Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-05
KrNsINGToN munpEu nYsrEnY.
Facts la tho case M Far ~. Ascortainsd
by the Dctsctives.

by the detectives.
LONDON, Dec. I.-The detectives OF
Scotland yard nrc buslly ut work fer
retllng out the bottom facts In a sensa.
tional murder mystery which iavolves,
Indirectly, u numUer " the most arts.
toctgtlo families oil Great Britain. On
November 2G.h last, It was announced
that myHltfi0us murder had been
committed m keusingtoD, n pOpulOus
western suburb Of this metropolis, when
tao body OF tomuiy, weli-liossed
young woman, named Dawes, bolOng-
lug 10 thc unfortunate class, was found
10 "a much lfequuntui thotoughiare.
Suspicion Cbutefui upon u young
man Of excellent family, uamBd Reg
iuali Llewoiiyn Traherno Basset
Colonel Edward J, Saundorsou, the
orange leader.
one u Reginald saunderSon'a aunls
Is Lady EIitn Caroline MOuck, wife
OF the Hon. Henry Power Charles
stanley Monok, eldest sou OF tho fourth
NigCount MUuck.
Another NJ his suniA Ia Lady Maria
Henrietta FiizaarruCt, whose husband
Ia a brother OF the Ear 0i Munster aud
agrauusJn OF William ~.
Tbs young man, u aEpeare, IL only
Il years Old, tail and handsome, but
far non strong He was sent
10 school tor tue protection aud educa.
lion Of gentlemen VI weak intellect ~
| HamptJnwiCk, SAuudufson, acoorI-
ing 10 tbs police, left that institution
| November 25th, saying ho intended 10
attend divine service at local church.
| But he was not heard OF again untii
he appeared Rt the house OF his Tela.
/ tveH at Belfast, some time after tue
murder. The theory Of tho police ~
| that SAundtfsOn, after leaving HRmp-
| touwlUk, came to LO don anu met lnu
| Dawes woman. The evidence which
| directly connects SAundeTsOu with the
murder Ia the fact that by the dead
/ woman's side tue police found knife
/ and "A cherry wood stick, which were
subsequently identified by the pupils VI
| tho Institution at HamptUnWiUk as
| having belonged ~ SauudcTson. The
/ police were soon In possession Of the
| following faots:
For months past the English news.
papers nave been devoting much spaJ e.
| 10 tue trial NJ mAu named JAmuH
| Canham Read, hanged this mornln Z,
a married man NJ one time employed
~ n clerk Mt the London dOuks, who
was charged with the murder At
SOuthend, England, on June 24Ih last,
Ota young woman, Florence Dennis,
| with whom he had been On intimate
terms. SauuuersOni &c Beomf, was deeply
impressed by the accounts Of the trial,
which he read In the newspapers. Ho
would eagerly pursue everything pub,
lishcd on the subject, and seemed ~
brood over tho case.
The police, It seems, irs, got on the
track OF Saulderson IN Belfast and took
HIM Into custody. But while the
prisoner was being conveyed to Dublin
On route " London, he escaped, hut
Twas TecaptuTed yesterday at Xii
esh.ndra, near Armagh.
There arc several pOints In the story
OF the kensingIon murder mystery
whloh are yet unexplained. Was tht
unfortunate woman who met her death
Ia this Holland Villas road n chance
acquaintance VI Saundcrsou, or hau
ne Enown ner for some lime2
The general opinion seems TO be that
she was an accidental uCqua iutauct
with whom the prisoner met after hi,
arrival In London, anu that his Ininu
having become completely unhinged
from brOOuiug over tue details OF the
Southend murder, no felt Empowered
10 Kill the woman aud 10 cut hor thrOal
and He'd, leaving tho knife aud walk
ing aIicK behind.
II has trausplred that one Of the
places visited by Sauudrnon wa,
Monckatown. While there lie wrote
au unsigned letter, In which he nd
milted his guile. This letter fell In
the hands OF the Scotland Yards Ru.
thorities aud was one Ut tbs clues thai
| led 10 mis- arrest.