An unusually cold-blooded murder has been discovered at Richmond. A
lady, named Mrs. Thornas,of Mayfield, Park Road, Richmond, has mysteriously disappeared, and her disappearance is connected by the police with a box of human remains which was found in the Thames at Barnes, and which there is evidence to show was thrown into the river from Richmond Bridge on the 4th of this month. The conjecture is, that the body, part of which was thus disposed of, had been previously boiled by the murderer in the copper of the Richmond house, in order to facilitate its dismemberment, as a large quantity of fat was found adhering to the copper of the deserted house. The person who is suspected is said to have been the Irish servant of the missing lady. This woman has but recently left the neigh- bourhood, and it is believed that she engaged a boy to help her to carry the box found at Barnes to Richmond Bridge, on the night named. Strangely enough, the woman m question seems to have remained in the neighbourhood, and even in the house, for a fortnight after the day on which the box was thrown over the bridge, and only to have disappeared on the 18th March, when she was traced to a Metropolitan Railway station.
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