14 SEPTEMBER 1901, Page 2

A very odd and suggestive incident occurred on Wednesday in

the Clerkenwell Police Court. A working watchmaker named Jung was on the 3rd inst. found murdered in his work. room, and the hue-and-cry being raised, the presumed murderer was seized. He turned out to be a Frenchman named Michael Faugeron, and when committed by the Magistrate for trial he declared that Jung had lent him money, had talked equality to him, and had promised to make his fortune if he would kill Mr. Chamberlain. Faugeron refused, whereupon Jung demanded his money back, and not getting it attacked him with a piece of iron. Faugeron then drew a knife and stabbed his assailant fatally. "I consider," he said, at the conclusion of his statement, "that I have rendered a great service to Europe." The police will, of course, ascertain the antecedents of both Jung and Faugeron, and until after the trial it would be incorrect to comment upon this evidence; but such a story should not be lightly dismissed as a romance. If it is true it is most serious, and if it is false it shows the kind of ideas which are fermenting in the minds of the refugees of all nations who swarm in Soho and Clerkenwell. The crisis of the South African War is upon us, and Mr. Chamberlain, who to the baser sort of Frencbmem Dutchmen, and Belgians represents embodied evil, will do well to take some precautions which at other times he would disdain.