Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-07
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Cain and Rayne. A glass button like
one missing from Gains waistcoat was
found near the body, and watch like
Sterllng's was offered for sale In a
pawn-shop by man that looked like
Rayne. A servant-girl at an nm
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 muir
derers never discovered.
THE CANNON STREET MYSTERY
Sarah Millson, housekeeper for the
Messrs. Bennington, of Cannon street,
London, was sitting, April II, 1867, IN
the kitchen at 9 o'clock at night with
another servant when there was ring
at the door bell, and she went downs
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 down, 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. Her keys
| lay there, too; her shoes were on the
table, and the gas had been turned
off. The servant found a woman
crouched in the doorway, apparently
for shelter from the rain, and asked
her to go for help, but she answered:
"Oh, dear no, can't go inp' and ran
off. A man named William Smith, of
Elton, who had been employed to col
lect money for her, was suppose2 to
be guilty, and the police wove about
him web of circumstantial 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 housekeeper
is still a mystery unsolved.
THE BRAVO MYSTERY.
In December, 1875, Charles Bravo,
a lawyer, married the handsome widow
of Capt. Ricardo, being aware that
DR.. Gully, of BALKAN, where he lived.
On the Goth of April, 1876, he dined
at home, and at half~pas1 o'clock he
| went to bed sick. Doctors were at
once called, and gave him injections
| of brandy. He rallied sufficiently to
make will, and died the next day
The post-mortem examination showed
the presence of anthony in the mites
times. He was not jealous of his wife
nor was there any cause for his com
uniting 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 q new investiga-
ton was ordered, commencing July
IL and continuing month. Sir Viii
liam Gall, who attended Mr.. Bravo
swore that the patient had repeatedly
and solemnly declared: II took it
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-
| inatiop, declared she had been suffici-
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 Excess
sive use of stimuIants, leaving much
of her money and jewels to DR., Gully.
In January, 1879, a lot of gentlemen
were made sick with symptoms of
antimonia poison by some sherry
which the wine merchant it proved
had bought from Mr.. Bravo's father,
who died recently. It came out few
days later that Mr.. Bravo had told his
wife's mother that he could cure his
wife of drinking, and Mr.. Raymond,
who sold a cure for dipsomania, cons
sisting of tartar, emetic (antimony),
testified that he had sent Mr.. Bravo
six of his powders. So the Bravo
mystery still remains mystery.
JANE CLENSEN.
Jane Maria Clensen, aged IL, SER
want girl in the employ of Mr.. Pook,
printer, left the house on the even
ing of April 25, 1871, saying she was
going to meet her young man, the
son of her employer. At 4 o'clock
the next morning a policeman found
her lying at the point of death IN Kid
brooke lane, Ethan. Her head was
beaten in with some blunt instrument
and covered with blood, and her nat
and gloves lay in a pool of blood rear
by. When asked who hurt her, she
could only murmur, "My poor head!"
and when the policeman took her hand
she turned upon her face and said:
Let me die" There were footprints
near, but not of recent origin. The
officer had passed through the lane at
AS and the girl was not there. Ed
mond w. Pook, the young man, was
arrested. and tried and acquitted amid
great applause. The judge censured
the police in his charge for having as
stunned the guilt from the start and for
straining all the evidence to make him
so. The mob thought him guilty,
hnueuer for they mohhed his father'S |