Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1870-01-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SOUTH STOCKTON.WAGES IN THE IRON TRADE.—'fhe Board of Arbitration nod Conciliation for the North of Borland held the first annual meeting at the Nlrchanics lintitute, South Stockton, on Mondsy Mr David Dole was reelected presidera, Mr John Itidge vice-piesi tent. and Mr John Jones and' Mr John IC roe secrets 'its. Vqtes of thanks were passed to the officers for their sere:nes during the post ye:tr. The boat aftsrwards prreseded to corsider. the question. :4 advsnce roes, adj rurned from the meeting on Thursday last. Chloral:4y it was unanimously agreed to invite Mr Thom in IfUghell, ti. P., to act as referee ; ant a raw:lotion %CIS It Inoel binding troth masters aud men to abide by this decision, pending which the uren are to c:mtiose at wo It at 5 per cent. advance, it being undrrstood that it he award any additional allOaat shall lie considered as coarn Ita euei from the 14  A TRAGEDY IN NEW lIRtINSWICK.  A very remarkable murder trial has just ended at St. John, in the province of New Brunswick. The accused, who had been tamd guilty of the murder of hii mistress and his child, Was a leading architect of that e ty, "a young married man held in the highest est 11111ttion, who moved in the best circles, whose reputation was unblemished, and was rapidly accumulatiog wealth." Ma name is John A Mu ,roe. List September some children, while gathering berries in the woods neir St. John, found in a lonely spot what seemed to be the remains of a woman and a young child. The coroner was notified, and a search of the locality resulted in flailing the skull of an adult, several ribs, thigh and I,g bone., a roll of hair, and some portions of the clothing of a woman. The remains had been covered by boughs and moss, but they had been found by wolves, wh'eh had eaten or carried away the larger pecan,. Tile skull of an infant was also found, and a p trawl Of a clidd's foot in a little stocking. Suspicion at first fell upon a man named Kane, whose wife had diaappeart.d. Ile was arrested, but presently he established his inneeence. A pickman named Worden then remembered that in the previous October, eleven months before the remains were discovered, he had on two occasions taken n atonal, and her child to the , neighbourhood where the remains were found, and that on the second OCCAS'OII Mr Munroe, alp) had accompanied them, returned alone. A skilful and secret inquiry disclosed the fact that two years beane this Munroe had seduced an orphan girl, named Margaret Vail, living in a village near St. John. She had borne him a child, and had soon afterwards left her village with her child and had not since been seen or heard of. Iler sisters made no i Ltpiry after her, believing that she had wholly "gone to the bad." Bat it now Caine out that in October, 1868, this girl and her child arrived at an hotel in St. John, where Monroe met them and took them away on Worden'a hack. As in the Ttopptnatin ease, so in this; when Monroe had nearly reached the spot where he had proposed to kill his victims he took them from the hack, bade the driver wait for his return, and led them into the woods. Ile returned alone in half an hour ; told Wordeu that the WOMBII soil her child had remained with some friends at an adjoining house, and h ud himself driven back to the city. The sisters of Miss Vial identified the hair, the teeth in the skull, the clothing, and a bandage made for the child ; and it was proved lhat Munroe had a pistol, the ball of which would make a wound like the one in the skull. The defence if Munroe was very Weak; he admitted the seduction of the girl, but claimed that ,he was now in the United States; and the jury found him guilty, recommending him, however, in consideration of his rormer good character, to the clemency of the Crown. _