Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1889-04-20 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

YOUNG WOMAN.. MURDERED BY HER  SWEETHEART.  SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.  A terrible tragedy, invented by considerable romance, wee enacted on toe Midland Railway between Nottingham and Trent Junction on Saturday night. The mail train from Lincoln to the West of England stop. at Nottingham at 9-40 and rune then to Trent, where the tickets of the Derby passengeni are oulleeted. When the ticket collector opened the door of • firet-alass compartment he wee startled to find a young gentleman i in the corner of the carriage bleeding from a wound in the temple, and a young lady in the 6ppusite corner with blood flowing from a wound in her head. Both were leaning upon the arm rests, and the man appeared to be dead, but the woman was observed to breathe. A telegram was despatched to Derby, for an ambulance and dieter to be ready, and two porter, were sent on in the compartment to Derby, which in about 16 minutes' run from Trent. It was found that the man was dead, but his companion was alive. She was removed to the Infirmary, bat died immediately after being admitted. A funr-rohambered revolver, two chambers having been dieeharged, wan beside the young man, and from the state of the compact. meet there is no doubt that he first abet the young lady and then fired • bullet into his own brains. A bullet lay on the carriage neat near the woman, basing, apparently, fallen from the wound in her temple. Investigation revealed the man's name as Robert Feron. He was a native of Brussels, and had been in Derby • few months in the employment of a firm of silk merehante. He was very respectably connected, end was sent to England to perfect•hinaself in the English language, and obtain an insight into the silk trade. He was only eighteen years of age, and hie oompenion, Lily Bamford, living in lodgings in Princess-street, Derby, was twenty. She wee a remarkably pretty girl, and am waiting for a •ariancy in • hotel in Derby where rho wished to be hirmraid. Feron had lately snow° her considerable attention, and on Saturday (itched her from her lodgings in a cab. They went top-then° Nottingham, and were apparently on good terms when they entered the train. On the return journey they were notioedehatfing and laughing together. Feron had undoubtedly contemplated suicide when he left Derby with her, for in hut own pocket were coven letters, five addre.,led to his parenta and friends in Brunets, and two to acquaintances in Derby. One was delivered to the addresa on it on Saturday night. Feron therein stated that he intended taking hie life, and added, "You will know the reason later on." No referenee whatever wan made an to the girl in this letter, and there had not ao far aa in known been any quarrel between them. It is thought that in a mad impel.e he determined to kill hie oompanion before taking his own life. Fermi au well supplied with money, and it in diftionit to ascertain his motive. i A Spennymore oorrespondent writes on Sunday night :Mr. Richard Knight, ironworker, of Chapel Strert Low Spennvmoor, received the foil wing telegram from Derby thin morning.—" Lily went to Nottingham yesterday and in returning here last night war found shot in the train; lies at Infi• may dead." The telegram was from a sister of Mrs. Knight named Williams. "Lily" named in the telegram was at ones understood to be Miss Lilian Burford, whose parent. resi lo in Half Moon-lane Spennymoor. Miss Burford won the youngest daughter, and is twenty years of un. She was a dressmaker, but being fond of Cr, stage she left home about two years ago for an engagement in a travelling theatrical oompany, and eventual y visited Spenn.moor ye rfersionellr. Three weeks ego ehe again left home to visit her aunt, Mrs. Williams, at Derby. Last week her parent. had a letter from her in which she spoke hopefully of securing an engagemset in a Derby mantle warehouse.