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opinion those members were in the brown paper
parcel taken onto the bridge andhavt been thrown
`into the river.' Every part °fit immediately beneath
the bridge, on both the eastern and western
has been carefully dragged; but as ritig)t have been
anticipated in a search for so small a parcel and one
so likely to he carried about by tl:e slightest cur-
rents, without success. It was confidently stated
yesterday that the guilty parties liad..been traced,
and that the woman who carried the big on to, the
bridge had been. apprehended. We regret to Pu
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 au hour
after the mutilated remains were in the hands of the
authorities ; not only has no clue been obtained,
but nothing whatever has been elicited that would
even lead to the hope of the mystei y being eventu-
ally cleared up. Nevertheless, Mr. Superintendent
Durkin is indefatigable in his endeavours, and is
exhausting, all the resources of the detective police
in his atteMpts to bring the matter to light-. Among
the heterogenous mass of information: which be re-
ceived on Saturday, all more or less ir`relevant and
useless, were two cominumicationsone kettle effect
that a bag supposed to contain something connected
with the murder had been washed ashore at tam-
bath, 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 revolts, and
found that a leathern 1).4 had been washed ashore
at Lambeth, containing, among other sundries; a
pistol-caee and some bullets,' all being the part pro-
ceeds of a burglary committed a few days since at
the mansion of Sir W. Poland, mar 'Plackheath.
On proceeding to Sussex-gardens the police founit
that two human heads had recentlybeen disoovere •
there—one of t‘ man, and another of a woman, bu
inquiry into the matter showed most satisfactOril
that the man's had been buriedeorne mouths, an
that both had been used for the pnrp,se of regula
anatomical examination; and weionot in any iv":l3i
connected with the present mysterious case. Th
inquest upon the remains will be held to-day, whe
the medical evidence will show that beyond a doub
one of the most deliberate murders which we hay
had to record for many years has been-committed

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1 The intense seusat'en which waa abated many
'years ago by the first discovery of Greenacre's crime
has even been turpassedby
the painful feeling which
the di4covery of the mutilated remins at Waterloo-
bridge has:raised in the public Iniod• The, mystery
which envelopes the whole affair7--thd 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 three or four others were
partakers in the awful crime, render it a subject of
ino-it 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, ovid.ently iu the vain hope
that they might hoar 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-
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the fact that one.of LllO most it horrible murders that;
has ever stained our criminal annals has been.
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slightest clue has been obtained as to its perpetra-
tors. The polies base their hopes of their detection
_firsl!, on the chancy of their clothes being recog-
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-the slightest possibility of
recognising the deceased b 3 the remains which are
in the hands of the police. In fact, these are no-
thing 'more than a pile of bones, on which the
muscles and large tandons hang raved tatters.;
.all the flesh and skin, except 4441.;111 Jiultitsl3.-saf 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 compwis in the
vessel of brine, in vrhiCh they have evidently re-
mained from two to three weeks. - From these ro-

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lies of humanity, therefore, no clue as to who the
deceased was can be hoped, and, if the awful crime
be ever brought home to the guilty persons,- it will
be as we have said—by means of the clothes, the
carpet-bag, and the cabman. The chancs which
the former offer are not very strung. The clothes,
which leave evidently once been goo 3 and of supe-
rior quality,'are so torn, stained with blood, marked
with earth and whitewash,
and, above all, so
shrunken and altered by long immersion, in strong
brine, as evidently to have totally changed them
from "the appearance which they must have pre-
sewed when clean and new 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. Lx4.' perit need tailors who
have been 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.rence in this metro-

SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF THE HEAD.I
Last evening, about seven o'clock, a, gentleman
attended at the Bow-street police-station and State
that he wished to make an itnpeeant communic.
tion relative to the above horrible murder. He wa;s
shown in to Mr. Acting-Inspector &limas,. No*. b
F, to whom he gave his card, which was- as fol-
lows :—" Mr. Robert Baker Jones, 4, Kings
Bench-walk, Temple." He made the .following
statement ;,-," On the Ist of October, about the
middle of the day, a man's head was discovered 4t
the lower end of Sussex-gardens, corner of West
bourne-terrace, opposite Spring-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 . shwa),
and a little boy with a • basket "aecompanitid
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 eel)a-
tive, a lady of the highest respectability, who liv)es
in one of the houses, and whose veracity could nipt
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 carpe
through an aperture in the linen.. I passed by tie
spot not much moro than an hour age, in company
v
with this lady-and her daughter and a gentlem ii,
and with them I perceived a portion of ragsi
ill
embedded in the stones in the garden. '- o
also noticed, about ten yards from the frctut
railings, that the ground appeared to hive
been recently dug up, and my relative informed
me that since the head was' discovered she
had passed the spot and experienced a very
bad smell, which made her quite sick. I therefbre
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 Un-
formed me that a surgeon was shown the head soon
after it was discovered, and he said he did hot be-
lieve the head had been off from the body more•than
12 hours. _Ehving heard of the Waterloo-bridge
affair, I thought it my duty to come hare andlin-
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 been burie I without an
inquest being held ; but there is .no doubt that an
order will be issued for its exhumation.

polls. No less than eight or nine gentlemen went
on Saturday and yestet day to the station, each of
whom was searching for some clue to the discovery

of persons who, witiiin the last month, without any
known reason, have disappearej, and never since
been heard of. No on?, howavo-, 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
ltast the manner in which the murder was com-
mitted. There aro markt of three stabs in the
back, between the shoulders, three in the abdomen,
and no less than seven exactly over the region of
the heart. All these are clean cuts, showing that
they must have been inflicted with a double•elged
knife, about the thickness of a crown-piece, in the

centre—a poniard-bladed weapon similar to those

called Spanish knives.. The waistcoat is not pier-
ced, so that it must have been unbuttoned at the

me 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 be'ief that the de-
ceased must have been first stabbed from behind,
and that then a desperate struggle ensued, for the
other wounds in the back and abdomen are wide
apart, as if the assailant struck when and whole
he could. As the deceased became weaker and
offered loss resistance, the finishing wounds in
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 assas-inatiou 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 com-
pletely saturated all the front 'parts of the dress.
The c•,at4, waistcoat, shirt, and trousers, also, ate
all split down the back in two halves, and the
sleeves of the coats ripped open, which leads to the
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.

paratively new mid
The hopes which exist of the carpet-bag being
traced are foun led upon the fact of its being acom-
trade mark of a shop, eepo- r, a " 4s• 81." in ink
figures on the hinol-04 The bag itself, though
nearly new, is extremely old-fashioned with regard
newl
to form, being very peculiar one, with the
y three feet deep and two wide ;
in fact, its great size and peculiar
appearance would
place its identification by tho=e who hal once seen
it beyond the possibitty of doubt. That this
bag containing the remains was the one which was
carried on to the bridge by an elderly woman on
Thursday night is distinctly established by the
statement of Etberington the toll-taker. Etheriug-
ton was himself formerly a constable in the A
division, and remarkable for his shrewdness and
caution, and this f tct, coupled with the peculiar
circumstances whi2h. he 'Petitions, apparently
place the accuracy of his testimony beyond a
doubt. He states that the woman came from the
Middlesex side of the water, and paid the toll at.
the western tollgate. Ho took the toll, and saw
that She had with her a brown paper parcel tied
with cord ; it was long,
balky, and apparently
heavy. She had also the carpet-bag iu which the
imams were afterwards foetid, and which also
seemed full and heavy. His attention was parti-
cularly directed to the woman in consequence of
her turning the turnstile twice while endeavouring
spoke her
to get the carpel-b A g throu,h. lie
about thi,t, said that he would have to pay the
money himself, and that she should have beau more
careful. The woman did not reply, but looked at
him steadily while he lifted up the carpet-bag for
her and placed it on the top of the turnstile. She
then muttered something in a very gruff voice to
the effect that it could not be helped, took the car-
pet-bag and walked slowly away. As it was thought'
possible from the gruffness of the voice that it
might have been a man in woman's clothes,
Etherington has b -en questioned on this point, but
is positive as to its being a woman, as he saw her
face most distinctly, and furthermore that he re-
marked she was short even for a woman.
The police who are engaged in endeavouring to
penetrate the mystery which surrounds the whole
case believe that a woman so unequal to carrying
a heavy weight as the woman at the bridge evi-
d. ntly showed herself to be must either have been
assisted by male accomplices, or have driven to the
neighbourhood of the bridge in a cab. Against the
former supposition is the fact that none of the
g bundles such as described, though
police in the v;ciuity of Wellington-street have seen
ptheersoenaarricearbybaiag could not have escaped attention
and remark nd
it been so conveyed.- On the other
hand, the most minute inquiries have been set
on foot among the cabmen throughout the metropo-
lis as to4ihether any one answering the description
of the woman with a carpet-bag and bundle, or any
one at all with a carpet-bag and brown piper parcel,
was set down in the neighbourhood of Waterloo-
bridge on Thursday night. As yet these inquirie,
have
ehe eliciteddetails oofthig
the atrocity committed are widely
, though it is stilt hoped that,
speed, information on this point may be obtained.
The police are inclined to the opinion that in case
nn
as
of no cab having been employed the murder must
have been perpetrated at some of the houses of il!-
fame, which arc numerous enough almost within a
stone's throw of that end of the bridge.
Of course the most vague end contradictory
rumours have been circulated everywhere as to the
discovery of the other portions of the body. Though
some of these reports and rumours were iu the las ,
degree absurd, they were all carefully sifted and
inquired into, and some of them certainly bore
most unexpected fruits. We may here mention
that the police entertain little hopes of recovering
1 the head, bands, or feet of the body. In their

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ever. kill her_ in the. dark. He would sometime
ake a raz)r to bed under his pil:ow. Deceased,
baadsly a
cup,
which
sly man,
i.chslie
was not a.drunkeii woman'. NObody ever thought
t bil ea hduesebe:sned(rws a
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and 'used. to get drunk. 'About tWelve Months ago
FaiThad been by her husband, who then tried to
cut her. throat. Upon :one occasion she had her
likeness painted, and the :one;
cut the head of
it off with a razor, and said he would serve he the
same. They had but one child, it was about.four
years old. She must have had it in her arms when
attacked, as its hair wa's clotted with blood.- - Wit-
ness never saw any cause for jealousy.: -
Two other witnessFs, named Day and Harman.
repeated Ala) evidence which has been already
given; and both depoied to hearing the husband
threaten the -deceased's life. . ,
Mr.. Austen, the landlord of the George IV.,
Lower7rOad,.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) pouted her out the first glass, and
said, "Drink it, my dear." He had been drink-
ing, but was not drunk. Witness knew him to be
a very crafty man. .- -
Some further evidence having been gien, the
jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict!
of " Wilful Murder" against the husband.
The funeral; which took place yesterday, attracted!
156 large a crowd that the police accompanied' the
. body to the gt-ave. . . . .

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'ght Infantry,
c 4 My time is so taken up with the notelty of
evecythinguenneated with the service here that posi-
tively I have not a moment .to spare,-and every day
endeavour to learn- the Indian customs and forms,
as regards the army.. The 90th left, the Himalaya ,-
steamEr for Chinsurala : iu two towed by
Steamers, large coverel ve,sels, -and,„We remained'
six days, at Chinsurali, and go!, on extremely wen.
diunkenne?-,-, 113 sickness- and Vat -r?gimmt
all I could wish, so -c!ever and orderly. I implortdr
them daily not to poison themselves With badf
Spirits, but to buy beer and during six days I had,
only three cares of drunkenness in SO men, and.
only font men sick, who came F o from England:
We have hal no casualty
,since leaving -England.
I was hurried off from Chinsurah and embarked
the regiment again in Steamers towing boats, and,
lye have be -n four days coining here. My instruc-
tions were to land here quietly and expeditiously,
and to disarm the 63d Native Infantry and the 11th
Irregular Cavalry, to take also the h 1... es of the
latter, also to disarm some native Artillery here.,
The total force considerably exceeded mine, with
the additional advantage ou the native side.of 30Q
of the Most splendid cavalry I ever-saw ; -as re-
gards men, horses, and equipments I never saw
anything Equal to them.. The regiment was landed
by rise
.730 strong andl ordered the Commandant
here, who is Lieutentant Colonel of the 63d Native
Infantry,, to -parade• the whole of -the troops. He
wished to put it off until to-day, but I Would not
grant an hour. The Sepoy regiment came out on
parade ; I drew up the. 90th opposite and on ono
flank, and ordered them to lay dOwn th,..ir arms ;
they obeyed, and I then ordered them to take off
their belts, which was done; and having secured them
in .carts 'and:upon elephants ; I kept the regiment of
S. poys Standing upon parade until the 11th Irregular
"Cavalry came up, and they came from a distantieoffive •
miles-of, not expecting to findanEnglish_Legiment,
but only a detachment of the 35th Regiment, 18t1
strong,- whom they were prepared to fight.: Their
commanding officer wished to put off the parade
until to-day, the same as the others, but I refused.
Fortunately I did, for not a man would have been
here this morning—they would have gone off with
horses, arms, and annn'unition. They Aeomed thun-
derstruck when they discovered our men, and had
no idea that their fine horses wire to be taken from
them ; if they had' thought so th.eywould have gore
off in a body. They told the Sepoys afterwards
that they were cowards to give up their arms; and
that if they had waited until they came up they
would have fought us, but that my men were so
placed they could not escape. The cavalry obeyed
orders to lay down theirarms, but with a much worse
grace than the Sepoys ; they looked at each other,
and then put them on the ground. I collected them
and found all the carbines and pistols loaded. I was
standing opposite to them. I then ordered all the
belts to be taken off, and this was not approved of ;
some brot e their swords, others threw their pouches
into the air, -but' still the order was ebeyed. Having
collected them I surrounded them with my men and
ordered them t 3 lead their horses off to a safe place I
had. Selected for them, .and -where they Were turned
out loose. The men then pulled off their long jack
boots and spurs, and pitched them away. The regi-
ment hid not mutinied, but no doubt would have
dine so, and of course I treated them ma regiment
having committed no crime. They aro splendid
men,--but savage beyond expression. Their swords
arc like razors. _ The Political Agent thefre had no-
idea that we should have slicceeded.iaLgittlegAlis
regiment together, and-told me thati4o2,lcine
the best service yet done iri India stutd-llie tont-
break. He has reported our valuable service to' he
Government of India, and I have reporteddireck
to the Comman.der-in-Ohicf. Had I delayed as re- ,
quested until morning not a man would have been
found. We ere steaming up the Ganges, the wea-
ther terriblyhot, mosquitoes most barbarous, heavy
rains. I have to disarm and dismount another Ir-
regular Cavalry Regiment in two days' time if they
have not already gone off. I want to come near
some mutinous Sepoys ; they shall remember the
women and children if I do."

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