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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 96, 26 April 1894, Page 2

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Tho Mivriposit'a datoa Jroin Europe ore fc) April 7. In London oa Maroh 18th a sensation was oauaed by tho diaoovory of a orimo that Bomowhat resembles tho notorious G.mffe murder in Paris. The soene was in Gr&ftoa etteet in boho, a district ia the vioinity of which the polioo recently raided the Anarohißta Club, An Australian woman named Mane HormanD, wu)l known nB a night prowler, rented a email room ia Grafton street. On the night of Maroh 16 abe in oompany with an elderly man was Beon to enter a room. Subsequently loud quarrelling wu3 heard in Hermann's roqm, A man named Hutching, who lodged with the Hermnun found on the 17th blood stains in a Biak, He apoke t» her about it and. she passed the matter off lightly, but oa the baturday she changed her lodging* t-king better apartments <n Mareleboai afcreet, She to ?, wi J lh 1 5 M » toavytiaok Which she naked should be oarefnlly handled. In the meantime auapioioua was aroused and police offloew having forced open the trunk found the body of the missing man, The head ?, ad , ,* n battered, evidently with some r, v n'ltoa.trnmenfe, The body presented a fri|{b,tfnl a P pearanoß, The clothing was drenohed with blood. Herman was taken in oastody and charged with wilful murder. The body was recognised as that of a well to-do ex-job-oaeter named Stevene, 66 y« a ra old. It is believed that Hermwrn had. an aooomplioo as Stevens yen a musoular man. i ml B h t» n °woyop, have been killed while asleen. fto prisoner is 4* yearaof age, ugly Almost to repulsiveness, 8 Mr Gladstone reoently reoeived a letter Crow bis cona.titu.eata. i a Midlothian, io

whioh he wai requested to continue to iejp« resent the county la the H'<uge of Odmmon«, ne wrote in reply derhringthat his chief deeirfi would be to follow toe; wißbeflfof the oonstitueuta whom he represented.^* said There will naturally be a oh^gf in my attendance m Parliamet t. I ctfnot yet judge how far my B ight and hearing will . d cable my performing Parliaments duties. As to the merits or demerits of my carter, and certainly I have been ohargeable with many errora of judgment, I hope I lnve tit least been governed by upr'gbtnew of inter.ton nnd n deaire t> learn i " H« then reviews his pubHo life of alxty'yeare, dating fr,m Lord Grey'a Inform Aot, whioh hn describes as the political^ With of bootlxnd. Mr Ghdstoue gays that hit oarerr haa been a history of political, eoono. mical, social, mora', and intellectual emancipation. In all the numbsrleaa causes that had been brought forward in this r tims Scotlaud had batt ed for the right. deeply convinced. 1 ' he adds, « that nutU the ju?t demanda of Iroland are sdtieiedas the Uouao of Oominonß tried to aotUfy them neither the legislative wa- fcj of any portion of the Uaited Kingdom will bs adequately mot, nor will the Empire at ams ita maximum powers, nor ita honour he effectively olearedof the deepest hiatorto etfcin BT flr attiohed to it." The Ameriom summary oonfaina full I additional p-irrionhrs of the labour rising !in America oie of the develdpmeuta due to hard time in the United States ua „ ot formln fir into a lolid body all men out of work and to;maroh on Waahiogton the national capifc.l, where the leaders are to lay the ova of thoit fdldwers before the PregideDt and OoDgrefs and demand immediate relief at tno hands of the General Government The movement is siid to be encouraged by the "populiatP," a third politioai party Utaly sprung into existence nnd they have Riven money and proviaiona to aid. The atmy ii Mcpeotcd to rendezvous at Waßhlogtin oa or near (he o\pitol atep3 ou May 1, Ib ia aho estimated that it will number 300 000 utsons under the leadership of a ma» named J. B. Coxey who ia considered in main Conservative quarters a sort of American Jaok Oade. The mowmet.t is oeit^ioly a wild and impraotioable one. Cox«» will demand on behalf of his followers theemploymantof all who a-eidleby the Gorernment m»knj roads, . including ft great national highway oonneotin B the At* antio and Pacific ooaata. Neari> all the Urge oities are expeoted to con'iribate a quoti of recruits to this army, i,nd it U le *Xi Wa » h i"Bton will i\» overran with bad oharaofcere, aiao that mnoh hardship and Buffering wM reault. 'Forward movementa h%va already been nude from phio.T^xas, and California, and meaauret have been taken in the different SUtes through whtoh the army will pans.' If ib threatens poace the respective Govetnon will uuita in arresting it? progress,