THE HENLEY MYSTERY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2621, 15 February 1894, Page 4

THE HENLEY MYSTERY.

Another "mystery," a tragedy of a peculiar and puzzling character, has to be recorded this week. Miss Kate Dungy, a young lady of whom everyone speaks in the highest terms, was governess and housekeeper at Lambridge House, which stands in a lonely wood about two miles from Henley on Thames, and fully a mile from any other house. The owner, Mr Mash, a Piccadilly fruiterer, is away all the week, comiDg down only from Saturday to Monday, the children being left in charge of Miss Dungy. Last Friday night two lads, who sleep in the house when the family are away, endeavoured to obtain admittance as usual, but could not get in, though lights were burning inside. They then hunted up Dawson, the caretaker of a model farm in connection with the place, who came, and, also failing to obtain an entrance, instituted a search in the wood, where the boys said they had heard a sort of scuffling sound. Within a few hundred yards they came upon the dead body of Miss Dungy, who evidently had been brutally murdered, her head being smashed in, her ears cut, and her face disfigured. 4- hedge stake covered with blood was found close by. In the house were discovered a brooch and hairpins scattered about, and many signs of a struggle, also marks of blood It is supposed that a robbery was at» tempted, and that the robber, being recognised by Miss Dungy, turned upon her; that she ran out of the house to escape, and that she was followed and finally murdered in the wood. At present, however, all this rests upon more conjecture. No defiuite clue has been obtained, and the Coroner's jury have simply returned an open verdict. The aSd.it has oreated considerable sensation even in a period unusually prolific of sensational crimes. English correspondent of Exchange.