ARRESTED ON A LINER.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5801, 1 May 1912, Page 6

ARRESTED ON A LINER.

DRAMATIC EPISODE AT LIVKit-

POOL

A dramatic double arrest for mur-j der was made- at Liverpool a few . weeks ago on board the steamship Augustine, oi the Booth Line. As the vessel was slowly . making her way up the Mersey to tiu' lauuing stage, a tug containing live men came alongside, and at a signal to the captain the Augustine was slop. ped to allow the shore party to board. This little group of early visitors were 'detectives, and directly Un-y boarded they arrested t\w> rVcnch passengers on the i;i;>l: charges of double murder, roL/oery, ar.U arson. 'I he passengers anvsteu, whoso names were s.-iid io be I'leriv.1 ! «■•'- berihine -\m\ .lean Cla-.i :k-v, were two men who h;U" b >oUe 1 pu^svigtrf from Lisbon in itu mwiw (.•; wi'-'h-./rt land Cham !)•:!•'.l*.'. S Scotland VarJ v.;is .<; l ->n o in- ! formed of the iciest.. , v-! '. nsicM <>r .Vieholls arri-.--.;U in 1i \ •.".•;;00l l^' bring the 1-w.) ; ri^ouei's lo Lend •'- Superinte-ui'.'iu I'^ssc'iari, • ■i lh c Paris Sureie lieD.orj.'e, g<-i\e scjihidetails of tie u«.ul !e murder in connection with -vnich rhe.se two men are now charged. A weal'hy old iiuji v. I'm n\-i;;e<i alone with two serwuits —:i \ ou->g girl and an uged w.unan housekeeper—in' a lonely mansion in flu* Chaleu.se depari-mrnt, near Bordeaux, was found murdered. Tic younger servant was aho Killed, The old i.x-xn, whose' head had been battered in was lyinj.; across his bed, an'i t'iO ser\ ant girl was dead the lower iloor. The murderers hd\H]g /jrst forced the- st.ie and obtained raore thai: £400 in notes, gold, ant! silver, had then soaked the giri's head in pnraTm, and set iire to the house. The housekeeper—;ui old wouibn — who slept on -ne top I'oor was not known by me m«i< ik-rers to be in the house t-ml ;ihv viept calmly through the tragedy. Jt wa.s otu.v the alarm o:: iire and the arrival of the firemen after Ihe house wa.s in flames which aroused her tc the knowledge that she wa.s tin- only one alive in i,he house.