Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-11-04 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TRIPLE MURDER IN LONDON.-SUICIDE  OF THE MURDERER.  The murder of. a woman and two children in Kentish. town, London, was discovered a few mornings ego. A family named Meakin lived at 2, Denolic-place. The hualeind, Iliram, was a hawker of hotter and eggs, and he let rooms in his hones to lodgers. Between ten and elm en o'clock on the morning of the dreadful discovery, Mrs. Shaw, one of the lodgers, knocked at Mmkin's door to get some butter. On receiving no answer, she partly opened the doer, but was too much alarmed by what she saw to enter. Informaloru ams sent to the police, and a brief examination disclosed that Mrs. Meakin and her two children had their throats cut, Dr, tiondehild, who was called in, pronounced life extinct, and said death had taken place ,owe hours prariouely, and the crime woe conunittetl while the victims were asleep. Tim mother and little boy. about two years of age, were lying on the bed. Between the betletmd and  window" we's an improvised cot, made out of -;;;;;;--ch.e.;t: on which lay the other little victim, Emily, between four and five years of age. The bodies were removed to the St. Pancras Mortuary. TIIC police circulated a description of the husband, and on the evening of the same day a telegram was remit ad at Kentish Town, stating that as body which resembled the description was awaiting ideatitication at Guy's Hospital. Inspectors Doable and Redstone, accompanied by the wife's sister, repaired thither, and the woman at once recognised the body as that of her brother-in-law. The man was soell on London-bridge Shortly before twelve o'clock in the morning. Suddenly jumping on the seat of one of the recesses, as though to leap over, two workmen tried to seize him, but without avail. The man threw himself forward, but instead of falling into the water he fell on one of the abutments. The tide at this time was very low, which rendered it impossible to get near hint from a boat. Ultimately a constable was lowered by a rope and secured the body, which was conveyed to Guy's Hospital. Meakin was about thirty years of age. He was horn in Lambeth, Damien, and was married at Camberwell Church. Some time ago he was in the employ of an egg and butter merchant in Tottenham-courtmad, but latterly he has hawked eg2a and buthr in Kentish Town. He was known as a quiet, inoffensive man, a staunch teetotaller, and a member of the Blue Ribbon Army. For the past tw lye months he had rented the house in which the murder took place. The rent and taxes appeared to burden him, and in orates to meet his ere litors he practised the greatest economy. Frequently be complained of the expenses be had to meet, and the trouble he had to collect his debts. During the past few weeks he had been very reticent, nodal times would scarcely answer when spoken to. The murdered woman was a native of Newbury, where her father, named Green, is in business as • tinplate worker at St. Mary's-hill. She was formerly in the service of a general draper at Newbury, but left that town about ten years ago and svent into service in London, where she became acquainted with Meakin, who then held a good situation ma cheesernonger's assistant. He ruarrie I her about six years ago, and it was than he left his situation and began business on his own account. Meakin's home taut Calais, where his father, a pensioned police officer, is living, and he has sisters there engaged in lace-making. Mrs. Meakin was 36 years of age. Only a day or two ago Meakin wrote to a brother of his wife, living near Newbury, asking him to corne to London and join him in his business, respecting which there had been some previous correspondence between them. The brother-in-law had intended joining Meakin, and had arranged to loots his aituation for that purpose,