MYSTERY AND ROMANCE.
The dead body of a man, horribly mutilated and dismembered, was found on the railway near Coventry on August 14. There were no means of establishing his identity, and, after the inquest, the body was buried as that of an unknown. Immediately over the man's heart was discovered a long tress of woman's hair. By the tress of hair lie has been identified. Miss F. Thacker, a young lady of Wolverhampton, saw, u day or two ago, a paragraph in a newspaper giving some particulars of the deceased, and she concluded that he was William Bromley, a native of Crick, near Rugby. Bromley had for some time lived at Wolverhampton, and had been engaged to Miss Thacker, and recently she came to Coventry to inspect the clothes and other property found on deceased. She recognised a small microscope and the sleeve-links which he wore, and when shown the hair found that it was her own. Some time ago ho promised to spend Bank Holiday with Miss Thacker, at Wolverhampton. He did not see her, however, and she believes that, being short of money, he was walking along the railway between the two towns when he was overtaken by a train and uyj*H
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9184, 13 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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