Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-03-21 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ALLEGED MURDER OF A GUARDSMAN. At the Westminster Police-court, on Monday, Patrick Duffey, a private in the Ist Battalion *'cots Guards, stationed at Chelsea Barracks, and Thomas Rushton, a private in the Medical Staff Cerrs of Vincent-square Hospital, were charged with kilfing Ernest Watts, a private in the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, outside a public-house in St. Ann'sstreet, Westminster, late on Saturday night. Roth the prisoners gave their age as 22 years.—Frederick Cresswell, a private in the Grenadier Guards, deposed that at about 11 o'clock on Saturday night he was in the Three Elms public-house, St. Ann'sstreet, with his comrade Watts. Duffey was there, and a man in the uniform of the Medical Staff Corps; but he could not swear it was Rushton. There was a fight between two civilians,and Duffey pushed one of the men. Watts said that he should not have done it, and witness told Watts to keep quiet. Watts sat down for about a quarter of an hour, and then walked over to Duffey with the idea, of making friends. Duffey said that they might as well go outside and have it out. Watts said that he did not want any bother. Duffey and the . Medical Staff Corps man then rushed at him, knocked him out through the door, so that he fell just outside. As soon as he was down Duffey gave a run and kicked him whilst he was on the ground, somewhere abogt the bead. Witness went to pick Watts up, and Duffey kicked him (witness) on the right shoulder. He fell down, and some civilians picked him up. As he got up he went to look after the prisoner Duffey, and saw that he was running away down Great Peter-street. A policeman came and took Watts on a stretcher to Westminster Ilospital.—ln answer to the magistrate, the witness said that he saw the Medical Staff Corps man kick Watts after Duffey had kicked him.—Mr. Alexander Cato, senior house physician at Westminster Hospital, said the soldier was brought to the hospital at a quarter to 12 on Saturday night. He was brought in dead, and must have expired at least a quarter of an hour previously. He was unable at present to state the cause of death. The external injuries on the body were not sufficient to cause death. The external injuries he noticed were a contused and lacerated wound on the left side of the chin, with very little bleeding. There was another small wound on the right side of the upper lip, and a deep bruise on the right side of the neck. That was the only injury which could have caused death. The other two wounds were not sufficient.—The prisoners were remanded in custody until Saturday.  Mrs. Frederick Neihausmyer, a young married woman, living at Lima, Ohio, became insane over the continued illness of her baby. She took the infant from its bed, rushed to an open; cistern and lumped in. Both were drowned. The Bishop of Truro publishes a contradiction cif the statement that has been made to the effect that be has resigned his see. On Satin-Clay, John Page, 62, Charles Wool, 63, and James Gribbon, 72, N...as charged on remand, before the Lord Mayor, with loitering for the supposed purpose of committing a felony.—On the 6th inst., the prisoners were observed by three City detectives loitering about the City and entering different banks apparently without having genuine 1 business for doing so. At one bank the three men ! were seen to surround a gentleman, who was trapsacting business over the counter, and upon their ' leaving they were confronted by the officers 820 irrested.—Prisoners were each sentenced to three inouthe hard labour. - ' •