The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-06-23 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.—A very extraordinary and romantic episode in humble life has been brought to light at an investigation ordered by the Poor-law Commissioners, held at Carrick-on-Suir Workhouse, in reference to an application of a color-sergeant of a regiment quartered at Cork, to be given possession of a child who for some years has been an inmate of that workhouse. It appeared that about twelve years ago a nurse named Catherine Lukeman .recdived into her care a new-born female child, upon a public road, about a mile and a half from Carrick-on-Suir, and the infant was given by a woman unknown to her, under the direction of Dr. Edmundson, then resident at Carrick-on-Suir. The child was taken care of by Mrs. Lukeman, whose daughter got married to a soldier named Lake, who shortly afterwards had to proceed to Canada on service. His wife had no childien, and, the husband being anxious for a family, the idea occurred to her of writing to him and stating that "she had been confined of a daughter"—said daugh- • ter being the child which was given into her mother's charge. Subsequently the daughter proceeded to Canada, and took the child with her passing her off there as her own. About the time of the Crimean war her husband died, and she applied to have a portion of the Crimean Fund allocated for the support of her orphan child. Her application was granted, and from time to time she received sums of money for this purpose. The woman subsemarried a soldier beloLging to another regiment, and, returning home to Carrick, she placed the child in the workhouse. The coloursergeant referred to above, being a relative of her former husband, through respect to his memory claimed the child, with the intention ' of adopting it, feeling satisfied that it was really the child of his deceased relation. The deception practiced had been so perfect that he could not bring himself to believe the statement, on oath, of the nurse Catherine Luke-. man, although corroborated by other testimony, and he therefore called for the present investigation. Dr. Edmundson attended the inquiry and proved the main facts. He also stated that the mother of the child was no relative or connection of any of the Lukeman family, and that he had no knowledge or suspicion who the child's father was. The coloursergeant asked the doctor, when under examination, what religion the child's mother was, and he replied that he should respectfully decline answering the question, or give any information, directly, or indirectly, which would lead to the identification of the mother. It appears the child was first baptised a Roman Catholic, and subsequently as a Protestant.00 71 me/ Chronicle.  A PARISIAN TRAGEpY.—For the moment, Bismark, the exhibition, and the Luxembourg, all hide their ditnished heads before one of those Eliza Grimwood murders in which the public take a morbid interest. On driving down from the Northern Railway, the traveller used to be dragged through a labyrinth of foul and narrow streets, in the midst of which the filthiest and narrowest was the Rue Neuve Coquenard. The spacious, noble thoroughfare the Rue Lafayette now leads the traveller direct from the railway station to the Boulevards, and the Rue Neuve Coquenard will in its turn disappear before the JEdile's taste for improvements. The street has a bad name, which it well deserves, as it is almost exclusively " consecrated" to the social evil. One of these unfortunate wretches. bounded joyously into her abode at night with a man in tow. As she passed by the concierge, she triumphantly remarked, "See what a fine bouquet this swell has given me." . The swell retired unseen, but as the wom.an did not reappear next morning, and the neighbours could gain no admission, the police burst open the doors, and the poor creature was found hacked to death, lying in a pool of blood, and all her little spoils, hoards, and trinkets carried off. The room was literally ransacked, and the murderer before leaving, had carefully performed his ablutions, that no trace of the crime might remain on his hands or garments. These mysterious murders always excite great interest in Paris, from the difficulty of detection. The man Philippe who is now in prison, charged with the murder of 17 women of the town, has enjoyed a long career of immunity ; and, as he says, he attributes his detection at the last to an "oversight," A man is already in custody; but as there is no one to identify him, as his victim cannot ' testify against him, how is the crime to be brought home