A LONDON TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7725, 26 March 1904, Page 5

A LONDON TRAGEDY.

Murder and Suicide.

{Received Last Night, at 10.4.0 p.m.) London, Yesterday.

A man named Crossman, a tickettaker, living in a flat at Kensal Rise, suicided in the street, under sensational circumstances, suggesting a desire to avoid arrest for murder. Another occupant of the house where Crossman resided informed the police that he suspected Crossman of concealing a corpse in an evil-smelling trunk in a cupboard. Crossman was bargaining with a carman to remove the trunk when the police arrived. Crossman immediately bolted, and when on the point of capture drew a razor from his pocket and cut his throat, dying immediately. The trunk was found to contain the body of a young woman, embedded in moss coment, and suspected to be the woman passing as Crossman's wife. The body was greatly decomposed and had been dead at least six weeks. Crossman's pockets contained correspondence showing an attempt to entrap a girl into matrimony. The murderer had served a term for bigamy and is supposed to nave married five women. After placing the body of his victim in a trunk he placed liquid cement over it, which stuck so firmly to the features that the woman was unrecognisable.