Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1897-12-03 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN LONDON. Police Court on Tuesday with obtaining mousy by a A shocking murder was on Wednesday discovered triok.—Detective Hands, in support of an %Tilosto have been committed in Castle Street,Long Aore, tine for a week's remand, stated that pribioner, on London, a thoroughfare included in that well-known the 25th ult.., called at Reynolds' Restaurant, bar: labyrinth of streets surrounding the famous Drury poration 'treet, and, ordering a glass of whiskey, Lane. In one of the houses in Castle Street, in a tendered' half -a-sovereign in payment. After single room upstairs, there has lived for a consider- counting the change he declared he had been given able period a French shoemaker, whose clientele is 2s.short, and the extra money was given to him. said to have embrated some of the theatrical fur- On the following day it was alleged that he successnishers who have their places of business in the fully worked the seine trick upon another assistaut. vicinity and adjacent to many bf the great On Monday evening he again visited the restaurant, theatres of London. The house, like many and the assistant, Miss Strawbridge, when he again others in the neighbourhood, was let out il3 tendered half-a-sovereign for a Scotch whiskey, rooms, or sets of rooms, and oonaequently th. remembered the previous occasion when she served holders of the place are not in the habit of paying him, and was careful to observe the change she gave much attention to the goings-out or comings-in of him. He again said he was 2s. short, and was then the various tenants. However, the fact that the given into custody. French shoemaker, whose name was Augusta Brosette, had not gone in or out of his room for some ' time was notioed about noon on Wednesday, and on some of those in the house going to Brosette's apartment they found his murdered body near the firepiaci). There is no doubt in the minds of the polio* authorities that Brosette was murdered. It is thought probable, in view of the position in whioh the body was found, and the way in which the blood is splashed in front of the fireplaoe, that the deceased was sitting by his fireside, and was struck while in a sitting posture. The head appears to have been struck with a oleaver, and there are several wounds on the back of the head. Ihe throat was found cut, and a sharp shoemaker's knife, one of the deceased man's own tools, was found sticking in the wound. This may be evidence that the murdeiera were disturbed and made a hasty flight, or it may be that this gruesome feature was dramatically iutroduoed in fiendish jest in order to make the discovery more appalling. No clue as to the perpetrator of the deed appears to be forthcoming at present, although several recent visitors to Brosette have been described to the police, who are making active investigations. Brosette who was about fifty-eight or sixty years of age, and lived alone, was last seen alive on Monday about noon. There did not appear any signs of a struggle in the room, and the body was evidently not moved by the murderer after death. In the apartment were found a number of letters in French and German, and it is said a number of foreigners have been in the habit of visiting Brownie of late, A later telegram states that between five and six o'slock a man, described as of foreign appearance, and spectacles, went to the door of No. 60, A. the scene of the crime. Here he was a police-officer, who requested him iim to Bow Street Police Station. In the evening, two women who live in in which the crime was ih• 'jure At of the  MR. Meth