Widnes Examiner. — 1892-09-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SENSATIONAL 'DEVELOPMENT. It will be - ibered that on Su- lay, Au 7th,  J rernem.___ ‘nat on Sunday, ~...ugust some.labourerel on a walk near Althorpe Railway Station in the vicinity of Northampton, noticed a disagreeable smell of a peculiar nature, as though proceeding from /lead flesh. The labourers began to search, and finally discovered the headless, armless body of a woman in, 5. .pack secreted in a ditch, by the side of the main road from Northampton to Rugby. The bag was cove red with rank vegetation. The feet had been tied together .and then pressed backwards, and the body was thrown forward as as to occupy the smallest possible space. with a quantity of lime thrown in. The body was iwrapped in coarse canvas, which in turn was placed in. an old sack. It was fully clothed except as to the feet. Decomposition had s') far proceeded that it was impossible to guess even at the cause of death. On Saturday night, with the assistance of the Hirming ham City Police, the Northampton County Police arrested in Northampton Market-square :Anelrew Macßae, a grocers' assistant at Birmingham; charged on suspicion with being Concerned in the murder of a woman unknown whose mutilated and headless body wasiound in a ditch, near Althorlie Railway Station a month ago. Fer several weeks Macßae has been in the rsle of Man on a holidfsy. He returned last week, and on Saturday, for the first time, resumed charge of his brother's standingln Northampton Market. He went to the Isle of Man directry after the body was found, and pleaded illness for not returning before. The arrest was quietly effected. The prisoner was brought before a magistrate ou Monday and remanded until Saturday. At the resumed inquest on Monday week, a piece of sacking was produced by the po ' liCa in which the body was wrapped. It bore on it a small label with the name and address, E. M. Rae, Northampton. The police gave evidence that the arms of deceased, both of which were still missing, had been sawn off apparently by a bacon - '  saw. -Fresh facts have transpired regarding the Althorpe murder. The clothing found on the deceased has been identified as having belonged to Ann Pritcha,•d, of 30, Ba!sail Heath, Birmingham. She and her infant child disappeared from Northampton. Mcßae, who is in custody, has been identified as having stolen some of the deceased's clothing. On Wednesday the Northampton police made what is thought to be an important discovery. In searching Ithe Dychurch-lane warehouse, belonging to Mcßae 's IbrOther, for whom the prisoner was manager, the police found a number of pieces of bone in the cooper firePlam These were in the ashes, and were very small and calcined. They will be submitted to an expert to ascertain, if possible, whether they are human bones, the sugigestinti being that they are remains of the missing arms of thewoman Pritchard. Mean w hile nothing whatever his been discovered of the missiog head or of the babe. A ' man mined John Hall has come forward with all announcement that a month Ago the prisoner got him to remove from the warphouse a quantity of lire ; this evidence is considered of importance. because the body when found on the roadside near Althorp Station was covered with lime. It is also known that the prisoner I hired a horse and trap and drove out of Northampton ' on July 26, six days after Pritchard's disappearance,and within a week of the time at which the body mist have been deposited in the ditch.  rOPULAR BEVERAGE tor Breakfast, Luncheon, Tea and Supper in all seasons la