The Sun. — 1857-10-15 (London, England)

THE LAT!' .13()RRIBLE MURDER AND MUTILATION. ) LATEST PARTICULARS--(THIS DAY). Up to the time of our going to press the clothes found with the remains in the carpet-bag had not been identified, notwithstanding the many thousands who have inspected them. Seven days have now elapsed since the remains were found, and not the slightest clue of any kind has been discovered by which the guilty parties can be traced, and we fear from the manner in which the investigation is proceeding thet it will turn out a failure. We are inclined to believe that the fault does not rest so much with the police uhe have the case in hand as those under whose direction they act. To show the loose manlier in which the case is being investigated, we have only to remark that the police up to the time of the inquest were under the impression that the eothes were wet when taken out of the bag by Kilsby, instead of which, we find from his evidence before the coroner that they became saturated and dirty by his laying them in the wet muddy water in the bottom of the boat. Then, again, there was the absence of one sock and the necktie, a circiunstanes at the time that greatly puzzled the authori ies, but after some days had passed over, the articlei were brought to them by one of the boys, he having found them in the boat —showing clearly that the search by the police had not been of that minute and careful character which the circumstanees of the case imperatively called for. But probably the most inexplicable portion of the mj stery is the doubt that still rests in the minds of the authorities relative to the sex to which the remains belong, the manner in which they have been mutilated, the period when it was done, and the wound on the breast, for beyond all doubt the shirts do not present that bloody appearance fairly to be expected from the committal of so foul and .dastardly a murder al the cuts in them would lead to believe. The day following the commencemencement of the inquiry before the coroner, a gentleman of eminence in the profession of anatomy spent a considerable time iu examining the bones, &c., with Mr. Painter, and the result of his examination, we are inforni.d, want to corroborate all the opinions expressed by Mr. Painter before the coroner, but for some reason best known to the police, the name of the gentleman is withheld—a manifest injustice to Mr. Painter, for it is only fair to him that the name should be given, especially as the authorities do not appear to ,be satisfied with -the corroborative opinion, because we underAand it is their intention to call in (if not already done) a professional gentleman, to report to them his opinion that they may be fortified in the course they will be called upon to pursue. Such a proceeding must naturally cause a great distrust in the public mind, and lead to the inference whether the authorities have not some misgivings of its being a murder and how the remains were placed on the buttress. It will certainly be a most extraordinary circumstance if the opinion expressed shortly after the discovery of the remains that it was a medical student's hoax, should turn out to be true, and remembering Mr. Painter's evidence as to the conformation of the pelvis, that the bones are portions of two human beings instead of one. We fear the public mind will not be relieved from the suspense and anxiety under which it at present labours for a considerable period, and we regret to have to add our fears that reports of an unsatisfactory character will gain credence from the ignorance or reserve of the police in communicating circumstances in connection with this, to say the least of it, most mysterious affair, that might otherwise appease the public mind, and in all probability tend to the furtherance of the ends of justice.  The authorities at Bow-street -police-station, are ignorant of the circumstance connected with the finding of a human skull near Greenwich, as stated in some of the morning journals. The carpet bag, and clothes found with the remains aro now being hung on a line across the yard at the back of the station for better examination, to which the public hare free access. Throughout the day thousands of persons, consisting of men, women, and children, gt atified. their morbid curiosity by a minute inspection and examination of them.