Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-09-11 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDES CAREFUL PLAN. The investigationaby the London, Leiceeter,.. aed. Manchester police into the mysterious death of Mr. Lowe, a Manchester merchant, while travelliug ma the Midland Railway between London and Leicester, have resulted in some very extraordinary discoveries. The case was of a very complicated character. Souse of its circumstances are not. only. quite inconsistent with an ordinary case of suicide, but seem to point almost conclusively to the crime of murder. Weed, it is almost certain that, had there been any suspicious passelger by the same traiu whose movements were of a very doubtful character, the case would have assumed a very different aspect. The statement made by the deceased in, a letter to the effect that he had been paid the sum of £1,200 by some one in London is now believed to be entirely false., and to form only a part of a series of aeliberate acts and designs for making his act of suicide appear a horrible murder for the sake of plunder. When he entered the midnight express at St. Pancras iit s now conjectured that, in; accordance with Assigns previously planned, the- deceased got a railway porter to get his ticket foe hips, giving him two sovereigns, and receiving back /ss. 6d. tn change. The guard of the train as well as the porter saw the deceased put this money into Ins poet, and it is believed that he adopted this method of getting his ticket to make it absolutely certain and well known that he was possessed of some money when he started. It is now almost certain that in the journey from London to Leicester this money was thrown out of the carriage window by the deceased himself, and then, in order to still further support the theory of foul play which the deceased evidently wished to create, it is supposed he tore. his coat pocket and pulled off the buttons, as if to suggest that there had been something of a struggle in the railway carriage. Singularly enough, however, the rings, gold watch, and other valuables on the deceased had not been disturbed in the least. He must, however, have elaborately arranged how to use the revolver, so that when he had blown out his brains his hand should not retain the weapon in his death grasp, but that it should fall outside the window. In this the deceased was to a, large extent successful, for he fell a sufficient distance froisi the carriage door to excite the gravest doubts AS to the possibility of his having died by his own hand. The revolver, too, had slipped front his hand, and strangely enough fell on the footboard, where it remained while the train travelled, it is supposed, over 40 miles. The movements of the deceased for several days before his death suggest suicide, but no adequate cause has yet been assigned beyond the suggestion in one of his letters that he was in pecuniary difficulties. It is stated that his life was assured for a large amount, and it is suggested that this supplies a motive for the alleged elaborate and detailed plan for making his suicidal death appear to Le one arising from the attack of a robber.  It is stated that the Panama Canal will beoompleted In 1889. From 15,000 to 20,000 workmen are now engaged in its construction. A terrible accident is reported from Paris to have occurred at the Baccarat Glass Works, where, owing to the bursting of a boiler, five men were instantaur push, killed and five badly injured,  diL