, 1875-04-21

laOOuTeF 1n0maS EDWARD from the Els.
tate Longtord, on tn evening of the 18th
August last year, under the following cir
cumstances The Offender had lived some
4 or 5 years with a woman, Emilia Schr6-
der, working on the same estate, but this
relation had, principally of late, been in
terrupted, both being unfaithfuI and the
Offender VINO otherwise lived in EmiIia's
house, left this on such occasions and
sought shelter elsewhere. For some weeks
it had been said on the estate that Emilia
was Giving with" Thomas Edward at Long
ford, and when Emilia on Saturday the
18th August wanted the Offender to
go with her to a dance Thomas Edward
was to keep, he refused to go, SO that
Emilia went alone to Longford, where she
remained Sunday evening. When she re-
turned home the Offender reproached her
of her conduct and again left her home.
When on MonIay evening he had eaten
supper with another labourer, Thomas
Edward paid a visit there and asked the
Offender about The reason why he had
not come to the dance. When he re-
piled that he had not wished to expose
himself to any disagrreableness on &C.
count Of Emlia's connexion to him, Thorn
as Edward, he replied that the Offender
had no reason to be Jealous. The Offender
then went to his temporary dwelling,
where he provided himself with a stick OF
a club, which he had some days before
made into a walking stick, and with this
he went to Emilia's house, where he was
watching from under q large tree near the
house. From his hiding place he saw
after a while Thomas Edward going tow
ard the house and that he was let in by
Emilia. but he 1aen left his place and went
further down t1e Negro Village, where he
chose d place whence he could see it any
one went in o. at OF Emilia's door. At
ter q good w!..a not having seen Thomas
Ed ward come out, he went again about
midnight, to the house. The door was
shut and the light extinguished. He went
up on the platform before the door, knock
ed and said who be was. Az Emilia
did not open at once, he tore open the
door which was hooked inside, violently,
and thus got access to the house. AS
Emilia came up 10 him at the door. he gave
her q blow with the stick. During the
wrestling which ensued as she endeavour-
ed to wrest tho stick from him, she was
thrown out on the platform, aud ran away
TO fetch people to assist Thomas Edward.
The Offender now came into the room, and
without saying a word he gave Thomas
Edward, whom he found standing near the
bed, q blow on the head with the stick.
AS it appeared to him that Thomas
Edward made MS if he was going to resist,
be again withdrew to the platform, and
from there directed another blow at Thorn
as Edward who was inside. The blow
however hit the frame of the door, and
with such force that the stick split in two
pieces and a distinct mark was left in the
frame. The Offender then took both
pieces in one hand, went inside the door
again, and with both pieces gave TIL. Ed,
ward such repeated blows IN the head that
he fell to the ground. According to the
statement of the Offender no other words
were exchanged than that the Offender,
when he entered the second time to attack
TIL. Edward, asked, Who is there 2" To
which TIL. Edward replied !: "Namesake,
it is me-" By the time people came up
the Offender was about lighting a candle.
Thomas Edward lay bleeding and %insensi-
Bile at the foot of the bed. When the
Doctor, who was called from Christiansted,
arrived, about al o'clock, he was still I'm.
conscious only now and again uttering
some inartirulate sounds. He died soon