Awful Tragedy.

Auckland Star, Volume XV, Issue 3795, 28 August 1882, Page 2

Awful Tragedy.

Burned m a Lime Kiln. A melodramatist in search of a s'enonfi might have .found in the London S? Court, on Tuesday, July nth, one SS'J" ing in horror even the ghastly S vt Matthias in the "Bella " for thJL lalI al of the Polish Jew. It wa« nofttriff^ there should be brought into coVrf!, *** donee In a will cut a bag of human LZ' Nor could a more curdling obierwitln i "' fallen from the bench than Sir I^ Hannen'a refusal to look at the b.Z o^. M ground that he could not tell that th ' „ the bones of the testator. What „„ y re more tragic, however, was tha « h given cf the last visible trace S"" excepting the body) of the peraJ w? ys death it was sought to have « Z ™ n^ by the court, it appeared that W ceased had a habit of walking&& On one particular night he went »♦ j8?.*1 not return. Bis family weTa l.M^ m any tidings of him in SJTEoSff" *£*. usued an advertisement, and nrp»» n .? y learnt that an elderly man anawS^ description had hired a cab a.dXn»/" a mill, close to which are lime kil DB 1^ cabman recognised a photograph if th deceased gentleman as one of the mPn It tpokthatridetoHullwellMill,an d aw O m^ living close to tho kilns stated that she « a man in every way answering to ihi a senption walk towards the kilns in* „* he alighted from the cab. Now Jom P » tf ghastly part of tho story. It wa, fn,,t ° shown that on that night the Iim!k1lo g Sa Mled with bmniHg material, and that Xn in a limekiln the fire reaches rh. .# the latter becomes white, of thfSl morning a man attendiag to the kiln- \ served on the aurfacefof « £ wh h appeared to be a dark shadow in th! SwtnrtabS1 andre'in He "^ » latter, applied a rake'to'theS* 6 result was that he drc* from the surface of ttickiln a number of bones, some conne money, two Heel-plates, part of a pocket, knife, a button, and a buckle. A surgeon who examined the bones gave bis op&S that they were human, but whether thow of a man or of a woman ho could not say The heel-pates, the pecket-knife, the buckle, and. the button were proved to have belonged to Mr Murray. Such were the circumstance.., as deposed to on affidavits Ine bonea were now in court." The tale i« a very dreadful one, and the filmy shadow ofa tyirnt man floating transparently on the white surface of the Burning kiln is one of the most appalling incidents in which fact ever competed in horror with morbid fiction.