Most Strange and VVonderful News from a place call'd the LEISTER, By Castle-Street, in the Parish of St. Martins in the Fields: Of a most Dreadful Discovery of a Murther of a Man and a Child, made on Sonday Morning being the 11th instant, on a Dunghill there; of the finding the Skin, and Nails of a Mans Hands, with his Privy-Members, Heart, Liver, Breast, and great Quantities of the Flesh of his Buttocks, &c. also the Hart, Liver, Hand, &c. of a Child, with the strange Manner of the Discovery by a Butcher, and one John Williams a Labouring Man.
AS for the Hainousness of this Sin of Murther, I suppose none can be ignorant that it is of the deepest Die, a most loud crying Sin. This we may see in the first Act of this kind, that ever was committed, Abel's Bloud crieth from the Earth, as God tells Cain, Gen. 4 10. And it is worth our Notice, what strange & miraculous means it hath often pleased God for to ufe for the [...]covery of this Sin; the very Brute Creatures have often been made Instruments of it: Nay, often the extream horrour of a man's own Conscience that will in spite of him be privy to the Fact, and that very often proves a means of discovering of it to the World. But to proceed to the Relation:
ON Sonday the 11th of March Instant, an honest Butcher coming over a place call'd the Lester, a Heap of Dung-hills near Castle street, not far from St. Giles's -Church, espied the Skins and Nails, &c. of a Christians Hands, which taking up, and being Very curious, shew'd them to some of the Neighbours, upon which great search was made, in order to a farther Discovery; and between Eleven and Twelve at Noon, one John Williams, a Labouring-man, discovered [about 30 yards from the Place where the Hands were found) the Privy-members, Heart Liver and Skin of the Breast of a man; and at the same Time were fouund great quantities of pieces of Flesh, supposed to be cut off from the Buttocks and Thighs of the said Person, cover'd over with a little Bubbish onely: also there was then found the Skinny part of the Hand of a Child, with the Heart and Liver, &c. as since upon the View of several able Chyrurgians, it does most plainly and evidently appear; the Skin and Flesh was fresh and sweet; which shews it was but newly done.
At This Instant further search is made in all parts thcre abouts, in hopes to find the Heads, Legs, Arms and other Limbs belonging to these Bodies, that some Light may be given as to the Murtherers and murthered. But at present there is not any person we hear of, that is so much as guessed at: It was observed, That the Skin of the mans Hands were extraordinary White, so that 'tis thought they belonged to no mean person: That this Horrid and most Barberous Murther may be detected and the Anthours thereof brought to Condign Punishment, is and ought to be the Prayers of all good Christians, to whom this Relation shall come.
Printed for T. M. in Fleet-street.