Connecticut western news., 1876-06-02
MORBID IMPULSES.
Hunting Murderers with Dogs--A British Barber Commits a Terri ble Crime..A Deteotive's Story.

We cOndense the following story from our latest foreign files, as most inter- esting though painful contribution to the psychology of crime. William Fish, the criminal, was married man, aged twenty-six, and Emily Holland, the vic tim, child of seven. Suspicion attach ed to Fish from the commencement The prosecuting officer thus recited the story in court: "We searched his house several times over without being able to find any traces of blood, and we had no further evidence to justify us in arresting him. On Sunday morning man named Peter Taylor, painter, of Nelson street, Preston, volunteered his services with dog, in fact with two dogs. One is Springer spaniel, and the other is bloodhound and pointer bred. arranged with some of my off cers, Police Detectives Holden and .Livesey, to go with the owner of the dogs where the body was found, near Bastwell, and endeavored to trace the scent, for, according to one witness, man visited the place on Thursday morning about ten o'clock. They went in the direction of Roysham plantation, but the dogs were unable to make any scent. It was arranged further that they should go to Lower Cunlife, where the legs had been discovered in con- duit. They hunted the fields as best they could, but without success. They hunted the fields and woods in all direo tions, but without finding anything, and they returned to Blackburn. had ar- ranged previously that the man with the dogs should remain till night to make further experiment..
 Wo orronno1 kn vicik fwn horhor shops, one kept by Denis Whitehead, who resided in Birley street, and the other kept by the prisoner. may men, tion that we arranged it private, so that there would not be 8 crowd about to ob struct us, and we managed to get into both houses unobserved by the inhabit- ants. In the first house, that of Denis Whitehead, the bloodhound did not pay any particular attention, nor did it appear to scent anything. We had pos session of the prisoners house at that time, and the prisoner was in, and also his wife, and of course we begun in the prisoners shop. The dog, on entering the house, begun to scent all round the rooms in which the prisoner carries on his business. He entered the closets, and went to all the corners and crevices | of the house. It further went into the back room, scenting all round soundly, and evidently scented something. It also jumped upon the sink stone, and appeared to scent something there.
 'At this time the door which leads to i the upper room was shut, and when De- tective Officer Holden opened tho door and went up stairs, the dog immediately rushed after him. The dog scented round the back room, which is a room where there is no fireplace, and really scented something. It then passed in the front room, and finally scented in the fireplace. Now, this fireplace had nothing in the fire-grate nor appearance of fire in any shape or form. MT. Fay l Tor, observing the scent, knew what it meant, and he immediately rushed to the chimney, and found, what shall be | produced, a human skull, evidently that of a child, with part of the hair on it. The hair has been saturated with blood. There are also parts of the broken skull and parts of smaller bones. There are bones which appear to belong to the | forearm, and bones that belong to the hands. There were, in addition, small | pieces of garments pieces of gray calico and @ chemise. The deceased child's clothing was of that description. There is one extraordinary feature in the case. Amongst the articles brought down from the chimney was piece of paper, which appears to be newspaper of some kind, and that appears to have some blood on it, together with clean wheat straw. There are no such pieces of straw in any other part of the house.
 While this process was going on Super intendent Eastwood had accompanied the man with the dogs to inform the prisoner of the purport of their visit,
 and that they had a bloodhound and
 were going to search the house. be-
 lieve then that his condition was very
 palpable, and that he was extraordin-
 arily affected by the announcement.
 When the skull was found his wife and
 he were both present, and at once or
 dered him to be taken into custody on
 the charge of murder. He afterward
 said that he was innocent, and knew
 nothing about it. We managed to have
 him removed from the place before there
 was any excitement and before the in
 habitants were aware of what was going on. If we had been three or four min
 utes more don't believe we could have brought him to court. Under the cir cumstances, however, we managed tC
 bring him without any interruption.
 This is human skull (pointing to it,
 with three teeth left in the lower jaw,
 and these plainly exhibited. This is the
 skull of child, and we know of nc
 other child missing, or having beer murdered, than Emily Holland. an6
 from all the circumstances we do believe this skull and the parts of the body form the head, hands and arms of the de- ceased Emily Holland. I will simply
 give evidence that these were found il the prisoners presence, and that he was charged and made no reply"
 The details of the discovery were the1 7 brought out on the examination of th' f detective-in-chie
 Q. Did you examine the chimney
 A. I did. I looked up the chimno, l both down stairs and up stairs. M, a reason for looking up the chimney wa
 to see if I could discover any recen
 marks in the chimney-marks of 500
 being removed or disturbed-but ther was not single scratch or anything Q and there did not appear to have beel 9 any fire in the grate for some time. Ha' 2 I seen mark of any kind should ce1 :. tainly have searched further. On Sun 5 day, the sixteenth of April, we searche' . again. was accompanied by Detectiv y Officer Holden and Peter Taylor, o Z Nelson street, Preston, painter. H f had two dogs with him. I went wit . Taylor to the prisoners shop. One c f the dogs was bloodhound and pointer ~ ~ and the other was spaniel. Whe # they went into another barber's sho ~ ~ the dogs did not scent anything. W Q next went to the prisoners shop. Whe 5 we went into the place the prisoner Ina is been brought to the shop by Detectiy ,f Livesey along with his wife. Whe a Taylor and and Holden got inside Q . spoke to the prisoner, and I told hi ,. that the dog was bloodhound and tn 70 .Ee were going to make further scare