The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-05

London, Dec. 1.-The detectives OF
Scotland Yard are busily at work fer
reting out the bottom facts in a sensa-
tional murder mystery which involves,
indirectly a number Of the most aris-
tocratic families of Great Britain.
On November &c last, the Associated
Press announced exclusively that a
mysterious murder had been commit
ted in Kensington, a populous western
suburb of this metropolis.
The body of a comely. well-dressed
young woman, about 80 years old,
named Dawes, belonging to the unfor-
tunate class, was found in much
frequented thoroughfare. Holland Vii
las road, Kensington. A hasty exam
ination of the body showed that her
throat had been cut from ear to ear.
The police at first were completely at
sea, and some of the London papers
raised the old cry OF Jack the Rip
per- although there was little or no
ground for so doing.
Suspicion conferred upon young man
Of excellent family, named Reginald
Llewellyn Traherne Bassett Sander
son, d nephew OF the famous Colonel
Edward j. Saunderson, the Orange
leader, member of parliament for
North Armagh, a magistrate and a
deputy lieutenant, and the son of
Llewellyn Traherne Bassett Saunder-
son. Esq. 9 justice of the peace of
Dublin county, Ireland. who married
Lady Rachel Mary Scott, third sister
of the Earl of Clonmel.
One of Reginald Saunderson's aunts
is Lady Edith Caroline Monck, wife OF
ri
ley Monck, eldest son of the fourth
Viscount Monck.
Another of his aunts is Lady Maria
Henrietta Fitzclarence, whose husband
is a brother Of the Earl of Munster
and a grandson OF William ".
The young man, it appears, is only
q years old, tall and handsome, a
most pleasant conversationalist and an
expert at football, rowing and swim
ming. But young Saunderson was far
from being strong-minded. He was
sent to school for the protection and
education of gentlemen of weak intel
lect at HamDtonwick.
Saunderson, according to the police,
left that institution November %, say
ing he intended to attend divine ser
vice at a local church, but he was not
heard of again until he appeared at
the house of mis- relatives at Belfast,
some time after the murder.
The theory of The police is that
Saunderson, after leaving Hampton
wick, came to London and n1et the
directly connects SaundeTson with the
murder is the fact that by the dead
wonlan's side the police found d
knife and a cherrywood stick, which
were subsequently, identified by the
pupils of the institution at Hampton
wick as having belonged to Saunder-
son. The police we're soon in posses
sion of the following facts:
For months past, the English news
papers have been devoting much space
to the trial of a man named James
Canham Read, hanged this morning, a
married man at one time employed as
a clerk at tine London Docks, who was
charged with the murder at Southerd,
England, on June "a last, of d young
woman, Florence Dennis, with whom
he had been on intimate terms.
Saunderson, 1T seems. was deeply i'm
pressed by the accounts of the triad
which he read in the newspapers. He
would eagerly peruse everything pub
lished on the subject and seemed to
brood over the case.
The police, it seems, first got on tF,a
track of Saunderson in Belfast and
took him into custody. But while the
pfISOiler WAS DeIliS COHNSySu 10 OuO-
lin, en- route to London, he escaped,
but was re-captGred yesterday at Kill
leshagldra, near ArnIa 9Th.
There are several points in the story
of the Kensington murder mystery
which are yet unexplained. Was tine
unfortunate woman who met her
death in the Holland Villas road a
chance acquaintance of Saunderson, or
had he known her for some time?
10
that she was an accidental acquaint-
ance with whom the prisoner met after
his arrival in London, and that his
mind having become completely I'M
hinged from breeding over the details
of THE South End murder. he felt i'm
pressed to kill the woman and so cut
her throat and fed, leaving the knife
and walking stick behind.
Saunderson arrived four or five days
ago at Nabilla, the residence of Mrs.
Kate Jones. a widow. two miles from
Castle Saunderson, the residence of
Colonel Saunderson 1t was remarked
he had q very sc2Tty outfit He look
ed i'll and was very reserved.
The master of the school at Hamp-
tonwick states that in view of Saund-
erson's probably going TO Canada to
start farming, he was allowed to take
part in the gardening ait the school.
and the knife found by the side of the
murdered woman was one he had used
for pruning purposes.
1t has TRANSFERRED that one of the
places visited by Saunderson was
Moncllstown. While there he wrote AN
unsigned letter in which he admitted
his guilt This letter fell into the
hands of the Scotland Yards authori-
ties, and was one of the clues that led
to his arrest.
KuJNn nv r