SUPPOSED MURDER.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1730, 5 September 1879, Page 2

SUPPOSED MURDER.

Tho police have, after diligent search for George Vennell, and after a most careful consideration of the various facts that have been discovered in the case, come to the conclusion that he has been undoubtedly murdered. Pieces of old blanket were found in tho river near his late residence, and the result of analysis shews that they were stained with blood, believed to be human blood. A large stain of blood has been found on tho sand hills about 150 yards from the house, and it presented the appearance of having been pressed into tho sand as if a body had been analysis that this blood is human an ago somewhat corresponding with the time of the disappearance of Vennell, and that about a quart of blood must have oozed out there. A piece of brown paper stained with blood has also been found in a gorse fence about a chain from the house, which appears to have been used in wiping a blood stain probably from the hands. The pieces of blanket found in the river were, it is believed, used by the person or persons concerned in the murder in cleaning the house before the police were informed of Vonnell’s disappearance, and the small spots of blood subsequently discovered must have escaped the observation of tho persons who cleaned the house. All the circumstances connected with Vennell's disappearance go to point to the fact that be has been murdered, and his body carefully concealed or disposed of in some manner. A systematic and diligent search is being made for his body in tho Sandhills, near his late residence.