SHOCKING MURDER IN LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9711, 5 January 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

SHOCKING MURDER IN LONDON.

A shocking murder was perpetrated in Kensington, London, ab an early hoar on Monday morning (November 26), the victim being a young woman of the unfortunate class. Shortly before two o'clock a belated pedestrian found a woman lying on the edge of the pavement near Addison Road Bridge. She appeared insensible, and bleeding profusely from a gaping wound in the left side of her throat. An alarm was raised, and the police, hurrying to the spot, found that death had occurred. The body was removed to Kensington mortuary, where medical examination revealed the fact that the wound in the neck was evidently inflicted by a strong knife and with & powerful downward stab. The wound was very deep, about four inches long, and severing the main artery. It is believed that the murderer was disturbed at his work, and that he fled with so much precipitancy that he left behind him his walking-stick, which was found alongside the body. Unfortunately, it is not likely to be of much service in tracing the murderer, as it is a very ordinary cherry wood stick with a hoot handle. The police have no clue to the murderer beyond the walkingstick. The deceased woman, who is of a dark complexion, was not well clad and wore two common dress rings on the third finger of the left hand. A woman residing near the scene of the murder states that she was roused from her bed ''shortly after midnight, and on looking through the window saw a dark-bearded, tall, elderly man leaning against the wall of the house opposite, with a woman on either side of him. All were wrangling. The woman went to bed again, and a quarter of an hour later was awakened by fearful screams and the tramp of horses' hoofs—the murder having apparently been committed and discovered within a few minutes after she looked through the window. In the course of Monday the woman was identified as Augusta Dudley, 1 aged 30, of 36, St. Clements Road, Nofcting Dale. _ The police have been rewarded for their diligent search by the discovery of a knife, with which the deed is supposed to have been committed, in a builder's yard at the back of Warwick Studios, Warwick Gardens, about a hundred yards from the scene of the murder. It is a shoemaker's knife, with a. very keen edge, and when found was covered with coagulated blood.