Cylchgronau Cymru

EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. No. 14 * Tuesday, June 12, 1832. Half-penny. in Wellington-street, which is closely surrounded by houses. It is clear that the mur¬ der was as instantaneous as it was inhuman and treacherous; for had the unfortunate gentle¬ man been able to have uttered the faintest outcry, it could not fail of being heard. On ascending into the work-shop an unsightly mass of black¬ ened and half-burnt substance, which the uninformed specta¬ tor could hardly suppose ever formed part of the human body, was presented to view, and at once harrowed up the feelings. It consisted only of the half-destroyed remains of that part of the body from the bottom of the abdomen to a little below the knee joint. The parts had evidently been separated at either end with a saw, the fiend-like wretch not having sufficient knowledge of the horrid art of butchery in which he was engaged, to think of adopting the more easy method of detaching the legs from the thighs at the joint. Of the legs nothing remained but scattered and calcined cinders of bone, with which the room is strewed. A coroner's inquest on the body of mr. paas. On Sunday evening, the 3rd of June, thejudicial investiga¬ tion of the circumstances of this most horiible murder was commenced at the sign of the Dog and Gun, in the Market- street, Leicester, before the joint coroners for the borough, Aldermen Cooke and Yates, and a most respectable jury. The Mayor and the whole of the other members of the corporation were present; and it is but justice to these gen¬ tlemen to state,. that they are making great and unremitting exertions to bring the monster to justice. The jury having been em¬ panelled, proceeded to per¬ form their first duty, and which in this instance was a truly painful one—that of viewing the few fragments of charred and half-burnt flesh and bone, which alone remain¬ ed to give evidence of the dia¬ bolical murder that had been perpetrated. The premises are situate in a populous and res¬ pectable part of the town, and consist of a shop, with a cow¬ house below, in a small yard,