Widnes Examiner. — 1889-06-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

TIIE MURDER: OF AN ACROBAT.—A STORY OF REVENGE. A shocking tragedy oraurred late on Friday night at the stage door ef the Canterbury Music Halt, 'London, a man named benne, the leader of the troupe of cycfists, !being fatally stabbed by Nathaniel Curragh, who is mid , to be the manager of the Cravfonl Watet works. Curragh afterward+ attempted to eammit suicide toy firing a revolver into bit month. It to stated that a daughter of the ahotilant who was formerly a member of Lxine's company dial from annsunnition, and that Sirtr.t. her &mum Cortugh had teen mentally affixted The circumstances attending the tragaly are of a , peculiarly painful character. It appears that the I Let Inc tmupe, conwtsing Mr. and Mtn Letine, their j adopted daughter, a child, and thri e young women, ! had been engaged' at the Paragon ?Male that. Mite'the PrellrllZ'Z'ontho'ftervrell,clV, ahoy ' conveyed from the one hall to the other in a carnage, and reached the stage deer of the Canterbury, which ix ntoeural by a milway :melt, about a quarter Wore , that hour. The ladies of the party steptarl out of the vehicle and Letine was that last to leave. He had no sooner alighted than eurragh appreached him and raid, " I have been waiting for yftll a long time end now I have got vat.' Withrait any furthur warning he phamed a knife into the 1 abdomen of Let ine. who, with a groan feff to the gamed, before the Iputmders had quite n-alia-ci what had ! Jraurred CUrragh had crossed the street and nutting the j muzzle of a reviver in hiS rtmata tired and fell. The ; discharge of the revolver noon attracted A forge crowd J j the pollee were summoned, and the mindenr and his victim were conveyed to St Thomm's Ffemital without !delay. labine was admitted to the an ident Ward. and I on his clothes being rut from his body a wolind abou: 12i0. in extent. just above the right groin, was revealed. It WO evident that he had nativist a fatal injury, and in half an hour he was dead. In the meantime Curragh vas brought into the hospital in an Ulle/HlSei,ill% eonditMn. lIP 005 examined by the m d medical men, and it woo foun that ft,, le.,nt teeth of his minor jaw had been smashed, and a Millet, which but for this circumstance would have mitered the brain and probably caused his immrof ate death.ltari hnbeildal it+elf in the roof of his mouth j and partly in his palate. it woo not considenal prudent j to attempt to extract it no Friday night, hat on Satin-1 day thfs wm done by Mr. Croff , one of the senim migeons at the hospiul. The wimnd bled pro?well, after the operation, but a fatal result ix not anticipated. An to the motive at the crime, it appear+ that one of j Curnigh's dinightera was at one time a member of 1 Letine's trent, Stir, however, left last year, and dial some hate before Christmas. Curragh naans to have had to notion that her death was on SOllle way to be attributed to nnkind tmatinent reeeived at the hands of Letine in training her for the perforreame. 1 At the tinniest, held at St. Thomas's Homibil, Wont' minster, on the hods of George Thomas Letine, or Gnrin, a venliet of wilful murder watt returned against Nathaniel Currant., who i+ now in the hospital suffering from injuries mlf-inflicted after the attack on Latin, 1 mil!rel,TtlZint."„;..7.h.ll7-7„,,Caror'n llTl:Mt„h+ZJlL'„lfTetrinnoon, &clans that Gin man is I,opelesaly  *P!!/!: ;