The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-05-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BASTENDOEFF. The latter has been in ch irge for the past three years, and assuming the medical opinion that the remains found in the cellar had probably la.d there about half that period, or even less, to be true, the crisis., if such it was, must have been committed during Mr BASTENDORFF'S occup mop. Again, this probability is strengthened by the positive assertion of the parties in Mornington-crescent that Miss HACKER was lodging with them from April to August last year. Where she went after being driven away nobody knows. She said she was going to the sea side and would return, but never did. There is the possibility that the unfortunate lady, if she did do as the intimated, prompted by her acknowledged eccentricity returned to London and lodged, not at her old place, but at 4, Euston Square. But putting up I there, who is to be saddled with the crime of murdering her? There were lodgers continually in the house, coating and going, and if the I murderer be one of these he may lace crossed the ocean long ago. The fact of the victim being I dropped on the floor of a coal cellar in close proximity to the living apartments is evidence rather against a delinquent who had little occasion ' to fear, than against the regular tenants of the house : and the unconcern and absence a suspicion on the part of Mr BASTENDORFF and his household when unpleasant smells were complained of seems to indicate that they never dre rut of foul play. If Miss H kCK ER ever lodged at No. 1, Euston Square—and it has to come out that she did—it might appear strange how she could be put to death and hid away in such a manner without ei,her being missed or wonder being entertained as to where she had got to. There is the possibility, of course, that the murder may have been committed elsewhere and the victim shot down the coal-cellar grid open ng into the Brett, and to effect this purpose the grate must have been unfastened within. Some importance appears to have been given to a statement made by a lady residing at No. 5, Euston Squ ire, but if she be correct as to the date it cannot count for much. This is that in the autumn of t 077 she was very much startled by hearing a shriek from a female in an apartment correspon ling with her own room, at No. 4, since which time she had never seen Miss HACKER, who had been observed in the Square several times previously. Unless this lady referred to has miscalculated the time when this incident happened, it cannot be reconciled with the statement of those with whom she lodged in Mornington-crescent, that Miss HACKER was with them so recently as last August. If both statements are made, one of them must fall to the ground. The detectives have been trying to trace the whe-eabouts c.f the unfortunate lady after she was driven away from her lodgings. To effect their purpose they have endeavoured to discover the cabman who conveyed her thence, and instituted enquires in many other directions in which they think there is any possibility of opening a way which will lead to the solution of what at present remains a dark mystery. No doubt that at the op; reaching enquiry very im• portant facts will be elicited. The woman