| Show WONDERFUL coincidence PAST THAT RESEMBLE TH CRIMES nov 10 on reading re adina the accounts of the recent murder iwas I 1 was forcibly impressed by the likeness they bore to a series of murders that took place in a certain locality in melbourne australia arout fifteen years vears ago the same mysterious circumstances which chica surround the murders were connected with tie murders in melbourne the crime was always commit in one certain neighborhood the remains odthe of the victims were always mutilated i ix in i attic same horrible manner as those of the women murdered iti iii the appearance ot of ohp remains was frightful and la in some cases the body was literally backed to pieces one peculiarity identified all al these murders as the handiwork of the same fiend in every case some portion ol 01 the body was missing the melbourne police were helpless the murderer never left any clue as to how he reached the spot where the crime was committed or now how he made his escape A murder would be adm committed in a room at the top of a tene ment house all the doors of would be securely fastened and I 1 in one case even the door leading into the room occupied by the victim was found to be locked and the key rems remained ined IL the lock upon the inside of the door I 1 remember the details of the last murder but bat one which were about as follows charles maxwell was the employ e ol of a large mercantile house bouse the name ol of the firm being derby gardner co maxwell occupied a room ou on the floo a tenement house on X treet street his room fronted on X treet street and contained two iwo large win dows about nine on the morning of october 18 1872 the bode of maxwell out cut into pc 0 was discovered in his room by the landlady laud lad she and her servant while coing ani chamber work were unable to antei maxwells maxwelll Max wells room finding the door locked they rapped loudly several times calling to him aim at intervals but bet their efforts to arouse him met wib no response all was silent within afe tl e room the landl landlady atly becoming alarm alarmed d sent tor for her husband and the door ol 01 of the room was buret burat open then a most horrible sight met their gaze the body of maxwell lay upon toe floor parly arly under the bet bed one arm which bad d been severed from I 1 the he body lai la upon a chair ic the centre of the room the me flesh on the body was torn iron the bones and more still the head bead was missing and tae closets search failed to reveal its an examination of the door of the room showed that it hao had been bilt d on the In inside one of the windows 0 tile the room was found to be open thi th utter impossibility ot of a person gaining efi entrance trance to the room by vay v ay of th window was at onoe apparent th tb room was a front room on the floor of the building buil dine the only en trances were the two windows anc an the door which bed bad been broken this crime like the prece ling line cobeo remained a mystery aud and the real mur beier derer was only discovered discovered by an accident about a week after the murder the pec people ophe occupying a house in tho tb sarno samp neighborhood berei were alarmed one ond night by hearing a loud noise a suc succession casion of snarls anderies and tries a piercing piercing shriek and a heavy fall hashing gash ing out of ef their apartments they procured a light and proceeded r to investigate the matter re the foremost of the party stumbled over a hairy form lying on the pavement A closer investigation revealed the body of an enormous ape close by was found a bloody arm which had bad been evered from the toay of a woman underneath the boldy body of the ape they found a large knife the mystery was at last explained the which had been loosely 4 in a museum near by bad made his bis escape from the building and creeping along on the hooft of the adjoining houses entered the first arst open window to which he came by swinging lug himself over the edge of the roof and clinging cling lne to the cornice and other ether projections on the face of the building on one of his midnight excursions being unable to find an open window he hel sprang upon a pedestrian and atter after cutting him to pieces with the large knife which he carr carried iid he secured a portion atthe of the body and clambered up the si gidlof f a building until he be deac reached 1 bof and then made his way to the 0 f of the museum building where he feasted on the human flesh which tie he had bad taken from the body of his victim the bones representing the missing portions of the bodies of his numerous victims were found upon the roof of the museum building on the night that he was killed he be bad swung himself into an open window at the top of a tour four story building by means of the eaves trough and after odin adding one more victim to his list fist of horrible murders attempted to regain the roof by means of the eaves trough which cot rot being securely fastened gave way and he was dashed dagher upon the pat pavement ement below thus ended the melbourne mystery may there be a speedy of the murders dr JI afen ifen fen ner in denver news |
