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The Herald of Wales. — 1888-08-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON A LOVER.  AN ARMED FOOTPAD ABROAD. A sensational attempt at highway robbery . was made on Wednesday night in Lamp Lane, , iliandswerth. At About half-past nine a yout.: man named George Henry Jaoksont ernploy, as a chaser, and living at 182, Windmill Lane, imethwicl4 was walking with a young lady named Miss Watts, along the lane, from the direction of Sandwell Park. When they g.e within twenty or thirty yarde from the juneticri of the New Inns Road with Camp Lane, th,y saw a man walking tower& them. The fellow was in the middle of the road, and upon coming up to them be suddenly pointed • revolver full in the face of Jackson, and said, "Your purse! your purse." Mies Watts *creamed, while her companion, who carried a Kick, mired it to beat down the threatening weapon, saying as he did op, "Wait a bit." But before he could use his stick him a-sailent fired. Tle• bullet went through the bioeps muscle of Jitolisou'r left arm. The would-be-robber then rushed by and ran up the lane in the direction of Sandwell-park. Mimi Watts' scream and the r,.. port of the pistol attracted the attention of two or three pereons who were walking sonie dietattoo in front. They turned back, and were met by Jackeon ad Mies Watts. The former had his coat off and blood was streaming from the wound in his arm. The news of the outrage was at once oonveyed to the Handtiworth Police Station,and Sergeant Bishop and Polls, constable W. Myatt quickly reached the spot. , Myatt started up the lane in search of the man, • while Sergeant Bishop returnedto the statiou ! with Jackson, and having sent for ' Dr. Wt stop, despatched other constables! to aid Myatt in his pursuit No trace, however; could be found of the fugitive. Jaokison's wound proved not to be of an immediately dangerous character, and after being attended to at the police station the injured man went home with hie friends. Camp Lane L a favourite walk on summer evenings with residents in the Handeworth district, auci is especially favoured air a lovers' walk. There are no lamps in the lane, though it. continuation, Oxhill-road, and the adjoining throughfare, New Innieroed, are lights.]. There , was, however, a good light from the moon at the time of the outrage. The attack MN of a specially daring • character, inasmuch ae the man knew there , were other persons at hand. Another couple, who could not have been more than sixty yards away at the time, passed the man, as he wi.a standing under a tree, looking about him as if for some one he wee expecting to see. His appearance then wan reloaded as somewhat 811t1pleious. The man is described as being about five feet eight or nine iuchee in height, of average build, and apparently between thirty and forty years of age. From what could be seen of hie clothes, he had on a rather lightcoloured pair of trousers, a dark coat buttoned , closely up to the chin, and a dark scant . wrapped round the lower part of the face, to nearly hide his chin. It was also noticed that he had no hair on hie face with the exception of a dark moustache.
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-02-18 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WILKES' DUEL WITH LOUD TALBOT. I found Lord Talbot in an agony of pension. He said that I had injured, that I luul moulted him, tha: he was not used to be injured or insulted; what did I mean? Did I, or did I not, write "The North triton"? He would know; he insisted on a direct miniver; here were his pistols. I replied that he would soon use them, that I desired to know by what right his lordship catechised ins about a paper which did not bear my name. . . . His lordship insisted on finishing the affair immediately. I told him that I should very soon be ready, that I did not mean to quit him, but would' absolutely first eettle mine important business. After the waiter had brought pen, ink, and paper, I proposed that the door of the room might be locked; and not opened until our business was decided. Lord Talbot. on'this proposition, became quite cutrageous, deciared that this was mere butchery, and that I was a wretch who sought his life. I reminded him that I came there on a point of honour, to give his loidship satisfaction, that linenhoned the circumstance of locking the door only to prevent all possibility of interruption. He then said be admired tile exceedingly, really loved me, but I IVY an unaccountable animal—such parts !But would I kill him, who had never offended um ? &c. He soon after flamed out again, and said to me, "You are • murderer, you want to bill me; but I am sure that I shall kill you ;I know I shall. If you will fight, if you kill me, I hope you will be hanged. I know you Will." I asked if I was first to be kll4 and afterwards banged; that I knew his lordship fought me with the King's pardon in his pocket, and I fought him with • baiter about my neck; that I would fight him for all bast. . . . When I had sealed soy letter, I told Lord Talbot that 1 was en t irely at h is service, mid I again desired that we might decide the affair in the room because there could not be a possibility of interruption; but he was quite inexorable. He then asked me how many times we shorlu fire. I said that I left it to his choice; I had I rought a flask of powder and a beg of bullets- Cur r...onde then charged the pistols which my. lord had brought. We then left the inn and walk..d to a garden at some distance from the house. It was near seven, and the moon shone very bright. We stood about sight yards distant, and agned not to turn round before we fired, but to continue facing each other. Harris gave the word. Both our fires were, in very exact time, but neither took effect. I waked up immediately to Lord Talbot and told hint that now I avowed the paper. His lordship paid me the highest encomiums on my courage, and said h, ti-old declare everywhere that I Was the notien fellow G.,.t tool ever made .—The Life and Times of ..7,hn Wiara M.P., Lercl Mayor qf Leedom, and Chamberlatn. iy Percy Fitzgerald. AN
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-04-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE NEW THEATRE.  This week Mr Melville has, at his theatre In Wind•street, Mr Alfred G. Raymond's company, who produce the well-known drama " Shadows of Life," of which Mr Alfred Shirley is tde author. The story is interesting, and the plot has been well arranged. An opera singer named Marie Zorn declares falsely that Wynford, a young artist, is her husband. The former is murdered, and the latter arrested for the crime. He is soon released, and his place taken by Silas Lamonde, an adventurer, who, claiming to be the father of Wynford's wife, had always been extorting money from her By a clever ruse, Lamonde escapes from prison, but is followed and tracked down by A detective to an old and otherwise uninhabited house, where the adventurer has taken refuge. An exciting scene ensues, in which the detective, having crept in silently to the murderer's den, watches him crawl on hands and knees to a corner, from whence he takes out • diamond necklace, recognised immediately by the dereetive as the one missed from Zora's room after her murder. Being thus fully satisfied of the guilt of Lsmonde, the detective springs forwards and attempts to arrest him. A terrible struggle ends in the death of the detective, who receives a fatal stab. Meanwhile Gerald Wynford's wife, ignorant of his release is doing all she can to obtain freedom for her husband. With this purpose she has even venture', in response to a note, upon visiting Lamm ,le. She now appears, and when the ads, I,i Ur& fails to bring her to consent to his ter:A, be threatens to take her life also. 17.1 rald suddenly turns up, and a duel with takes pace between him and Lamonde. Fierce and protracted is the terrible iontest. until untimatell virtue triumphs and the adventurer's career is brought to an abrupt termination. Then follows the denouement, when all is explained—the innocence of Wynford and the crime and duplicity of Lamonde, who is preyed uot to have been the father of Mrs Wynford, and to have been the murderer of Zora. Mr George H. Hazlehurst, in the °hammer of Gerald Trreford, makes a very popular hero, and Miss Bella F. Stewart acts fairly well the part of a loving and courageeus wife. Mr J. Frederick Powell, as Silas Lameride, is distinctly a success, but there is room for considerable improvement,— a remark which applies in a lesser degree to Miss Stirling's Marie Zora. Abundant amusement is provided by the quaint charecter and remarkable "get up" of Moses Mc.daron, a Jew jeweller. This somewhat difficult part finds a most effective exponent in Mr Alfred G. Raymond, who manages to raise a laugh whenever he opens his mouth.  The Marquis of Bath, speaking at Salisbury on Wednesday, expressed Ilia fear that the new Ccunty Counctl's business would be left too entirely in the hands of noisy and talkati,e I members. - .  Some cattle belonging. to a shopimeper Banal John Clancy, at Miltown Milb, 2a(i their tails out off on Tuesday night,
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-01-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ALLEGED ILLEGAL DETEN TION IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM. r Mr Smyth, solieitor' made a statement at Westminster Poliee Court on Tuesday, relative to a complaint made on Monday, by an actrees, who alleged that her husband was debined in a private lunatic asylum. Mr Smyth stated that , the wife, by whom he was instructed, was not I in a lowly position of life, for she was the widow lof a deceased officer, and sister of a solicitor. She was acquainted with Mr Lloyd, her husband, two years before marriage. She is 26 years of age and her husband over 35, and he is quite capable of knowing his own mind. Mr Lloyd seemed to have indulged heavily in stimulants, and brought himself to such a state that it appeared desirable to keep him under restraint for a short time. Mr Smyth bad an interview of an hour's duration with him on Monday at the asylum, and he declares him to be entirely recovered, and anxious to regain his liberty. Smyth laid the matter before th;lCommissionea of Lunacy on Moaday, and the ordered an immediate examMation of Lloyd.  is I There must be a secret thrill of gratification k Sootland-yard over the way in which the French police are fooling around and bungling lite job of looking for the murderers of poor McNeil. Malay a time hoe the ~uperior skill of Vie French detective been flauutod in the ab.lidwhiskered faccs of our home-mansfactured crime trackers, end they he* eat mutely and pondered 4n their honest souls, over what they heard. Stoic. of the marvellous acumen, and the extraordinary captures of the French police have been 'brown at them by people who had read their Gliborian and edited I.lsecoq the Detective" up to date. The story of the great robbery of bonds in Faris illustrates, for the benefit of thieves in general, the danger of having oonfederates who are stupid. An offieial in the Ministry of Finance stole the bonds, amounting to about £12,000, and gave thelll to four different agents to dispose of, imorder that suspicion might not be aroused by the chaaging of too large a sum at once. The first agent went on Monday last to the cffioe of M. Schwartz, a money-changer of the Rue Vivienne, and got the value of his bonds. Agent No. 2 went on ;the same day to the same office for tie same purpose ; No. 11 followed snit, and No; 4 brought up the rear. The numbers of the debentures they showed formed one unbroken s quence, and the suspicion of M. Schwartz was aroused. hie paid Nos. 2 and 3, and told No. 4 to return next day for his money. Meanwhile he had the first three agent. watched, and found that they all met next day in a public-house. They were arrested. No. 4 war caught when he came to the office for his money, and he split on the original thief, who will probably know better than to employ fools next time he eteals.  LTNUI CATHARTIOUM PI LLB, • pleasant aperient, 9d. la. to. 94. Kay Bros, lA., Stock. port..
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-09-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE INQUEST RESUMED.  AN OCEAN EOM ANZIE OF TO-DAY. The Queenstown ourreapondeut of th Central News telegraphs particulars of extraordinary tale of the sea which have beat furnished by Captain Evans, of the British barque Mona, whieh arrived off Qaeenstown harbour from Rangoon on Timed ay morning for lorders. Soon after leaving Rangoon. on SunI day, April 27th, inlet. 6.43, long 9.30, a boat waa sighted tying signals of distress. The Mona bore down upon the craft which was found to contain six men—foto Italians, one Malay, and an Englishman named Adred J. Hamilton, of Bristol. All were in • most emaciated and exhausted conlition,having been 35 days at sec in an open boat, and they had to be hoisted on board the Mona by means of ropes. With proper treatment they 110011 recovered, but their conduet soon arou.ed muspitien. They would net mix with the Mona's ores, but conversed with sash other in mysterious whispers. Finally, they seemed to agree upon a tale, and informed Captain Evans that they belonged to the Italian barque Fratellenze, of Genoa, from Sourabaya for Queenstowi., for orders. They stated they abandoned their camel in • sinking condition at the cod of March, in two boats, that soon after leaving, the chief mate stabbed a Malay seaman, and threw the body overboard before life was extinct, and that the other boat, eontaining the captain, chief mate, ' and seven men, deliberately deserted them during the night. While questioning one of the men, Captain EVIIIIM noticed a single band of an iron handcuff on his wrist, and that one of the links had been filed off not very long previously. This, and other suspicious circumstances, induced Captain Evans to believ that • mutiny had occurred on board the Italian coact, though he did not feel himself competent to keep six men in irons on the long voyage to Queenstown, and he also doubted whether his proclaims would last out. He therefore determined to put the suspected mutineer. ashore somewhere. The Mena's oourse wan eoi sequently altered, and when near Anjer, one of ~he Nichare Maude, pc ..visions and water, and $ compass were put into • boat, and the suspects were ordered to leave. They made some show of resistance, but Captain Evans, who is a Welshman, armed himself with a revolver, which he threatened to use. The men then entered the boat, muttering curses and threats, and when last sees the boat was heading straight for the island mentioned, which is uninhabited. Captain Evan, is confident that the men are mutineers.  The inquest on Meg Ann Nioholls, who was found murdered in Book's-row, Whiteohapel, on Aug. 3lst, was resumed before Mr Wynne Baxter, on Monday afternoon. Dr EMiZI having given evidence as to the examination of the body, Mrs Emma Green stated she lived in Book's. row. She heard no unusual noise during the night, although she wee a light sleeper. Noisy people often passed through the street during the night. Further evidence was given, end the inquiry waa adjourned until Saturday next.  A
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-02-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MIIRDSII. William John Lewis was next called. He said he was the son of John Lewis, of Waterstreet, Llanelly. He was in a field near the wicket gate on the 12th Nov. He saw the prisoner now in the dock walking back and fore. He was sure that the prisoner was the saao he bad seen. There was a second man coming by the gate. He had with him a postman'e bag. Ono of the men whistled and (same up, and the two pulled deceased over the road into the fled, and chucked him over the hedge. He called " Murder" three times. They pulled him to the corner of the field, and then struck him with a hatchet or something of the kind. He saw only one blow struck, and while it was being struck deceased willed murder, and the other man out the strap of the bag with a pocket knife; and broke open the bag. Afterwards both men ran to the middle of the field, and then made off, one towards Dafen and the other in the direction of Capel Leaf. They threw the bag alongside the hedge before they ran into the middle of the field. Prisoner ran towards Bryngwynfach. Willie the crime was e,mmitted witness was standieg by the hedge a few yards off, and oould see everything that took place. The hedge was of hazel wood. After ho bade en the murder he ran through the fields to the Half Way. He went to his grandmother's and told her what be had seen. On the Sunday he was taken to the police station by Sergeant Evans. He was asked to pick out from among others the man whom he saw commit the murder and he eelectsd the prisoner. He did not know Rees before he saw him at the wicket gate. Lewis gave his evidence in Welsh with great clearness. The prisoner watched him very closely, and listened with apparent uneasiness. The Judge asked the lad if he could see the man who had killed Davies in the eourt. Turning round, the boy pointed to the dock and said, "There be is." Reim quailed under the lad's glance and looked down. By Mr. Bowen Rowlands : I saw no boys on thit's-wing irate or the style when I saw Rees end the dark man drag the deceased into the field. 1 crouched down in the ditch, aud afterwards climbed up to the top of the bank. I looked through the hedge into the fold where they dragged Davies. I never saw Rees or tbe dark man before the day of the murder. I did not know how the prisoner was dressed. Rees wore • cap. The hedge between me and the wicket was high, but I could see through it. Reee's back was towards me. I did not see the dark man's face. I heard people say a Dyn each" had been apprehended. I am sure Rees was the wan. I saw him kill Davies. (Sensation.)
The Herald of Wales. — 1890-03-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LONDON: THE TOWER. Mr. J. H. Jones thought betem not to touch calamities of thin kind occurred frequently. He t f the • - •works. wets presort from vermin The mentioned the fact that 121 persona bad met hart of the dock revenue.. Was goods from Er.gland have taken the place of a deal There is no place in the kingdom one would the matter just now as the owner of the pro'dente du • wee most pate:War subjects discussed were the pita dated that the labour of the of French and Swiss articles', and it is very evident deem more likely to be haunted than that Port)", Ildr• J. W. Ems• would certainly take their • a' wal '-' on xx at Clyne and the stop week. It ass the past 12 should contribute to the re. that much more pains and care are taken by English strange eionglomeration of rooms, mottles, and advantage of it.mouths. . end resolved that the Clyne millmeu and amelloare It was resolved to open a fund at Neath, harbour? If an it manufacturers. Light cloth of red colour Was dungeons, known as the Tower of London. For Mr. Bennet moved that the question be ad- . . • need tusk Mr. Smith to pay for the some The plea the following subscriptions were announced:- :eing shame that out fonnerly imported from Switzerland, bat it is now many centuries it had been the Beene of number- I.nrned• tee . Aldermen J. H. for the stop week from Aherdelais WM that Mrs. Gwyn, Duffryn„ end ranter who labours brought from England, colours being bright and i secendi leas deaths by violence, some by public erecn- Mr. J. H. Jones, n ug, edd that all Rowland, J.P , £lO 108. ; Alderman H. I'. they do not affect the market, owing to the ships should arise a „ lion and others by private murder, until it es over the country medical officers put red lampsworking of so much tilackplate, the Melia fast. Passag carpets are now beine imported he Charl .• M Hokin J £lO 105.; ea, £lO 10e. , apones, '1 the coffers of the pe„gle„d i °wed; le •• - - meanly metaphorical language to declare that over their prennses. the Mayor, £3 bs. • Mr. 3. E. Moore, J.P. w'wkernaking ni:' by at°Pqng three days M this , eceenc_ of the nco ra °quantities Goods of muted its wall. have been built out of human bones and The resolution was passed. a 5.. ; Mr. T. S. S:raton, J.P. £5 se. : Mr. B. "nth and air a ternate endals• The ClYee , fee.',. - wool and cotton are not so well made as them from the railings mthey, w • cemented by human blood. That ghosts awl In reference to tl at the station, it „ curffe; fonn clerk, a ee. ; Messrs. wig. have a written document 'Spied by Mr. Smith abroad, and, consequently, • small quantity comae spectres' have haunted its weird precinct, no Woe stated that nothing had yet been done in C. and Whiteley, solicitors, Neath, £5 5..; Mr. S. . P to en the first week in April. Theo Victoria n enneefees_ from England. believer in the supernatural can doubt; and, if the matter. T. Evans, M.P., £5 Os.; and Miss Place, ifi. will stop later on ; they are abont to alter some 4 that the
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-02-16 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MRS KENT. David Jones and his subordinate officers, About 12.30 I visited the Gto'ster Hotel, and rummaging every hole and corner where a was at once conducted into the kitchen. L person seeking to escape would be likely to presented alaturtmelanoholysight. IfisKentwae hide. Charles then went ashore and commeimed seated in • chair near the fire, and beside a tour of the yard, and as • last resource her were several relatives and friends of her entered a shed, in which the "hove" usually murdered husband. She bore evident trams take their breakfast, and in a hit' h there is a of the at mental agony she was experien- large range with an oven used for drying deg. Her eyes were sunken, and meth in- moulds for the foundry. "I don't know why I flamed by weeping, and ahe appeared to have looked in the range,' said Charles, "for it was completely exhausted herself. She stared about the last plum in the world that a fellow vacantly, and her mind was apparently in a would expect to see anyone, but I went, and moat unsettled state. I asked her if she there behind a earl of cement, I saw the would kindly furnish me with a few ugliest set of features I have ever met eyes particulars of die unfortunate coeurrence which upon. I said, Hallo ! So it's there you are she did, as follows: "My husband tad 1 slept is it, you black beast? Come out of that.' in the front room overhead the her. On Satyr- Before I had time to say any more day night, about midni tit, we retired. We he came out, and dropping on his knees, held noticed nothing unusual about the general up Lia hands in a begging fashion, and Trarawe of the room. About five o'clock cried "oh" ! I then caught hold of him by the raorning I heard something moving about, collar and shouted out ":Here he is," and the and then a match was struck. I awoke ray police tame up and took him out off my hands. husband, and told him that someone was in the The crowd which had gathered got very mom. He immediately get out of bed, and excited when they saw the ugly looking face of had no sooner done so than a struggle begea, the nigger, and if the police hadn't guarded It was quite clerk, and I struck a light, him he would have been tried by mob-law and saw n.y husband and a black man struggling, and summarily executed by lynch." They were struggling near the bedroom door. Mr Charles, it will be remembered, figured hook the pistol which my husband kept be- prominently in another Swansea tragedy—that math his pillow, and went to his for which Nash was condemned to die. It was aid. He reeled and staggered Charles who first saw the murderer come from backwards Into my terms, and I placed him on the Extension after be had dcue away with his the bed, and foiled that lie was bleeding little daughter, and detained bun until tho man freely from s severe wound on the neck. The Fender and his companions came up. black man was about leaving the room when I fired the pistol, and the Millet lodged In his MRS KENT'S NATIVE leg. He rushed down over the stairs, and I followed him. He got away from me, and I