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[ H ECHOES FROM LONDON. TlCAi-SOCIAL—LITERARY, :Om our Special Correspondent.) THE PURPOSE OF HISTORY. uatigural of the Cymmrodorion *0"J:9 session, 1388 89, was well attended. was represented by Mr Lewia Morris (who ^-Upied the chair) and Mr Kinnersley Lewis, **h! aD':>r of-A Hymn to the Eternal "and 'vni-kaown poems V official politics by Mr ^fthar J. Williams, &*>■> and Mr Thomas E. .pll*i ac'p,. the **»y by General R. Owen --Bes, <3.5^ and (^knael Ridgway; art by Mr '.rhomas,S.S.. and Mr Milo Griffith; Qajc by Mr Jo Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia); .luaria*research by Mr Al £ re/i Nufct and r j *ard Qwoa. Judge Brynmor Jones's ad- i 'i; Welsh History in the Light of Walsh j ^as interesting in its detail ami valaable in I' ^l^smeness. The uncritical method and E 1)0 ktcifcfli r< 2ope <» £ the Welsh historians of the ,J-a\ ar!' bf!comin more painfully apparent day Since their time, as Mr Brynmor Janes narked, history has ceased to be a more • "P»Haient of the belles lettres, and has ruent e tC )ak; a science; it has ceased to be a pageant, f J beooojg a philosophy. It is no longer ^It^ely concerned with the fortunes 0f mdi- 1^-or of familiesf court, or political intrigue, I fWd the Vicissitudes of war. It affects to deal I ,tJl l'te changes in the social, legal, and f ?*°tlorn'c condition of all classes in a community, rn; c conditiop of all classes in a community, tc !î:;it the intellectual evolution of a people in f 0 Philosophy, literature, and culture in a [ to,Kivo a rational interpretation of the of a natiopA-1 organism. WILsH DISTORT AND WELSH tAW. POT the treatment of Welsh history in the above described, Mr Brynmor 4 pointed out that we have fortu- 1Daterial of considerable extent and great i\ v T in the Ancient Laws and Institutes of a" edited by Mr Aneurin Owen, and ltJbliabed in 1841 by the Record Commissioners. Tn these—especially in the Venedotian, the rile,an, and the Gwentian Codes, ascribed to Dda—the student of Welsh history ^ag •>ir.9 i means of getting a true explanation of is perplexing: and obscure m regard to •, "^gin and development of the Welsb- inhabitants of the principality an(} it laws that the historian must resort to i>f <*5rm footing for dealing with difficulties C history. Douhts bave ^deed been 0Wa "n the authenticity of these collections, without much reason. Even if the preamble yif e ordinance of Rbuddlan did not state that 4*7 caU8e'^ the le9es et conauetudines up to ?' in force to be recited before him, i !ro5^h'ijg We iearn about the earlier history of > [ & Nations leads to the conclusion that the | 'tribes rrnst hare had a system of law, 1 W.Ti-j':i c'veloped, in operation before « i Hhsfc :nql4e;¡t. It has been often stated 1 4. f*nn;lationS show marlro^ 1 fjn?** ^>t Eijgijsh f^adal iriflijences. OFV °.PIE!R ■ 3 DOUBT' F0UUDED on the points ujj be • • • n the institutions disclosed by iaW>J &nd 1 036 ° £ SaXon Exg'and. The Ijjj *rity exists, but the infeience a» usually put It is based on an incorrect idea ot th° eariy legislat'oi* and an ignoring of e tbat tllttre are just as many Points of f11- between the leading principles of the PhrZ!0 ana Bl'r ;n or IriBh laws- Terms and r.l0ft f »y have been borrowed from Teutonic but the PrinCipaI 'nstitutions and disclosed are too fundamental to have n borrLwod from any other nation. 4. AT:O*AI MUSICAL ASSOCIATION FOR WALES. olle tht Soci°t f ^uties 1mposed on the Cymmrodorion held \i'n« of ths aist&ddvod wction meetings *txbum m September last was that of CQQenitJ a ii,eet;i-.g of Welsh mUsIcians for the i:Shjn°8e of ^cussing the desirability 0f estab- f? a National Musical Association for coiw:' t0 take 8teP3 f^m a tion Io "LCordanC0 Wlth the r«jS0lu- s-mi to meet the wishes of the con*" niUsical fraternity, a meeting was afc ^e Haven Hotel, Shrewsbury, for Ry» 27;.h ultimo, when the following *we present:—Mr John Thomas )t Jr Joseph Parry, Mr Henry XL. j°' Nankins, M*r Bac.; Eos *{■» Tin. I'r'TP, Merthyr Xydvii; Alaw • 'r .7_ues. Ir&Mdifcero, T.Btmuei, Swansea;Mr Alald^yn JSom* fi ty. i" H. 'PencerEUd ^laeior),ilr W. [tow ,8U>8 ^ei,cercld Berwyn), Mr G-ittens, New- rjj J. Williams, organist, Carnarvon iow ^°De8, Coedpoeth Mr J. T. Rees, tij and Air Rees Jones, Land ore. On j Proposal of Dr Parry, seconded by Mr Rees chair was taken by Mr John Thomas oi tkCSt<^ Mr Vincent Evans, secretary Hri 9 9^ln,0rodorion S >ciety, read the resolntion tito Circol*r convening the meeting, and *cUon of the society in relation thereto. W proposed, Mr l>avid Jenkins ,^°nded, at)(j lt was unanimously resolved, r v a society of Welsh musicians, entitled the Clonal Musical Association of Wales, be ^blijhed^ The meeting was not very definite d* to objects of the new society, but after xj^aaion H was resolved, on the proposal of Mr yS" °- Jon%8 seconded by Alaw Ddu, to define .The development of music in general, f J* e8P«ci*liv orchestral and instrumental music .?• "«.>«,/„[ tbo „f mwicl P»»» '» W,]M.» ,V association -SB>»"■* to ™- *«— !^ai*lec| ;» i„ed on proposal of Dr "Couded by 'Idr lieury Lesbe, That the of Wales be requested to become president «Zr» It wis farther resolved that the S^pe^ftfae Welsh bishops, the members of foment tot Wales, the princpale of theeduca- "^insti/f ,ind representatives of all the k6,C J?*10™' Ins should be invited to ^C, nom,nf°! „f the association. A f^lco^JoTermetnbers, with power to add 'Wte L a then nonunated. On the ^0tW^ber'fT is seconded by Dr Parxy, it hmai S aful executive committee be mbera chosen equally from 30 S For South Wales the l°C^S°Uth Wa a;0d -M^srs Dr Parry, |Cl7r °z' e^w.D J™ki"s- ^«,^(Pea v Morl^,M. O. Jones, D. Ak EYaaS'. Hagrh Edwards, Landon 'bercarne |)aJ, D^vies, Dowlais R. Aberdarer Bow-^reen; W. IS' ^lMeW; Id D. w. Levis. For ^"nh to fcw^sea John RobwK Portmadoc; ^•^illi es:—less .Q O. Roberta, Dolgelly; !S» >• l W. LZ. ^bert »F. C. W pritcbard, Wrexham; X ^.Tauy.ris.au;^ W. WiIliajDS ■t^W«(PWCeJ » Pa"y» Birk" • j Tybrose I"loyd' Chester; G. s Jot»*<w- F Gittins, Newtown ttxr T were nominated honorary T T I>- LlewelyD» of Penller- *«, ag Mr treasurer; and Mr Joseph ^HrHenTy Leslie, and Mr A. Rutson, ^'f^on of services rendered by them to sh rnj^. odded to the list of vice- of meotoolup it «. th»^, 8Ul0ea per annum. •L'AI „ for bis services in the Cha.r, and on Dr C^'8 Motion vote of thanks was accorded to Society for the disinterested Whjch they had taken up the question of a tjj Musical Association, and arranged for the 'late 1 of the representatives of Welshinusic. A thanks was also passed to Mr Rutson, *albM*ided a nomber of Welsh vocalists, &c v"^>>>tit>ft- th musical studies. It was arranged raeof the executivo should be ^00faster Tuesday at Shrewsbury. ^RKIHAM BISTEDDVOP AND ITS HESULT. C,» local committee of the Wrexham .'l^^Vod have brought tb9ir wor^ '° a close. ^•>1 surplus >.»U.bie « »"•' t of the arrangement entered .nfco 18 « it. an At the request of Marchant Williams committee, Wir at Wrexham on behalf of •t>i»tioa, .and earned its object. Mr j IV- The Mayor (Mr Evan Mow.) and itn'ritchapd, the ex-mayor, expressed the hoi of the committee at being able to th^ ^^substantial snm to the assocxatron for Cp .tnce of the interests of the eisteddvod. aa, ° I ajn informed that the association f Reived as surplus funds from the ea Bisteddvodau of the last bye or seven • :.s 4 friflfe over £ 200, whilst hy the generosity p ars it has been able to give away in • aUdi expend in the publication of ^»ld Transactions," „ something over THE BOXING-DAT COMPETITION. The annual competition meeting of tha London 'Welsh Sunday-school Union was held on Boxing Day at Shoreditcb Town-ball, when Professor Rbye. of Oxford, presided over a; orowded meeting. Professor Rbys is never more at home than when discussing, antiquarian lore on eisteddvod platforms, and his Coxuig Day address on Welsh Christmas-customs was interesting in the highest degree. Miscel- laneous gatherings of the Boxing Day kind, however, are not the best fitted for appreciating such pleasant discourses, and therefore it is the more satisfactory to know that Professor Rhys's address has been secured by my energetic confrere, Adfyfyr, for tha columns of" Cymru Fydd." A large number of competitions took place, and the meeting was prolonged to a very late boor. The first choral prize fell to the New Jewin Choir, the second to the Barrett's Grove Choir, and the third to the Chelsea Glee Party. A WELSH PROFESSOR ON "MACBETH." Possibly the revival of Macbeth, at the Lyceum had nothing to do with the ethical exposition of Macbeth at Wilton-square Chapel on Tuesday night. It was, however, from my point of view, a happy coincidence. Prof. Ellis Edwards, of Bala, a deep thinker and a sturdy moralist, gave a thoroughly interesting address on Shakespeare's great play from the ethical standpoint. The character he thus evolved from the play would admirably suit the conception of Macbeth as now pourtrayed on the staga of the Lyceum by Mr Henry Irving. Professor Edwards's view of the Thane's guilty wife, however, differs very materially fuom that embodied by Mws Ellen Terry. The address was listened to with the greatest attention by the audience, many of whom mostprobably bad not outgrown the Methodistical objection to theatre going." One of the speakers, in some subsequent remarks, opined that if we bad more Shakespeare the theatres might be less unholy, but, alas, all dramatists are not Shakespeares, and theatres must therefore be still-forbidden I A WELSH STATESMAN IN VANITY FAIR." ii Spy," in the last number of Vanity Fair, gives a fairly good-natured presentment of the member for the Denbigh Boroughs, and Jehu Junior" classes Mr Kenyon amongst his Statesmen eminent—and otherwise. We are informed that the honourable member—twice elected and twice defeated at Denbigh—was born eight and forty years ago, and that he was educated at Harrow, and polished at Oxford. He qualified for the bar, and was called by the Middle Temple in 1869. Unable to accredit him with forensic fame, "Jehu Junior" generously accords Mr Kenyon" enough law to make him the very excellent county magistrate he now is" He praises our member whom be dubs "an elderly young man with the appearance and manners of the Rtudent," for his "Life of Lord Chief Justice Kenyon," and marks his statesmanship by saying that he is a great deal that a Tory member of Parliament should be." Mr Kenyon's Welsh record,according to "Jehu Junior,"isa meagre one, being confined to somewhat inactively sharing in the government of the North Wales College, and showing his Cymric proclivities by owning « a house near Abergele, which is somewhat unpronounceably named Llanerch PanDa" Mr Ktmyon is a better Welshman than Vanity Fair gives him credit for but Llanerch Panna is near Eliesmeret which, to say the least of it, is some considerable distance from Abererele, THE APPOINTMENT QF WELSH WHIPS. The full report I was able to give of the meeting of Welsh parliamentary members at which the above appointment was discussed has proved use- ful in more ways than one. In the first place it has proved serviceable to several contemporaries who have vary kindly reproduced it. Now I have no objection whatsoever, apart frofc editorial wishes, to this particular form of flattery. Lack of proper acknowledgment may perhaps involve a question of journalistic ethics, but I am more concerned that the truth should be generally known than tbat it should shine solely from my ownparticular beacon I have, therefore,nothing to urge against my friends of the North Wales press for their appropriation of my report. But I think it is only fair that they should appropriate with discretion and with correctness. Mr J. Bryn Roberts, the parliamentary member for the Eivion Division of Carnarvonshire, in a letter to a contemporary, says that the statement imputed to him that Mr DUlwyn and Mr Alfred Thomas were desirous of driving the coach too fast is absolutely untrue. In the original report no euch statement was imputed to him; the expression is simply a plain inference from what he said and what he did. Except on this special IiobertH haw oat traversed the report, which I absolutely vouch for in every narticuiar, The difference between bis amend- ment aud'the original resolution was by no means a nominal one, so far as the views of the meeting of parliamentary members were concerned; we will possibly find, notwithstanding bis somewhat over-confident boasting, that it is by no means a nominal one in the eyes of Welsh Liberalism.
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THE WELSH PARLIAMENTARY wti I PS. Mr Bryn Roberts, M.P., and his Critics. The following has been addressed by Mr Bryn Roberts, M.P., to a contemporary S.r.-A perusal of your article would lead the reader to infer that my amendment was a direct negative to the resolution. It was not so. The following were its terms :— "That the chairman and secretaries be em- powered to issue a circular to the Welsh Liberal members requesting their attendance in the House whenever a Welsh question of sufficient importance is likely to be under discussion. If three members shall make a requisition in writing for the issue of Butb a circular, then the chairman and secretaries shdl issue the same, or forthwith call a meeting of the committee for the earliest possible moment to consider the advisability of such a caurse." In moving this amendment. I pointed out that there was no difference in substance between it and the original resolution. The difference was purely nominal. I objected to the name of whips being substituted for the old name of secretaries. I considered tha proposed new designation to be ostentatious and bombastic, and tending to mis- lead the country into tfoo supposition that some lead the country into tfoo supposition that some radical change was made in the constitution of the committee, whereas nothing of the kind was contemplated. You seem to be under the im. pression tbat the question at issue was the formation of an independent Welsh party. It was nothing of the kind.. As far as I am aware not a single Welsh Member entertains any such absurd idea, and certainly Mr Dillwyu does not, for, after I spoke, he altered the wording of his resolution with the ex- press object of excluding atiy such inference. The statement imputed me that Mr Dillwyn and Mr Alfred Thomas we desirous of driving the coach too fast is absolutely untrue in every respect, and, in fact, the veiy reverse of the truth I said that not a single member present would »o further tha« I would in an active movement, ut j objected to adopting hign-scAiuding appellations which meant nothing. I said that I thought we ought, instead, to take sjme active practical steps to secure nights for the discussion of the. Welsh Disestablishment resolution, and the Welsh Land Bill, and I painted out a method by which I conceived this might be attained ih the next session, and which I trust will be adopted, As a matter of fact, my amendment velitfurth., than the oliginal resolution, for, as u see, it provided a method by which a circulardeltting the attend- ance of the members could be sent at the initiation of any three members, as well as on the initiation of the chairman, wbith is the onlv method possible under the resolution adopted. I ought also to state that 1 repudiated in advance the suggestion that any bombast or misleading of thd country was intended by the lesolution but that phrases were inadvertently Used which I thought would have that tendency. It was resolved in the commitUe, some time ago, that its proceedings should be regarded as confidential and private, but that tin secretaries should communicate to the press anY, that they might consider desirable to Hake public As recent events, however, prove that it i« impossible to prevent partial and imperfect reports based on hearsay being published, I think it would be better to admit reporters to the meetings in future, and I intend at the next meeting to propose this. You express the opinion that Eivion (South Carnarvon) is inadequately repented if not misrepresented, by me i* matter. As to that I shall wait without apprehension issue of the next foueral election, and I am very sure that it will Pr0Ve that the opinions ot the Liberals of Eiv^ more accurately represented by their member than by your estimable leader writer. I s^oy]^ not, however, have written tow letter to Contro- vert any raatter of °P'u,?IMf the matters of fact had been accurately 6 forth. 1 tun one of t^ose who think that the Welsh Liberal members need not trouble themselves very much on account 0f the petty nagging attacks that are frequetitly made upon them by a snrail section of the We*ah press. The domineering tone which a few, vfry few, Welsh editors think themselves entittedi, the plenitude of their fancied omnipotence \0 assume towards the men who devote their lives, and a large portion of their means, to Liberal service is in my mind somewhat ludicrous and contemptible, and I am inclined to think the country is getting rather tired of it.
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MEASLES AT MOUNTAIN ASH. Owing to the prevalence of meaftlea.and acting upon the recommendation of the medical officers, the school board have decided to close the Mountain Ash Schools.
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? Horrible Murder at Bradford. I 1 A BOY CUT TO PIECES. An Arrest Great excitement prevailed in Bradford on oacurday morning when it became known fcbat a murder, accompanied by mutilations similar to those which characterised the YVhitechapel tra- gedies, bad been committed in the town. The Ascovery was made about balf-past seven by a lad named Joseph Bucke, assistant to James Berwick, botcher, of Bradford Market-hall. Shortly before seven be went as usual to some stabtes and cowhonses, which are tenanted by his employer, on theThornciiffe-road, Maamngham. lie bad been in the stables on the previous nigbt, and saw nothing unusual. This was also at first the case on Saturday morning. At length, however, he had occasion to go outside the stables in order to dispose of some refuse, and then he saw, propped up between the coach-bouse door and the wall of buildiugs, what he at first took to be a bundle of clothes or rags. Alarmed, he at once hurried off to get assistance from an adjoining bakahouse, whence Albert real and two other bakers accompanied him back to the stable. A policeman was speediiy summoned, but in the meantime the alarm had spread throughout the surrounding neiglibour- nood, which is very thickly populated, and men and women quickly rushed out from all the aojojiiing houses. It was soon evident that the case was one of irurder, and that of the most norrwle description, but it was not till the police made a detailed examination having first lgorouely excluded the public frcm the yard- hJ* k °f the mutilations to which the ay. bad been subjected became known. So ,c'?us w^re some of these mutilations, indeed, are reticent as to their character ™ mformation obtained from eye-witnesses some idea of their horror my be formed. As already Rtated, the bodv-that of a litfek boy-was wrapped up in a bundle, round which a jacket, pparentsy the poor child's own, was fastened by a little pair of braces, The ears had been cut off, and were missing, The trunk was ripped open from the chest to the abdomen, the lower part ot which had been removed, whilst the neart had been plucked out and thrust under the ? Bo.t[1 legs had been hacked off at their junction with the body, and one had been laid nf°(5? of it, the mangled thighs resting i™?!8! the head. The arms had also been nghly chopped off. On the chest were two aDs, but whether these were the cause of death r were only mflicted while the mutilation was proceeding ,8J3°1t yet certain. The shoes had tk and forced into the cavity ftk tb legs and arms, after being eT?^?ntiy been disposed symmetrically r trunk, and the whole then r „ together by means of the jacket and „s" j" Q ,vest ftnd trousers lay beneath the y, and a piece of shirting tied round the neck, xne police-constable* who were first on the spoc were quickly reinforced by others, and notice of hall despatched to the town- hall, and to Mr W.thers, chief-constable, and Dr I,odge, police surgeon. Both those gentlemen responded to the summons, and the cbief-coustabie in mv^tk*! a Photographer should be fetched, u ,correcta-nd complete representa- seonroH T^0- and its surroundings might be hoinn..it ibw was accordingly done, the remains h!»* ^°"ed !° 8tay where tbey were found till taken tV*18 r that P^ose. They were then morta l?01"18 on a fo°t ambulance to the mads h/h- t61^ a P°8t-roortem examination was Inanirim W ?e ln ^e course of the afternoon. aeu^ti vL TeJ °Acourse? »"ce set on foot by the the view of the police force generally, with and tha ^lfcovering the identity of the victim, Thouab t?e 'if PerPatrators of the tragedy. revoltW t-rLf beea subjected to such mu111»teri »nH™8 tbe.,face ba<i been but little found M Wau eus,1-V recognisable. It was named Xhn r< n was that of a schoolboy Snvi lS"' Wh0^ father, Thomas Qui. is a some hundrpri'ng ^horncliffe-raad—only discovprv wqo ya/ds j?0Yn the spot where the the bov was l n?a far as can ba ascertained ThurXv ™ a8t 8een a»ve about eight o'clock on milkman TO^rDlB^5 Y 'n comPanT with the down to M,° 8uPPUed the family, he went mornina's Station to obtain the mornings milk. The milkman-who was late 8tates that Srn?n., taken '"to custody- villas in a. -fool,8- ui6 down near Walmer- for soma liHff J^Dable part of the town, where other hoys on the S8 Hediti T" 8l,id,mK witb rdSS,AbM ps?rr \,rTiiof him adverHfiomonf „ a r.day the following daily papers m of tbe Bradfor(^ boy, John GilU.ag^re^hr'w^11! Ino^ifg» in Waimer- villas ^t 8 30 a ns^ H 8660 toD coat wifK a,m- "ac" on navy blue plaid knickerbockefsuT Wdidhhi?maUH black strvWir,^ boots, red and TICKS'" t-ir. Home, «, mg, and into whose hands morn' Mr Dobson, the chief rtl -ia nofc known- soon at work in tbe tf -°f'Je .lnsPect< r. wa» assistants, and one of ^lf?hb°»>-hood with his bimself was tn ovo • be first duties he set «« K'?,e 'th1 »'tba crime was not com™ tolerably clear—that the remains werS found "M the ,8Pot where the side which tbev w» Berwickrs stables, out- a street which LrH #- ^OV6red' are s'^ated m well as to the iSl ] T an,d othter 8tabIes, as Mellor-atreet Th r l, a °' houses in or siVfw ,h0 stables are some fifty and at «« Thorncliffe road^ The thorough fcf & ,U'liKhted- back of Mellnr J 18 a» obscure one at the that street form 'reet» the backs of the houses in sides, and £ as stated» one of its being opposite -J"')W ,0^ stables and coachhouses that Mr Rorl, n18 a recess in this latter row wall projecting i ^ables are situated, a Ieng and fortninff a rWa on elther Slde °f them, Pit, and re.cesa' Just at the left is a waH at the sid« V!if u. °lthis hollow and the found Thpt- ° stable door the body was about it and t WaS the !,i«l,test trace of blood near bv' U „i mrtblsJ and the fact that the soil certain that n.S°u from bloodstains, it seems the stable was not 'ed any where near street to a butcher in Mellor- has made !?rd» .tl)e y^th who fouud the body, employed^ by Mr T "3 8fc!ttement — I am Hall, who iL JiV?08 Berw,ck. of the Market chffe-road ?tab|6 an(i cowhouse in Thorn- found T'«f L plac0 where the body was o'clock h.,fT there,°.n Friday night about nine Satmdav D0ihl"K unusual at the time. On look aftR^ if!?"1 t> we,lt the stable as usual to befom Berwlck'« horse this was a stable and &f+SeVen 0 clock- 1 went into the some rsfnl 5 attending to the horses, took cowhouse J? ,nTt0 tha yard in front of th° propoed t!« saw a heap of something the coach-hn« J c°rner between tbe wall and »h«tTt^n"?.drV. 1 o»Hnrt make cot then saw iTv.ll thI t,in& J80 If?t a 1,f?hfc» aud one ear wl« « a ,body* 13usfc noticed that for a manTn m u ? ar,d wa? alamied» and went body anrt bakehouse close by. He saw the soon We?t1f°.1i a P°liceman together. We also saw K67 be,ie^9 b number is 56. He I naic«rt f if l)0<?y» and 1 then Went for a doctor, or sometth body was UP a jacket, bein»Jl r piece of clothing, a leather belt pKforapPea round 't- 1 8t°PPed about tbe the bnrtw SOtne t,me' bnt did not care to look at UD or i i affa,Di 801 not KNOW how it was cut PPic3r9d- 1'eft U in charge of the policeman. T1 BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. Barr^tnanw °f- tho man 'n is William and is !'m,¥9 '? a y°un« matl of 23 years of age, Tyr e^'loyed as a milkman at a dairy, 200 H»o "Kh^n-lane, about two minutes' walk from distant the bpdy was found, and the same »k; » ?• 1,11 the borne of the murdered lad i "es between the dairy and the prisoner's tWO hose, Barrett bears an excellent character J m .his employers, the mistress of the dairy fellow -as a r'Sht decent young frt a being absolutely increriulous as on <j\ tr'nb of the charge. At five o'clock bronJk* ay afternoon the prisoner was H r> UP at the borough police-station before ie Bradford magistrates—Messrs A. Briggs. J ftw^8' fi J" Burnley being on the bench—and wmalJy charged on suspicion cf having murdered Ill. He appeared quite cool and collected when 10 the dock, but watched the proceedings with acute interest, putting several questions to the I'Uerent; witnesses. The father ot the lad, a big uny cabman, was quite overpowered by his fealings, and had to be led out of court by two of the officers. ^be Ohief Constable, in laviDg the facts of the before the magistrates, admitted that the ply evidence he could bring that day was of a circumstantial nature, but added tliat it was nevertheless_so pointed tbat he did not think he would have been justified in not apprehending the prisoner. He explained that the lad, who had been in the habit of frequently accompanying Barrett on his morning rounds, was last seen alive by his mother at balf-past seven on Thursday morning. At that nr he got into prisoner's milk cart as Umal, and he was seen with Barrett by several people during the morning, but he appeared never to have been seen by anyone after the time at which the prisoner said he left him. Prisoner, when apprehended, stated that the lad accompanied him on the whole of his round till they reached Walmer Villas. It was then about half-past eight, and Gill left him, saying that he was going breakfast. This place was only about <OI0 yards from deceased's home, and was the last place but one which the prisoner bad to call at. The lad was never seen alive afterwards. Prisoner's employers occupied a stable in Belle ue» about 150 yards from the place where the body was found, and on the police going there on Saturday morning thy, found that part of the fl.jor had been newly swilled, whilst folded up and placed under some sacks was a sheet of harien," bewing stains which the borough analyst, Mr Rimroiogton, said imght be blood. When this was placed before the prisoner be denied all knowledge of it, but afterwards he made a statement to the effect that he had had a sheet of packing, somewhat similar given to him by his mistress to use as a cover. This, however, the mistress denied, As the result of a further .search in the house a Very formidable knife was found, .which proved to be pf a size that, would cause the stabs found on the uody. When the knife was shown to him, prisoner it first denied all knowledge of it, but afterwards corrected himself, stating that bis wife had bought alcnife of a similar description. The knife had evidently been cleaned, and that only recently, Proceeding to explain the position of the pri. soger's house and place of wock, and the spot wfejrethe body was found, the chief constable poii-ted out that between half-pas^. ?ix, the wb^Bafrett in tho morning, and the now he had tp b* at work, there was plenty of tirae foe him to go to the stable, return to w the lljdy w^s found, and get to tbe dairv. I body had been dead about twenty-four hours when discovered, and bad been mutilated with a savagery almogfc indescribable. ber of the lad, alte^: formally identi-i tymg the oody, was examined by the chief constable. You the prisoner this morning ?—Witness s; v& lb wa^bo«t 6,30. W.hat he say ?—WfUiess He said, Have of Job" r k k yon Say ?-Witness^ I replied, "No; -ift6 been to the town-hall, and tbe detectives will be looking after him." How far is the place where the body was found from your home 2—Witness Rather better than 50 yards. "Ln, UP to work at the dairy, how near would the prisoner go to the passage?—Witness lrW° n nff° qii1te clo*e to the end of it. JS J Tas then called, and testified toth-e murdered boy driviog 0ff witb prisoner about 7.30 on Tbursd-ay morning. Several milk- men and others testified to seeing the prisoner in company with the lad later in the day. Detective Kr«g stated tbat he searched the stable m BaU0 Yue, aad found a stained sheet -Of ',harden' nuder spme ^r!8°nfir sa*d be kufiw nothing at all about it, but be afterward Blaci8 a sta-tetmsnt that his mistress bad grven it to bim for the horse, and bat he bad put it over the stall in the stable. He also made a, statement with respect to the rt 8K his wife had purchased one like it, but fte did not kuow whether it was the same or not. «a-h0^fenda'e\ wife of prisoner's employer, said she never gave, han the sheet produced! Police-constable K rk proved that the Oody was not at the spot wbere it was feu ad at 4.55 a.m., tn « ,tbe butcher's appreatice,spoke to hnd.ug the remains at seven o'clock. Mr R'mmington, borough analyst for Bradford, said he had made examination of the wrapper that afternoon. lYom the colour he thought thr™, was a rea?°iVibie probability that blood Salter. but ifc was a W deUcate A remand wa.9 then granted until Wednesday, ^"dr Hle hP/ avin^ been told that, if he desired, he could consult with his friends, tbe proceedings terminated. The inagisterial examination of William Barrett, the°murder of ^boy^U on k^nT^st nes^vdaitwa?nadf?'d borou^h «°art o^ Wed- l a' <-k y 11.30 when prisoner was «hn6h hann' • U e,lterio» the court Barrett, who had one hand in his trousers pocket, leaned o6 r,ail in froat of tho dock, and attPniLin nn Mr w>i^ ,0UQd concentrated his So'Sn >%• m2efpCam€LC^rhahlef' havin« recapitulated the it tTJ\ reference to which evidence h. JL!!I previous hearing, stated that f„ Ca" witnesses to prove if. ?s.in the milkman's cart until when he compteted his round on Thursday morn- T;,lfntPethi?r 2*ou™8tMice about the prisoner's 21 If left bim before tbe t^bSifast waa that ,d(3rivOTies to go f waa that enquiries had elicited tbe information that the boy had never ^f^omMmeH,fbn3ikfa8t before the round L7 tw ^a'f a d^eo witnesses could be aPf !e o T«V deceased was in Gill's company after 8 30 on Thursday morning, I rPBnfd hl ,r^ated' tbe boy left him. dld not leave home until seven o'dock on Ihursday mining. A witness would be Joalleda, t0 c ?nrore that he went to hie m hnnso ftrti an" a girl residing m the house ^.irung w,,uW staAe that she saw a Ju ,-I3IVA.1 O TI much earlier time than usiwl. On Friday night Mrs Gill, the thL ff Qnceased» tbe prisoner at W;50.. tba* ll J16 did not say something about her boy the detectives would le him in the morning. A witness would be called to show that half an hour iater a light was burning fhn serv-snts,' °ne °'clot:k the matron of tbe servants home opposite the stable was awakened by a pecujiar tloi s ofwrapinR and swil toff a ths stablei She sat up in bed and listened for about twenty minutes, when she beard the stable door shut and some person walk out. At 6 30 next mortung prisoner called at GUI's house. He did ■not come up the street as if going to work, but from the direction of the stable, and on coming to Gill's he mnsfc have passed within 40 yar&?Was discovered. Tbe condition iu whvch the parcel was made up proved that it could not have been carried far, aa J ,t J i the clothes being removed ehowed that he must have wThk'fe?e!rcaTfhb,liIdin^ and n°t in thestreet. t°h condition of the prisoner's stable j!?. Police entered, it was pecuhar that the swilling had been f m a fashion.r On the St'wroHgmy overhaujed three pieces °hnd and w Undj"- ey bad been recently washed, an4 were discoloured with stains which, m one case at least, the borough analyst would Tt?,, eas?6w SU bI°°d- TWmostseriouapart ° (-ii!, the question of motive, and ce,rtal", d^ Vas to the mutilation threw con- HS to JL 0n., S- Mr Withers pro- ceeded ta state tbat be would Drove that the prisoner was a man of strong animal passions. Having remarked on tbe necmiaritv of clr.CR^itafe that two doctors had examined the ftt the request of his own solicitor, tbe Cb,tr^b 'rid"ded by string that on 1150 fnr k»ch ha had given an outline he would ask for a remand fox eight days As Mr Withers proceeded, with his description the Pj!son^ 8 demeanour under- went considerable alteration. His apparent indifferencs gave place to an air of ^ixious interest. during the remainder of the-mormng he followed the eviaence with the closest attention" Evidence was then taken in support of this statement- TbomaS 1 » the father of the deceased, recalled, abated that when the prisoner called on him on Saturday morning he came from door andw saia. Have you heard anything of Johnnie. Witness replied that, he had not^but that detectives would be lotting out. Barrett'then walked avay in the direc<doja of his home He must have passed the end of the back strS'when the body was found on bis way down Thorncliffe- road. Mr Craven intimated tbat he would reserve his examination, and probably aiso 0f witnesses; Mrs qui (who was greatly affected whilst in th« box) repeated her statement as to the list time she saw her son, and also respecting the prisoner statements about him. Louisa Linley, married woman, living ne*f door to the prisoner, stated that about ha]f.0 *h fiva on Inday morning she left home to go f« work. She saw prisoner come out of his house and he walked up Thorucliffe-road in front of her' On reaching. Mam-road, witness turned to th; right and prisoner crossed in the direction of his stable. Evidence was then given with respect to finding of the b 'dy on Saturday, and a policeman stated that when be visited the entry at 4.35 that moining< there was no trace of anything unusual. LizzIe Jefferson, servant at the Servants' Home opposite prisoner's stable, said tbat in the stable there was a window looking towards the scullery in which she worked. The lower part of the window was wood and the upper Dart glass. Oa Friday rooming she rose at 5 30, and whilst in the scullery, shortly after six o'clock, she saw a light in tee stable. Had never seen a light there, so early before. Mrs Kendal, t}je matron of the Servants' Home, said she could see the stable from her bedroom window, and could hear what went on in the stable. Between one and three on Saturday morning spe heard a noise in the stable which resembled brushing or rubbing backwards and forwards. She sat up in bed to listen, and the noise continued for about eigobt. or ten rninutes. She then heard footsteps coming out of the stable, and someone walked quickly down Belle Vue, in the direction of Manningham-lane. At breakfast time she told one of the inmates what she bad beard in the night. She had not then heard anything of tbe murder. The an&iyat, Mr Rimm«igtoii, was then called The anfUY84 Mr Rimmiaigtojig was then. calleds and pronounced tbe stains on the rag discovered in the stable to be blood. He bad not completed his examination of the other articles banded to bim. At this stage the proceedings were adjuumed until next Wednesday. Mr Craven protested against so long an adjournment, but Mr Withers intimated that it was absolutely necessary for the police to havfl a considerable period to complete their investigations. Moreover, the case was of so serious a. character that it would be necessary for him to consult with the Treasury about it. A post-mortem examination of the murdered lad's body was made on Saturday afternoon, Drs. Lodge, Mj,)r, and Merrill acting on the instruc- tions of the police. The doctors refuse to disclose the facts, but Dr Lodge informed a representative of the Central News that the published statement* of the mutilation were less than the truth, and I that the body was one of the most revoltiing., I spectacles he h|id ever seen. Both bones and flesh are hacked in the most merciless manner, and tbe stabs in tbe breasts have pierced tbe body, severing both bone and flesh. Some of the missing paits of the bouy have been found thrust m the cavity of the abdomen. j In a later despatch the correspondent says I understand thai; tbe police have made several discoveries in the course of the investiga- tions to-day which are regarded as impor. tapt links in the chain of evidence The only informateon officially furnished is that I the case is considerably stronger than would I appear from the police-court proceedings. I succeeded in eliciting one circumstance which if proved, will be very material. It wjn' b remembered that aocoraicg to Barrett's statement the boy, left at Walmer Villas jtast before the last delivery of nulk. It is uow alleged that evidence will be forthcomiBgto show that this statement is incorrect, and that Johnny Gift was^seen with tba milkman at a subsequent period.^ u lne Th9 Inquest. The Bradford borough coroner, Mr J c Hutchinson, opened an inquest y^tarday at The Inquest. The Bradford borough coroner, Mr J c Hutchinson, opened an inquest y^tarday at tbe Coroner s C<mrt m the Town-hall on the oodv of the lad John Gd eight yearja of a f who was {uu5i murdered Ind shockingly t *t the back of Melior-street, I JorncLffe road, last Saturday morning. Mr Craven, of thg firni of Weatherbead and Burr, J^re8^lted the prisoner (William Barrett), and Mr Freeman watched the proceedings ^behalf of the parents of the child. Toe CtttRf Constable (Mr J. Withers) attended to repeat the police/ No W^ex^t the persons 'mwsdiateiy interested in' tha pro- ceedings were admitted to the court. Thomas Gill, cabman, father of the deceased, ■was tbe firafr V'tfnees called, and gave svti^ce as to the boy s identity. He last saw the boy»«2fcve on Tbw»djJ_w»"»nsr, at ^S^*ter past seven. tbe stably to teU the hoceekeeper to put a horae in his c«b» He came in a mrnute or two, ind said. "Your horse is :im MB reads." Witnepa want leaving the lad in the house, and did not see him again till be was taken down to the mprtuary on satudajmoniiog and shown the dead body. J At Wig stage of the proceedings the chief' constable applied that an adjournment should be -vka^t* it would be inconvenient to the police .■•■hat the matter should be gone into fully just at^ fpreaent. Tbe proceedings were consequently adjourned] until -PTitray week, when the inqaert wåbæ. resumed at halfcpast 9 a.m. DR. FORBES WINSLOW'3 OPINION. Dr Forbes Winslow says; —- "Tbe natural inference with maay people is that the late atrocity at Bradford is the act of the same mdmdual who committed the many crimes in the East-end of London. I do not think that this is the case at an. The revolting details point to the perpetrator being a lunatic; of this there is little doubt. The force of imagination among the insane is very strong indeed. I am not at all surprised that there should have been found candidates competent to vie with the London temderer in nearly every detail. The one important detail, however, missing is to me significant in this case—the victim being a male and not a foinate. I believe that the one motive existing for tbe crimes in London was to rid society of a moral pest^ fram a delusion that the individual had a destiny to tiilul this is a theory which, though originally started by me, has not as yet been refuted. Having been engaged in endeavouring to ferret out the individual in question, I feel able to speak on the subject with authority. Some time back I received intimation that ;10 man bad been to one of our London hospitals stating that he had recently come from Vienna. He was much excited, and asked for the house surgeon, to whom be stated that he bad during a short sojourn in London been robbed of £ 250 by the women in Leicester-Square,' and that the women should be killed,' He asked permission to see the operations. He only remained a abort time, and then said be was going to the Lock Hospital and to the hospital for women in Soho-square to see the operations also. He evinced symptoms of unsoundness of mind, but at tbe moment nothing specially suggested itself to the hnuse surgeon. I was informed of these facts, and immediately placed myself in communication with the authorities in London and also in Paris. I wrote to the Minister of the Interior at Paris, asking for fuH particulars of the person who bad been confined a. an asylum first in Vienna and later on in Parts; for the date of his admission, discharge, and ofher par- ticulars relating to the case. I did so, believing that the murderer, as I have previously stated, was this same individual. I have not as yet received an answer, and think perhaps the authorities in Paris may be reticent to give any information, or that they may be, as in England, btopd by oath not to reveal what goes on in the precincts of their offices or comes to their knowledge while performing their functions. The clue appeared to me of such importance as to be followed up, and I am still doing so, with every hope of bringing to light the. real noter in the tragedy. I trust. howeves, that the police in Bradford will not begin with the wrong scent, and ianagina that the murderer is the same as the Wbitechiipel one. Such is not the case, I feel sure, though, as I originally stated, the crime points to its being the act of a lunatic." The posrt-mortem examination of the body of the murdered boy was concluded on Tuesday. The supposed absence of certain portions of the remains has been the main cause of the unusual prolongation of the surgical in vestigation. but one by onathe missing fragments have been discovered, and it is now proved to the satisfaction of the medical men that in only one direction has the flesh been removed and taken bodily away. The lung which appeared to have disappeared completely was the last organ fouud, it having been thrust by the murderer iuto the opening made in the boy's stomach. The net result of the post-mortem examination is to leave little doubt as to the motive for both the murder and the snbsequent mutilation. Evidence has been disclosed which proves that the lad sustained a severe fright before be was stabbed to the heart, and the assumption is that while in its preliminary stages the mutilation was effected for an intelligible purpose. The subsequent hacking about was intended to make the police identify the murdarerwith the author of the White chapel tragedies. Tlia circumstances of the crime, however, precluded from the first the idea that the criminal could have been a stranger to the locality and all the inquiries of the police have been based on this premise. A Startling Rumour. A statement has been made at a Bradford newspaper office that a man who was twice brought up at Leman-street for the Whitechapel murders was ssen in Manningham late on Friday night, bemg identified by a man who was in the court when the suspect was tried. The police are inquiring into the statement. A Practical Joke. The Press Association special correspondent, telegraphing at 11.30 on Tuesday morning, qays —I bave made very careful inquiries respecting the alieged mysterious visit to the house of Mr Cahitl on Wednesday night, and I am satisfied that the view I expressed of the affair last night, tbat some friends of Mr Cahili have made him the victim of a practical joke, is a corceot one. The key of the house was, during the temporary absence of Mr Cabill, hang in the coal-house, and as the premises were obviously entered with the aid of the key, there is proof that the intruder or intruders—for there are believed to have been two of them-were intimately acquainted with the internal arrangements of the household. Indeed, suspicion indicates pretty clearly to the identity of the actual persons. It is also established distinctly enougu that the visit was not made on Thursday morning, as has been suggested, but almost immediately after Mr and Mrs Cahill left for the ball on Wednesday evening. The couple returned home at nine o'clock in the morning, not ten, as has been stated, and the clock in the living room was stopped at 9.30. THE iaox, THE RIPPER IJ INCIDENT, A glance at the card about which so much capital has been made is also sufficient to indicate the true nature of the incident. The card is an ordinary gentleman's visiting I card, on one side of whicu are printed the words, "I have removed down to the canal side. Please drop in.-Yours truly, SOTOIDE." Any number of these cards are in circulation in this neighbourhood, their object being simply to raise a laugh when presented. The words on the back of the card are Ah, ah. Look out, 'Jack the Ripper' has been here," and they are pen- cilled in a handwriting which has been reeognised. One of the jokers was evidently a female, for Mrs Cahill's umbrella was taken from the stand in the ball apparently in mistake owing to the imperfect light, and another lady's umbrella left in its place. The affair has naturally caused some sensation in the town, for as published this morning, the case certainly did look curious.
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--+_- ATTEMPTED MURDER IN NEWCASTLE. At Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Saturday, Matilda Quinn, an elderly woman, was charged with attempting to murder her son, Edward Qainn, by administering match poison to him on Uuristmaa Day. Ed ward Quinn paid be was nine years of age, and resided with his parents. On Cnristmas night be was in the house, and ha went to bed before his mother. While in bed his mother gave him something to drink. Superintendent Moss shortly aiter saw him, and gave him some miik to drink. He was taken to the infir- mnry, when be was attended, to by Dr Parry.— superintendent Moss said that about 11 p.m. on xufisday be was ou duty at the Ouaeburu police I station, and from what he was told be went to the prisoner's home. He ordered out the police ambulance, ftnd also sent the prisoner's husband tor milk. Th0 pcisouer told him what she had He asked her what she had taken. She sola arm she steeped a box of matches in water, and bad drunk the liquid. She also gave some to be son Edward. She also gave him the following letter I am going poison myself. I can't live any longer. 1 could uattWnk of learing lUtie Neilie.Il.in.i and wuen I am dead do not look at me. or yet fo.tow my lor I hate you for what you have done to we and my chihuan. Uiva my boots and what otiier clothes I Lave to Mrs Itobson. I am sorry I aid not go to see my mother ou Saturday, for si- -he only i'lend I have in this liAMfliMB > letter tell Ned he can have bfHHHPr and my I children. I was only -hlr. hJ injured me. God ml £ dcTe to me aud mine. Th< .jufct — MATILDA WILKINSON. *v RHFTHE cotliu beside me* Dr Parry said that ,¡tma9 I night the prisoner a* e .*ight to the infirmary suffer- h ^oiaoxmig. -the boy suffered a c. fflt 0f paju and was vety sick, br (U1jt, They applied the etomach )f them, and I so got rid of the -soner was remanded for a week.
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SEARCHING HE Mil Inspector Andrews, • has arrived in New York It is generaHy believed th& < orders from England to comr v for tbe Wbitechapel £ wj,J reported to have said t dozen English detectives, tw< < pector employed in America ii: edays a^o Andrews broui v f-'m England Roland Gide »arged with piping to wreck t ro,fto and since his arrival he whieh will keep him in Am- The supposed inaction of t rderer for a' considerable tini a man I suspected of knowing t this ( series of crimes left Eo of the I Atlantic, three weeks a ;m pression that Jack the 'unt Irish Nationalists preu t'- Y; hunting up certain evidSr ,ra *},_ Parnell Commission. f Irish Nationalists prer. 4or is huoting up certain evidf re the Parnell CGramitirion. f
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The Poplar Mystery. F SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS EXPECTED, The police continue to institute caerful inquiries with a view of elucidating the mystery surround- ing the Poplar tragedy. The medical men who examined the body of the uufortunate woman are convinced that her death is due to murder, and, further, that the deed was the work of a skilful band. A second examination of the body was made subsequently to the inquest, and, on the fkio of the neck being removed, a quantity of congested blood was found, which proved that considerable pressure must have been apvlied from without. It is understood that sensational medical evidence may be expected wh-n the coroner's enquiry is resumed on Wednesday next. A strange feature in connection with the matter is that when the body was found the mouth was shut, whereas in cases of death by strangulation the tongue-io gmwraily found to protrude. The Inquest, The inquest on the body of the woman, Rose M'Uefet, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances at Poplar on under mysterious circumstances at Poplar on December 20tb, was resumed on Wednesday at the Poplar Town-hall, before Mr Wynne Baxter, coroner for East Miudlest x. Mr St John Wontner represented the police. Margaret Miliet t, widow, identified the body as that of her daughter. She was 26 years of ago. Witness was told deceased had been married. Witness last saw deceased one day during the week before Christ- mas..She did not know what deceased did for a living. Sha left witness six years ago. Ehzabeth Usher, nurse at the Stepney Siok Asylum, deposed that she had seen the body, and recognised it as that of a former inmate of the institution. She was admitted as a single woman. She had a child seven years 01 age. Mr Genr James Harris, assistant to Dr Browntield, divisional police surgeon, who assisted at the post-mortem examination, attributed death to aspbyxia caused by IoUtfucatioO by strangulation. There was a mark on the throat such as a piece of string might produce if tightly drawn. Dr. Tb<>mas Bond, Westminster Hospital, said he saw the body after the post mortem. The mark cn the throat had then disappeared. He agreed that death was due to strangulation, but did not think violence was used. The woman probably fell in an awkward position whilst drunk, and pressure on the larynx by the collar of her jacket would cause suffocation. Evidence followed that deceased was given to drink, and the inquest was adjourned for a week.
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TUNBRIDGE WELLS MURDER. Double Execution. The execution took place at Maidstone Gaol on Wednesday morning of William Gower, aged 18, moulder, and Charles Joseph D.)beii, 19, plumber, for the murder of Beu^ley Cyrus Lawrence, by shooting him through the head, on the 20h JuJy last in the timber yard adjoining the Baltic Sawmills at Tuubridge Wells. The circumstances attending the crime were of a very extraordinary character. The deceased man, aged 54 years, was a timekeeper at the Baltic Sawmills, where Gower was also employed. Lawrence reported Gower twenty-seven times for being late in the course of six months, Dobell was a companion of Gower's, but not employed at tbe works, and he was induced by Gower te join him in the conspiracy to murder Lawrence, A revolver was purchased, and they drew lots who should fire the shot, the lot falling on Dobeil, and be, on July 20th,enticed Lawrence out of his house and fatally shot him through the bead. Doftell escaped, and the crime became a mystery until September 27th, when D'hail stopped a boy near tee offices of the Tun- bridge Wells Advertiser and induced bim to take a leUtr to the office. This letter asked for space to correct some statement made at the inquest, and tha writer, who signed himself "Another White- chapel Murderer," admitted firing the shot. Nothing more was heard of the matter for a fortnight, but in the meantime both Gower and DobeJl had begun to attend Salvation Army meetings at Tun bridge Wells. Mr Cotterill, who conducted the services on thellth Oetober, invited at the close all penitents to come forward, and Gower and Dobell accepted the invitation. Next morning Gower went to Mr Cotterill's house, and confessed the whole crime. Mr Cotterill informed the police, and both prisoners were arrested the same aftenuoon. They admitted their guilt, were tried before Mr Justice Mathew at Maidstone, and on the 14th December were found guilty and sentenced to death. Efforts had since been made to obtain a reprieve, but the Home Secretary declined to interfere. Since their conviction both condemned youths behaved with calmness, but appeared scarcely to realise their position. On Tuesday both convicts spent the greater part of the day in writing to tbeir friends. They retired at 11, slept well, and after rising at six on Wednesday morning took breakfast. The chaplain (the Rev W. Packson) was with them early, and both prisouers prayed fervently with lum. Berry was the executioner. He piuioned them in the pissage near the condemned cell. A walk of 60 yards brought tlaem to tbe scaffolii, whither they were accom- panied by tbe gaol officials and reporters. Both walked steadily, and, on reaching tbe drop, each adjusted his feet carefuUy to the chalk marks made by the executioner. Those present declared they never saw men meet their fate with more calmness. Death appeared to be sudden, but the rope by which Dobell was suspended appeared to quiver a little.
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BRUTAL MURDER OF A GIRL. Information has reached Yeovit of the brutal murder on Wednesday of a girl at Yeobrifjge, two miles from South Petherfron, Somerset. The name of tbe murdered girl is Davey, and she was about 10 years of age. The body was found in a ditch with the throat cut. Her assailant is unknown and is still at large; bat be is supposed to be a tramp, and telegrams have been sent to all police-stations in the couuty to put the force on the look-out for suepicious characters. The place where the murder was committed is an isolated village about 12 miles from Yeovil, and a considerable distance from a railway. The girl bad been missed by her parents, and after a diligent search her dead body was found in the ditch—a shocking spectacle was presented. The poor little girl had been murdered in a brutal manner, her throat having been cut from esr to ear witn some sharp instrument. She is described as having been an inoffensive child, She went on Wednesday,as was her custom,to fetch milk for the family at a farmhouse about a mile from her home. As she did not return at the usual time, her parents became alarmed, and the whole family went in Search, but it was not until 12 o'clock that tidings could be gained. She was then discovered by her little brother in a ditch, and partly oovertd with water, in a field about midway between the farmhouse and the chad's hotue. A rope was tied tightly around her neck, her clothes were disarranged, and ber neck was cut about in a ghastly manner, A broken razor was found on the bank near the ditch. About five the same evening a strange man was aiscovered by a boy to be hiding in a stable at S iutb I Petherton, which is about two miles froui the scene of the murder. He at once made off, but tba police are on his track, and there is every probability that be will be captured. Intense excitement prevails in the neighbourhood.
rHANGMEN AJND THE HOME ! OFFICE.
r HANGMEN AJND THE HOME OFFICE. At' the Worcester quarter-i;enions-lon Monday Sir E. Lechmere moved, "That in tbe opinion of this court such persons as may from time to time be employed in the pursuance of justice in carrying into effect the extreme penalty of the law by hanging should he placed under the direct control of the Home Office." He said that the late public scandal in the county made such a motiou desirable. The attention of the Home Secretary had been drawl) to the matter by him in tbe jlouse of Commons and he (the speaker) had given notice of a motion that he should brijug a notice next session before House of Commons relating to the subject. He believed tbat high sheriffs would be pleased to be relieved of the painful office to which the motion referred, painful office to which the motion referred, and be believed it wouid prevent the lcecurrence of spandals like that, which recently occurred iu this county.—Mr V. Milward urged that the hangman should Us placed under the control of the I Home Office, for under the present arrangement grave scandals must occur.—Mr Brmton supported, and Mr R. H. Milward wished it to be understood tnat the scandal referred to occurred at a time when the High Sheriff had no eoutrol or authority over the executioner--The Earl Beauchanip thought it would be well for grand juries at. the assizes to make presentiments on the suifj'ect.— Mr Newton was of opinion that whar, had occurred at Kidderminsier was due mainly to thoughtlessness aud inad vertence.—Mr Woodward said the arrangement with the executioner was that he should come from and teturn to his place ¡ of residence.—Mr Hawkes reminded the court that the change suggested in the motion would involve a great constitutional question, as it would band over the execution of criminals to a politicaloiffe,ial.-Tije Chairman said that tbe High .Sheriff having paid the hangman, he was helpless in the matter. The executioner violated his engagement by stopping in the Way and mixing, most improperly, with the public and giving tbem an account ot the execution.—The Uuder-Sberiff intimated that the executioner distinctly under- stood he was to return to his place of residence. Lord Lyttleton said he thought the difficulty might be got ever in future by the hangman not getting his money until he got home.—The motion was then put and carried unanimously. l
COWBRIDGE HIGHWAY BOARD-
COWBRIDGE HIGHWAY BOARD- At the usual monthly meeting of the above ¡' board the surveyor's estimate for ordinary outlay amounted to £ 130.—Mr Thomas RichardlSt II PrI UO" of Heudraowen, produced a plan of part of a private road at Llanharran which Mr J. Blandy Jenkins was prepared to dedicate to the public. —The Chairman (Mr R. T. Bassbfct) suid it would be a great public cqpi&juemB, ^Od a vote ot thanks was passed toA$* "'y three local railway t ;,0 ..«:
SWANSEA SCHOOL BOARD.
SWANSEA SCHOOL BOARD. The monthly meeting of the Swansea School Board was held on Wednesday afternoon. There were present Messrs J. Roberts (chairman), J. L. Owen (vice-chairman), W. Howell, John Evans, W. Morgan, M. Bev tQ. Dd. Harris, and James Howells, and the Revs Canon Wilson,Prebendary Gauntlett, W. Evans, and Stephen Davys. AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT. In moving the adoption of the report of the schools management coaitmttee, Canon RICHARDS eaid it might be wail to draw the attention of the new board to the marked declension in the results attained by some of the schools. Three years ago the percentage of passes was 7'4 above the average of the schools in the country; in the following year it had fallen to 5 6; and then, again, it bad gone down to 2"2, Tnat was a very important matter for consideration. Its cause seemed obvious. First, there was the depression in trade, the effects of which were evident j from the fact that the remission of fees had increased 65 per cens. of the whole of the children attending the school, and averaged now about 2s 4,1 a head of all the children under the board. That was an evidence of very great poverty. Of course, children if half fed could not grapple with tUBir studies as well as at better tim-tt.g. Another raasou seemed to be the unrest which had existed for the last couple of years on the part of the head teachers owing to the agitation wbioh had been crxrved on with respect to the reduction of their salaries. The masters had not, therefcre, been able to do themselves quite justice, for though threatened people live long," yet, during the time, the agitation had perhaps a tendency to avert and absorb from that interest in the work which, of coarse, was realiy vital, He did not know what the new board was going to (iv-x% hettier it would give to the married ladies the happy despatch," or would dock the salaries of all the teachers but what be asked was, "If so, do it at once, and don't leave them under any apprebension, >1 Then great care should be taken in the selection of the pupil teachers. During the last two years the board bad bad from its inspector very unfavourable reports as to the examinations of these teachers, and he advised the taking of some stringent measures with the pupil teachers, and with the bead teachers themselves if there were any fault with regard to the instruction of the pupil teachers. Dr MORGAN seconded. Mr W. HOWELL thought that Canon Richards had omitted one important point as to the cause of a reduction in the averages. That was that recently so much time had bad to be given to drawing that it was necessary to devote less to the lower subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic. He was glad to find that the canon had advocated some prompt dealing with the teachers, but be did not think the existence of the agitation had been the cause of the reduction of passes. He thought the falling off was due to a large extent to the too great independence of the head teachers. They bad been masters of the situation too long, and did too much as they liked. The motion was then carried. THE SCHOOLS BUILDING COMMITTEE'S BEPORT. Mr WILLIAM HOWELL moved tbe adoption ot the report of tins committee, which recommended that an offer should be made for the site for a new school at Manselton that notice should be given of the board's intention to quit the temporary Ynystawe Board School that the board should continue the employment of the present clerk of the works for the further period of three months after the termination of his present engagement. This was agreed to. THE USE OF SCHOOLS FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. Dr EVANS aske j it the C&dle Board School had been used for the holding ot a meeting in aid of the candidature of a gentleman seekiug a seat on the county council, and if another meeting was announced to be held there? If so, considering there was a resolution that the schools should not be lent for political purposes, be should like an explanation. The CHAIRMAN said there was a contest in that neighbourhood, Mr f. T. D. Llewelyn and Mr Harris being the candidates. During hi" (the Chairman's) illness, a fortnight age, Mr X.ri-y (Mr Llewelyn's agent) waited on him, and asked for the use of the Cadle schoolroom because there was no other building in the neighbour hood suitable for either side. He (the chairman) told him that, were its use granted to Mr Lleweiyn, it would have to be also granted to the candidate on the other side. He did not look on the contest as a political one, and on that understanding said "You may use the school." Since then he bad been brought aware of the fact that there was a resolution on the books to the effect that the schools of the board should not be used for sucli a purpose. Probably if that had been brought to his mind at the time the application was made, he should not have given the permission. Mr Llewelyn's meeting had been held, and now he was under a promise to the other side. Mr HARRIS would like sto know whether the chairman considered that he had a right to let the schools without the consent of the board. He knew Mr Roberts was present at a meeting beld about two years ago, when an application was received from Mr Floyd for the loan of the Cwm School for the purpose of holding religious services, And the board then confirmed a resolution previously on the books preventing the use of the schools for eithAr religious or political purposes. The CHAIRMAN s-aid lie certainly was not aware he had that power. He thought be was suiting public convenience in granting the use nf the school. Of course, had the resolution been present in his minrl he should have acted differently. Dr EVANS I understand there is another meeting announced to be held there in aid of Mr Llewelyn's candidature. Top CHAIRMAN I have not given any per- mission. The Clerk said he told Mr Llewelyn's agent when he called on him previous to his interview with the chairman that it was against the rules of the board to allow the use of a school for any political purpose and be (the clerk) bad since then told him that he ought to have told the chairman of that. Dr MORGAN He forgot this on the way up, I suppose. (A taught Mr WILLIAM How FIX moved that the Cadie School be used for only one trore meetin,that in support of the other candidate. Dr EVANS pointed out that the Liberal candi- date would not require the rooa8 there were two or three chapels in the district, and Mr HOWELL thereupon decided to withdraw his motion. MCCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING." Mr JAMBS HOWKLLS, having elicited from tbe chairman that only the board could appoint a deputation to attend a funeral and incnr expendi- ture, took exception to an item in the accounts of the finance committee of 15s for a cab used by a deputation from the boaru to the late architect's funeral. He thereupon moved a resolution disallowing this expenditure, and laying it down that in future the chairman and three members should form an emergency committee, and be empowered to incur an expenditure not exceed- ing B2. It was some time before there was a seconder, and then the Rev S. DATTS said he would second I if Mr J. Howells would constitute the commitee of the chairman, the chairman of committees, and the clerk. This was agreed to by Mr J. HOWELLS, who, in answer to a question, intimated that the word emergency referred to funerals. Dr IiVANS protested against the terms of the motion, which would really constitute certain gentlemen professional mourners. Mr WILLIAM HOWEU. said it was understood by those who utten ied the funeral that they were to pay their own expenses on the receipt of an intimation as to what their proportions of the cost were. After mnch talk, the first part of the motion was put. and lost. Mr HARRIS then apked the clerk if there were another bill of a like character to be brought forward—for attendance at the funeral of Mr Bath. The Clerk There is, Mr HARRIS Aud shall we have to pay Tlie C'ik: f shall put it before the commitMfe. I Mr JAMES HOWKLLS then moved the latter part of the motion, appointing an emergency commit- teN but there was ao seconder. Dr MORGAN asked," Are we not wasting time ?" and Dr EVANS replied, "Of course we are." One member here suggested that it should be settled whose funerals the committee should attend. Oanon RICHARDS said he should be ashamed if that diftcttasina went before the public. A more indelicate discussion he had never beard. He appealed to the feelings of those present to allow the matter to go no further. The motion was then withdrawn. THE PLAaH: OF MEETING. The mitiutes of the titi,itict- committee, the adoption of ..which wiug moved by the vice- chairman, recommended that inquiries should be made as to the possibility of obtaining an office and board room at the public library. This was agreed to.
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A CLERGYMAN SUSPENDED. The Bishop of Southwell has suspended the Rev C. J. F<>x, vicar of L'ttle Eaton, for two years, consequent upon a report made to him by a commission which sat a few days ago to enquire into certain allegations of profanity ani drunken- ness against the rev gentleman. The inhibition takes place from Saturday next.
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.0. BATHS FOR BAPTISM. At a meeting of the Nortbwich Local Board, on Tuesday, application was made by the Baptists, who hold services in the mission room m that town, for permission to use the public baths for purposes of immersion. Objections were at first raised, but eventually Che request was acceded to.
THE POLICE COURTS.
THE POLICE COURTS. At Swansea on Saturday, Thomas Lucas, landlord of the Barley Mow, Tonna, near Neath, was charged with keeping his house open on Sunday for the suppJy of drink. P.C. Hopkins stated be watched defendant's house from an adjoining barn from 5 a.m. to 11.20 a.m. on the Sunuay in question. He saw 11 men go in. He caught two men in the house, one of whom he saw with a pint of beer to his lips; The two men swore that they went in for beer, but did not get; any. The bench dismissed the case against too landlord, but fined the two men 5 and costs for being on licensed premises for the purpose of obtaining drink. David Powell, Yard Cottage Ale and Spirit Vaults, Bridgend, was summoned for permitting drunkenness on his premises.—'Mr H, Scale, solicitor, Bridgend, appeared to defend.—He was fined JE5, aud bis license to be endorsed. Several men from tbe valleys who were found drinking in the buu were fined 20i and 15-' each.—Thomas Thomas, of the Cross K^ys public-house,Bridgend, for keeping his premises open during illegal hours on Christmas night, was fined 20s. Four men found in the house were fined 10- each.—Samuel Pitt, Coytraben, gamekeeper, and William Bensen were summoned by Th >mas Thomas for assaulting him, and fined £2 each.—Michael Curran and John Currao, of Old castle, were charged with assanltiug Elizabeth Richards, and fined 40s each or 21 imprisonment. At Merthyr on Saturday—before Mr North, Mr Thomas Williams, and Dr Cres*weii—Howell Richards, of the Llwynrheos pubiic-house, was summoned for keeping his bouse open on Sunday, 22ad inst, in contravention of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act. P.O. Thomas proved tbe case. He found a number of persons in the cellar. Defendant was fined JB5 and coats. Mr Beidoe reqaested tbe magistrates not to endorse the bcense. The application was not acceded to.-I. Clements, for assaulting P.C. Yates on the 251: instant, was sent to gaol for one month, and for assaulting Ptiiiip Graham be was sent to gaol for 14 days.—N. Thompson ann W. Ciements, for assauitingPolice-coustable Yates, were respectively fined 20.. and costs and Wi aod costs. At Newport on Saturday, Charles Rontley, a tailor, of Gadoxton, was charged with cruelty to his wife. From a statement made by the prosecutrix, it appeared that she had suffered mush ill usage at tier husband's hands, and P.C. Hole said that at midnight on Boxing Day he saw Routiey standing over his wife and threatening to kdl her. The officer spoke to further acts of cruelty perpetrated by defendant on his wife. Defendant was not present when this evidence was taken, and a warrant was issued for bis apprehension. An hour later, however, the poLce produced him, aod he was then remanded in custody for a month. — Mary J. Drinkwater, wife of a cierlc, 10, Livingstone-place, MaindM) was summoned for being drunk on Ohepstow-road at 6.15 p.m. on Saturday last.—P.C. Colokesaidbe fouud tlw defendant creating a great disturbance in the highway. He tried to induce her to go indoors, but she would not do so. Prior to this, trie husband bad asked witness to go into the bouse to quiet defendant, as be did not know what to do with her, — The bench had restrain defendant because of her excessive volubility, and, hearing tbat she was before the court on the of Nov<mber, 1I.nd had also made two appearances at the court, decided to tine her Ss, and begged her to try and keep herself respectable from that time forth.—Defendant; I haven't got S nor my watch, so you must pat me in for a week.—Tlje bench, however, decided to let her go free, in tbe hope that tbe fine was recoverable without a report to tbe usual process. At Newport on Monday David Barrett, gas works labourer, was summoned for assaulting Charlotte Barrett The wite appeared in the witness-box with an infant in her arms, and told the bench that the defendant was in the habit of giving her only Si or 6. par week for housekeeping, and that if ebedid not make that enough be beat ber about the bead and face,— Defendant admitted that his wife had brought him before tbe magistrates five times in 12 years, and that during the last six months be had taken more beer than usual.—The Bench How many times during tbe 12 years have you beaten her ?—Defendant: I might have given ber a back-handed flick, but I haven't marked ber,—Complainant: Y-s, yon gave me a black eye at Barnardtown.—Ultimately, on receiving a promise of amendment from defendant, the bench decided to bind him over to keep the peace. Thomas Williams and D. Edmunds, respectable artizans, were summoned at the Newport borough police-court on Monday for neglecting to produce George Holly at Friday's court, and to show cause why they should not forfeit the recognisance tbey entered into on Holly's behalf. Holly and Daniel Harrington were ttken into custody for fighting on Boxing Day, and tbe defendants, in an accession of Christmas kindliness, decided, as HoUy appeared to have been put upon a bit," to become surety for him, although they were perfect strangers to him. Holly did not appear, how- ever, at the Friday court, and the defendants became liable for tbe 40s accepted on bail. Sunday was spent by the two in searching for him in the neighbourhcod of Newbridge, and Edmunds said tbey waiken 27 miksaltogether. The court on Friday had fined Holiy S." and on agreeing to pay this amount the defendants were let off, being cautioned that they must produce their man should they again enter upon tbe duties of suretyship. At Newport police-court on Monday, Jane Haliiday, a young married woman, Lewis-street, was charged wiib assaulting and wounding David Rees. The complainant is son-in-law of the landlady of the Luncheon Bar Ice, Griffin- street, and on Saturday evening the prisoner wished to go upstairs to look for her husband, who is a telephone operator. Tnere wore nono but football men in the room above, and be would not ailow her to go up, as she was in drink. She insisted, and was turned out. A glass sugarbasin, which was in prisoner's basket, fell out, and prisoner piekad it up and deliberately aimed it at Rees. It caught him on the side of the bead, and he lost a quantity of blood. Hi* head was bound up in surgical bandages when he appeared in the wituess box, but he did not wish to prosecute. The husband said be and his wife went to market, aud that she missed him for A moment or two. He was not in the Luncheon Bar at all that eveniug. It was a mistake of his wife's to suppose so,—Ei zabeth Duck held, called for tbe defence, said Raes smacked- prisoner in the face I after he bad put her out. TWis incensed lier to tiirow the glass basin,—Tbe Magistrates' Clerk remarked upon the increase of assaults with bottles and glasses; and the bench fined prisoner 21s,or imprisonment,—Prisoner, wbo hau appreciated the drollery of a remark from the bench, said she must retire to tbe lower depths. Soe gave her husband a scrrowful parting touch with her hand, her face suffused with tears, and she ran down tbe stepe, followed as she went by her husband's words. 0, I'll get you out. Then he made enquiry of the inspector as to when tbe carriage left for Usk, and dis- appeared from court. At the Ystrad police court, on Monday, before Mr T. P. Jenkins, Mr W. Abraliaxn, M.P. (Mabon), and Mr D. W. Da vies, four men, named Thomas Davies, Richard Evans, Thomas Healy, and Andrew Harper, were charged with having, on Saturday eve-DIng. criminally &SAAnlted a married woman named Maria Davies, at Dinas. —Mr James Phillips, Pontypridd, prosecuted; and Mr Rhys appeared for toe defence.—Com- plainant, a woman apparently of 55 years of age, said that on Saturday evecing she was drinking with her bu-uand at the Graig Ddu Inn, and left at stop-tap, leaving her husband to tollow her. She Waf Dot drunk. While waiting for her husband the defendants Davies and Evaus came up, and, taking hold of her by each arm, offered to take ber home. She struggled to get free, but tha men succeeded in taking her to a spot one hundred yards below tbe White Houses, Dinas, He Davies threw ber down and criminally assaulted ber, Evans meantime holding her down. She cried out for assistance, and eventually her husband came np, and recognised Davies, who, with Evans, ran away. Her husband also !eh to fetch a constable, and, in bis absence. Harper pushed ber dowu, and Healy attempted to outrage her. At this time, however, her little girl eame up, and Harper and Healy ran away.—In cross-examining tbe prosecutrix, Mr Rbys elicited that numerous convictions were recorded against her, aud that she waa drunk ou the occasion of the alleged assault,—The magistrates therefore discredited her eyidenceJ and the prisoners were accordingly discharged. At the Brynmawr police-court on Monday before Mr M. Ashwin and Rev A. Griffiths — Thomas Meredith, of the Full Moon Inn, Dukestown, was charged with selling beer during prohibited hours on the 15th December. Mr R. 1:1. Spencer, of Tredegar, defended.—P.C. Griffiths stated that at 11.15 p.m. on tlie night named he saw a man naxned Daniel Harris go to the back dour of defendant's house, and, after knocking, enter. Harris bad a tin jack with him. In a few minutes he came out. When about three yards from the bouse witness stopped him, and took the jack from him, and then tasted the contents, wbtch he found to be beer. Harris replied that he had only a pint, and had paid for it. He took him back, and told tbe landlord be should report him. The landlord replied, Don't say anything ahout it. I will give you a handsome present." For tbe defence, the landlord and the man Hams was sworn and stated that the beer was paid for before ten o'clock, tbe hour of closing, and that the man had only called to take it home. Superintendent I Joseph puifcin a previous conviction against the defendant. Mr Spencer appealed to tbe b-incii, in the interest of the owners, not to endorse the license. Ths Bench said they could not take a lenient view of tbe case cn behalf of the tenant, whom they fiued j65 and costs. The license would not be endorsed ou the understanding that the defendant was at once got rid of. At Merthyr police-court on Monday—before Mr North and Mr W. Smyth—Robert George, a lad of nine years, was charged with sieepimj ont. P.C. Parsons said at balf-past 12 o'clock be tound tbe boy in a closet tn Oaoai-i-qu<|i e. He taid be had nowhere io He afterwards found that tbe child's lather, a ecliiar, lived in Twynrodin, and was in vjery "n-t¡¡,nceø, V. Su;pbeT!'f D* I from Merthyr to Cefn two ladit together in EIisb, whereupon del was in liquor, jumped up and demap "Will you Cymraegl very abas. Witness bad no douot that if he h present the ladies wouli have jutnpc window. Witness spoke to the stati Cefn.—Defendant, who did not appe- to be a Cardiganshire carrier.— He w and costs, or, in default, 14 days' in At Cardiff on Monday, Amy Batt with assaulting and wounding Rube on tbe face with aglass at the Queen's H Westgate-street, on the 29 h ult. Thtfk face was literacy covered wiih b appears that he was in the vaulrs, prisoner was tola to get off a. table 9 she was sitting. Bile forthwith glass full of hot gin a.t him, m mg him so severely that be see Dr Wallace. Toe girl said, is fence, that she was being chaffed bjfL number of msn, and that the prosecutor aia«4j(|L blow at her, which she warded ff with the It smashed, and tbe piece- flew to bis face.— bench sentenced the pri-">aer to a imprisonment.—Catherine Wolfe (34) was com-, v nrtted to the quarter sessions for steahng » quantity of bacon from the shnp of Richard J >hijjk Talbot Hi liier, 40, Queen-street, on tlie 20 tt ult. Toe pri30ner walked cooliy intfl the shop,' picked np the bacon, and wa;ked cff. She was followed and apprehended. i(C ..oe 18 At the Penarth police-court on Sfrogs and b dore Messrs J. S. Corbett and taM Trayea—Captain Ryeu wag charged by t o is spoken of Trade with taking au English S, and a Mary P. Kitcher, from Cardiff to Mon translated without holding a captain's certifica Vacbell, wbo appeared for tbe Bot Trade, pointed out the seriousness offence, the fuii penalty being but as Mr Hancock, who defended counselled his client to pi"ad guil'y, he wo ask for the full penalty. Mr Hancock "h that bis client held wi American certificate competence, and be was asked to take chat, of the vessel in a hurry, in fact tbt captain who took the vessel out of the dock bad to leave her off" Barry through illness, aad Captain Ryan too bis place, and be hoped the bench would take as lenient a view of the cue.. possible, as his client bad seemed to navigate the vessel with all the necessary skill of a folly qu ilified captain.—The bench iffl c^ed a tine cf JS10 and costs, amounting to £1510 7 i altogether. At Cardiff on Monday the following we sum- moned at the instance of Inspector G-reeawe(fj Alexandra Jones, labourer, Pentyrch, for cruelty j to a pig by overdriving it on the 19cb ult.— MrMeiviilej hon. sec. of the Deaf aud Dumb j School, gave evidence to the effect that be found J the defendant in Carmarthen street urging the pig along although it was in a most exhausted condition, and falling down. 1 evidently from having been overdriven, I The attention of P.S. James was called to the; pig by Mr Melville. The pig was in a bad state, | panting and gasping, and bore marks of a stick having been used upon it. Tbe defendant, when • spoken to by P.S. James, said that be bed driven the pig from Pentyrch, a distance of about MX i miles. The stipendiary decided that it was not case for conviction.—Thomas Williams, haaHer, St. Mary CBurch,, Cowbridge, was fined; 10s and costs for causing a horse to ( be worked with bad wounds on its-, back and shoulder, en the 13rh ult. oa c Cowbridge-road. Robert Huswick, coal hawkey 16, Railwily-terrace. Canton, was fined 20s ancL-i costs for violently treating his horse and causing i blood to flow from about 20 places between tbe ? animal's hind legs, on the 2O:,h ult.— Albert ? i Douche, coal dealer, 152, Craddock-street, far; working bis horse with au old suppurating sore on its back, on tbe 17c.b ultt, at Cardiff, was aimJ < fined 20 and costs. At Liandaff police-court on Monday-befon; Colonel Wood and Mr Grlffi chs-a married' woman, giving the na.ne of Emma Chorley, was > t summoned for using threats towards a woman I named Mary Gibbs on tbe 20ch inst. ¥r8 G:bbs, who is a neighbour of lrs Chorley. said Mrs Chorley threatened her with personal; violence, and used very bad language towards her. Toey had previously been on friendly but it was owing to a watch belonging to plaintiff's husband baving- been mnr^fHI that the dispute arose. Mrs Chorley, who had two or three children, was in tbe habit of calling Mrs Gibbs in to mind them while she went out. The watch wasi hung on a nail over the mantelpiece. Mrs Gibbs threatened on two or three occasion* to hide the watch, and, on the day in question, did so, as Mrs Chorley contended.—Mrs Chorley sai that on the same day later on she found the watdhfc on the doorstep. She did not know who put is there nor where it had been, but she was s2L » overjoyed at its return that she did not care.. Mrs Gibbs, when asked if there bad been dispute since that occasion, said there bad not.— The magistrates adjourned the case for a Inon to see if they could agree better in future.— Chorley expressed thanks on Ieavog tbe idock. At Ystrad (Rhondda) police-court on Monda1, Thomas Motris, collier, Penygraig. appeared to answer a summons charging him with assaulting^ bis wife, Lucretia. Complainant's story was tha<4,ragj on Monday week she received a sovereign^ resfeSjifi| from tbe tenants of a house she owned. Herfnfl husband demanded the money, but as she had DO shoes on her feet she refused to part with the CMh, For this the defendant assaulted her. They ba&jj^H been married 25 years, and lived i»<xioirOfn^H comfortable, with ups aud downs." DefeadantfllH had oeaten ber on previous occasions.-—The bench adjourned the case for a month, and expressed a hope that in the meantime it wouid be amicably yflfl settled.—Samuel Morgan, Henry Clement, and G. Craper, all labourers, residing at Hafod, pleaded guiUy to baving stolen a nine gallon cask ot bee^ fjjH the property of Mr James Thomas, grooer and postmaster.—Prosecutor said that a lew days ago |BP defendants purchased from him a cask or beer, n||t for which they paid. Oa Friday l«mr they asked to be supplied with another i c*sk on credit, but he refused. Subse- & quently the defendants went outside, and seeing ™ four casks near the shop, impudently carried one of them to their lodgings. Their landlord, how- ever, refused to let them bring it to tbe bouse JJK] and the men were arrested. This being the&3*jP( first offenc the bench let them go on payii&^(||^g| fine of £ 1 each.—Stephen FJynn, Pontypridd JTM committed to the assizes on a chaige ot havt^. Friday evening, attempted to con mik a ragaturdj? Mary Jane Davies. At Swansea police-court on Monday, i and Jane Jones, man and wife, living at streer, Morriston, were summoned for unl»wfiiirc,j hllrboaring Ilod concealing their child, Griffi j^ Jones, wben he should have at the Truant. School at Bonymaen, on the 21st November, and with assauit.iug Frederick Eistou, the officer in the employ of the school board. Mr H. Davies, who appeared for tlie board, said that the lad was permitted to leave the school oa the 25rd April, but on the 5h Septem- ber his licence Wa'1 revoked, because tbe child had not complied with the conditions upon which the licence wax granted. Tbe officer served a notice on the 20 h November on tbej defendants showing that the license had been; revoked. The defendant, Morri." J onetl, said the. should not return again to the truant acnoot; as be was at work, and that Eiston might oatot* < bun if he could. Later the lad was seen in the bouse, but still the parents refused to give him up.: and committed an aasaut to the officer. The male defendant was fined 20* for concealing the child and 5s for the assault; the summons against tbe female defendant was dismissed. At Neath poliee-ccurt on Mondlly-before tbt ex-Mayor (Mr John Rae-) and Mr T, S. Sutton— Arthur F. Percival, belonging to the Skadommf m Great City Company, was convicted of assault, mioo Mr R-iwliugs, of the Manhood Company, i The bench described the assault as a gratuitous and -cowardly one, and fiued defendant 23t: including costs. At Monmouth on Ttiesday— before MessrsG. G. Griffin and T. Jam»s—Frank Ree (31), an inmats ot the Monmouth Union, was charged in custody ■ with wilfuliy breaking 24 panes of glass, valw- JB1, the property of the guardians of the said union, on the 31-<t -of December. It appeared prisoner had leave to spend tbe day in qu-st«— out of the honse, and returned drunk 1n tfcftjSjjjl evening. The porter wbo- admitted him, aeoin^HBH his state, put him in tbe reoeiving-room, where bioSjH at once set to work smashing the windows. was afterwards removed to the police statiosu m The bench sentenced prisoner to one montbv" imprisonment with hard labour. 1 For some months past Mr J. W. Boyce, landlord of the Speech House, Forest of Dean, t has been subject to a series of thefts of vario. kinds, and despite every precaution it has continued, until, on the evening -of the 2tf1: December, the thief was caught in the act. A man named Thomas Willietn Hewlett, who lived at Baker's-row, near Cole ford, was en-j ■■■»-» ployed about the yard. He bad sole charge ofL, — the fowls, which are a numerous company. LMVSHH on Monday evening the man was, however, plabNHB^| in the ckx-k at ihe pohce-court, Coleford, wbs*^H^| (before Mr Isaiah Trotter) Sergeant EVMV^|SB charged him with stealing 11 fowls, 10 knives, three dinner napkins, three sack one biscuit tin, seveu hen eggs, together valoed«9^B| £ 2 Is 91, the property of his employer. ThflB evidence of tbe police officer was thM on thllSH morning of tlie 29 >h prosecutor made a commaffiJUHfl cation te him, and that evening he conce*i#dflH|H himself amoug the venerable oaks that abound IBSKH the neighbourhood of the Speech Honse. At ^»|WjS| o'clock prisoner came along, and witness stoypicJfejM him. Tbey went back to the b<>nse, where tbwMrejljB eggs were found in bis pockets. Having procornMD a light they returned to the spot where tfajKjH witness met prisoner, and there, underadMBlf J^^B tree iu a sack bag, were two fowls wrt*t beads screwed • ff they were quite warW^>fl|| same eveniug the constable and tbe praMtgrf^^E^| proceeded to prisoner's bouse, where they eight fowls alive, which Mr Boyee identifie^tiMHB the knives, napkins, bags, and Prisoner was committed for trial at tbe qosirtW^^Sj sessions, JBSH At the Swansea police court, on TaasdwwJfpjB Margaret Rogers,' better known as Maggie" by frequenters of tlie was charged im^e more with v k and wirb bebaving riotously in _jnk*cnx?, New Year's eve. She har1 '—" prieon only that fnor»' beuch that siie wt. year and sign the at •<
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