Three corpses, those of a man and two youths, have
been discovered in a tide- pond at Putney ; and there is no doubt they were those of a father and two sons, the result of a double murder and a suicide. The pond is a piece of water near the High Bridge, and when the river-tide has entered it the water is twelve feet deep. Two bargemen discovered the bodies yesterday morning. The two youths were tied together by cord, and the arms and legs of the father were bound together by willow withs. A waterman recognized the man as a person he met walking. on the towing-path on Thursday even- ing, and he had met the youths following him at some distance behind. The elder, about eleven years old, was carrying the younger, about seven years old, and he said his father was on before him. It seems that the father had inquired at more than one place to get beds for himself and chil- dren on Thursday night. Yesterday evening the Police found out that the man was a master basket-maker of harking in Essex ; that he had left home intending to kill his boys and commit suicide, because of the evil temper of the stepmother of the children.
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