Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-30
MADAME RAvE.NA,s DEATH.
Ugly Suspicious Raised Against Her
 Intended Husband.

1nten060 HuSDan0s
 WASHINGTON, June 29.-A sensation has been caused here bya report that Mime. Ra- venna, the singer who died suddenly on the day set for her wedding, had been poisoned by Dr. Bessells, her intended husband. There were suspicious circumstances which set peo- pie talking. The first is that Bessells was and had been for some time living with the woman; that two dates had been previously set for the marriage, both of which had been postponed; third that an effort had been made at once to have the body cremsted; fourth the admission that arsenic had been administered. Dr. Schel1, her physician, gave certificate of death by apoplexy, but says she had been taking arse nlc for malaria, but only in 8 mixture that contained about one-eighteenth of grain to dose. As for the cremation, that was her desire and but for the fact that the crema- tory at Washington, Pa., was not running the body would have been sent there imme- diately. As it was it had been buried at Glendale, Md. It had begun to decay imme- diately. He says if any charge is made that her death was under suspicious eircumstan- ces her body would be exhumed. Dr. Bes- sells is very much surprised and deprecates a postmortem.
 MILLIONS OF MONEY AT STAKE. A Boston School Officer in Hopes
 of Securing Fortune.
 BOSTON, June 29.-Thomas J. Mulby, o1 this city, has resigned his position as super intendent of the North End Industrial school and will go to Newfoundland and then En- gland to look after the Churchill estate, as he is one of the nearest living heirs. The estate is supposed to be valued at $35, ,000, 900, and is in money and real estate. Over one hun dred years ago Nicholas Churchill came te Newfoundland and engaged in the seal an6 cod fisheries. He was very prosperous anc invested his surplus earnings in real estate il England and also in Newfoundland. At hii death about thirty years ago he left all hi property amounting to some $10,0OO, ,00( 1 or $12, ,OOO, 900 to his daughter Elizabet1 | Churchill, whimsical lady living in En gland. Although she had many suitor 1 Elizabeth would accept none of them ano | never married. Many curious stories of he eccentric habits are told. She was 8 goot l business woman and added much to th' property left by her father. During the lat 1 ter years of her life she was invalid, bu retained her mental faculties to the last | She died in 1876, aged one hundred and fou years. As she left no will and as she wa I supposed to be without living relative
 it was thought the vast propert. would revert to the crown. After severa years an advertisement came to MT. Mulby | and he at once began to make Investigations It took some time to establish the proofs l but he thinks he has now a clear case Mrs | Mulby, the mother to the claimant, was
 niece to Nicholas Churchill and cousin t.
 Elizabeth. Church records have beer
 searched and dates and names copie'
 and arranged so the American famil
 have little doubt of success. In this beha1 | they are supported by several lawyers in thi city. MT. Mulby goes to Newfoundland to
 morrow and after making a call for tn
 family history will depart for England, iron
 whence he expects to return bearing the for
 tune which is awaiting him. He speaks Q the task as gigantic one, but think
 the money worth the effort
 There are eight relatives of tn ancient fisherman living in this countr and they have delegated MT. Mulby to loo l after their joint interests. The heir-apparen and representative of the claimants is a tall | dark man, with even features, black eyes an
 a heavy black moustache. He was born i
 this country and is thirty-six years of age.