A CAB MYSTERY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3849, 17 November 1883, Page 4

A CAB MYSTERY.

The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star says:—The police arc much exercised just iioav over a mysterious assassination in a hansom cab, tho particulars of which strongly resemble one of Boisgobcy's best kuoAvn romances. It seems that on tho night of September 0, about elcA-en p.m., a cabman named George Smith avus hailed by a good-looking, gentlemanly young man, avlio directed him to drive to a cafe of somewhat CA'il repute in the Haymarket. Tho cabman went there, and his fare disappeared within. After. Availing nearly an hour, the young felloAv (whose mime Avas afterwards discovered to bo Mimdeo) camo out again. He had been drinking freely, and avus in a very bad temper. "That SAVcetlieart of mine has disappointed me, as thousands lniA'e done bofore," ho said to the cabby, and then directed him to drive him to a publb-houso in Coventry-street. The two men (Mundce and the cabby) had a drink there, and then Avent on to several other taverns, Avhere they also "liquored up." About midnight Mundee Avas drunk, and the cabman began to be anxious to get him home. Ho Avas driving towards Bloomsbury, Avhen Mundee suddenly stopped tho cab, and called to a girl they passed walking the same Avay, whom ho seemed to know, to get in. The young lady did so, and cabby was then told to drive about for half-an-hour, ■while they talked. He did so aud soon after one a.m. tho girl got out and disappeared. Cabby then drove Mundee home to Avhat turned out to be his lodgings in Guildford street. The young fellow did not get out at once, and his nose seemed to he bleeding. Cabby called to a passer-by that his fare was " tight," and asked him to ring the boll of the house and help Mundee out. The passer-by, avlio avus aMr Bradman, entered the vehicle to do so, but found to his horror that the unfortunate man was bleeding to death, having been stabbed with a knife in the region of the heart. Mundee Avas taken at once to the hospital, but has not been able as yet to proffer explanations, and the police can discover nothing. They know, howovor, that Mundee is tho son of respectable business people in the north of England, and Avas up in town on a visit. Ho had lived at the lodgings in Guilford street over a fortnight, and bore the character of beings sober, quiet, and gentlemanly yjuth.