SECOND EDITION. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE AND MURDER AT LYTTELTON.

Evening Star, Issue 3708, 11 January 1875, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE AND MURDER AT LYTTELTON.

LOSS OF THE YACHT RIPPLE, WITH TWO LIVES. [By Telegraph ] Christchurch, January 11. A girl name 1 Isabella Thompson, was found dead, with her throat cut, in a paddock at Lyttelton at 6 a.m. on Sunday. The appearance of the body and clothes Lads to the inference that the girl had been outraged, A man named Alfred Osborne, recently released from gaol, where he had been undergoing a sentence of twelve months for vagrancy, has been arrested on suspicion. A man named W. L. Grant, a chemist employed by Gould and Co., was found dead in his bed yesterday morning. It is supposed that he died from an overdose of morphia, which ho was in the habit of taking to induce sleep (From our own Correspondent.) The yacht Ripple capsized in a sudden squall in Akaroa harbor on Saturday. Mr Sale, her owner, and Mr C. A. Haider, solicitor, of Lyttelton, who was on a visit to Mr Sale, were drowned. Two others swam ashore. [The Ripple was a gunter-rigged five-ton yacht, built by H. Green, cf Dunedin, and till a week ago was owned by Messrs J. H. Harris, T. Fraser, Gibbs, and Johnston, of Dunedin. It will be recollected that she was taken by her owners to Lv ttelton, where in the regatta there on New Year’s Day, she carried off the yacht race prize. Mr Sale, the owner of the Annie Ogle, the second boat, and an enthusiastic yachtsman, was so pleased with the Ripple’s performance that he at once purchased her. Mr N alder, the solicitor, who was drowned with hj m, was an equally enthusiastic man for aquatics, and he was always one of the leading spirits in the Lyttelton regatta. Mr Gibbs, we hear, before leaving Lyttelton, sailed with the late Mr Sale, to whom he is reported to have said “I hope the Ripple will not drown anybody, but if they sail her as they sail the Annie Ogle she certainly will.” How prophetic his words were the telegram unfortunately shows.] Another man was arrested this morning on suspicion of being the «Lyttelton murderer. He arrived here per Wild Wave, from Auckland, and shipped as cook on board the Cleopatra. Blood was found on his clothes, and his hands were full of gorae pricks. He was arrested by the detectives, and will be brought up at the inquest this afternoon.