The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-27 00:00:00

RECENT MURDERS.

Murders seem to have come, all at once, in a batch ;
and some of the papers seem to be full of them. Two
most sickening cases are reported. The aspect of the
Tipperary tragedy has changed somewhat. At the inquest
there was a hint that the case was not agrarian at all ; but
that it arose out of jealousy and unhappy domestic rela-
tions. But the question was not investigated, for fear that
it might frustrate the ends of justice. The jury found
a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons
unknown.

A dreadful murder has been committed at Derby. A
man named George Wiggin Ingham, a porter at the Mid-
land Railway Station, lives at Barrow-street, Litchui ch,
Derby. He was married about four years ago, his wife,
Annie Ingham, being 27 years of age. They had two
little boys—one three years and one nine months' old.
The father went to work as usual on Monday morn-
ing, leaving his wife and ycuagest child in bed.
Between seven and eight o'clock in the morning
the wife got up, secured her husband's razor, and
deliberately cut the throat of her youngest child. She
then went downstairs, and told the next door neighbour
what she had done. Mrs. Ingham was then taken into
castody. It is stated that the accused, who confessed to
having cut the child's throat, has been in a low desponding
way for some time past. An inquest was held the
same afternoon. The evidence proved that the murder
was committed by the child's mother, although it was
pretty conclusive that at the time of doing so she was
mentally derang,rd. The jury found her guilty of Wilful
Murder, and she was committed for trial at the nextDerbv
Assizes.

A murder of a very brutal character was committed at a
solitary farmhouse, on the borders of Breconshire, between
Saturday night and Sunday morning. The farm is called
Nant-y-Derri, and the unfortunate victim was a widow,
who was generally known to her neighbours as Mary
Nant-y-Derri, but whose proper name is Mary Morgan.
She was last seen alive in a shop at Hirwain, the nearest
village, at six o'clock on Saturday night, and on the follow-
ing morning, a neighbour going into the house, found the
deceased lying on the floor quite dead, her body burnt, and
the slumbering embers of a quantity of hay which had been
piled on her body. Her head was covered with a piece of
carpet, and when this was removed there was seen a deep
bole on one side of her head, and the other side was com-
plete!y charred from the effects of the fire which had evi-
dently been ignited for the purpose of destroying the body,
and probably the house also. The deceased was of miserly
habits, and was reputed to have a large sum of money
in the house. This, no doubt, tempted the murderer, but
he must have been foiled in his hope to secure it, for the
sum of £'3s was found concealed between the bedstead and
mattress. The murderer, who is at present undiscovered,
must have entered the house through the window. No
clue has been obtained to his identity.

DEATH OF THE COUNTESS (DOWAGER) OF BRAD-
FORD.—The death of the Dowager Countess of Bradford,
took place on the 22nd inst. at Cannes, where her ladyship
had been passing the winter. The lamented Countess
Helen was the second daughter of Mr. Aneas Mackay, of
Scotstown, and married, first, January 12,1819, Sir David
Moncrieffe, of Moncrieffe, Perthshire, Bart., and was
mother of Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, Bart. She married,
secondly, October 1849, George, third Earl of Bradford,
who died in March 1865.

SIIERE ALI AND ENGLISII WOMEN.—During the
visit of Shere Ali, of Affghanistan, to British India, a
certain military civilian, Captain G., went out to receive
the Ameer at the edge of his district. As he returned to
the station with his Highness, Captain G. looking up, per-
ceived Mrs. G. and another lady seated on an elephant,
and watching with curious eyes the illustrious stranger.
The Ameer saw the ladies as soon as Captain G., and, turn-
ing round to the latter with a knowing wink, looking
towards the two ladies in question, said, " I see, you are
lust like us ; you leave all your pretty ones at home."
A PRISON GOVERNOR ON PRISON DISCIPLINE.—
The following letter has been addressed to the Howard
Association, London, by the governor of one of the largest
and best-managed prisons in Great Britain :—" What can
he more agreeable to the position of a governor than a
situation where prison labour is discountenanced rather than
otherwise ? He has no anxieties as to profits, no
trouble in the procuring of labour, or in the buying
of materials at the cheapest rates, and in the selling
at the most profitable prices, nor any disagreeable
duties in the coercion of the idle to do their work.
The question then naturally arises, are persons to
be kept in their cells, like canaries in a cage, merely to be
looked at, to eat their meals, take their exercise, go to
chapel, and do just as much work as is agreeable to them-
selves, or are they to be made to work for their living,
and the habitually lazy (who half fill the gaols) to be
taught habits of industry, which may turn to good
account after their discharge? I, for one, say the latter
should be enforced. Why should the refuse of society,
who are in many respects the terror of the respectable
part of the community, be pampered, while the honest
labourer has to work hard for the support of his wife and
family ?"
A DISAPPOINTMENT.—A very hard-working pro-
fessional man, careful, prudent, abstemious, but somewhat
eccentric, retired from busy life with £30,000, in order,
as he said, to enjoy himself, and pass the evenings of his
life in the mild radiance of the setting sun. It could
mot be said of him that he had no resources in his
mind, for he was learned, witty, fond of books, music,
and p'ctures, and he was happily married. All his friends
(and he had many), to whom his harmless eccentricities
and real kindliness of heart, concealed under a brusque
manner, were sources of attraction, anticipated for him
many years of learned leisure and calm domestic
happiness. But it was not to be. A serious, and as it
proved, a fatal illness overtook him, before, as he expressed
it, "he had been three months out of business." He did
not suffer much, and by no means anticipated a fatal ter-
mination to his malady. After ten days' confinement to
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