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Sanderson (Preston, England) 
Morgan 
1876 
  
Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm 
 
LL/18914 
  
Portrait of the Preston hero "Morgan" who with such wonderful sagacity distinguished himself on the 16th of April 1876 by discovering the mutilated remains of the child Emily Holland at Blackburn so cruelly murdered by the barber Fish after the police had been completely baffled.
 
Property of Thomas Parkinson 18, Church Street, Preston.
 
William Fish (25) of Blackburn had murdered 7 year old Emily Holland. Here is his confession.
 
Statement made by William Fish, who has been this day brought before the magistrates on the charge of the willful murder of Emily Holland, on the 28th March, 1876.
 
I told Constable William Parkinson that I had burnt part of the clothes, and put the other part under the coals in my shed; and I now wish to say that I am guilty of the murder. I further wish to say that I do not want the innocent to suffer. At a few minutes after five o'clock in the evening, I was standing at my shop door in Moss-street, when the deceased child came past. She was going up Moss-street. I asked her to bring me one half-ounce of tobacco from Cox's shop. She went and brought it to me. I asked her to go upstairs and she did. I went up with her. I tried to abuse her, and she was nearly dead. I then cut her throat with a razor. This was in the front room near the fire. I then carried the body downstairs into the shop; cut off her head, arms and legs; wrapped up the body in newspapers on the floor; wrapped up the legs also in newspapers, and put those parcels into a box in the back kitchen. The arms and head I put in the fire. On the Wednesday afternoon, I took the parcel containing the legs to lower Cunliffe; and at nine o'clock that night, I took the parcel containing the body to a field at Bastwell, and threw it over the wall. On Friday afternoon, I burnt part of the clothing.
 
On the Wednesday morning, I took a part of the head which was unburnt, and put it up the chimney in the front bedroom.
 
I further wish to say that I did all myself, no other person had anything to do with it.
 
The foregoing statement has been read over to me, and is correct. It is my voluntary statement, and before I made it, I was told that it would be taken down in writing, and given in evidence against me,
 
(Signed) WILLIAM FISH
(Witnesses) ROBERT EASTWOOD, Superintendent.
 
 

 
  
 
  
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