The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1886-04-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CLUE TO AN OLD TRAGEDY. The Adriatic has brought files of the American I papers of the 18th inst., containing particulars of the discovery of the mysterious murder of a woman named Mrs. Chapman, 14 years ago in London. The I particulars of that murder are of a very extraordinary character. About a year before the murder of Mrs. Chapman, her husband, Joseph Chapman, together with two men named Joseph Reilly and Carlo Sisscovitch, 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, I 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 1, bread and water. His associates promised to assist in the escape of Chapman if Mrs. Chapman would I supply them with files and other tools. The woman smuggled the tools into the prison, and before the I men made any attempt to break out of the gaol she started back for Loudon. A few months later Reilly and Sisscovitch escaped from the prison without making the slightest effort to assist their companion Chapman. The fugitives fled to London, and when Mrs. Chapman became aware of their treachery she threatened to expose them to the authorities. Her murder followed the threat, and before the discovery of the crime Reilly and Sisscovitch die appeared. It has now been discovered that Sisecovitch who has adopted the name of Dago, seeving nut a long term in the penitentiary at Cleveland, Ohio, and that Reilly has just been arrested, with a man named Raymond, for forgery. The earrest of Reilly has led to the revelation of the circumstances of the murder. After the crime was committed both Sisscovitch and Reilly fled to America, and under the laiaBe3 of Dago and Elliot, , they have hitherto succeeded in evading detection. The murder took place in Maude-grove, Rrompton, 4,t The crime was supposed to have been committed by ! Sisscovitch alias Wallace. A verdict of wilful murder was returned by the ooroner's jury, but the police theory was that the woman, who was in a very weak state of health at the time, and died from the shock of discovering that she had been robbed of a large quantity of valuable property. Sisscovitch was then living with a woman in the house of Mrs. Chapman, who was believed to have been strangled. In regard to Mrs. Cloonan, however, it is a fact that many years before her death she was herself concerned in 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 lured 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 the authorities that Sisscovitch was in America, but they have never thought that the evidence against him was of sufficient 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 rims, an incident sufficiently rare to be noted. Father Kopatscheck, a monk in the Capuchin Monastery at Olinutz, 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