The Herald of Wales. — 1889-06-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RIBLY MUTILATED. Tornmed inquiry on Thin-9day into t)0 death of Jantea Darke Harris, of found died in a house of 4-fame in I'Ave, _ . The ' `Star" says that a parcelhas hemloand in the Thames, off Horseley Down, by some pool three weeks ago. Suicide Ily.la that suggested, a revolver being found by ae ma's itnhene lower were waiting for work. It, tontained l'.. aide, but from 00eimeitiesta. wt.& to the 7. part of a woman's body, out in half. The police were fetched and the remains, which Polioe, aharlotte Sehell al'a Malaelval MaQaareie in handed over to them. Irate arrested, and charged with causing the T..!7e wrapped an..ar'ron, . ereit is believed that the separation of the parts man's death. The deoseri.ed vent home with had ~.„.1... reepaidv take. _......._ th ted &bell, Nhtto lived with IlloQuante. When „„ .i.,,---'nf ',Mama place, 1118 they presented a shot iris beard a ' witness, who ran into -- --e- - r- m" the row, eitw, isecoande with a The Central News is able to oonfirm the rea smokii* revolver in his hand. He afterwards port that the lower portion of a woman's body placed theiretol on the bed Muria. Sobell ha 9 been found wrapped in a parcel at St. was hear& ta way to MeQasserte that he nearly. George's Stairs, lloraeley Down. The Central News further learns that another portion of a put the sepertamd her neck through awning to the revolver. The revohlir was at first thought woman's body, a thigh, has been found near the to belong to the deccesoi, and was given up to Albert Bridge, Battersea. The limb was tied his brother, who threw it in the river, as he Fy in some unierniothing helengiageo a IVOMant looked upon it with horror. The prisoners the name of fisher being written upon it. The were committed for triaL opinion of the authorities is that the remains have been in the water from 10 to 14 days. From izelications in the manner of tying up the pare), and judging from the portion it is probable that the 7.8111311iL1S found at Horseley Down and Battersea were part of the same 1 body.  'lnman  Further enquiries leave little doubt but that the diacoveries of human remains in the Thames point to another horrible murder and mutilation. The remains found at Horsley Down showed that the perpetrator of the outrage had cut his victim with the meet revolting brutality. The lower portion of the trunk had been lacerated through and across, the whole presenting a spectacle too horrible to be deseribed. John Began, the labourer wholaanded the parcel to the police, was found by the Central News reporter unloading a veesel m the tideway. Re stated : "About 12.30 thin morning, as I was standing an the shore, it being just at low water, I saw some boys throwing stones at something lying close to the water's edge. I went there and found • parcel containing human remains. It was, I think, a part of a woman's person. It was not a large parcel, and the weight would not be more than three or four pounds. It was wrapped up in a girl's apron. fl,d the parcel up again, and, seeing a Thames police boat coming along, hailed it, and gave the parcel to the officer in charge. It was taken to the Wapping Police-station. I believe the part appeared to have belonged to a full-grown person. Albert George Day, a ferryman at St. Goorge'sidairs,was with Regan when the latter picked up the parcel. He informed a Central News reporter that he beSaved the flesh had not been long in the water, as blood was grill flowing from it. It was tied in a child's white apron, which was dirty from the river, and tied at the four corners. The medical examination of the remains leave no doubt that death was produced by violent means. Prom indications on the parts it is believed that the woman had been experimented upon with a view to procure abortion' and that she succumbed under the operation. It is further emajectured that the perpetrator then adopted the brutal plan of cutting up the body and throwing the icirtions into the Thawed,