The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-06
Discovery of a CHASTITY Crime i
Whftechapel Road, London.

Henry wainwright, in company with his
mistress, rather pretty ,ballet,girl,
Alice Day, is under arrest for the muir
der of another mistress. Woinwright's
crime, and the circumstances attending
It's detection. are Of an unusually sensa-
tlonal character, Sc much so that it is
now almost the only subject Of town
talk. wainwright, who is about As years
oId, is mar. Of good education, and
until lately was regarded as person of
excellent character. Upon the death of
his father few years ago. he succeeded
to a little fortune Of $4,000 in money and
very hourisbing business as a brush
maker at 2l5 Whi,echapel roai. He
was plous man; Sunday school teach
en- ana a scrleture reader; and he stood
so well with the authorities that he OBJ
tanned a valuable contract from the police
commissioners for supplying all the
brushes used by the metropolitan police.
Lie had little country house at Ching
ford. Essex, where his wife and five
children lived, and to which he went each
day. In word, he was about the last
man in the world whom one would select
as libertine, keeper of ,nistresses, and
a murderer. But he was all these-or
at least, these are the charges against
MN. Three or four years ago he seduced
a girl named Harriet Lane, 4 mi!liner'S
assistant, aged twcnty-one, and took her
for his mistress. She wa> delicate,
pretty little creature. and Wainricht was
fond o. her: he hired comfortable rooms
in the East end, and she passed there as
a married woman under the name of Mrs.
King. Two children were born; and the
expense of keeping bis two families,
| added, as it appears TO the cos. of various
other liaisons in which Wainwright was
engaged, threw him into embarrassments.
lie was made bankrupt; his shop and
goods were sold, and he had to become a
workman in the employment of former
shop keeper. He still retained the key
OF his former shop. however, and the
| back entrance of this place was through
dark and narrow yard. His mistress
now had hard times of it; she came every
day or two to h;ln for money; and he had
little to give her. Just year ago he
sent her and her children to live at STRAIT
ford, and on Saturday night, Sept. II,
1874, he made an appointment with his
distress to meet him at his old shop.
A-Ao1A1 S4Aat udy ~ IlIlS liO DllC HAS seen
Harriet Lane, or Mrs. King Vain.
wright. when questioned about her, said
she had been coaxed away from him by
another man, and had gone to Paris.
Last Saturday night, however, exactly
a year since Harriet Lane had last been
seen. Wainwright met in Whitechapel a
young boy named Stokes, who had for
merly been one Of his servants, and who
was then working with him in the factory
where Wainwright was employed. Come
along, Stokes said he, sand help me
do little job. There are some parcels of
mine in the old shop, and I want you to
help me carry them to the cab They
went together to the back door of the
shop: Wainwright opened it; they went
III, and there were two parcels done up
tightly i'll that common black glazed stuff
which is known here as "American cloth"
They carried these out, and conveyed
them to the corner of the court. They
emitted a horrible smell, and Stokes COM
planned of it. Wainwright had dealt i'll
hair, and Stokes thought that the parcels
contained some hair in an i'm
pure condition which Wainwright
had concealed from his creditors.
But he was soon undcceiyed. AS he told
the story before the magistrates:
Il imagined it was hair we were carry.
ing, as we were talking about it before
we got to Wh;techapel church. There
he said, PUT your parcel down. [ did
so, and the prisoner. having put his par
eel down also said, Mind these while I
fetch cab When he was gone /
thought would have a look, and Oh
opening one Of the parcels saw human
head. My hair stood upright; nv hat
fell off. The hair Of the deceased was
brown and matted with lime. L took it
for mans hair, as it was short I could
not see the features, but | saw hand
and an arm. The: remains were decom-
posed and emitted a frightful SMELL
When wainwright came back | did not
say what had seen. He brought with
him four.wheel cab. and said, Help me
with the parcels I did SO, and. they
were put inside. Then he got in and told
the cabman to go to the Commercial
road. The cab went off, but stopped out
side chemists shop. to the Com
mercial road. Tie prisoner got out and
went to the corner of Greenfield street,
where the prisoner, Day, met him. In
about minute they both got into the
cab, Wainwright saying, Drive off as
fast as you can to the borough I had
followed the cab and was then hiding my
self. | followed the cab through Aldgate
and Leadenhali street to the borough. /
said to two constables, For Gods sake,
stop the cab; there something wrong.
was then exhausted, and the constables
laughed and said was mad
Here was weird thing. A murderer,
with the mutilated body Of one of his
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