The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-10

LONDON, Sept. 0.-on August Z last a
horrible discovery was made near the
railway station at AlLhorpe, in the
county OF Northalt pton. The headiess
and armless body OF a woman was found
in a sacl, secreted in ditch by the side
of the main road from Northampton to
Rugby. Attracted by the smell, some
laborers found tho bag covered with
rank vegetation. Tho feet had been
tied together and then pressed back
wards, and the body was thrown for
ward so as to occupy the smallest pos
siblc space with quantity OF lime
thrown in. The body was wrapped IN
a coarse canvass, WHICH in turn was
placed in an old sack. Decomposition
had 40 lar proceeded that it was I'M:
nossi6le oven to guess at the cause OF
death. The head and arms had been
cut off by person possessing some
anatomical knowledge.
DIR. Culverhouse, who examined the
remains, concluded that they had be-
longed to full grown woman OF slight
IuiII about i've feet five inches in
height. The clothing indicated that she
had not belonged to the poorer class.
Tho linen was fine and well made. The
r0ad where the body was found, about
. n quarter OF mile from Althorpe sta
ton, is very secluded and entirely
screened from observation, and 1t was
suggested that the body had been
brought to Althorpe station by train or
otherwise and deposited where it was
found. 1t was thought that the remains
had been there for at least q month.
The body, as before stated, was clothed,
and it was part OF the chemise that led
10 the Identification OF the victim as
Ann Pritchard, OF Birmingham, whose
friends had not heard OF her since
March, when she lett Birmingham, tell
ing them that she was going to Liver
pool to marry man named Anderson,
an engineer.
The police traced the girl to North
ampton, where it was learned she had
held immoral relations with man
known as Rae Anderson, and that she
had given birth to child in June. The
police searched q long time for Ander-
son but could not find him. They
finally concluded that Anderson was an
assumed name and in this they were
right, for they soon learned that Rae
Anderson was none other than Andrew
McRae, the manager OF n warehouse in
Birmingham. He was at once arrested
charged with the murder A search
was made OF his office and in the ire
place were found the calcined bones oil
what had apparently been baby and
the arms OF q woman.
The most important evidence against
NIcRae was given by q man that testl-
fed a month ago the prisoner en-
ployed him to remove from the ware
house a quantity OF lime. The move
ments Of the prisoner have been traced
by the detectives and they found that
at about the time the murder is sup
posed To have been committed McRae
took trip out OF Northampton and
drove toward the spot where the body
was found covered with lime and the
police theory is that the trap was used
10 convey the body to where it was
found.
Other evidence was advanced at the
inquest pointing to the belief that the
girl and her baby were murdered in the
house occupied by the victim and her
paramour in Northampton. McRae then
sawed oil the girls head and arms and
took them with the body OF the baby to
Birmingham, where he cremated them.
Being unable to dispose OF the trunk
and lower limbs by means OF fire, and
being forced to get rid OF them, McRae
carried them out to the ditch by tho
roadside, after placing them in the can
vass with lime, and dumped them where
he thought the limo would eat up the