This was very remarkable.

It seemed to suggest a knowledge of anatomy, and yet no murderer, even if he possessed such knowledge, would make a display of it on such an occasion.

It seemed to me that there must be some other explanation.

Accordingly, when other remains had come to light and all had been collected at Woodford, I asked my friend Berkeley to go down there and inspect them.

He did so, and this is what he found: "Both arms had been detached in the same peculiar manner; both were complete, and all the bones were from the same body.