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

SAM COWELL AT WHITELL4VEN.

Had wo not heard Sam Cowell before, wo should
almost have been persuaded, by his insinuating
and bewitching performance in the theatre, on
Tuesday evening, to have forgotten the vocation in
which we appeared before him, and have joined a ,
numerous audience in their encore.
Sam Cowell is no "low comedian." Ho ap-
proaches and reaches to, without inappropriate
gesture, all that was intendei by him and expected
by his company. He personifies human nature as
it i 4, and net unfrequoutly or inaptly delineates it
as it will be, quickly turning—
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
The compositions that aro represented by him, be-
sides being of an order unexceptionable "to ears
polite," are, though not such as the ecclesiastic
could applaud, such as lie could not substantially
condemn. Excellent music, too, accompanies Sam ;
and what is more, Samivel accompanies it. But
we shall be told we are trying to be funny ; and
certainly to make essay in that direction on so
genuinely funny a chap as Sam Cowell, would be
indiscreet as " whistling at an inquest 1"
But for the " Humiliation Day," of a humiliated
Government, the public would.have had a second
opportunity of hearing this most legitimate son of
Momus. His name, however, we trust will not
lose place in the memory of those who pleased to
hear him on Tuesday evening ; and that if over lie
should revisit Whitehaven, hinted by him as prob-
able, that recollection will be abundantly attested.
The songs sung by Mr. Cowell wore the follow-
ing :—Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene ;
this Musical Age ; Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ;
" Perpetual Motion," or the Man with the Leg of
Cork ; The Artful Dodger's Farewell to Hengland •
A Tale of a Dismal Swamp ; The Ratcatcher';
Daughter.-.-Whitehaven News.

NEWMARKET RACES.—(This Day.)

Saunterer
Barba colt

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
MATCH.
Flimsy beat Turbit easy.
£5O PLATE. A.F.

Five ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF TWENTY SOVS
Theodora
Flyaway

Four ran.
£5O PLATE. T.Y.C.

§unbearo .
Orchehill
Piueticker —

Twenty ran.

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS
Admiralty
Piague Royal

Nine ran•
SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS.
Queen of the East walked over
MATcff —Saunterer received forfeit from Babylon.
MATCEI—Miss Whip beat Crusada.
MATCH—Heroine beat Killigrew.

LATEST BETTING.
CESAREWITCH.
6 to 1 agst M. DobltT (taken)
8 to 1 agst El Hakim (taken)
14 to 1 agst Warlock (taken)
15 to 1 agst Rosati (taken)

16 to 1 agst Tasmania (taken)
18 to 1 apt Lima (taken)

20 to 1 agst Plush colt

25 to 1 agst Martinet
40 to 1 agst Fieberrnan (taken)
50 to 1 agst Barfleur taken)

100 to 1 agst Saunterer (offered)

THE SUPPOSED MURDER.

LATEST PARTICULARS.-(THIS DAY.)

The mystery in which this extraordinary affair is
involved appears as great now as when the remains
of the unfortunate individual were first discovered,
and we believe we are correct in stating that the
police have no more positive information on which
to proceed in the detection of the guilty parties
than that we traced out and published on Saturday.
With reference to the rumour in circulation on Sa-
turday, that it was a medical students' hoax, great
indignation has been expressed in many quarters
in consequence. There canbe no doubt that such a
course of proceeding is reprehensible to the greatest
extent, and not in any way to 1.-:e pardoned, but it
is the duty of the press to chronicle such facts in
conneition with events:of this kind as come to their
knowledge, and which not only appear to bear on
the subject under investigation, but such as are
put forth with something like authority ; that
doubts were entertained on Saturday relative to
whether this really was or was not a murder is true,
and it is also true that certain individuals of posi-
tion examined the mutilated remains with a view
of arriving at a correct conclusion whether or not
the body had been mutilated by unprofe6sional
hands. The opinion ultimatelyarrived at, webelievo,
was that the body had been roughly treated by
unprofQssional hands, and that the saw with
which the bones had been cut was not such as that
used by professional men. Another examination
of the remains made this morning in Mr. Superin-
tendent Durkin's private-room, by Mr. Painter the
divisional surgeon, and other eminent surgical
gentlemen, leaves no doubt on their mind that the
body was cut up by persons who have no know-
ledge of the mode of proceeding adopted by medical
men.

As is usual on occasions of this kind, when
there is great excitement in the public mind,
various reports are in circulation as to the
time and plat) when the unfortunate individual
who, now there is no doubt, was foully
murdered, lost his life. One which coin-
cides with the supposition expressed by
us on Saturday that the foul and inhuman deed
was perpetrated on the Surrey side of the water in
oneof those many houses of infamy which are to be
found in that district, is the mysterious disappear-
ance of a man who, about three weeks since, re,
sided in the neighbourhood of St. George's-road.
He is described as a man about the size represented
by the remains found, and attention was directed
to his movements from the quantity of jewellery
be wore about his person, and . his great in-
difference to the value of money ; he at
all times had an abundance of gold and silver in
his pockets, and his great delight appeared to be
to treat every one he met with that would accept
of his bounty and drink with him. Another state-
ment is that of a lad employed upon the Morning
Post, who imagines from the description given of
the clothes that they are similar to those he saw on
a gentlemanly looking man who was hustled, a
short time since, into a door-way of one of the
questionable houses in the neighbourhood of Old
Drury. However, the police are most active in
their endeavours to discover the guilty parties, but
we fear that their exertions will be fruitless until
such time as the clothes are identified--a difficulty
which various circumstances will render doubtful
for some time, from the probability of the murdered
man having resided a great distance from London,
and which will be greatly further delayed should he
prove to be a foreigner, an inference which the
style and texture of his clothes leads to the sup-
position of.

Late on Saturday night Ethorington,the toll col-
lector, was taken by the police authorities to a
locality it would ba inexpedient now to name,
to see two females it was supposed corresponded
in appearance with the woman who passed over
Waterloo bridge on Thursday night with the big
and parcel, but after a careful and minute inspec-
tion (without any knowledge on their part of what
was going on) ho stated his inability to identify
either of them, although one of them very st►ik-
ingly resembled the woman referred to.
As yet no clue has been obtained relative to the
carpet-bag, or the cord by which it was lowered on
to the buttress.

From the first announcement of the discovery of
the remains to the present time, scarcely an hour
has passed without one or more persons calling at
Bow-street police station, to have a view of the
clothes to ascertain if they belong to some relation
wbohas mysteriously left his home, but,hitherto, no
identification has tiken place. The number of
such visitors leads almost to the supposition that
such horrible deeds are more frequent in the me-
tropolis than is supposed from those which occasion-
ally come to light, and startle the community with
the horribly brutal and disgusting manner in
which they must have been perpetrated.
The inquest on the remains will be held this
afternoon, and we intend in a late edition to give a
full report of the proceedings before the coroner.

-1 :,.••nir • 4am,vm.l••• lual..w.onwW.., •

When on the barge the bag was opencd.ly.Jehn
and its contente taken out. I think it was locked. I
A'ai much frightened at seeing it contai.ned oele bone
and clothing. Did not take suffici!nt notice of the c -n-
Lents to be able to identify any of it. The bones and
tlothing were replaced, and we rowed ashore and gave
'ho bag and its contents to the police. It was bi.-11
water at the time we found the bag, and it was about
ix inches frem the water. I don't know if the pre-
vious tide was higher. I can't say if the bag was we',
tut the clothes in it were. I did not take particular
eotice of the leather bottom and sides of the bag to be
able to state if they were wet.
John I(ilsby, of Iticbarcl-street, Cornwall-road,
Lambeth lighterman, deposed—Between 5 and G o'clock,
)0 Friday morning my brother and the last witness came
to my barge in a beat. Tuey said they had got a prize.
I told them to give it to me, but they did not like to
-ouch it. I took it out of the boat, and as it was locked
forced it open. The clothes produced were in the bag.
['he remains were tied up in the clothes with a string
round. The coat was torn up the back and was :11
the same state as when we found them. The
clothes were not very wet at the time, they might have
been damp—they became wet by their being put at the
bottom of the boat where there was some water. The
cones I put in a basket, and the clothes I replaced in the
bag. I afterwards gave them up to the police.
C. J. Venus, 95 F, deposed—Shortly after 7 o'clock
on Friday morning I was on duty in the Adelphi
arches when the boy Kilsby came up to me and
told me ttley ha i a quantity of things lying
down at the Fox-under-the hill. I went there and found
the clothes, carpet-bag, and a quantity of bones lying on
he pavement. I examined them ; the clothes were
rather wet—some more than others. They were lying
n a dry spot. I had the things put into a bag, and
took them to the police station. Their weight was
about a quarter of a cat. I delivered them at the Eta-
.ion to Sergeant Buck. I noticed at the time marks of
blood on the shirt and under-shirt, and seven cuts on
~he breast of the shirt. [(ley are together all of a
cluster.]

By the Coroner, to Kileby—Did you notice these cuts 1
Kiltby—Yes.
Sergeant Buck, 5 F, deposed—About 8 o'clock on
Friday morning, James Barber and Frank Kileby came
to the station in company with Venus. They had ac, r•
pat bag with them, which they said they had found that
morning on one of the buttresses of Waterloo.bridge.
"'hey described to him how and where they found it, as
above described. Witness examined the contents, and
found that the shirts and one of the coats were
(narked with blood. Ile found cuts in the drawers,
and they all appeared to have been made by
,ne instrument. I found no marks on the linen by
which they could be identified, I then seat for Mr.
Painter, the divisional surgeon.

Mr. Painter deposed—l reside in Brydges-street, and
am the divisional surgeon. On Friday morning I was
celled to the Pow-street Police•statiou about 9 o'clock.
When I arrived I was shown the bag produced and i's
contents, a quantity of bones. The clothes produced
were lying by its side. I took the bones out of
the bag and examined them, and proceeded to fit them
together. I discovered that all the bones produced be-
longed to one individual, forming together a complete
skeleton, with the exception of the head, the whole of
the neck, and seven of the dorsal bones, several portions
of the ribs were missing, likewise the bones of the hands,
feet, lower side of the left clavicle, and lower third of
the left fibula ; most all the bones were sawn into one
or more portions ; the flesh appeared to have been cut
off in a rough haggling manner ; it evidently
hid not been laden off by a scientific person, or with
a sharp knife ; portions of flesh only remained, one on
each side of the wrist and one on the left breast, showing
...hat the deceased had been a vigorous adult. The flesh
adhering to the bones was neither fresh nor in a state of
general decomposition, there being incipient decomposi-
tion only apparent in the left thigh-bone. The capsular
ligament of the hip joint was cut open, and on rotating
the head of the thigh-bone he perceived a strong smell of
decomposition, and saw several blue marks produced
thereby. The whole of the remainder of the muscles
and bones were covered with a saline, gritty matter like
salt, and to that I attribute the preservation of the bones.
Oa the surface the flesh was reddish brown, and
when cut into a brighter red, like salt beef. The
whole of the viscera is missing. The second, third,
and fourth ribs of the left aide, with a piece
of the sternum attached, has a stab in it,
and exactly corresponding in position and direction (the
direction of the cuts being upwards and downwards) to
that on the shirt and under shirt. A. wound in the flesh
would appear smaller on the linen, though inflicted wltli
the same instrument. Around the wound a great deal
of blood had extravasated into the tissues, showing that
the wound must have been inflicted during life. Hero
blood had infiltrated round the wound to the extent o
about two or three inches. The two or three ribs be
low were missing, which accounts for the absence
of the stabs as shown in the clothes. All the limbs
were sawn, not broken. Great roughness had been used
in cutting up the body, but generally speaking the
bones were clean cut. There were one or two false cute,
which showed that a ♦ery fine saw had been used. The
cartilege of the back bones had been cut in two where
the division has taken place. On examining the bones
with regard to the sex, I think they belong to a male.
Tne pelvis presents some exoeptions to the usual confor-
mation of the male pelvis,the internal measurement being
larger than is usual in the male. There is no deformity
in it. lof course do not swear deceased was not a male.
Judging from the length of the bones, I should think
deceased was about 5 feet 8 inches in height. I found
a great deal of hair adhering to the muscles and bones
of the body, which I now produce. The hair which
belonged to the head is black, or of a ♦ery dark colour,
and so is that of the whiskers. I don't think salt would
have altered its colour. B.:sides these I found
four hairs that, from their length, might possibly
be those of a fema'e. I don't suppose that
they belong to the body, or that it is the body of a
female. I have no doubt the body was Cut after tL so
zigidity of death had set in, from the position of the
remains of the bones in the joints of the knee and thigh,
and the same with reference to the left fore-arm. From
the decomposition of the hip joiot, I should say that a
week must have elapsed since death. 1 should not be
surprised if the body had been boiled, from the maneer
of the contraction of the remaining muscles. There
was not the least appearance about the remains
of their having been used for anatomical pur-
poses. No one in the slightest degree acquainted with
anatomy would have cut the body up in such a trouble-
some roundabout manner as this ; but more than that,
the muso'ee, nerves, arteries, and bones were destroys d
for anatomical purposes.

Henry Errington, toll collector at Waterloo-bridge,
was then examined, and gave similar evidence to that
already published. When the woman passed with
the bag there was no string about it. There
RAS nothing remarkable about the woman. She had on
a black bonnet and mantle, and her hair grey, some-
thing like a footman's matted down. She appeared ae
tated, but did not appear as if she bad walk3d much
distance. He thought she was hurrying to catch the
late train at the South-Western Railway. Her voice
was gruff and very masculine. She was a short woman.
If I could see her again in the same dress I think I could