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The Herald of Wales. — 1888-09-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NEWS FROM KHARTOUM.  THE WHITE PASHA SATZ.  - . A telegram from Loudon this (Wednesday) morning says that the Emil Relief Committie have received news from finakim of the arrivat there of ten travellers from Khartoum, one uf whom stated that a Christian with a larsc force of blacks is strongly established in Ow Bahr El filhaxel province. The roads to Der • her and Khartoum are said to be fAirly safe for messengers, and it is expected that important news may be received at any time.  News has reached Nottingham of the death of Dr. Alfred Claude Taylor, one of the leading practitioners of the town, while on a holiday in Invernees-shire. The deceased was staying with Major Davey, a* Kinguseie. Monday he was salmon fishing, •hen slipped off a rock, and, being swept away in the stream,_ was d.owned. Dr. Taylor was surgeon to the South Nutte Yeomanry. The Daily Chroniela Vienna correspondent telegraphs that intelltgence has been received from Warsaw to the effect that forty permit, have been arrested there on suspicion of beime implicated in the murder of a woman, whose, dead body was sent in a box from Warsaw to -It. Petersburg. It is now practically oertain that the murder was the work of Nihilists. The victim, pretending to be a Nihilist, was really a epy in the service of the secret police St. Twynnelle, a village about four ma from Pembroke, Lan been the scene of a 'becking occurrence. Mr Griffiths, i farmer, on r.. turning from the monthly market, found alac. timied George Thomas, aged about 14 yearn ..auging quite dead from a beam in his carthouse. The rope by which he was suspend...l luta been hanging by the beam for some lime, and it is conjectured that the boy, playing r ith the rope, accidentally hanged himself. ,  "How to live long" is one nf the oldest pro blenie still remaining unsolved. The dhcm,siou has recently b. en revived by eoine ot eminent scientists, but it hap Julien to the of • bootti,h native, in We form of a toed, to exmiplify what others have only theorised about. AMrT. L. Patterson, ot Greenc.cA, has dimovered a toad imbedded in a clay formation, which,npon geological calculations, 16•88 the interesting prisoner an lig,. of YOGIC 20,000 or 30,000 years. Under the circtur.tances it is not surprising to learn that tho toad is "very inactive and semi•torpid. Liveliness at that somewhat advanced mce w not be in keeping with one's idea of the aern fitness of things... . . . . .  Some folks will, perhaps, be glad to hcsi that the summer of 1888 took its depart ure, without either ostentation or apology, si three o'clock on Saturday afternoon. An apology was certainly due for the extreme sulkiness which induced it to keep out if sight for the beat part of three months was supposed to be with us. Now that t autumn has come, we shall probably hay, a judicious jumble of summer and winter days just to give additional point to t school-boys reproachful statement that England has no climate, but a great' deal d weather,
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-09-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDER AND OUTRAGE. • Central News telegram from Madrid saya : —Despatched tort received from North Africa , disclose a terrhie state of affairs in Morocco. The Emperor, if appears, is wreakirg • fierce and uncontrolleO revenge uron his rebel subpota for their recent *laughter of his cousin, Prince Muley, and hi* escort. The imperial troops have been let loose upon the wretched insurgents with full license to butcher, ravage, and burn; and, if the socounts be correct, the soldiery are revellirg in their drea.ful work Many of the r3bels who were nearest to hand have been ruthlessly Main, neither the aged nor little children being spared. Women have been outraged and enslaved, the latter fate being also ordained for many of the male population who have not fallen by the sword. Having glutted his reveres with the blood of ttese unfortunate*, the Emperor brie, it is said, penetrated in his hot puritint so far into the dierf'toted districts that be is new surrounded and besieged by Wattle tribes, 'being himself in DO small danger. Meanwhile, famine is working its ravage* in the empire, and bands of banditti team unchecked over the country, levyitg euntributions from the villagers, and robbing or kilong traveller. and post carriers, wLietbe Arch priests are preaching the extermination oi the infidels.  Berry, the exeentioner, in an interview with a local repokter, relatem tee circemstances at a ruecting which took place early on Tneeday morning between the two men Daniels and Jones, wha were hangecbton lueeday morning at Birmingham. They had been kpt in their separate cells until about bait-past six block, when they made their hist tiolet and were put in the same cell. As soon as they met, Jou. a rushed up to Danis's. grasped him by the hand, and 'aid "Danh la, God blees you! 04 bless us both! We shall meet. I hope, in the land of Light." Daniels returned the grasp warmly, replying, "Jones, God bless you. They might have put us together all along." From that time to the end they remained together. When Berry went into the cell to pinion the two men, he raked them whether they intended to say anything on the scaffold. Jones thereupon turned to one of the warder% and said, "He won't let me speak on the drop." B-rry replied that if Jones wished to nay anything he would be able to; but he advised him not to do anything of the kind. Jones then maid "Well, Berry, it you SOVise me not to any anything, I won't say it." He afterward, asked, "Will it hurt me much P" to which the executioner say he rep ied, ••Hart you You stand up brave like a t.briatian, and I won't hurt you." Jones answered, "I'm ready, then." Berry etates that uever in the ware° of his five years' experience, during which he has hanged 136 murderers, hat be met two men who died ito firmly and with so much oourage. He has fficiated at seventeen double executions and a triple one.
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-12-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MURDER OF A SCHOOL MISTRESS.  At the Liverpool Amines, on Pfklay, before ' Mr. Justice °eve, the trial was commenced of Thomas Mao:lonald, for the murder of the K ukii/ retool teacher. Elizabeth Holt, near , on the 10thof November last. At the request of the Judge, prizoner was defended by counseL It is under.tond the prisoner peactioally ploada guilty, though he wilibed the trial to go on. The case is exciting much interest, the ouert being crowded, but no 11.41ZiOR were admitted. The prisoner's appearawe indicated low mental capacity. - Several witnesses deposed to having met deceased followed by the prisoner on the morning of the murder, where the body was found Honor Bann, prieouer's aunt, said he called her from Egerton Mills on the morning of the crime, and said that be was after moldering Lizzie Holt. She told him to drown himse/f. He said he would give himself up to the police. Witness asked leave to wash his shirt. Nor the defence, Mr. Cottingham admitted that the crime had been eommmitted by the prisoner; but argued that in view of the sudden psarilon caused by the blow which the girl struck him, the jury wookl be justified in finding a verdict of manslaughter. He pleaded, not for an acquittal, but simply to rave the prisoner from the gallows, end to give him opportunity for repentance. loriloner (interrupting) : I don't want it. I am guilty. (Sentation.) Mr. Coitingham said that remark alone showed the prisoner's impulsive nature. TI a prisoner was found guilty of wilful murealt, and was sentenced to death. His lordship observed that the prisoner had put the woman to death in a brutal and inhuman  Letter from Macdonald.—He becomes Studious and Reads the Lives of the Early Martyrs.  The following letter hail been teethed from 1 Macdonald, the Longworth Clough murderer Kirkdale, December 16th, 1890. Dear Friend—l received your kind and welcome letter, and was glad to hear that you are well, as lam at present. Thank God for His merciee to us all. No doubt you know what sentence ' wee paused opon me on Friday last. I may as well say in a word that I shall hove passed to eternity some time during the forenoon on the 30th of this month, there to give an acocumt of the whole of my works dur ng the whole of my lifetime. I hope you will offer op a prayer for the repose of my soul, and if it is in my power when I have passed from this world I will do.. much for you, because we are taught to believe that we can eommunicate spiritually one with another while we are here with tllOlB who have departed this life. I was glad to hear that I was not forgotten. You know we must all forgive if we bore to be forgiven- I hope everybody may forgive me, as I forgive them. I tincerely thank you all for the interest you have taken in me, hoping at the same time Gad may reward Tou for it. I am now taking great , intereatin reeding the lives of the early martyrs, which are very interesting to me. I send or, beet roved' to your brother and sister. 80 DO more at present from your unfortunate friend, ,
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-02-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DREADFUL MURDER NEAR CREWE.  Early on Sunday morning a alacoking murder was perpetrated on the highway between Crewe and a village known as The Hough. some three miles distant. The victim was Mr. Richard Davies, a tailor aged 51. Mr. Dialf44 we, very well of, having csonsiderebl, property in Crews. Be kept an extenaive tailoring and drapery establishment in Victoria-street, where he stayed a great deal, but went once or twice • week to The Houfh, where his wife and family reside. Be invariably drovo home at the end of the week, and spent Sunday with his family. On Saturday the murdered man and his ton, George Device, aged 16, who is employed in bin father's shop, left Crewe at about eleven o'clock in their pony trap. Mr. Device was driving. The pony is a very old one, and they did not make fast progress along the roads. The night also was extremely cliuk. lie. Davies and hie son appear to have drlven the greater part of the way home without incident, but jute before entering the village, and while they were passing along a very lonely part of the road, two men jumped out from the hedge, one on either side. Tbe night was so dark that their figures could not be clearly seen. They seized hold of the pony's head and stopped it. 11De boy tried to urge the animal forward by means of a stick, but, being toasucceasful, he got down. No sooner had lie done this, arm one 4 the men rushed to the old man in the vehicle, struck him • terrible  blow on the head, and dragged him out into the road. The boy, reing the arack upon his father, endeavoured to make his escape, bat the second ruffian let the pony's head and clewed him. The fellow pursued him about four hundred yards up the road, but, finding he could not overtake him, turned back to his companion, who wee erreetling with Mr. Davies. The boy passed rotund heusee and ran on to Lie home, where he got an elder brother mud several villagers to go back with him. They found Mx. Davies lying dead at the side of the road, hie bead being bettered out of all secogiiitiou. From the Aide of the road it was evident that there had been a terrible struggle. I For several yards them were pook of blood, while great quantities of blood on the grams on both sides of thin road led to the belief that the poor man had endeavoured to escape from his amanita by attempting to creep through gape in the edge. In addition to having his bead battered in, the murdered nein had his right thumb cut off and two fingers on the none hand broken. It is believed that the murderers used a hatchet or hammer. The police discovered near the place a heavy rail which was covered with . blood and hair. It appears that the demoted had been in the habit of carrying large soma of money from his plant of business to hie hoots at Hough, and the knowledge of this might have furnished a motive for the commission of the crime.
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-10-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

AXD VEADMI..  Ti.e it:quart on the body of Anu Roderick war I held et the Town Ifall yestirday afternoon, Lek.) the borough coroner. The witseeses were Ann Nipper, the oldest d uglater of the deceased by a-former husband; 'William Jones, , a lodgir ; Gill, a neighbour ,• and a few others, I but their evidence threw no light cc the affair. The girl Ann Nipyer, however, seemed to he the only- one awae at the time, as she wee nureing the baby in the bedroom. She heard no noise or quarrelling, and het attention was first troneed by hearing two shots fired in rapid vatoeseion and her mother scream. She thee feared that her father had been shot, and called to Jew to pt op na hcr father woo shot. Jona  ti's but was stepped fot moment b t, who told him not-Aro come down or he I would shoot him. PrtWirier stood at the bottom of the stairs with a revolver in his hand, and pointed it upwirxds. Jones then ten down, and prisoner het the house. He had not heard a shot fired, but wae aroused by the daughter calling him to get up. Prisoner was excited at the time. The witness (Jones) mid that the CPr was known to have a very violent . He came hems on Monday and had tea with them. He was quite cheerful, and. left after tea. Tie was very friendly. He hwli not a revolver then, and had never been seen, to have one, rho revolver was quite new. The prisoner had been drinking heavily for.-loveral weeks, but was sober on Monday. The jury returned a verdict oil "Wilful murder" against David Hainaut. virtue TIEN DYLWO WAD'S DP7LADEDIIOIq9. The task of taking the wounded rnan'a depoeitions was commenced idiot* after three o'clock. The proceeding, were strictly private but it has transpired and Mr. Henry Cousins, who has been engaged, to defend the prisoner, was present on the latter's behalf. The prisoner hnnsolf wee also in the room, haring leen driven to the infuelary in a cab under the special surveillance of Sergeant Heyward. During the examination ef the man, whose wife he is cluirged with murdering, liarsent betrayed not the slightest emotion. Roderick, who appeared to be sinking fast, identified him without the slightest hesitation, and gave a succinct account of all that occurred. The proceedings lasted exactly an hour, and subse()neatly Hersent was conveyed to the county jail, where he will remain pending the adjourned enquiry before the borough magistrates this day week.  Roderick Improves. Our Cardiff correspondent telegraphs ! The condition of the woundel man. Roderick has greatly improved. He slept well on Tuesday night, and was much better yesterday. Should the improvement continue for a few days an effort will be made to extract the bullet. A consultation of the medical staff took place on Wednesday, but it was decided to let him remain quiet for a few days. No one is allowed to see him at pr.sont.t lie does not yet know that hie wife ie dead. It is arranged that the funeral of Mrs. Roderick shall take place on Sunday. She will be buried at Nevi-port, where her 'nether and relatives hive. 'Mr. T. H. Pletcher has been instructed by the Treasury to preseouta.
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-02-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BEFORE THE  MAGISTRATES. At the Summon Polies Court, on Thursday, John Jones, a medical student, living with his parents at Pieten-place, was summoned by Barth James, a servant now living at Pentre, to show cause etc. Mr. Smith was for the plain. tin and Mr. Howells for defendant. Plaintiff said that for the lavt sixteen years she had been in the service of Mrs. Collis, the defendant's mother, and twelve months ago—on the night that Mr. Kent was murdered--he took the liberty of going up to her bedroom and had interoouse with her After that he came "as he liked," and the revsits that she became pregnant and was confined of a buy in December last. While she I was enciente, she did not say that defendant was the father, because he had told her to keep things quiet. Cross-examined by Mr. Howell: How old arTyrolHowells:—Twenty t{ibmair. Hr. _Twen tyn ine. Mr. Howells Are you not 351—N0, I am only 29, but its no odds to you if I was forty. (Laughter.) The Stipendiary: Some people stand still at oine-anii-twenty you know. (Laughter.) Mr. Howells: es, your worship, ladies especially. They have a weakness that way. (Laughter.) Further cross-examined plaintiff said the had known defendant since he was a little boy, but he was not more reserved than anybody else., She had never been intimate with a man named John Lewis, nor had he ever been seen with his arm around her waist. She had never told Mrs. Collis that she had a tumour or the dropsy, nor had she ever said that she would have money or blast Jones's character. She had never said that she was going to be married to a widower. The defendant was put into the box and denied that he had ever been in plaintiff's bedroom, or ever had intimacy of any kind or description with her. He had not spoken to her for four years. .  Mr. Sinim I warn you that you are upon your oath, aud that a charge of perjury may be 'aid against you. Mr. Jonwt: All right. Mr. Smith: How old a-e you? ' Defendant: Twenty-four. Mr. Smith • And although the plaintiff had hied to the house 16 yearn, he had never spoken to h&—Never.  Further cross-examined, he sworo that the first time he heard that he was alleged to be the father was after the child was born, and he then heard it from William Williams.  Mrs. -Collis wee called by plaintiff, and said that she paid a visit to her during her confinement, in order to pay her the balance of her wages. On that occasion ahe was told for the first time that her eon was the father of the  oross-examined : Her son was a Sanday-sehool teacher, and a most reserved you man. He would be in the hone° for a week at a time without speaking to anyone. Without calling upon Mr. Howells to reply, the Bench dismissed the cave, there being absolutely no corroborative evidence.
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-04-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

STRIKING SPEECH BY MR. SPURGEON.  Mr. Spurgeon delivered, C about 600 ministers educated in the Pastor's College, his Presidential address in commotion with the annual conference of that inetitution. After hinting that despite all that might be said concerning ' him he porpoe.d living as long as he could, he said be wee a preacher, not to the timesibut for the times —n remark which created a good deal "of merriment among his audience. He then proomeled to deal with the attitude and dutiee of ministers. Modern thee.'logy was nothing but an attempt to back salvation by merit, therefore the bring of the Reformation would have to be re!fought. He would like to get uutof bed five min- ' lutes before dying to talk about Sacrifice, and I then to mike the same worde his first words in, heaven, so that his last utterance to rout Christ's enemies on earth might be those to inaugurate his praise in g 10.7. Alluding to the development of prieatotraft in the Church of England, Mr. Spurgeon said ecliterd,was accounted fas a sin worse than murder or fornication. Am Nonconformists they must be ever protesting.agaihst this. (Cheers.) Yet they must, as ministers, nuard against becoming themselves priests and looking down on the people, on the pretence of magnifyingtheiroflice. lie wondered which was worse—the man who could prim& and would not, or the man who could not preach, but I would. (Laughter.) They had some of the latter sort amongst them. Christ must be their law-giver, and they ought to have an opinion irrespective of the rich Church member, who , perhaps subscribed to their salaries, or was a I distinguished 11180. Let thom do their duty I straight, though the heavens fall. They were exhorted to love sinners for Christ's sake; it was about the only refiner( for loving male sin- I ners. (Laughter.) Some ministers did not be! Lev, the Lord was with their gospel, and they j had to catch men by such preteuces so °odd be devised, like the se vent who caught and killed flies on purpose to stiek them on to the fly-piper. (Laughter.) .lint j such fly-papers were dead failures. If their goepethed not enough power in itself to arrest, and ministers had to work up some luck-yard ' substitute, they were a disgrace to the truth they professed to houota. (Cheer—) He leelieved the second coming of Christ would be BODII, judging by signs. The devil was esti busy, and when they sew a farmer burning gates and destroying the barns they might be PIM his kese was up. (Laughter.) lie did not feel depressed at the gerend outlook. Ono. after he had 'teethed a rousing sermon lon Once, Regeceratiou, Dr. &sue said, . "My mend, you are getting into but wetet." j " No," replied he, " inn nut ;I am the stoker ; 'itisbelieoersintl.aifal.e doctrine who are in hut water; I um tie stoker; I sacs rry to have the ttouble to toil other ycople, tho steam doee not even blow upou me." (Laughter.) He , urged ministe:s Lu preseli the old truth, with , absolute confidence in the hove.
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-11-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DIVORCE SUIT BY A DOCTOR.  Extraordinary Letter from a Son.  A Decree Nisi Obtained.  in the Divorce Court on Thursday a snit wee brsueht by 'Dr. lace, late of the 13mgal Medical Service Corps, for the dissolution of his marriage on the ground of the mieconduot of his wife with the cerreepondent, named Hodson. The petitioner married hie wife in 1871 in India, she behrg at that time a widow. The marriage turned out most unhappily. She eays be threw things at her. Enmity he came to England and a separation took place and after be found she Shad misoonducted hers.elf with the correspondent at a farm in Ewes. For the respondent evidence wart railed to prove misconduct on the part of the hueband, but his Lordship thought it was of a nature that the jury could not rely on to etrerigthen that evidence. A son of the respondent was called, a lad of fourteen, and in reply to a qnestion from Mr. Willis, said he Was the author of the following letter which he hadaddressed to his father —"St. Kilda Lavender Gardens, NW, Nov. 8, 1800. Sir, I have just heard that on the meeting of Guy Fawkes 'Day ym Acid outeide our house, shouting blasphemous and amen. language. Now, understand that I am no longer a child, and though I make every allowance for your being mad, I do not allow my doer mother's eyee to be offended by your ungainly form, nor her ears to be defiled by your filthy language, and if you venture to annoy her again I will do nay best to break 'every bone in your miserable old GOMM, and even that will not maim ysur lege any nore croaked. Wasn't it a lark when Mrs. Lewis heard you howling and shouting in the stables in one of your mad fits You thought you were having that eojoyment to yourself, didn't you ? I hope yoi keep it up as you ought to have some sort of . recreation to solace your old age, but don't you I tome it :here, or else you'll Lod acne one to I deal with who will treat you as you deserve. I I hope you enjoyed yourself. One thing I should like to know—where were you when the Whitechapel murders were conmatted, as I have read the papers, and it is my opinion that you have done therms all, as they all agree that he was a doctor, that be carried a black bag and , was mad, and was a most repubibee looking party. Isn't it wonderful how exactly . you answer to that doueriptioo. Hoping . to see you soon when I shall give you what I promised: you, believe me, 'yours no more, Jack Hodson." In a postacript this extraordinary boy added "At my dear rmAltior's earneet &Aare, I did not poet this letter, but since I have seen your face to-day with all your madness plainly on it, I determined to poet it for my darling'. safety. Look at your little weerened form,then look at my beautifnl.gentle , mother, adored by all and worshipped by me, her most unworthy eon, and then look in the glass, you ridiculous old fool, and tell me what you see there." In the result his lordship granted a decree nisi with costs in favour of the husband.