The Herald of Wales. — 1890-02-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

STILL NO CLUE.  Notwithstanding the exertions of most experienced °Meant, the police admit that up to the present they possess not the slightest clue to the West Ham murder. Every piece of information, no matter how slight, is investigated, but all as yet without any success. The mon, meut for offering a reward for the discovery 13! the miscreant has met with general favour, and towards £2OO, which it is hoped to raise, £5O have already been promised. With reference to the West Harts murder, a correspondent to the Daily Telegraph says a conversation I had on Saturday last with a guard in the service of the Great Eastern Railway Company (and who lithe at West Ham), I heard a story which may probably thraw some light on the fubject of the recent dreadful murder. He inforo ad mo that upon going home week ago, after having finished his duty (he being 4nard from Liverpool-street to Yarmouth, and going down and up with a train once daily) his son told him of a strange occurrence in connection with his slater. The son, he said, is about 20 years of age, and is also in the employ of the Great Eastern Railway Company, and the girl is about 15 or 16 year. old. Shortly after seven o'clock on the evening above mentioned the son was returning home from work and met his sister, who was standing, crying bitterly, in front of a well-lighted shop. Upon seeing him shoat owe ceased weeping, and was glad of his having, as she thought, so opportunely come to her assistance. A. an explanation for her tears, she informed him that her /mother had, about a quarter of an hour previously, sent her out sums errand to a shop not 10 minutes' walk from their house. She had no gone more than 200 yards when • well-dressed wan, some twenty-five or twenty-six years ski, followed her. Tbe young girl thought nothing of it at first, as else said that she expected every minute the man would pan her, because when she saw biro he was walling at a very much faster rate than ahe was. As he did not pass her and still kept within a abort distance of her she began to get alarmed, and hurried on to the shop whither the bad been sent. Seeing the girl increasing her pace the man also harried on, and, as OW had to pass a not too well lighted street to reach the shop, she deckled not to go there until after the Wow had passed on and was out of sight. She then turned round to go back, nud her pursuer stopped and lighted a cigarette. Before she had gone very far back on the way which she hod come, and also before the was out of view of the stranger, he again followed her. When the girl got back to a better lighted street, and where there were several shops, she stopped opposite one of them and commenced to cry. The man again halted at a short distance, and having finished the first cigarette she had seen him smoke, he took another one from his case. He had not tines to finish this one as the girl's brother haring come up and spoken to her, at once went up to the man and looked him straight in the face for a second or two. He intended asking him what be meant by his conduct but b.:dors he could do so, the  stranger started off running away, and disappeared down one of the streets in an incredibly short space of time. The young fellow did not know whether to give chase or look atter his sister. After.. moment's reflAettm he decided upon the latter oeurse. All of these fa to, my informant said, were immediately reported at the nearest police-station. The guard's son think that be could identify the man if be again met him. The stranger is described am of a sallow complexion, very slight moustache, stout sfl 6in high, and well dressed.