Widnes Examiner. — 1892-03-19 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

WHOLESALE MURDERS AT RAINHILL.  'FIVE BODIES FOUND BURIED IN AWILLA. GHASTLY DETAILS.  The quiet little village of Rainh ill, near-St. Helenk which isepon the London and North-Western Rai way route, and is known as being the locale of thq +County Lunatic Asylum, was on Wedneeday throwit into a state of intense excitement by the discovery that murders on a wholesale scale had v•been perpetrated in its midst. On Saturday last a telegram from Melbourne stated that the body •ef a woman, 1 the victim of a cruel murder, had been Idiscovered in I an empty house in Windsor, a subarbSif Melbourne; horiedom cement under a fireplace in one of tee rooms. The woman's throat had been-cut and hen elcull'fractured, and the inquiries disclosedwthat the remains were those of a woman, who had passed ste the-wife of amen named Williams, and that she had formerly lived at New Brighton andaarried on business. ,in,.Liverpool. She arrived in Melbourne ',in .Decenaber last. Inquiries at New Brighton disclosed that nothing was known there of a woman 'Williams. .but a later telegram states that the woman came fromidlainhdl, where she had been married to who has been arrested 'on a charge of .murder. I Inquiries at Rainhill led to the discovery 1 that thewoman was Miss Mather?daughter of an old andwispected resident of rainhill, who had lived therewith her widou ed mother. 6nluly last 4&r. A. O. Wdlliams arrived at Rainhill and putop at a iloclal hostelry; •describing himself asen inspector of .regiments. Mr. Mather who kept a stationer's elipp was- entrusted with the setting of the, ihouse, i4tNnham Villa, and this house Williams agreed to ,take. During the negotiations he lbecame ..-aequainted with Miss Mather. +A ,day or two after Mr. Williams' arrived a lady •accompanded by two children came on the seene and risited•Williams on one or twoeceasionsf and tad tea andlunch with him. Then the womaivelisappeared, and Williams explained that she was his sister, and bad gone to meet her husband at efort Said. 'Williams, who appeared to hare,,plenty of anonenwent to the rills, for a few daye,but returned to the hot, remaining a few days,and then leaving for London.; Ha was away a fortnight,and then-same back dressed in reginae.ntals and flush of money Ile entertained some of the residents to dinner, and-anflounced that he was about to marry.3BiseMather,a etatamentswhich caused some i 3 urpn se. The .arrecl.., ding took ..place. at eight o'clock one morning in September last in the elainhill PariehtChurcheand the'bride and bridegroom left immediately .after; wards for.Locdon, en route for India and Australia: Letters warareceived hy Mrs. Mather .from. variouti place 3 deacedsZng the jourciey,and stating that they were irery "rappy. Them, however, eseased for I while, and thou came the telegram of the discovery ;of theehody in:Melbourne. The police at 'Scotland Yard "communicated with the police Of iWidnepiri which the dicivion of Raichill is situated, and quirieelled to ,the above facts being amertainedand also to the disclosure that during his stay at:Rain-I hill Williams had. cemented the floor of the kitchen of the villa, whkh had remained enaptlever.sinee he left. Williaist3 bad commenced the ,cementing himself, lbat got a local plasterer to complete It. Suspicion 'was at once aroused that come borrible,r, mystery rats hidden beneatb the Cementedfloors' anl the Police decided to deka up the flags andl cement. The, task was performed on Wednesdayld under the .directiosnof Inspeetor Keighley„ Viri44 nes, who was formerly in the Liverpool „poliaa force.  UIifiEttRTIMTG