The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1890-09-18 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

TEAD. On Saturday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, Walter James Lyons, aged twenty, a machinist in the Royal Arse, al at Woolwich, living at 32, Conway Road, Plums'end, went home find found his mother (a widow) had gone to lied and left the house in darkness. SUFI (14`ting something wrong, lie procured a light, and o °tarring his mother's bcdroom found there with her a qu'irtermaster-sergeant in the artillery, named bte wnrt, stationed at Worlivi• li Barracks. A violent altercation took_place betweea the son, mother, awl Stewart. The two latter got up, lett the house, aud walked into Griffin Road, a street aiijoiuing. Not retaining to the house, the sm went out at halfpact one on Satu-day morning to look for them. He found them together in Griffin Road. Another violent altercation ensued, resulting in young Lyons stabbing Stewart in the chest with a butcher's knife, which he bronolit from his home. The knife penetrated nine inches and entoed the heart. S • iv..rt fell upon the spot, dying alruost immediately. Mr. Reavell,. principal foremsn in the Royal Laboiatory, who WU returniug home late, saw the knife glitter by the gaslight, and went to the spot end procured help. The son was •pprehended by Serjeaut French, who took him to Woolwich Police Station, where lie WMs charged with murdering Stewart. He made a statement that his motive for the deed was his arong disapproval of Stewart's conduct. The knife was secured, and the body of tile murdered man conveyed to the parish mortuary. It is said the wldow and the aerjeaut were to have been married on Sunday. Mrs. Lyons says that when her son came in to her bedroom she told him that Stewart was going to be her husbaud.—The wife of a moulder, named Johnson, states that as she WU passing down Griffin Road she heard an altercation, and young Lyons said, "1 will do it, mother. I said I would the first time I caught you." Ile then stabbed Stewart in the breast with a knife, and withdrew the weapon, when the deceased reeled and fell. Mrs. Lyons exclaimed, " Oh, Walter ! oh, Walter !" and stooped down and undid deceased's tunic. She was trying to stop the blood, when Stewart said, "Never mind me; look to yourself." —Francis Denny Hamilton, a surgeon, who was called up, statue that lie was of ()onion that the heart was severed nearly in two, and that death was 'mused almost instantaneously. The murder, happening as it did in a very tespectable neighbourhood, has caused a profound seusatiou.—At Woolwich Police Court, on Saturday afternoon, Walter James Lyons was charged with the murder. The court was crowded with soldiers and others. Police-sergeant Rolph, 1311, said: "This morning, at half-past one o'clock, I was in Plumateed Road in company with Constable 470 R,wheu we heard screams ot a woman in Griffin Road. We went to the spot, and saw several men standing in the road, and the deceased 1111111 lying on the ground near the middle of the roadway. The prisoner came to me with the knife produced in his hand. (the sergeant held up a butcher's knife with a blade eight inches bug.) The prisoner said to me, "1 stabled him ; there is the knife." The deceased, who was fully di eased in regimentals, was quite dead. I told the prisoner I should take him into custody for °aunts the death of the man, aud be said, "All right. I stahbed him, and I know my doom." He appealed to have had a glass of drink, bat he knew perfectly well what he was doing.—Piisoner, being asked it he had anything to say, answered "No." A man in court wished to speak on behalf of the prisoner, but was not permitted to do so, the magistrate retrial kintr that nothing could avail the prisoner met this stage of the oase.—Lyons was then remanded.