Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-10-04
EVENING STAR.
A Shocking Crime I'm I,us.u.

An extraordinary criminal revealed HIM
stlI 10 uhe LONDON police and puoltc, fort
n lght ago His crime. which was then a
year Old was OF quite commonplace art +
the murder OF mistress. He himself would
n ny oeen called, up 70 the day he gave him
monplace man. He had been a busy AMI
prosperous brushmaker, "a traiesman in a
large way in Whitechspel. SAYS a London
paper; known in the east end, too a. lecturer
and elocutionist-in n small way: marie A.
ana living with wife and children in furn-
lShed lOdgin gs In a lane I'm suburban Ching
iord. That was Harry Wainwright, agei ~.
II Is true that he had failed n few months
Sgo, put ne was now going through bank
ruptcy, and meanwhile had a good position
as business manager for another manufac-
turer of brushes. One SATURDAY he a. kel A
man IN The shop named Stokes, who had for
merry WORKED Tor him, TO come around with
him 10 the old place and carry a bundle away
10 Whltechapel church. The old place was
empty, aud waiting for purchaser, aud he
wanted 10 get out few things that belonged
10 him. They went thither and entered the
shop together; Wainwright sent Stokes mn
slslrs, where ne saw nothing, but, coming
down again, found Wainwright. with two
bundles enclosed in cloth and "a stoned by
ropes, lying at his feet, which ne said he had
found In the straw. Before Stokes took them
up, wainwright showed him hatchet
that seemed sticky with something
ara told HIM that he should like q
nave MIN fetch IL, with a shovel aud
pamrner lying near, 10 their employer aud
sell them as his lStoke'Sl Own aud ne should
have half the money. Then they took IN me
I Two bundles, and carried them out into the
Whitechapel road and At Whitechap,.l church
lhey halted, and Wainwright. euioininy
Stokes L. watch the parcels. started flractb
Meauwhiie strange AMI horrid smell tha
al fohled stokes nostrilS. and perhaps some
thing In the strange demeanor and move
ments OF his former employer. stirred his
suspicious, and he opened the bundle he had
carried TO see what Kind of'shair" IL was that
Wainwright had-for it was that Innocent
commodity that he had been given TO un-
derstand was the contents. He found hair
al rHnaZ AL.
That hair was attached 10 a human head:
there were arms and hands diSceruihle a $50:
the tieSh was rotten, the odor purrid; the hair
OF his head rose on end at the sight. stokes
replaced the wrapping and the rope. aud
when Wainwright came up in a cab. in COM
pany with 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
on, however, he chased them, calling on one
policeman after another 10 stop them, until
nnally one believed his story and arrested
Wainwright just as he had transferred both
parcels To house which, as IL happened was
an old ware house which his brother had
leased, and deserted. and OF which he held the
Key. wainwright at first demeaned himself
nghtly, but afterward tried to bribe the po-
freeman with large sum 10 let the parcels
alone. The woman in the cab was arrested
also, and both were brought into court to-
gether. The recital OF these facts led 20 an
investigation, both OF Wainwrights life and
the empty shop at Whitechapel. The con-
tents OF the two barrels proved 10 be the re-
mains OF woman whose throat had been
cut, which had been buried for long while
In shallow grave In the floor OF the shop on
the Whitechapel road, and then taken up and
hacked in two rudely, that the murderer
without doubt, might thus insSIfely endeavor
To dispose of it Further research proved IL
10 oe the body of woman who, as VAIN
wright's mistress, had borne HIM two child
ren, and who had been seen for the last time
precisely twelve months 10 a day before his
apprehension with her mutilated corpse. II
Is singular circumstance that some chloride
OF lime with which he had covered thicklv
the body had really preserved the external
aspect so that IL could be identified by the
missing woman's former friends. more
ghastly tale We do not remember than this
THINK not OF the years continual evaSisn OF
inquiry after the woman, the falsehoOis con-
corning her, the continual reproach OF their
children whom he still supported.-buJ OF the
horrible exhumatiOn and dismem Oerment:
the desperate carriage of the fatal witness
from one unsafe and temporary, and this in
early evening, in crowded London; the stupid
attempt TO involve another man In circum-
stantlal evidence Of guilt, which served with
Dreadful surety TO bring himself to Justice;
the demOniac humOr of making new mis-
tress fellow passenger with what was mortal
OF the old lOye,--think of these things, and
imagine, If you can, what that man lacked
of hell!