MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7020, 17 May 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN LONDON.

A discovert was made on Sunday (says a Home paper of recent date) in the metropolis which indicates that what was probably a shocking murder had been committed during the previous night, and that Burton Crescent has been the scene of another tragic mystery. It appears that a young woman of respectable appearance, named Annie Yeats, had for some time occupied a back, room on the first floor at No. 12, Burton Crescent, BruMwick Square. She went out on Saturday night with another woman who resides at the same address, bnt parted from her in the streets at one o'clock on Sunday morning. This other •yoman i 3 named Annie Ellis. Yeats was heard to return to the house shortly before two a.m., and it was supposed that she was accompanied by a man; but so far a3 is at present known no one saw her enter. Between two and three o'clock other occupants of the house heard a noise in her room as if she were in a hysterical fit, but no notice was taken of the matter, and nothing was seen of the young woman until a quarter to one in the afternoon, when the woman Ellis went to the room to speak to Yeats, and found the door partly open. She entered and found a lamp still burning on a chest of drawers. The latter had evidently been opened and ransacked; but otherwise the room did not appear to have been much disturbed. Ellis looked towards the bed, but could only see her companion's boots protruding from beneath the bed clothes. She removed the latter, and then to her horror discovered the body of Yeats with a towel tied tightly over her mouth, and firmly fastened behind tb.9 neck. There was a terrible, gash on the left side of the head above the ear, and the face wis covered with blood. Ellis raired an alarm, raid the landlady, Mrs. Apex, having been called, at once sent for a medical man. The doctor shortly arrived, and, having examined the body, pronounced life extinct, and expressed the opinion that death had been caused by strangulation. The police were at once communicated with, and Inspector Blatchford immediately proceeded to make an investigation of the circumstances. It was ascertained that a lady's gold ring was missing, b<jt a sum of money was found io the room. The matter was then placed in the hands of Inspector Langrish, of Bow-street. There is no doubt in the mind of the police that the woman has been murdered, but up to the present there does not seem to be any definite clue aa to the author of the' crime.