A CAB MYSTERY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1178, 24 November 1883, Page 3

A CAB MYSTERY.

The police are much exercised just now (writes a Londan correspondent) over a mysterious assassination in a hansom cab, the particulars of which strongly reaemble one of Bolsgobey's best known romances. It seems that on the night of the 6th September, about 11 p.m , a cabman, named George Smith was hailed by a goodlooking gentlemanly young man, who directed him to drive to a cafe of somewhat evil lepute in the Haymarket. The cabman went there and his fare disappeared within. After waiting nearly an hour the young iellow (whose name waß afterward found tobeMundee) came out again. He bad been drinking

freely and was in a very bud teni| <r. '< That sweetheart of mine lias disappointed me, as thousands have dene before," he said to the cabby, and then directed him to drive him to a public house in Coventry street The two men (Mundee and the cabby) had a drink there, and then went on to several other taverns, where they also " liquored up." About midnight Mundee was drunk, and the cabman began to be anxious to get him home. He was driving towards Bloomsbury, when Mundee suddenly stopped the cab and called to a girl they passed wilking the same way, whom he seemed to know to get in. The young lady did so, and cabby was then told to drive about for-half-an hour while they talked. He did so, and soon after 1 a.m., the girl got out and disappeared. Cabby then drove Mundee home to what turned out to be his lodging 3in Guilford strset. The young fellow did not get out at once, and his nose seemed to be bleeding. Cabby called to a passer-by that his fare was •' tight," and asked him to ring the bell ot the house and help Mundee out. The passer-by who was a Mr Bradman, entered the vehicle to do so, but found to his horror that the unfortunate man was bleeding to death, having been stabbed with a knife in the region of the heart. Mundee was taken at once to the hospital, but has not been able as yet to proffer explanations, and the police can discover I nothing. They know, however, that Mundee is the son of respectable business people in the North of England, and was up in town on a visit. He had lived at the lodgings in Guilfordstreet over a fortnight, and bore the character of being a sober, quiet, and gentlemanly youth.