A Home paper says : — A horrible scene occurred m a house m Bow yer's buildings, Whitechapel, a regu lar Irish colony. A young woman, named Norah Sullivan, died m one of the London hospitals, and her body was taken home to the house of a married sister, a woman'named Tucker, who lives at Bowyer's build ings. Arrangements were made for holding a wake upon the corpse. The room m which the body lay was accordingly decorated with flowers, &c, whilst large wax can dles were placed about the apart ment wherever room could be found for them. Some little time before the proceedings commenced Mrs Tuoker's husband, who had objected to the body being at the plaoe, went home the worse for drink and commenced to make a disturbance, saying that he was " not going to have the corpse there, and that he meant to turn it out." His wife and some of his friends tried to per suade him to keep quiet ; but ho would not do so, and went towards the room where the body lay. On reaching the apartment he found the door locked, and at once de manded that his wife should open it so that he might go m and " throw the thing out of the win dow." On his wife refusing to do what he asked, he smashed up a chair, and, with a portion of it, broke open the door and ran into the rosin. His wife and some others followed him, and were hor rified to see him catch hold of the corpse with one hand, draw a knife he had secreted with the other, and declare that he meant to cut the corpse's throat. He was proceeding to put his threat into execution, when those m the room clung round him and prevented him. In the struggle the body was upset. An alarm hud meantime been raised, and Police Constable Stvanchan, 179 H., was called hi, and he as sisted to get Tucker out of the room. He was ultimately removed from the house. The wake then pro ceeded, and the body was subse quently taken away amidst consi derable excitement.
