The Tamworth Miners' Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1873-09-13 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

DISCOVERY IN THE THAMES—The mutilated parts of • woman have been found in the Thames, in a condition which leaves no doubt that she had been brutally murdered, hacked to pieces, and the parts thrown into the river. It appears 'that the die covery was first made on Satardity morning about 6.30, by Constable Fano, T division, whose attention was called to the left upper quarter of a woman on the shore of Battersea Waterworks. At 10.30 Police-constable Fleury, one of the South. Western Railway Police, found the corresponding quarter of the same body at Brunswick Wharf, Nine Elms. Inspector Marley, of the T division, found under the second arch of Battersea Bridge a set of lungs. Another policeman found another net of tangs near Battersea Railway Pier. The skin of a WoMelif A face has been found near , Limehouse, evidently having been purposely stripped .of to prevent identification. The various divisional police surgeons have minntely examined the parts of 1 the body, and given it as their positive opinion that the , body has not been dissected for anatomical purpose., I but that it has been sawn and cut to pieces. The per. ! tions of the body are lying at the Clapham Workhouse for identification. lip till dark on Saturday night the Thames police were still actively engaged in netting and dragging the river round Battersea and other parts in the hope of finding the remaining portions of the mutilated woman. In the afternoon Dr. Kempster I made a further examination of a part of the bead found at Limehouse, which he states is undoubtedly part of the head belonging to the mutilated remains he had I examined, and which were found at Battersea. The I woman, he states. "is evidently the victim of a recent I murder." There is A large bruise on the right temple, I which he should think was caused by a blow from a , blunt instrument, and which would probably cause I death. There was a fractnre on the skull, the skull . being divided from the upper part of the wound. The fresh state of the mutilated portions shows that they had not been in the water long, and that the murder . had not been committed many hours, the probahilitv being that it was done on Thursday night. Along with the skin, which has been torn from the fare, there is a portion of the nose, which has been a rather short and think one. There ie also a rut over the left lip. In addition to the nose there is also one of the ears attached to the skin, which is of large sine. The medical opinion is that the body is that of a woman about forty years of age. An inquest was opened on Monday at the Wandsworth Workhouse, on I the mutilated remains. Part of the thigh and right I arm had been subsequently picked up floating in the I river at Woolwich, so that almost the whole of the , body has been recovered except the head. The medical ' evidence showed that the remains were those of a stout female who mast have been alive within thirty hours of the time that the remains were discovered. The inquiry was adjourned till Monday next. On Sunday evening an elderly man went to Clapham Union and positively identified the woman as his daughter. On Tuesday information was received by the police to which considerable importance is attached. It appears that on board a porticalor barge, the name of which is known, there was a woman, whose husband, or para-1 mour, was known to be of • very violent disposition. The man and woman worked the barge together. She was frequently seen on board at work. The barge was at Battersea on Wednesday, and discharged cargo, and on Thursday evening took in another cargo. She started on Friday morning—the morning on which the remains were found down the river. The barge was seen by • number of bargemen going down, but the woman was not seen on board. The police have started down the river in pursuit. Several other cut up portions of the 1181130 A., body have been found out. The hands, feet, and skald are stall miming.