MUBDER OP ENGLISHMEN IN CANADA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8769, 3 May 1890, Page 3

MURDER OF ENGLISHMEN IN CANADA.

TRAPPED, ROBBED, AND KILLED. No crime in the past ten years has attracted such general attention throughout America and Canada as the murder of young Benwell by Reginald Burchell, who is now awaiting trial by the Canadian authorities.

Burchell, it appears, made a livehood and amassed considerable money by his infamous calling. His plan was to insert advertisements in London newspapers for young men to come to Canada and learn farming. He had his agents in London, who do not appear to have been aware of the full extent of his operations, but who painted tine pictures of the life of English farmers in Canada, and otherwise made things look glowing. A small amount of money was of course necessary to insure all these advantages. Tho young victims crossed the Atlantic full of hope, and were met by Burchell. Ho at once managed to find out how much each newcomer had, and if he could rob tho victim without murdering him, ho would generally do it, but if murder wa« necessary to get the money it would be committed. Benwell, it appears, wa« his last victim, and he was killed and robbed in n marsh near Niagara Falls, somo time beforo Burchell was detected. The detectives claim that they have positive evidence that two other young Englishmen who were previously seen in Burchell's company disappeared near Niagara under like circumstances. Since the crime has been all but proved other instances of mysterious disappearances have come to the surface. Detective Murray, of Toronto, has received a letter from Alderson and Sons, of New York, tolling of the disappearance of Augustus Haw lings and Frank Regabie, sons of English men, who were lured to Canada under the impression that they would be established on farms. One of them paid £1000 in England, and onethird of this sum was sent to an agent in Toronto ; KawJings paid £800 for a part intercut in a farm in North Lindsay, whon he flceme to have disappeared, and liegnbio Hunt a let tor from Niagara Fulls, jmyiutf tliftj k ]ii 3 ue&i jig wgyJd fan a, XuQ

account of what his prospects were. This was some years ago, but he has never been hoard from siuco. Other cases of a similar nature are being discovered, and it is now believed that tho many skeletons found by hunters in the Canadian wilds during the past iive years are those of Burchell's victims.