The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-09-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TEI EIISTON-SQUARE MYSTERY. STARTLING REVELATIONS BY HANNAH DOBBS.  Hannah Dobbs has written a full history of the Euston-square case, which will be published shortly. The story is full of the most startling incidents, and amounts to eight columns of ordinary newspaper length. She declares that the old lady lodger was undoubtedly Miss Hacker, and gives the most minute details of that lady's life at 4, Eustonsquare. On the b.st time she saw Miss Hacker—that is, on the day she (Dobbs) took the children to Hampstead —Miss Hacker took a bundle of notes from a wide hem in a petticoat to pay her rent. Dobbs says she mentioned this fact to others in the house. About a fortnight after Miss Hacker's disappearance she found the outside coal cellar door locked. She hunted for keys until one was obtained to open the lock, when she entered, and Lund a bundle in a counterpane tied round with new cord. On opening the brindle she found human remains, and the clothing therewith was that which Miss Hacker used to wear. She declares that when she mentioned this discovery she was told if she spoke of this circumstance she would be arrested as an accomplice in the crime, as she had pawned some of the old lady's things, amongst others, a bracelet. She states that the horrible secret was then confided to her, and although all the details are not given, it is mentioned that on the day Dobbs was at Hampstead the old lady mis.ed the things which had been stolen, and threatened to call the police. She was stopped when she proceeded to do so. Dobbs, in referring to this matter, says—" Let the authorities ask the men iu the workshop if they remember the bell being rung violently on the day I was at Hatnpstead. The men remember my holiday well, as they joked me about don' ey riding Let the men be asked if they remember the bell being rung a second time, and one of their number being asked to go upstairs. Let them be asked if they can remember screams for the police, the smash of broken glass, and then pistol shots." With reterence to the date on which Miss Hacker disappeared, Dobbs asserts that a Mr Ross was living in Miss Hacker's room on October 14th, the day on which the police alleged the murder was committed; that this gentleman a day or two before that date found a pistol in the water-closet on the same floor, and near the door of Miss Hacker's late room. She also says that a glazier mended a pane of glass which Miss Hacker broke before October 14th. After Miss Hacker disappeared, Dobbs s'cates that in going to a small cellar in the back yard one night for some shavings she felt something move. She ran indoors. A light was brought, when a boy about ten years old was seen. A bamboo was used to help to get him out, but the little fellow only cried, and retreated farther into the recess. At last he made an attempt to escape, when he was struck several crushing blows on the head with a poker, and be fell senseless. Dobbs assisted in undressing him and placing him in a warm bath, but he died di,ectly after without speaking. His flesh, Dobbs says, was given to Mr Riggenbach's dog. Another horrible incident Dobbs mentims is that a little dog followed Joseph Bastendorff home, After feeding it for a fortnight, he shot it in the workroom with a pistol. Dobbs also asks very pointedly about a Mr Findley, who was known to have resided at 4, Eustonsquare. He left while Dobbs was temporarily away, but the woman doing Dobb's work did not see him leave. In fact, it is stated a shilling was left this woman in the same way that Dobbs says a shilling was banded to her when she was told that Miss Hacker had gone. Mr Findley had a large amount of money with him. Dobbs says the keyless gold watch first given her was exactly like Mr Findley's. Dobbs declares that the handkerchief marked "H" was one of Mrs Willoughby's, otherwise Willis, a former lodger, which she (Dobbs) declares the police might have ascertained had they enquired. She accounts for the rope being around Miss Hacker's neck by stating that the remains were dragged through a small opening into the garret, and that they lay there some days before they were takea into the cellar.