Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-09-21 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ALTON MURDER—The prisoner Baker, since his incarceration in Winchester Gaol, is described SS very talkative. He frequently refers to the murder, and says that he wonders who could commit such a dreadful crime. His own conscience, he adds, is quite hopes that the guilty man will be found out. He appears very attentive to his religious duties, and is very fond of conversing with the chaplain. The hope in Mr. Clialcraft's garden, where the horrible crime was perpetrated, were begun to be picked on Thursday, and the police are rather sanguine that the clearing of the garden may lead to the di, covery of the weapon with which the crime was committed. A large number of persons, actuated by a morbid taste for the horrible, still continue to visit the scene of the sad tragedy. A DREADFUL AFFAlR.—Another frightful attempt at wife murder was made on Saturday miming in London. A man named Bishop, living in White' chapel, went home about three o'clock in the morning, in nnf owbwnpnr:edit heard, ipt,hnoerleal f:anordewdgreati, btibtiopntwuanehstnthaaoti riEpacertmei Tarr.: ceexhi hlsacwieyofnEß7h.ilieif Orendstwdrdehki ier6ww htnlafhhoecadTtb—ttul acme running infant d Aitboairuo,ntuhimuthlgr ate: reahrlsirft,rrte, yi:gf:eiarimhe hishruiy:tmenn to gtis What .doud dwr doorwshhdi a r. eh:e:ri eetrrt., not immediately fatal, and she was conveyed to the an and did not detly his guilt. He was : crehhmlealirrp,...d'llin:aeLinNleedKrd;rihone abnilidty.ouf wmsl ni,foed le of eg-i ling an apothecar.7" proposed the other bltVed him, somewhittt' garnossll;gliti'd:pinslir's'r, but to inuhnaPwdai gly at first. Looking at soMe medical preparations exposed at the Exhibition by a certain chemist, whose love for the work a his hands such as to nail hint by them all dayown wad, one of her  Majesty's dragoon majors happened to remark to his friend that all the exhibited articles were rot, end that he would do, &c. &c. better. The chemist, who apparently understood "de Engleeeh language," wad so furious at this ignorant wholesale depreciation that he reveal, d himself as the manufacturer of the chesnieal produots exhibited, and asked the gallant officer in hat he meant. The valiant Major did not feel inclined to reply, probably because Le WI" cot Ruda sure of what he meant. Th. Frenehman then mad. use of hard words, the Englishman of his hat ; hence a I meeting at Vincennee. Both parties and their witnesses arrived on the fatal emit in due titne. The English officer prodused every species of arms, fri on a dagger to a converted rifle, and called upon his adversary to select whichever arm he pleased. The chemist, true to the last to his profession, declined, and called upon the Englishman to select whichever he pleased from two pills which he presented to him--the one contained enough arsenic to kill an ox on the spot, the other was a bread pill and harmless. The idea struck the major as so ridiculous that, catching hold of the chemist's arm, he walked off with him, and the principals and seconds were dining together the same evening at Goussees in the Jardin Reserve.  AN