The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-11-09 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MURDER MYSTERY. .ettusday's yeoceedings In the Dalaton murder mystert case lasted exactly three minutes. The North London Police-court and its precincts were crowded with all manner of people when Louise Masan, the mother of the murdered boy, stepped Into the dock. It was hoped that the police would be able to further elucidate the mystery by bringing forward important evidence as to the identity of the two women who discovered the body of the child. But they are not yet ready, and Mr. William Lewis, who appeared for the Treasury, asked for a week's remand.—Mr. Arthur Newton. representing the prisoner, said he would gladly consent to this. The came was then adjourned till next Saturday. One of the most mysterious elements surrounding the murder at Balaton was the circumstance that the two ladies who first called the attention of the railway porter at Oalaton Junction Station to the fact that something was wrong in the lavatory could not be found. The police, however, are now in possession of the names and addresses of these ladies, and have obtained statements from them. They reside at Twickenham, and one is only seventeen years of age. They are both single, and the daughters of highly respectable parents. On the night of October 27th they were waiting for the Richmond train, and they went into the ladies' waiting-room on the No. 3 platfctm. One of them saw the body, and was very shocked end frightened. She told her friend, and they decided to tell the porter that someone was ill in the lavatory, but as they had no wish to be mixed up pith any unpleasant matters, tl i.y crossed on to the No. 4 platform and went away by train. On seeing, however, that a murder had been committed, the young ladies, on the advice of their friends, at once communicated with the police. The detectives are said to have made other discoveries of an important nature. At the proper time they will be able to *thew when and where and by whom the black shawl which covered the remains of the victim was purchased. At the inquest Mrs. Cadisch, the sister of the prisoner, denied all knowledge of the shawl, and positively stated that it had never been in her house. The conductor of the Stanifonl-hill omnibus in which Miss Gentle, the nurse, left the child with Miss Masset has also been found. lie says that Miss Ma,.-,et took two tickets (thrsepenny ones) to London Bridge, and he put the lady and the child down at the London Bridge approach at thirty-three minutes past one p.m. Tliev went toward.; the station. At a quarter to two. Miss. Masset left the ladies' waiting-room at London Bridge Station with the child, and after tint all trace is lost. According to Miss Massct's statement, it was hi re that she handed the child over to two women. What she did herself or where she went to after that is not clear. Site did not return to Bet! une-read until Sunday night, and then she said that she had bees to France. The police are anxious to hear from anyone who saw a young lady with a little fair-haired child, or two women wilhi the same child, alter a quarter to two on the 27th ult., between London Bridge and Dalston Jt.net ion.