The Express. — 1856-08-05 (London, England)

MURDER OF TWO SISTERS NEAR FOLKESTONE.- ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.  FOLKESTONE, MONDAY. The neighbourhood of Carpel-le-Fernr, a small village situate about two miles and • half from than town, on the road to Dover, has jut bean thrown into great ex' eituasat in consequence of the discovery that two youg women bad been brutally murdered. Their names are Caroline and Maria Back, of the respective ages of 19 and 17, the deughten of a laindraes residing at Dover. The murderer is a private in the 4th company. tad battalion. tad Regiment of the British Swim Legion, an Autrian by birth, named Dodos R•deniee. It animus that he had been paylog his adder time to the unfortunate deceased, Caroline Bask, sad wee 'at the mother's booth on Saturday evening, when something transpired as to its being bee invitation of going to Woolwich, and a portrait be bad given to her was returned to him, at whWth he expressed tome regret. He I. ft the house shortly afterwards, and celled again as early ea Three o'clock on Sends; morning, when the two yoneg women accompanied his on the road towards Folkestone. Thy appeared then in go d humour with each other. As they passed the Royal Oak public-how it was remarked that the deceased looked •xorediegly clean and tidy, and apparently dressed in Owls Bandy attire. Nothing further was minor heard of the party until the hfelew bodies of the poesy women were diseurend on the grass, in the parish of Cepel-ie-Ferne, by ea emMe3i of the South Bastero Railway Company, named Cumt This man was walking along by the edge of the as., t seven o'clock on Sunday morning, when he ob. serve • hat he supposed to be two females lying asleep ow 11 the owe, beneath the spot on which be wee standby. He proceeded there chiefly out of curiosity, end was honor-struck on finding that the first beak be essne up to bad been murdered. The bodies were about 12 paces apart. He immediately ran for roisterers, sad by 8 o'clock Superintendent Steer, of the Folkestone division of the Kent constabulary and other parties were in attendance. Upon the bodies being examined by Mr. Bateman, • surgeon, it was band that sub had nailed four stabs about the bleasts, and that three on each bi-dy were fatal. The *ldea had also received • cut right through the band, ea it she had resisted the 'larder. es attack, and her clothes were also disarranged. The bodies were removed to the nearest public-house sad an ioquest cyanid before Mr. • T. T. Dela/save, c,ro•er for the diatrict, ysaterday, and subsequently adjourned.  The esperistoodent eonstsbles of Folkestone, Winghant. and Canter►ury, and the police immediately commenced a vigerove search after toe murderer, and be was traced to Mattes, about Ave miles from Canterbury, where he p •sad two letters, one addressed to the mother of the dece seed, end the other to the captain of his con perry. They were both written is German. In the former the wretched mss alluded to the intention of the girl (Csrolint) to go to Wes leich, at which he appeared much hurt. He also eapressed morrow for what he had done. T►e murderer wee afterwards seen is the parish of Chatham, about three miles fronsCanterbury,where he subsequently attempted to commit suicide. Observieg some labourers coming along the road towards him, sear the viaduct of the South Eastern Rahway, the murderer took oat his knife, and plunged it into hie body three times. The men ran up to him, and Mr. Bond, a surgeon, woe quickly in attendance. He found him entirely polselese, but after administering s little stimulant he rallied, and was removed to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Mr. Reed, another surgeon, then examined the Reines of the wounds, and found that the knife had passed through the ►sor, and that the statorturista man was in a very critical state—indeed, it la hardly espeeted that he can live. It was about 6 o'clock this afternoon when he was discovered ; be had the two cloaks belonging to the murdered girls, turned inside out, sad wrapped round him, with the view of hiding hie uniform.