Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-11-22 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MURDER OF A LADY NEAR TORQUAY.  ATTEMPT TO BURN THE MEM  A terrible crime has been committed at the fishing village of Babbicombe near Tor any. An e'derly lady, named Miss Keytte, lived in a chalet at the foot of the well-known glen with three female servants and a young footman, nomad John Lee, Between three and four o'clock in the morning the cook was awakened by the fumes of smoke, and on opening her door saw the house woe on lire. She raised an alarm, and the coastguard and fishermen, and a few nei h ours sneceeded in extinguishing the fire, bat found the house had been fired in three places. he body of Mimi Keyes was found in the drawing-room in a pool of blood wi.h the ack of her skull fractured and her throat cut from I ear to ear. fain belie, ed that Miss Keyse, accordiwz to her habit, came down for coop of cocoa and was attacked by the assassin and dragged into the dean ingroom, John Lee, the footman, has been arrested on auspiciou. Pis right arm was bandaged, and he stated he cut it by I reaking the window glees. o motive Is assigned for the crime a present, for tho.ch many Ivaluable things are in the hence, none of them was touched. Lee underwent a term of imprisonment last year for stealing plate from his master, Colonel Brownlow, and Mies Keyse took hint into her service. lent January, that he might redeem Ma charaeter.  THE Crewe pollee have apprehended a man, who gives the name of John Joseph ardman, but who has boon travelling about under several aliases, on ths charge of tontranting bigamous marriages with a number of perm,. in di erent parts of the cosntry. On the 13th of last month the prisoner was married to Annie Wood, a young woman of Crewe. hey had not lived toget en mthe than a fortnight when a woman, claiming to be prisoner'. tiret wife, and who said she married him at Warrington in ls •., ttppeared on the scene, and primner decamped. The police have, it is said, is. covered that the prisoner also contracted 0 marriage in 187.. and that that Der.. is 4.11 lining.  Ace inquest bee been held at Poole on the body of a young woman. age I , namnd lane are, who committed suicide by drimning En deoce WAS glees 1,1101, tog that deceased, who woe a woman of immoral dm. meter, had lately been drinking heavily, and that after looking at a photo 'mph of a young man named James, who was murdered in Poole by a Dane a year or two ago, abs went tot public-bouse where she was refused drink, and she then went straight to the quay, lumped into the her our off Fisbamble asps, and was drowned. A beers house keeper said he heard a splaah in the water, and on , going to the spot with a man named Biggs, saw the ' water bubbling. Remade the remark that be thought I there was someone farina water, and he then went home and told his wife that he should know the spot if there was an, body frowned , After some severe remarks from the Coroner, who said that the rum of 10e. was given for bringing a body ashore hot nothing for saving life. the (nosed wesudionnial.  EARTHQUAKE SR UK IN LANUASFIIRK  A severe Mock of earthquake has been felt atClitheroe. A terrific report like thunder was beard at the time of the Aria, and a lurid glare was observed in the Ay, furniture was shaken, and people rushed 000 01 their houses in a terrified atone. One woman, named Wilkinson, fainted with fright, and a wagoner, who was travelling on a road, states that hi two horses were nearly thrown to the ground. The earth eke caused considerable excitement all over the neighbourhood.