Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1888-12-01 ()

LOOKING LITTLE LOY.  Hs was quite dead, and like his youngest sister the wands he had received were sickeningly terrible Immediately Miss Watharton, daughter of Dr. -Warillation, went is Dr. Arthurs, assistant to Dr. Bailey, of Crewe—vflao has a surgery at Betley—and he was -soon on the spot, bellowed by Dr. Palmer. The man , Jervis was net dead, bat at first glanse it was clear that he could not survive. Speech, by him was im-I:posible. bat a note, which was shewn to our reporter, was left behind by him. It was written, apparently -very hurriedly, in hlacklead, and the lines ran into .eaels other. It was, moreover, covered with blood, es that all that Gould be made eut was  "41 DID IT MYSELF,  'there was some . , . . . j. Jervis." The man died at 20 minutes to twelve, without baying i 3 pokQn. He motioned three times to P. C. Morrie for a drink of water, and then fell back, ,and expired. • The house, it may be said, is situated on the west old° of the village, and on the west side of the road. it is a double-fronted house, and is semi-detached. ...On the other side, the adjoining house is vacant, ,se that any screaming could not have Iceein heard The house is very wall furnished, and evidences of home comforts and prosperity are to be seen on every lad.  Mnwhilo, Mrs. Jervis, wko had, as we said above run exit in the etreet, had gone to the house of a -neighbour, ninety yards distant, named Ralph. She knesked at the door, and threw her arms about.  SHE CONLD NOT WEAK, nek injurieftweere so severe that the organs ofepeeck •Were:pestroyed. The door was ,immediately :opened, Una .ehe sank down en tke floor. Her jugular vein •WaS-eevereid, and she bled to death in a few minutes. '3-annesJervis, a little boy between six and seven, had run across the road to his grandmother's Mrs. Jones, 4a mother of the murdered woman. His father had 'also: attacked him, and his throat and cheek were rlia:dly cut. Dr. Arthurs attended him, and he will re'7C:tiver. }le made us statement,•as he was too ill to be 'eliekseit to. It is supposed that he was attacked the list etll, and that his father ceased his fearful work iehop h 6 knew if the alarm that had been raised. b.-• Edith jervie, eleven years of :we; stated: that between aix an sevenc'elock she, when in the hack bedroom, Wtihe slet, hestrd her mother scream, and cry ent, • OH, .7151, IsHAVTN'T DONE ANYTHING 1" iae *hen got out of bed, and went to her mother's nrdein:' • • She saw her fatker—thcugh she did not then him—kneeling on her mother, in the bed. like then ran'downstairs, unlocked the front door, and vi.an-aeress-the -road to her grandmother's. Her mother fellowed her into the street, and she saw the -blood niiiug.down her nightdress. Ernest; Jervie,•nine years of age, mid he heard the `AiltiVzit serearning, and he got up to the window,; and Mother and his sister, Edith, running about 4.oBiiiitd:' His father came running upstairs, and fish at him. •He avoided his father, however, who • •  _ TflflrT ATTACIEND TIIS SeiXO THER, -6k Ernestpheu ran downstairs, and met Joseph ' liiintediatqy --these sad fasts became known, the 'police were sent for, and Sergeant Parsons and P. C. •ht6trltsfroin '-.Madeley, soon were en the scene, and ; the house remained in charge of P. C. Morriss. And now come.s the strange portion of this sad tale, j'eiviit'and is wife liTed together as comfortably as ,t9,47orie could have wished, and their married life was e/bmplaiy one, because of its happiness and hap-. On the Sunday night, the man, who was - VIIRT :20XD 57 HIS CHILDRBN,  , rwas caressing them fondlY, and treating them with rfatherly kindness. He was a man of temperate habits, t.and-Cf a griet disposition. Our reporter was informed that he had always satisfactorily falElled his duty as signalman, in which capacity he had been for many ),ears. He and his wife had eiglat children, and had 15een married about 14 years. Their eldest child is a .o,l•Tbged 13, who was sleeping at her grandmother's on •Sunda,y night. This morning he was ready to set out firi'vvork, his lamp was lit, and he was fully dressed. The neighbours all .speak well of him, and of his wife and family, and their wonderment at the event almost rivals their sorrow and sympathy—which is naturally intense—for no circumstances yet to light can supply ../:, A MffITFR