The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-07-05 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS 00(X4R4ENOE OM TI4E BIMOMTCW
RAIL 4. Y.

Ai extraordinary
on
the
14cmci
•ilway. on Monday aol Brit the
arrival as Freston Park, the station next Brighton. of
n train from London, • man of respectable appearance
was found by the Acids, in a first-dam oarriage,
covered with blood, aod apparently having been shot.
He gave his name m Lefroy, and deseribd himself as
• journalist, stating that after the train had kit
Croydon, and was about to enter the tunnel, • shot
was fired, which struck him, and bebecame Insensible.
AA that time there were two other persona in the
carriage; but when the train reached Preston Park,
Istifrov wes alone, although the train had not etopped
since leaving Croydon. The description whigh Lefroy
gave of his fellow-passenger, front Croydon warn thal
one was an old gentleman, and the ether had the
appearance of • oountryman. Subsequently the dead
boi• of a man visa found on the rarlway line at Bal.
combo tunnel. It was i lentifild ai that ‘,l • gentleman
named Gould, living at Preston, and iii. understood
that be WWI in the bask of trsvelli by the train in
question, and it is believed that be left :"..lroyd n on
34onday afternoon in the caret sea lo which Lifroy
wait found. There were marks of shots having been
fired, such as .splashes of blo 4, WI well as some
Hanoverian tokens. •PO th.es latter being shown to
Lefroy, he denied any knowledge of them, tstlt (Ohre
similar were fonTiou.l him._ -

-50- reaching BrigbtatT-I.olmy was taken to the
station superintaidenti office, wham, In presence of
two detectives belonging to the Metropolitan Police,
who are employe I by the railw.y company, he
reputed with • few v niations the acoonut of the
affair he had already given, accounting for the diecrep-
Andes in hie story by bill injories. He wee taken in
cab to the hospital, and his wounds were them lroteri
by the alsiatant-surgeon, D. bdart. nosh° • '
consisted chiefly o five ot eft eepfentcral or aught
cute on the hull a few braless or wretches. The
doctor is of opinioo that they bled freely, and tho moo
loat • c staidtrable quantity of blood. The wounds
which might from their appiavance have beel made
with the barrel of a pi,tol were bandage I with stick.
hut vaster, the blood having been weohed hi.
face. Lefroy was Coign to the polige-stapon, where
be inade formal ponplignt of haying been aessultedl
two men, He then soomputied the detectirea bs
to the railway station, ourcba•ing on his way contr.
necktie' and other artitite, say ay the scoundrel. hart
robbed him of these things. In the superintendent's
oftlos an informal search WM made of his p•rion, and
it was found he had a single first-class ticket, about
six shilling in money, a gold waleb, and • rockstebook.
He said he had 27e. when be I-ft Loncicri, and that hie
must have been robbed of the remaioder, but why be
watch and the rest of his cash were not token be could
not say. Two Hanoverian counters were also found
whilst in his 1.0 ketbook were • Dumber qf colounot
betting cards and ptern-tiokrt.. The book hoeever.
was not closely evOttinekag he the deketnive taking
it qp I:41W ' Misr ply esi 1.1112.4 le private pvcverty,
and dose not conoern you. It was at Goes put down.
He farther added that he was an author and Journalist,
and he had 'reties • good may playa,

Mr. Bold, it ammo-, suffered from beset dial'am,
vend in a thirty.
and had years 14° he" disc° .
c ,rriage is a rat. of c discs, en segos aleaa
of the ailment. It is state' that we Us.• taa .
_ of._tne,
medical tha oination of the Pleat+ of airk•
taken
the nook of the dames.' that lit le doubtrss jam
that he remised a pistol or gunshot wound. All %irs
e.
to discover firearms on the track of the t ral h
however, failed. Lein/ ha I no dreams on h
leaving Wa sad be had not °sooty enough to
purchace lli
any.ugtrielt fact hes given rise to a tarry
that if he loth concerned In the murisit he minl.. a
ce ::
been twisted by an accomplice; and the
directing there inquiries after another p non.
any
elinena
0100 et investigati ha. fail .d 'apply
pointing towards any acquaintance, be_twelisannekt, Mr.
having
and Loft iv, or sel.,__Pc"elhillty uvv, habits. 7.7.
any knowledge of the mma•-----red nta• a aa . -
I in vethipation of the pollos have not t°l
Ls...how. meideton or megroy•
the tracine of the g
Every to ithle clue to the uirrierl han dellowed
up. It h., been otmclusively atherthiretel that on
Monday Mr. Gold via t sci his shop is ifaistateset,
Walsworth. He was then in capital spirit., and
I received from his manager fourth' If aver tr.
Ingniries have also been bleated with • view toobtal:
information as to any mnection of i
enspected peewee with any of Kr. Gold's present or
former servants. The investigation on this point hac
resulted in absolute information to the effect that
Lamy
_was wit known to any of the servants employs'
M since r. Gold went to reside at Preston Perk. In
I Brighton demi( the police have been unable to discover
that Lefroy had any friends, or was knee n there. be
I the fact that be had in his poseessith • first -clam ticket
Ito Brighton is placed Wean I dispute- His relative' it
Wallington were unaware of any intention of his visit
Ito Brighton. The collar found on the line, and
puppets.' to belong Li the murderer, whoever be way
to, y
see linen compared with those noisily worn by
Gold, with the result that they 4o nth errespoo
d.
At Lelrsy's lodgings no shirt collars belonging to him
wer, found, hut it has Mom ascorutined that the article
found on the railway line is of the manse character as
the c liars ususlly worn by the misserg man. That
the eu.pectel man dad not obtain any money beyond
the thirteen shillings and sixpence, with which he
wee knoso to bee, left Widliegton, is now believed
ti be certain. In.tsad of six shillings, as erroneously
44ed, the amount which be had in his poasessioi at
Brighton wee only four shillings and some coppers.
Bat as he reload to show his pocket-book to be
examined. it is supposed that he may have had POMO
gold concealed there. Mr. Gold hadterittly three
-pounds on his pens non leaving hem*. By tracing his
movements during Monday it is supposed that he did
not spend more them d few shillings of the amount., and
It is consequent y t skin for graded that at least two
pounds mad have been stoles from his person.
Inasmuch, as be had banked the mosey he received
during the day, it is believed that be had not the usual
housekeeping money In his possession. The relatives
of Leboy allege that he burled a watch, and that he
had a watch on his leaving Wellington on Monday
morning. The number of the watch alleged to be in
his pleastrion, and presumed to belong to the
inuriteredgman, has been given merely from memory,
end way not, therefore, be accurate.
Lefroy belongs to • good family, and his friends are
I de-ply grieved at the ma iDer in which his name has
' been brought into notoriety, and express the belief that
he is insane. A sister of Lefroy's says that her
brother's conduct for some time past has been very
He would call upon-his relations with stories
orregus troubles and difficulties in which he had
involved himself, but on inquiry it was always found
that thaw statements were without foundation, and
that no reason could be &soigne I why he should have
concocted these stories except that he was out of his
mind. With reap set to his age, he washed twenty-one
In February leak Hi, father was • staff commander
In the navy, and was for malts years& magistrate theme
of the Colonies, retiring from the service on a captain's
pension. Lefroy's disposition with very variable, at
times user we and reticent, and again pleasant and
eomenuoicative. He has for years past dibbled in
literary work, and hal bees the nether of numerous
'ejected poetic d efforts. It In well known that Lis
father at his client suffered front softening of the brain,
and that his grandfather was insane.
A currespsudent of the Daily News writes as follows:
"The man Arthur Mapleton recently became known to
me under somewhat peculiar circumstances. While
eugaged in conversation with a friend, in the neigh-
bourhood of Fiest-street, I had occaeion to withdrew
some papers from my pocket, and in doing on allowed
a small book to fall unobeerved lathe ground. It was
handed back by Mapleton, who wa at that time a
p select straw r. The next day I again encountered
aim, and in the enures of • conversation which ensued
he stated that he was the dramatic critic ol • London
newspaper. Since then I have often seen him, and
on the 1-st occasion, which is not more than ten days
ago, he unsuccessfully endeavoured to borrow £2 upon
the plea of having lust his purse. His actions on the
occasion struck we as rather strange, and as a we
queslon 01 the nuan's sanity has mina, I may mention
an occurrence that seems to point very forcibly to
lunacy, though it did not at the time appear to me
anything more than • foolish trick. We had gone
into a lest turant 1,,r dinner, and Mapletoo was sitting
directly opposite myself. I was engaged in reading,
when, glancing at Mapleton, I found him In the act of
pow log the contents of the salt cellar into his hat. If,
therefore, the fearful crime that he is supposed to
have committed bs really the work of his hands, it ,
may be I .oked upon as the culminating act el one '
whose brain, long diseased, has suddenly totally gives I
way."
The vigilance of the pollee in following up every clue
—end the bomber is almost legion—that is submitted
to them has not yet met with any soothe and the man
Mapleton. or Lefroy. still keeps out of their hands.
Narratives of arrests in all parts of the country coo.
(lousily reach town, hut in mist came a cursory
a thinination of the individuals is sufficient, and they I
are released. This is not sin, however, with all, as
aversl have had the unpleasant sensational being held I
iu durance until one of the police from the district in
which Lehi), lived, and pinconslly acquainted with
him, has been able to certify that they ars not the man
wanted. Some of the people who have been so de- ,
caned beat considerable resmoblamos to Mapleton,
while ,there have but little in c =mos with him.
The.. is one mark abut the fugitive that will identify
him with the greatest sem, no matter in what other
w.y he may have boon able to di guise himself, ant
that is the places upso his head, from which the
&opinion at the B Ind n Hospital cut his halt. Not-
who've .ding the n moucoe-s of toeir effsrts to the
present time the officers of the Criminal Investigation
Department do not a: all despair of arrestiug their
man if he is atilt in 'littera e. It is possible th et,
finding pursuit close, be ha, committed suicide; but
this is looked up 50 55 imp thible. As it is now almost
e matter of oerthinty pia Mapleton got little or no
m wry from Sir. tel ski. and th it all be hart had to
eutipse.t him slum Tu sday is the fourteen shillings
that lie obt.ine I on the mmoing foist his sister at
Islington, h will •000 have to make • show, even it
he has not already been seen.
All the Asti me along the Brighton line Sr. being
sin tly watched, as ere also 111 houses of Mr. Clayton
In Carina trued, and his Dieter in Southend. Detec-
tives are everywhere in the neightaurboxi of Waidog-
ton, and the utmost interest ie taken in the afar oy
the inhabitants, most of whom either knew Lary,
personally or by sight.
A met exciting narrative comes from • correspond-
ent at Southend of the pursuit of an individual thought
to be the hunted man, and who has not yet been caught.
In a magnetism of a report that a man answering in
sowi manner to the description of Mapleton had been
seen between Leigh and Southend (where one of his
sisters resides), • thorough search was on Sunday Maio
of the wools near the spot, hat so far without mey
result. It appears that thief dark On Friday night, a
you g man, haring his heed bandaged and thethwing
the ful description of kf &plat en, was seen to creep
on his hands and knees from the woo Is at the side
of the be oh, and go to a small inn where he called
for a pint of beer and breadand cheese. Instead of
enting the latter he at onue drank the beer and put
the bread and cheese hdo his pocket, and rushed
out at the piths. He was sseet to make his wag
into the wood by some persons, his ausythione
drawing their adept' in to hien, and o "kundirbe
Sept. Mistress thoroughly searched the plows with
lanterns, bat failed to trace hien. liesrine tut he had
been seen rimninkong the shingle to the direction
of Southend ovet clitz, the pokes at 41200 reach
for
his sestet's bone.. ere the authorities were
answered by His. ldrick wood, the sister of
who, in answer to the police, said. es N., htiltiere•te
yet cane here." However, the pollee segenheada lot a
piths. bet NUM in getting any good news
Theythe
subseeloently obtained information that the man
had been seen Melling al mg the high or i°,3
clitsctlka of Shoeburynees. A telegram ar stok
the harm ,k 4 there. and • number of soldisere--er- --
ordered of to search the numerous farms bu ere
late the supposed murderer bad been lout tUP
t 4
eight cif. A,
man having his head out, and apparently
went to • cottage at Leigh stetim ta,are (radon'
road to Southend, early on 4,t4dimmond,g.---
having awakened the singer, faked he ooidcrila",--i
bed, rig was informed thSt nage
sesneo— .17 _ one room in
f of
Lb.
ewreasniZelThabovt
been
could hate
great deal, and don't arced where sleee , 9if wieisktglya a stable." The landlady went to comma) her hulba.id,
and when she returned the man had dba
Al hop intact piece of evieence ha, itirarar said; obtained by the Brighton Tha 4.44
the wwchinaker who ba I dune.' d be"
aaesetekluargi
u
and the o ober in his hook, eorseu- uni""dda th - rag-ace 1 apoiLth_e w_atcdt_ 10,1,4 pit—
A AI r5764031-4tClekoi Pli 01};-7,—t
-4174 ANMALtsvER.
ic the Gottrt of Quinn's Bench On
I At, ,rney-Gene r.l (Sir Heary i• lay, the
niadapolication for a rule, calling up e exstaer,
r.
One of the corsners for the county of ittua
airiw sins why • writ of rerfio aGlUerikt.
- waling upon him to bring up te thrais"po.,4"ll4,.. a'4,
, fount on the vie "
Arbery, late qqa wtogi the body of lie c
lee of the First Somersetr"
Militi e, .ted *hi la talFeCtiO4 should, ot be et
wilet that there t bee further inquiry latealluatee
to Inc' cause of dead,. The facts of the caw- Wis„,..
there:
-On April Tlud last the decea,,pdwe.
be stiff ring from scuts sic-Woes.. a 1 af-004 to
Incas, exoirsd. The inquest vr.. held' -"It 14 hintu
Mr. Monckton on the follow' 21 • 'anion by
The medical 'outlet:nag who w,rs in at alt,,.
that he ociul I gig. no boost "i'l
Roles • POtiktO4 tag ex min .111 was "41" death,
found the.: the doce wed died olds - "A. The y
tloq of God. After the i II by t
tlermrtitrt wathrattattallaitit wasaladatialaque.‘asreiased° l'lhrbbieeitrYraf.heeeisohteinerteadi.
Lib 5 coutiihmd a large 'officio it to tinge death. gamed
ThetY of arsenic,
thau
that it would now be better eis.sa° ---.--sWas,_•• °Pinion
should take place, and he„lte.""-st,s,,,il
exhumed. Of counts the at
hebra
quashed, and a ea send on, tihrsetdla.ie..;-''''-: secat —
body. It was the usual loa. • Wier tite
• rule prin. ..1 line% Mien to grant
I
pAbitte4 mak ,to to Common Lte
with too nt or reeehed the 0011suunry
f
4 L,1.14,e:50w,
ofti_._ls_ or loaded with a varlet
eVennUe. Th=c4a U_Cting a soup rather than
lioteitivo Ugh fonolwevo!= &fiords admirable
In Cadbury's c. •••ae and staying power,
concentrated these are retained
providing an eghihisetina and
starchy Warnings is sisismailiaminfuekius not a

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