Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-04-03 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MURDERERS CAUGHT RED HANDED.  A shocking murder has just been brought to light in Paris by three itinerant Italian musicians. The men were returning home at a late hour to their lodgings in a hon. c kept by a woman named Dephayes, in the Boulevard de Charonne. Seeing a light in Madame Deshayes' room, they resolved, before going to bed, to play a serenade under her window, anticipating that Madame Deshayes would, as she had done on previous occasions, rate thou srundly for disturbing her and the whole house in the middle of the night. While two of the men played their instruments the other crept up towards the woman's window, which was on the first floor 0: the building, to observe (as he said) the effect of the music. He was surprised, however, to find -Madame Deshayes' apartment all lit up, and lookin4 into the little room used by her as an office beheld to his horror an inanimate mass lying (in the floor. Feeling carefully into the rooms he saw two men engag d in pulling out the drawers and ransacking the place. The Italian immediately jumped down, and told his two corriyanions. One of them, the harpist, at once unstrung his instrument, cut off the thongs with which it was attached to his body, and with them s curely fastened the handle of Madame Deshayes' door to the stairs. He then mounted guard, white his companions ran for the police. Luckily, the diicers of the law were not tar away, and bursting into the rooms, they seized the two murderers, who offered no resistance. Madame Deshayes' corpse was then taken up, and it was found that the woman had been strangled with a neckerchief. The two murderers are old hands at crime, rind it is presumed that they committed the deed immediately after the woman had opened the door for them. One of the ruffians lodged in the house  A Marylebone solicitor, named Thomas oampson, has been fined £33, under five summcnsea taken out by the Incorporated Law Society, for having practised in the local pulice-court and the county-court without having taken out his certificate.  A young American married lady, belonging to the American colony in Paris, has eloped with a wellknown French viscount, who is also married. The lady, who is very beautiful, is connected by birth, as well as by marriage, with some of the leading American families of New York and New England origin, who have for years past resided in Paris. She is also a distant relative of a young and gifted American prim./ donna. She left in her deserted home three little children, the youngest of whom is only 18 months old. Her husband will, it is stated, immediately apply for a divorce. "Ah, if 1 could only 6n,1 that wretch who wrote me an anonymous letter, I would dash him to atoms like a beer glass." "But what did the letter contain ? " "It said that I was a muff, that my wife and children were still bigger muffs, and that we were all of us together a family of muffs ! " "It must be someone who knows you. "Of course." Homeric laughter, in which all the company joined.  _ On the occasion of some very grand dinner-party, when Mrs. Hudson was being piloted from drawingroom to dining-room, she noticed a marble bust on one of the pillars in the hall. "Do you know who that is ? " she inquired affably of her attendant cavalier. "That is Marcus Aurelius," was the answer. "Oh, is it, now !" ejaculated Mrs. Hudson. "But can you tell me," she added promptly, "whether it is the present markis or the late markis ?" He was sitting silently by her side one chilly evening last autumn' thinking of something to say. Finally he remarked, "How sad it 'w the frost low come, and it will kill everythinggreen rarnoupon ths young lady extended her hand s•v! 4 Pathetic tone. "Good-bye."  gublic Notices.  Slaters, and Painters.  111111 ii.,,  MENDERS, for TWO SHAFTS Sinking, 1 on or before April 10th,—BENTLEY & KAYE, Stone-Merehants, Rastriek.  ALENDING LIBRARY of FR/ENDS' BOOBS is kept at the MEETING Housir, Huddersfield-road. The Books are lent without Charge to respectable readers, on application on the Premises.  To Masons and Excavators (labour only), Carpenters and Joiners, Plumbers and Glaziers, Plasterers,  TO BE LET, the Various Work required to be done in the Erection of a DEWLLINGHOUSE, at