| Show I 1 Ir r True Detective Story by V Vance nc Wynn i ini 0 Public Ledger d r The Case of Hannah Brown BrownT TIllS T HIS Is a Ii tragedy which begin with Ith the of oC the trunk Ot of a u body lu in 1 l tun 1 on the da day dai after lS is The ghastly thing meant nothing and In those days there was wis no or organized or special police force forte to torun torun torun run down crime t I Constable mines went on the job ho hoe however e eer er with all of ot the enthusiasm sm of ot euth a ten cen fury tury Sherlock Holmes HolmesOn I On the follo following Ing day he be round found rounda a human head bead In the Regent Hegent a 8 canal ext l a pair flair i of It legs wire were disco vered ered and finally t two 0 arms All of oC parts It was found I belonged to the same me person and that 1 lerson erson a woman wowan I the lie head was placed In alcohol In a glass case for purposes ot of otI I Identification It had been on exhibition for many weeks when hen workman u a named John I JohnI hay Cay strolled Into the Impromptu Ills morgue Ills His sister Hannah Drown Brown had disappeared the day dolY before Christ Christmas Christmas mss mas and had not been seen since j this lIlIs typical t cockney took a look at the head preserved In alcohol and then exclaimed with true low lower lower lower er class stolidity I SS ell I m blow blo bloed ed if It it ain aln t Han U nahl 1 l I Constable Haines then busied him himself himself self seU In running down the life story of oC Hannah Uro Brown Uron Brownlie n I lie found a man named Harry Davis ls Is who ho recalled the woman I Davis Datis said Hannah had ball called culled on turn him on the day before Christmas I and told him that she was as engaged to marry James Greenacre v who ho lIved near Kensington That was as a good enough clew for I Haines Ue lle started for that neIghborhood at once an and eventually located ted on the Surrey side of the Thames In the parish of ot Cam Camberwell Camberwell Camberwell berwell I Ue lie was 11 using living Ing with a woman named Sarah Gale Golle who had a young oun daughter Greenacre stoutly denied any knowledge of Hannah Brown He hie said he had ne never neer er met the woman much less promised to marry her herBut But Dut while Haines was talking to he noticed a significant glance pass between een the suspect and the woman lIe He saw something else It was as a dress the child was v wearing carl ng ngI I the he material materia of ot which this was made corresponded with the lie stuff they had found wrapped around the trunk of Hannah Brown Drown when It was discovered ered In to ton Leing a Ii very vcr er conscientious as ns well as a very ery direct person Constable Haines arrested James Greenacre and barah Sarah Gale and left the mat matter matter ter of or their guilt to be decided by bythe bythe bythe the coroners coroner's Inq Inquest The coroner turned the case over overto overto overto to the court and the lie trial took place In the Old 1 I alley adjoining the annex to I gate Newgate LI It Is Interesting to note that Chief Justice Coleridge presided ed edA A witness appeared who testified that he had seen Greenacre going Into the house of Sarah Sanh Gale with witha a woman on the day before Christ Christmas mas This woman was tall and In every particular resembled Brownlie Brown Drown He lie also swore that some time afterward Greenacre left the house carrying u a bulky and amI heavy v bundle In a large blue merino bag Two other witnesses testified that they had heard a quarrel going on In the house durie during the time lIan hIan nah Brown Drown was as there there 1 here was a u scuffling and much noise and finally a sound of ot some someone someone someone one dropping to the floor It was proved that Sarah Gale was has seen scrubbing t tie le floor door Imme Imme- Immediately immediately Immediately after Greenacre left aid aLd detectives es completed the capstone ot of evidence by testifying that brim brimstone brimstone brimstone stone had been used In the house for the purpose of fumigation I Tv Two 0 motives moth es were ere assigned for forthe forthe forthe the crime I I first Jealousy on the part of ot Sa Sarah Sarah rah Gale GIle and secondly robbery be- be because because be because cause Hannah Brown had not only been killed but robbed I the jury Juri jur convicted Greenacre and before he was executed he confessed hh guilt There was doubt about Sarah Sarahh Gale and she was merely transport transported ed cd for life I ServIce |
