The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-03-10 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CHARGE OF MURDERING A NURSE.  At the Nottingham Amite', on Monday, before Mr. Justice Hawkins, Walter Smith, machinist, was indicted for the murder of Catherine Mary Cross, a young hospital nurse, on December 2. Prisoner occupied some rooms in • Nottingham factory, where he was engaged in perfeoting a Chenille machine which he rad invented. The deceased, who was 25 years of age, had been employed at the Hospital for Women at Liverpool, and on November 26 she went to Nottingham on a visit to her motker. She was then net acquainted with the prisoner, but she knew his mother, upon whom she called during her stay in Nottingham, and was then introduced to the young man. He asked her to go the factory to use his machine, and it was arranged that she should do so on Saturday, December 2. On the previous day prisoner par. chased a revolver at a Nottingham gunsmith's. On the Saturday morning at 11.20 Miss Oross and Smith were seen to enter the latter's rooms at the factory together. Shortly before 1 o'clock the other tenants of the factory heard three shots fired, and then the girl was seen deseending the stairs of the factory. The door of the prisoner's rooms opened outwards, and from the displaoement of the look it was evident that tie girl had had to burst it open to escape. She wee bleeding, and the front of her dream was torn. She was taken to a neighbouring house, and from thence to the hospital. Meanwhile prisoner was seen to leave the factory, and walk quietly away. He was subsequently arrested. At the hospital the girl's decositions were taken, the prisoner being present She stated that when Smith shot her he said, "Your money or your life," and she thought it was fan. He fired three shots, but she thought only one struck her. They had had no words, and she could give no reason for his shooting her. On being asked if he had any question to put, the prisoner said the pistol went off by accident. The doctor found it necessary to perform an operation of tracheotomy, but the girl died on the following Wednesday. • post-mortem examination revealed the fact that the bullet had passed through the windpipe and gullet and lodged in the spine.—The case was not coneluded when the court rose.  Daring a football match between Cheshunt second eleven and Ware, on the ground of the former, the secretary of the Chinhunt club broke I one of his legs. The game was at once stopped. A player named Gilder also had the misfortune te fall and break one of his legs while playing for the Norsh.end Rangers against Preston, in the anal round for the cup given by the BrighWa Foothill Association, on the county ground, Hove. A proposal has just been revived to oonnect the east and west coasts of SJothind by means of a Forth and Clyde Canal sufficient to carry the largest ocean steamers and vessels of the royal navy. The Edinburgh Merchants' Association have issued a circular inviting Scotch Town Councils, Chambers of Commeroe, and others interested, to send representatives to meet in Edinburgh In April next to try and lost the =home.