The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-05-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE REIGN OF TERROR IN RUSSIA.  The Russian Czar says Our police are them. 'elves entirely to blame for the impuaity with which the Nihilists are enabled to carry on their outrageous and high-handed proceedings. Here you have an instance of their intelligence. A short time ago a physician named Radii., who had highly distinguished himself during the recent Ituseo-Turkish War, was arrested of suspicion. Ile had previously gained some notoriety in connection with the Kasan affair. Nothing, however, could at that time be proved against Dr. Radian, and in fact no evidence of an incriminatory character could be adduced to warrant his incarcerafon. He was, therefore, releaped. When on this second occasion he came again under the undiscriminating hands of the St. Petersburgh police, he was at once imprisoned, and for some occult reason his sister, the principal of the Convent School, and, therefore, a nun, was also arrested and confined in the gaol with him. Now the Convent School is under the immediate and special patronage of the Grand Duchess Catherine. Hearing that the directress of her school had been serrated, this august lady immediately proceeded to the b ircau of the third section, in order to ascertain w' y nun had been forcibly arrested and imprisoned. Jo arriving at the police office the Grand Duchess lesputched her private secretary, Michaelow, to make tho necessary enquiries respecting the principal of :he Convent School. This gentleman had no sooner stated the purpose of his errand than he was arrested Ind actually despatched to prison. The Grand Duchess waited patiently forsome time, and then sent her attendant to look for the secretary. This messenger was also detained, and, for making inquiries about the sister of a suspected person, was rent off ander arrest. The Grand Duchess unable to comprehend what had happened, drove home and sent to the police a notification of the inexplicable dieesppearance of her private secretary and her attendant. The police made due inquiry, and found the secretary Michaelow, who was speedily with his patroness. The attendant, however, could not be discovered. The police assured the Grand Duchess that the Nihilate had most probably captured the attendant and aept him in hiding. Only after three days had expired was the poor man recognised among tho number xaprisoned in the principal gaol."  SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE On Monday morning a chocking case of murder end suicide occurred at Lynn Lane, in the parish of Sherstone, near Brownhills, and within about four wiles of Lichfield. It appears that for some time past a retired farmer, named James Freeman, aged 66, seas 'aeon living in a little cottage come time, at a place called Birchley Hill, and exactly two years ago h., married a young woman, aged 32, who less since resided with him, but apparently not on very happy terms. Monday morning, about ten minutes to eight, Freeman was seen leaning over his garden gate with a gun in his hand, but there was nothing in his demeanour to attract particular attention. At a quarter after eleven, a neighbour named Hannah Wheeler went to the house to see Mrs. Freeman, baton knocking at the back door no reply was returned, and Ms's. Wheeler then went round the house, tried the froat door, which was also locked, ant then looked through the window. The spectacle which met her gaze was of an exceedingly horrifying description. Mrs. Freeman was sitting in a chair, quite dead and con- ' crud with blood, and on the opposite side of the room, in another chair was her husband, also dead and bleeding. Without waiting to ascertain any more, Mrs. IN heeler ran away to alarm the neighbours, and very shortly afterward. returned with two men, named Zechariah James and Solomon Tuekley. Information was despatched to the police, and at about 11.40 a.m. Police-constable Billingsley arrived at the cottage, and gained an entrance by one of the : windows. He found Freeman was quite dead, haying a shot wound penetrating from the temple through the head, the shot itself being lodged in the ceiling. Ile was sitting in the chair, as seen by Mrs. Wheeler, and held with the right hand the muzzle of the gun, , and in the left hand was the ramrod. The gun had , evidently been recently discharged, and it is said that ! about nine o'clock the report of a firearm was heard in the neighbourhood of the cottage, but does not appear to have given rise to any apprehensions. The deceased woman had also been shot in the head, part of the skull being blown away, and the brain being exposed. Around both bodies there were pools of blood. There could be little doubt that the man had first shot his wife, and then shot himself. On the 1 table a statement in his handwriting was found, from ' which it is gathered that the cause of the murder and suicide was jealousy. Deceased was known to have lately suspected his wife of unfaithfulness, and this, with the difference in their ages, had been tho cause of considerable unhappiness between them. The deceased woman was Freeman's second wife, and it is , stated that there are several grown-up children by ! the first wife. Great excitement prevails in the neighbourhood, the Freemans having been very well known.  The Lord Mayor of Dublin has issuoil invitatioiss for a ball in connection with tho Moore Ceutua.try os .1, 'Nth .ino