Nothing very new has as yet come out in relation
to the White- chapel discovery. The case against Wainwright is that Harriet Lane (alias Mrs. King) went to live at his Whitechapel residence on the 11th September, 1874, and was never seen alive again"; that Wainwright had given several accounts of her disappear- ance, some of which were proved to be false ; that the corpse found is of the same height as she was ; that the hair is precisely the colour of hers ; that the mouth contains a decayed tooth in pre- cisely the same part, one which was visible when she smiled ; that a wedding-ring and keeper, undistinguishable by the witnesses from those she wore, were found in the grave ; and that earrings, which, however, are not identified, more or less of the kind which she wore, were also discovered on the premises; and that the prisoner had bought the lime placed in the grave just before Harriet Lane's disappearance, and the American cloth in which the re- mains were wrapped just before the discovery. Death appears to have resulted from the discharge of a toy-pistol, two bullets being found in the brain, though there was also an old wound in the throat, probably given at the same time. Alice Day, the girl apprehended with the prisoner, has been discharged, as there is no evidence at all of her knowledge of the contents of the parcels, and she certainly joined Wainwright only on the way from the Commercial Road to the Borough. Wainwright has not yet been finally committed for trial, and the inquest on the remains is still proceeding.
