THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS MURDERERS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 4 January 1889, Page 2

THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS MURDERERS.

i GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY. ILLNESS OF ME. BUSKIN. THE BRADFORD MURDER. I SPECIAL. | London Ist January. Sir W. Gull, the well-known physician, is seriously ill. Mr. Matthews, the Home Secretary, refused to reprieve the two lads who brutally murdered an overseer at Tunbridgo Wells, and they were executed, being repentant at the last. Throo thousand pounds' worth of jewellery has been stolen by burglarß front the house of the Austrian Ambassador in Londoti. Captain Lake, late of H.M.S. Nelson, hats been appointed President of Greenwich Naval College. The Enulish Government view the visit of Mr. Gladstone to tho Vatican with disfavour. The Standard states that the copper syndicate will control 150,000 tons,- which has absorbed twolve millions of capita}. The interest on this amounts to something like half a million per annum, and stocks are still growing. As the imports from Chili, America, and Australia are increasing, the Standard is of opinion that a crisis is imminent. The Earl of Aberdeen, speaking on the subjoci of the appointment of colonial Governors', said ho considered the action of Queensland was" a temperate assertion of her rights. The Board of Trade ia compelling the electric light companies to obtain Parliamentary sanction to their operations. Mr. Kuskin 18 ill, and much anxiety is felt on his account. The Pall Mall Gazette says the Queen recontly sent a present of JJ2S to Miss Wiedemann, the plaintiff in the breach of I promise aotion againßt the heir to the Earldom of Orford. The prevalence of fogs has caused a number of railway and shipping fatalities. The Primrose League is stated to now number 800,000 members, and its ranks are Btill increasing. Truth asserts that the Earl of Kintore was appointed to the Governorship of South Australia because the Captaincy of the Yeomen of the Guard is to be abolished to facilitate Royal economy. The name of the Bradford murder victim was Gill, which was misread as a statement that the ohild was a girl. At the inquest the police are endeavouring to prove that the accused Burnett and the boy were delivering milk when the former decoyed him into the stables and there committed tho crime. 3rd January. Mr. Leonard H. Courtney, Chairman of Committee in the House of Commons, has been created a Privy Councillor. Baron Bramwell has been created a baronet. Sir W. Gull is recovering from his illness. Washington, Ist January. Tho authorities of St. Louis, Missouri, have prohibited the boxing exhibition by Kilrain and Mitchell. A man named Sohloops, of Philadelphia, has confessed that, enraged at the gluttony of a boarder, he murdered him. The dissected limbs have been found.