The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1870-09-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WIFE KILLED BY HER HUSBAND AT GREENWI,H.—On Monday morning, between six and sere o'clock, information was received at the Blackhea'll  road pohee :tation that a woman, the wife of o eodermonger, named John Tantenny, Brine. at 2, row, Wen street, Greenwich, had 1- The habitations of a happy -and :einyards , murdered by her husband, Who bad escaped. Decould not be traced in the smonl erirreirting prosperous people ap of ruins teetive Sergeant Kittmer, of the local police, we despatched to the spot, and than underground front before us. Not a house stood; not a vestige of hnmanity but that to be found in calcined bone.. All was ruin and death; the streets were impassable room. fitted more for a coal cellar than a place fer from the heaps of crumbled, blackened stones which haman habitation, a shocking spectacle presented lythinegboodny sof_the,deceased woman, in h=r night almost entirely covered them; and the awful silence., ditt.tf-: nee which was saturated with blood, the only other articles in the place (and in was only broken by the occasional fall of some piece of masonry, which but added to the heap which! , which a family numbering seven passed their clefs marked the death-place of an nnoffending and murland night.), being a chair and a box, the latter eeryTaekinGegrmni,an , ~,ed 17, dered people. As we sat awe-stricken and ' with ing a: a tsble. Mr. Superintendent Griffin and Intearful eye before this cruel and wanton crime our reverie was broken by the tramp of men—the very , men who were guilty of all this wrong. fr an a statement made to them by Phosbe Tantenny specter Digby subsequently visited the house, and = , i,.1..r her mottle- (the deceased) was sitting on ths cidly at the work of their own hands. In their infantry came winding across the ruin, it appears that at one o'clock in the morn. midst were some 4.000 or 5,000 French prisoners 1;( ti while her father was eating his supper. Her of ii .(her was talking to her father, c mirlaining to all arms, and with them one solitary officer, whose calm but determined face spoke the hope of a future' himthat their son John had been saucy to her, and revenge. It has been urged by the Germans t tle.t she would not put up with it any longer. Her hat father then threw a knife at her brother John, who. the rea=on they destroyed this town was because the! with her brother James and her sister Mary Ann. inhabitants fired upon them; but as the prisoners , was in the bed on which bar mother was sitting. passed they pointed out to each other the different I John dodged lebied his mother, and the knife houses—or, rather the places where they had stood , . unt.or hawk her mother in the baok. inunediately 1 —and reminded one another of the deeds they had . ;he left bladebone. Her mother immediately called done when firitg from the windows of these houses. 'rut..` Oh !" and her father, finding that the knife From their remarks it was easily gathered that they lied entered her mother's back, aaid " I did not mean lsel made a last stand here, and used every house as it for her, but for John," and then bathed the wound a fortification till chased away into the openeountry beyond. It was therefore the regular with cold water, and afterwards binding it up with soldiery who ! ..,°' le white rags. No medical man was sent for, and had fired from the houses, and the excuse for such I . alon tan ,in i . our and a l,lf her mother h y died. At 'devastation falls to the ground. The only vritnesses five o'clock her father left home, saying he should Ito this lie buried and burnt in the cellars which are ee and tell his mother (who fives in Greenwich) under this heap of ruin. It is stated that not more ^ , what had occurred, and that he should then give than three or four hundred of them escaped, and , they himself up to the police; but up to Monday evening, may be seen encamped under rudely-construct- I , ed M nothing had been seen or heard of him. hula iiithe fields over the Belgian border.