The wife and her gallant are taken, on violent suspicion of the said murder, together with another woman, and committed to several prisons. Ģ6 March 1726 The body of a man has been found without a head near Tottenham-Court-Road, much mangled and bruised which, by the time of lying, is supposed to have belonged to the head lately found at Westminster. Margaret’s Church-Yard, belong’d thereto. Ģ6 March 1726 The arms, thighs, and legs of a man cut asunder, as if done with a butcher’s cleaver, were found last Wednesday in a pond by Marybone, and on Thursday they drag’d the pond and took out the trunk of the body wrapt up in a blanket, but finding no head, ’tis suppos’d that which was exposed to publick view at Westminster in St. ġ2 March 1726 The head found at Westminster, said to have belong’d to a porter, was disown’d by the porter himself but on Thursday a poor woman from Kingsland, whose husband has been missing ever since the day before the head was taken up, came to the surgeon’s where it lies, in great grief, and found the head to be her husband’s, but knows nothing how he came to be murther’d. ’Tis a general opinion, that this miserable creature belonged to the gang of street-robbers, and was murder’d by them to prevent his making a Discovery, or for other reasons amongst themselves. Several houses in Tuttle Fields, and about Westminster, have likewise been searched for the body. Margaret’s Church-Yard to the end, that any one knowing the features, might give some Account of the person.

The head was the same day set up, and expos’d to publick view in St. There was found near it, a bloody pail and some bargemen have since affirmed, that they saw two Ruffian-like fellows bring that pail to the water-side, and throw the head into the Dock, and then run away. Paul’s brewhouse, near the Horse-Ferry at Westminster, the head of a man, with brown curl’d hair, the Scull broke in two blaces, and a large cut on each cheek judg’d to be upwards of 30, and, by all circumstances, appearing to have been newly cut from off a living body but by whom, or on what account, is yet a secret. 5 March 1726 Last Wednesday morning at day-light, there was found in the dock before Mr.

Malice by Griffin Hayes