DREADFUL TRAGEDY IN MANCHESTER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1176, 16 October 1882, Page 2

DREADFUL TRAGEDY IN MANCHESTER.

MUBDEB AND SUICIDE BY A LOVEB. The neighborhood of St. Leonardstreet, Chorlton-on Medlock, Manchester, was recently thrown into a state of great excitement by the murder of a young woman named Ellen or Ada Howard, or Franklin, and the suicide of her murderer—a young fellow under 21 years of age, whose name is believed to be Montague Ryle de Newby. It would appear that Newby, whose father is a clergyman in Rutlandshire, and who was an articled clerk in the office of a Manchester firm of solicitors, has been for some months past on terms of intimacy with the deceased woman, who lived with a servant at 13, Leonard-atreet. Recently, Howard became intimate with another man, whom, rumor says, contemplated marrying her, a step which it was said Newby was desirous also of taking, but which in his case at any rate she did not view with favor. On the day in question Newby went to the house, and had words with Howard, who had recently returned? from a visit to Ireland. Report goes that he went upstairs, and brought down a box containing letters of his. Whilst in the front room on the ground floor sorting or otherwise dealing with these letters, angry words passed between him and Howard, the end of it being, that, producing a sixchambered revolved, he shot her behind the left ear. Alarmed at the noise the servant came to the door, whereupon he presented the weapon at her. She thereupon ran away, immediately after which he shot himself behind the right ear. Rushing out of the house the servant encountered a policeman, to whom she gave information of the dreadful occurrence. A medical man was at once fetched to the place, but his attendance was of no avail, life being extinct, although the bodies were still warm. Death must, it is believed, have been instantaneous in each case. The woman lay on the floor with her head towards the window, and her feet towards the fireplace. The man’s head was near the door, hie feet being towards those of his victim. The revolver proved upon examination to have two chambers not discharged, the other four having been recently emptied.