A MELBOURNE MYSTERY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3519, 24 May 1890, Page 2

A MELBOURNE MYSTERY.

Remarkable Case of Mistaken Identity. We recently published an account of the discovert, on April 23rd, of the body of a young womanjn Melbourne harbor, TJnusu,aJ interest is attached to the affair from the fact that a young man named Lightman thought that the remains were those of Miss Pauline Levi, a young woman who had come out by the Ibuthj a few weeks previously for tho purpose of marrying him;. The youpg lady had disappeared on the day bejofp the wedding day, March 31st, Lightman believed gome of the ai'|!«|os foiind on the dead body belonged to Miss Levy, but Mrs Breslau, with whom she stayed, could not ideutify the clothing, and doubts were sot at rpst by a telegram from Mildura, stutjqg that the iflissjng bruje ktyifs : there, having become tbp wile ofs,' J". Reid, who wos, her fellow passenger In iho Iberia, Inspector Webb, and Plaja-clotr.es Constable Fleming thencommenced their 'orb of ascer

■'talcing the identity of the deceased woman. The first step taken was to obtain a full and com. plote description of tho woman's garments from an expert in clothing, and while this was being done tho name of Messrs Foy and Gibson,

drapers, of Smith street, Collingwood ; was found on the insido ot the waistband of tho dress. The name bad

been stamped on in silver letters, which had been almost worn off, but were still legiblo, The dotcctives made enquiries as to the whereabouts oi each and every person of corresponding sizo to the deceased who had purchased dresses from Messrs Foy and Gibson's • establishment during the past two or three monthß, Tho head dressmaker at Mensre Foy and Gibson's was certain that tho

dress fonnd upon the deceased must have been made since February, for there were certain peculiarities in the stylo of the garment which were not in vogue before that date. Armed with this list the officers commenced their work, and at the South Yarra Coffee Palace they .ascertained that tho lady who had purchased one of Ihese drcsseg had left there about the beginning of April, and had not since been seen. The sealette jacket found upon the deceased was shown to one' of tho housemaids in the coffee

palace, ami she immediately identified it as one which she had Been the whilom boarder at the coffee-palace wear. This boarder.mis, Mrs' Boberte, She nas believed to have come from Tasmania, and according to her own statoment had. been married forabout fourteen months. Soon after h'r uarrwge her husband commenced to levelop symptoms of lunacy, and bough he took a trip to New Zealand or the benefit of his health bo derived iobene6tfrom the change, and shortly forwards became so much affected it it was conßido'red'advisable to

have him committed to the Kew Asylum, whore he still remains. Since that timo tho wife had frequently visited Melbourne, and tried on several occasions to seo her husband, but on the only occasion she was permitted to do so ho was bo much worse after thn interview that the medical men at Kew did: not consider it safe to'allow her to see him again. It was noticed that she was apparently fretting, and was depressed in spirits, She left there on the 3rd of April, and said she was' going to Qippsland, and then to Tasmania, where her friends reside. Tho body was not found till the 23rd of the month,' and ; according to the medical testimony it had not been in- the water for more

than four or five days. The police are anxious to find tho deceased's boxes, aa they anticipate that they will contain Bometliio;; which will not only more clearly establish the woman's identity, but may supply a motive for her death, The housemaid at ihe coffee palace. also identified the silver, banglea found upon tho deceased as similar to those worn by Mrs Roberts, After 1 Mrs Roberts' departure from the ' Coffe Palace a tologram came for her ' and it lias never been claimed, It ' was opened on Saturday, and read f thiiß:-" Hobart, April 16, To Mrs J. S. Roberta, Coffee Palace, Booth ' Yarra. Come over first boat. Letter

Melbourne Post Office. (Signed) J. f Miller," . That letter, will bo obtained from ; ,;,;.

tho Postmaster-General, and from it ISf. tho police expect to obtain the address of Mrsßoberts' friends in Tasmania. Mr Miller is believed;, to : y be Mrs Roberts' brother. The officera in charge of the case consider that the mystery has been cleared up, and that it resolves itself into a case of suicide,

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