The perpetrator of a very horrible murder, committed on the
28th of last month, at Blackburn, was discovered on Monday evening by the help of a bloodhound. A little girl named Emily Holland had been, on the 28th March, sent for half-an-ounce of tobacco by a man named Fish, a barber, of Blackburn, and on her return, as he now confesses, he got her into his house, out- raged her, and then cut her throat, and concealed the chief part of her body in a field outside the town, while burning other parts, and hiding her skull in the chimney. Fish was suspected, but not so much as another man, till the bloodhound, on being taken to his premises, showed every sign of being on the scent, and ultimately scented up the chimney, from which the child's skull was at once taken down. It would appear that Fish, who was a workhouse boy, and who had been imprisoned for theft in later life, must have in him a vein of morbid lust amounting to something like cerebral disease. He is said to have hung up four kittens by the tails till they died, as we puppose, out of mere cruel curiosity. His wife probably anticipated the language of the Judge who will condemn him, when she was judicial enough to remark that "he had better prepare for another world, as he could hope for no mercy."
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