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- FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY AT HUDDERSFIELD.

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FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY AT HUDDERSFIELD. A murder of a peculiarly horrible character was com- mitted on Saturday morning at Bradley, a small village "within the township of Huddersfield. Amongst the residents of the Tillage was a man named Joseph Haigh, a J.P., of Colne-bridge. Haigh is a married man, and with him reaffled his wife's uncle, an elderly man named Joseph Pogson, who having accumulated a little money lived without work. Haigh's wife had lived with Pogson, from her infancy, and on the occasion of her marriage he transferred his furniture and effects to her husband's house. Latterly Haigh, who has been a man higuly respected, and so far religious in his habits as to be a Sunday school teacher, has manifested a moroseness and harshness of disposition which has been a source of great anxiety to his wife, to whom his conduct has latterly been very severe. Between three and four o'clock on the Sunday morning he awoke his wife and requested her to assist him in saying his prayers. Thongh wondering at the strangeness of the request, she thought proper to liuraour him and readily commenced to repeat the prayers which he used. They were concluding with the Lord's Prayer, when he suddenly stopped and struck his wife a Violent blow on the face with his fist, replying in answer to her question as to what it was for that she was • only mocking him.' After a few words she succeeded in pacifying him and again went to sleep. Soon after he began to treat her with great violence. Her screams awoke the children sleeping in another room. They Uniting their shrieks with those of the mother caused an alarm which awoke Pogson, who appeared at his bed- room door opening on to the same landing to ascertain the cause of the commotion. Haigh no sooner saw him than he let go his violent hold of the woman, who made a hasty retreat down stairs, and rushing towards his Unfortunate victim, threw him on the ground, and in his frenay of violence jumped upon him and trampled him beneath his feet, crushing and mangling him in a frightful manner. While this was going on the distracted wife was alarming the neighbours, some ot whom she preceded into the house. Haigh was quickly secured and handed Over to the police, aud surgical assistance procured for Pogson, who never spoke or showed sign of consciousness afterwards, and expired in less than three hours. Haigh was taken the same morning before the West .Riding magistrates on the Hudderfield bench, and "remanded to await the result of the coroner's inquest. It is hiated that the murderer is insane.

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