The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-16 00:00:00

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Tan Win MUSD= car WALML—On Tuesday
John Crumpets, a Wieser Ludlow, wee charged at Health
with having oe the night of Saturday, 4th inst., murdered
his wife, Mary Asa Oromptes, eta pima* called Berthfiwyd,
rear to Lhawrtyd merel waters in the county of Radnor.
The evidence was of great length, from which it appeared
that Crompton was a shoemaker working for " the shop " of
the contireetor for the making of the Central Wales Railway.
which runs through Llanwityd, and that he, his wife, and
three &Aldine, lived in *woof • long range of turf-made huts
or cabins raised to eotiommoCate the navvies upon the rail-
way, houses being met with only at wile intervals.
But so ;biddy are these cabin* crowded that Crompton
had three or four lodgers, and although more than
forty %nommen had ipsined over the heads of this
couple, and they had, had ea many as twenty
children born to them in wedlock, be was jealous of one of
these moo, who had however left at the desire of the
worsen. Oa the night of the murder Crompton was drink-
ins with other MO at an inn at Lianwrtyd, end left sud-
denly, it is supposed to look after his wife. When his sou
and Ws lodgers load reached the but the woman had sot come
home, mod the father sent his son to look after her. The
boy idled to find his mother, sod the prisoner, after
sessetldig is several ports of the cabin (which the boy
shortly after, and when the prisoner came in she asked him
what he would have for supper. Some words of ao angry
nature were made use of. Be threw a glass and beer at her,
end the woman went out. What she returned it was about
eleven o'clock, and ghastly after the lodgers and the persons
sleeping in the adjoiaiag cabins were awoke by a row in
Cromptoe's but. Be weebeard to utter awful threats, and
after a struggle and MOB of " Don't, John," something was
beard to foll heady, but as them altercations were of some-
what hequeat occurresee, no cat come to interfere. In the
morning Oromptcm's wife was fined guile dead, placed lean-
ing 'gannet the ooe aide of a dyke at the rear of the huts,
having been strangled by pressure upon the throat. The
testimony of two medical men went to show that the womin
could net have committed the wit herself, her heads being
tightly clenched. The whole of the widens, pointed very
conclusively as the prisoner. From the evidence of his
own children it was shown that be is a man of ungovernable
temper, given to drink, and had several timee threatened
the life of hie wife, who had told her neighbours she should
drown herself, or he would murder her. A verdict of "
tut murder" was returned.
DlsillisBll4o DZATIL—An inquest was held at
the Swan Hotel, Alto., im Tuesday hat, before Mr. J. R.
Trodd, county coroner for Hants, end • respectable jury,
on the body of Mr. William Madgeriok, for many years the
manager of the above-nossitiosed hotel, who met with his
death under the following very distressing circumstances.
The diseased gestieroan, who, it appears, was suffering from
• slight attack of chronic rheumatism, retired to rest about
10 o'clock on the +seeping of Satinets'', the 11th inst., pre-
vious to which be procured an armies liniment, composed
of four drachms of arnica, two drachms of tincture of opium,
and compound of camphor, to apply externally to the parts
affected by the rheumatism. This liniment he had been in
the habit of using in a similar manner when suffering from
rheumatism for the last six years. lie also procured • pill
and black draught, and on retiring he took the pill and
intended to have taken the draught on the following morn-
ing. Both the draft and liniment were placed on a dressing-
talole in his bedroom in two small phials, which, although
received from different ohymiale, were of the seine size and
shape, and the contents of both nearly of the nine odour.
About 6 o'clock on the following (Sunday) morning an
attendant, who slept in the next room to the deceased,
had her attention called to him by his knocking, se if
in need of assistance. She went to him, sad on entering his
room found him sitting, partly dressed, by the side of his
bed, and he informed her that be had swallowed the lini-
ment by mistake, instead of the black draught, and that
on discovering what he had dose he had afterwards taken
the draught. She instantly informed the housekeeper
what had happened, and Dr. Leslie was immediately sent
for, who promptly attended and found the deceased suf.
tones from constriction of the throat and experienciog great
difficulty io breathing. The most energetic measures
WINO immediately taken by Dr. Leslie to allay the effects of
the poison ; strong emetics were administered, the stomach
pump was applied, and the whole contents of the stomach
removed, but the efforts were unsuccessful, the active prin-
ciples of the arnica having been rapidly absorbed, mowing
spasms of the glottis, and death from asphyxia. The jury
returned a verdict of "Accidental death," and 'scorn-
meoded that, for the preservation of human life, there
should be • special enactment ore general rule to provide
that all chemists should on issuing any poisonous liquid use
• bottle of a different shape to that containing harmless

drugs.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF • SOLDIEL—A soldier
of the 4th Hussars, named Bennett, met his death in a very
melancholy roses on Tuesday in Dundalk. A correspond-
ent of the Debits Express muses that Bennett, who was a
servant to au officer io the regiment, was out exercising his
master's horse, sad, when pasting the north gate of the bar-
reeks, be met two other soldiers of hie regiment, Privates
Beat and Taylor. Best had a gun in his hand, and handed
it to Taylor, se the deceased came riding by. who called out
Don't fire," messing, it is presumed, not to fire until be
passed with the horse on which he was riding. At this
moment the discharge of the gun took place, and Bennett
fell from his horse mortally wounded. A charge of No. 1
shot bad penetrated hie lunge and canoed his death. An
inquest will be held on the body this evening. It is said
that no ill-feeling existed between the deceased and the
parties charged with his death.
THE TRIAL OF ran Burma Inmates. —Tbe trial
of the grecs' began yesterday, zed we learn by amide
telegraph that a man named billallen WM convicted of riot
and an attack oe the Brown-street Proteetantschools. lie
was stewed MA two years' imprisonment. lie assaulted
theigaoler, sad an exciting scene (recurred in amt. For
the assault be was sentenced to three months' additional
imprisonment. Other priests were convicted of partici-
pating in the attack on the Brown-street schools, and were
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment each.
ATTEMPT TO " STICK DP" • MAIL. —The Orcas
Coamitutiost chronicles the following extraordinary attempt
to stick op the Albury and Deoiliquin mail:— • LastThars-
day, as Billy Smith, the mail contractor, was driving his
coach about thirteen miles oo the LIST side of Denili-
' quip, he was hailed by a seragnan, who desired to be con-
veyed to Toeumwall. The stranger took his plan on the
back seat of the coach, but seaeoely had the horses made a
fresh start before the driver received two severe blows on
the Bide of the heed with a nullah-oWlah. Billy held the
raise in one hand, and showed tight with the other hand.
The would-be bushmnger then jumped off the coach and
tried to stop the horses, but the driver whipped them on.
The stranger, after shying his stick at the mailman, bolted
into the both sod was no more thee. Be left his swag on
the coach, which on being examined was found to contain
half a sheep, a red comforter, • shoemaker's awl, pen and
ink, and a few rations. Had it not been for the pluck shown
by Smith, there is no doubt we should have had to record
the lose of another mail."—Yelbourne drque, Jan. 25.
A CHINESE FESTIVAL AT SINGAPORE. —The Chi-
nese festival of their sew year commenced upon the 27th
I ultimo, and has 'aniseed, with a few days of intermission,
down to the present time. being scarcely yet finished. The
Chas compose three-fifths of our populanon. numbering
• as they do SS 55,000 souls ; sad as they an by far the
moss esteesive traders we yam" this festival of theirs
' I seresserily offers • ooedSeS Interregna' to basins. In
ether respects it is sot particularly striking. Its chief
feature is the wisest discharge of fire-crackers during
certain hours of the day which are allotted by the police
for this purpose. The division is not moaned to the
• juvenile ponies of their oomensity ; oo the strary, it
somas to be reared u privilege of the mature sad able-
' ; Wild, who during the presesibed hours may be seen seated
is the frost etshe al their house with cam-
I *mat eosobreasee to the dMaistleas et the Wing
of encias which tbsg bus lit about tbsm.-43traita Ti s
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