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

ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.

For several days past the City authorities have
been engaged investigating an affair of a most
mysterious character, and it is anticipated that by
the publicatson of the details some means will be
afforded of fixing the identity of the party, who is
supposed to have come by his death in some, foul
way. Last week several labourers were employed
in in the . cellar of No. 28, Aldgate, one of the old
houses at that end of the City which escaped the
grent fire in- 1666, forming a drain from the back
part of the premises to the main sewer in the street.
The cellar was partly paved with stones and red
brick, and a small part had two or three planks of
flooring resting on two joists. On rising these
the wen came upon a layer of lime, and un-
derneath it they discovered, 'to their astonish-
ment, the remains of a skeleon. The bones were
in a far advanced state of decay, arising from the:
action of the lime. Nothing in the shape- of wear-
ieg apparel could be found, except an old shoe.
At first it was supposed that it was the remains of
a person buried in an old mona,tery, oe the site of
which, it is alleged, the house had been built. The
ward authorities immediately investigated the cir:.
cuinstinces of the discovery, and Mr. 11._ Child, of
Finsbury-pavement, surgeons was directed to exa-
mine the skeleton. He did 80 with Mr. Gibbons,
another surgeon, and on examining t'-,e skull they
discovered an extensive fracture, which they ware
of opinion produced death.. The remains were
those of a male, and from the position in which
they were found, the injury on the,head, andother
circumstAnces, they had no doubt the man was
murdered. The skull is in, possession of Mr. Child,
and the ward officers have obtained a list of the oc-
cupiers of the house for the last 40 years, and from
the inquiry which has been set on foot it is more
than probable 'that some clue will be obtained to
unravel the mystery which surrounds the affair.

TIFg LATE CASE OP PRUTALIWIFE-

MURDER AT BALLS-POND.

INQUEST UPON THE BODY.-ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE

AND FURTHER PARTICULARS.

On Saturday forenoon, at half-past eleven, Brent
Brent, E-q., the coroner, held au inquest at the
Royal William Tavern, Lower-road, Islington,
upon the body of Martha Daviz, 36, some of the
particulars of whose brutal murder by her husband
appeared in this journal on Thursday 'att.
The case has excited considerable interest, not
only amongst the immediate neighbours of the
unfortunate woman, but in a majority of the gen-
teel families in Stoke Newington and Ball's-pond,
to whom she was well known and much respected
iri her avocation as an occasional servant ; indeed,
so much so, that one of the fituilies have afforded
ac-..ommodation to some sisters of the deceased,
wh', upon hear;ng of the melancholy event came
up with a brother from Gloucestershire.
The Jury, having been sworn, proceeded to view
the body, which lay in the front parlour of the
'house in Dorset-street, where it appears that the
husband, though by trade a carpenter, carried on
the business of a hairdresser and picture frame-
maker. The place, although very poorly furnished,
bore evidence of the deceased being a very decent

woman.
The first witness called was Henry Byles, a re-
spectable-looking farming man, who stated that he
had come up from Benningfield, in Glocestershire,
as soon as the melancholy news reached him. The
body, which the jury had just viewed, was that of
his sister, whom he had not seen for ten years.
She was married to Wm. Thomas Itobat Davis.
Police-sergeant Bovis, iu addition to what he had
stated before the magistrate, said, that, from fur-
ther examination which Ito had made, he found
(hat the poor woman must have b..en first attacked
while near the cupboard, and then struggled with
her murderer, as there were traces of blood from i
her hands upon the wall of the passage, and also
upon the barber's pole, which was lying there.
Sarah Stromp, in addition to her former el ideate,
stated that she bad often heardAohusband threaten
to murder the deceased. It was generally after they
had gone to bed. She used to hear it through the
wall, and had heard deceased beg that he would