The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-05-01 00:00:00

KICKED TO DEATH.

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Own.

Edward Hewett, a boilermaker, was charged on
remand before the Gloucester city magistrates on
Monday with wilfully murdering his wife on the 18th
inst. Prisoner is aged about 40 and his wife was
about 43; she was a widow with four children and
was married to the prisoner about 15 months ago..
On Saturday, April 17, they had a quarrel about
money. The prisoner gave his wife a sovereign and
wanted Os. back, but she would not give it, and he
kicked her repeatedly. During the night a neigh-
bour beard horrible language, the thud of blows
and falls, and the woman :creaming. All day on the
Sunday the brutal treatment was continued. In the
afternoon the prisoner was seen to chase the woman
into the washhouse and there kick her while on the
ground. Several neighbours deposed to his disgust-
inc, language and threats, and some of these led to
th'e inference that jealousy was a prompting cause
of his rage. About six o'clock on the Sunday night
two women went into the house and found the poor
woman in a fainting condition in a chair. They
called the prisoner downstairs, but with oaths and
curses he said he wished she was dead,
°and left the
house. Shortly afterwards the unfortunate woman
died.. The surgeon who made a post mortem exami-
- nation dosed to the bruises with which she was
covered, and attributed death to the shock, more par-
ticularly to one violent kick in the stomach. He said
that marks of hob-nailed boots were visible on her
legs, and the boots produced created a sensation in
court. Prisonermade no defence except that he was
drunk at.the time and knew nothing about it. He
was committed On the cbarge'd wilful miircleii and will
be tried, at the Worcester Assizes next month.

It is said that „Confueious' never said a word at
dinner.' It is quite likely that his mother-h.l-law 'pre-
pared-his meals.
The thrift ST wife of Benjamin Franklin felt it. a gala
day indeed, when, by, long accumulated iniall'savings,
she was able. to surprise her husband
.one morning
with a china cup and a silver spoon from WhiCh to
tali() his breakfast.. Franklin was shocked. You
see how-luxury creeps into families in spite ...Of prin.-
ciples.„." he said. When his meal was over, he. went
to the store and rolled, home a wheelbarrow full of
papers through the street e with his Own hands, lest
folk should get wind of the china cup and say be was
above his business,

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