THE KENSINGTON TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 303, 20 December 1894, Page 5

THE KENSINGTON TRAGEDY.

FEMALE STABBING,

SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

Losdok, December 3.

The London police aro much exercised over the ideutity of a woman who has been stabbing other women of late at Kensingtoa. It is now believed that the assailant ia a female lunatic, who is ab large from an aeyium.

London, December 4.

Further developments of a most sensational character'have taken plaeu in connection wibh the Kensington tragedy. _ A perrson named Dawes, residing in the locality, has made a remarkable statement to the police. He states fchut ho was a witness to the shocking tragedy, and actually uaw this murderer cub hia victim's throat;. He wa3 so completely unnerved by the horriblei spectacle which he had witnessed that he was unable to offer any interference or to att'empb to detain the murderer. He udds that immediately after the porpebralion of the crime l>e went to obtain a glass of brandy to revive his nerves. When he returned he saw a crowd around, the spot whienre the girl was killed, bub refrained from . making any statement to the police. Ho has, however, felt it a fiense of dubv to subsequently tell all he know to the police, and has given a detailed description of the murderer to the authorities. Tho result is thab a warrant has been issued for the arresb of a wellknown man of private means, who moves in lib© highest) social circles. The latesb deveiopmenb of the case has created a great sezisabion in Che city.

London, November 4,

Acting upon the information given by a raso respecting the mnrder of a girl of the unfortunate class at Kensington, whose body was found in the street, the police have arrested Reginald Saunderson, a young man, 21 yews of age, on suspicion of being: the murderer. The arrest was made at Armagh, Ireland, where the accused had gone to bis home shortly aiter the murder. Saunderson is the Bon of a magistrate of Dublin county, and at the time of tho murder was lodging with come of his relatives near London. During the I trial of James Canham Read, now under sentence of death for the murder of Florrie 'Dennis/at South End, Saundorson took a <rreab interest in the case, and showed an unvuSual and morbid desire to '.acquaint himself with all the details ot the crime. ' It has been ascertained that accused left) his friend's home on the evening of November =Usbb and wandered away to Kensington and into the lane where tbe dead body of the woman was found. .Saundereon answers exact.y the descriDtion of the'murderer given by Dawes to'tho i^lice, and the evidence regarding his pretence in Kensington during the evening preceding the discovery of the. body establishes a very arrong case against him It is alleged that tbe prisoner is insane, and this a'efence will be set up at biß trial. [ ■ liO^DON, December 10. The inquest on the body of tWunfortumabe young woman who was found murdered'in the street at Kensington a few ,Wa ago was concluded yesterday, lne iury returned a Verdict of wilful murder agai nab Reginald Saunderson. The prisoner was committed for ti'ial.