Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-01

And all that was ever found of him
was that a belated citizen had met q
man walking leisurely and whistllng
whose face he did not see. but whose
hand was handaged. George w;
Iatsell was then chief of police. and
the best detectives were put upon the
track of the criminal 1t was sus-
pected that tie porter was slain In
endeavoring to protect the property
from thieves, but an examination
showed that not q dollars worth OF
stock had been taken. Burke had
been In saloon in the basement OF
the building about half past 9 o'clock
with a strange man, with whom ne
had drank. They had gone out to-
gether, Burke carrying pot OF beer
he had purchased, and about 10 o'clock
a citizen passing on the opposite side
of the street had seen two men sitting
in the front window of Joyce's shop
with two empty beer mugs on the
window sill before them. The sword,
it was thought, would furnish a clew,
but no one had ever seen one like it
and nothing came of the labor OF the
The coroner's jury long
ago brought in the verdict, murder
ed by unknown party or parties, and
there it rests to-day, and probably will
forever, as murder that will not
out.
THE BYERS GREEN MURDER.
On the LIST day of November, 1855,
Robert Sterling, young surgeon of
Bysrs Green, near Newcastle, sud
denly disappeared after visiting some
patients Nothing was thought ex-
traordinary in this, for he had lately
been appointed to the Turkish con-
tingQnt, and was about to leave for
the east, and his partner wrote to
Strings father TO this effect thought
it improbable, and went to Newcastle
to make search. In copse near
Derwent bridge young Strings body
was found with q gaping gun-shot
wound in the abdomen and the head
smashed to pieces. His watch and
money was stolen. He had been shot
from behind hedge. and dragged
into the copse and finished with two
stones and gunstock. On the Goth
of July Whisky Jack" Cain and
Richard Rayne were tried for the sur
geon's murder. A boy had heard a
gun fired and a shout of distress, and
a farmer had met soon afterwara two
men whom he could not positively
identify, but he thought looked like
Cain and Rayne. A glass button like
one missing from Gains waistcoat was
found near the body, and a watch like
Sterling's was offered for sale In a
pawn-shop by a man that looked like
Rayne. A servaut-girl at an inn
swore that after the murder the two
men had brought her their bloody
shirts to be washed, bidding her TO
say, should she be asked what caused
the bloody stains, that the men had
been hunting and killed hare. The
prisoners were acquitted, and the mur-
derers never discovered.
THE CANNON STREET MYSTERY.
Sarah Millson, housekeeper for the
Messrs. Bennington, of Cannon street,
London, was sitting, April II, 1857, in
the kitchen at 3 o'clock at night with
another servant when there was ring
at the door bell, and she went down
stairs to open the door, saying she
knew who it was. She did not return
for an hour, which. however, caused
no alarm, as it was custom of hers
to hold conversation with her friends,
talking in the doorway. Finally the
other servant went ewn, and the life
less body of the unfortunate and fated
housekeeper was found at the foot of
the steps, her head beaten in. A small
crowbar unstained with blood lay by
her. Another was missing. He, keys
lay there, too; her shoes were on the
table, and the gas lad been turned
off. The servant found woman
crouched in the doorway, apparently
for shelter from the rain, aad aske d
her to go for help, but she answered
ooh, dear no, l can't 20 inr' and ran
off. A man named William Smith, OF
Elton, who had been employed to col.
lect moRty for her, was SUPPOSE to
be guilty, and the police wove about
him a web of circumstaAtial evidence,
but he accounted for himself during
every minute of the evening in ques
ton. so that both Judge and jury &C.
quilted him, the latter not leaving the
box. Who murdered the housekeepe1
is still mystery unsolved.
THE BRAVO MYSTERY.
In December, 1875, Charles Bravo,
a lawyer, married the handsome widow
of Capt. Ricardo, being aware that
she had contracted an intimacy with
DR.. Gully, of BALKAN, where he lived.
On the goth of April, 1876, he dined
at home, and at half>past 9 o'clock he
went to bed sick. Doctors were al
once called, and gave him injections
of braEdJ. He rallied sufficiently to
make a will, and died the next day.
The post-mortem examination showed
the presence of antimony in the intes'
times. He was not jealous of his wife
nor was there any cause for his com
hitting suicide. She and lady friend
had eaten exactly the same dinner,
but the women had not touched any
wine, while he had drank three
glasses of Burgundy which the latter
had filed at noon. The jury returned
an open verdict, but a new inyestiga-
ton was ordered, commencing J ally
IL and continuing month. Sir VIII
liam Gall, who attended Mr.. Bravo,
swore that the patient had repeatedly
and solemnly declared: ~ took il
myself; beforeGod, took laudanum"
Mrs Cox testified to Mrs. Ricardo's
intimacy with the doctor, which had
ceased when Bravo proposed to her,
and of which Bravo had been told.
Mrs. Bravo gave her testimony, but
bursting into tears on the cross-exam-
ination, declared she had been suffiei-
emily Inundated and begged protec-
ton. The jury found that Bravo did
not die by accident, but was poisoned
by some person unknown. Mrs. Bravo
died in September, 1878, of the e1ces-
siye use of stimulants, leaving much
of her money and jewels to DR.. Gully.
In January, 1879, lot of gentlemen
we're made sick With symptoms of
antlmonia poison by some sherry
which the wine merchant it proved
had bought from Mr.. Bravo's father,
who died recently. 1t came out few
days later that Mr.. Bravo had told his
Wife's mother that he could cure his
wife of drinking, and a Mr.. Raymond,
who sold cure for dipsomania, COM
sisting OF tartar, emetic (ant;mony),
testified that he had sent Mr.. Bravo
six of his powders. s. the Bravo
mystery still remains a mystery.
JANE CLENsEN.