, 1879-06-14

w alteu, anu tOiieu, anu PAoscu "hA]S VsActS
slept,
Behold my sheaves.
am ashamed, dear Lord, they are so few;
Yet do know that pitying love perceives-
Searching this heart Of mine all through and
through
Accept my sheaves.
"PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE"
Death of the Man Whose Grimes Care
Charles Reade the Plot of0 Novel.
William Broadhead, whose crimes in
spired Charles Reade's Put Yourself in
His Place, recently died in England at
the age of 63, leaving a wife and children.
He was a saw-grinder by trade, and after
1S49, secretary Of that powerful and
bloody organization, the Saw-Grinders'
Union of Sheffield. He was clear
headed and resolute man, but wholly
without scruple Under his management
the system of terrorizing masters and re-
calcitrant unionists was carried to its ut
most lengths. The Vengeance commit
mittee" was accustomed to blow their
victims mp with cunpowder. Wherever
the Sheffield Mary Ann" went she car
ried cannisters full of that explosive, and
down chimneys and through doors and
windows death and destruction were dealt
to those who had offended against the
regulations of the trade, or who were in
arrears with their "natty" money, 1t
was always shrewdly suspected that
Broadhead was concerned in the crimes,
bat it was not until October, 1865, that
matters came to crisis. A can of gun
powder was exploded under the house Of
man named Fearnyhough, and, al
tho l@h no harm was done to human life,
much damage was done to property. A
thousand pounds reward, offered by the
Sheffield manufacturers, and an addl-
tioaal fl00 promised by the government,
failed to bring to light the perpetrators of
the outrage, all completely in which was
Indignantly repndiated by the Trades
UNIONS In proof of their sincerity they
offered supplemental tlOO for the detee-
ton of the perpetrator.
At last commission was appointed to
investigate thelwhole system of trade out
RACES at Sheffield, and absolute immunity
was promised to all witnesses who would
tell the whole truth, however deeply they
might have been compromised IN the
crime committed Two of the men ex-
amincd who had been Broadhead's hired
bravos began to make appalling damag-
ing revelation concerning him, and he,
finding the tolls tightening around him,
at length fully confessed lis guilt The
narrative of Broadhead began In 1858,
when he procured the ham-strine:ng of 4
horse whose oWncr, one Parker, had been
guilty of working with non-unionists-
This warning beng disre.arded, Broad
head hired two men to shoot Parker, and
Parker was sh"t on Whit Monday, 1854
In August, 1879, he caused his braves to
track one Linsey from house to house to
murder him Tie victim was found at
last sitting in the room Of a public house,
and he was sho: from the yard and
through w:ndow by means OF an a:r-gun.
He died some weeks afterward from the
effects Of the wounds. Previously Linley
had been blown up once and shot once,
always by Bruadhead's directions 1t was
declared by Broadhead that he intended
the man to be shot, but not slain out
right, and he added that it was with every
great pain" that he had consented to the
proposal for shooting him. at came
upon him." he remarked, "as an unpleas-
ant subject" For the shooting of Linley
lie had Paid el5, and he took some f20O
NJ - fhn fnnA, ,f IT,,Inn fn tha
purpose of bribins the ruffians who exc
cuted his murderous behests. Before
having Lnley killed Broadhead secured
the blowing up of Samuel Baxter, of Lox-
ley, another impcnitent and seif-willed
saw grinder. A couple of months after
the shooting Of Linlcy one Heiliwell, who
had not been brought up as sawgrinder,
was, for the ofiense of working at that
trade, blown up by g,lnpowder which was
ignited from sparks from his L" glazer" as
he began to work Broadhead had de-
livered three cans of gunpowder to man
called Clark for the destruction of the in.
terloping saw grinder, and half canful
had been placed by Clark in Helliwells
trough. The poor man was not killed
uiS" up
plan for shooting him, but relinquished
it, and blew up part of the factary of
Messrs. Wheatman & Smith, who had
sinned greatly by introducing a new
mode of grinding saws. At the close of
the sitting of the commission, Broadhead
received, according to the pledge given to
the guilty witnesses, q certificate Of immu
nifty, though by mis- own admission mnr-
derer and suborner of murderers The
Sheffield magistrates declined to renew
his license as publican. and subscrip-
ticn having been raised for him, he emf
grated to America, but received so cold
reception here that he soon returned to
England and to Sheffield to vegetate in
obscurity as the keeper of chandler's
shop, and to die a; last, paralyzed and i'm
beetle. He was contrite, it was reported,
in his latter days.
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