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Title: The chronicles of crime; or, The new Newgate calendar, being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Pelham, Camden, pseud
Subjects: Newgate (Prison : London, England) Crime and criminals
Publisher: London T. Miles
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Two thighs and a leg, separated from each other and from the main trunk
of the body apparently with great determination by a knife and a saw,
were found suspended from a nail by a cord, in the chimney, about a yard
and a half above the fireplace, evidently awaiting only the favourable
opportunity when they too might be consumed, and so all trace of the
murder be destroyed. In the room were also discovered the leg of a pair of
black trousers, covered with blood, together with a snuff-box, an eye-glass,
a pencil-case, with the letter " P " engraved on it, and some fragments of
cloth, much stained with blood. Among the ashes were found the horrible
remains of the deceased, in the shape of calcined bones; but there was also
discovered a gaiter, of a description known to have been worn by Mr. Paas.
The floor of the room had evidently been recently scraped and scoured ; but
evident marks of some dark fluid having flown over it were still visible.
Other evidence, presented by the discoveries in this room, pointed out the
mode of the death of the deceased, and the method in which his body had
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Apprehension of Jerry Avershaw
p.348.

THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. 349&

been cut m pieces, in order the more readily to be burned. On the table
were seen a bill, in the name of Mr. Paas, on Cook for 12s.; and at the.
foot ot tnis instrument was the word " settled," followed by the two letters
" I. P. " It had been the habit of Mr. Paas invariably to sign his name in
full to such receipts, and in this instance it appeared as if he had not in-
tended to depart from his custom, but that having reached the completion
of the letter P, he had received a severe blow, by which the pen in his
hand had been driven in a direction across the preceding letter " J ", a deep
and heavily pressed ink-mark being perceptible on the paper, as if such had
been the case. The instrument of attack was discovered, in a heavy species
of hammer used by bookbinders in their trade.
A new and minute examination of the fireplace proved that the murderer
had not so far succeeded in his object of destroying the body of his victim
as was at first supposed.

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