The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1870-04-01 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MIJRDIII.  a rasa, n& slaunisr of  Saturday. i for the  .....uniktjblin Hight, whe of the lifahaxejah Duleep ilineries property lies near _.alls, where there is a belt of on one side by arable land and furze a good deal of game. On the 31st • was seen to enter this belt between .r in the afternoon. He was expected , six, but as he did not make his appeara weal made for him, and his body was 1 and stiff in a part of the belt of wood, pqd *found that he had died from fearful vie.ob,ir r head was beaten in, and a.pool of blood .719.1 • - about sixty yards from the spot where A beds lap. The body had been partially word np, The pewter and a young man, named H 1 tr, wive apprehended on the cha-ge of murder, :§nt Beim'sras called sea witness for the Crown. gave the following evidence as to the death of the gamekeeper :—" Rutterford and I were talking about going ouii when the keeper came up. When we sew him, ire both tried to run away. A bough *not:kelt rt cap, and as I stooped down to pick it up • caug t hold of me. Rntterford then ran up, askedliim what he meant by holding of me, and struck him on the arm. The keeper let go of me, and ran backwards, and then Rutterfordfollowed him up and hit him on the head. The keeper said he knew Rutterford, and Rutterford said he knew him. The'blow knocked him down. We both ran to the Oy• I sac • Let us both run away.' He said. 'No ; I mean to make a clean job of this.' I said, rli ran away.' He said, 'lf you do, I'll serve you the same way. If we are caught we shall get trans. ported.' We both went back, and Ruttsrford hit him on the head with the muzzle-end of the gun. I begged him to let Hight alone. He then took the tan out of the stock and gave it to me, and hit Hight with the breach end of the barrel. While we wire looking for his cap the man groaned. Re went and put some leaves and grass over his face. Pie took hold of the keeper's heels and dragged him pretty well up to the gap. He went back a few yards trom where Plight lay, and covered up the blood."— The prisoner was convicted; and Mr. Justice Byles pasted sentence of death. The learned Judge described the crime as a very barbarous one.—Sinem the prisoner has been in custody he has made several ingenious attempts to escape. On one occasion be made a formidable weapon by twisting together the handles of two cans, with which he managed to remove five or six bricks from the wall of his cell. He was subsequently placed in irons, and nothing was left in his cell but a wooden spoon. He managed, however, to make out of this a key which would unlock the irons, and for several days before it was discovered he had been in the habit of taking his irons off at night and putting them on again before the warders came to the cell.  office. Yarmouth.  fount grw O.  appo-ini Saturday was formerly vicar of Great W 9.13 received by the Metropolitan that two young girls, aged 15 and 16, had, from some unknown cause, left the house of their parents at ' Euston  , The Queen has had a telegraphic wire connected ,perth. An or appeared at the square with Windsor Castle, and a few days since Her MaStation, and at the time appointed by the telegram jesty sent a message to Prince Arthur and went for met the two girls, when they were conveyed to the a walk on the slopes. There was an answer on the station-house. Neither had any property, exceptQueen's return. Of course all mesaages give Place ,ing a few shillings and wearing apparel, in their to the Royal cypher. 'possession. They are supposed to have been deluCONVICTION OF A