The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-06-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STA./24ED WITH }MOOT), std.:locked in many places, apparently with aknife. Bounl about the bank were a number of other st;ps of linen, but all unstained, and some of them ate collected by Mr Donald, and the whole put together in one bundle. After refieeting upon the 'nose to pt_traFt.tt,..Afr Donald with corn proper COat— lieadable coolness decided to take his discovery vietly to Bradford, and without troubling anyone roste to acquaint the police authorities with the (opinions "find" his dog and he had been instrumetal in making. Accordingly he *RAPPED THE RIGS TOGITHER, sith the clean 'ides out, and tied them with his fogleash, and walked with the bundle home to his evidence in Bradford. He then sent an intimaign of what he had discovered to the police station at Manniugham, which is near his house, and after lelerhonic communication with the Town Hall had tiken place, Mr Donald went with the bundle to the ceieral office and saw Mr Withers, the Chief Constable, who at once had his depositions taken. lien hour of so after the information reached the Bradford police office a conference took place in lie Withera's office between Mr Stansfield, Superintendent of the West Biding police at Leeds; Mr Gunn, the newly appointed West Riding Police Superintendent at Bradford, om the confines of whose district the discovery was made; Mr Withers hinaelf, and some members of the Bradford borough de;ective staff. The officers remained in conference a considerable time, and instructions were given for the strips of quilt, or whatever the sneeda might be, TO UNDERGO ANALYSIS it oree. On the point as to whether the strips were covered with blood, however, there appears to be no room for doubt whatever, Mr Donald's statement on this point being very emphatic that the bundle must have contained a very large quantity. and 1110 have been wrapped up literally in a reeking state, and to judge from the quantity still congealed. the centre of the bundle must have held tally a pint of the fluid at one time. Mr Donald is of opinion that the bundle he discovered must bare been in the water originally, and that it had floated on to the bank with the current, and dried there teller the induenee of the hot sun of the last teediays. The bleached appearance of some of the lgripe gives rise to the belief that the bundle I man have remained on the bank out of reach of the water for some days. Tme quilt of which the drips formed a part was evidently ma old one of a coarse and strong make, and considerable force appears to have been used in cutting it to plates. his stated that the colour of the torn quilt is blue, ad it seems that when lodging in Crown-street, Leeds, Mrs Turner had in her possession 1 • RLUR She took this article away with her to llorsforth is April. With regard to the spot chosen as the siding-place _gaf these ghastly evidences of the I , will be remembered that Walter Turner as resided in Belteire-road, Shipley, and as CotI lingley Bridge is but a short walk from that towndip, he would, of course, be well acquainted with ilia locality. It is a pretty, unfrequented spot, and to better place for h'cling such a compromising ate es a bloodstained quilt could be imagined. If the summed really committed the murder, and was deareas of removing its traces miles away fie tvoid detection, a more easily accessible and at the time time unfrevented place than the Aire st Coltingley Bridge could herdly have been selected.