ABSTRACT
Several detectives from Scotland-yard have been engaged at Purfleet in inquiring into the brutal murder of the little girl, Alice Boughen. A careful search has been made from the school-room to the end of the magazine yard, where the body was found. Stains of blood have been traced for a distance of several yards through the school ground, and along the magazine yard. Blood has also been discovered in the water closet which was used by the children, and it is now believed that the murderer attacked his victim in the closet, and after the children were dismissed from the school, he concealed the body under his great coat, carried it to the end of the high fence which separates the river from the boundary of the garrison ground, and that after dusk an attempt was made to throw the body over into the river.
