The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-04-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING MURDER BY A MADMAN. A BISHOP ATTACKING THE FREEMASONS A terrible occurrence took place in Dublin on The latest news from Rio states that the Bishop of Sunday morning. A labourer, named Philip M'GibPara continues his attacks upon Freemasons. Ile has try, aged twenty-six years, a hunchback, attacked publicly stated that the cemetery has been pollute I hie sister, a girl of seventeen years of age, while she by the burial of seine members of the craft—an aii- was in bed, and cut her throat from ear to ear with nun-, loot which caused great excitement. The a razor. Death was instantaneous. The unfortunate Minister of the Empire., on being interpellated on the an immediately after went to the landlord of his subject, said that the Government awaited official re- house, and told him what he had done, and that he ports respt iiting the proceedings of the bishop. had committed the murder in order to save his soul, Should the bishop.. assail the right of the State, the anol that it should have been done before. The man Government would urge Parliament to pass measures, .A 4 arrested, and made the statement to the police. .iutlicri,ing civil marriage, the secularisation of tern".- [tic stated that the prisoner, who is the son of a pubtries. and eivil ,gistration, and granting to prie,its !icon, is suffering from religious minia. Scraps of the right of al pcal against the episcopal deeree of vapor were found on the prisoner showing that he suspension. The Goosrninent were not at present had contemplated the murder for sonic time. disposed to bring forward any belle on these mattera but they would support any independent measures introduced with those obji ctn. On Sunday evening the attendant at the Whitehall Swiinnung Bath, distant almut a mile from Canterbury, discovery the dead body of a man in the water. The following extraordinary letter has been for- It vies speedily landed, and ascertained to be that of warded to the Chief Constabie of Lancashire a youth named Williams, who had quitted his hen.' Pessilra I,i46sar,, Al" 2, 1079- on the previous Mu day since whkh time nothing "Sir—Mrs. Cock, the moth, of Police-ciaistahli auild be ascertained as to his whereabouts. A letter rock (who was shot by Moe) insists on having s found upon the person of the deceased, in which was lot, written to you. The old lady has very natur- -•losed a leek of hair, reads thus :—"Monday, March ally fern greatly excited by the confession 4 Peace, 31. Dear mother, --Give father my coat my kind he, Ili late. In fact, so much 30 that she really be love to dear Diey, and love to Annie, and to my dear lieves that her son has appeared to her. Of course it mother. God has forgiven me.—W. W. Williams." arises from the force of imagination, produced by the The sequel of the sad affair seems to be that Wilixcitiment caused by late events, and I cannot my' Int.., who was just peventeen years of age, and an :elf see the good of troubling you any further in the ~,,.ntke to a weaeer,harir, two year, sore to serve, I t &air, and I merely write to quiet the old lady 0110 teidftcrsome time been engaged to a voting per.on if you could find time to write to the old lady ti whom he was desirous of shortly marrying. This tenure her that everything that could possibly In his parents objected to and quitting his home on lone for her son was attended to—in fart, anything akialay, Ckth w A he %ea, „ever „eon „live. you may think will help to ialm her present excite. ment. ine of our local papers reportedthat SINGITIAR RE r C