The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-12-27 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

MYSTERIOUS, HORRIBLE MURDER IN LONDON."  aosence, wtnen you xnew was not tor long. - tie reaei on— "In America I earned a vast fortune with an ...Last night, between the hours of ten and invention. After almost eighteen months hard twelve, a most atrocious murder was committed work I returned to England. I arrived in Liver- in the vicinity of St. Paul's. The victim repool, and stood upon the spot where we parted, calved no less than six deep wounds in the back, and wondered why you was not there to meet appearing to have been caused by a stiletto. me. The perpetrator is at present missing, but the "I wrote on to London, and arrived in the police have obtained a clue, and have began their evening at Charing Cross. Still you were absent, duty of search. I asked of myself- —has she forgot me 1 For the Lamm. last live mouths I sought you in vain ; but two "The victim proves to be a Frenchman, by weeks ago I became a friend of your husband's name 3laurice Le Deux ('Great heavens ! brother, and front hint I learned you had cruelly gasped Cedric), as his cards found on his person forgot your promise, aud married Dr. Cedric intimated. The police have strong belief the Herten. Now, Grace, darling, I have been in assassin will not evade them long." your house to-night. Have danced with Y", "Grace, Grace," cried Cedric, excitedly, with your companion, Ida Dunne, and was not is dead—dead. Yes, look—murdered! " discovered. My name for the occasion was Rail- , She read the paragraph without the slightest ton Redmond, an alias, touch of sensation. "But, Grace, have you forgot the night at "Then Henri has avenged his father, and he —, or the affair that took place between you has paid the wages of his sin." and Count Trellie at —. Had you waited, and I "Avenged his father," thought Cedric, deeply. oecome my wife, none would have ever known, "What is the meaning of this, Grace 1 You but, as you are another man's wife, I intend to . remember your promise 1" be equal with you for having so deserted me, i "Yes, Cedric ; and now I will tell you all." and unless you meet me at once (for you know 1 "So you did love this man 1" the old address) I shall give all the information .4 yes, Cedric ; I the truth I must confess. But to your husband. . when the wedding was almost at hand he disap" I shall expect you every day and every i peered mysteriously. Some three or four days hour." I &lapsed, and then the reason for his doing so He read aloud the above letter with a calm- i became known under circumstances most pecuness almost unnatural, but his suffering was in- I liar. I was accosted by a person, Henri Le ternally ;he did not give way to the disclosure , Donx, cousin of this Maurice. He had learned he had made on the conduct of his sweet, faith- from some friend that I was his betrothed, and ful wife ; and after almost a quarter ot an hour irom him I learned that this Maurice visited his lie placed the letter in his pocket, dismissing uncle's home during the summer the year before the base thoughts conjured in his mind against our marriage, and, finding his cousin away in his now absent wife. Switzerland, he murdered -his uncle and escaped "If she has loved this man as he says, and the the country with many thousand francs and mysterious unfinished sentences taken place, I valuable plate. When the son returned and ehall discover by actions, and watch her move- , found his lather dead, urged on by his fellow ments. No," he said, his good nature arousing men, he swore a vendetta over the grave. And itself, " if I love may wife, as heaven knows I now, Cedric, you know the result." do, why should I doubt her purity. I will not r A. letter was handed in by the servant. When play the spy upon her actions ; but when she I opened it contained the following words : teturns she shall receive the letter as it was in. tended to be, and from her own lips the truth " Heaven placed him in my path at last, and, ,my father is avenged— avenged ! And I, too, shall come." I by now lie dead at the bottom of the Thames. "Farewell for ever, he will never give you trouble again.  "