The Ministerial changes have interested the people nearly as much
as the Strand tragedy. A searching inquiry, which only ended on Thursday, revealed the fact that the story told by Major Murray was true to the smallest detail. He was really the fly, and Roberts really the spider. The cause of quarrel was, as we surmised, not money, but jealousy. Mr. Roberts, it would seem from the evidence, "wanted" a lady who has for some years passed as Mrs. Murray; watched his rival about with a feeling of morbid jealousy, and finally tried to remove him out of the way. Major Murray, who had never aeen his antagonist, fought for his life with an almost savage courage, and the jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. Not the least curious feature in the case was the evidence of "Mrs. Murray," which excited the feelings of a crowded court to repeated bursts of applause. Her genuine devotion to her protector atoned in the Popular mind for her equivocal position, an unusual instance in England of instinct beating decorum.
