The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-30 00:00:00

RUPTURES.

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THE MURDER-IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE

SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.

Yesterday morning we announced to our. readers

the fact of an atrocious murder having been com-
mitted at a small and peaceful village known as
North Nibley, in Gloucestershire. The little villagv
above named was much agitated throughout the
day, and many strangers interested in the melan-
choly event found their way to the place, where
everything otherwise appeared gloomy. Sheppard,
it appea's; after shooting Miss Smitham, proceeded
to a cowhouse in the neighbourhood and attempted
his own destruction ; but in consequence of the
barrel of the gun being rather long, he was obliged
to lean over on one side to get at the trigger, the
result of which was that his left cheek and eye
were blown away, but-strange to say he lived up to
one o'clock on ilonday. Early on that morning an
inquest was opened by William Gaisford, Eq.,
county coroner, at the White Hart, on the body of
Ann Smitham, and evidence to the following effect
were adduced :

James Smitham, weaver, said—l live at North
Nibley, in the county of Gloucester. The decased,
my daughter, was 23 years of age. On Saturday
evening last she was standing in my kitchen, close
to a round table near the window, sewing. There
was a lighted candle on the table in front of her,
and between her and the window. I was at work
at my loom in the shop adjoining the kitchen,
the door of which was open. I saw her take
the candle off the table and go to the window,
where there was a white curtain drawn the
whole length of the window, There is a win-
dow in the shop, which had no curtain to it, and
any person looking through the window could
have seen the deceased standing at the table. I
saw my daughter move aside in the farthest corner
on the left-hand side, and heard her say, "Thou
beest there, bee'snt ? I have caught thee." I heard
her mother say, " Is that Sheppard ?" and she said,
" Aye, 'tis." I said, "It doesn't seem to matter
what weather it is, rain or wind, or what not, he's
ibout." She said, " Not a bit ;" and letting the
curtain fall back again, returned to her work and
put the candle on the table. She was standing in
rather a leaning position over the table, sewing,
with her face towards the kitchen window.
I then heard the report of a gun outside and close
to the kitchen window, nbout three or four minutes
after she had returned from the window. She
screamed out, and I got up instantly from my loom
and went towards her. Her mother came up first,
and she was in the act of falling when I approached.
She never spoke. I observed blood coming from
her mouth, and I then went for my son, who was
at Mr. Perrett's, just above. There were no other
persons in the house but my wife, grandson, the
deceased, and myself. It was very dark, and rain-
ing a little. I did not look to see who was outside
the window and had discharged the gun. When I
got back to the house I found the deceased lying
down in the kitchen. She gasped once, and died
within ten minutes from the time I heard the gun
fired. I examined the window, and found a small
pane broken on the left side.
Mrs. Smitham, the mother of the deceased, was
next called, and after corroborating much of the
testimony given by her husband, she said—My
daughter had kept company for four years pre-
viously to last Christmas with John Sheppard. She
had wished to give up his company long before, but
he would never take no for au answer. I have my-
self times out of number, told him she should not
think anything of him, for she should have no
prospect but the Union before iter, and she would
never give up her home for such a cha-
racter as him. Last Christmas he came to my
house and inquired for her. She had gone from
home to an uncle's to avoid him. I told him she
was not at home, and he said he would see her if
he went to for her. Ido not remember that I
have spoken to him but once since last Friday. The
time I allude to was last Whitsuntide, when he
came about the middle of the day, deceased and I
being then at home. He came to the kitchen,
Where she was standing, and said he wanted to

now her mind. The witness here detailed a con-
versation, in which the deceased said she would
have nothing more whatever to do with him, and
described biin as a worthless piece of humanity.
Witness produced several letters, which were
proved to be in Sheppard's handwriting, and which
were couched in threatening terms.
Daniel Ford, a constable, said—From informa-
tion I received from the father of the deceased I
went in search of John Sheppard, but I could not
find any trace of him during the whole of the
night. A little before eight o'clock on Sunday
morning I went to Slade's orchard, near Zipporah
Trotman's, and there saw Sheppard lying on his
back, about 15 yards from a shed, his head incli-
ning down hill. The left cheek of his face ap-
peared to have been blown clean away. He was
bleeding a little, and there was a quantity of con-
gealed blood around the wound. His clothes were
much saturated with blood. His hat was lying about
ten yards from him, and was not injured. I spoke to
him, but he made no reply, as he did not appear to
be sensible. There was,a quantity of straw in the
shed and a pool of blood in it, and there was much
blood in different places in the shed and upon the
door-posts. Outside there were marks on the door
of a person's knee having been against it. Directly
underneath the straw I found the single barrel gun
produced, smeared with blood, and indicating that
it had been recently discharged. I removed Shep-
pard upon a hurdle to the White Hart Inn and
searched him. In the jacket pocket I found a pow-
der-flask containing powder. In one of the waist-
coat pockets there were some coppers and two
pieces of gun wadding. In his trousers pocket was
a canvass bag containing some shot of the same size
and sort as that found under the deceased and taken
from her. He was kept warm, and had medical
assistance ; he became sensible, asking several
times for toast and water. He made no allusion
whatever to Ann Smitham.

The coroner then summed up the evidence, and
The jury without any hesitation found a verdict
of " Wilful murder" against John Sheppard.
It was then made known that Sheppard had
died during the holding of the inquest on the body
of Smithatu, as appears by Ford's evidence. The
jury were accordingly sworn in the second easy,
and the evidence police-constable Ford being read
over, and Mr. Hill, surgeon, attributing the cause
of death to the effect of a gun-shot wound inflicted
by Sheppard himself, a verdict of felo de se was
returned.

Is Co NSITIIP TION INCURABLE ? Invalids labouring
under Consumptive MaUdies, and families who have
suffered frem the ravages of Consumptio i (and what
family in the empire is there who has not to deplore a
loss caused by this scourge of the human race ?) will find
a satisfactory answer to the question, " Is Consumption In-
curable," in an original article by Dr. DENIS Cnoxix,
M.D., 35, Bruton-Street, Berkeley-square, W. Published in
the "household Physician," in numbers, one penny each
by G. Berger, 19, liolywell-street, Strand. From Ito 9 now
ready.

On Wednesday next a vast cliane-e in the postal
communications between Europe and America will
come into operation. The arrangements connected
with this change have been a subject of negotiation
for some time between the lion. Sidney Smith,
Postmaster-General of Canada, and the Hon. Mr.
King, Postmaster-General 'of the United* States.
For the purpose of completing them, and of obtain-
ing the sanction of the British Post-office authori-
ties, Mr. Smith, accompanied by Mr. Griffin, the
Deputy Postmaster-General of Canada, has been in
England during the last fortnight. The requisite
sanction was obtained oti Friday last, and, com-
mencing this week, the Canadian line of steamers
will carry lettere net wily between Great Britain
and
_Britieh America, but also between Europe
arid', the 'whole of the Western; North West-
ern, and a considerable portion, of the South
Western States of the American Union. In fact,
these steamers will practically perferna the postal
service forinerly performed by the Collins line of
United States mail steamers, with= this advantage,
that, whereas the latter only ran once a fortnight
from each side of the Atlantietthe Canadian steamers
will run once a week.
The steamer which is to leave Liverpool on the
30th• will call at Queenstown on the following day,
and henceforth every Canadian steamer will make
Queenstown a part of call both on the outward and
homeward voyages, so that the steamers of this line
will call there 104 times per annum.
Hitherto the latest period at which letters for
conveyance by these steamers could be posted in Lon-
don, or throughout England, was Tuesday
_evening,
but for the future there will be a clear gain of 24 hours
inasmuch as all letters posted throughout Great Bri-
tain on Wednesday will beforwarded by that night's
mail to Dublin. According to present postal arrange-
ments they should arrive there about 10 a.m. on
Thursday. This is an hour after the ordinary day mail
for Cork has left Dublin. The Post-office department
has, therefore, entered into an arrangement with
the 'directors of the Great Southern and Western
of Ireland to run a special train from Dublin to
Ccrk. It is to start at 11 a.m., and to run the
whole distance (166 miles) in four hours and a half.
The terminus of the railway at Cot-k is only a few
steps from the River Lee. The mails (and the pas-
sengers who accompany them) 'will reach in a few
minutes the river steamer in readiness for their
reception. From this point to Queenstown, a dis-
tance of about ten miles, they will be conveyed in a
little lass than an hour, so that the mails can be
put on board the transatlantic steamer at or about.
4.30 p.m. As the average hour of sailing of the
mail steam ships from Liverpool is 1 p.m., and as
the run from that port to Queenstown (about 315
nautical miles) usually requires about 26 hours,
there is but little chance, even under the most
favourable circumstances, 'of the transatlantic
steamer being in Queenstown in advance of the
mail despatched from London on the evening of
the day she left Liverpool.
But on the Ist of July next the accelerated pos-
tal communication bet ween Dublin and London
will come into operation. From that date letters
posted in London for the evening despatch onWed-
nesday will be in:Dublin at 7.20 a.m. the following..
day. If despatched for Cork by special express
train at 8 a.m., they will reach that city at half-past
12 p m., and' QUeenstowa at 2 p.m. In September,
1860, the branch railway from Cork to Queenstown
will be completed, and as it will form a direct con-
tinuation of the railway from Dublin to Cork, this
distance can be accomplished in 20 minutes, and
the delivery of the . mails on board the Canadian
steamer can be completed by 1 p.m., giving a gain
of nearly fain- hours over present arrangements.
It will thus be seen that by these arrangements
there will be a clear gain for the correspondence
between Europe and' America of 2t hours at pre-
sent, and about 28 from September next.
As regards telegraphic intelligence there will be
a gain of two days, inasmuch as the steamer will
not leave Queenstown until an hour late enough on
Thursday afternoon to receive the prices of the
British and continental funds, as well as the state of
the cotton, flour, and other markets of that day.
As the arrangements for telegraphing all over the
American continent to and from Father. Point (150
miles below Quebec) are now complete, it follows,
taking the average speed of the Canadian steamers
into account, that telegraphic communication from
Europe to America can thus be kept up in eight
days The news by this medium will almost inva-
riably be known on the American continent on the
Friday, and its effect can be noted in the commer-
cial correspondence by the steamers leaving both.
Quebec and New York on the following day (Sa-
turday).
The following are the distances from Queenstown:
—To New York, 2,680 nautical miles; to Boston,
2,490; to Portland, 2,450; to Quebec, 2,202. But
the voyage from Europe to Quebec not only posesses
the advantage of being muclashorter than to any
of the other ports, but for more than one-third of
its length it is within the smooth waters of the
gulf and river of St. Lawrence. By this route land
is only lost sight of between five and six days. By
the others it is not visible except for a few hours
after departure and before arrival. The navigation
of the St. Lawrence being closed in winter by ice,
the Canadian steamers go to and from Portland,
the port nearest to Europe after Quebec.
The entire completion of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way of Canada and the opening of the Victoria-
bridge enable the directors to establish a system of
continuous trains between Quebec and Portland with
and of the latter to Chicago 1;131
Chicago. The distance of the former to Chicago is
l ,007
The
iniles
speed of these trains, including all
miles.
stoppages, is 23 miles an hour, consequently
the remaining time between Chicago and Quebec
willPtl
be
Portland hours, and between Chicago
4d450
ours.
It
is
mainly
in consequence
of this continuous system of trains working in di-
met ,connection with the Canadian steamers that
the United States Government has entered into the
ando
treaty with the Imperial and Canadian Post-offices
for the transmission of the mails between Europa
and the Western, North Western, and South-Wes-
tern States of the American Union. By means of
this connection there will be a saving of three days
in each direction, for the immense correspondence
of these 'regions, which comprise thousands of square
miles of as rich and as productive land as there is
in any part of the world. The Canadian steamer,
will, on the return voyage, start on each Saturday.
In summer she may be expected in Queenstown
on Monday with a telegraphic summary of all
important matters from every part of the Ameri•
can continent occurring durims business hours
on the . previous Saturday week, and. her mails
can be delivered in London and throughout
England on "Wednesday morning, so as to enable
replies to be sent by that evening's post, for the
steamer that calls at queenstown on Thursday. In
winter she will usually reach Queenstown on
Tuesdays, when her telegraphic news will at once
be circulated, and its arrival can at all events be
noted in the correspondence -of Wednesday.
The dater the week (Wednesday) on which the
Canadian steamers start from Liverpool on their
outward voyages, in connection with their calling
at Queenstown, .gives. them an advantage for the
commercial community not possessed by the Cunard
ships that leave Liverpool on Saturdays, and call
at Queenstown on Sundays. This is caused by the
fact that Saturday is now becoming a universal half-
holidry throughout England, and consequently does
not afford the same opportunities for large com-
mercial operations and correspondence as on the
other business days of the week, and to this has to
be added that the following day being Sun-
day, there are no markets, and no prices,
either of funds, of flour, or of cotton, to
telegraph up to the latest moment previous
to the departure of the steamer, Very nearly the
same reniaak applies to the Cunard steamer on her
arrival at Queenstown, which 'port she will occa-
sionally reach on Friday evening, but more gene-
rally on Saturday morning. Her telegraphic sum-
mary will, of course, be at once circulated ; but even
if her letters be forwarded through Ireland imme-
diately after she comes into port they will arrive
in England on Sunday forenoon, and will not be
delivered, except in some rare cases, until the fol-
lowing morning.
Two Post-office clerks will be Paced on board
each steamer, so that during the homeward voyage
the.letter's will be sorted for the different parts of
the United Kingdom and of the continent of Eu-
rope, and at once despatched to their destinations
without further manipulation at the Cork Post-
office. On the outward voyage the game duty will be
performed for all parts of Canada. But the letters
for Portland, Detroit, and Chicago, which, under
the new arrangements, are constituted " exchange
offices," by the American authorities, will be deli-
vered, as made up in England, to the postmasters
in those cities, and will be by them distributed in
their respective postal districts.
It is but justice to the Earl of Elgin, the Post-
master-General acting with Mr. Rowland Hill on
the part of the Imperial Post-office, as well as to
the lion. Mr. Smith and Mr. Griffin, on the part of
Canada and on that of the United States (for these