Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-12-05
His Knife Pound Reside Her.

The theory of th" police is that Saundcr- son. after leaving Hampton Wick. came to London and met the unfortunate woman who was found murdered in Holland Will las ruad. Kcnsington, carly the next morn ing with her throat cut. The evidence which directly connects Saundcrson with the murder k Ihc fact that by the dead woman's side the police found n knife and cherry wood stick which were subsc- qucntly identified by the pupils of the in- stitutinn at HamTH THon-Wirk as having be lOngcd to Reginald SaundCrSon.
 Then the police bCEan the work uf find iDg out the motive nf the crime, and they | wcrC Soon in possession of the following | facts: For months past thc English news papers have bccn dcvotinE much space to the trial of q man named James Canham Read, married man, as one time employ | cd as clerk at the London docks, who | was charged with the murder, at South end. England. on June - last, of q young | woman, Florence Dennis. with whom he had been on intimate terms. The case attracted much attention from the fact that many people claimed that Read was never clearly proved to have murdered the | girl, although suspicion rested strongly | upon him->O much SO that Robert Bu- | chanan, the well known author and play wright, wrote tO the newspapers urging | that Read h' p'pricvcd in view of the strong doubts in his case Read, however. was hangCd yesterday morning at Chelms- | ford.
 SaundCrsOn, it ~tCmS, deeply inn pressed by the accounts of the trial which | he rad in the newspapers He would eagerly pcrIISc everything published on | the subject and S,S'mcd to brood over the | Gasc-so much so that the attention Of hll his associates was drawn tO the pecul- far intercst which he showed in the South Fnd murder. hut nobody drcamed that it was having n terrible effect upon his mind.
 Escaped From the Police Once.
 But when his disappearance became | known the police were notified. and as they were slnady on the lookout for some such person on suspicion of murdcring the unfortunate in the Holland Villas road the knife and the stick found by her side were taken to the institution at Hampton Wick and were there recognized as being the property of the missing man. Moth ing then remained but tO effect the cap turc nf Reginald Saundcrson, and the homcs of his relatives in Ireland were closely watched.
 The police, it seems, first got on the track of Saundcrson in Belfast and took him into custody. But while the prisoner was being conveyed to Dublin en route to London he succeeded in escaping from his | search for him again almost at the point they started from.
 The police, however, came upon his
 trail once more Monday morning an,
 again took him into custody. Saunder
 son was arrested for the second time a
 Killeshandra. near Armagh. Tho prisone
 was fashionably dressed and was convcyc, under strong escort tn Armagh prcviou
 to being brought here
 Saunderson was formally arraigncd an,
 was rcmanded for n week pending th
 completion of the police case against hin
 and in order to enable tho prisoners friend
 to secure counsel for his defense.
 There are several points in the story O
 the Kcnsington murder mystery whicl
 are as yet unexplained. Was the unfor ! tunatc woman who met her death in tn Holland Villas road chance acquaint
 ancc of Saundcrson, or had he known he
 for some time? The general opinion seem to be that she was an accidental acquaint ance the prisoner met after his arrival ii i, London, and that his mind having he
 come completely unhinged from broodin over the details of the Southend murder he felt impelled to kill the woman and s
 cut her throat and fled, leaving tho knif
 with which he killed hernnd his walkin