The double murder at Chelsea proves to have been an
ordinary murder, committed for greed, and remarkable only for the accident which led to the criminal's detection. Ho had killed Mr. Huelin in the empty house, and buried him under some stones in the garden under-which he had ordered a labourer to excavate a drain. He had then gone to Paulton Square, murdered the housekeeper, and placed the body in a box, which the police saw when they went to inquire about Mr. Huhn, but did not suspect. He had then, as the " nephew " of the murdered man, secured Mr. Huelin's deeds and papers and ordered the box to be sent to Fulham, and but for the accidental discharge of blood from his victim's mouth he would have escaped with his plunder. He had given no cause for suspicion, no one is known in this vast capital, and the police were under the impression that Mr. Huelin had gone to Lincolnshire.
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