A very shocking murder of the Greenacre type has been
discovered during the last week, and discovered, apparently, through the want of common care for its concealment shown by the man who is suspected of it. Henry Wainwright, who formerly carried on business as a brushmaker at 215, Whitechapel Road, and who was just about to give up the premises, last Saturday afternoon asked Alfred Philip Stokes, who had formerly worked with him, to come round with him "to the old premises" (in Whitechapel) and carry a parcel for him. There were two parcels, wrapped up in American cloth, nne weighing three-quarters of a hundredweight and the other half-a-hundred- weight. One of these Stokes carried for him to Whitechapel Church, and was then left alone with the parcels while Wain- wright fetched a cab. Stokes was curious about the contents, and looked into one of them, when he discovered a human head. Fearing that Wainwright had a revolver, he kept his discovery to himself, and put the parcels into the cab, but ran after the cab. It stopped in the Commercial Road, where Wainwright took up a girl named Alice Day, and then he drove off with her to the Borough. Stokes followed the cab through Aldgate and Leaden- hall Street to the Borough, and after one rebuff from the police persuaded a constable to investigate the matter. The cab stopped at the Hen and Chickens, in the Borough, which had been rented by Wainwright's brother, and the parcels were taken in there, when the tonetables—whom WainWright offered to tribe not to open the pareels—discovered that they contained the mutilated remains of a lair-haired woman, in a high date of de- composition. And it was soon found that these remains had been removed from a hole beneath the floor of one of the rooms in ,the Whitechapel premises, where they had been interred for solne time, with a quantity of lime, and also with certain strong disinfectants put there to remove the smell which they had occa- sioned, but which had also had the effect of so preserving a part of the body as to make it in some respects recognisable.
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