The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell

Author:Dan Waddell [ WADDELL,DAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780141040981
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

THE KENSINGTON HORRORS: YET MORE OUTRAGES

Once more, last Saturday morning in Notting Dale, came another of those sadly terrible scenes with which the area has become only too accustomed during the past two weeks.

To describe the event as clearly and succinctly as possible, it is necessary to describe the location which has been the scene of this latest crime. Saunders Road, an incomplete terrace under construction in the heart of the new Norland Town, stands directly west of the West London Junction railway line, in what was until recently deserted commons and farmland.

Last Friday night the occupants of Saunders Road knew little of the horror that took place only yards from where they sought repose, and the throw of a stone from the Norland Castle, where Reverend Booth and his Salvationists are seeking to win hearts and mend the ways of the local poor. As the residents of that quiet street slept soundly abed, the butchered body of poor John Allman, an Irish-born commercial traveller, aged 38, of nearby Stebbing Street, a devoted father of three, was hidden on a small patch of wasteland at the western corner of the terraced street. The next day, around midday, one of the occupants seeking air on a constitutional was met with the awful sight of Mr Allman’s corpse face down beneath the detritus!

Reports suggest Allman, a man of repute and good standing among neighbours despite a known liking for drink, had been making his way home from the Queen’s Arms tavern at the junctions of Queen’s and Norland Road when he was attacked by the ghoul. Like his poor three fellow victims, a stab wound to the abdomen was enough to ensure his demise.

Despite the police’s unwillingness to confirm the atrocity, the news spread that the Kensington murderer had been at his ghastly work again, and within an hour, the environs surrounding Saunders Road were closed to the public by cordons of police. Bedlam then ensued. As night fell, a gang of roughs wielding torches waded across the boundary into Shepherd’s Bush Common, upon hearing of a mendicant smeared with blood in that vicinity. Assuming him to be the culprit, they went in search, terrorizing the filthy scores of unwashed who live their pitiful lives upon the patch of land known as the Green. Encountering a terrified gypsy, the bloodthirst of the mob caused them to beat him almost senseless. The poor soul, believed to be innocent, perished of his injuries.

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