The Sun. — 1858-02-26 (London, England)

DIABOLICAL MURDER IN THE HAYMARKET, AND ESCAPE OF THE MURDERER.  Inspector Burnett, of the C division, mentioned to Mr. Bingham at the Marlborough-street Policecourt yesterday that a murder had been discovered in Arundel-place, Haymarket. The following particulars have been collected from reliable sources : On Tuesday night a foreigner accosted three French girls in the street, and after a short conversation accompanied one of them, known as Madame li Louise, to her lodgings, 8, Arundel-street, Haymarket, a house kept for, and inhabited by, foreign prostitutes. They went to bed, and nothing more was heard of them until Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock, when the foreigner left the house, the servant letting him out and noticing nothing particular about him. In the course of the day, when dinner time came, and Madame Louise did not make her appearance, the keeper of the house and the lodgers began to have suspicions, and about 7 o'clock in the evening resolved to search the room, when they were horrified at finding Madame Louise dead and quite black in the face from strangulation, as there were finger marks on the throat, and indications of a violent struggle. Medical aid was immediately procured, but the doctor pronounced that the woman had been dead for some hours. There was a small quantity of blood on the pillows. On examining the room it was discovered that nearly all the wearing apparel of the dead woman was missing ; also some pawnbrokers' duplicates and money. The black velvet cloak the deceased wore when she met the foreigner was also gone. As he earrings were torn from the ears of the deceased, t would seem that robbery was the motive of ti is barbarous murder. The deceased went by the name of Madame Louise. She was a Frenchwoman about 22 years of age.; and when she came to England about six o.r eight months ago, set up in the business of laundress in Little Windmill-street. Being encumbered w bitlay two children, she could not get a maintenance laundry work, and then she joined that numerous herd of foreini prostitutes who parade Regent-street and adjacent streets. On the eveningwhentothe deceasedhave went home with the foreigner she is known which can nowherevbeevr forn a gold watch and chain, the C division, wag "'ld. Inspector Park, of engaged throughout yesterday in the inquiry.  The following description police the murderer has been sent round to every esatfation :___ 4i A German, about 30 years of age fluently, t6or and stated in. high speaks German and French that his father was a captain in thetOnithboowtide dressed in a dark grey paletot coat,navy ; he was sleeves, grey trousers, and strong wellington Groom, the coroner's officer, has forwarded theislr, 5.,, information CO Mr. Bedford ; but no day is yet filed for the inquest. Throughoutwai, the entire day the foot the street densely crowded by idlers, pavement in force their way order to anxious to view of the cliamnhc'ei-eni,„'°u" was enacted ; but :-11-111c11 the feartfol°tbt" a were kept on duty, and no °f the dFagdy ivis.on no the house was allowed one unconnected with to enter. It is somewhat extraordinary that none mates of the house heard any noise, arid;of the in_ hewed that after he had left the house: she al -t Was be" had gone to sleep again. , On information being given to the police at Vinestreet, which is within a very short distance of the place where e crime was committed, Inspec. for Park and Superintendent Hannant proceeded to the spot to endeavour to elucidate the mystery. In examination of the room was at once commenced, and a question was asked whether the deceased was known to have had any property. it was elicited that though not in affluent eircumstances, the deceased was known to possess sonic) amount of money, a gold watch, which she alway 3