The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-03-19
ENGLAND HORRIFIED.
THE BRUTAL CRIMES OF ARTHUR
WILLIAMS UNEARTHED.

Five Victims Brutaly Murdered and
Buried in Cement in Fireplace in
RainIdlI and His Young wife Served
the Same Frlghtful way In Australia.
LONDON, March ia tragedy unparal-
leled in the history Of British crime came TO
light through a most singular chain Of cir
cumstances. In July last a man named Ar
thur Williams resided in the Dinham villa,
Rainhin, a fashionable suburb Of Liverpool,
and passed as a well-to-do bachelor. he
courted Miss Mather, young woman gener-
ally admired for her beauty and other at
fractions and recognized as a local belle.
They got married and went to Australia,
where they were supposed to be living hap
PLY. The people Of Rainhill were shocked
few days ago by news from Australia that
Williams had been arrested on a charge of
numbering his wife, and that he had con-
cealed the body Of the murdered woman be-
meath the fireplace, carefully covering the
place again with cement. There the au-
thorities unearthed the remains.
A sickening Discovery.
As soon as these facts became noised about
in Rainhill the people called to mind queer
suspicious that had been ahoat about VIII
liams when he occupied the Dinham villa
! They remembered that one day lady and
two children had visited the villa TO see
| Williams, and from the moment Of their en-.
tering the place no one had seen them again.
/ The affair caused some remark at the time,
] but nobody thought Of murder, and the
matter was dropped with the supposition
/ that the lady and the two children had gone
away without being observed. Now, how
/ ever, the neighbors began to suspect that
there might have been foul play, and they
determined to state the facts to the police.
! The police concluded that no harm could be
done by investigating, and they proceeded
| TO the Dinham villa and began to dig up be
meath the fireplace.
They hardly expected, however, to dis.
cover anything, and their amazement was
| great when after little of the cement had
been removed all were sickened by nause-
ating odor The men at first refused topro-
ceed, but after they had drunk heavily OF
brandy they resumed work Just under the
cement they came upon the decomposed
bodies Of three children. Two of them had
been apparently between five and seven
years old. Their throats were cut and the
bodies were dressed only in night shirts,
which were crusted with blood and dirt
Just beneath them lay the body Of a girl ol
about twelve years, clothed only in night
shirt. There were no wounds on her body
and the police say she was strangled. The
decomposition Of the body was further ad
vanced than in the two preceding cases.
Even the Police Horrined.
About two and half feet beneath the
cement, and further from the wall was
found the body Of tall woman. There was
an end Of rope around her neck and hel
throat was cut. A baby's body, with the
head crushed in and the throat cut, was still
in her arms. Even the hardened policemen
could not restrain an exclamation Of horroi
as the tiny and shrunken body was lifted
up to view
The woman's body was the least decom
posed OF all. Mother and baby had beer
wrapped up tightly in an eiderdown quilt
which was wound with heavy cord at the
neck and ankles The woman wore wed
ding ring and guard, silk underclothing and
silk stockings and fine boots. Her hair was
jet black.
The police kept digging, while outside the
news spread and the excitement grew, and
thousands rushed to the scene Of the trage
dies. A new force Of police was called
upon and a Gordon established around the
villa, and the digging proceeded rapidly, fol
rumor grew on rumor, and other recollec
tions suggested that there were more vic
Tins in the sepulcher beneath the fireplace
Up to this hour no more discoveries have
been made. The news has caused almost
frenzy in Liverpool, and the multitude hav'
rushed to the conclusion that Williams mus
be "Jack the Ripper"
Although Williams appearance CORE
spends with one description of "Jack thu
RinpaT. - fha panaral ifnnresaior Ia that th.
two men are not identical. The wounds OF
the bodies already discovered, moreover
show few, if any, of the anatomical features
of the "Ripper" murders. The digging il
the kitchen, where Williams laid the foo
with his own hands, is expected to throw
new light on the case His care in allowing
no workmen to help him in the kitchel
causes the Liverpool police to think that tn
revelations there viii surpass those alread,
made and show conclusively Williams
methods of killing