The Cotton Factory Times. — 1899-06-16 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

CRAPTERS.—On Tuesday, the let of July, a gentleman engaged a front room of No. 119, Great Porter Square. The landlady " reckoned km up" as a man who had just come from a voyage, and that there was something superior vin the looks of him." When she asked him for his seine he said it did not matter, and he handed her four weeks' rent, telling her at the tam tune not to trouble about a receipt. He led a remerkably quiet life. He had but one visitor, a lady, who cume so closely veiled that no person in the house eaiNht a glimpse of her face. She called three ttmes, aci when the street door opened, she asked for the gentleman on the first door, and went up to him without wailing for an answer. This lady has not come forward. sod she has not been traced. It happened that on toe 9th of July that the landlady's niece was mimed, and when the wedding party returned in the early hours of the morning the discovery was made that the lodger had been brutally murdered duri.,g the night. No clue could be found to the murderer  or murderers. The police arrested a brokendown individual who gave the name of Antony Cowlrick, but there was no evidence against him beyond the fact that on the night of his arrest be wrga seen to stroll up to the door of the house where the murder bad been committed, peer curiously into the windows, and run away when the police at first attempted to arrest him. That enterprising journal, 'The Evening Moon," takes up the ease on the prisoner's behalf, and promises something of the greatest interest with respect to Antony Cowlrick. It appears that, anticipating the release of Antony Cowlrick they detailed a special reporter to interview him when he left the police court, sot to offer him any assistance he would accept. However, the beggarly man refused all offers of abidance, and refused to answer all questions, and as they were parting the reporter saw with surprise that Antony Cowlrick's eyes were fixed with great agitation upon a young and pretty woman, apparently as poor as himself, who was walking carelessly away. The man stepped to the woman's side and spoke to her, baste pursued her way with a gesture of repugnance, hut upon taking a second look into his face doubt gave place to joy and love. He then borrowed a sovereign from the reporter, remarking he had found a friend, tad they went away together, first, however, writing to address in the reporter's note book. The same evening, with the aid of a little match girl caked Fanny—who later plays a prominent part in the atory7the reporter found the address Antony Cowlrick hi Oven him. It was in one of the poorest quarters, it the city. Upon entering the room, however, be fonds note addressed to him by Antony Cowlriok, UPag.thit as he was unexpectedly able to pay the sovereign he had borrowed, he would prefer not to make any farther communication. The writing was tta ol an educated man, and the sovereign was toolowd. The reporter learnt that the pretty woman vai known as " Blanche " and that she had lived tere for three months, but appeared to have no "18. She also left a note saying good-bye to ku.,yi and enclosing all the money she possessed—a I^'lllsr Little more could be heard of them. We I,veo return to No. 118 and find the landlady, Mrs. rreedy, still asleep in her kitchen. Disturbed by the 'War, she dreams that someone is stealthily desCoding the stairs to murder her also, but awakening !°LeMy, she finds herself actually confronting a man's '4 at white as her own.