Year: 1869

cases, they received numerous applications and
Inquiries rom persons whose friends were
missing, but they entirely failed either TO iden-
tify the body or to discover q trace of the MUIR
derer, AT one period OF the Investigations
mysterious observation on the murder was
arrested as an accessory; but the evidence
against him amounted to nothing, and he was
discharged, though the police kept watchful
eye upon him till they, in common with the
public, forgot the matter. The people were not


"fhe authorities, however, believing that
murder will out kept the evidences :of the
forthcoming whenever they might be wanted,
II was believed thai "a murder had been COM
mitted, and that young woman was the vic
tim; but only one thing was held to be satis-
factorily proved, and That was that the mur.
dered female was not an inhabitant of Norwich
at the time of her oecease.


Seventeen years and half passed by, aud
not ray Of light had been thrown upon the
telegram from London informed the Norwich
magistrates that respectable inhabitant of
their city had made n voluntary co nfesslon that
he had murdered his wife on the 18th of June,
1851, by cutting her throat; that the body was
cut up and some portions preserved in spirits;
and that they would know ali about IL at Nor
wich. This precisely tallies with the facts OF
the baltforgotten mystery. The date is six
days before the first discovery of the haud by
Mr.. Johnson's dog, and accOrds singularlY with
the guess which the medical men made
during the succeeding week as to the time
which had elapsed since the body was alive and
heRlthy.


'It is at once admitted by those who were





suspected Steward. quiet, inofensive, and
respectable citizen, he was going about among
them, actually disposing of The mangled pieces
OF his wlfe's body, while they were discussing
what the frightful mystery could mean. How
it came about that the disappearance of Mrs.
Steward was never marked, or that, being
marked, 1t was satisfactorily accounted for to
her friends and nelghboTs, does not yet appear
AT the time he seems to have given II out that
she was gone on journey, and to have been
believed at once. But how did he account for
her nor-return? Did he give IL out that she
had died on her journey, or that she mad made
one of those sensational disappearance of
which we often heal? He seems at any rate to
have lived free from all suspicion, and as he
spoke OF this victim as his first wife, IL is to be
presumed that he even married again, and car
Tied his frightful secret all through the festivi
ties of bridal


"How 1t was that nobody ever put together the
two facts of Mrs. Stewards disappearance and
the finding of female body, and how the
authorities arrived at the misleading certainty
that nobody living in Norwich had been slain,
remains to be seen. A respectable women GER
talnly disappeared just at the time that the re-
mains of one were found IL was understood
that her husbe nd said she was gone on long
journey, and he was believed. She never came
back and no inquiry was made, but whatever
tale her husband told was again taken on trust:
and II now turns out that the husband was the
murderer for whom the police were searching
and that the hideous relics In their hands were
all that remained of one VINO had been their
npiUnhOr and friend. ~