The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-06-13
MRS. DUNCAN'S INJURIES.
Her Mind likely to be Ahected-The
Husband Held for Trial.

| wife on May II last near Bettws Coed
| North Wales, and who was remanded on
| Saturday last, was today again taken
int court at Carnarvou for, examination
A gu ,rrymau named Evan Evans, who
is the principal witness against Duncan,
testified that he saw the prisoner stoop
ing over the PROSTATE form of his wife
and holding huge stone in his hand.
Mrs. Duncan was lying in crevice
between two rocks. ard her head, which
was terribly battered, rested in the ex
treme angle. Duncan, soon after EVaus
saw him. touched his wife, face with a
| handkerchief Mrs. Duncan, the wit
ness said, was bleeding at the mouth and
from one of her ears. She appeared to
be dead. SO soon as Duncan saw Evans
| he (Duncan) shouted in broken Welsh,
"MY wife is i'll; fetch a doctor. My wife
has fallen down the rocks" Evans then
| assisted Duncan to raise the form of his
wife and wiped the blood from her
| mouth, fearing that she would choke.
! Duncan then pointed to the stone, cover
! ed with hair and blood, and said some
thing about edge of the rock and wife
| falling over, and again asked the wit
| ness to fetch doctor. Evans tLereupon
assisted Duncan to carry the injured
lady to his (Evans's) home, which was
| in the immediate vicinity. through con-
celled by steep bank, aud messages
were afterwards sent to Dalwydde Ian
for Dir. jones. The latter found that
Mrs Duncan W Is sutf .rins from Il mum
Der OF terrible wounds on the head, W hich
had caused compound fracture, with
depression of the bone.
Doctor Jones testified that he perform
cd an operation with the object of lifting
the bones flom Mrs Duncan brain, and
that he afterword accompanied Duncan
to the scene of the alleged attempt to
murder. While on the way there the
doctor asked Duncan why he returned to
Pontyrant after leaving for good. To
this question Duncan replied that he had
forgotten letter Or credit aud was re-
turning to the Bonarview Hotel when
he suddenly remembered that the letter
he wanted was in bag with the rest of
his baggage Thereupon Duncan told
the doctor he got out at Pontypant,
where he intended to follow a path
which had been described to him by an
American friend and which led to Bettws
Y-Coed
DR.. Jones, continuing, said that when
he arrived at the spot where Evans
found Duncan leaning over his wife, he
told Duncan that in his opinion Mrs.
Dufican could not have fallen where he
said she did, as the blood marks we're
several yards away.
Duncan, DIR. Jones said, became excit
ed when he told him this, and, calling
the witness aside, said: Il did it my
self with the stone you have seen. God
forgive me, did not know what | was
doing. Three months ago was
worth $50, 900 and now | have loss all
| saw nothing before me but poverty for
myself aud vile. Indeed went to Liam
duno and hired boat with the inten.
ton OF taking both our lives by drown
ing, but failed to do so.
DR.. Jones's testimony created consider
able surprise in court, though there are
few people who doubt Duncan's guilt.
On the other hand, the reports circu-
lated as to the weak state of the prison.
er's mind obtain many believers.
From the medical testimony given to-
day is seems unlikely that Mrs Duncan's
injuries were caused by fall, and it
was said that il she survived it was
doubtful if her proper mental condition
would ever be restored. The wounded
lady, alter being examined on the day
of the alleged attempted murder by DR..
Jones and by DR.. Roberts, who was
sent for by the first named physician.
was removed to the Bonar View Hotel,
and day or two later the operation
of trepanning was performed.
On Wednesday, May -, Duncan was
arrested and charged with attempting to
murder his wife
The stone found near the prisoner
with which the crime is supposed to
have been committed was produced IN
court. 1t is huge wedge of slate, and
was stained with blood and had a few
golden hairs clnging to it.
Mrs. Duncan, who is native of Abo,
Finland, and whom Duncan is said to
have married without the knowledge of
his relatives in the Unitad States and
under the impression that her father was
a wealthy man, is still in a very critical
condition.
The prisoner is haggard and broken
down. Through he has not been long
time in Wales he has managed to acquire
a fair knowledge of Welsh. la fact. his
visit to Bettws-y Coed is said to have
been for the purpose of acquiring the
Welsh language, as he is a professional
liDguist. Duncan shortly after his arri.
val put up at the Bonsr View Hotel,
Dalwoddelan, fishing resort of North
Wales, aud began to study Welsh with
Mr.. K. Ii. Roberts, the village school
master. On the day Of the alleged
attempted murder Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan
left Dalwydelan for Landudne Junction
it being understood that they were en-
route to Liverpool and the United States
On arrival at Llandudne Junction. Mr..
and Mrs Durcan appear to change thier
plans, for they returned from there to
Pontypant, a station close to Dalwydde
Ian, and after lunching at a local hotel.
they walked toward Cwm Allyn farm.
passing through beautiful wood on |
their way there. From the wood Mr..
and Mrs. Duncan seem to have wandered
to the spot where they were found by |
Qarryman Evans.
Soon after Duncan's arrest he was an
nounced to have confessed that he took
the stone found covered with blood near
Mrs Duncan from the coping of a wall |
near the spot, but no confirmation of |
this story was given in court TODAY. |
Duncan pleaded rot guilty and was for
mally committed for trial
Saving Of Rum and Tobacco.
ELKToN, June 10, 1891.
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