A LONDON TRAGEDY.

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8262, 31 May 1895, Page 3

A LONDON TRAGEDY.

f At London a man named Woodj ward, while in the neighborhood oi g tha Strand, met a young Jewess , : named Rschaei Goldstein, and wenl with her to a room ooonpied by her in Waterloo Road. A little white , after, screama of •• police " and " mur- ' der " were heard ; and on some ol l the oeigbbore entering the boaee they I found Raohel Goldstein with her throat ont, and Woodward brandishing a razor in front of her. Woodward's story was that an attempt had been ' made to rob him ; but at the ooroner's ' it quest there was a good deal of false I owearicg on the part of some of the ' witnesses, notably, a man who had oohabitcd with the deceased, and lived ' on iho proceeds of her shame. This \ corrupt evidence obscured for a time the credit to be attaobed to Woodward's version of the affair ; bat eventually it wt.s believed. It was shown, moreover, that insanity was in his fiarly, »Ld that in moments of excitement— snob a3 that produced by the lear of beitg robbed— he was liable to a sadden excess of frenzy. T>. c mat. pleaded guilty to manßlaughter. Bet tence v*as deleted.