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London, England, 1859-01-27 00:00:00

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SHOCKING MURDER IX CANDA:.!.:--'''A j
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-- On the Bth inst. a brutal and deem "i,,-_,V
was comnritted. in Hamilton, Canada. `T i . 07;006----.L..„.'
-Globe *says ;—" The victim is a woman n: i. .d 11za
Welsh; said to belon'to Toronto, And the murderer
-is a man named John Meagham, or Mitchell, who
passed as her husband. The murderer, for so we
must term him, has lately been employed in the
vicinity of this city in the capacity of a railway
labourer. The facts of the awful tragedy, so far as
our reporter could learn on the spot shortly after
the feurful occurrence took place are as follows. It
appears that Mitchell left Toronto on the
afternoon of Thursday by the train for. Hamil-
ton, accompanied by the woman Welsh, with
-whom he cohabited; and an infant about three
months old. On reaching Hamilton they proceeded
-to a. small tavern situated-on the south side of York-
street, bet*een Bay and Park-streets, kept by.a
person named Morden. The unfortunate woman
told the landlady of the saloon that her husband's
name was Meagham, and that he was on his way
to work on the Hamilton and Port Dover Railroad.
As the parties presented the usual poor appearance
of labouring persons out of work, they were in =-
sequence not treated as very welcome guests. They
sat ari I evdr,ohowever,n providing
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themselves
ehso uwsie;hpayingfodr. t hart
whatever
else they were in want of until Saturday morning.
etween-9 and 10 o'clock on that morning the wife
_came down stairs, and procuring some tea, she
returned to the bedroom, where she had left the
"man who called her wife. She had hardly entered
the room when•the landlady of the saloon, Mi.&
Morden, was startled by a loud scream from the
bedroom. -She immediately rushed- up stairs Jto
learn the cause, When she was horror-struck at
. seeing the unfortunate- Woman lying on-tlieTffe-Ofin
a-pool of blood, and struggling with the man, who
was holding her down on the floor. Upon seeing
Mrs. Morden enter the room, the woman endea-
voured to call out, and tried to speak to her ; but
the only words which could be distinctly heard by
the landlady. were, ' Neighbours' and ' Murder;'
and almost immediately afterwards she expired.
The words were evidently meant to signify that she
had been murdered, and to get assistance from the
neighbours. Mrs. Morden also states that when
she opened the door of the room, the murderer Was
still busily engaged- doino•somethingsomethin to the throat
of the woman ; but that she (Mrs. Morden) was so
much frightened and excited by the fearful scene
which met her eye, as to be unable distinctly to see
what he really was doing. She instantly gave the
alarm, and a large number of persons, accompanied
by the police, were soon in the house, and MitChen
was taken into custody. It is reported that a ser-
vant girl belonging to the tavern accompanied Mrs.
Morden to the bedroom, when they heard the
screaming, and that deceased informed the girl that
it was her husband who had done the deed. Mrs.
Morden also states that when Mitchell Was dis-
covered, he commenced to inform her that his
wife had committed:suicide ; but that the woman,
who was unable to speak from loss of blood, held
up one of her hands, which was badly cut,-as if-to
contradict the statement. On a search being made
for the weapon with which the deed had been per-
petrated, a razor, with marks of blood on it, was
found in the bed, close by where the 'woman was
lying, and the bed clothes were thicklyLcoated with
blood, as were also the clothes of the man and - the
woman. The gash in the woman's neekis one_ of
the most fearful character. It is ;very deep, and
seems to extend over fully three-fourths of the sur-
face of the neck, being from the -back part of the
head round under the chin. An inquest was held
the next day, and Mesgham committed on the
charge of wilful murder."

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, 5D

will be slow to enlighten his master as to the deli-
cacies and the dangers of the attempt..
It may, perhaps, be suggested that the French
army might advance from Rome upon the Po, so as
to avoid the necessity of crossing the Ticino. But
Rome is three hundred miles to the south of the Po,
and the time consumed by a French army travers-
ing that distance would 'suffice to allow the Austrian
army to assume the- offensive. That army might
cross the Ticino in overwhelming numbers, crushthe
Piedmontese army, and be ready on the banks of
the Po to receive the French from the south. Nor,
is this all. . The Po, it must be observed, covers the
left flank of each of the three lines of defence which.
have been: described.. In order to succeed, there-
fore, in turning the Austrians by a flank movement, ,
the Po' must be crossed. This• is a most difficult
and hazardous enterprise; nor should it be forgotten
that even the great Napoleon-never oncosucceeded
-in crossing that river in the face of the enemy. He
was compelled to have recourse to stratagem. • '
Let it not be supposed that- these remarks have
been made from-any desire to damp the ardour of
.Italian liberators. or the aspirations of Italian -
patriots." They-aro dictated by motives the very
reverse of these: the first. secret 'of succeiss. isc not
to despise the enemy. If the great enterprise of
freeing. Italy from . the Auitrians is to be accom-
plished,-the enterprise-must be undertaken with a
due sense of its difficulty. At all events, it is no
extravagant idea to suppose that its difficulties—
manifest as they must be to the French generals—
may have had sotnething to do with whatever
hesitation:may from time totime be apparent in the
councils of the French Emperor.

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