The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-10-20 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE DUNECHT BODY-S2VATCHINGO CASE.  The di cloration of Charles Soutat charged a ith stooling the body of Leol Dale ism:, was lodged on Friday with tlw Jett nary Cler k. Ile says th. lota ers signed " Nabob" were written and posted by him. Ile knew tithing about the retueval of the b may, except that he found it in the vood at Dunecht. He would not tea the lest of the s'ory till he hod been proulioed protection, as he vitas threatened. The rest of his story is ite (0)20W3 As I liaised through the wood I heard a stick break on rny loft-hand side. I stood still to hearken. I then heor a the rustle of another mon crawling oil my right-hand side. I thought it Wee the 'balloon trying ti surround me. I ran as fast as I could for tee thickest part of the wood. I had gone about 20 yards when I was tripped up by a third porte. When I looked up, there were two noon above me holding me down. They seemed to be young chaps of the middle size. Their faces were blacked, and I felt they had on winstoy shirts. They had neither raps nor coats on. In about half a minute they were joined by two other men, being those I heard oreeping. I was on my back. They were till, with coats and hats off. Their faces were inaoked half-way down, and I saw their white shirt-oleeyes. One of the tall men pushed a pistol towards my breast and sail to one of the men who had been holding rue, " 'Lenitive your arm, and I will settle him." One ot the men who were holding me down took hold of the wrist of tho man with the pistol and amid, "Hold on; there's more of them." The man whe said so got over me and led the men with the pistol to one side rind said to him, "It is all right, its the ratcatcher, he is poaching." After talking a little in whispers, which I could not make out, they celled to the other toll man to come to them, which he dbl. The three conversed fir a shott time, hut I could not hear what they said. They all came back beside me, and told the man who was holding me to let me up. They then let me go. I hunted for an hour or two, and when daylight came I went bock to the part of the wood where I had been seized, I saw nothing of the men, but on looking at the place where I had at first heard them I found a place whore they hod concealed something. It was a heap of rubbish. I opened it up. I foun I a blanket, to which I love a pull. 'There was the dead body of a man inside it, and after looking at it I covered it up again. I did not perceive any smell of putrefaction. There woe a strong smell of what I thought was " benzeline." The smell stuck to my hands for half a day afterwards. My irepressioto at the time was that the man had been murdered, and that an attempt had been made to destroy the body by burning it with some chemical The eyes were sunken, but the other features did not seem to be shrunk. On being asked to conduct the police to the spot where he had seen the body, Soutar said he would rather wait until they should get those who took the body. At an examination on the 23rd July, Soutar adhered to his first declaration, and being told that the police had recovered the body he said he was glad of that, and that they had not got it through him ; and on being conveyed to the wool at Dunecht, he refused to answer any more questions.  A