The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-01-31 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH.  On Saturday an inquest was held at Great Yarmouth, by Mr. C. 11. Chamberlain, coroner for the borough, on the bodies of Mrs. Sarah Pigg and her two infant children, Mabel Elizabeth Pigg and Fanny Eliza Pigg, who were burnt to death on Friday morning on the occasion of a lire which destroyed the prendees of the husband and rather of the deceased, Mr. F. Pigg. a hosier and boot-maker in the thoroughfare known in the town as the Market-row.  It appeared that Mr. Pigg, his wife Sarah Pigg, aged 26, their three infant children—Edith, aged two.and-a• half years, Fanny Eliza, aged one year, and Mabel, aged one month--and their servant, a young woman named Rebecca Abbe, retired to rest at an early hour on Thursday night, leaving everything apparently safe. Mr. Pigg, his wife, and the youngest infant slept in the middle floor, while the servant, with the other children, slept in an attic. At midnight Mr. Pigg was awakened by a feeling of suffocation, and he soon discovered that the room was tilled with smoke. Ile roused his wife, who, in her fright, rushed upstairs after the other infants. In the meantime the flames, which had originated in a lower storey, spread with rapidity. The servant, with great difficulty, escaped with one child, Edith, by jumping through a hack Window, wounding one of 'ner legs, and severely cutting one of her feet. Mr. Pigg also escaped, although he fainted when he reached the street. Mrs. Pigg was heard to exclaim that she could not desert her children, and just then the roof gave way, and she and her little ones were buried under the burning mass. The locality is densely populated, and the houses are in close cou. tiguity on each side of the row. The fire accordingly passed from Mr. Pigg's house, which was completely gutted, to the house of Mr. A. Waters, another draper, ize., a great amount of additional damage being thus inflicted. The charred remains of Mrs. Pigg and her two children were dug out of the mins of Mr. Pigg's house in the course of Friday musing. These facts having been deposed to, the coroner stated that he had requested Dir. Pigg to be in attendance to give evidence, should the jury wish it ; but looking at the distracted state of Mr. Pigg's mind, in consequence of the melancholy catastrophe, it had occurred to him that Mr. Pigg 's feelings might bo spared, as there could be no reasen to doubt that the deceased met with their deaths by tire, and that the fire arose from accidental cir• cutnstances. The jury concurred, and returned a ver. diet of accidental death in each care.  ON TUESDAY EVENING, about seven o'clock, a middle•aged widow lady, named Mary Melborn, residing at 241, ffeneage-street, was found murdered in her house, at the top of the cellar steps. It is believed she had been strangled by three men who were seta to CMG from the direction of the house. Their object is supposed to hale Free money, as the murdered woman had upwards of 601.) in the bank, which wan deposited only a few months since. The murderers carried off a few trilling articles.