The Herald of Wales. — 1888-09-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE LATEST LONDON MYSTERY.  The latest London myetery consists in th. right arm of • young %omen being discovered on the bank of the Tharnes,near aroevenor rose Station on Tuesday morning. It appears the° about twenty minute. to one o'clock on Taesiay afternoon • man named Frederick Moore. employed at Messrs. Ward's timber yard. Grosvenor Road, had 1.12 attention drawn to a curious-looking object lying on the mud on the banks of the Thames, immediately oppoait. where he was working. Moore procured a ladder, and disecendsd to the bank below the wharf. On approaching the object he was startled to find that it waaa human arm. It was partly wedged between some timber in the wood dock belonging to Messrs. Ohappl, . Moore's first thought was to immure the ghastly object, so that it might not be carried away by the tide or current, and this object he attained by tying it to a baulk of timber with some string which he had in his poekt.t. He then carefully examined the immediate vicinity, but failing to find 107 more human remains he took up the arm carried it to the lilmbanktrent, and there handed it over to the care of Polioe-oonstable James, who obtained a newspaper from al neighbouring public-house, and having wrappel up the arm, which had air, ady attrauted the morbid curiosity of a rapidly gathering erawd, conveyed it to Gerald-ro, Police Station. Inspector Adams (of the B llvision), at once took charge of the 'Abe, and hit first care, after communioating the limovery t Scotland Yard, was to send for Dr. Nevill, t f Pimlico-road and Sloane-steeet, the nearest medical man, who soon arrived at the police station, and made an examination of the retinae is. He had no difficulty in deciding that the a. m was that of • well-formed,tall,and well-nourished young woman, probably about 25 years of age. It had been out off at the ahould,.e. with sorts instrument, and the question ai once naturally suggested itself—is this the work f a professional anatomist or of a murderer? Dr. Nevill did not feel called upon to express a positive opinion either way, but he could not deny that the work had been neatly done. Some skill, too, had ben shown in the manner in which the limb had been removed from the truck; but the handiwork was acarcely good enoneh for a person acquainted with the principles of anatomy. The Seidl was comparatively freed] and was not quite free from blood, but it had been in the water at least two or three days. The arm hal been removed from the trunk of the corpse after death, and it bore no bruises or signs of violent usage. As soon as the medical examination had been concluded, Inspector Adams had the arm removed to the mortuary in Milbankstreet, and then proceeded with his investigation. the first care was to have the whole of the river in the immediate neighbourhood thoroughly dragged. The work was continued until a late hour in the evening; but, according to the police, no human remains were found. The police record, of missing peraons were also carefully arched, but they yielded nothing that could be desorthed as a clue.  On the 24th of last month, a roan who Was sweeping the railway station at Guildford Cllllll across a parcel oontaining a human foot and leg, which he at once handed over to the local police. The parcel had apparently been thrown either from a peaking train or front a bridge which passes the railway close to where it was found, but it is not probable that the arm found on Tuesday had anything to do with the Guildford remains, inaemuch as the latter were boiled, so much so that some of the flash and We toenails had entirely disappeared from the b me. As already stated the limb found on Tuesday was oomparatively fresh. At any rate, it formed part of a living: body not more On.n four days ago. Within the last week there has been reported to the police an average number of mysherione disappearacmes of women, but, as far as can be ascertained, not one of them can be connected with the present case. It is possible but not at all probaLle, that the mysterious arm may have been cut from the body of • young netrried woman who left her home at Lewisham on the 20th ult., and has not rince been humid of. She was twenty-three years of age, and tall, but she bad threatened to commit suicide, and it is more likely that she carried out her threatl than that she was the vietim of a murderer.' Coming nearer to date, the body of a woman, aFpsrently between forty and fifty years of age was found floating off Lambeth, on Monday meriting, and it has not yet been identified, bat the a..rpse was that of a spare woman abcat elt.3in. high. It is possible that the aim may have been placed where found by some medical student or other practical jtaker, but this view is not shared by the authoritim. k nquiries are, however, being made at the various hospitel, and private wadies' echoed, We rerun of which con scarcely be known. " ' '  Up to ten on Tuesday morning the police had &covered no further remains, though a diligent watch has been kept at the river aide. The arm already found is lying at the Millbankroad mortuary, but it is not contemplated to hold an inquest at present, as othes portions of the body may be disc, vered. A number of the river side habitues are likewise closely watching this morning.