The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-18
AN ENGLISH MYSTERY.
The Crime for Which Edward Nc
Rae Is on Trial.
THE EVIDENCE oIRoUMsTANTIAL.

The Remarkable Chain of Evidence
Which the Public Prosecutor Has
Woven About the Accused, on
Which He Expects Conviction.
LONDON, Nov. 1S.-The trial Of An
drew George McRae for the murder Of
his paramour, Annie 'Prtchard, began
yesterday before the Northampton as
sizes. The case has caused much excite
ment, and the court room was packed
with people eager to hear the details of
the crime The streets in the vicinity,
too, were densely crowded, and the po-
lice with difficulty preserved order.
The public prosecutor said that the
evidence upon which the government re-
lied to prove its case was wholly circum-
stantial. He told in detail of the rela-
tions that existed between the prisoner
and Annie Pritchard, and Of the latters
mysterious disappearance.
On the 9Th of August last some la
borers, on walk near Lilithorpe railway
station, in the village of Northampton,
noticed a peculiar stencil, which set
them searching. In a ditch near the
main road leading frorA Northampton to
the village of G K, ts3pot which is per-
fectly secluded and screened from OBJ
servation by the surrounding under
growth, they came upon the headless,
armless body of woman in an old sack,
labeled "E. McRae, Northampton"
The Arrest of EIcRae.
Mr.. Edward McRae, of Crick, a vii
lage few miles from where the body
was found, the brother of Andrew Nc
Rae, identified the sack as one belong
ing to him. This started the investiga-
tion that lead to the arrest of the ac-
cused. An officer was sent to Birming-
ham, where Andrew McRae lived to
learn if Mrs. Andrew McRae was alive.
He found that she was alive, and he also
learned that Annie Pritchard, friend
of the McRaes, had disappeared, and
that nothing had been heard of her for
considerable time. When she left home
she had left letter stating that she was
going to Liverpool to marry litho-
grapher and expected TO go to America.
The police learned that she did not 90
to Liverpool, but to Northampton in
stead, where she arrived on March %,
and, under the name of Mrs. Rae Ande1-
son, lived with McRae as his wife. In
June she gave birth TO a child, and in
July she and her baby disappeared. The
police theory is that McRae, tiring Of
bhe WOHldil VI ledEliH lHdJ MS llllClU re-
lations with her would reach the ears of
his family, enticed her into his brothers
warehouse in Northampton and there
murdered her and the baby. The body
OF the latter has not been found.
Calcined Bones Found.
A search made of the warehouse re-
vealed the presence in fireplace of
some calcined bones, which upon med
ical examination were pronounced to bo
finger bones, and it was discovered that
McRae had sold TO second hand dealer
in clothing many articles that were sub
sequently identified as having belonged
to Miss Pritchard, and his arrest on the
charge of murder followed.
A peculiar feature of the case is that Il
Mrs. Tite, whose daughter formerly
lived at the Saracen's Head, in North
ampton, persistently asserted that the
body was that of her daughter Kate,
who disappeared from servants home
In Edgeware road in July last. num-
Der of persons believed that the muir
dered woman might have been the
daughter of Mrs. Tite, but short time
ago the missing woman appeared in
Northampton, and this removed all
dOubt in the ease