The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-03 00:00:00

THE nescaerzs NVEDEIt.

An adjunrned inquest was held on Wednesday
but, before Henry Maybury, the coroner far the
county of Brecon, at the Camden Araks Hoted, Trecastle,oa
view of the body at David Price, furrow, mod iti,g2
living at a farm called Comdyheefa, in the partih al
Deceased had been found lying deed very early on the mew-
ing of di. leth ultimo, in ield &lee Farm, through
which a pathway pissed to his own house, about a quarter
of a mile distant. The thaws_ peoditinet, estsevi•D7 • shirt
(root, were completely eatinuted with blood, and the body
bore marks of nuet brutal violence. The ribs on one side
had been wholly kicked or beaten in—three being fractured,
and two penetrating the cavity of the chest. The lower
yert ohne of t he neck tee:lbsen dislocated, and the head tad facie
were covered with cute, indicted with some sharp Instr.-
meat late a chisel. There were also two deep wound. la
the right thigh.
Two persona were brought up by the polio, on suspicion :
the one, John Williams, a farmer, living at Close, ma
which farm the murder had token ploce—he was de-
fended by Mr. T. Jonas, Llandcoory ' • the other, David
Day ies, a labourer, living in lodgings in the net bbottittood.
who was defended by Mr. C. Bishop, Llandovery.
The evidence affecting Williams merely amounted to the
eircumstauce that at as auction, tram which the deceased
was returning when murdered, they bad • riolent quarrel,
but that was a matter of each frequent occurrence with the
latter, who warn of a meet pugnacious and disagreeable
dispositioo, that no weight could be attached to it. It was
also considered improbable that the murder could have
been committed so near the residence of Williams with.
out his hearing cries of distress, but it warn sworn that he
was at • aeighbour's home, at the time. He wee liberated
in the course of the day on giving sureties to appear whim
called upini.
The evidence affecting Davies related to the following
facie. Polico-cmistable Edwards found imam the grass
near the body • broken watch-chain of yellow metal, from
which were' suspended two, watch.keye, one of them
fashioned like • pistol, and a broken seal. When appre-
heeded the prisoner bad oa his poem • watch, which had
stopped at 3h. 46m., and to which wee attached • steel
stein sod two keys, Neither of which would fit the watch,
while it oonid be wound up by • key attached to the chain
found in the field. In reply to a remark as to his watch
having stopped. prisoner said that he had lost the
proper key some days previonsly ; that the steel
chain had long been attached to his watch, and that
he never bad a chain of yellow metal in his pole
ameioa. This was very fully contradicted by witnesses,
who proved that he very usnaffy hail worn a chain and keys
exactly similar to those found near the body, though neither
of them was able to identify the chain positively. A foot
mark observed close alongside to one made by the foot cd
the deceased in a gap leading into the Saki wan described very
minutely by the widow and son, and tallied in every parti-
miler with a boot taken from the foot of the prisoner, but
the heavy rain of the following day had rendered a proper
comparie a by the police impossible—the mark being mach
defaced.
A nun of upwards of 291. in bank notes, gold. and silver,
was found untouched in the pocket. of the dead men—ren-
dering it evident that rubbery bad not been the object of
the outing..
At six o clock the iaquest was adjourned to the 6th inst.,
and the magistrates retuandod David Davies until the day
following, the ith.

PEsits Biros* Seitxr. The Rev. Chitrles
Carder has been preaching et Steppiogly, a midi vu
iu Beiliordahhe. sad the following artticiarn upon hie
preaching, extracted from the county paper, may amuse
and surprise your relden :—" Rrorititso sravx*s.—The
venerable church of dila village his given place to a
new and handaome structure erected at the expense of
the Duke of Bedford. The services of reopening
were celebrated on Friday, the 19th nit. The Rev. Charles
Kiageley, the well•known novella, preached twice on the
occanco. There ~armee of diaappointmeat among theme,.
intelligent of the cungramtion, and something like amaze-
meet at the iffelevere toss of the preacher. Like come of
the later writtup of Mr. Linsley, these diesourses betrayed
rctlrl manna end aervere-miridedriem." Joke Forster.
the eeiewsted eaavist, oyes west to preach at a village in
Botismsetsbire, mod altm the movies nee of his criegvegetket
wan heard to make the following comment r--" Tart week
we bad a Methody local, who war summit like a chap. but
se fur thick fool, I emit tasks anther head ear tail on um."
1 " Cast not your pearla before swum, test their gum IN**
i
sad end you," s counsel always to be ebserved.—/Ilue.
tared Fuses.