DOUBLE MURDER AT FRANKSTON.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 382, 2 September 1875, Page 3

DOUBLE MURDER AT FRANKSTON.

The Argus of the 16th ultimo says ; Intelligence was received in Melbourne yesterday evening of a horrible double murder which had been committed at Fraukston on Saturday evening, when a man and woman were almost instantaneously killed by being stabbed to the heart. The circumstances attending the crime, as far as we have been able to ascertain them, are to the following effect :—For some time past a man named Howard (proprietor of the Mornington Hotel, Schnapper Point) and a woman named Wright have been keeping an hotel at Frankston, under the name of the

A new torpedo vessel called the Alarm has been completed at the navy yard, Brooklyn, United States. This is the second of the kind built during the past twelve months, both being designed by Admiral Porter. The Alarm is entirely constructed of iron on the bracket plan, with double hull and bottom. She has seven water-tight compartments in the sides, and whenever necessary can be brought down in the water lor the purpose of being trimmed. The Alarm is 170 ft long in the keel, 140 ft on deck, and 28ft beam. She has 312 tons displacement, carrying one 20-inch gun on the bow, and when fully equipped will have four Gatling guns on board. There are three torpedo bars, capable of firing fifty pounds of dynamite, equal to 400 pounds of powder, and 100 loaded torpedoes, and about the same amount of cartridge and shot. She has stowage room in her bunkers for five days' consumption of coal, though when necessary Bhe can carry on her deck coal sufficient for three days more. The engines and torpedoes are worked from the wheel-house, and need but one person to work them. Accommodation is given to six officers and sixty men, and when out on dutyshe will carry two months' provisions. She is supposed to be very fast, and will be able to make fifteen knots an hour easily.