The Haslingden Gazette. — 1906-03-31 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

NEW READERS BEGIN HERE.  'the Cory opens with a newspaper aunouneement I it; the suppneed murder of Dr. Redfern on the 18rh of Novel:labor. IB—. in Bolton-oquart,, an oh. scum court in Whitechapel or 'Soho. The mar relation of murder was raised by "The Evening limaki." who statoi that •• there wart islawlutely uthing in the appearance of the laxly to account for death. Dr. Redfern W.. ea maey people are :mare from bis appearance on temperance platfornm. a rigid total abstainer." In support of his theory ef murder, the editor of the Herald.' says: On the wrting while before which the doctor was eitting st the moment of his death lay • note enclosed in 81/ envelope which the deceased gentleman had addressed but had not sealed. It was addresend to an eld medical friend of Dr. Redfern', fixine an appointment." The "Herald" continuee: '' It is difficult to suppose that if Dr. Rc,lfern hail contemplated suicide he would have written such a note before taking hie own life." On the night More the murder the deceased gentleman's nephew, Captain Everett, wee with too doctor, anal did not 1.-ave until • late hour. The horrible discovery was made by Anne Pearce. who found the doctor soared in a chair—dead. Dr. Davis. aeistant to Iltr. Redfern. was quickly on the acetic, followed by Harvey Freston. Dr. Redfern's stepson. Whilst they are talking, Mrs. Redfern bursts on the scene and gives way to an uncontrollable passion of grief. The two men leave the widow to her grief. but hare* Imve they left the rcom when Mi. Dangerfield °Weft,. and, noticing a letter on the floor, she palm it up. and after some hesitation conceals it in her pocket. MeanWhihs Dna White and Cart, ford had been called in. and during their investigations Dr. White noticed a shirt which had boon rm. moved front Dr. Redfern's hody, on the breast of which were two drops of a beranai di fluid. The two medical men are agreed that the stank: were caused by coffee. Dr. White carries out some experiments es to the effects of coffee stains on linen, and tueoreds in obtaining stains exactly the sate, as those on the deceased doctors shirt by adding litheno to the coffee. The moult of the doctors' 7n,nstigationo give rise to suspicions that Dr. Redfcm had met hi, death by poition. but whether selfadminiateresl or not is to bit determined. In last week's iaetalment Oiinio Dangerfield revealed her fere for Captain Everett. who, however. is in love with a -Dora Tremayne. companion to a rieh widow. lire Fairfield. The latter, however, cautione Dora against an alliance with a gambler, urging that eamblens never reform. Whilst they are diormaing the matter Captain Everett enter-, the room. Ho hue pts'viotely Oropor-od to Dora. and desime ma an-woo. She, however, in view of the information that her lover is a gambler. refuees him until he has Moved that be is not tet reerteented. The inquest on the body of die late Dr. 'Redfern is then reamed. and a phial piodured by Dr. White which he had taken from a cuphrord its the deed doeter's house produces a sen.ation. The phial contained litharte. and there was a euffithent quantity in it to kill twenty people. The reira't of the iquest wa, a reftliet to the effect that Dr. Redfern died from a dose of lithane. hut how admini-tered them was not sufficient evidence to 'slow. A mporter artery:anis elicited from a juryman that five of the its were in favour of a verdict of wilful mar. der" against. Captain Everett.