The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-15 00:00:00

THE STRATFORD MURDERER.

The condemned man Campbell, who was sentenced
to death at the Centrel Criminal Court, in London, on
Wednesday in last week, for the murder of Mr. Gal-
loway at Stratfori, was on fl'hureday afternoon con.
veyed to Chelmsford Gaol, in the custody of two
warders from Newgate. Ile was received by the Goner'
nor, and, according to the special rule in such came, was
stripped and searched, lie in placed in the condemned
c,-11 and watched by awarder night and day. Being a
Roman Catholic, he is attended by the Rev. Father
Batt, of ( helmsford, under whose ministrations he ap-
pears to be very penitent and perfectly resigned to his
fate. Since he has been in the gaol he states that the
fatal blow wan not struck with a knife, but with a small
jemmy which he had in his hand at the time, lie
also said he had been in Chelmsford Gaol in 1859,
when he and another lad named John Smith was
sentenced to a month's imprisonment from the Chelms-
ford Bench for robbing a person at Galleywood racer.
A short time after this, he and two others were con.
victed in London and sentenced to a term of imprison-
ment, and afterwards rent with them to Wandsworth
Reformatory. Thence he enlisted into the 80th Foot,
and, showing great talent as a mueiciam he was sent to
• musical institution for training boys for the army.
Raving served for some yiare in the band of the regi-
ment, he deserted, and wan afterwards discharged for
bad conduct. After that he attached himself to the
band of an Itinerant show in the north, and subse-
f inently left it for another show, which soon afterwards
broke up. lie then came to London, and after two
days' arrival fell in with the very gang that was im-
plicated in the burglary at Mr. Galloway's.
The prisoner, who is a native of Berwick-on-Tweed,
is a man of good education and great intelligence, and
constantly employs his time in the gaol in reading.
lie has a mother, brother, and two sisters living in
London, and he has written a very long letter to his
sisters, and received a reply on Monday morning. The
execution is fixed for Monday, the 24th Wet., at eight
o'clock.

REPUBLICAN MEETING IN LONDON.
A meeting, convened by the Council of the Inter.
national Democratic ABSOCiatioll, took place on Sunday
morning, on Clerkenwell-green, preliminary to the
Republican demonstration which it is proposed to hold
next Sunday in Hyde Park to express sympathy with
the Communist movement in Paris. Mr. Owen took
the chair, and a red flag, surmounted by a Cap of
Liberty, fi.iated over him. The attendance, which in-
chided several detectives, WAS not large; but some of
the speeches were of an extraordinary character. The
chairman deprecated the interference or dictation of
Messrs. Odger and Osborne am to the proposed demon.

etration, which wouhe held without consulting those
great leaders of mildogllsh Republicanism.
Mr. Weston propol, ' That this meting consider'
it desirable to carry i the proposed Republican de.
monstration is. HydPark on Sunday neat, for the
purpaie of expressiniympsthy with the Republicans
of Paris." 11. said Iran while the struggle was going
on outside l'arla thabey should show their approval
of the French COMILI3O. The English Republicans
would show the worlahat the accumulation of pro-
party was robbery, as that those who accumulated it
were not only thieveibut murderers. All rent paid
in the way it was ninpaiti was robbery more or less,
and a government 1 tudlords was a government of
thieves. . . .

Mr. Weston follow, with an address on tho text, I
" All Property is Robry." Mr. Radford, iu second-
ing this principle, sai they all held with the old
National Reform Uni, that " all property, beyond
what it cost, is robky." If they could get that
principle recognised, atters could be settled without
bloodrhed. This speak said he was not a Communist,
but a Smialist. Thellid not want merely to over-
throw monarchy and des, but something more; they
wanted poadoselon of le land and of the money as fast
as they created wealti
Mr. Johnson quote Filbeeph 1-re's ;;:ith Article of
the Rights of Man, doing with property, as espeJially
worthy of approval.
Mr. Murray also airesseci the meeting; and the
reeoltitione having beecarried, the procercfings, which
were very tame, termated.