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

THE SUPPOSED MURDER.

LELIZL) 17,
The mystery in which ;his extraordinary, aliair is
invOlved appears as great now as when the remains
of the unfortunate individual were first diseovered,
and we believe we are correct in stating that the
police have no more positive information on' which
to proceed in therdetcciaon of the guiity parties
than that we traced out and published on Saturd:y.
With reference to the rumour in circulation on Sl-
' turday, that it was a medical Ancients' hoax,' gr(at
indignation has been expiesFed in many quarters
in consequence. There cau,be no doubt that such a
course of proceeding is reprehensible to the gnat:lt
extent, and not in any way to te pardenPd, but it
is the duty of the press to. chronicle such facts. in
connection 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 a:e
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 whuther or not
the body had been mutilated by unprofoisional
hands. The opinion ultimatelyarrived at, we believe, 7.
was that the body had been roagbly treated by
unprofessional hands, and that the saw with
which the bones had been cut was not snch as that
used by professional men. Another examination
of the remains made this morning iti Mr. 'Superin-
tendent Du kin'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 uo know-
ledge of the mode of proceeding adopted by medical
men.

As is usual on occasions of this kind, whoa
there is great excitement iu the public mind,
various reports are in circulation as to the
time and place 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 deei
was perpetrated on the Surrey side of the water in
one of 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
he were' 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
Pose, who imagines from the description given of
the clothes that they are similar to, those he saw on
a gentlemanly locking 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-4 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 Etheringtoe,the toll col-
lector, was taken by the police authorities to a
locality it would be inexpedient no to name,
to see two females it was supposed corresponded
in appearance with the woman who passed over
Waterloo bridge on Thursday nigh,t.with the bag
and parcel, but after a careful and minute inspec-
tion (without any knowledge on their part of what
was going on) he stated his inability to identify
either of them, although one of them very strik-
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 ono 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 taken place. The number of
such almostm etoreth
such horrible leadsde are frequent suppositioneqnen th
at
tintlie me-
tropolis than is supposed from those which occasion-
ally come to light, and etartle 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.