A notable murder was committed in Canonbury on Wednes- day.
Mr. Wright, a bank clerk, is away at his business all day, leaving his wife, seventy-one years of age, at home alone. Between 2 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, two men, both young, called at the house, and on Mrs. Wright answering the door, forced their way in. What next occurred is unknown, but Madame Chef deville, the wife of a French photo- grapher living opposite, heard screams, and rapped at the door. The two men rushed out and disappeared, and on the arrival of a policeman, to whom Madame Chefdeville appealed, Mrs. Wright was found on the floor of the back passage, sitting up, but dead. She had been struck, but not severely, and having heart-disease, had died of alarm and pain. The motive of the murder was evidently robbery; but the criminals, though they had begun to ransack drawers, had been frightened by Madame Chefdevill.e's rap, and fled without booty. The murder is curiously like that of Mrs. Samuels, wife of the dairyman in Kentish Town, which occurred last year, and, it will be remembered, has not been punished to this day. So many houses in London are left all day at the mercy of any one who will commit murder for a little plunder, that the occurrence has roused a most unusual excitement.
Previous page
