Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-01-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TRE BRA,DFORD  MURDI4,IIB  ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS.  A Bradford correspondent telegraphs on Wednesday ,--The important evidence that the poliee hare intimated tneir intention of addricing at the Bo..rugh Police Court toads) against the milkman Barrett, who is in ouatody he the charge of murdering the boy Gill, has leaked out, and is of a most startling and extraordinary character. Exactly opposite the stable where it is suriliaod the declassed bey was killed and mutilated, is a large house wed as a servants' home. It appears that on Friday morning last one of the girls staying at the home rose and went into the sonllery at the back of the house shortly after six o'clock. The scullery window is exactly opposite the stable window, and she heard eomebo.iy in the stable whistling, above which sounds of an extraordinary character were audible. They resembled the noise produced by hammering, but are deecribed as not being such as coal,' be produced by contact of a hammer with a hard and solid substance, but with some partially yielding substance which would deaden the noise. The girl was in the scullery two or three minutes, and heard sounds during the whole of the time. A light was burning in the stable, and the girl has never before seen a light burning there at that hour, although she has been in the habit of getting up at half -past five, and going into the scullery every morning. She says that previouety she has invariably seen a light at seven o'clock; indeed, so certain is she of this point that she has been in the habit of telling when it was seven o'clock by the appearance of that light. This experience, however, was outdone in conclusiveness of horror by that of the matron of the Servants' Home, who awoke on Saturday morning at  come tore after midnight, possibly between one emit iivo o'clock, but hot later, and whilst lying awake in her bedroom, of which the ' window exactly overlooks the stable, her attention wra riveted to sour& which she heard proceeding from the stable. She hod not at the time the remotest doe& of what bad happened, but the Pounds were ci molt peculiar nature as to 1111; her with horror: the sat mi in bed horrified, listening intently for some time. All the while the sounds continued, and Phe afterwards distinctly heard footsteps outside, which she is positive were not Mose of the policeman. At breakfast time these circumatanoes were related, but it was not until considerably later the same morning that the occupants of the borne learned that a murder had been corns inlaid, and that the stable was suppoeed to have been the place of the crime. The sounds heard by the matron are described as being those which might be produced by the sawing or the grating of cloth rubbed ageing the floor. It may be added thst the Servants' Ho no is the only building from which a light in the stable could be seen. A large quarry is quite near,which is being filled in in parts, and the body was probably not concealed there on amount of the danger of approaching the place. The next most convenient place of concealment which would have suggested itself to anyone knowing the neighbourhood would undoubtedly be the place where the body was found.