The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-05
MYSTERIOUS MURDER
YOUNG WOMAN's THROAT CUT IN A
LONDON SUBURB.
Reginald SaundersOn, Member of an
Mind, Charged with the Crime.

LONDON, Dec. 4-The detectives of
Scotland Yard are busily at work ferret
ing out the bottom facts in a sensational
murder mystery which involves, indirectly,
number of the most aristocratic families
OF Great Britain. On Nov. 26 last 1t was
announced that mysterious murder had
been committed in Kensington, populous
western suburb of the metropolis. The
body of a comely. well-dressed young wom-
an, about thirty years of age, named
Dawes, belonging to the unfortunate class,
was found in a much-frequented thorough
fare, Holland Villas road, Kensihgton. A
hasty examination of the body showed that
her throat had been cut from ear to ear
The police at first were ompletely at fault
and some of the London newspapers raised
the old cry of "Jack the Ripper" although
there was little or no ground for so doing
Suspicion centered on young man of ex-
cellent family named Reginald Llewellyn
Traherne Basset Saunderson. a nephew of
the famous Col. Edward j. Saunderson
the Orange leader, member OF Parliament
for North Armagh. a magistrate and dep
uty lieutenant, and the son of Llewellyn
Traherne Basset Saunderson, esq, a justice
of the peace OF Dublin county, ireland,
who married Lady Rachael Mary Scott,
third sister Of the Earl of Clonmel. One
of Reginald Saunderson's aunts is Lady
Edith Caroline Monck, Wife of the Hon.
Henry Power Charles Stanley Monck, eld-
est son of the Fourth viscount Monck.
Another OF his aunts is Lady Maria Hen
rietta Fitzclarence, whose husband is a
brother OF the Earl of Munster and a
grandson Of William Nv.
The young man, 1t appears. is only twen-
ty-one years old, tall and handsome, a
most pleasant conyersationalist and an ex-
pert at football, rowing and swimming.
strong minded. He was sent TO a school
Tor the protection and education of gentle
men Of weak intellect intellect at Hampton h . WICK lex;
that institution on Nov Is, SAYING that he
intended TO attend divine services at a To-
cal church But he was not heard of again
until he appeared at the house OF his rel
atives at Belfast. some time after the muir
der. The story of the police is that Saun-
derson. after leaving Hampton Wick, came
TO London and met the Dawes woman.
The evidence which directly connects
Saunderson with the murder is the fact
that by the dead womans side the police
which were subsequently identified by the
pupils Of the institution at Hampton Wick
as having belonged TO Reginald Saunder-
son.
The police were soon in possession of the
following facts: For months past the En-
glish newspapers have been devoting much
space to the trial or man named James
Canham Read. hanged this morning. mar
ried man, at one time employed as a clerk
at the London docks, who was charged
with the murder at South End. England
on June "A last OF young woman. Flor
ence Dennis, with whom he had been on
intimate terms. Saunderson. IL seems, was
trial which he read in tAe newspapers. He
would eagerly peruse everything published
on the subject, and seemed to brood over
the case, The police. IL seems. first got on
the track OF Saunderson in Belfast ar
took him into custody. But while the pris-
oner was being conveyed TO Dublin. en-