The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1869-03-17

tons ard inquiries from persons whose
friends were Missing. hut ihey entirely hIIed
70 identity The body or discover traces Of lhe
murderer. At one period Of the inveslIza-
tions, young man who had been heard 10
make a mysterious observation on the mur-
der, was arrested a. an accessory, hut the
evidence against him amoanted % nothing.
kept wafchfui eye upon him. till they, In
common with the pubic, forgot The matter.
The public were not long 10 forgetting h
The authorities, however, believing that
murder viii out - kept the evidences ~ tho
crime In spirits OF wine, that they might b
forthcoming whenever they might b wanted.
II was believed that murder had been CON-
mitted, and that Young woman was the
victim. But only one thing was held to Be
satisfactorily proved. and that was, that the
murdered female was not an lnhahllaaf of
Norwich at the tins OF her dcccasc.
Seventeen years and half passed BY. and
not ray OF light had been thrown On fkf
mystery until quite recently. Afelcgram Was
received In Norwich nom London, Informing
the magistrates that a respectable inhabIiant
Of that city bad made a confession that he
bad murdered his wife on the 18th Of June.
1851, by cutting her throat; that the body
was cut up and some portions preserved IN
spirits, and that they would know an about
il at Norwich. This precisely tnllIcs with
the facts of the halfioFgottcn mystcry. Ths
date is six days before the frst discovery Of
the hand BY Mr.. Johnson's dog. and eccoris
singularly with the guess which thr mediral
men made during the succeeding week as 70
the time which had elapsed since thc body
was alive and well.
It is at once admitted by those who were
concerned In the Investigation that nohofy
suspected Steward. A quiet. inolIenslve
aud respectable citizen, be was going abeut
among them, actually dlsposing OF the man
gled pieces Of his wifc's body, while they
were discussing wha: the frightfal mystery
could mean. How Il came about that the
disappearance Of Mrs. Steward WAS never
marked, or being marked, Il was sailsfac-
torily accounted FOR TO her friends and neigh
bors, does not yet appear AT the time. he
seems TO have given Il out that she was gone
on journey, and to have been believed Al
once. But how did he account for hcr
non-returus Did he give 1t out that she
had dsed on her journey, or that she lad
made one ofthose sensational disappearanccs
OF which we often hears he seems al anv
rate TO have lived free from ell suspicion.
and as he spoke Of this victim as his frsf
vile, i is 10 be presumed that be had marri-
cd again, aud carried his friahtfnl secret All
through the festivities Of bridal.
How II was that nobody ever pnt together
the two facts of Mrs. Stewards disappear
ance and the finding of a female body. ana
how the authorities arrived Al the mlslead-
ing certainty that nobody living 10 Norwich
had been slain, remain 10 be seen. A respec-
table woman certainly disappeared inst At
the time that the remains OF one were found:
Il was understood that her husband said
she was gone on a long journey, and he was
believed. She never came back, and no
inquiry was made; but whatever tale her
!. husband told was again taken on trust; and
murderer for whom the police were search
ing, and that the hldeous relics In their
hands were all that remained Of one who had
been their neighbor and friend.