Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1894-02-10 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. SALVAGE SERVICES :£1 ,600 AWARD  DOMESTIC TRAGEDY AT BRADFORD. , The timidly (inlet dietrict of Tong Street, situate about three miles from the Bradford I Town Hall, was the scene of • terrible domestic tragedy on Wednesday. In a home in Butler Street, there lived a warp dresser named Lester Bestow, his wife, and their three children, Alice, aged 16, Jane, aged 9, and Tom, 7 years of age. The period of their residence in the district has extended over the past twelve months, and though they have not made many friends in the neighbourhood, they have had the eputstion of being respectable, fairly comfortable, bat not in good circumstances. The parents have not always been on the best of terms, and occasionally the neighbours have heard quarrels between the two.  IccTh—e Admir.lty—&-oit. .Mr. Judice Barns. nod Trinity Hasten—claims for salvage servives were brought by the owneramastera, and crews of the Mem tege Granville (belonging to the Dover Harbour Board) and the Challenge, both of which on the Zia January last went to the as&tante of the large German ship Georg,. which woe seriondy damaged by a colliaion with the eteamship °baron, owned by the Howard Steamship Company (Limited), of London. lb. Georg, after the collieion, hod been brmght up off Dover Coddle, but during a gale ohe dragged her anohors end got within twenty feet of the Admiralty rser. When the Granville CM& up with her oho wits eheering heavily, and wes in imminent danger of striking the pier. The wind was blowing with hurricane force with very heavy mow equells, and s terrific sea, mid the weer woe bitterly cold, the water freezing On the decks. Her crew had their oork jackets on. The Granville suoeeeded in drawing her dear of the pier, and the neat morning, with the aseistanoe of the Challenge she wee taken down the Channel, and ultimately, after a heavy towage, she wee towed up Southampton Water to the Government Buoy, where she was made feet, and loft in safety. The Granville suetained serious damage whikt she was holding the Georg off the pee, and there was deo comederable danger in colliding with the Challenge. The &demdente admitted all the facte, and submitted to the judgment of the Court. The value of the Georg together with her rargo and freight amounted to £5,167 6s.—Hie Lordship mid there wee no doubt the semi.o were rendered with the greatest porible skill and courage. The Georg would probably have come to destruction. HA mule an sword of 81,500. Z 750 for each tug.  Thee° were, however, not of each a serious character as to cause alarm, and the report circulated on Wednesday afternoon that the father, mother, and the eldest daughter had been , found dead in the house created great excitement lathe district. At noon it came to be suspected that something was wrong. It was notimd that the blinds had been down all the morning, and that Mrs. Bestow, whoi sdeecribed as having been a "stirring" woman, was not about as usual. In consequence the next door neighbour Mrs. Brearly, visited the landlord, Mr. Charles Radcliffe, who resides two doors lower down the street, informed him of what she had observed, and expressed her opinion that all wise not right. The Bestows owed the landlord some rent, and whilst not suspecting the real state of affairs, the landlord at once went in his pony and trap to the house of Mrs. Bestow's mother, named Whitehead, who lives at Drighlington. On arrival there, he asked if Mrs. Bestow and her children had arrived. He received a reply in the negative, and a request from Mrs. Whitehead that he would tell her the worst. She evidently jumped at the conclusion that something wee wrong, but Mr. Radcliffe assured her that he was not aware of the fact if there were. Finding that none of the family had been secant Drightington, the landlord, too, seems to have been impressed with the suspicions of the neighbours, and on hisses), home called on Police-sergeant Simpson, whooccupres a house in Butler-etreet. After the situation had been discussed, the sergeant, Police-constable Chesterton, and Mr. Radcliffe went to Baetow's house, and receiving no answer to their calls, tt, by the helpof a chair, looked through the fmr,tbnt over the door. Then it was that the true condition of affair, was revealed, for immediately behind the door he saw what wee evidently the dead body of some person or other. The home wan then entered through the cellar window, and Sergeant Simpson found that the body he had observed behind the door was that of Mrs. Bestow, who had her throat badly cut. She was lying On her right side, with her face towards the door, and was wearing only her night-dress. After admitting Constable Chesterton and the landlord, the sergeant went upstairs, and on the landing leading to the two bedrooms found the dead body of the daughter Alice, with her throat also cut. She, too, was lying with her face downwards, and on her right side. The party next entered the large bedroom, and in it discovered the father's dead body, with his throat also cut. sirs were Aber two eV bedroom t'  Fear. were ente other two &H&c  to the vifetv of the trehtng  013,- of he family were discovered saki, la bed, and it :. The two children were wrapped op a, t .-event them tramming the terrible view of their murdered relative,, an..l conveyed into the house of the landlord. It is believed that the daughter Alice went to her mother's asaistanee when she found she was beibig attacked, and then was first despatched, the mother afterwards being , killed. It is further conjectured that Bestow had remained in bed several hours after committing the murders, and then took his own life when he heard people knocking at the door. The man wee a teetotaler, and was out of work, and became deepondent when he found that his wife and children were going to leave him and repair, as on a former occasion, to Mrs. Bristow's mother's house. at Drighlin' Won.  Esst Edinburgh hem again recorded its empbatic approval of its representative's (Mr. Robert Wallace) revolt from offi iial Liberalism.  Mr. Hugh Saitmanhe, who met a shocking death hi Clayton Tunnel, is a member of an ow Yorkshire family, whose estate ie situated at Saltmarche, about Ave miles from Goole.  Cernicsre Cecea,—A Ceece peasbeag saleable flesh laming queen, eel beseeball eeel ses7lse Fes. 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