The Poole Telegram. — 1882-01-06 (Poole, Dorset, England)

TRAGEDY AT MANCHESTER.  Oa Thursday a fearful tragedy was discovered to have been perpetrated at a house in H:stinge.strcet, Manchester, the bodes being found of a girl known as "Polly' Hoeteurt, and of a Ulan who went by the name of l'Etrenue. The deeeased girl, who WAS only 19 years of age, bad been the tenant of the house in qtr St 100 for about six weeks, when she hod been living dating that time with the man l'Estrange, who, until recently, had been a tr iveler for the well-kn own firm of distillers, Messte. Denville and C Belfast. Both the deceased are b ieved t hive 1 ved under fictitious name?, N ither if thorn had been sea by any cf the neighbcurs to enter or leave the house for over a fortnight, and the agent of th, worm y, Isherwood, states to the police that he has not ten elige to obtain acceag to the house for some woks past. 0.1 Thursday mornieg, however., Mr. Isherwood again went to the hottest and tried to get admission, but oun lit in the same e radii ion it had been when he visited it teveral times previonaly. The door was locked, and he failed af 'er repeated efforts to make anyone hear. He then decided to make a forcible entry, on 1 got throuelo the hack Wino*. He searched the lower rooms of the house, bat foun I nothitig out of the ordinal y course. On proccedine upslairi, however, a shocking eight wan presented. Toe girl flercourt wss found lyieg on the bed in the front bcdromn, quite dead. Her face was black thre wit de ompositien, and the wholo body pretecttd a fear ful Reset ,c'e. On the flu T, near the bed, the body of the man l'Estrange ear lying in a half-sitting posture. also quite deed, and in a state of &composition The Wolllan, judging from the teage to -which cl. coy had gone,would stem to have been deed some time !weir than the man. The police do not inc 100 ti the view Vest one of the dere 'red wee murdered, Int are in lamer of the conclusien that it is a case of t vo pets no arranging mutual self-destrorton. In different puts of the house several bottles ware found which had contained considerable quantities cf Hunter's tolution of chlorsl, one entpty bottle, which had conetined the scletii n, being found iii the b 'droom wh :re the bodies were disc :voted. Haiti .epserect, though in one of the moat respectable portions of the city, is of ill repute, the police having oec igionally cleared out the tenet tt by a dozen at a time ; but the fetuses became retenanted by the I a-no elate if per on.. who a em t gravitate again to their old htunt4. Both of the deceased WE rJ dressed in their Light do bee, and the man was wearing his slipp ro as if he ha I got rut of bed and died bores he could get in again. It is rumoured that balsa married man, is about 32 years of ageond is described as a very strongly-built fell e. Toe peop`e appear to have been living ti gether for tome time, as, previous to ccoupyin,e the house in Hastings-street, they lived in Ashover-otreet, Hyde-road, some little distance away. They lava been living together in Hastingsestreet for about eight menthe, and about six months ago beth disippeared, stating it to be their intention to go t B lfast. Instead of doing so they went t 3 London, and thence to Paris. After an absence of abmt six weeks thman returned, leaving the woman in London. He then wrote asking her to come to Manchester, stating that he could not live without her, end that he would do for her whati he had promised. She returned to him, but had frequent quarrels, the former landlady frequently acting as mediator. L'Estrange was last seen on the 19th inst., and in the interval a postnoan hat several times attempted to deliver letters, but had failed. On t x mining the interior of the house signs of at least one v:olent quarrel were found, the panel Gf one of the doors bad been broken in such a manner as might have been cams, d by the back of a head being driv.n violently against it, while another was cracked. A number cf French novels rare strewn about the room.