The Sun. — 1856-08-05 (London, England)

DOUBLE MURDER NEAR DOTER.  On Sunday the town of Dover was thrown into a state of the greatest excitement owing to the perpetration of one of the most horrible crimes that has been committed in this neighbourhood for many years past. During the morning intelligence was received that the bodies of two young women had been found, stabbed in several places, and lying in a hollow near the high road between Dover and Folkestane, about four miles from this plite, both having evidently been brutally murdered a short time previous. On inquiry it was ascertained that the poor creatures were sisters, and that they both belonged to Dover, and from an investigation since made, it appears that their name is Back, and that they are the daughters of hard-working people living at Albionplace, in Dover, the father being employed as a labourer upon the harbour, and the mother helping to gain a subsistence by taking in washing. The eldest of the girls was rather more than 18 years of age, and was named Caroline ; and the youngest, Maria, was about 16. It is supposed, beyond all reasonable probability of doubt that this appalling crime has been committed by a private in the 2d Regiment of British Swiss Legion, a Neapolitan by birth, and known in the regiment in which he belongs as Dedea Redaniez; for during the stay of the 2d Regiment in Dover, this individual contracted an intimacy with the elder of the unfortunate girls, and it appears that, at the time the legion was encamped at Aldershot, he carried on a correspondence with her. She, it appears, returned the affection he had expressed for her, and some pledges of their mutual regard had passed between them, including a likeness of Redaniez which was in the possession of the unfortunate young woman. On Saturday evening last, it would seem, Redaniez came from Shorncliffe, where the Swiss Legion is butted, upon a visit to the girl Caroline, whom he saw at her father's house in Albion-place. While there_ he asked her to return with him to Shorncliffe, for the purpose of visiting a sister of his, who, he told her, was staying at the camp ; and after some hesitation it was proposed that they should set out for Shorncliffe, which is about 10 miles distant from Dover, at three o'clock on the following morning. The poor girl, it seems, fell readily into the trap which was laid for her, and begged her mother to allow her to go. The mother refused for some time, it seems ; but at last she gave her consent upon the understanding that the younger sister, Maria, should accompany them. No objection was raised; and Redaniez left, saying he should call for the sisters at the time at which it was arranged to start. During his conversation with the girl Caroline, however, it transpired that he was labouring under jealousy, and that he was impressed that another serjeaut in the legion had been corresponding with her, and that she had received those advances favourably. The girl denied that anything of the sort had taken plase ; but failed, it would seem, to remove the Neapolitan's apprehensions, for before leaving the house he asked for his likeness. On getting possession of it he threw it in the fire ; but onlbeing remonstrated with upon this strange behaviour, be smilingly observed that he intended giving her a better one, and by this manner lulled any forebodings that might naturally have arisen in consequence. At three o'clock on Sunday morning the poor girls left home for the last time in company with Redaniez, who was seen proceeding with 'them upon the road to the camp by a police-officer named Herd who was upon duty, and whose attention was rather particularly called to the soldier from the fact of his having, some time before, been in custody for assaulting another member of the force. This policeman is therefore certain of his identity, and as the description Herd gives of him corresponds. exactly with 'the description afforded by the girls' parents, there is no doubt whatever that the sisters left Dover in this man's company. They were subsequently men in the eoldier's company about five o'clock,