The Poole Telegram. — 1886-04-02 (Poole, Dorset, England)

CLUE TO AN OLD TRAGEDY.  The Adriatic has brought files of the American papers of the 18th inst., containing particulars of the discovery of the mysterious murder of a woman minted Mn; Chapnian, 14 years ago in London. The particulars of that murder are of A Very e•xtraordiff character. "Atshut a year before ain tile ttrder of ; Chapman, her husband, Joseph Chapman, toie with two men named Joseph Reilly and Carlo Siam°. vitch, were arrested in Turkey for forgery, and Were sent to prison. Mrs. Chapman, on hearing of her husband's arrest, left London and went to Turkey, and making her way into the prison she was able to communicate with Reilly and Sisscovitch. Chapman at the time had been guilty of a breach of discipline and was undergoing punishment in a dark cell on bread and water. His associates promised to assist in the .6.cape of Chapman if Mrs. Chapman would supply them with files and other tools. The woman smuggled the tools into the prison, and before the men made any attempt to break out of the gaol she started back for London. A few mouths later Reilly and Siesoovitch escaped from the prison without making the slightest effort to assist their companion Chapman. The fugitives fled to London, and when Mrsi Chapman bemuse aware of their treachery she threatened to expose them to the authorities. Her murder followed the threat, and Ware the discovery of the crime Reilly and Sissonvitch dis appeared. It has now been discovered that Sisectivitok Who has adopted the . name of Dago, seovint out a long terin in the penitentiary at Clevq, land, hio, and that Reilly ha just been arreatO, with a man named Raymond, for forgery. The arrest of Reilly has led to the revelation of the circumstances of the murder. After the crime was committed both Sismovitch and Reilly fled to America, and under the aliases of Dago and Elliot, they have hitherto succeeded in evading detection. The murder took place in Maude-grove, Brorepton. The crime was supposed to have been committed by Sisscovitch alias 'Wallace. A verdict of wilful murder was raturned by the, coroner's jury, but the i police theory was that the woman, who was n a very weak state of health at the time and died frord the shock of discovering that she had been robbed of a large quantity of valuable property. Sissoovitch was thin living With a woman in the house of Mrs. Chaptrian. who was believed to have been strangled. In regard to Mrs. Chapman, however, it is a fact that manf, in before her death she was herself concerned n another murder. At that time she was a member of a gang of expert East end thieves, and acted as the" decoy." Upon the occasion in question she bred a man into a dark alley in the East end. Here he was seized by her confederates, who garotted the man and robbed him, It appears, however, that the attack was a most violent one, and that the " hug " was "put on" to such an extent that the injured man never recovered. It was well known to thp authorities that Sisscovitch was in America, but they have never thought that the evidence against him wait of sufficieat strength to warrant an application for his extradition.  • Gay Hermit is likely to win the Derby. The suicide of a monk by means of a revolver, is, observes the Vienna Correspondent of the Times, an incident sufficiently rare to be noted. Father Kopatscheck, a monk in the Capuchin Monastery at Olmtitz, was found dead in his cell on Thursday morning with a revolver beside him. He had been doorkeeper of the monastery, and it is supposed that he must have bought the weapon from a pedlar. A PATISNT KILLKD BY A HOSPITAL NUIcHI.—At Dungarvan, on Saturday. an inquest was held on Richard Langley, a patient in the Workhouse Hospital. The demase.d was found dead in bed with his face battered, and both eyes discoloured. The sheots and pillows were covered with blood. The evidence of the other patients showed that during the night Langley called several times for something to diur,k. The night male nurse, a man named Mulcahy, taf er great delay, got out of bed in a passion, and t . tened to give Langley reason to call out when he g to him. When Mulcahy reached Langley's bed bl we were heard, and the patient was also heard f ntly crying out. The Jury_ returned a verdict manslaughter against Mulcahy, who has 6 soonded. A