The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1886-04-02 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

CLUE TO AN OLD TRAGEDY.  The Adriatic has brought ilea of the American papers of the 11th inst., containing particulars of the dieaivay of the mysterious murder of • woman named MN. Chapman, It years ego in London. The particular. of that murder are of every extraordinary character. About a year before the murder of Mn.. Chapman, her husband, Joseph Chapman, together with two men mined Joseph Iteilly and Carlo Biota. vitch, were arrested in Turkey for forgery, end were sent to prison. Mr.. Chapman, on hearing of her husband • errest, left Londim and went to Turkey, and making her way into the prison .he was able to communicate with Reilly and Simcovitch. Chnpnian It the time had been guilty of a breach of discipline end was undergoing puniehment in • d•rk cell on breed end wahr. His maaistee promised to eaglet in the escape of Chapman if Mrs. Chapman would supply them with files and other tool,. The rennet minuggled the Oohs into the prism, and before the men made any atteinfat to break out of the gaol she eturted lack or London. A few month. later Reilly and dimcovitch escaped from the prison withont making the dighteet effort to *mist their torn tint Chapman. The fugitives fied ho Longo., tend whet Mrs. Chapman became %ware of their treachery .he threatened to sap.n thism to the authorities. It.. murder followed the throat, end before the die Corry of the crime Reilly end Sinsoovitch din appeared. It hm now been discovered that Salo-witch who hero adopted the name of Dago, nerving nut a long term in the penitentiary at Cleve. land, Ohio, and that Reilly has just been amend, with a man named Raymond, for forgery. The arrest of Reilly has led te the revelation of the eircumetamea tithe murder. After the crime wee committed both Siescovitch and Reilly fled to Ameam, and under the elem., of Ihme and Elliot, they have hitherto nucceeded io evading detection. The murder took idea in Ideude.grove, Hampton. The crime win 11111i0iiiddil to have been committed by disecovitch at,. Wallace. A venbet of wilful murder WY returned by the termer'. jury, hut the police theory well that the worn, who wee in a very week ,ate of health at the time, end died front the shock of disaivering that die had been rubbed of • large iitientAy of velusble property. Shiscoviteh wen then living with • woman tribe house of Mrs. Chapman. who wee believed to have been istrangled. In regard to Ma. Chapman, howeser, it is fact that many yearn bd.w her death she wax herself mated Id another murder. At thet time she was a member of a gang of expert Rant end thieve, and acted as the" decay." Upon the arainion ito quention oho lands men into • dark eller in the Feist end. Here he was &filed by her cotfederatee, who spirotted the man and robbed him, It eppeara however, the, the sneak wae • most violeut one, end that the " hug" note " put on" to +itch an abut that On injund men never regoverml. It wee well known to the authorities tiara Sisecovitch wild in America, hut they have never 111011,11 t that the evidence againat him win of millicient •trength to warrant an app..  t may Hermit it likely to win the thirby. The suicide of • monk by means of a resolver, in, fibmrven the Veen, CorreApondent of the Torus, an incident stiliimontly rare to he non.. Father Kopitnelleck, t Munk 000 Om Capuchin Monastery al Ulna, wan found deol in his Loll on Thitrinday morning with a rovohor Lando him. fie had Leen doerkeopnr of the muninnery, and it ie nimpusad that boon) have Neigh t the weapon Iron • pedlar. A Pants, NV A IlnerirAt Nuan..—At Dongaryne, on Haturdny. an inf..t wen held on Itichnrd Langley. patio. in die Workhonne Himplial. 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