MURDER OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN AUSTRIA.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3106, 15 March 1883, Page 2

MURDER OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN AUSTRIA.

In January a paragraph appeared in one or two of the Vienna newspapers briefly announcing that a murder had been committed at Fischamend, near Vienna, tbe victim being an employe of an English cloth manufactory lately established there. Nothing further appeared on the subject, but it has been ascertained that the crime thus briefly reported without particulars was perpetrated on two Englishmen—-Mr Jubb and Mr Joseph Marriott. Tbe latter was found dead on the scene of the occurrence, while Mr Jubb was seriously wounded. The circumstances of the case are as follows : —A year ago the Yorkshire firm of Jubb end Unaa founded a cloth manufactory at Eischamend, where Mr Jubb, a cousin of the senior partner, has for some time been residing, Mr Joseph Marriott, a young man of twenty-six, was employed as secretary in the establishment. Some women who bad changed quarters iu consequence of the floods, were employed as weavers at the English cloth manufactory. They had been provided with fresh accommodation by their principals, and were lodged in a room at a publichouse called the Brauhaus. There they suffered from cold, and on the evening of tbe crime sent round to Mr Jubb to complain, and to ask for an allowance of spiced wine. Mr Jubb, accompanied by Mr Marriott, walked across to the Brauhaus to see what could bo done for them. While the two Englishmen were talking with the women the man who is in custody unceremoniously entered the room and was requested byMrJubb to withdraw immediately. The man refused, saying that he kept company with one of the inmates, and bad as much right to be there as Mr Jubb himself. Thereupon Mr Jubb tried to turn him out by force, but in the struggle that ensued was thrown down, while bis assailant called his companions to the rescue. Two of the latter came in at once, and Mr Marriott, seeing the odds were against him and his friend, drew a revolver, which unfortunately would not go off. In the scuffle which then took place the light was put out, and the two. Englishmen wore stabbed in the manner already described. Mr Marriott received two mortal wounds, one on the skull, and the other severing the jugular vein, from which latter he bled to death. Curiously enough, Mr Jubb was also stabbed in the region of the jugular vein, but was saved by about the eighth of an inch. Two knives were found in the room in which the crime was perpetrated. One of them was a coarse kind of stilletto, worn by the peasants in some parts of Austria in their boots. It belonged to the man who bad been kept under arrest. The other was a large clasp-knife, the property of one of tbe men who have been released, and who had a severe cot in his right hand. Both weapons were covered witli blood. The first man who entered the room states that he alone is guilty of the double assault, and apparently it was on this evidence that his two companions were set at liberty.