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^Nsea. murder CASE. It I 't!l:ED POLICE-COURT ^OCEEDIXGS. T —— xx the WITXES8- W !JrER'S STORY DEFIED IN" TOTO. i lC?0lic%co«rt °n Wednesday morn- rt a^kins bowler, stipendiary; Mr, Of taa again anc^ other magistrates) Rhys r, 11 1 put UP, charged with the mur- LBtLat ryr>hyfryd, Swansea. barrister, appeared for the Nim Dpisoner er Leeder for the prisoner. Conr+°n ,entering the box looked 5^ "with his usual keen, deter- to br<» t a^ter smiling and saluting ae*f down for a moment in his "tf Af, Covered his face with his rea<Jv • wards be seemed quite cool en- ^is replies, although they Snnl and irrelevant. The »i4s r>5' c°Hsiri„°Ur °f the prisoner during the ^illv 1-111 that he was so illiterate, N«d rtiQaein^ewhat in his favour. He lh aiitVerythiJL 10 mosfc of bis story, and %LS JSft the Principal "witness jjBW^Ueral fitting several circumstances Dce against him, which he A v*t gDpii1^ably well. Although one of 6yer J~ei"3 of the English language ^tem d t° give evidence, he con- t«l( V:,Sed before the interpreter, and t 0 th* ^air 0>. s^ory *n English, the following t!#C f«end tClmen of 1x19 style: asked i(jf, to «.» ■Uavid Jones if I mean to send >>*a, H to °'d gentleman, Mr. Hill, if he « ^nd Jones was very long y butty Jones, the shoemaker, lh tim jf1? very backward, and I just ,/°U lett. will made up in my mind iSS0* tert°0? £ oW .fentlema°" The °i his evidence under cross- 'ic%_ ^ta s his point-blank denial of the as alleged to have made to the A. > et>EEf. a p0R the defence. io >^enieri Permission to state that the t ^lat he ever left a handker- > W ^*a«ii,0ncs 8 sbop, and knew nothing g»'6 testi|rch1«f produced. With respect fa* to l)avl(I J ones, prisoner He p became of the only knife ^jtIer had- He Save it away long to c 9 named Evans, insurance that he saw a sack in Jones's 0jt^CCfi the date by saying he bank that day. Mr. Jenkins, Jnn' ^°uld be called to say Evans c*0» ^be money out on another Sh^ fc then argued that the witness ^Ww'"Oomaniac, suffering from a $gives evkencr. UJ ^ejjp ^ya Davies was then called, fij er, ^[as interpreted. Replying to v. Said wa* when the police Ijili i o?lni Uvlns in PensUlia-road. In la96« h« waa living: at Penybani,' J. kn0W JeS3e Hill?—Yes' I knew him r ^now ^im to speak to ?—No; he wfv», spoke to me. A few words only VS. business- *«o ^o^tinuing, said he had done busi- 'V. j, ^e deceased's father twenty years had never bought hay from any of iU l> k. s'Qce then, and had never been to jJ,0armarthen-road since. What Mrs. N *a!W his going there to ask for hay S i*y °"true- At that time he was buy- Vf y ^er ^fr- Evan Griffiths. The accounts Vf Sder\ ere" *V.Tee<W Tre Pr°dnced Mr. Griffiths's bills. Nw^f you owe Mr- Griffiths money? an? and said' "oh' yes= Quite tai^er 1 added' in English, "I never did Niir, ^eo « Heman-" Witness further said n" Be and liad liaJr off them and 1 ^<l f1Hth0vV,fir had occasion to go away jttL « shop to ask for credit. ^ny Z tvSkTTDavid Jones t0 a ^b« ^itn family for you?—Yes, 11 va. e«nd to the old man. Vf^°U ev„—After the murder. liV^No rr,asl £ him to write to Jesse Hill °t t j0 • never. i|C*. bT Jld abont n is nntrne?—It is fan.1" °f ibo d.,not ^now the Christian name Wer as a He only knew Jesse with VLT^A^NGSTER- ^ou e THE ^niRDEEED MAN. Ot.^es8e have any quarrel or trouble haV ^?-^o. never. al1- I l aTly animoeity or ill-will?—No, th'a,Ve only seen 111111 two or three %tV°U 0lv3 dealings twenty years ago. J1i-itL'J°in^ !aid anything to David Jones 'aVr (witv,y arm t0 Jesse Hill ? cHd r°of). v a deprecatory smile and gazing r<)h>0<* e»o °- i^ve >r Us" any threats?—Never. fcJ* tk i C'ard David Jones's statement?— V^re I heard too much. 7 trUtk at a11 111 story?—No vN £ aB abom Welbh detailed all he said to, t", out the murder. vS.^t° ♦unti°Ued in broken English:—"I jN 6 shoPl and th«y were talking «\1 °f er- There were two others there it* Cutties. I asked my friend Mr. fH^an if^?ald write a letter to the old v- wiH do it for me. My shoe- aL nry backwardlike, so I asked him if tj eeder letter 111 my mind." V ''Vi thi.„ re as^ecl the witness to speak rfc* t'I sai!??11 the interpreter, and he con- h David Jones I noticed on my with a basket on the road. v'Urt ^ind asked David Jones if I made siSt* aQd saw anything further if he r th old man about it. That ^fh' ^4 r Inurder—six weeks or more; not aL IT 3es said. I never heard Jones murder after that." H's fiODY AND THE SACK, w Jn«°r ta^e a sack containing a body Cnes 8 shop?—No, never. 8 °f y,°a ever taken there?—Only a 'our, horse to set the straps fastened, rt ^id^fitho e^ore the urder?-Perhaps, six- •^d5^°U 0r twelve months. eTCr take a saok like that pro- U8 i Hn'» Y1"" had sacks of tbat kind. t,°k aft said 116 11863 a sack to cover to j 116 loBt a tarpar.lin. He never ,A ^chi„°nes s sh°P unless, perhaps, empty oM yQU i g chaff. > 1aRtlember any man coming to your J for cabbages or going in a cart a from the stable?—No, I don't ,4 .^6 >tJman jn my cart, and especially V^th- w ^Tiat would he want there ? itas banded to the witness, and he Jt ,• „ ,and said, emphatically: I don't ,VjSwSack aii. r?t?d ifc came from your stable? nas never been in my stable. My V ^x>r5er and differently done up. N!lif*ini STED BY THE POLICE. S a?s8aid-a8rto tlle first viBit of th€ Police, °Ut th remember four men coming to if murder in January, 1897. They VO >. s^&in/?y name was Rhys Davies, and if 1^4 to They asked if I remembered f°r me> and where he was. s^irt ^Isrht^-r aboGt the pigs and cabbages ^Oueil' told them at the time it was tcCi^o ° was writing for me. I was > • I H °ufc three men coming with a *1 enied it, and asked them to bring y the ?ue" They Baid they had got one fHey u^ee, and would bring him before ,St d me to make haBte and come 'Aj. l,and I said I would at once, only tNia1'^ t^^08 np ^rst" 1 bad gome empty I and when I was putting them »? t* in V meddling with them. They the arSe. and wouldn't give me time lS*? behi„5rc" Two went with me, and two W'a Tbey took me past Jones, the v ti?%- Th op' and down the Strand to v aft0_ey kept me from six Saturday even- > iJ^Oclo,, ^o °n Sunday morning. Vi,5ey j; j Tllis is the man whom the police ^6 n.ot arrest. *t continuing, said they gave him no b* food at the station, but he bought some. He remembered them coming to his house on the Sunday. They searched his house, and were there twenty to 25 minuter, and said they would call again. He said, "Gentlemen, it is better to d,) your business now, but you can call again if you like." He answered all the questions truth- fully. Had you anything to bide? Witness (emphatically and with a laugh): No. nothing. They wanted the guilty man. Did they ask you who he was?—Yes. They thoroughly believed I had something to do with it, or could tell them who did. it. Did you know anything?- No; it was quite a blank to irse. Did they ask you about where you were on a certain night?—Yes; I told them I was out from eleven to two o'clock in the morning looking for my marc, which had strayed. I was up as far as Cadle, and came back by the racecourse. I went through a pool by the grand stand, and wetted my feet. It was after the murder, on a Saturday night, I told the police all this. llr. Leeder: And all you knew? Witness: Yes I said I had no finger in the murder, and if I had been there it wouldn't have been so bad on the poor fellow. There was no latch on his stable, and the police could have searched it any time. NOT HAY, BUT OAKUM. The witness caused some amusement by his contemptuous treatment of the red handker- chief. He untied it, and examined its con- tents, and. after smelling one article, said it was not hay at all, but oakum. (Laughter.) He had not seen the little handkerchief in his life. When asked if he left it in Jones's shop he smiled contemptuously, and said emphati- cally, "No." The only knife he had he gave to a. farmer. It was true he bought a pair of boots from Evans. He never got blood on them. They were burnt in November, 1896, by a coal falling from the fire. Did you ever burn them on purpose?—No. Did you ever take them to Jones's shop after- wards?—No, they were burnt to a cinder. Some of my clothes were burnt at the same time. Did you know how they got on fire ?-1 was fetched from Jones's shop by a woman, who said the house was on fire. Did you burn your cart?—No. One night a boy, named William Mort. threw a stone at my shed, and it knocked down my lamp inside. It set fire to the sacks, and burnt a patch of the cart. There was no truth in the statement that David Jones had seen him throw a knife into the air. It was a bag that lie threw up, and he did so because the plant that had been laid for him had been unsuccessful. "I hadn't got the face to do it to the poor fellow," he added. Witness had told Jones that he knew nothing about it, but after he had been down to Swansea with the officers he had a conversation with him. He told Jones that he knew nothing about the murder. Jones said: "Even if it was my own brother, I would not keep it secret. If you know something tell them." Witness said, "Boy, I am quite innocent of it; it's quite blank to me." Did you say anything about reading the papersP-What papers? Perhaps I said because he was reading the papers. Davies then said he kept out of Jones's way for some time after the murder because Jones had some animosity against him. Jones's manner changed towards him after he was first taken by the police. He remembered seeing Jones reading the papers off and on. He used to ask him about the contents, and Jones used to tell him, although as a rule the shoe- maker read to himself. It was only by what he was told in thatrway that he knew about the murder. Mr. Leeder: Do you know the lad Price? Witness (vacantly): Who is Price? The witness Price, who said he was threatened by prisoner when the cricket ball got into his field, now stepped forward. Prisoner recog- nised him, and exclaimed, with a laugh, "Aye, the man on the field. When he came into the box I could remember him." Were you angry with him for jumping into your field?—Yes, because of the crop of hay. I ran after him, flourishing a scythe, and called after him that I would do to him as people said I had done to Jesse Hill. Witness denied having threatened the lads Walker and Newell. What he told Newell was that he had better not think he could go beyond him, although he (Newell) was a younger man. The court adjourned for lunch. After luncheon prisoner was examined by Mr. Lewis. Replying as to the discontinuance of his visits to Jones's shop, he said he was not there once in 1898. He was there sometimes in 1897. He had met Jones in the street in 1898, but had scarcely spoken to him. He spoke to him once about William Mort. Since when have you stopped speaking to Jones ?-Since February two years ago. And do you say you have not spoken since?- Only about once or twice. I spoke to him about my bag being taken down by the police. Were you not m Jones's shop, for instance, when the fire took place ?-"Y es," said the prisoner, with a triumphant smile, "but that was in December, 1896. RELATIONS BETWEEN DAVIES AND JONES. Prisoner was then examined as to his saying that Jones had animosity against him. It arose through many discussions in his shop in years past. When do you say the animosity occurred?— I can't say. He annoyed me often in his shop. It would be four or five years ago. He did not tell me straight to go out of his shop, but I consider I lost his friendship. Yet you asked him to write letters for you?- Yes. Continuing, witness said he knew the Hill family well. He knew Jesse. He had only seen him about twice in twenty years, and. did not speak to him. He had heard of people steal- ing cabbages from their garden. lie had been by the place at night for some years. He asked Jones if he saw anything more if he would write a few lines to the old man Hill. The old man was still alive then, although Jesse was dead. Jones would not do so, and gave no reason, but it was not actually decided to write at all. It was not because he would not put his name to it that Jones refused. The first he knew of the stealing of cabbages was after the murder. The story of his asking for hay is an inven- tion. He had never spoken to Mrs. Hill in his life, although he had seen her hundreds of times as he passed the store. He had plenty of hay of his own He had to buy sometimes. H- owed Mr Griffiths about P13 for hay. He told the police that he had asked the little shoemaker to write a letter to the Hills for him. He hid nothing from them. He had heard that Jesse Hill was missing on the 26th of September. He could not swear that the police mentioned that date when they came to see him in January. He denied that he was out on the night of the 26th of September. The date he was searching for his mare was either the 17th, 24th, or 31st of the following month. He could not say whether he told the police that. He told them it was not the same night as they suggested. Where were you on the 26th of September?— I don't know. If I could go home I could tell you where I was every Saturday. I might have been down at Mr. Griffiths's, the hay mer- chant. I have been there late. Did you not tell the police that you were out all night on the 26th of September?—I said -I was not out all night. I was out till two a.m. The Stipendiary: On the 26th?-No, sir, not the 26th. Mr. Lewis: But the question put to you was. Where were you on the 26th of September, and you replied, "I was out that night looking for my little mare," &c.—I said it was in October. Mr. Lewis: You have told us your story of where you were. Now, when the police came to you did you not say to them "I was on the middle road, Cwmbwrla, at two o'clock in the morning, near the cabbage garden?—No. And that you saw two women there?-What two women? I did not see two women. I was not on the middle road. Did you tell the police so?—No, sir. You have heard the police swear it?—Yes. That was an invention?—Yes. Did you not press the police to come and see if you could point out someone to them?-No; I could not point out anyone. You did not tell Morris that?-No, sir. Did you not say "Yes; I will go anywhere with you. What do yon want with me"?—Yes, but they were directing me, not me them. Did you say, "Do you want me to confess or give evidence"?—No; I said do you want me to confess to a thing I know nothing about. And you swear you said that?—Yes, they were pressing me very hard, and I could see they fully believed me guilty. Do you suggest the police put their hands on you?—They did not, sir, but if I gave one half step they were ready to commence. (Laughter, which was suppressed). And when they asked you what evidence you could give you said "That's the point"?—Yes. What did you mean?—I knew I was quite innocent. But they did not accuse you from beginning to endP-Well, they were pressing me, and they had two or three there against me. The witness, in further examination, said the police did not charge him, but they came to see if they could find a. knife or a piece of his body or anything like that. They searched the stable and outside. If they asked him where he was on the night of the murder he could not answer them. He was often teased by boys, and he sometimes got annoyed. "When I see less than a man I like him to show me better. A worm turns sometimes." It was possible that he saw the witness Newell at the pit. He knew Wheeler, the haulier. Mr. Lewis: Did he sometimes tease you?- Witness: Yes. Did you say to him, "I will do the same to you as I done to Jesse Hill."—I don't believe I said that to him. Will you swear you did not?—Yea. Then why did you hesitate about answering? —Because I know I did nothing to the gentle- man. I could swear as I did not kill him. Walker (he continued) was not & boy who could be depended on. Mr. Lewis: Did you say, "I killed Jesse Hill"? —No; I might have said they give me the name of killing the fellow. You said that the first time you were accused of it was when the police came to you?—Well, a driver we call Dennis. He was on the Gorse- road one day, and he shouted out, "Who killed Jesse Hi.l?" I said, "There is no feeling in me nor in the dead body." Asked as to the boots, prisoner said, "I have got the boots, sir. I can prove there is no more blood on them than the ones I got on now." f Did you tell Jones that those boots were the ones you were wearing on the night of the murder?—No, sir. The case was then adjourned till Thursday.
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ACCUSED FURTHER EXAMINED. The hearing of the charge of murder against Rhys Davies was continued at Swansea on Thursday morning. The prisoner was re- examined by Mr. Leeder as to the number of his visits to the shoemaker's shop since the murder. He stated also that till he was first arrested by the police and told Jones about the circumstances there was no animosity be- tween them. Mr. A. Lewis pointed out that prisoner had already distinctly stated that the animosity had existed since 1897. In further examination witness admitted taking boots to Jones's shop for repairs, and that when he was there he spoke to Jones about the murder, and Jones said to him, "If it was my own brother I would not keep it secret. If you know anything tell it." He replied, "Man, I know nothing at all about it." Prisoner was further examined as to his knowledge of the Hills. Mr. Lewis protested that there could be no object in these repetitions except to waste public time. Prisone rfurther stated that he knew nothing about the stealing of cabbages except what he had heard. The police did not show him the letter which had been written by Jesse Hill. It was after Dennis shouted out an accusation against him that he made the replies to the boys who teased him. He believed if he was allowed to re-visit the district he would be able to trace his movements on the particular Saturdays in 1896. He was sure he did not tell the police that it was on September 26 that he was out looking for his mare at night. It was in the following month. Of course, Mr. Evan Griffiths, hay and corn merchant, said he had known prisoner for twenty years, and he had been a regular customer of his for eighteen years. Mr. Leeder: Did he have credit?—Yes, he had credit with me up to June, 1896, and then I told him he would have to pay cash. Witness, at the request of Mr. Lewis, repeated this noteworthy statement, and added that after that prisoner paid him cash for what he bought. Witness put in his ledger, showing that in November, December, and March prisoner paid cash for purchases, and also paid three instalments off the old account. In his opinion, prisoner dealt only with him, or he would not have been so lenient with him. At one time prisoner owed him £ 16. He believed prisoner to be an honest, truthful man. Mr. John Henry Jenkins, a headmaster under the Swansea School Board, was ques- tioned by Mr. Leeder as to a conversation he had with Evans, the insurance agent. Mr. Lewis objected, and the stipendiary ruled this evidence inadmissible. Mr. Leeder claimed that he could produce this evidence in rebuttal of the statement made by the witness Evans, and the stipendiary agreed. Mr. Lewis strenuously objected. Mr. Leeder had not, in examination of the witness Evans, laid the necessary foundation for his questions now. The law required the particular occasion and circumstance to have been put to the witness whose statement was to be rebutted, and this had not been done. The bench ruled Mr. Leeder's questions in- admissible, and the witness then simply testi- fied that he knew nothing against prisoner's character. Mrs. Sarah Beynon, of Middle-road, Cwm- bwrla, said she remembered the day the deceased was missed. Site saw the man she had for years understood to be Jesse Hill at 4.10 in the afternoon. There was another man with him. They were talking loudly, and she heard one mention, Two quid," using an expletive. She had seen the man many times before, but never since. She believed it to be Jesse Hill, but could not take her oath about it. Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis: She would not swear that she did not tell the detectives she did not know Jesse Hill. She did not know the deceased man at all. After the adjournment, Henry mith, weigher at the colliery of Mr. Phillip Richard, said prisoner was at the colliery several time3 during September, 1896. It was very probable he was there on the 26th, because five names were down on the day book, and he could account for the other four. He believed the fifth was the prisoner. He had not the book to hand. Mrs. Howell, wife of David Howell, in reply to Mr. Leeder, said she did not see anyone in the cabbage garden on the day of the murder. Mrs. William Hill came to her house that day. They had a conversation about a skirt. Mr. Lewis objected that the evidence was not admissible. Mr. Leeder said he wished to show the prose- cution and the police who the real murderer was. Mr. Lewis said a conversation between two old ladies about a skirt would not help the pro- secution. The witness was not allowed to continue. The next witness was J. Evans, insurance agent, who had given evidence for the prosecu- tion, but had been subpoenaed by the defence to produce his bank books. The witness said he would hand his books to the stipendiary, but not to Mr. Leeder. Mr. Lewis objected to the production of the books. Mr. Leeder could not ask his own wit- ness to produce books for the purpose of con- tradicting himself. The books were handed to the bench, but were not put in. The witness stated that he did not draw money on the day in question, and the books did not show it. Mr. Leeder intimated that he had two more witnesses, who were not present, aild asked for another adjournment. Mr. Lewis said thia was already the seventh day, and he wished for an undertaking that the case would be finished then. Mr. Leeder promised that the case would be certainly finished then. The Bench adjourned the case till Monday next at eleven o'clock.
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SON M URDEES HI8 FATHEB AND SWEETHEART. The little village of Belout, near Bordeaux, was on Wednesday the scene of a dreadful double murder, one of the victims being the murderer's own father, a man of 57 years of age. While Mme. Girard and her maid-servant, Clementine Neveu, were working on their farm at Belout they saw Maurice Girard (the son of the former), a young man of twenty years of age, rushing towards them with a gun. Young Girard, whose appearance bore signs of the great agitation under which he was labouring, cried to the two women, I have killed my father; you will never see him again!" He then ran up to Clementine, seized the young girl (she is only seventeen) round the waist, and kissed her twice passionately on the mouth. Then, drawing off a few paces, he fired full at her, missed once, owing to a sudden movement of the poor girl, and then fired a second time with fatal effect, the bullet entering the head behind the right ear, and killing her upon the spot. During this scene, which only lasted a few seconds, Madame Girard stood stock still, unable to move or speak, but, as the murderer threw down his gun and made off, she recollected his first words, and called to some labourers who were running up to turn back to the farm and look for the young man's father. They found him in the kitchen of the farmhouse, lying bathed in blood from a large wound in the head, and he expired within a few moments of their arrival. The most terrible part of the whole thing is that the motive of the double crime, for which Maurice Girard will, doubtless, suffer the last penalty if the authorities can catch him, is said by the people of the neigh- bourhood to have been jealousy, Maurice being bitterly jealous of his father, whom he believed to be on intimate terms with Clementine Neveu, whom he himself had hoped to marry. The sympathies of the neighbours are almost unanimously with the murderer, who is etill at large.
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WEEKLY MAIL" MUSIC GALLERY. TO COMPOSERS AND ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN MUSIC. The Editor is willing to receive, for inspection, manuscripts of songs, part- songs, anthems, and other similar compo- sitions, with a view to their free publica- tion from time to time in the "Weekly Mail." Next week will be given a four-part song, "Glide soft, ye silver floods," by A. V. Gough. It is requested that subscribers will keep themselves posted up in matters relating to the musical section of the "Weekly Mail" by following the announcements which appear from time to time. This will save the private letters and requests for information which are continually received. Terms of subscription for posted copies of "Weekly Mail" s. d. One Quarter, post free 1 8 Half Year „ 3 3 One Year 6 6 Orders (prepaid) should be addressed to the Publisher, "Weekly Mail," Cardiff. It is proposed to re-publish together, in book form, in like manner to the hymn- tunes, the carols, chants, and Welsh hymns which formed the competition for several weeks. The whole will be sold for threepence, as in the case of the hymns.
TERRIBLE MURDER NEAR BURNTWOOD.
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TERRIBLE MURDER NEAR BURNTWOOD. A terrible murder was committed at the small hamlet of Woodhouses, near Burntwood, on the confines of Cannock Chase, early on Tuesday morning. It is alleged that a man, named Edward Green, a black- smith, hacked his wife to death with a knife, and afterwards made off to Lichfield. Inquiries show that about three months ago the wife, Emily Green, obtained a separation from her husband, who was ordered to contribute- 10s. per week towards the maintenance of his wife and three children. The man, however, paid the money very irregularly, and, farther, is stated to have been in the habit of annoying and assaulting the woman. She accordingly last week took proceedings against him for arrears and assault, and he was arrested at Polesworth on Saturday last. On Monday he was brought before the mayor at Lichfield, and remanded, on his own recognisance, to Brownhill Petty Sessions next week. lie seems to have then returned to the neighbourhood of his home, and to have slept out. About eight o'clock on Tuesday morning he went to his wife's house, and an altercation took place, whereat on, it i3 stated, the man seized a knife, with which he hacked the woman's head until she was dead. He afterwards decamped, and an hour later gave himself up to the Lichfield police. In the meantime the deceased's eldest son had communicated with the Burntwood police. DEATH OF THE MURDERER. The unfortunate man died the same night at the police-station. Throughout Tues- day he was continually retching, and was visited by the police-surgeon, who prescribed for him. A constant watch on the prisoner, moreover, was- maintained, and on Tuesday night the accused stated to the constable on duty that he was trying to die as quickiy as he could. At this time he was lying on his back with his arms crossed on his chest, and within five minutes he had ceased to breathe. Green had previously attempted "suicide by strangulation, and it is conjectured he either took poison or swallowed something to produce internal injuries. A post-mortem examina- tion will be held.
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LIVERPOOL TRAGEDY. A BOY ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS SISTER. On Monday afternoon Mrs. Canning, who lives in a house off Kensington, Liverpool, left her daughter, aged eight, and her son, James, who is somewhat older, in the house together. During the mother's absence the son was teen to leave the house, with a bundle, and Mrs. Canning, on her return half an hour later, was horrified to find her daugh- ter lying cn the landing on the top of the stairs v.nconscions, and bleeding from a dreadful wound oq the top of the head, the crown of the &kull being battered in. The injured girl was at once removed to the infirmary, where she died at six o'clock on Tuesday morning. The police were not made acquainted with the cir- cumstances until ten o'clock on Monday night, and a.n hour later Detective-inspector Bryson apprehended James Canning. BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. The prisoner was subsequently brought before the stipendiary and charged with the murder of his sister Ada. Evidence was given that when arrested the prisoner admitted striking his sister with a poker, adding that it was through drink, and that he did not mean to kill her. He thanked God he had not used a knife. The prisoner was formally remanded until after the inquest, which was fixed for Friday.
QUEEN AND THE METHODISTS.
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QUEEN AND THE METHODISTS. Mr. J. A. Bowron, of Blackheath. at the anni. versary of the Lambeth Mission, the other even- ing, related an incident in which the Queen was concerned, and which, he said, had never been told in public before. "Many years ago," said he, "my father conducted a large society class at Sloane-terrace Chapel, Chelsea. and at one time one of the members of that class was a female servant at Buckingham Palace. This servant, however, came in for much ridicule and persecution on account of her Methodism and her regular attendance at class. It became so acute at length that some of the other ser- vants threatened to leave if the Methodist ser- vant remained, and the matter in some manner reached the ears of her Majesty, who imme- diately inquired into it, and on being informed of the cause of the dissatisfaction said, "I will go to the meeting myself and see if it is a fit place for a servant to go to.' And." continued Mr. Bowron, "her Majesty came to my father's class, and on her return to the Palace said to the persecuted Methodist servant. 'Never neg- lect your class meeting. I only wish that other servants would go also.'
ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES
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ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A SWANSEA DRAPER. At Swansea Police-court on Thursday Mr, Phillips, draper and hosier, 22, High-street, Swansea, was remanded on a charge of obtain- ing £ 52 10s. by false pretences from Messrs. Bettle and Co., London. The allegation was that he obtained goods by the representation that he had a capital of £200.
.ATTEMPTED MULDER AND SUICIDE.
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ATTEMPTED MULDER AND SUICIDE. The Press Association Ayr correspondent telegraphs that a shoemaker named Samn-ol Duncan. 29, attempted to murder his wife at Ayr early on Wednesday morning with an axe, and afterwards committed suicide by cutting his throat with a knife used in his work. Mrs. Duncan was awakened while in bed lying beside her two young children by a severe blow on the head delivered by her husband. She escaped, taking tlvj axe with her, and on the police entering the house shortly afterwards they found Duncan under the bed with his throat cut, with the knife lying beside him. He died in a few minutes. Duncan had been in ill-health, and. it is stated, acted strangely after being told that he was sufferjn;y from consnmption., When Mrs. Duncan fled she left the children in bed, but Duncan did not harm them.
LORD, HERSCHELL DEAD.
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LORD, HERSCHELL DEAD. UNEXPECTED END IN THE UNITED STATES. The Press Association regrets to state that news was received in London on Wednesday of the sudden death at Washington of Lord Herschell, a former Lord Chancellor. The first official tidings of the sad event reached the Foreign Office in a cablegram from Mr. Cart- wright, secretary of the High Commission which has recently sat at Washington to adjust THE LATE LORD HERSCHELL. tPhoto by London Stereoscopic Company, London.. matters between the United States and Canada. and of which the deceased peer was a member. In communicating the information to a Press Association representative, one of Lord Salis- bury's private secretaries said the news came as a terrible shock to the department. The Foreign Office had heard of the accident which recently occurred to Lord Herschell, who, slip- ping on a piece of ice at Washington, fell to the ground and broke one of the pelvic bones, but no intelligence had reached them to pre- pare for the terribly grave news of Wednesday. Lady Herschell did not accompany her husband on his American visit, but has lately been staying in the South of France, and a letter was received from her on Wednesday stating that she was on her way home, and expected to reach London by next Tuesday. The Right Hon. Farrer Herschell, first Baron Herschell, was son of the Rev. Ridley H. Herschell, and was born in the year of the Queen's accession, being thus only in his sixty- second year. He received his education at the University of Boun and University College, London, graduating with honours at London University in 1857. Three years later he was called to the Bar, and took silk in 1872. The following year he was appointed. Recorder of Carlisle, and from 1874 until 1885 he represented Durham City as a Liberal. On forming his Ministry m 1880 Mr. Gladstone appointed the deceased Solicitor-General, and the customary honour of knighthood was bestowed upon him the same year. When the Home Rule split occurred, in 1886, Lord Selborne. who had been the Liberal Lord Chancellor in the 1880 to 1885 Administration, threw in his lot with the Liberal Unionists, as also did Sir Henry James, the Liberal Attorney-General, and, in conse- quence of these defections, Sir Farrer Herschell was made Lord Chancellor, under the title of Baron Herschell, in the peerage of the United Kingdom. This position he occupied for only four months, as the Liberals resigned office immediately the first Home Rule Bill was defeated in the House of Commons; but when the party returned to power in 1892 Lord Herschell was again given the Woolsack. The deceased peer took part in what was termed the Round Table Con- ference on Home Rule, the first meeting of which was held at his house, but this attempt to settle the differences between the Liberal Unionists and their old colleagues ended, as is well known, in complete failure. Apart from the exercise of purely judicial functions, Lord Herschell had done service to the State in other ways. He was unanimously appointed presi- dent of the Royal Commission which inquired into the working of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and recognition of his eminent posi- tion as a jurist was found in his appointment to be the British member of the Venezuela and British Guiana boundary arbitration tri- bunal two years ago, while a more recent honour was his selection as a member of the Anglo American High Commission which was charged with the considera- tion of questions outstanding between Canada and the United States, but which had so far failed to bring about a full settlement of the points at issue, having at its last sitting at Washington on February 28 decided to adjourn until August 2, when it will re-assemble at Quebec. The late peer was a deputy-lieutenant for Kent and Durham, and was Captain of Deal Castle. He married in 1876 Agnes Adela, daughter of Mr. Edward Leigh Kindersley, of Clyffe, Dorset, by whom he had three children-a son, the Hon. Richard Farrer, who succeeds to the title, and two daughters. THE CAUSE OF DEATH. A Renter's telegram from Washington on Wednesday says:—Lord Herschell died at the Shoreham Hotel, where he had been in bed jUice his fall on a slippery side-walk on Feb- ruary 15. His death came without any warn- ing. Apart from the pain incident to the frac- ture he had sustained Lord Herschell had been in excellent health and spirits, and almost up to the hour of his death there had been no pre- monitory symptoms of the end. In answer to inquiries the doctors said they were unable to give the exact cauec of death, but the symp- toms, it was thought indicated angina pectoris.
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THE ALLEGED INSULT TO THE QUEEN, STATEMENT BY THE MAYOR OF NICE. A Central News telegram from Nice on Wed- nesday evening stys:-The Mayor of Nice to- day gives an emphatic and public denial to the report that when in Paris last Saturday upon the occasion of the funeral of the late Presi- dent Faure he called upon the British Ambas- sador and apologised for the alleged dis- courteous references to Queen Victoria at a place of public entertainment in Nice. This, says the mayor, is absolutely contrary to the truth What he did was to assure the Ambas- sador of the respect of the population of Nice for her Majesty. A later Reuter's telegram from Nice on Wednesday says:—M. Paoli, special inspector attached to the French Ministry of the Interior, having completed the arrangements necessi- tated by the Queen's forthcoming visit to Cimiez, has to-day returned to Paris.
THE DRUCE CASE,
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THE DRUCE CASE, FURTHER COMPLICATIONS. A London Sunday paper adds to the compli. cations of the Druce case by announcing that neither Mrs. Druce nor her son can derive any benefit from the revocation of T. C. Druce's will because his first bride was not Annie May, as hitherto asserted, but Elizabeth Crick- mer, whom he married at Bury St. Edmund's, in 1816. It was a runaway match, and the girl was only sixteen years of age at the time. Druce used some of his wife's fortune-she came of a rich family—in starting a draper's busi- ness. This failed, and he left his wife and family and came to London. His eldest daugh- ter (now a Mrs. Izard) is still alive, and there were at least four sons of the marriage. One of these, George, was put down in T. C. Druce's will for a legacy of £ 1,000. Mrs. Izard did not attend her mother's funeral; she was not allowed even to see the corpse, which seems to suggest a doubt whether Mrs. Druce really died at the date alleged (1836). If she did not die, then it is suggested that she may have sepa- r rated from her husband; at any rate, it was not until 1851 that T. C. Druce made Annie May his wife. The "Pall Mall Gazette" is able to state that the Home Office has practically decided to, in any case, issue a "licence" to Mrs. Druce to open the grave at Highgate.
SUICIDE AFTER INFLUENZA.
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SUICIDE AFTER INFLUENZA. On Wednesday morning John Leigh, 69, of Chester, manager for Messrs. Barrett and Co., mineral water manufacturers, of Birkenhead, committed suicide in a deliberate fashion by leaping up the Chester city walls at the north sate and jumping on to the canal towing path below, a distance of about 100ft. Deceased was terribly mangled, and death was instantaneous. He was just recovering from a severe attack of influenza. >
TWO CASES IN LIVERPOOL.
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TWO CASES IN LIVERPOOL. The Central News Liverpool correspondent telegraphs that two robberies from bank counters have just been brought to light in that city. In one case the thief got clean away with f-100, and in the other £1,400 was stolen. In the latter case a cotton broker's clerk placed over £ 1,400 on the counter of the bank, and, his attention being diverted for a moment by a stranger, a supposed confederate carried off the amount named. So far the police have no clue to the gang of thieves. DETAILS OF A CLEVER AND DARING DEED. No arrest has yet been made in connection with the bank robberr at Liverpool, but the whole detective force of the city is on the alert. Unfortunately, the affair was carried out with so much cool audacity that no definite clue to the thief or thieves exists. The clerk to Messrs. Willmer and Stevens, cotton brokers, had deposited on the counter of the Union Bank cheques and notes amounting to over £1,400, and was waiting his turn to be attended to by the cashier, when he was touched on the shoulder, by someone. He momentarily turned round, and at that instant the cheques and notes were taken, as they had disappeared when the clerk again put his eyes on the counter. Being close to three o'clock, wh^n the bank closes. there were numbers of people at the counter, but no one seems to have seen the actual theft. From his momentary glimpse of the person who touched him. the clerk describes him as a tall, well-dressed man, about 45 or sa, with whiskers and moustache turning grey. One cheque was for C670, drawn on Strauss and Co., cotton merchants, Liverpool, and the other was for t573, drawn on the Cotton Bank in favour of Willmer and Co. Both were crossed and have been' stopped. The notes included two of £100 each, numbered "24660" and "24661," and dated "Liverpool. March 8, J £ 98." The private mark on the face of each was "Z 1450." There were also three £ 10 Bank of England notes, endorsed by Messrs. Richards. Mills, and Co., shipowners, Liverpool. The numbers of the notes have been circulated by the police.
OVER ZCSOO OBTAINED BY A FORGED…
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OVER ZCSOO OBTAINED BY A FORGED CHEQUE. The London and Westminster Bank is reported to have been the victim of a serious forgery. On Wednesday last a cheque for LSZO. purporting to be from a West End money- lender, was presented at the St. James's-square branch. It was written on notepaper, accom- panied by a letter, and the bank officials, not doubting the genuineness of the signature, cashed the cheque. The forger is said to have advertised for a pri- vate secretary, and sent one of the applicants to cash the cheque, afterwards sending him to change the notes into French money and English gold. He then told the secretary he did not require him further that day, and dis- appeared. The secretary communicated his suspicions to the bank, and the forgery was discovered. The mannger of the bank states that the matter is being investigated by the police, but there is no clue to the perpetrator of the fraud, who is believed to have left the country.
POLICE ATTACKED AT MERTHYR.
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POLICE ATTACKED AT MERTHYR. TWO CONSTABLES INJURED. On Saturday evening Police-constables Henry Senior and George Hughes were Bet upon by. a gang of roughs in Dynevor-street, Merthyr, and murderously assaulted. The attack seems to have been deliberately planned, for some of the ruffians were armed with weapons. The constables were walking together along the Ftreet, between the Canal House and Dynevor- square, when they were rushed upon by the gang, and Hughes was struck on the head with a piece of iron having a chisel at one end and a sort of scraper at the other. Upon turning round he received a second blow with the same instrument, and was knocked down. Whilst on the ground he was kicked and knocked about in the most brutal way. He had two punc- tured wounds on the left side of the head, extending to the bone; a large contused wound on the back of the head, several bruises about the body, and the third finger of the left hand was broken. His comrade, Senior, met with even worse maltreatment. He was struck to the ground with a poker, and kicked and otherwise most dreadfully illused, the injuries which he sustained being of a much more serious character. He had three large wounds on the top of the head, both his eyes were blackened and swollen, there being a severe cut beneath one, his arms and sides were fear- fully bruised, and he became extremely weak from loss of blood. The injured men were taken by some spectators of the melee into the shop of Mr. Howells, greengrocer, near by, and surgical aid was given to them by Mr. Bailey, dispenser to Dr. Webster. Hughes was able to walk to his house in Bethesda-street. but Senior had to be conveyed to his home in Brecon-road in a cab. THE ACCUSED MEN REMANDED. At Merthyr Police-court on Monday Redmond Coleman, Patrick Lehan, Jeremiah Finn, and John Christopher were charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Police-constables Geo. Hughes and Henry Senior in Dynevor-street, Merthyr, on Saturday night. Coleman's head was enveloped in bandages.—Superintendent Thorney explained that the constables were unable to attend consequent upon the injuries which they had received, and he, therefore, asked for a remand.—Police-sergeant J. L. Rees gave evidence as to seeing the constables wounded, and said that the prisoners, who were all bleeding, admitted after their apprehension that they had been in the row.—The Bench remanded the prisoneers for a week. ANOTHER CASE OF ASSAULT. At Merthyr Police-court on Monday John Linahan was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Dynevor-street, Merthyr, and also with assaulting Police-constable Bowen whilst in the execution of his duty. The officer stated that the prisoner rushed at him and struck him with a stone, saying, "There's another of the b-. His helmet saved the blow. The prisoner was fined'10s. and costs, or fourteen days, for the first offence, and for the assault he was sentenced to a month's hard labour.
WELSH IN LAW COURTS.
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WELSH IN LAW COURTS. UNSATISFACTORY REPLY BV THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. In the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr. LLOYD GEORGE (R., Carnarvon) asked the Attorney-General "whether Welshmen who can use their native language only are dis- qualified from serving on juries in their own country; whether this disqualification extends to men of other nationalities resident in Wales who are not conversant with the Welsh lan- guage, in which a considerable proportion of the evidence in civil and criminal proceedings in the Principality is given; whether a witness is not entitled in the courts of law of this country to give his evidence in his native language, if he states he can more accurately express his mind in it; and whether any dis- tinction in this respect is drawn when that language happens to be Welsh." Sir R. WEBSTER (Attorney-General) said: Welshmen using their own language are not disqualified from serving on juries; nor, assuming that they are otherwise qualified as residents, are men of other nationalities. As regards the last two paragraphs in his ques- tion, I must refer the hon. member to an answer which I gave him in July, 1897, and to this I have nothing to add. The question on the occasion alluded to by the Attorney-General was put by Mr. D. A. THOMAS (R., Merthyr Boroughs), who asked the First Lord of the Treasury if, in view of the strong feeling existing in Wales that Welsh-speaking witnesses should be per- mitted to give evidence in their native language in courts of law, he would give facilities for the discussion on an early day of the resolu- tion standing in the Order Book in reference to the action of Mr. Justice Ridley at the Beaumaria Assizes on the 8th of June. Mr. BALFOUR: There is no desire Tinduly to restrain the use of the Welsh language in the courts of law. But I am informed what happened on this occasion was that a dispute arose between the interpreter and the counsel as to what a certain witness had said in Welsh, whereupon the witness himself interposed In English to explain. I do not know that under these circumstances it is necessary to give facilities for a full-dress discussion on the subject.
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Early oa Wednesday morning Mr. John Davies, landlord of the Wyndham Arms Inn, Glebeland, Merthyr, died, after only a few hours' illness.
RITUALISM. .
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RITUALISM. ENGLISH CHURCH UNION; SPEAKS OUT. At a meeting on Tuesday morning of 700 delegates of the English Church Union, repre- sentatives from all parts of England, held at the Cannon-street Hotel, London, it was unani- mously agreed that a memorial signed by the president, Lord Halifax, setting forth the union's position in regard to the present Ritual controversy should be forwarded to the Queen, the Prime Minister, the archbishops, bishops, and members of both Houses of Parliament. The memorial sets forth that the clergy and laity ot the English Church Union had been publicly accused of lawlessness and disloyalty; it is denied that a new reli- gious establishment was set up in England in the sixteenth century; and it is asserted that the Church of England cannot, consistent with her principles, release herself from the obliga- tions imposed upon her and her relation to the rest of the Catholic Church. The right of the Crown or of Parliament to determine the doc- trine, discipline, and ceremonial of the Church of England is also denied. We are content, if need be (says the memorialists), to suffer for these things, and to suffer gladly. What we are not content to do is to sacrifice the rights and liberties of the Church of England to popu- lar clamour and ignorant prejudice. We shall protest against the spoliation of the Church, but we are not prepared (add the memorialists) to barter the principles of the Church for the sake either of establish- ment or endowment. No right to introduce new ceremonies or novel doctrines is claimed, but it is contested that any interpretation of the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer can be legitimate which relies on the principle that omission to prescribe is equivalent to prohibi- tion to use. Neither is it admitted that the arguments founded on non-use, however long" and continuous, can be legitimately adduced as evidence of what the Church of England forbids or enjoins. The memorialists insist that it is for those who assert that certain usages for- merly prevailing in the Church are not covered by the Ornaments Rubric to prove that they are forbidden-not for those who uphold these usages to show that they are explicity ordered. The rulers of the Church are besought not to impose on the Church a narrow and disputed interpretation of the rubrics, and the rulers of the state are entreated not to incur the risk of certain disaster by encouraging any legisla- tion which should aim at enforcing upon the Church in England the decisions of secular courts in spiritual matters. MR. KENSIT'S VIEWS. Mr. John Kensit, interviewed by the Central News reporter on Wednesday, said he was glad the English Church Union had taken up 6'') definite a position. The great question now was, What would the bishops do? Ho believed they would try to compromise, although he could not see how they could honestly accom- plish that. He was Imngly of opinion that ^Tues^KF^huueetiiig <3e me> English-. Cfemch Union wSvUb death kick of the iiitualials. The forthcoming number of the "Church Review" contains the following:—"We learn that during the month of February the very gratifying and encouraging number of 1.007 new members have joined the English Church Union, being, with one exception, the largest number ever added to the union in the course of a. single month. The exception referred to was in the month of March, 1889, the period of the prosecution of the Bishop of Lincoln, when 1,180 elections were recorded. The total number of new members added to the union since October 1 last, when the acute stage of the so-called crisis' may be said to have been reached, is 3,652. We also learn that, as a result of the Holborn Town-hall meeting resolutions, one priest has resigned his connection with the union. Comment on these figures," adds the "Review," "is superfluous. They eloquently describe the situation."
KENSIT MEETING BROKEN UP.
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KENSIT MEETING BROKEN UP. EXTRAORDINARY SCENES. A Yarmouth correspondent telegraphs that the opening meeting there of the Kensit crusade broke up on Monday night in the wildest disorder. The Fisher Institute, in which the gathering was held, was densely packed. The reading of a Psalm as an introduction pro- voked an extraordinary din. and the opposition was so strong that not a word of protest could be heard from the Wycliffe preachers. While an attempt was being made to proceed with the Psalm, a boatman jumped upon the platform and sang a roaring comic ditty, waving a tall hat round his head as he did so. Then the Wycliffe preachers tried a hymn, but the meeting yelled defiantly the National Anthem and "Ta-ra-ra-boom-deay." After vainly withstanding a continuous storm of hoots, groans, whistles, cat-calls, and shriek9 for twenty minutes, the chairman, hoarse from futile appeals and entreaties, closed the meet- ing. The Vicar of Gorleston went upon the plat- form, but his presence there was objected to, and a wild scrimmage ensued. Walking-sticks were freely used, Wycliffe bannera were torn, and the audience stormed the platform. At this point the chief-constable, heading a strong force of police, cleared the hall.
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THE FORTHCOMING HEARING AT LAMBETH. The "Westminster Gazette" telegraphed to the Archbishop of Canterbury on Tuesday ask- ing if Lord Halifax was accurate in stating that at the forthcoming hearing of ritual cases at Lambeth judgments of the Privy Council would not be held binding. His grace, in reply. sent the following telegram:—"Archbishop will give an independent judgment, as Archbishop Benson did."
PROTESTANT MEETING AT MONMOUTH,
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PROTESTANT MEETING AT MON- MOUTH, A lecture was delivered at Monmouth on Monday evening by the Rev. Canon M'Cormick, vicar of St. Augustine's, Highbury, London, on thi "Fight for Protestantism." Mr. S. C. Bosanquet presided. The Rev. C. Lindsay, speaking as a High Churchman, said he waa convinced there was no secret society existing in the Church. Some, he feared, were more or less disloyal, but that number was very small. Mr. Deakin (town-clerk), in seconding, said he spent four years in a Catholic Republic in South America, and had been forced at the point of the bayonet to kneel down while they carried the mass through the streets.
ANOTHER PEERAGE CLAIM.
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ANOTHER PEERAGE CLAIM. Yet another peerage claim is reported. The claimant is a Stockport clerk, named Jubal Stafford, in the employ of the Manchester Corporation. He has come to the conclusion, after searching ir.quiries, 1hat his claims to the barcny of Stafford. are stronger than are possessed either by the present holder of the title or by the gentleman who recently published a statement asserting that he was descended from a more direct branch of the family than the accepted rep S'entatile. A Manchester correspondent telegraphs that Mr. Jubal Stafford has been in communication with the rival claimant, from whom he has obtained much information, which confirms him in his conclusions. He is the eldest son of Mr. Daniel Stafford. nurseryman of Heaton Chapel. The latter is still alive, and narrates how his grandfather used to boast of his noble lintJage and of his estates, which rightly be. longed to the family. To a reporter Mr. Jubal Stafford deciare4 that his grandfather began preparations fifty years ago for prosecuting his claim lo thf title, but, for some reason or other, he after wards abandoned the task. Tt is not Mr Juba: Stafford's intention at the present stage ever to threaten to establish his lineage, but he ii prosecuting further inquiries with a view tt that object.
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