The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-04-06 00:00:00

CLUB To AN 01.1) TRAGEDY.

The Adriatic has brought liba of the Anieriein
papers of the lath inst., eontaining partipulars of the
discovery of ths mysterious murder of a woman
named Mrs Chapman, II years ago in Imndon. Ti..
particulars of that 1111 l nig are of a very extraordinary
character. About a y..nr before the ler of Nbs.
Chapman, her husband, Joseph Chapman, together
with two men named Joseph Reilly :mil Carlo Sisxme
witch, were arrested in Turkey for forgery, and were
emit to prison. Mrs Cleipiiiitn, on hearing of her
husband a sorest, left I,ll4tit slet %Vela to Turkey,
and making her way into the prison she was able to
communicate with Reilly and Sixocovitch. Chaimtan
at the time had been guilty of I. breach if hiscijulin..
stet was undergoing punishment ii, a clark e. 41 on
bread and water. Ili. MUM iiromised to assist
in the escape of Chapman if Mrs. Cletlee 5,s W. ell.l
supply them with files mul other tools The woman
smuggled the toms into the prison. and before tp,.
men mode any attempt to break lit of the gaol she
ritarterl back for bonclon. A fry months later Reilly
awl Siam:ca. itch MCIIIII4I trnn iht. prison without
making the slightest effort to ambit their companion
Ti... f Hell 1.. Leild.m, pod when
Me*. C11;461111111 isvhire of their treachery she
tilteltellosi hmsi til the 11111111.Witi.. Iler
lumpier followed the threat, and 'adore the di.
Cet'..ry of the criire Reilly and 14:aselivitch this
appearml. It has now lawn diseoveroil that Sisaisivitch
who bloc adopted tha• name of I Plum.
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.01t a long term in the penitentiary at Cleve.
land, Ithi... and thatlly ha+ plat leen arreated,
with a man named kaymmel, for forgery. The
arrest of Iteilly ha. hit to the revelation of It,.
circumstance. 01 the murder. Alter the erime was
ammititted both rtiaileoviteh and Reilly fled to
America, nail under the oienwe of Dar and Elliot,
ilwy have hitherto 0D00Pt41.41 in evading detef:tion.
Thy murder took place en Ilauile•grove, Itrompton.
The crime WAi olliplowell to have been co 11111 l itted by
ritiecovitch elm. Wallace. A verdiet of wilful
'winter was returned by the coroner'a jury, lint the
police. theory wa. that the woman, who was in a iery
weak state .4 health at the time, and thee' trio the
diacovering that eh« had been rubbed at A
kilo quantity lif valuable. troperty. Siouan itch
wit.. then living with a woman in thin holm. of Mrs.
etwww...h. who wipe believed tie hate lawn atranglial.
In n.garil to, Mrs. Chapman, howeier, it ii. a fact that
many year. before her death ii,, WAi h0t04.11 coo
Collted ID another murder. At tont time she wa•
member of a gang of expert Kea end the., es, Ale,
ACte.l a. tho " it,, oecriaion tail
she hired a man int., a dark alloy ii, tko. Ea.t end.
11.. n. he wail seism' by leer conifeelerata4e, who gang to,'
It,.' man and robbed lIMI. It anneare, however, t'at
the attack WM A 110.4 tiohOtt ii,,.., and that the
" hug" VIA 4 " put on " 1.. meth an extent that the
intiirial man never recovered. It was well known to
the authwitit. that Si...switch wa. in America, lett
op., ha, paver oimight that the evidence against
him was of autticient strength to warrant an applica.
tion for hi. extradition.