DREADFUL TRAGEDY IN MANCHESTER.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3520, 19 October 1882, Page 4

DREADFUL TRAGEDY IN MANCHESTER.

Murder and Suicide by a Lovkr,

The neighborhood of St. Leonard-street, Charlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, was reC3ntly thrown into a state of great excitement by the murder of a young woman named Ellen or Ada Howard, or Franklin, and the suicide of her murderer —a young fellow under 21 years of age, whose name is believed to be Montague Ryle de Newby. Ifc would appear that Newby, whose father is a clergyman in Rutlandshire, and who was au articled clerk in the office of a Manchester firm of solicitors, bas been for some months past on terms of intimacy with the deceased woman, who lived with a servant at 13, St. Leonard-street. Recently Howard became intimate with another man, whom rumor says contemplated marrying her, a step which, it is said, Newby was desiring also of taking, but which in his case, at any rate, she did not view with favor. On the day in question, Newby went to the house and had words with Howard, who had recently returned from a visit to Ireland. Keport goes that lie went upstairs and brought down a box containing letters of his. Whilst in the front room on the ground floor sorting or otherwise dealing with these letters further angry words passed between him and Howard, the end of it being that, producing a six-chambered revolver, he shot her behind the right ear. Hushing out of the house the servant encountered a policeman, to whom she gave information of the dreadful occurrence. A medical man was at once fetched to the place, but his attendance was of no avail, life being extinct, although the bodies were still warm. Death must, it is believed, have been instantaneous in each case. The woman lay on the floor, with her head towards the window and her feet towards the fireplace. The man's head was near the door, his feet being towards those of his victim. The revolver proved upon examination to have two chambers not discharged, the other four having the appearance of having recently been emptied.