The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-05-16
TRIED TO HIURDEE \ WIFE
i Yong Man said to be From Washington,
ami son of the Rev. Thomas Duncan

i FoIng Man said to be From Washington,
| ami ii son of the Rev. Thomas Duncan
/ OF Cecil County. Arrested in Wales.
| Tie daily papers Of yesterday contained
the following photographic pArticula r. of he
attempt OF a young man named Duncan,
| upon the life Of his wife while travelling in
/ Wales.
LONDON, May II A despatch from Cies-
| ter states that il Mrs. Duncan WAS found
,hockiugly injared in the Suovdeu Moan
| Tain, near BetJswycoed, in North Wales,
Gavurte resort of simmer tourists Three
weeks ago, Il. c. Duncan, of Washington,
arrived at the Benar View Hotel, at Bettys.
wycoed, accompanied by a Young foreign
lady, whom he introduced as his wife.
Duncan was already known at the Benar
View Hotel, where he had stayed last SUN
mer with two other Americans On Tues
day Duncan and his wife left the hotel,
ostgnsibll with the purpose OF going to
Liverpool, hut, having lett their baggage at
the railway station, they returned to the
hotel. They sta rted at midday, apparently
on friendly terms, to take IA walk. \
o'clock i'll the evening a farmer who was
passing through plantation in a :, cluded
spot saw the man Duncan leaning over "A
woman who was lying ON the ground
Duncan shouted that the woman was his
wife, who had fallen and hit her head on Il
rock. The woman, who Was unconscious
WAS removed to Il farm. house. The doctor,
who heard Duncaa's story were unable TO
reconcile the nature Of the wOnan's injury
with his Statements Her skull was tr.c-
tured over the right ear, obviously from Il
blow. The woman was afEerwar! taken TO
the nOtel, where she vas examined by tour
doctors who concurred in the opinion that
she had been the victim OF violence The
operation Of trephiuing was performed.
Duncan, who WAS arrested, confessed on
being informed th4c his wife was still alive,
that he had battered her head, and the
police have found Il stone, covered with
blood and hair. near the spot where the
woman had lain. Duncan, on being taken
before magistrate, lsade no explanation
OF the atl,tir aud W $ remanded IL is sta
ted that his family i'll Washington OCCUPY
good social position. Dumcan, who is
twenty seven Years old, is short, slight and
haired, and wears spectacles. He is IA
noted iuguist. IL is stated that lie met his
wife in Stockholm, and that her father is a
cigar manufacturer at Abo, in Finland
Mrs Duncan Is still unconscious, aud there
is only the smallest hope of her recovery.
Duncan : motive fer the crime has not been
explained.
The Il & Duncan mentioned in the dis.
patches from London as being held in
Wales for assauiJing his wife is said to be
son of Rev Thos Duncan, pastoc uf the Epis
cotal church at Earlville, Cecil county Md.
He was well known in Washington, ard
when there lived at the residence of his amt
Mrs Elizabeth Duncan, 1858 Thirty first
street, West Washington. be lef5 there for
Europe about year ago Stephen Duncan
of the War Departm ent. is the young
mans uncle
TIE Rev. Thomas Duncan, at present
rector of S.. Stephens Church, North Sas-
safras pa ish in this county, succeeded tie
the Rev. Lewis Wake, who died about
five years ago. Mr. Duncan, whose wife is
a sstec of M.s W w CoIcoran the recently
deceased Elnket and art patron of Wash
iugton, has til ee sous, two o. whom are
MARI. ed men with families, one resident
i'll Louisville Kentucky. and the other in
an Este n City. The youngest son who
has been student OF Civil Engineering in
one Of our Colleges, overtaxed his mind. by
excessive study, aud went abroad last year
to lecuperate, in company with two other
young men. He with his two other broth
ers have visited this county, but never
permanently lived here He was not mar
ried when leaving this country, and is not
known to have been married by his family.