[From the Times, April 17.]

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 153, 20 June 1876, Page 4

[From the Times, April 17.]

•. Great excitement prevailed in Black-; -burn last night when it became knownj .tbat the police had taken into cußtody William Fisb, barber, of Moss-street i .on the charge of murdering Emily i Holland on March 28, and had found! 'portions of the skull and hair of a child J .{Suspicion had always attached to the: jbarbur, who keeps a lock-up shop, and: resides at 162 Moss-street, with, his 'wife and two*childr.en. The discovery of the skull was made in the most extraordinary mamer. Ghief-consiable Poittj had arranged with a man named Preßion, of 72 Nelson-street, Preston i 'to bring over two of bis dogs, one half: bloodhound and spaniel and the other a Clumber spaniel. Police-detectives Holdeu aud Livesey were sent out witli the dogs 10 the place where the trunk of the budy was found at Batawell, but nothing was sceutei, The dogs were takeu close to where, in Ruysbaw - vv uud, a uiau hud been seen to go .backwards aud forwards to Lower (Juuiift, Ristitoo, where the legs of the child were found, but without any result. Tuey returned to Blackburn, and Mr Potts tben decided to have the dogs takeu tu Fiab's shop, aud the shop of a barber named Dcuuia WhitflheaJ, wtio also had been suspected. Between 9 and 10 o'clock the two detectives, along with Superintendent Eastwood, eniere ■ the premises of the two barbers simultaneously, Holden remaining at Fish's shop while the .other establishment waa enamined. rJTrom i the movements of the dogs the

police had no reason to suppose that anything was concealed there, and Superintendent Eaßt wood, Detective Livesey, Taylor, and the dogs proceeded to Fish's shop. The bloodhound at once scented up the chimney of a front room upstairs, and the owner of tho dog, on putting his hand up the chimney, pulled down from the recess of the draught-hole the skull and other portions of a child, wrapped in a paper covered with blood. From a medical examination . made by Dr Pachett, it was evident tha 1 * the head had recently been burnt. Fish was present with his wife when the discovery was made, but he said nothing. Mr Potts was at once sent for, and it was with difficulty that Fish could be taken to the lock-up. He was in 'danger of. being lynched, i acd, if the police had.not been prompt in getting him away, violence would have been resorted to.