A MELBOURNE MYSTERY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2235, 17 May 1880, Page 3

A MELBOURNE MYSTERY.

What is known as the Farrell mystery (says the Melbourne “ Argus”) appears to have quite baffled the police, who have been' unable to trace the missing woman, Mrs Farrell. During the past twelve months every possible search has been made for her, both in this and the adjoining colonics, without success, and the police are now fully convinced that the woman was murdered, and her remains destroyed in some way. It wijl be remembered that, some seven or eight days elapsed after’ her disappearance before the'police entered upon the- search, and this, it is thought, gave the murderers time to destroy all traces of the crime. A fresh statement has recently been made by a young women residing in Collingwood. This person states that late Otic night, about ten days after the supposed murder took place, she was standing at the corner of Glass and Wcllington streets, when she met two men, each carrying a parcel. As soon as the men observed her they changed their course across a piece of vacant' ground, and disappeared. The young woman further stated that when the .men approached her amost disgusting effluvium was emitted from the parcels they were carrying, almost causing her to faint. This person also stated that the odour was. quite foreign to anything she had ever smelt before. It will he remembered that on the night on which the woman was first missed a peculiar odour was noticed emanating from Farrell’s house in Montague street. Other matters have transpired, which leave no doubt on the minds of those who have been engaged in the search that the woman was murdered, and her remains afterwards destroyed.