, 1869-04-18
A STRANGE STORY OF REAL
LIFE,

A STRANGE STORY OF REAL
LIFE.
From, The London .Nf,e., Hareh 81.
One Of the ssrangest traE edics Of Justice which
brought TO the closing scene OF ts last act bat one
yesterday afternoon at Norwich The drama Itself
opened more than eighteen years nSu, when quiet
ally older THAI himself, went to 1--we IN Tabe.nAcle
street. In that ancient city Nothing peculiar mArx-
cd the intercourse Of the couple with their uelxh-
vigoI, and his companion In ute was in the
sommensng ill., decline o, ne: md Though
was not known that any domestic disturbance had
arisen In consequence. About the middle Of the
summer the VIE suddenly disappeared; the hus-
band gave cut that she was AWAY on journey
and his Statement was implicitly believed, there
seemed to be no reason 10 mistrust blu 1t was
ral that everybody who could should go nom home
TO tho metropolis, and II was uot at al surprising
that q clcycr, active, la4i{lke old WOMAN uGe Mra
great metropolitan show. 4 little later il he
summer oDe Of her relatives died. and her husband
sent word that she waa SILL from home and could
died under whose VII she might hare claimed some
money, but her husband declined to tate auy
Part N the distribution Of the property, and It
passed to others Meanwhile, be hal told her
friends that she had Eune away from him, and that
he knew nothing OF her whereabouts; that al part
ing from her at The station she had refused to
promise either to write to him or her slster; and
IS he never asked them about her, and theJ got
tired Of asking him, The curtain or obllsIon gtu.
ally fell npon her. and vas presumed thas she
had gone Oh into tho wide spaces Of the world,
md vanished from the sight nnd knowledge OF her
husband and her fEiends
Meanwhile fearful sensation had aroused tho
ancient ctyfrom It's slumbeta- On the longest sum-
mer day Of that same Exhibition yca5 It got uolsed
abroad IN the city that young man who was out
noon had seen his dog carry home piece or nesn
II had found tn plantation h5 the roadside, and
that upon hls arrival at home he had found 1t 10 Be
human hand Gu the next day another piece was
found, and day fy day, Is the ne!ghborhooA wns
diligently searched, otherpteccs were dlseorercd-
now another hand then fool, an ankle leg bone.
another foot and one day the bOWes, TIL scorcs Of
pieces had been gathered together from distant
rar1A from plantations, heaGeruwN riycrsides,
severn and drains, Ml Of which evidently formed
| pieces OF = female body which had been cut up
after death. and sown rleceneai around the sub
nlbs or Norwich i was even discovered that
the person who had THUS endeayored TO secrete
the remains waA at h1s work. even v bile the search
was going Oh, for fresh pteces were found in places
which had been thoroughly searched before, aud
the ghastly discoveries continued TO be made for
weeEA The doctors considered that the remains
werc thoee Of young female between Is and 70,
I and the most diliecnt inquiries were made As 10
lost girls were asked afrcr by anxious friends at
distance but none Of the inquiries threw any light
on these reIainh. and they were at last buried
| murder had been committed got to hare
| sone doubt thrown upon II although the doc
ton kner that BODY cut ur for dissection was
never cut rs etpUs11y as this Que waA, and tho
police fnew that deodoEsing and washing WAS the
! work Of y murderer. not Of n medical
po. Rss y Or 4, prs
and Ee;ting "a or II By lhis qnaint and startling
method. Both the doctors and the police rerrned
ted, but the doc&orn thought II wns young
woman, certainly under 50, who had been the
rtet,m: md the police le. the whole sensation
result Of III their inquires that certainty they de-
clared to be that the bodJ was foreign tmporta-
don. AID not that Of any person who hAd been re-
When .he curtain fell upon shls mystery.
tee second 9o4 ess 81 The rsai9d
spectotoss had forgotten The scenes. On
SATURDAY, the "a Of January IN this year,
py hearing tnat nan 1 named Wl1ian % ssevasd M
hsl Enne n state q frighiful depreAsson 70 the
| MAwoFth Police stauon, on The rlent Of New
murder Of bis wiic II Norwich. on the I5,h Of
June, 16sl. He told the policeman IN charge that
he bad suffered 30 lo'lS and 20 horribly from the
| oppression Of bis dreadful secret that he h2d Ai
last len home with the resolve TO thtoH away his
life. LIE hsd Sonc Up and down the rise: on two
sIss rn na r. sn me hn; tS q taFownG
had failed him, and al rueth wandering
! Into the street where nc had met the vile who
1
her oyctrar1e hin, tnas he sure he bad heea
kept from suicide BY the hand Of Providence, aad
| naa now Gome to Edve himself qp 70 luz:1ee.
! sald. The b ,iI had hccn cut up, Ahd pieces had
been found N var1ous places round the town, and
tfe pieces Terr preserved In spirits by lhe aasho-
tics there On the next DAY he appeared 10 the
Lambeth Police Court, and confirmed tue con!cs-
sion OF the previous night A telegram to Nor
| Eteh revealed the tact that ihey did know al
about 1t there: but Shexa1us wife MS n old v o
I man, and the body found Was that 0! young VIC
nan, and Il seemed probable that after Ill
Shex2rtls sc1f- accusation only the persecution
VI the horrible fcene ILL 1t had inked his own per
eona,t1s anl tha1 Of his lost wife into II: and IT.
t7.rTtng TO his diseased Imagination year by teAr
! ut periods Of nervous weakness and depression.
Ind II last driven him NAL lie was, howe. Fl, rr-
mandcd to Norwich, examined there. aud then
committed for tral to the Asszes which hare Just
teen held
The third scene Of the tragedy closed on sne1-
ard before the Norwich magistrates, Withdrawing
charge he Ind ms1e ssainst Himself The fourth
! scene opened II Norwich on Monday, with shcw-
atsl on tstai for bis tic. He ssi adhered to bis
pleA Of not guilty, but bis confession na1 revealed
tltcernment of hidden But now eelf-csi.
dent connection between facts which had
| ence seen together, 80 evidently ntttd to each
other that no chain Of ci1cumsiantial evidence
could Possibly be more complete than TIA, which
this Cnh4ppy man h1d wound around himself. The
nn0eE Of suspicion once pointed At him at once
ehox Cd 4 whole multitude Of the moss dAunins
facts pointing sne!E fatal nnsefs N the same ii
MrA saewa1u had myaerously disappeared, and
That tnets horrtlac remains hal been myster.ously
essa ssher on!s s.o dlservpsnc.es e.p.a and
rollee concluded that the one thing
ec1tAln was thai the remains were not those
I them u be thnhf 4 NFN
~! was Sorvich woman, sad wa. old But
old 4 she vas Ahe was stnsulasiy Epushuv and
| proved the police theory to bc wrong, while nc
guess Of the doctors sas only guess and was
Soed 10, ne;hins ns Sno.s asso5 Of he.
Of the discover! Of these retnsins Just when
that disappearance Was ftesh. ir1esissthly
sonnm snsxsS1 confession Tas Eorwtsa I'M
bounced him guilty, and no one who has rad the
Thus, stse1 ths wondsrtuils near escape Of dtsso1
| e!y. when the Norwich police on the one hand and
Mn ShewAeds friends on tho other seem 10 have
len 10 marselloasl. blind a1ter eighteen ycart o1
| torture By the hurulnR secret he carried in his
tseann. this nuha1ry murderer has but proved al
other illustration Of the Oh proyefh, which
touches US that Justice, bae for time claims ts
victim II length, and that "muraer viii out"
French Manners md American
| Mnnucrs.
One Of An American party In Paris whose cIsrtt
had hssn Invaded oy de7ih, II = raststan hotel
| writes:
"So Other experience could have 80 warmed N,
| he2r TO the French people AZ did that ten da1s O
sorroT,'' fty1nR n frason therefor, that ever
one At The hotel trum chambcrnAil to hostcas
was attentive, sylnpaihstc, and rrs-ly 10 help.
| What guest IN America could have N cxpcE!
epcc thai would d.aw from him like thanks to iii
host and serynntA OK one VI our large city hotels
And the same letter, IN speaking Of the fauera
procession composed only Of carriage or TWO
/ The decraHed and her companions being tota
strangers In I'Atts-says: " ~ our simple process
Uoulryaris, the itroad~ay OF Parts, every ua'
turned to look upon II, With not curious but 81 n
pathetic eyes; every hat WAS raised II ue!efcnda
ealntaInp from tho poorest peasant Ia h4a solle'
blouse TO that OF the weaithieAt sanntef
1nr for pleasure or fastening to his business
| Ahnt a rnutrast With AC1eflc11 m4nQefS. 1Gl