Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1879-03-29 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

AND BOILED.  It will be recollected that • box was &short timeeinoe found ea the foreshore of the river near Barnes, a'ate:Mpg portions of a human body. At the coroner's imp it an open verdict was returned, and the matter both before and since has been made the subject of inquiry by the pollee. It was at first thought the body had been put into the river by medical students after dissection, but within the la t few days information has ' come to hand leaving little or no donut that a shocking crime has been committed in the neighbourhood ot Richmond. It appeals that for some years past an eldeily woman ot ecaseutrio habits, whose nine le La the preset kept a secret by the police, had a servant It own in the neighbourhoud by the name of Kate Giebs or Gl,bins, both being used. For the last few wades the old lady was not seen oat et the house, although her servant pail bills in ;her name, and geueraty transacted matters sail she were there. Some weeks since the servant sold some of the properiy in the h cuse for :um of £26, and she then tell the piece, taking w.th her some plate, end anything of value on whien she could lay her hands. Seen after this inquiries were emt on foot to trme the missing woman, and a boy made a statement to the detective police the: about three weeks or • month since a woman asked him to help her to tarry a box He agreed to dose; and when they came to the river bridge she threw it over, gave hici sixpe-oe for his trouble, and then went huniedly away. It was dark at the times, and no one else was near when the box was thrown over. The police showed the boy the box in which the remains were found, and he immediately identified it as the ore he had ussted to carry. Be likewise identified • photograph of the servant Gibbs as a likeness of the woman be accompanied She has hi, herto avoided apprehension, and is believed to have left the nrighbourbood to go to Ireland. The human remains have been shown to Dr. Bond, the police surgem, who states thin can be little or no doubt but that the woman to whom they belong wafizat murdered ani that the body was then boiled whole, so as to facilitate its being cut up for the purpose of removal. The doctor states his opinion that We boiling of th.: body accotmts for its parchment-like appearance, and the theory is strongly supported by the fact that the copper at the back of the deceased's house is cove, ed with tat and that there is evidence of resent use. Inspector Shore, o; Scothnd yard, and Inspectors Dowdwell, Robson, and Lansdowoe have the inquiry in band, and one of these officers will at once proceed to Ireland to effect the arrest of the alleged marderess. It is believed that robbery with ayiew of obtaining the necessary funds to get batik to bland was the motive of the crime.  Prince Waldemar, the third son of the Crown Prince of Germany, and a grandson of the Queen, died on Thursday.  Delays are dangerous, the afore if you are suffering from a bad cough or *old, difficulty of breathing, Hoarseness, or any other affeetion of the chest and lungs, delay not, but at once go and get a bottle of Bodden's 'Whim of Horehound and Goltafoot—oae dose relieves; one bottle generally cares. Price is lid and 2. Pd. Agent for Alston—Mr (ho. TfIQkP3S, Chemist; for Reuben:l—Mesas