Bridgend & Neath Chronicle, and County of Glamorgan Advertiser. — 1894-03-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TRAGEDIES IN LONDON.  , The police of the D Division of the metropolitan force, stationed at the Tottenham-court-road headquarters, were, on the evening of the 17th inst., placed in the possession of information which led to the discovery of an atrocity of which a man upwards of 70 years of age is the victim, and in regard to which a woman is now under arrest. A few days provieusly the woman's conduct roused suspicion, giving occasion for her movement's to be watched. On that night, according to a neighbour, she came home to her room accompanied by an elderly man, and a serious altercation was afterwards overheard. On the following morning bloodstains were found on the sink in the basement of the house, which is used in common by all the lodgers. On the morning of the 17th inst the woman paid a week's rent for her room in lieu of giving a week's notice, and signified her intention of removing her luggage that day. In the evening two men came to the house, and in due course her luggage, including a large trunk, was transferred from her room. These proceedings were carefully watched by the neighbour, who followed the men .to a house in Upper Marylebone-street. and then proceeded to the police-station. The detectiven thereupon visited the house in Upper Marylebone-street and found the woman indoors. The answers, however, which she made to the questions addressed to her were of an obviously evasive character. On searching the room they discovered the large triml., and, despite the protestations of the woman that it only contained books, they opened it and found inside the mutilated remains of an elderly man, evidently the victim of a brutal murder. The woman MIA immediately arrested. The body was subsequently identified by his son as being that of Charles Stephens, of Albany-street, Regent's. park, a man of independent means, who had formerly been in business ns a cab proprietor. A shocking affair occurred in Probyn-road, Upton. park, at eleven o'clock on the night if the 17th inst. Charles Passmore, a tailor, of Stuilley-road, shot a married woman, named Alive Burnell, outside her 'loose in Probyn-road, and then shot himself, inflicting a severe wound in the temple. The police found the woman lying on the ground and her assailant Icing near her. The man, who did not seem at first seriously wounded, was taken to the Romford-road Police-station. There the divisional surgeon found that the bullet had penetrated the brain, and he was taken to the West Ifam Hospital. We died early on Sunday morning. The woman was conveyed to the hospital, where she was peen by the house surgeon, who pronounced life est met. It was ascertained that Passmore, who is a married man with a family, had twice eloped with Alice Burnell. The second reconciliation with the woman's husband took place only recently.  The 'barman of a public-house in the Caledonianroad was found dead in a bedroom with his throat cut on the morning of the 17th inst. In the bed in the same room a young girl Wap itsodiprotered dead with her throat cut, and the landlord's daughter was taken from the same room severely stabbed. The name of the barman is George Wards, and that of the murdered girl Lily Allen. Hill stated that Wards rushed into the room and attacked the girl Allen with a hatchet. Hill placed her arms around Allen's neck to protect her, and then Wards stunned Allen with the hatchet, severely injuring Hill's arm. He then cut Allen'E throat with a razor, and, seeing she was dead, rut his own throat. The murdered girl was 17 vears of age. She was engaged to be married, and Wards, who seemed to be fond of her, had apparently become jealous.