Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1892-03-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

IXF.N.CIsII VOR rims; he wanted a bit of work. lie was doing it, he told me, for an old gentleman who bad taken the plaixt, and he was commissioned- to put the floors end everything in order, because the old gentlemen had some valuable carpets, and the cracks betwee a the rags would out theca. When f went into the house the passages sod kitchen woes tinged over. When he engaged me he asked, "Do you understand mixing cement?" I said" Yes." He said "1 will pay you well." By his directions I mixed it very good, but when we had laid over about half the kitchen floor he told me I most use more sand, as we were getting through too much cement, and the old gendlewan might grumble at the coat. I used more sand, and mixed the cement poorer. We finished both floors, and then he asked nie to get a man to " skim " and level it for him nicely. I asked Walter Benson, a plasterer, when he was out of work. There were throe cement barrels, two full and one empty. I could not see what he hod done with the cement that was in the empty barrel, lie had need it somewhere, and had mixed it in the stable, but no place had been cemented either inside the homes or out. Walter Benson, the plasterer, said he was • engaged by Williams on Tuesday, the 4th of August. He gave me 5. and Is for lowetice and drinks. Benson started at a quarter to tem the same merging, and finished between two and three o'clock in the afternoon. Mr Williams had done the first court. The floors of the breakftwit-room, kitoheti, and passage were done over in this way. The work seemed all right,. There was no smell. A lady who lives in the neighbourhood of Dinham Villa says that she remembers well the occasion on which Williams returned to Rainhill lifter a brief honeymoon trip. 'rhe newlymarried couple came out one afternoon, the bride brimming over with joy and Williams having all the sire of a man who was conscious of having made a great conquest. They went to Dinham Villa, entered by the front door, which Williams unlocked, gracefully standing aside inviting his bride to enter. Mrs Williams walked in with a deinty footstep, tucking up her gown. Williams followed, and proceeded to the drawing-room, and then along the lobby to the kitchen, underneath which the bodies were embedded in cement. lie was in a very happy fremeof mind, and commenced ,to shuttle his Wei and  110 • LITTLR ON THII FLAG beneath which the murdered women and children lay. He was in an irrepressibly humorous vein, and told • good story to his bride, awl they were both heard to giggle and laugh unrestrainedly. It was said at the tone that afteir all "Miss Mather" had ma& a very good match, as she was" so" happy. The couple wen afterwards seen to leave by the front door and walk away arm in arm, Williams smoking a claw in • very cool way, paling out the smoke from his lips in big whiffs, as he were enjoying his -Havana immensely. A gentleman in the village says Williams was 011iellialii0Us in his display of • stiletto with • hosulif ally jewelled hilt, and of the possession of which ho pretended to ho extremely proud, as it had cost hint "Iwo hours hard fighting," and he aUlaiiAtni ;144 ho ulloeed the blood to remain