On the fifteenth of July last there were discovered at Sidcup the remains of a human arm--a left arm, gentlemen, from the hand of which the third, or ring, finger was missing.

The doctor who has examined that arm will tell you that that finger was cut off either after death or immediately before; and his evidence will prove conclusively that that arm must have been deposited in the place where it was found just about the time when the testator disappeared.

Since that first discovery, other portions of the same mutilated body have come to light; and it is a strange and significant fact that they have all been found in the immediate neighbourhood of Eltham or Woodford.

You will remember, gentlemen, that it was either at Eltham or Woodford that the testator was last seen alive.
"And now observe the completeness of the coincidence.

These human remains, as you will be told presently by the experienced and learned medical gentleman who has examined them most exhaustively, are those of a man of about sixty years of age, about five feet eight inches in height, fairly muscular and well preserved, apparently healthy, and rather stoutly built.