MURDER ON A LINER.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12502, 31 March 1909, Page 4

MURDER ON A LINER.

A clue— a slender one, it is true, but still a clue— to the murderer of Mme. Claudius, the English wife of the inspector of the Egyptian Post Olfice, has been found, says a London exchange of January 31st * : The lady was found with' her throat cut in her cabin on the Messageries . steamer Portugal, and a man was ar < rested on suspicion, 'out . afterwards released. .Now the police have found a small pocket diary i# which Mme. Claudius speaks of having met, when leaving London, and again on the train at Calais, a fellow-traveller who, while not having exactly the air" and bearing of agentleman, was yet very courteous and charming, and spoke English extremely well. The next entry was at Marseilles, on board the Portugal. "Imagine my 'surprise when on going on board," says the writer, to er.counter my fellow r traveller of Calais." There the "diary breaks off abruptly.. The police are making inquiries at London and Calais with a view to discovering something more of the mysterious fellow-passenger to whom the deceased woman made reference. Mme. Claudius had been to England to place her children at school, and was returning to TEgvpt-. She had joined the Portugal at Marseilles, and was found on the morning of January sth with her head almost severed frpm her body. ! Bloodstains were* noticed on the door, and footprints in the corridor. The baggage of all the passengers was searched, and every corner of the steamer was inspected, but without result.