, 1869-02-09
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lapse Of seventeen years and a half has not
erased from the recollection of the inhabitants
of The city of Norwich the frightful sensation
which they experienced in the year of the Great
Exhibition. On Saturday, the 21st of June,
1851, a young man, named johnson, was out
walking III d lane about q mile from Norwich,
accompanied by his dog. The dog was rang
ing a neighbouring plantation, and found there
a piece of carrion, which he brought out on the
road, and with which he Immediately ran home.
On Johnson's arrival at home he was Mortified
to see that the piece Of flesh the animal had
found was a human hand. He at once gave
notice to the police, and the plantation was
thoroughly searched, and several other pieces
of flesh were found. On the next day, Sunday,
a foot was found in the plantation, and some of
the vertebr@ were discovered hidden in a saw
pit. A black striped waistcoat, some cotton
waste, such as is used in cleaning machinery,
but smeared with blood, and a roller such as is
used by the Norwich weavers were also found.
On succeeding days other parts were discover
ed-noW in a field on one side of the town, then
in an entirely opposite direction and at length
the whole district was searched, the rivers were
dragged, and small pieces of human flesh, evil
IDENTIFY carved in slices from q body, were found
almost everywhere. Eight days after the first
discovery portions Of the yiso6ra were found in
a sewer, cut up into pieces three inches long
the pelvis had been previously discovered, a
leg bone picked up and a black velvet bonnet,
which had evidently been the property of a per-
son in respectable circumstances, found in the
Yara. On one occasion parts of the body were
found in spots which had previously been
carefully searched-and it was evident that
they had been placed there since the first dis
covery. Some of the pieces had been soaked
in water, traces of deodOrizing liquid were
found in others, and, though no part of the
body could be restored sufficiently to allow of
an inquest being held, many of the scattered
parts thus brought together again fitted suf1ici-
emily to show that they had formed portions of
one organization. 1t was said by the doctors
that the body was that of a female from sixteen
to tWenty-six, that she had been dead a fort
night, and that she was in good health when
death seized her. 1t was concluded by the
police and by the public that a murder had
been committed that the murderer had taken
this strange method of d~isposing of the body
bit by bit and that he was actually at his
work still d~isposing of it in out-of-the way places
after the discovery had Aen made, and while
the search was diligently going on.
The discussion and agitation which followed
these frightful discoveries was only equalled by
that which succeeded the discovery of similar
remains ONE years ago in a carpet-bag on one
of the piers of Waterloo Bridge. SOM thought
it was the lark of some medical student who
had taken this method of disposing of the RELICS
of the disseetingroom others believed that a
7body-snatcner had failed to make a market for
his illicit merchandise, and had himself operated
upon it to get rid of the evidences of his cri-
minal industry. But the body was cut up too
clumsily for the dissecting-room, and the wash
ing and deodorising were clearly not the work
of a resurrectionist. The authorities were con-
vinced that a murder had been committed, and,