ATROCIOUS MURDER IN ST. GILES'S.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 2, 14 July 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

ATROCIOUS MURDER IN ST. GILES'S.

Some time on Thursday, 9th April, a murder of a most atrocious character was perpetrated in George-street, St. Giles's, one of the worst neighborhoods in the metropolis. It became familiar to the public about eighteen months ago, in consequence of an attempt by a cabman to get a yonn? woman who had been his fore into one of the brothels there, after hocussinjr her and robbing her of her clothes and the property she bad about her person. In consequence of the resistance offered by the person who was in charge of the house, the cabman was prevented from carrying cut the worst part of his design, and in consequence of the disturbance which ensued, was captured, tried, and convicted. About seven o'clock on Thursday morning, a man and a woman, whose name is Emma Jackson, and whose friends are reported to live somewhere in the neighborhood of Berwick-Street, Soho, weot to No. 4, George-street, the door of which was opened to them by a servant, who had been aroused from her slrep by the knocking at the door. The man asked for a room, and they were shown up to the back room on the first floor, but the servant being asleep failed to notice the app< arance of the parties, and can give no account of them. As there was perfect quietness in the room during the day, no suspicions of any kind were aroused, but at about halfpast five o'clock on Thursday evening the servant girl went up stairs, and, finding the door unfastened, entered. On the bed she found lying the woman she had let in the same morning, her throat frightfully cut, several wounds in her neck and throat, the bed itself being saturated with blood. The walls were spattered with blood in all directions. She immediately ran down and gave an alarm to the police and a medical man was called in. He found that in addition to the windpipe having been severed, sufficient in ifself to cause death, there was another wound severing the carotid artery, and on the back of the neck two large stabs lun ning obliquely towards each other. All the wounds had been inflicted with great force, and it is very certain that the girl struggled desperately for her life. No noise, however, was heard, a circumstance which is all the more singular on account of there being little coach traffic through the street. Moreover, the landlord, whose practice 5t was to sit. up during the night, was sleeping all day in the back parlor immediately under the room in which the murder took place. The murderer escaped, but by what means Or when, nobody knows. When the body of the murdered woman was discovered, life had been extinct, in the opinion of the surgeon, for at least four or five hours. No instrument was found in the room, and the man, prior to his departure, appears to have carefully collected everything belonging to him, so as to destroy all trace of him. The woman, who is about 28 or 30 years of age, had, on her arrival in the house, a dark bonnet, a dark mantle, and a sort of green striped dress. Of the man, as before stated, uothing whatever is known, although the police authorities say they have a clue which they hope may turn out successful. The girl has been identified. The deceased, Err ma Jackson, lived with her father, mother, and brother, in a little house immediately behind and connected with No. 10, Berwick-street, a butcher's shop, in the possession of Mr A. Osborne. She is described by those who knew her in the neighborhood as a quiet, peaceable girl, but as being occasionally given to excesses- She would remain at home for weeks working hard, and conducting herself respectably ; but at times she would, to use the language of her fr®nds, " break out/ and absent herself from home for days together, and go with anybody. She was shirt making, and in the pursuit of that business earned a decent livelihood. After one «f her perioJicalJ/its of irregularity, she returned to her home about three weeks ago, and again practised her ordinary calling, until Tuesday last, when she again absented herself, never to return It appears that there was a murder in the same house, No. 4, George-street, about ten years ago, for the perpetration of which a man named Connor was convicted and executed. That the murderer lived in the same neighborhood as the deceased seems to be pretty clear, and the police are making anxious inquiries in that direction. — London Paper,