THE RAINHILL MURDERS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 137, 17 May 1892, Page 2

THE RAINHILL MURDERS.

GHASTLY DETAILS The London correspondent of t^e Doledin Star gives the following feaiTnlly realistic description of / the BamhiU murders: — . .f/ . i? " Scarcely a day passes but some' fresh accusation is added to tine list of Deem* irie's deviltries; buty though the Stale* of his iniquities will probably, remain's till short, this Incarnation- of Deviltehness has been at least shriven of the White* chapel tragedies to wlucbii-ndoordrafc to Beuter and other > cable agencies, he confessed. It has ' ■ been; proved beyond a donbt that : the- fawn could have had no hand : in those gliustly crimes. . But-whatever other crimes he may. have committed in various portions of God's earth, no; aggregate of them can approach in savage rbrvt^Slitj the quintuple murder carried outf at Penham -Villa, Eainhillj ; in Aujjusff list. The story of that fearful tragedyjartfltoifl by Dr Hutchison, - onertof^the' niecticai men who Tcqndijicted 'J^the 'tfbsfc-mortem examination, disclosed r-a , calculating wickedness, a cool and heartleas'savagery almost unbelievable.- Each and everyone of the victims betrayed their mucderfir as an expert; in only one case stroke which caused death (more tßan sufficient for. the purpose; It: severed the. vital organ, and might jhavfrbMn the accomplishment of . a , Burgfion;pr a butcher whip knew his business /well. The mother and her little oues—cuilclrea whose well nourish^ Vo'diW^ancf' Well ordered clothing showed a good a'n'ij Carefni- mdther-ihad JQ#t partaken of therr evening Meal.; .< The ; mother, r ife > would seem, went: first ;,from the roomiin which she was with hep children* into that where the murderer awaited .her. „.JChe position of tlie wound, and the"fact" iMt one shoe is off and the other piftljW laced show that she VasaUafck#d from the rear as she stoope* to/uVtie^HeVshoe, ah.l died almost without -Then the children were; called in "/one? bj? oney' Bertha, .the eldest, had her- hands tifd behind her , back. A; -linen ,bjindagje about two inches wide. " was wound^wjee round her face, covering: tDe/moutti so as to keep her from 'uttering :> -'a cry. A ghastly detail is a pillow.-4case which was placed over her! headvntSbH was strangled. The hands of tbe-seeond' girl, Mar^,' also. ;wer>,'ltii l iedLb>hind her back, but in the case.of the other two, Sydney Francis- (aged fonr) and Maidu Liliu, one and a'halFyearj SfaffnfSpißcaution was not taken. r jShe 3 sinister and significant fact is,' 'that tfiough four of the fire murdered onei had their throats cut, yet ho trace of blopo 1 isrSppj^ttm their clothing or bodies-^whicbUea*es a d read ful inference to; oe drawn? regarding the deli berate and Careful .calmness with which the slaughter iwasplapned^ 'and committed, Ajidjpr the i verj&TtdQt.pi such infamous chme^vte ha.v f e np;Mrlnw punishment than uanging^ : * if - *' 1