On Saturday last, a murder took place at Messrs. Nevill's
bakery, Milkwood Road, Brixton, which is remarkable only for the exceeding smallness of the motive. The victim, Thomas Furlonger, one of the bread-packers, was found in a pool of blood, in furnace-room No. 1, an hour or so after he had re- ceived his weekly wages, which amounted to £1 3s. 3d., with his pocket turned inside out, and the money gone. A man named Gorrie has been apprehended on suspicion. He had been seen going towards this particular room, where be had no business, a little before the murder, and when arrested he had a scratch on his hand, and also a slight wound on his throat, for which he did not satisfactorily account. He had also taken home to his wife and given to her 338. on the afternoon of the murder. But whether the police have hit upon the right culprit or not, there can be little doubt that the murder was committed for the purpose of getting the wages which Furlonger had just received, and which were missing when the body was found. It is hardly possible to conceive a slighter motive for so deadly a deed. It looks as if in our day murder were often committed rather because there is a certain convenience hi one of its minor consequenoes, than because there is any great pressure of temptation, rather because the murderer sees no sufficient reason for leaving it alone, than because there is any overmastering motive to draw him on.
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