The daily gazette., 1876-05-10
"MORBID IMPULSES"

"MORBlD IMPULSES"
HUNTING MuRDERERs WITH Doas-A
BRITISH BARBER MATCHES THE
BOSTON SEXTON.
The confession of Piper, the Boston
sexton, who horribly murdered poor
little girl named Mabel Young in the
belly of his church, abundantly vindi-
Gates the contempt passed by this jour.
nal upon a maudlin letter recently
recently published by that atrocious
scoundrel In the hope of averting his
just doom. Nothing it might have
been thought could have been more
horrible than the crime committed up.
on helpless infant by this wretch
but the last English mails bring us par
ticulars of villainous deed done by a
barber of Blackburne, named Fish,
which fairly mates Piper. The British
crime was brought home to the crimi-
nal, who was as much of a hypocrite
as Piper himself, by the use of dogs,
and particularly of bloodhound which
exhibited wonderful sagacity, and is
likely to become as famous in the an
nails of canine intelligence as the dog
of Montargis himself. We condense
the story from our latest foreign files,
as most interesting though painful
contributiontothe psychology ofcrime.
William Fish, the criminal, was a
married man, aged twenty six, and
Emily Holland, the victim, child oi
seven. Suspicion attached to Fish at
the commencement. The prosecuting
officer thus recited the story at Court;
"We searched the house over several
times without being aole to find any
traces of blood, and we had no further
evidence TO justify us in arresting him
On Sunday morning man named Pc
ter Taylor. painter, of Nelson street,
dog, in fact with two dogs. One is
Springer spaniel, and is bloodhound
and pointer dog, part bred. | arranged
with some of my officials, Police De.
tectives Holden and Leversey, to go
with the owner of the dogs where the
body was found, near Bastwell, and
endeavored to trace the scent, for ac-
cording to one witness man visited
the place OH Thursday morning about
10 o'clock. They went in the direction
of Roysham Plantation, but the dogs
were unable to make any scent. 1t was
arranged further that they should 60
Lower Cunliffe, where the legs had
been discovered in conduit. They
hunted the fields as best they could,
but without success. They hunted
the fields and woods in all directions,
but without finding anything, and they
returned to Blackburn. had arrang-
ed previously that the man with the
dogs shoulds remain till night to make
a furth er experiment.
We arranged to visit two BARRIERS shops,
one kept by Dennis Whitehead, who re-
sided in Birley street, and the other kept
ny the prisoner. L may mention that
we arranged it privately, 80 that there
would not be a crowd about to obstruct
US, and we managed to get into both
houses unobserved by the inhabitants.
In the first house, that of Dennis White
head the bloodhound did net pay any
particular attention, nor did it appear to
scent anything. We had possession of
the prisoners house lat that time, and
the prisoner was in and also his wife and
of course We began in the prisoners shop.
The dog on entering the house, began to
scent all round the rooms in which the
prisoner canries on his business. 1t en-
tered the closets, and went to all the cor
ners and crevises of the house. 1t fur.
ther went into the back room, scenting
all round soundly, and evidently scented
something. 1t also jumped uponl the
sink-stone, and appeared to scent there
At this time the door which leads to the
upper room was shut, aud when Detec.
tive Officer Holden opened the door and
Uant fhn dog m a1 fa q
rushed after him. The dog scented round
the back room, which is a room where
there is no fire place, and really scented
something. 1t then passed iato the from
room, and finally scented in the fire place
Now, this fire place had nothing in the
CRATE nor appearance of fire in an,
shape or form. Mr.. Taylor, observing
the scent, knew what it meant, and b,
Immediately rushed to the chimney, anc
found, what shall be produced, q human
skull, evidently that of child, with par
of the hair on it. The hair has been
8 turuted with blood. There are ais,
| parts If the broken skull and parts o
smaller bones. They are Tones which
appear to belong to the forearm. an,
bones that belong to the hands. There
were, in addition, small pieces OF gar
ments-small pieces of gray calico and
chemise. The deceased ohild's clothin
was of that description. There is one ex
traordlnaly feature, in that case
Amongst the articles brought down fror
the chimney was a piece OF paper, whlcf
appears to be newspaper OF some kint
and that appears to have some blood .
it, together with clean wheat stray
There are no such pieces of straw in an
9th er part of the house.
While this process was going q