The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-10-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HOW THE DEED WAS DONE. .2. William-street. He said be was at the Inter. From the position in which the body was national Working Men's Club on Sunday night. found, it is behoved that the moment the mar. Ile gave a deacrietion of the premises. aud stated t derer had got his victim in the dark shadow near that the wooden gates were not closed until late the entrance to the court he throw her to the at night. As a rule witness worked at the printing ground, and, with one gash. severed her throat office during the evening, cud went into the Club afterwards, where he remained until twenty from ear to ear. The hypothesis that the wound F was innicted after and not before the woman fell minutes ast twelve. Ho then went into the yard, and noticed that the Kates were open. is supported by the fact that there are severe He did not notice any body lying there, but it bruises on her left temple and left Enoch, thus night have been there without his observing showing that force must have been ID d to pros, it. There was no lamp in the yard Irate her. which would not have bean necessary Ben e then went into the club again, had her throat been already cut. Whop ins. s' covered the body was lying as if the woman had and called his brother amid Louis Selso, , fallen forward, her feet being about a couple of and they left ion-cher by tho front door. On only one occasion, twelve months ago, had ' yards from the street, and her head in a gutter he noticed a man and woman in the yard, and which runs down the right hand side of they walked away when he went towards them. the centre close to the wall. The woman —Maurice Eagle, of 4, Newooad, Commerciallay on her left side, face downwards, her I position being such that, although the court road, stated that he left the Club aboutll.--ev, and returned about 12.90. Ile wont at th o part is only nine feet wide, a per- in tbrough the yard, as the front door , son waiking up the middle might have passed was closed, hut did not notice anything in the the recumbent body without ecotiee. The condiard. Ile was certain he should have noticed a tion of the corpse, however, and several other yman and woman if they had been there. Ho circumstances which have come to light during was in the habit of going through the yard the day. prove pretty conclusively that no considerableaid period elapsed between the committal women there. He remained in the club about of the murder and the discovery of the body. In twenty minutes. A man named Gigleman came fact, it is pretty generally conjectured that the assassin up stairs and said there was a dead woman was disturbed while at his ghastly work. 1 ing in the ard. He went down and struck and made off t.eforo he had completed his deaY match, a woman ying tynd saw a 1 • •il a signs. All the features of the case go to connect pool of blood o i the ground near the gateway. the tragedy with that which took place three- ie did not touch the body, and went down quarters of an hour later a few streets distant. The obvious poverty of the woman, her total towards Commercial-road for the police. He found two constables and informed them of the lack of jewellery or ornaments, and the soiled murder, and they returned with him to the yard, condition of her clothing, are entirely opposed to where a number of people had assembled. the theory that robbery could have been the o. . One of the policemen Rent him to the station for motive; and the seciecy and despatch with wnicit the inspector. He could not say if the woman's the crime was effected are equally good evidence clothes were disturbed. Ile thought the people that the murder was not the result of an ordinary in the Club would have heard a cry of murder. Street brawl. —Lewis Diemschitz, steward of the InTHE