The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-21
A London Horror.

An extraordinary criminal revealed
himself to the London police and public,
a fortnight ago, His crime, which was
then year Old, was OF y quite common
place sort, the murder of Il mistress. He
himself would have been called, up 10 the
day he gave himself into the hands of jus
tice, rather commonplace man. lie had
been Il busy and prosperous brnsh-maker
"a tradesnan in a large way in White
chapel, says London paper; known in
the East end, too, rs lecturer and elocu
tionist-in small way, married, and lily
inc with his wife and children in lurnish
ed lodgings in q lane in suburban Ching
ford. That was Harry Wainwright, aged
thirty-siX. 1t il true that he had failed a
few months ago, bat he was now going
through bankruptcy. and meanwhile had
a good position as business manager for
another manufactures OF brushes.
One Saturday, he asked 4 man III the
shop named Stokes, who had formerly
worked for him. to come around with HIM
to the old place and carry a bundle away
to Nhitechapel church The old place
was empty and waiting for purchaser,
and he wanted to get out Il few things
that belonged 10 HIM They went thither
and entered the shop together Vain :
wright sent Stokes upstairs, where he
saw nothing, but. coming down again,
found Wainwright, with two bundles en-
closed in cloth and fastened 10y ropes, ly-
ing at his feet, which he said he had found
in the straw. Before Stokes took them up,
Wainwright showed him 4 hatchet that
seem sticky with something and told him
that he should like to have him fetch it,
with a shovel and hammer lying near,
to their employer and sell them as his
(Stokes's} own. and he should have halt
the money They took up the two bnnd-
les. and carried them out into the White
chapel road and at " Whitechapel church
they halted, and Wainwright, enjoining
Stokes to watch the parcels, started for n
cab Meanwhile strange and horrid
smell that al1'ronled Stokes nostrcls, and
perhaps something in the strange demean-
| or and movements of his former employer
stirred his suspicious, and he opened the
..hair'' it was that Wainwright had for il
was that innocent commodity that he had
been given TO understand was the contents.
He found hair" indeed in the bundle,
but he found more. That hair was attach
ed to human head; there were arms and
hands discernable also; the flesh was rot
ten, the odor putrid the lair OF his head
rose on end at the sight Stokes replaced
the wrapping and the rope. and when
| Wainwright came up in cab, in compa-
nv with a young woman, a ballet dancer,
who had been with him before, and whom
Stokes knew-and told him to put the par
GELS in, he obeyed. When the cab was
driven off, however he chased them, call
inc on one policeman after another to
stop them, until finally one believed his
stor5 and arrested Wainwright Just as he
had transferred both parcels to house
which as it happened, was an old ware
house which his brother had leased, and
deserted, aud of which he held the key
Wainwright at first demeaned himsel
lightly, but afterwards tried to bribc the
policeman with large sum to let the par
cells alone. The woman in the cab was
arrested also, and both We're brought int,
court together.
The recital OF these facts led to an inyes
tigation, both of Wainwrights life and the
empty shop at Whitechapel. The contents
OF the two parcels proved to be the re
mains of a woman whose throat had beer
cut, which had been buried Tor a long while
in shallow grave in the floor OF the shoI
on the Whitechapel road and then hack
ed in two rudely, that the murderer, with
out doubt, might thus insanely endeavol
to dispose of it. Further research PROVED
it to be the body of woman who, as
Wainwright's mistress, had borne hin
two children, and who had been seen fol
the last time precisely twelve months to {
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