Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1875-09-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING DISCOVERY IN LONDON.  SUPPOSED MURDER AND MUTILATION OF A YOUNG WOMAN.  An. affair which threatens to tare out a terrible murder, was discovered in London on Saturday evening. A lad who was passing along Commercialroad was accosted by a young woman, who asked him to assist her in carrying some luggage to a cab, and on going with her to a house at No. 5, Queen'scourt, he was shown two bandies, one of which he canoed on his shoulders and carried to the street. The contents smelt horribly, and the lad's curiosity being aroused, he turned down the wrappers and discovered that they enclosed a portion of a dead body. The woman carried the other package, and when they got to the street they were joined by a man, who hailed a passing cab, and along with the woman and the bundles, drove rapidly off in the direction of Loudon Bridge. The lad, suspecting foul play, followed the cab, and did his best to alarm the police. His efforts to keep the cab in sight, and at the same time to get assistance wore unsuccessful until after the vechiele had passed over London Bridge into the Borough, where it stopped at an empty house at No. 54, High-street. At this point he managed to communicate with two police-constables, who opened the cab door and demanded that the man should inform them of the contents of the parcels. 'lhe effluvia arising was unbearable, and in order not to attract the attention of the pedestrians, the officers ordered the cabman to drive to the Police-court. The man, on entering the police-court, suddenly turned pale, and the woman trembled in every limb. On the police opening the smaller parcel, which was wrapped up in a black piece of American canvas, they were horrified in finding the contents consisted of the decomposed trunk of a woman. The man regained his self-possession until the second parcel was opened, when he again became pale. The parcel was larger, and the contents were enclosed and•packedr up iu the same manner, but one side was left slightly open, and the lingers of the dead woman were protruding, The conteets of the second bundle consisted of the head of a female, apparently about twenty-four years of age, but It was in a very decomposed state, and being covered with lime, it is impossible to tell her exact age. The auburn hair was pally burnt off the crown of the head through the action of the lime, and the eyes were not discernable. Her arms and legs, which had been amputated in a very skilful manner, were also in the parcel. The man has given his item as Henry Whinwright, aged twenty-eix, residing at School House-lane, Changford, Essex. He was then charged, along with the young woman, Alice Day, with having in their poemession the mutilated body of an adult female, at present unknown, supposed to have been murdered, the aforesaid body being found by the police in a cab in High-street, in the parish of St. Saviour. The male prisoner, it is believed, has been a manager to a large corn chandler. The woman Day is said to be a ballet girl. The mutilated remains were removed by the malice, and handed o. et • coroner's officer, Mr Drewitt. They are now lying in St. Saviour's Mortuary, and information of the horrible tragedy has been forwarded to MI V. J. Payne, the coroner for the district.  It is believed that the man and woman intended to have buried the murdered wamsn under the flags in the kitchen of the empty house, 54, High.street, Borough..  It woulct appear from a search made in Wainwright's premises that the woman was buried there in quicklime, and that she was exhumed because Wainwright' lease expired on &turd-iv , and he was compelled to give up possession.