HORRIBLE MURDER IN ENGLAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 63, 26 March 1904, Page 4

HORRIBLE MURDER IN ENGLAND.

SENSATIONAL DETAILS. LONDON, Yesterday. A man named Crossman, a ticket taker, who was living in a flat at Kensal Kise, suicided in that street under sonsational circumstances It is suggested his desire wa3 to avoid arrest for murder. Another occupiiit of the house where Crossman resided kformed tho police that he suspected Crossraau of concealing a corpse iv an erilsmelling trunk which waa in a cupboard in the house. Crossman was just bargaining with a carman to remove the trunk when the police arrived on the sceno. Crossman immediately bolted, and when on the point of being captured, he drew a razor from his pocket and cut his throat, dying immediately. The trunk was found to contain the body of a women who passod as being Crossman's wife. The body was greatly decomposed, and she bad been dead at least six weeks Crossman's pocket contained some correspondence, showing an attempt to entrap a girl into matrimouy. The murderer had served a tarm for bigamy. He is supposed to have married five women. After placing the body of his victim in. the trunk, he poured liquid cement upon it, which Btuck so firmly to the features that tho woman was unrecognisable.