San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-12-12
THE GEORGIA FARMERS GET TO-
GETHER AND COMPARE NOTES.
A FoUR-SIDED ARRANGEMENT
AMONG THE WIND FARMERS.
Illinois Fruit Display-Ex-Confeds-
Alumni Dinner-Boston Mayoralty
Tennessee acknowledgements
Meet - Kansas Changers - Horse
National Congress.
England's Sensational Crime.

EDINBURGH, Dec. II. - III the
Sheriff's court today Alfred Mon
son will be tried for trying to
drown Lieutenant Windsor Ham,
brough, in ArdlamOnt bay, on Au-
gust 9, and with numbering him in
wood on the following day by
shooting. The murder of Lieuten-
ant Windsor Hambrough, or the
"ArdlaInont Mystery" as it is
called, remains shrouded almost in
as much mystery now as it was
in August last, when it
first attracted the attention of
the English and Scotch press.
The scene of the tragedy
is almost as familiar to Americans
as to British tourists. 1t is situ-
ated in one of the lOveliest parts Of
Clyde, at the entrance of the fam
Gus KyleS of Butte, and only about
twenty minutes steam from ROthe-
say, the loveliest of seaside resorts
in Scotland. The persons chiefly
concerned in the tragedy are Lieu
tenant Hambrough, the victim /;
Alfred MOnson, now under arrest
under suspicion, and a mysterious
person named "Scott," who perhaps
has more to tell than any one else,
but who disappeared shortly after
the death of Hambrough and has
not been seen or heard Of since.
Windsor Dudley Cecil Hambrough
was the eldest son of Mr.. Dudley
Hambrough, of the Isle of Wight.
He would have attained his ma
jority early next year. He was a
lieutenant in the Yorkshire regi-
ment, and his father is Justice
of the Peace for Hampshire. Mr..
Hambrough resides principally at
Stockbridge. In the course of an
interview Hambrough's father said
he was introduced to MOnson, his
sons guardian and tutor in
June, 1890, and being sat-
isfied with Monson's capa-
bility he placed his son under his
charge. After time, as the result
of various matters which came to
his attention, Mr.. Hambrough
grew suspicious of Monsoon. He
thought Monson was in league
with money lenders. Wherever
young HambrOugh went Monson
followed, and he exercised so great
an influence over his pupil that the
latter simply ignored his own peo-
pie and was led entirely by Mon
son. The father expressed the
opinion that the tutor had some
hypnotic influence over his son.
At all events, the two were in
separable, and all Mr.. Ham-
brough's entreaties were useless to
prevail upon his son to return
home. Whatever happened at the
time the fatal shot was fired can
only be known to Monson and
"Scott." Monson's statement is
that hearing a shot while out hunt
ing with Hambrough, he shouted,
"What have you got ?" and receiv-
ing no answer, went on a bit fur
Their and found the young man ~
ing dead. After lifting the body
out of the ditch in which it was
lying, Monson and ascot" returned
to the house. On August 9th
it was decided to arrest MOnson
and he was taken into custody.
Monson was apparently much sur
prised and greatly shocked. The
news of the arrest soon spread and
caused the greatest connection.
The prisoner was incarcerated at
Inverary, and after a preliminary
examination, was committed to
prison. The wood where Ham
brough was shot was carefully ex-
amined, and the gravest suspicious
of foul play were entertained. 1t
was found that large assurances
had been effected on HambrOugh's
life, and that unsuccessful attempts
had been made by MOnsOn to OBJ
tain further insurance.