bones have been sawn asunder, in order,
doubtless, to pack them in a small compass in the
vessel of brine, in which they have evidently re-
mained from two to three weeks. From these re-
lics of humanity, therefore, no clue as to who the
deceased was can be lived, and, if the awful crime
be ever brought home to the guilty persone, it will
be as we have said—by means of the clothes, the
carpet-bag, and the cabman. The chances which
the former offer are not very strong. The clothes,
which have evidently once been goof and of supe-
rior quality, are so torn, stained with blood, marked
with earth and whitewash, and, above all, so
shrunken and altered by lung immersion, in. strong
brine, as evidently to have totally changed them
from the appearance which they must have pre-
sented when clean and uew and worn by the unfor-
tunate deceased. Still they are far from being quite
unrecognisable, though at the first glance few would
suppose it possible that they were the clothes of a
well-dressed gentleman. Experit need tailors who
have bees brought to examine them express a de-
cided opinion that they are of foreign make. From
the number of persons who examined them at the
Bow-street Police-station on Saturday, anxiously
seeking for some trace of missing friends or rela-
tives, it would seem that mysterious disappearances
must be of very frequent occu. reuce in this metro-
polis. No less than eight or nine gentlemen went
on Saturday and yesterday to. the station, each of
whom was searching for some clue to the discovery
of persons who, within the last month, without any
known reason, have disappeared, and never since
been heard of. No one, however, recognised the
clothes which were found with the remains.
A minute examination of the dress and the con-
dition in which it is at present seems to show at
I..ast the manner in which the murder was corn-
mieted. There are marks of three stabs in the
back, between the shoulders, three in the abdomen,
and rio less than seven exa,nly over the region of
the heart. All these are clean cuts, showing that
they must have been inflicted with a double-edged
knife, about the thickness of a crown-piece in the
centre—a peniard-bladed weapon similar to those
called Spanish knives. The waistcoat is not pier-
ced, so that it must have been unbuttonel at the

time the murder was committed. The trousers,
also, must have been partly undone, as they are
only punctured in one spot, though the shirt shows
marks of three stabs having been inflicted. If any
conclusion can be founded upon these appearances
they would certainly lead to the bo!ief that the de-
ceased must have beau first stabbed from be,taind,
and that thin a desperate struggle ensued, fur the
other wounds in the back and abdomen are wide
apart, as if the assailant struck when and whale
he could. As the deceased became weaker and
offered less resistance, the finishing wounds iu
the heart appear to have been given with ferocious
rapidity. They almost all lie within the circle of a
crown piece, and must therefore have been struck
'as rapidly as the hand could rise and fall. The
back of the great-coat is marked with white, as if
the murdered man had struggled hard with his
back against a white or lightly papered wall. After
the assassination had been effected it is supposed
that the body must have been left as it fell upon
its face for 12 or 24 hours as the blood has cora-
pletely saturated all' theiront parts of the dress.
The cats, waistcoat, shirt, and, trousers, also, ate
all split down the back in two halves and
to the
and the
sleeves of the coats ripped op en which le
supposition that the body must have become per-
fectly rigid and in a contorted and unnatural posi-
tion before any attempt was made to remove the
dress. ,

opinion these members were in the brown paper,
parcel taken on to the bridge and have been thrown,
into the river. Every part of it immediately beneath
the bridge, on bath the eastern and western 'sides,
has been carefully dragged ; but as might have ken
anticipated in a search for so small a parcel and one
so likely to be carried about , by the slightest cur-
s rents, without success. It was confidently stated
yesterday that the guilty parties had been traced,
and that the woman who carried the bag on to the
bridge had been apprehended. We regret to say
that there is not the least truth for such asser-
tions. Literally nothing more was known at a
late hour. last night than was known within :In
after the mutilated remains were in the hands of the
authorities ; not only has no clue been obtained,
but nothing whatever has _ban elicited that would
even lead to the lope of the, mystery Ceing eventu--
ally cleared up. Nevertheless, Mr. Superintendent
Durkin
_is 'indefatigable in his: endeavour=, and is
exhausting all the resources of the detective police'
in his attempts to bringthe matter to light. Among
the heterogenous mass of inforination which be re-
ceived on Saturday, all more or less irrelevant and
useless, were two commutticatione—ene to the effect
that la bag supposed to contain something connected
with the murder had been washed ashorS at Lrm-
beth; the other stating that the heal of 'a man had
been found slightly concealed under the soil of the
Sussex:gardens, Hyde-park. The police immedi-
ately proceeded to inquire into these report,., and
found that a leathern bag had been washed ashore
at Lambeth, containing, among other sundries, a
pistol-case and some bullets, all being the Part. pro-
ceeds of
.a burglary committed a few days since at
the mansion of Sir W. Poland, near Blackheath,
On proceeding to Sussex-gardens the police fouul
that two human heads had reeent!ybeen discovered
there—one of a man, and another of a woman, but-
inquiry into the matter shOwed most satisfactorily
that the man's had been buried some months, and
that both had been used for the' purpose of regular
anatomical examination, and Were not in any way
connected with the present mysterious case. The
inque'it upon the remains will be held to-day, when
the medical evidence will show that beyond a doubt
one of the most- deliberate murders which we have
had to record for many years his been committed.

SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF THE HE 4D.
Last evening, about seven o'clock, a gentletnan
attended at the Boti-street police-station and. stated
that he wished to make an-important communica-
tion relative to the above horrible murder. He was
shown in to Mr. Acting-Inspector Sinims, No. 9
F, to whom he gave his card, which was as fol-
lows :—" Mr. Robert Baker Jones, 4, King's
Bench-walk, Temple." He made' the following
statement:—" On the Ist of October, a.bout the
middle of the day, a man's head was discovered at
the lower end of Sussex-gardenP, corner t.f. West
bourne-terrace, opposite Sprinu-street, and, near
the Great Western Railway Hotel, Paddington.
The head was discovered in a garden in front
of the house under a wild currant tree, and
upon the discovery being made, a man-servant
from the opposite house brought in a shovel,
and a little boy with a basket accompanied
him into,the garden. A policeman, I be'ieve, be-
longing to the D division, was soon in attendance.
The servant then put the head in the basket, and
the policeman then covered it with, some grass and
took it away with him. The head was covered
with linen or something of that kind, and my rela-
tive, a lady of the highest respectability, who lives
in one of the houses, and whose veraci'y c nild not
for a moment be doubted, informs me that she dis-
tinctly saw the head herself. She saw that it had
hair and whiskers upon it, as some of the hair came.
through an_aperture in the linen. I passed by. the
spot not much more than an hour age, in company.
With this lady and her daughter and a gentleman,
and with them I perceived a portion. of rag still
embedded in the stones in the garden. We
also noticed, about ten yards from the front
railings, that the ground appeared to have
been recently dug up, and my relative informed
me that since the head was discovered she
had passed the spot and experieuc, d a very
bad smell, which made her quite sick. I therefore
think it likely that the feet and other portions of the
body missing may be found buried there. I spoke
of the matter to a person this evening, and he in-
formed me that a surgeon wag shown'the head soon
after it was discovered, and he said ha did not be-
lieve the head had been off from the body more than
12 hours. Having heard of the Waterloo-bridge
affsir, I theught it my duty to come here and in-
form the .authorities of the circumstance, as there
appears every likelihood that the head is the one
missing."
We subsequently received information that. Mr.
Jones' statement was quite true, that a head had
been found, and that it had bean burie 1 without an
inquest being held ; but there is no doubt that an
order will be issued for its exhumation. .

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never kill her in the *dark. He would sometimes
take a razor to bed under his , pil!ow. Deceas:.4l
w4s not a drunken woman. Nobody ever thought
thr husband was mad.- He was a -very sly man,
awl used to get drunk. About twelve months ago
the deceased's hands were badly cue, which she-
sa-d had been by her husband, who then tried to
et# her throat. Upon one occision. she had her
likeness painted, and the husband cut the head of
it 'off with:a razor, and said he would serve her the
stEime. They had.. but one. child, it was about: our
y ,ars old. She must have had it in her arms when
attacked; as its hair was clotted with blood. Wit-
ness never saw any cause.for jealousy.
Two other witness's, named Day and Harman,
,royeated The evidence which has, been already
,given, and . both deposed to hearing the husband
threaten the. deceased's life.
Mr. • Austen, the landlord of the George IV.,
Lower-road, said that about twenty minutes before
the occurrence, deceased;-and the husband were at
his house, where they bad a quartern of rum. • He
(the husband) poured her out the firt glass, and
paid, " Drink it, my dear." He had been drink-
ing", but ,was not drank. Witness kneiii him to be
a very
.crafy man. _
Some further evidence having been given, the
jury, after some debberation; returned a verdict
of "-Wilful Murder" against the husband.'
The funeral, which took place yesterday, attracted
so large a crowd that' the police accompanied the
llody to the grave.