Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1886-04-03 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MURDER IN LONDON 14 YEARS AGO. The American police have in custody two men named Reilly and Sisscovitch, who are said to have murdered a Mrs. Chapman in Leedon 14 years ago. As told in the New York papers the story of the crime has a singular interest. About a year before the murder of Mrs. Chapman, her husband, Joseph Chapman, together with the two men Reilly and 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, and, maleing her way into the prison, she was able to communicate with Reilly and Siiscovitch. Chapman at the time had been guilty of a breach of discipline and was undergoing punishment in a dark cell on bread and water. His associates promised to assist in the escape of Chapman if Mrs. Chapman would supply them with files and other tools. The woman smuggled the tools into the prison,and before the men mode any attempt to break out of gaol she started Lack for London. 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. C;eipman became aware of their treachery she threatened to expose them to the authorities. Her murder fellow-d the threat, and oefore the discovery of the crime Reilly and Sisscovitch disappeared. It has now been discovered that Sine°. vitch, who has adopted the name of Dago is serving out a long term in the peniteniary at Clev.eland, Ohio, and that Reilly has just been arrested, with a man named Raymond, for forgery. The arrest of Reilly has led to the revelation of the cir‘ umstances o the murder. After the crime was committed both Sisscovitch and Reilly fled to America, and, under thealiases of Dago and Elliot, they have hithei to succeeded in evading detection.  VICTOR HUGO'S POSTHUMOUS The appearance of the first volume of the posuaumous works ;.)f Victor Hugo is the great literary event of the day. Altogether the executors estimate that they have material for ten volumes, besides an immense number of letters. "La Theatre enLiberte," the volume now issued, consists of a number of pieces in dramatic form, but with one exception declare by the author himselF to be unsuited to actual representation. They are meant for that idea theatie which everyone can imagine as he reads. All the book is in verse, which, according to general testimony, will rival the finest, the most brilliant, the sweetest, and the gayest effusions of the romantic poet. Most of the pieces were written in the poet's seagirt place of exile The "Grand'mere," which is the principal piece, shews a powerful German Sovereign enraged at hearing that her son, who disappeared 10 years ago, is living in a forest, but has married the girl he loves and has three children, preferring poverty with love to luxury without it. In the midst of this sinister opposition of slavery and despotism, the free development of a sincere love and the joys of family life are preferred to the noisy and empty pleasures of power and fortune. The denouement is reached without transition 9 • it comes as a simple incident. The ruling mother of the Prince, after having declared that she will put her son in prison, send his wife to a convent, and turn his children out of doors, suddenly on seeing them begs her son to come with her and put an end to the solitude from which she has suffered for 10 years. From this rapid sketch the philosophical idea of the author may be clearly seen, and a glimpse may be had of the inference he meant to draw from his incidents. In these short and condensed pages there are passages of wonderful beauty exhibiting a deep feeling for nature, an infinite love of children, an unlimited tenderness for all who suffer for the sake of love. One of the plays is a sort of curious fairy tale, called " Mangerontils ? " The question is, whether two poor lover, condemned by a king to die of starvation in a wood full of poisonous herbs, will eat or be starved to death. Verses recounting the tortures of hunger and thirst alternate with pas4onate ecstacies of love. Ultimately the lovers are rescued by a poetical and witty bandit. The piece concludes with a brilliantly written farewell to nature by the dying Sorceress of the Forest. "Li Foret Mouillee" is the concluding piece. Its personages are the flowers, the plants, the pebbles, the brooks, and a philosopher who sees in the forest a refuge from love, which he detests and despises.  The Rev. James Graves, general secretary of the Rlyal Historical and Archaeological Society of Ireland, has just died at Innisnag, county Kilkenny. He was a voluminous writer on lustorical and archeological subjects.  A girl named Hasnah Hulme, in the employ of Mrs Glover, Lawn Villa, Milverton, near Leamington, has committed suicide by cutting her throat with the car, visa knife.