The Sun. — 1869-10-11 (London, England)

THE WOOL-GREEN TVAGEDY.  Wood-green, like Panties, in Prance, has become a resort fur sightseers. On Sunday it presented a very lively aspect. Thousands of people poured into the place from about nine in the morning until dusk, and made fur the scene of the murders. The publichouses were all " open to travellers," and a vast number of people availed themselves of their legal privilege of drinking within Church hours. Before one o'clock drunken men, and women too, were seen struggling through the crowd on their way to or from the Bounds's-green-road. About mid-day the wholeneighbourhood was as busy as a fair. The cottage, where the murdered man Boyd lived, is advertised to be sold by auction. It is described as "with gardens in front and in the rear, and good detached stabling, very pleasantly situate in Bound's-green-road, facing the Alexandra-park Palace, let to Mr. Boyd at a rental cf £33 per annum." The iron house where the Bensons lived is now to be taken away, cr the practice of letting it for a dwelling, which has been pursued for the last fourteen years, discontinued. Some further information has been supplied through statements made by the prisoner since his committal. It will be remembered that during the altercation on,,the road from the railway station, when Henson was foicing the woman home, she was heard to say, "Fred, you know what you have said to me ; I am afraid for my life." Most people have imagined that these words referred to a threat he had then made, but such 'is not the case. The prisoner states that he had warned—frequently warned—Death against the intimacy which had commenced between her and Boyd, and that she knew what would happen after being found in his company. "Under such circumstances," said the individual who was conversing with the prisoner, "I am surprised she went home with you at all." He simply replied, " She couldn't help it-,she was weak, and I was strong." He has called the deceased woman a " good girl" to him. It appears that Henson went to Hendon on the day of the murder, but did no work there. Ho received information of the movements of Death which induced him to return home. Up to the present time the police have been unsuccessful in ther efforts to ascertain the whereabouts of the relatives of the murdered woman, and the prisoner positively declines to give any information on the point. A quantity of the woman's writing, beautifully executed, has been found; several school and other books have also been examined, but wherever name or address has appeared it has been torn off. , This is particularly observable in the books the murdered woman used when employed as a governess. Three letters wore found on the prisoner when searched after his apprehension. They are all from the murdered woman's pen, and are couched in most affectionate language. One of them was addressed to the prisoner at Hendon the week before the murder. Reference is made therein to the circumstance that the writer had been earning a few shillings by washing and needlework ; that she hoped to be able to purchase a pair of boots on the Saturday, adding, "And if you are a good fellow, I may have a shilling for you."