MYSTERIOUS MURDER.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1537, 11 May 1882, Page 4

MYSTERIOUS MURDER.

n tThk'folgia\i'auWoiities>hWve offered a reward^of 20,000f..f0r the discovery of the mimldrSfof'M: Bernays; tlie" celebrated Antwerp lawyer* M* Bernaye was sum on' the ,7th January, 1 by' u apera6qV l^ I g,h™selfJfle^i-yVaiiglian, < who liacl taken and luxuriously furnished a ljouse in the 4<ue de la Loi. M. f| Be'rnays had previously received some .'letter- 'h-om Henry Vaughan, asking S'ariou^ Questions as to ! the Belgian I law pqnperning;p\il;lic companies, and notifyiiigjlu?, intention of establishing an intevoceaiuc lino of steamers, with head>quarters,at Antwerp. The body of M. (,^ernays, was not found until the 19th (January, upon, receipt of a letter from itenry Vaughan, dated from Basle., stat(ing.that^is death had been the result of an accident while examining a revolver, and ) -the ''dead body would be found in the hoiiße lately occupied by him. This proved to be the case, and the lawyer was .fotind inj an arm-chair shot through the back of the head, a basin beside, his gloveß on, and all his valuables about him. 1 Ad efforts on the part of the Belgian police to trace Henry Vaughan .have hitherto proved unavailing. It is • thought that he is not an Englishman, but a German-American, and it is probable that he had been in negotiation with persons atV Liverpool, Newcastle, and in other .ports of England for the "establishment of a line'of steamers.