December 7th: carping in Bath press

Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, Thursday 7^th December 1893.

The period of nearly three months which has elapsed since the horribly sensational discovery on Hampton Down was made has failed to bring forward any more facts surrounding the mystery than were known a few days after the evidences of a foul crime having been committed in the neighbourhood of the city were brought to light. With painstaking care and commendable patience, the Coroner for North Somerset has sought to unravel the mystery, and though his Court sat on seven occasions and a mass of evidence was reduced to writing, the jury have been unable to return any verdict other than that which might have been found two months ago. The Coroner referred to the obstacles which have had to be faced, and dealt in no unsparing manner with the conduct of a man who has played a part which no one will deplore more than himself in his sober moments. It is deeply to be regretted that the inquiry has had no other result; but all credit is due to those who, fighting against long odds, have endeavoured to discover the perpetrator of the revolting deed. There is an old saying that “Murder will out,” and as there cannot be two opinions that Elizabeth Luke was foully murdered we may not even now have heard the last of “The Hampton Rocks Mystery.”