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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-02-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DOWN TRAINS. I WEEK DA•11. Saturday. rue as fairTell to one, ye rushing breezes, one a. aa '''''d kid t iden hair, Is • About half:past seven o clock r -ope, and was I made fast. I did not see the young W hsper while ye softly lift the braids ot der . y_te/ rt the taunts he directed against the negro-sympa- statement of the fac . . . w0n,,,,, y character, as will appear from the following . brief on the bridge. I saw her when I started to go That the Valentine ye bear her D the oder h "t aftit.*ea will never part: thizers of E H xeter a , e e ate was a mos one 11 th d b I t ncrose the bridge. I did not are her after. I did not sswa. vieeca,.Rutlandatt. 5n to 0113 30 2. 08 0' 5506 60 30 .. 5096 I 0 6 0,10 20 .. 0 S 0...• u 5 aes' • m pinlpmpin, pm p m ,p m Illim p m 2n. •.m. p.mia.m. • m •in 1 m 11111111 j1"111'50m 1 , ry, .. aBl a 4 810 810 Se .. 83 8.. ;11 88 XM nis Road .... 6810 5 12 38,2 713 a 529 6 59, 24, From whow depth th,• winsome beauty ot h.e,r,..tne,, neee thes, 12 .. 15 3 101 .. 6 121 42 From whose inmost life the blessing of hr 1r of her eyes- long low of distress,-a voice from the cattle-sheds. onnamt,hde wevaehnlginrigm,owf .M. osenetyd rwi nekeit,g ainfotrheteenhoiciaesptoaftna, cry '' Murder." I saw the wtaielr.Walts Road.. 6121013 It 4513 11,3 IP .5 32 724 4. .. d • h J Watts, with whom it was • hear her scream or last woman name Sara ane In whose memory there glitters all the g ory _ e „v... witness the next day, and we tried to find ber, but we 9-salty Road All the gleaming ot the silky chesnut tresses a. to. T.,. I . t, The Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Richmond, supposed he intended to page the night. About twelve Id t lit 1 ' h . 1 ey - she did Mack Plll,lll.hopstrd 41 0010 55 11 OM nO . o not give te gu any mon , 68 2 2513 551 5 45.7 15 8 561 .. 8259 2i 4 25,5 23 10 45 .. . 24111 __ .... j_ __ j_ _ In the breeze that carries wmtward this my earnmt /Mtn me. the Western West Cross Road 4161016 13 46'2 1613 16: 53676 A 44 .. 14'4 118159 1141 1162r6 11121 Itlll 31* .. 16 3 5154 .. 68 2156; 4565 o'clock the eame night, as the foreman of not ask me for any. Mumbles, Norton rd. 6 43:10 431 113 3 43,3 43 63133 9 13 .. 8439 43 4 434 43 11 3 .. 45 343..545 • .5 More than beauty too. Oh ! tell her of the hope whose purple the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Winchilsea, and bloom Lord Feversham, all expressed, in language f . th t no the The witness was cloaely queetioned by the Coroner . . Saturday. fIUNDAYS. Manhole-like is brightly arching over ev•ry hour of gloom, , Pfaiienrt enixt.eants,i,onas woo rksosmwe aso ngeoi ,nng o no dwuat ye„,..h e hie:lrd e UP
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-09-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TALE OF LOVE AND JEALOUSY.  A villa at Auteuil, in the suburbs of Paris, the residence for some time past of a Turkish general, has just been the scene of a tragic drama, quite 0 la Torque, the denouement of which must take place in the Assize Court. All the servants in the Ottoman general's house are Mussulmen, with the exception of his housekeeper, called in French a name importing a higher social status, namely, gouvernante. This lady, a Parisian of great personal attractions, was expected to arrange the general's receptions, " according to European forms and usages ;" and it may be supposed that these duties would have included that of presiding at table, and making a courtney in the drawing-room, though this is a point not quite clear. Now, It came to pass that the general's head cook, a personable Itoumelian, aged 28, fell desperately in love with the belle Sultana, as he called her. His love was, though intense, of that patient and despairing kind which branea assai, poen specie and nulla ehiede. lie swore to his fellow-servants, by Mahomet, in moments of confidence that he would die a thousand deaths rather than he wanting in respect to his mistress, who was he knew far too high ab we him to look for a moment upon one of such low estate. Had he been familiar with Shakespeare he would have talked about the "bright particular star," and the hind that "would be mated with the lion." But the hopeless humility of his love did not exclude jealousy. A frequent inmate of the house was a Turkish gentleman who had a knife and fork always ready for him at the general's table, and often when his prolonged conversation with the yourernante made it too late for him to return to Paris slept in a room kept for his special use. Ile talked to the "sultana," as he says, only to improve himself in French, but the cook's excited mind imagined far other motives. As he had not been able to conceal his love from the domeotic household, 80 he made no secret to them of his hatred of a rival. Its was seen while in a state of agitation, his eyes rolling fearfully, to conceal in his bosom an oriental poniard called a candgiar. Some of the servants thought it their duty to inform the general's nephew of this fact, and the cook was looked for all over the house, but could not be found. That evening when the Turkish gentleman was going to bed he saw the cook crouching down in a corner of his room lying in wait. Having been warned by the general's nephew, he at once rushed through a side door to the chamber in which the latter slept. The cook sprang after him, and, a prey to ungovernable fury, intlictea several stabs upon the door, which the Turk with desperate energy held fast on the other side. The lady, who heard the cook's imprecations, opened A window and screamed for help. Some policemen were fortunately at hand, and they, aided by the servants, stormed a stable in whichthe unwisely sentimental cook had taken refuge, and secured his person. He now lies in pr.son awaiting his trial for an attempted murder.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1852-09-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TIPPERARY.—CaIIav,an Ryan, Esq.. was shot dead on Thursday evening at Newcastle, about 7 miles from Clonmel. The Tipperary Free Press gives the subjoined particulars :—" It appears that Mr. Ryan had been serving ejectments Oil some tenants on his property near Newcastle, with whom he has been for some time in litigation; and, returning to his residence on horseback, he was fired at when passing the wood at Whitesford, and wounded in the abdomen. A policeman whom lie had passed on the road some minutes before, hearing the shot, rushed towards the direction whence it came, and saw Mr. Ryan's horse grazing on the roadside, sod further search discovered the hapless gentleman gasping in the agonies of death, and in a few moments life was extinct. A sub-inspector, and a party of police immediately commenced a search for the murderer. Mr. Ryan's loss is universally deplored. A verdict of wilful murder was returned against some persons or persons unknown. Two men, named Hackett and Norman, have since been lodged in Clonmel gaol on suspicion of being concerned in the murder. Some of their clothes were found with spots of blood on them, as also a hatchet, on which there was some blood. It is expected that they will be fully committed to morrow, avid sent ore to Waterford gaol, to stand their trial at the next assizes. Five persons have also beeti.arrested at Clashganny and lodged in Cloninel gaol, on suspicion of being concerned in this affair. They are apparently of the lowest class of peasantry. The Rev. Andrew Quinn, a Roman Catholic clergyman, is to take his trial at the next Sligo assizes for Hogging a young woman, who it would appear, from the evidence adduced before the magistrates at Collooney petty sessions, had been improperly solicited by the rev, gentlemen and repelled his advances. The Tenant-Right conference commenced in Dublin on Wednesday. Mr. Sharman Crawford presided. Fortyone members of parliament assembled and several priests. The object of the conference was to devise an organization and parliamentary policy for the league. Mr. G. H. Moore, ann Mr. Sharman Crawford himself, thought decidedly that no inernher ought to go to parliament pledged to a certain course of conduct on any resolutions passed by any body out of parliament; and such seemed to be the general understanding. Resolutions were submitted, having for their object the securing of Mr. Sharnian Crawford's bill, and were carried on the following day. A dinner to Mr. Sharman Crawford took place in the round room of the Rotunda the same evening.  A meeting of Irish members of parliament was held on Friday last, at which a committee was appointed preliminary to a conference, to decide upon the manner in which the question affecting religious equality shall be treated next session. . . .  It appears from semi-official returns that during the last year upwards of 1000 persons have visited Ireland on the Irish tourist principle, introduced by Mr. C. P. Itoncy, to the pecuniary advantage of that country of upwards of a million sterling.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-07-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WIDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1865.  death. The outward surroundings of the decease of both bodies, to ordinary capacity, was corn patihle with the ordinary -results of the ills that mortal flesh is heir to. Yet it was proved, to the unanimous satisfaction of a jury, that both mother and daughter were foully, cruelly, and systematically poisoned to death. The first question that occurs to us here is—What could . .  Lye been the motive of the assassin ? And if we have to look for what would have been an  adequate motive in influencing the conduct of ordinary men, we are at a loss to find it. But  with a man to whom facts have been so clearly brought home as to this Doctor Pritchard, we are not bound to seek, much less to find, motives which would have influenced average minds. The Doctor was apparently a thriving physician, with an amiable wife to whom he appeared at least to bear an ordinary degree of attachment, yet it was proved in evidence that he was on the verge of bankruptcy, having overdrawn his banking accounts; and also that he had formed an illicit intercourse with a youthful servant, with whom he seemed to have become infatuated. By his mother-in-law's death some £2,000 would accrue to his wife, and thus to himself; by his wife's death he would be relieved of a surveillance which had been so far exercised as to discover him in improper intimacy with his servant. Here were two motives sufficient to actuate a man of murderous temperament, as we know from sad experience, though, thank God for the credit and security of humanity, it is only with isolated individuals that such motives could be found efficient. It is a humbling of our nature to learn that a man of intelligence, with all the advantages of cultivation, and bred to a profession which should have made him more than usually tender of human suffering and careful of human life, should have applied his knowledge to produce, by excruciating torture, the death of his near relatives. It is a triumph of the devil over man, or of the devil in man, as we choose to phrase it. There is something so purely diabolic in these deliberate and cold-blooded murders, with their paucity of palpable extrinsic evidence, that men may be excused for refusing to believe in them until the proof is overwhelming. We can understand the crime of a Muller, which, after all, may only mean a sudden yielding to temptation in a man of small moral principle, and the immediate commission of an irrevocable deed; but the conduct of Dr. Pritchard cannot be explained in this manner. He, so to speak, repeated the crime of murder deliberately trim day to day. Of malice aforethought he furnished abundant evidence ; and if there is one class of homicides who deserve more than another to suffer death, surely this doctor furnishes a glaring example of such a class. His execution will rid society of a being unfit to live amongst it, and will at the same time demonstrate to would-be poisoners that even medical skill in the unlawful administration of fatal drugs cannot elude the detection of modern science.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-02-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDERBR.—We are glad to learn that the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex have received a communication from Sir George Grey informing them that the excution of the seatenee of death passed upon Serefini Polioni, now in the gaol of Newgate, is respited until Wednesday, the 22nd day of March next—Espress. A WELSH BIGAMisT.—Our Cardiff contemporaries report the committal for trial by the Cardiff magistrate of Mr Trim, a schoolmaster of Roath, near Cardiff on a charge of bigamy. It appears that in August last year, when residing in Devonshire, Mr Trim married a young woman named Dotty. A fortnight afterwards his wife was aeolaecl, and he left for Reath. He at once formed an acquaintance with another woman named Griffiths, whom he married. She purchased the household furniture with her own money, and they lived together four months. During all this time Trim kept up a conespenitence with his first wife. But last week, having tired of living alone, she took train for Reath, where Trim met her, and took her to the home of his second wife, mid introduced her as his cousin. The two wives became very sociable, and the party dined together. In the afternoon Trim had to leave to attend school, an 1 after his departure the baby fell asleep. The first wife thinking she had a perfect right to the bedroom of her husband, walked upstairs and put the child to bed. The secoml wife, thinking this was a great liberty of a cousin, followed, and, much to her suprise, found the first wife examining the bed clothes. Upon being asked what she was doing, she replied, "I think it very foolish of William to purchase furnitine so expensive as this meet be." This, of course, took the mistress of the house by surprise, anil she plainly told toe other that William was her husband, and hail a perfect right to purchase whatever goods he thought proper. The acene of surprise and grief that followed may be imegined. William was summoned from school, and was taxed with infidelity. Ile admitted the whole charge and implored forgiveness. Ile thee left the neighbourhoel and went to Deiby. Having. no means of subsidence he wrote to his second wife asking for money. The letter was handed over to the police, and Ilie was sent Ilmanwev's Piths —Nothing better—These invalue- to him with directions to go to Gloucester and meet h:s ble Pills exert a greater arid an ,re heneftsial influenee 5 cond wife on Friday. Ile wrote liaele. expressing his ever nervous diameters then any other medicine. Their thanks, and concluding, "1 hope, dear Kate, the time mode of action is thoroughly consonant with reason— will not be far distant when I can embrace you to the they conspietely purify this blood, relieve both head and bosom of your affectionate Will.". Instead of his wife etumach of oil faulty functions, and expel all oppressive he met a detective officer, and will be tried at the next accumulations from the bowels. With the blood Swansea assizes. purified, and all p isons purged from the system,
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-08-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THURSDAY.  Ann Thomas was -s-t;;;;;n-ed- for keeping her house open for the sale of beer, on the night of the 16th July last. P.c. James Johns proved the case. Dofendant admitted the charge.—Fined 5e and costs, or seven days' imprisonment. Noah Samuel, landlord of the Oddfellows inn, Pantdo, was summoned for a like offence, on the 30th ult. Defendant did not appear. P.a. John Loughor proved the case. Two witnesses were called by the defendant's wife, who were in the house at the time in question, to prove that they were travellers, but failed in doing so.— Fined 10s and costa, or s-ven days' imprisonment. Mary Williams was summoned for assaulting Thomas Davies, on the 28th July last. Defendant pleaded not guilty. The only peculiar feature in this cam, was the evidence of a Mrs Lucas, for the defence. This witness went on talking something about the bouse the complainant lived in being disputed, and although the magistrates' clerk and the officers made every exertion to stop her talking about the house being disputed, it was not before she was threatened to be locked up that she desisted.—Defendant was fined lie, including costs, which was immediately paid. Harriet Roberts was semmoned_for assaulting John  Jones (otherwise known as Jack Chandler), on the 9th instant; and John Jones was summoned for assaulting Harriet Robarts. at the same time and place. Both parties denied the charge. The facts of the case are as follows: It appeared that John Jones had been quarrelling with his wife on Sunday last, and that Harriet Roberts had told some ine that he had been murdering his wife, and consequently Jones went to Roberts's house and asked her how she c ime to say so. Mrs Roberts, in answer, said she saw him kick his wife. Jones called her a b—y liar, and asked her how he did it. Mrs Roberts requested Jones to go out of her house, otherwise she would scald hint She was afraid of Junes, and took hold of the hatchet, which Jones took from her and held over her head, saying he would split her b—y head open, and would not leave the house. Several witnesses were called on the part of Mrs Roberts. and Jones was fined toe, Including costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment. The case against Mrs Roberts was dismissed. .  Patrick Waters was summoned for assaulting the notorious Honora Leary, on the 22nd ult. Defendant pleaded not guilty, and called several witnesses to prove that he did not strike her; Honors, of course, as usual protesting that they had all taken a false oath.—Case dismissed. . .  William Charles, of Wick, appeared to answer an affiliation summons, charging him with being the putative father of a bastard child of Jane Lewis, born on the 15th of September last —Ordered to pay 24 per week from birth, and costs. Stephen Jones was summoned to show cause why he should not oontribute towards :the support of a bastard child of Elizabeth Lewis, born on the 21st of July last. Defendant did not appear.—Order made for 2s Rd per week from birth, and costs.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-11-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ALLEGED EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE. Since the trial and conviction of Muller the German Legal Protection Society, who, notwithstanding the verdict of the jury, still hold to their belief of the prisoner's innocence in respect of this crime, have continued their investigations with unremitting assiduity. The discoveries they have made, the committee have determined to lay before the public in the form of .1 pamphlet, which is now being prepared, and which will shortly be produced. The following incident, the full particulars of which have been ascertained by recent inquiries, and which, it is considered, has a connexion with the murder of Mr Briggs that demands proper investigation, will, in all probability, have a principal position in the statement which will be issued by the German committee. It is stated that about two o'clock on the morning of the 10th of July last, a few hours after the commission of the murder, a Mr Poole, who resides in Edminton, was in his bedroom, when a parcel (as it afterwards proved) was thrown against his house, breaking one of the windows. This parcel, it would seem, had been thrown from a cab, which was passing down the road, away from London. Mr Poole, with a view of getting seine payment for the damage done, immediately pursued the cab, which, after a long chase, he overtook. There weie four men inside. It is said that as far as could be seen, there was an appearance of considerable disorder about these men. One of them was without his hat, and with a handkerchief bound round his head. Mr Poole was told hurriedly that the bundle was thrown for a lark; but that he would be paid, and the cab drove on. Tee parcel which had been thrown against Mr Poole's window was found, on being examined, to contain a pair of trousers. Later on the Sunday morning, at about eleven o'clock, Mr Poole saw the same cab returning towards London, and noticed that there were then two of the same men in it, and this time Mr Poole was accompanied by one or two respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood. It is understood that the German Society have succeeded in discovering three, if not all four, of these men; and that they are in possession of the trousers, which are found to be stained with blood, which has been ascertained to be human. The committee are said to be also in posssession of other evidence which they consider of the highest importance as bearing on the case, the complete i avestigation of which they desire to promote. On Wednesday evening, at a meeting of the German Legal Protection Society, the terms of a memorial to Sir George Grey were discussed and resolved upon. The draft WWI read by Mr Beard, and was criticised in a very , animated discussion. The document was, in effect, a precis of the speech of Mr Serjcant Parry, and imported no novel facts or arguments. The meeting seemed generally to be ef opinion that a respite ahead be