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Just came across this while browsing through information and I thought it sounds like a real clue to the Torso found at the new Police office construction site...Does anyone know if anything more is available about this?
"The police are in possession of what is likely to prove a most important piece of evidence in connection with the discovery of the mutilated body in a cell of the new police buildings at Westminster. It has been supplied by an inhabitant of Llanelly, of South Wales. He happened to be in Cannon-row on the Saturday before the body was found, and at an hour when the place was practically deserted. His attention was at that moment directed to a man who climbed over a hoarding into the ground whereon the new police office is being erected, and where afterwards the body was discovered. Two other men were with him, who had a barrow on which was a bundle. The whole proceeding seemed curious, and afterwards, when the remains were found, the South Walian "put two and two together," handed in his information, and also a description of the man. The result is that a workman has since been interviewed in the vicinity, who admits having been on the spot the day in question, though his business there is not very clear. Beyond this the police, it is said, succeed in obtaining no clue. "
I did find this interesting in Bonds comments too..a warning that it concerns the exact injuries performed on the deceased's body.....
"The trunk was that of a woman of considerable statue and well nourished. The head had been separated from the trunk by means of a saw. The lower limbs and the pelvis had been removed in the same way. The length of the trunk was seventeen inches, and the circumference of the chest thirty-five and a half inches and the waist twenty-eight and a half inches. The parts were decomposed, and we could not discover any wounds. The breasts were large and prominent. The arms had been removed at the shoulder joints by several incisions, the cuts having apparently been made obliquely from above downwards, and then around the arm. Over the body were clearly defined marks, where string had been tied. It appeared to have been wrapped up in a very skillful manner. We did not find marks indicating that the woman had borne any children. On opening the chest we find that the rib cartilages were not ossified, that one lung was healthy, but that the left lung showed signs of severe pleurisy. The substance of the heart was healthy, and there were indications that the woman had not died either of suffocation or of drowning. The liver and stomach, kidneys, and spleen were normal. The uterus was absent."
It seems uteri were real collectibles that year.
My best regards all.
Just came across this while browsing through information and I thought it sounds like a real clue to the Torso found at the new Police office construction site...Does anyone know if anything more is available about this?
"The police are in possession of what is likely to prove a most important piece of evidence in connection with the discovery of the mutilated body in a cell of the new police buildings at Westminster. It has been supplied by an inhabitant of Llanelly, of South Wales. He happened to be in Cannon-row on the Saturday before the body was found, and at an hour when the place was practically deserted. His attention was at that moment directed to a man who climbed over a hoarding into the ground whereon the new police office is being erected, and where afterwards the body was discovered. Two other men were with him, who had a barrow on which was a bundle. The whole proceeding seemed curious, and afterwards, when the remains were found, the South Walian "put two and two together," handed in his information, and also a description of the man. The result is that a workman has since been interviewed in the vicinity, who admits having been on the spot the day in question, though his business there is not very clear. Beyond this the police, it is said, succeed in obtaining no clue. "
I did find this interesting in Bonds comments too..a warning that it concerns the exact injuries performed on the deceased's body.....
"The trunk was that of a woman of considerable statue and well nourished. The head had been separated from the trunk by means of a saw. The lower limbs and the pelvis had been removed in the same way. The length of the trunk was seventeen inches, and the circumference of the chest thirty-five and a half inches and the waist twenty-eight and a half inches. The parts were decomposed, and we could not discover any wounds. The breasts were large and prominent. The arms had been removed at the shoulder joints by several incisions, the cuts having apparently been made obliquely from above downwards, and then around the arm. Over the body were clearly defined marks, where string had been tied. It appeared to have been wrapped up in a very skillful manner. We did not find marks indicating that the woman had borne any children. On opening the chest we find that the rib cartilages were not ossified, that one lung was healthy, but that the left lung showed signs of severe pleurisy. The substance of the heart was healthy, and there were indications that the woman had not died either of suffocation or of drowning. The liver and stomach, kidneys, and spleen were normal. The uterus was absent."
It seems uteri were real collectibles that year.
My best regards all.
......but on the first point its stated that the liver, stomach, kidney and spleen were normal...it doesnt say precisely at what point the body was cut, just that the lower limbs and pelvis had been sawed off at the trunk. The length of the trunk was 17 inches. The arms were cut free at the sockets and the head was severed with a saw.
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