A charge of assault preferred against a grocer named Edwards
on December 23rd at the Stratford Police Court by an elderly man named Garland has led to the discovery of what appears to be a terrible triple murder. Inquiries made by the police during the remand having connected the prisoner with the disappearance of a man named Darby, whose shop in Camberwell Edwards had bought, and of his wife and child, a careful search was made, with the result that their mutilated bodies tied up in sacks were found buried in Edwards's garden at Church Road, Leyton. It is quite possible that this case may turn out to resemble and rival the one of which De Quincey made such terrible use, at least if there is ground for the suspicion that the murderer of the Darbys, whoever he was, intended also to sweep away the Garland family.
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