The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-07 00:00:00

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uonsiclerable excitement was caused a inhabitants of the New-road mong the
night Swansea, on. Monday
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1?-beach. The cir-
a report that a
cumstances, however, do not
there has been foul Pl''
man 27 years of - .7/ , 0 „
Ti.;',Lstify the belief that
he deceased is a young
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age, named Barnard, who has been
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1:- -.AI years collector in the employ of the
—verpool Steam-Packet Company. He resided,
with his wife, to whom he had been married for
six years, at No. 0, Albert-place, on the New-road.
On Monday, he was entmed in collecting at the
Landore Copper-works, and returned home shortly-
after six o'clock in the evening, being then qu'Ate
well. About 10 o'clock he left the house to. go
home to Langdon-place, close by, with a lady who
had been visiting his wife. A very short time
afterwards he was discovered lying on t'-ue sands between the Star and Garter
publie:house
Sloane-street, in a dying conditior, A w andoman named Jones, living in Wellington-stre was the
first who ca'l et, ed others to the spot. She drew the
attention of • several workmen who were near, to.
him, and when the men came they found him lying
on the ground groaning, and perfectly helpless,hia
dress being in a very disordered state. They pro-
ceeded, accompanied by the woman, to carry him
into the New-road and down towards the centre of
the town. When they arrived at the corner or Albert-place, a neighbour recognised the hat and
stick, earried by the woman, as those of Barnard;
and directlfafterwards his wife, who was standing
at her own door, came up and exclaimed, afterlook-
ing at the body, that it was her husband, adding,,
"lie is murdered, he has lost:his watch." It
was sub-
sequently f?,;und that the watch was in the house.
and lllOhey and other articles were found in his
pockets, so that if he had been robbed it can only
have been of a gold ring he wore and which is mis-
sing. He was at once, taken into his own b:ouse, and
surgeons were sell. for. He moaned after being in the
house, and waned his eyes and looked_at his wife, but
did not speak, and in a few minutes all signs of life
disa7:;peared. r. Shepherd, surgeon,arrived about 20
Minutes after the deceased had breathed his last, and
was followed by Mr. Hall, surgeon, and Dr. Williams.
The medical men could do nothing, life being quite
extinct. It appears that the deceased had accom-
panied home to Langdon-place the person with.
whom he went out, and he must then have imme.
diately gone to the place where he was found..
There is no mark of violence of any kind on the
body, though there is extensive discoloration at the
back, and all down the back of the legs. A post-
mortem examination of tin body was made yester.
day afternoon by Mr. Shepherd, Dr. Williams, and. Mr. Hall, and the result is such as to make it pro-
bable that death was caused by effusion of blood. upon the brain ; there being at the back of the
head, at the base of the skull, an effusion of blood
quite enough to account for death. Mr. Shepherd
has, however, taken home the contents of the
stomach with a view of testing for leading poisons,
and the result of his examination will be given at .
the inquest to-day, but there appears little doubt
that the man died from natural causes. Barnard
leaves no family. He was a very sober and steady
man.—Swansea Herald.