Glasgow Courier. — 1855-11-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MURDER AND SUICIDE.  Considerable excitement was caused in Brighton on Saturday (as briefly noticed in our last), by a rumour which prevailed early in the morning, and which proved to be too true, that a Prussian gentleman of fortune and high literary reputation had committed suicide by jumping out of a three-story window of the Royal Albion Hotel, thereby 'nibbling almost instant death, after having strangled Ids soil, • youth of 15, in the bed-room where they both had slept.  From inquiries we learn that Herrmann Franck', a doctor of philosophy at Berlin, arr;ved at the Albion from Portsmouth, at four o'clock on Friday afternoon, with Hugo Edward, his eon. In the course Of the eveuing they were called on by Dr. Juge,a German refugee residing at Brighton, an acquaintance of the father of forty years' standing, who remained with thern for some time. About eleven o'clock the son retired to rest, Dr. Juge having soon afterwards left, and then the father followed the son, the two sleeping in a double-bedded room. Nothing in particular occurred during the evening to dacha Dr. Juge's observation with regard to the mental condition of either father or son. The father had suffered from dyspepsia during some former visits to Dr. Jugs at Brighton. It is now also known that lie suffered front an enormous goitre in the neck. The latter, however, he had always carefully concealed; and on Friday evening his health was in a far better condition than usual. At six o'clock this morning the housekeeper, sleepie, at the basement of the hotel, heard the crash of a falling body against the area reeling", and on looking out saw the father writhing in the area. An alarm was raised, the attendance of Dr. Carter and Mr. Blaker, surgeon, immediately procured, but life had ceased. The medical men then went upstairs to apprise the son of the catastrophe, and no answer being returned to repeated knocking, the door was forced, when the window was found to be open, and in the second bed was seen the son, lying apparently asleep, • silk scarf tied round his neck, and his countenance livid, but he was quite dead, though the warmth of the body betokened that death bad only just ensued. He had, apparently, been strangled, and the inference was that the father, haring first deprived the son of life, threw himself out of the window, and thus ended his earthly career. Dr. Franck, was a native of Breslan, in Silesia, where his father was a banker. Eighteen years ago he married, at Rome, the daughter of Prince Henry of Prussia, who died ten years ago, leaving an only son, the younger subject of the tragedy in question. Having early evinced a taste for the sea, he had been for sonic months past receiving a naval education in a school at Portsmouth, and was about to go to sea for the first time in December neat, in one of :Messrs. Green's vessels. -  • Dr. Franck s edited the Allgemeine Zoltan, but of late he had retired from more active life, and wee living . . . on hie property. •  . . An inquest was held on the bodies. The jury returned a verdict, 'That the son was found strangled in bed, but whether by his own hand, or by the hand of another, there was no evidence to show; and that the father destroyed himself by throwing himself out of window while in an unsound state of mind.'