The Express. — 1851-07-02 (London, England)

THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT NORWICH.  Since the publication of the particulars which appeared in the Express of Monday, the police have been unremitting in their endeavours to trace other portions of the body. On Monday morning having procured doe., they proceeded to search the fields nail hedges in the suburbs of the city. The result was the discovery of intestines, lungs, and a portion of the viscera, all of which were immediately submitted to the inspection of Dr. Copeman, Mr. Dalrymple, Mr. Nicholls, and Mr. Norgate. They were ordered to be at once placed in a solution of chloride of lime, and upon examination they were found to be in a very ti composed state, and to have been chopped up into pieces of about three inches in length. This was evidently not the work of a medical man for the purpose of scientific ezemination. These portions were originally found in a sewer galley in Bishopgatoostrect, here they were taken by a lateitiring man, ignorant of their nature, and thrown upon a dungheap. Dr. Cops Mall gave it as his opinion that the lunge were those of a healthy person. The officers ulso succeeded in recovering several more pieees of flesh, one of which was upwards of a pound in weight. These arc declared by the medical gentlemen to whom the case has been referred to be portions of the same body. It should also be stated that near the dungheap in Bishopgate-street were found several pieces of linen and woollen fabrics stained with blood, all of which have been carefully preserved by the saiwrintendaut of police. The next step taken by Mr. Yarrington was to have the river Yore and all its tributaries carefully dragged, the result of which was the discovery of a black velvet bonnet, evidently the property of a person in a respectable sphere of life. Difficulties have been thrown in the way of the police by the extreme height of the grass in the neighbourhood of the city. and although dogs have been sent in various directions, it is confidently expected that more discoveries have yet to be made. In a held where several large pieces of flesh had been found, and to which the especial attention of the police hail been directed, a discovery of a very important character was made at a late hour on Monday evening. During the day a body of men were set to mow clown the grass, and, in doing so, their scythes came in contact with a hard sulntance, which they found to be the thigh bone of a human being. This circumstance wan immediately reported to the superintendent of the city police, and Dr. Copeman Was called upon to examine it. He found that the flesh had been torn away from the bone, and that the bone itself bad been AIWA nearly through with a rough instrument. This part of the body was found at a place called Ilellesden, near St. Augustine's Gate, in the immediate neighbourhood of Norwich, and in an entirely opposite direction to that from which other portions have been taken. During the whole of Monday and yesterday pieces of flesh have been brought into the city station-house by persons who are conducting the search, all of which the surgeons at i once declare to he portions of the same body. They ire placed in spirits of wine ter preservation. It has been clearly edablished that the murdered woman, whoever she may be, was not an inhabitant of the city of Norwich at the time of her death. It has also been satisfactorily ascertained that the work has not been that of a s• resurrectionist." for it is established on the clearest medical testimony that the hotly has never been interred. It I hasalso been proved to the satisfaction of the surgeons that I the person, portions of whom have been found, died by violence, the hands being clenched and the toes contracted, which would not have been the case in death from natural causes. As soon as any identifiable portion of the body shall be found an inquest will be opened by the coroner. Those alratly discovered arc incapable of identification. Yesterday a young man, named Eaton, was brought before the Mayor charged with being an accessory of the murder. The precise nature of the examination did not transpire, as the inquiry was of a private chars cter. After hearing the evidence of a man named Garrard, to whom it appears the prisoner had made some statement, the magistrates did not feel themselves justified in detaining the man Eaton. He was, therefore, discharged, but it is understood that he will remain under the strict surveillance of the police, in case anything else material should transpire.