MARGUERITE DIXBLANE. .

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1220, 18 June 1872, Page 2

MARGUERITE DIXBLANE. .

A terrible murder in Park-lane has disturbed the public much more. Marguerite. Dixblane, a French cook^ fell upon he> . mistress, Madame Riel, and strangled her " in the kitchen. The housemaid at the time was upstairs' j 'when she came down, ' the cook, who meantime had hid the body in the area, sent her for some beerj ** and locked her out then for 20 minutes. v while she coolly dragged the body into "^ better concealment in the pantry. \ She pretended she had quarrelled with her,, mistress, who had gone out, and had not "' ' opened the door out of pique, believing that it was she who had returned. The two girls lunched together, ; and the cook during the afternoon was upstairs and down many times, and in the evening ' made an excuse to go out. ■ The r house-: ■ " maid Was alarmed when the night came, j:, r and neither mistress nor cook. She passed the hours alone an terror, but did not -

suspect what had happened. Early the next morning, Mademoiselle Riel, the daughter, an actress, returned from a visit to Paris. Searching the house to explore the mystery, she came upon the dead body of her mother ! Presently it appeared that the safe where valuables were kept had been robbed of money and bonds to a large amount. The cook meanwhile had token fight to Paris, and thence to St. Denis ; and there she was captured before the week was out, with blackened face, in a charcoal shop. She has confessed the crime, and will be brought back to London as soon as the extradition can be arranged, but as she is a Belgian, there is some difficulty in adjusting the matter.