The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-07
BENWELL'S MURDER.
The Defendant Seems Very Cool
and Uneerned.
MRS. BURCHELL is ALSO HELD.
The People Near Niagara Believe Her Innocent
Murderer Holzhay Shot by Warden Tomp-
hns-Yalley Falls Bank Robber.

Especial to THE MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch.
NIAGARA FALLS, March 6.-Revelations
today in the Benwell murder mystery viii
startle the two continents. 1t is now set
tied beyond all cavil or dispute that the
body found in the lonely woods Of Prince
ton, Ont. on February 81, is none other
than that of Frederick C.. Benwell, of
Cheltenham, England, son of W. F. Ben
well, retired colonel of the English army,
formerly adiutant of the Second West York
regiment, and connected by blood with
some Of the best families of Great Britain.
The Canadian police who up to the time of
Burchells arrest Saturday. were uncom-
promising in their determination to keep
the matter profound secret, hesitate no
longer 10 pronounce Burchell Fred Ben
Wells murderer. However that may prove.
no human being was ever caught in the
tells of suspicion so securely as is Reginald
Burchel, Esq, formerly of cambridge,
Maberly road, Upper Norwood The
police only hesitate now to declare his wife
an accomplice in swindling an innocent
youth, an incredulous young English
traveller. There is not the shadow of a
doubt, If Reginald Burchell is murderer,
MS game Is one of the cleverest and most
coldblooded affairs that was ever conceived
against harmless fellow-being. 1t is pos
slble he conceived the scheme months ago
IN England and then selected BenweQ as a
victim.
The prisoner sat in the court room ali
day listening TO Pelley's story and those of
Detective Murray and Chief of Police
Young. Every hour almost of Burchelrs
lime up to the finding of the body has been
accounted for except twelve hours after he
started with Benwell for a fictitious stock
farm In Woodstock. He has contradicted
himself awfully as TO what he did do He
told Policy one story, Detective Murray
another. He was not represented by coun-
sci. He laughed when any one else
laughed and keenly enjoyed the rehearsal
OF bright anecdote which he said he told
Pelley, ridiculing local town. Other
wise he was calm. When asked by the
magistrate II there were any questions he
cared to ask the witness, his only one had
reference to etiquette in the matter of in
Productions among the party 3n the way
from Liverpool. Pelly's story was long
and circumstantial to the last de
gree, and formed a perfectly con-
from the time they left England; IL
fact, he began before they left England.
Mrs. Burchall said to Pelly Oh Sunday or
Monday that when the body was found it
was dressed in old clothes, and she sug-
gested that he might have been robbed, as
the DIace was lonely and infested with
thieves. This was untrue. Benwen was
found in the very clothes in which he left
the Stafford house in Buffalo.
Detective Murray testified that he ar
rested the prisoner and had searched his
effects. He had found neither the pistol
nor the gold watch which Benwell carried
Burchall, he stated, received a letter from
man now dead, dated London, February
is, containing checks and ticket for the
luggage, but he had not found it, nor could
the prisoner produce it.