The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-11-04 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE BELGIAN MURDEILEIL—The following information has been received by the Metropolitan Police of the real facts in connection with the death of the sergeant of gendarmes, Meeus. It appears that on the officers of the Metropolitan Police, Dinseovitch and Marchaut, receiving into their custody at the House of Detention,Cler .enwell,the murder Lehi:tin, they were especially warned by the chief ..fficer " to be on their guard, because the prisoner was one of the most dan. serous characters that had ever come under the prison authorities' notice." Befoee It aving the prison, Lublain bad in his possession As. in English money only, and Druscovitch placed on his wrists a pair of "bracelets," delicate in structure but of extreme strength. On arriving at Dover they were met by Memo, who had experienced a stormy passage. The prisoner was formally bonded over to him, and, having signed the usual . receipt for Ids body, the " bracelets" were removed and heavy manacles substituted. Dritscovitch repeated to Memos the warning he had received, and he and his prisoner went on board the Ostend packet, at which port they safely arrived, and Means, being anxious to get on his journey, took the 3.50 a.m, train for Brussels. the fastest on the Belgian States Railway, corms. positing cmli the mail service through Gsrmaay and Ittissia, selecting a separat, compartment. The railway route is only 77 miles, and ever, thing, it is presumed. went on all right during the first 41 miles of the jour. ney until passing Ghent, when immediately afterwards the crime was perpetrated. Iteellil probably turned to the carriage window. The opportunity served, and Atiblaiu sprang across the carriage and dealt the miter. tussle officer a blow immediately above the ear, ston. ping him, after which to strangle him and plunder the satchel were merely matters of detail. He then east his victim out of tho carriage door whence the body rolled down the steep embankment, where it was ultimately discovered. Our readers are cognisant of the escape and subsequent recapture of Aublain at Lille.  Coooa.—Grateful and Comforting.--'• thy • the rough kuowledgeoi the natural laws which govern the or rations of digestion and nutrition, anti bce woeful apphes ; Woo of the fime proper-tier of welliaclert,:d cocoa, Mr. Era bAs provided our breaklast tubber wi. h a delicately &emu° i beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. P is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a omen toWou way be gradaully built up uutil strong eaeugh to !vie; every tendency to disease. Hundreds of raibtle mirladier an floatiug around us wady to attick wherever there ire week point. We me.y escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourashir well fortified with were blood and a properly uouriebid fraine."—Civilfiernice  THE GLENFIELD STARCH has been more imitani than all the other starchee in the world. No higher comp, moat could be paid to it, as all those imitators are satisfii that tie the finest stars.li in use. Tradesmen have doubt's, less profit on its side, but still it is kept by all respectabt groceia and Oilmen. who prefer supplying their c.f.i.'s with the beet artades to their OWO peenothry profit. IL' public should insist upon having tho Glenfield Starch.  C•