Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-11-20 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CLEVER CAPTURE OF A MURDERER. The young waiter, Rossel, who some days age murdered his mistress, Madame Loyson, who kept • cafe in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, has at length been arrested by mere chance at Constantine, in Algeria. It seems that aftercommitting the crime Rossel drove at once to the Gare de Lyon and took the first train for Marseilles. On his arrival in that town he concealedhimself in a small hotel in the neighbourhood of the harbour, and on the following morning left in the boat for Algeria. He had often heard a friend of the Loysons talk about the colony, and was in consequence fairly well acquainted with the manners and customs of the country. He accordingly decided on joining a band of traders who travelled from one village to another, and he hoped by this means to frustrate all the efforts made by the police to obtain a clue as to his whereabouts. Immediately on landing in Algeria Rossel repaired to Constantine. He had already spent a good deal of money, and, as he had but little remaining, he determined on turning to account the jewellery he had taken from the mistress of the " Gay Lussac Cafe." The jeweller on whom he called concluded a bargain with }fosse', but, according to the rule in such matters, he asked him for his name and address, in order that he might pay him the money at his abode. Rossel, who does not seem to have been acquainted with this custom,became confused, stuttered, stammered, and aroused the suspicions of the tradesman, who reported the affair to the police. That evening Hassel was arrested. He had his papers about him, and with great cunning he at once stated that he had committed a theft at Fontainebleau for which he had been condemn A by default to two years' imprisonment. He hoped that he would be lodged in gaol without further inquiry, and that when his penalty had expired the other matter would have blown over. Unfortunately for Rossel, the authorities at Fontainebleau were aware that he was charged with the murder of Mtulame Loyson, so• that when they received a telegram from Constantine they immediately acquainted their colleagues in Algeria with all the facts of the case and begged them to ascertain whether the jewellery offered for sale corresponded with that stolen from the "Gay Lussac Cafe.' An exatninatiow of the articles admitted of no doubt on this subject, and it was moreover found that one of Rossel's feet bore a similar scar to that on the foot of the Fontainebleau criminal. Rossel, seeing•that the game was up, made a full confession, stating that he had strangled his victim, and had no accomplices.  As a ptiliceman of the Lincolnshire constabulary was on his beat at Farlesthorpe,he heard the report of firearms, and seeing a poacher he followed him. When the latter found that he was being followed, he turned and tired the contents of his gun at the constable. the shots striking him on the legs. The constable still gave chase, however, and was gaining on the poacher, when the latter again fired, the shots lodging in flu, policeman's body. The poacher then escaped. The constable, though seriously hurt, is progressing favourably.