The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1867-11-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BRUTAL HERDER IN STAFFORDSHIRE. On Saturday morning a murder was discovered at Moxley, near to Wolverhampton. Mousy is about four miles from Wolverhampton, on the direct road to Birmingham, and is made up of collieries and ironworks, and of the homes of the ironworkers and miners. At about eight o'clock on Friday evening, Either, aged 85, the wife of Moses Bagott, furnaceinau at the Monway Ironworks, belonging to Messrs. Marshall, of Mosley, took her husband's supper and delivered it to his assistant at the gate of the works. On her way home she called at a beer. hoase and drank a pennyworth of ale, and at nine o'clock, when nearer to her home, she passed a neighbour, bade her good night, and said she was in haste. Her husband returned home at two, and sought her in vain at her mother's house. At daylight he went one way and his father another, both seeking her. At eight o'clock the father was called to, as he paned along the high road, by three boys, who said, " Here, master, here's 4 woman I" Lying dead in a shallow subsidence in an old colliery field, not 50 yards from the roadside, open to it and nearly level with it, Moses Bagott, senr., was shocked to find his son's wife, whom he was seeking. Her clothes were disordered and her features were much disfigured with blood, which seemed to have escaped from the mouth and nostrils. There was a great deal of effused clotted blood and mucus about the mouth ; there were abrasions about the lower jaw alike on the right and the left side, and also about the chin. On the left side of the throat, too, there was an abrasion, such as a fingernail would produce; and there were slight abrasions on each hand. The body was removed to a neighbouring inn, and superficially examined by Mr. W. H. Hancox, surgeon, of Bilston, who describes the appearances as above, and gives as the opinion lie has formed as the cause of death, that it was produced by violent compression of the mouth and nostrils. Upon the high road, only forty-seven yards from the place where the boys accidentally found the body, there was a considerable quantity of blood, and both there, also around the body, and between it and the spot where the blood was lying there were distinct traces of a desperate struggle having recently taken place. Whilst it is true that one of the pockets of the deceased was turned out, still the object of her murder could scarcely have been plunder, for she had a watch in the bosom of her dress secured by a chain round her neck, which was still there when she was found. The face of the watch was broken, and the deceased's bosom was much bruised as if she had been trodden upon. She was a robust, well-built woman, and was evidently able I. offer a vigorous resistance to the assassins who took her life. Some time ago she summoned her husband before the magistrates, and after that they lived apart for a time, and they have only recently come together again. The police of the Staffordshire constabulary, under Captain Holland, are investigating the occurrence ; but at present they are without any clue likely to lead to the apprehension of the perpetrators of this outrage. It will have been observed that the surgeon's examination having at present been only superficial, the first object of the murderers can only be supposed from the condition in which the poor woman was found, and the means which were resorted to to de-1 price her of life.