Henry Wainwright has not yet been committed for trial on
the charge of making away with Harriet Lane, but while one slight point has been made which will tell in his favour, several strong bits of evidence unfavourable to him have come out. The point in his favour is this, —that the two upper incisor teeth in the head of the corpse are prominent, and might even have been noticeable for their prominence during life, while Harriet Lane's relatives deny that any such prominence in her was observable. On the other hand, the father having given evidence that his daughter had, when a child, received a burn on the leg with a hot poker, which left a scar likely to last her life, Mr. Bond, the surgeon who examined the body, deposed to the existence of such a scar on the right leg, about two inches below the joint of the knee, and that it was the kind of scar he should attribute to a burn rather than to a scald. Evidence has also been given by Mr. Rogers, who was formerly Wainwrights managing clerk, that Wainwright possessed a six-chambered revolver with a long barrel just before Harriet Lane's disappear- ance, which revolver, at the end of July, 1874, Rogers had tried to pawn for Wainwright, but not succeeding in getting such an advance on it as Wainwright expected, had returned to him. Evidence has also been given that on the 11th September, 1874, three shots were heard in the neighbourhood of the premises at 215 Whitechapel Road, which attracted attention, and were explained at the time as due to the military exercises of some Fenians who were believed to assemble in the immediate neighbourhood. Such, we believe, are the only new points of any importance in the evidence which have come out since last week.
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