The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-09 00:00:00

MURDER AYD SUICIDE AT PRAGUE.

A terrible affair occurred last week at Prague. A
young officer of a regiment, of hussars, stationed some
miles from that city, had an intrigue with a wealthy
Jewess, named Katz, a widow thirty years of age. In
the evening of the 4th ha absented himself from his
regiment, kx i hotit leave, to pay her a visit, and on arriving
at her house at Prague, he found with her some officers of
,tn infantry regiment of the garrison. The whole party
supped together, and at a late hour the officers departed,
leaving the young hussar alone with Madame
Katz. After awhile the latter sent her servant
to purchase some beer ; and the servant on her
return found, to her snrprise, the outer door
fastened, and received no rep'y to her knocks and calls.
At last, after waiting some time, she summoned a patrol,
who happened to pass, and a forcible entrance was effected
into tha widow's apartment. The officer's sword stained
with blood was picked up in the entry ; and in an inner
room the widow was found lying dead, frightfully muti-
lated, in a pool of blood. Her head, neck, breast, and
arms were so hacked that they could scarcely be recog-
nised. Her silk gown was cut to pieces, and her braise-
lets, broken into fragments, wcre scattered about the
floor. In net hand she held a quantity of. hai,, which
bad evidently been torn from the officer's head, and
in the other the knot of his sword, which had been
violently dragged off. •in another room the officer
hitns,df was found lying dead, with his throat cut.
What took place between the two before this horrible
murder and suicide were perfletrated is not known.
From the of sword having been ftiund in the entry,
it is supposed he had conceived the design of taking to
flight, and of cutting down anybody who might attempt
to resist him ; but that, after finding the patrol at the
door, he fel', the uselessoeSs of resistance, and, throwing
aside his weapon, cut his throat.

THE VACANT MASTERSHIP Iv CTIAN'ERY.—We under-
stand that the Lord Chancellor kas forwarded a statement
to government, pointing out the inconvenience likely to
arise by the non-appointment to the mastership vacant by
by the lam •nt,al death of Mr. William Henn. It is more
than probable that hie lordship's remonstrance against the
proposed economy will he taken in good part, and that the
opportunity will be readily seized of providing for some of
the few Catholic retainers of the ministry whose el:,ims
have not been yet recognised in a substantial form.—Dublin
_Evening Mail.
THEFT £ll2.—A farmer, from the neighbourhood of
Partick, was, late on Wednesday evening last, robbed in
Trongate, of a pocket book containing one £5
bank note, thirty one LI notes, a half sovereign,
and a silver watch. A number of persons seized the
farmer, who had been erjosing bi'nself, and took
his property forcibly fulls him. Same evening, a flesher,
from the neighbourhood of D iralyir ton, was robhed in
Stockwell street, of a pocket book, containing a £2O bank
note, five £5 bank notes, all of the Commercial Bank, and
thirty seven £1 notes, This theft was committed by a
female. No trace of the sty len property has as yet been
obtained.—Gles9ow Daily mail.