npedrazzini/19thc_murder_suicide_news huggingface dataset:
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-04-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WOMAN TELLS A STRANGE TALE.  The two prisoners, Samuel and Caroline Broughton' man and wife, who had been com• mined by the coroner on a charge of the man• alauzhter of William Lee, were brought before the Mayor (Mr J. B. Bell) end other magistrates at Grantham, charged with having wilfully murdered the said William Lee. Some of the principal witnesses, who were examined before , the coroner, were called, after which Chief. Constable Harland went into the witness•box, and detailed thc followiug evidence :—On the 20th instant he went to the prisoners' residence, 2, Cambridge Place, and, on the footpath, close to the entrance, he raw ! a dark coloured brick covered with blood. He also found blood on a second brick, and elate of blood Ai a third. On going upstairs he noticed blood on the wall in several different places. Also in the bed room he found atreeks and etiarkes of 'blood. On Friday, he saw the female prisoner at the police station, when she said want to tell you all about it from beginning to end before I die, my heart is too full." He cautioned her in the usual manner, when she replied "I cannot keep it." She than described meeting the deceased, who stood her a drink. She took him hems, where he gave her half a sovereign to fetch some whisky and beer, which she did. Deceased was going downstairs, when he fell with his head on the floor. She saw he was senseless, so 6he took every copper he had out of his pockets. (Sensation.) Her husband and the children came in, and she milted her husband to curry the deceased, who still lay on the fluor, to 'Briggs's, where he lodged. Her husband did so, and when he came back she gave him three half sovereigns, Its in silver, and 9d in copper. She advised him to plant the gold in the pigeon-plans, and after putting it in a purse hi, did so, but on the Monday he took ft up again. The chief constable also statei that the male prisoner called him into the cell, and osid he would find him the money it he liked.He then ordrred a fly.and prisoner and himself drove up the Gornerby rood a short way, awl prisoner turned up borne turf and handed witness a paper, 'Alai contained five half .sovereigns. After returning to the Guildhall the female prisoner e.id she made the above statement under the belief that she was going to be hung. He told the male prisoner that Mrs. Broughton had made a statement, and he said he would read it to the male. prieoner. He then cautioned him in the usual manner, and after reading it the male prisoner said, " Yes; that is God's truth." The woman was known as a common prostitute, and the man did very little work of *any kind.—The prisoners were then formally, charged and oorn• muted intake their trial at te next sessions to be held it Lincoln, on the charge of wilfully murdering the said William Lee.
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-07-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CARD.—AN licroarsirr DISCOVERY IS announced is the "Paris Figaro" of • valuable remedy for nervous debility, physical exhaustion, and kindred complaints. The disoovery was mad* by a missionary is Old Mexico ; it saved him from • miserable existence and premature decay. The Bev. Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions, Blooms. bury Square, London, W. will send the prescription, free of oharg e, on receipt of an addressed stamped envelope. Mention this paper.  Prinoo Bismarck has received from an admirer in Stuttgart the trJaeut of • valuable yacht.  A Central News telegram from 'Paris, on Monday, says :—The result of the polling in the Ardeohe election is declared as follows : Beausesien, Opportunist, 39,500; Boulanger, 20,700. At Bolton, on Monday, a coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Magarst Davies, who threw a lighted paraffin lamp at Mrs. Donough, and set her on fire during a quarrel. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign office at half-past twelve on Monday.  The 'mond- field column left Aldershot on Monday morningoinder the command of MajorGeneral dmith. The column I. fully equipped as for war in a temperate climate, end will ot return to Aldershot until Auguet let. A Central News telegram from Berlin, on Tuesday, says:—Cunt Herbert Bismarck, after accompanying the German Emperor to -tookholm and Copenhagen, will prooeed te Keenigetqu to take the waters, after which he will viall England. . . .  A. four dais' conference of the Institution of Naval Architect. commencid et Glasgow, on Tuesday. Lord Ravensworth, ie the course of his presidential address, said it war most appropriate that they should meet in Glasgow thi4 year, for this was the centenary of steam navigation, of which the Clyde was the birthplace. The first paper was read by Mr Martell, chief surveyor of Lloyd's, and was devoted to the consideration of the respective mortis of the British and American type of yacht. Cholera of a virulent type has appeared in several places throughout Burnish. There has been a bad outbreak in Moulmein gaols where a large number of prisoners are confinedMr. Sinclair Inspector-General of prisons has left for Moulmein, to arrange for the removal of all the prisoners from the gaol to a cholera camp in the neighbourhood. The cholera is also bad in the Tharrawaddy district whioh continues in an unsatisfactory condition. On Thursday evening a violent storm raged at Rome which caused great damage. The loss, it is teared, will amount to a very large sum. Fortunately nobody appears to have been seriously injured. The storm lasted half an hour. Greet havoc appears to have been done in the outskirts nf the city, and on the Tiber, where the rowing boats have bem much damaged. Such a violent storm, and such aatrange aeason, ' have rarely been known here. Whilst at Palermo the thermometer has marked 44 Centigrade (111 Fahrenheit), here it has been 20! Centigrade (671 Fahrenheit).  The new "Beaconsfield" sea wall aid promenade at Budlington, recently erected at a cost of £8,600, waa opened on Fridsy by 13-R.l! Frltton Albert Victor.
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-12-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

XIII. oelebreting a Jubdce Masa at St. I'eter's, Rome, when 20,0c0 persons were present. Nine days later the remains of Napoleon 111, and his son, the Prince Imperial, were removed hem (lisle burst to Farnborough. On the 22nd of January the centenary of Lord Byron's birth was observed in the Greek church it Bayswater, and the month closed by holding a "solemn office" in memory of the Young Pretender in Lambeth. Lord Ripon and Mr !elan Moth), received an enthuziastic welcome at the beginning of February, rectiring the itecdom of the city. On the 6th Prince Biamarok ledivered his celebrated speech demanding that the army be increased by 700,000 men, their equipment costing £14,000,000; and on the WI of the month Parliament opened its session. During the same day tracheotomy was suecessfulty performed on the Crown Pilau of Gormany. ,' On the 15th the Fisheries Commie/don at Washington signed a treaty which terminated their sittings. Or the Ist Idaroh news reached us that Mon. Ex-Presid• ant Grevy's son-in-law, M. Wilson, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. On the 12th, his Majority the German Emperor lay in state, his funeral taking place four days later. Lt the close of the month the Emperor Frede• rick and the Empress were enthusiastically oneived at Berlin. April opened by holding at Cheltenham a meeting of the Nationel Union of Elementary Ts inhere, and the first of the series of unfortunate women cruelly murdered in the East-end of London began. On April sth the King and Queen of Italy paid a visit to our Queen then staying at Florence. Ten days Later aiarming news reached us as to the oondition of the Garman Emperm's health. Onthe 13 d, Q teen Victoria was receive/ft at Innsbruck by the Emperor of Austria, and on the following day her Majesty reached Charlettonbug. fluty In May the Prince of Wales opened the Glasgow Exhibition, and about the middle of the month the Anglo-Danish Exhibition was opened in South Kensington by the Princess of Wales. The Spanish Exhibition was opened on the 17th May, and the Scandinavian in Copenhagen was opened by the King of Denmark on the 18th, and yet another exhibition was opened in Barcelona two days later. Before the month closed, the TransCaspian Railway was opened to Samaicand, a distance of 900 miles, and telegraphic cunninnipotion established with Europe. The Emperor A Germany growing worse, he was removed on June Ist to Potsdam, sad on the 4th the Mali Exhibition at Kensington was opened by the Lord Mayors of London and Dublin. About the middle of lane still more unfavourable news came as to the health of the Emperor Frederick ; and "Ireland 'Nation" was the first toast proposed at a dinner held in honour of Mr Parnell. Ou the 18th, religiqns services were performed in England contemporaneously with the funeral of the Emperor Frederick at Petsdam. On the 22nd, the French Senate voted 380,000,000 flance for the ;engineer and artillery services. Before the close of the month the German Emperor,
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-04-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE RECENT GLADSTONIAN MEETING AT HUDDERSFIELD.  LETTER FROM MR. JOHN BRIGHT.; Mr John Bright has written to • magistrate of Huddersfietd, who millet his attention to proceeding's at a recent Gladstonian meeting held at Huddersfield, to welcome Mr T. LI. Sullivan, M.P., aud also to certain remarks made by a local newspaper, the right hon. gentlenritie reply teing as follows April 9th, 1888. On Ash, Rochdele. Dear thank you for your letter and ter the leaflet and for the cops of your Hudd rstidd newspaper, The Daily Examiner, the editor of which, I presume. is • number of the present Parliament. He enet tb.it t condoned the crime of which the Malicbeeter Yemen eonvicte were guilty, or wished to save them from the ordinary 'wittily of murt.er. To condone is to pardon. The crime was one of the gravest character, an* in my view deserved heavy punishment; but I have always opposed the punishment of donh, as tending rather to create a contempt for human life than te make it more honeured and more secure. I whdied, too, to avoid adding three more names to the list of the criminals a ho are accepted RP 051411Yr8hythe revolutionary party by which Ireland was then, us it is now, cursed. I urged my ease upon the H Secretary at the Home °Mee, but without Buccal*. I was not aware that Mr Bwinburne or Mr Stuart Mill bad interfered in the matter. I some now to the leaflet and the Along to whickien refer, which was sung at the meeting or Liberals on the 241 h ult. It is a song written to glorify the men guilty of the Fenian mirage and murder committed in Manchester on the 18th of September, 1867. I am cot sure that the author of the song was not present. At least three members of Parliament are reported to have been present, one of them, the member for Huddersfield, was, or is expected to be, or aspires to be, one of the new Government, which the disappointed and the hungry are so anxiously looking for. I will not reason with the three members or the expectant whip. I know their case and they know it, but I may reason not with your frantic public meeting, but with the thoughtful and moral men, who were in former days many, and who I hope are now not a few among the electors of your honoured constituently. Are they prepared to glorify the action in the Fenian outrage of 1867? Will they join in singing the praises of the men of whom even your editor says they rightly paid the penalty of the homicide of which they were guilty. Can the moral and thoughillkl men among the Huddersfield alaatore re,tisntect to be represented in Pair liameut by tf. chairman of a meeting where Isuch a song, so unpatriotic and so wicked, is sung, and be client and consenting. To what Idepths of degradation and of ignominy can the Liberal party demeerd under the alliance now existing between it and the revolutionary pal ty by which Ireland is afflicted.— Yours very I Only,
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-03-31 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RUSSIA."  On Tuesday evening the last public meeting of the present session of the Swansea Literary and Debatimr Society was held in the Unitarian Schoolroom, High-street, Swansea, under the presidency of the Rev. J. E. ' Manning. The subject of the debate was "The expansion of Russia," which was iutrothiced In an able lecture by Mr F. C. T. Naylor, aolioitor, of this town. Mr Naylor, who evinced a close acquaintance with the sub,eot, and treated it in a manner at wise able, lucid, and interesting, first of all sought to establish the theory 'that the nations that would eventually rule Europe were the latest emigrants from the cradle of races in Aida, where the Atyan tribes migrated. He also owsieuded that the march of civilization was westward, that Russia, with other nationa, were on the march, and that even now she had her Poland, a wedge Into Central Europe which would probably be extended. Mr Naylor Menorah masterly skill, sketched Russian history from the earliest times down to the present day, showing the secret of her success, and her expansion. Russia, he said, wherever she had gone, had swept oct of existence those who were there before her; whilst the conquests of England, although great, were different from those et Russia. England conquered India, but not as a race. The English in India might be counted by thousands, but persons of gush utbloodcoming omi neverng to attained England robust manhood their m anho youth. in Russia, on the other hand, conquered as a rum, and he believed that that was the coming nation of the world. , A discussion followel the lecture. The President complimented Mr Naylor on his paper, but could not agree with all his conclusions. • he believed th,t Russia was rotten to the core, and that instead of ex • tending her conquests, she bad enough to do to look after her internal affairs. Mr G W. Hall considered that the democracy, as well as Russia, was on the march, and that Rusaia, like other countries, in which there prevailed a spirit of democracy, would in future have leas desire for war and greater anxiety than she had yet shown to to develop the arts of pace. Mr C. H. Perkins pointed eat that Russia was not the only aggressor, and that British rule in India was certainly of a most vigorous character. He aid not agree with the existence of the democracy in Russia, and advocated Home Rule. Mr J. C. Edwardes Morgan said that toe people of this country . were too apt to view Russia through the glasses of their iusular prejudices, and went on to remark that the Nihilists who assassinated the Czar were no worse than were the murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke —(hear, hear)—although the English people wets not, as a rule, sufficiently consistent to be able to see this. Mr Perry also spoke, and Mr Naylor havinsr replied, the meeting was brought to a oluse.
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-06-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WHERE IS JACKSON ?, A. 6HOCKING TRAGEDY  TUB POLICE STILL BAFFLED. A aliriskifig tragedy was enacted on Thum! day, at Oupsr Angus A short time ago • IS TEE MURDERER IN WALES? !Mrs Don, the wife of a idater, obtained a judieepavaden from her husband. This preyed Aooordieg to the reporta that have reached on His 1311611's mind, and on Thursday morning the police concerning J- okson'n whereabouts, he went to a neighbouring farm, where his that hardy and accomplished criminal is all wife was employed, and fired • pistol at her. but übiquitous. He is said to hay- latterly ihe fell backwards slightly wounded in the been seen at the Crystal Palace and the head, bat her husband, suppoeinv he had killed Zoological Gardens with a well dressed lady, her instantly shot himself and died, as well as at tho Trish Exhibition, the Weetminster A quarium, the Italian Exhibition ,Brigh ton, Edinburgh, Harwich, Bristol, and Hull, in North and South Wales, amil in all the districts of the metropolis. His appearance in places hundreds of miles apart is often reported at one and the same time, so that the police now look with a degree of incred• nifty upon the letters, telegrams, and vertal messages which they receive in reference to the missing culprit. Mr Firth, the fugitive's father, has informed the pollee that the last communication from sou was resolved by tlic vicar of the parish its,. John Kemp) ; dial in this his 8011 mullioned the rev gentleman to ad Janos him some money with which to purchase tool.; that a letter had been sent ' from a town in Wales; and that Mr Kemp, krowing the character of the applicant, had thoueht it prudent on his part to refuse ,he request. That letter came to hand about twelve months ago, and, it is stated that the police have information showing that Firth Was at that time in Wales, ho having broken into a house there.  his (th,;  At a meeting of the ManoheeterCity Council, held on Wednesday afternoon, the question of the escape of the convict murderer Isokeon, ahas l'irth, was under discussion. Alderman Bennett, chairman of the committee which controls the city police, said he could not help Oinking there was someone to blame in the matter. Information was received by the city police at 4 16 on the day of the murder that the prisoner had escaped from Strangewey's Gaol, but nothing was said about the escape or murder, and no description was given of the prisoner. The gaol was the county gaol, and the murder was, therefore, committed in the county and not in the city. He shotud have thought, that being the case, the county police would have communicated with the city foree, but Ibis had not been done. The prisener had nearly four hours' grace before anyone outside the goal knew the murder had been committed, and he thought an enquiry on the matter to be Instituted. His own theory was that the prisoner escaped disguised as a woman in the matron's clothes.
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-03-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CONFESSION.  In the modern history of Welsh jurisprudence there have been few things more tautensto the public mind—always desirous to avoid a judicial murder—than the statement affecting Rae's guilt or innocent.). The trial left no doubt on the people's mind, yet the public were nervously anxious to have "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" from Rees'e own lips. He was understood to have made a ~ coment in writing, in which he admitted eutlio en: to justify the conclusion that he was an accomplice, and thcfefore, in the eye I of the law, guilty- - i hat is the I law as laid &mu by Justice Stephens. Up to the day preceding the execution it seemed impoqiible to draw from him • prekse and d, fiche ,ptatement as to what his actual share in thß murder really was, although his confessed complicity was beyond a doubt. This is the rep ,rt on the subject made by the Rev. D. S. Davies : . I have heard of various things which rt,es has said in conversation with other* which I am not at liberty to repeat. But I believe 1,1 am under no such restriction with respect to what I Kew and heard of him myself. The ; whele conversation which we had with him was in Welsh. We saw him just after hie relativeo had left him. He showed much broken feeling. FliB face was swollen with weeping and his eyes running with tears. The little boy said the 'red man' I gave the blow which he witnessed, and I saw the 're I ma,' in Iteetee face yesterday, when und, r the influence of the emotion oauted by his het sad parting with his relatives. We tirst expres.ed sympathy with hip in the terrible pesition in which he is placed. Fie replied, tha.,,i•Li us for our sympathy, and then added 'OA MSB'll well gen i fed yma or gam no, hod yma vn euog.' Anglicised : "I would rath,r be here vreeatly nocused than be here guilty. We ueee i, dh stuaned by this answer, for we had gone tiae him, expecting to see him penitent and, at haat, corif,sing his own share in the crime. The couverciti in became broken in consequence of our surprise. I asked him, , "Do you still deny it ?' and he replied," All I know about it I have said in my etstementrl did not kill him" (laying marked empathis upon the word "kill"). "Who did it then ?" I asked; and he replied "Dyne beth sydd yn dywyll i ft. syr." (" That is what is dsrk to me' sir.") In further conversation he rapesbet that he did not kill Davies, and added that he did not give the "fatal stroke." I am not certain whither ho used the words "fatal stroke," or whether they occurred in a question put by me, "Then you did not give the fatal stroke ?" to which he replied that he did not. The words he used would have no sense exet±tpt that interpretation we. put upon Ulm. He deeiLia that the little b, y Lewis could have been theme, and the inference from that is clear. Hi, whole conduct can otiy be expressed by one thing, and that is—as ,t 4teternateet;ort net to Oivalve the neerenpline. W... ~ !.. . . .. , . i .1. Mii matter he 8. 81 1 I 8) 8 p.ulesclull of ignorance. 0 e eras 'likely to do it all, he wee apparently . putt in she fume of nand for doing so when
The Herald of Wales. — 1888-07-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MYSTERIOUS CRIME. ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER.  AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER. The Paris police are at present under the impression that they have found at late the murderer of the woman Aguetant, who went with a person unknown to her house in the Rue Caumartin from the Eden Theatre in January, 1886, and was found murdered in her room next morning, her throat being out from ear to ear. Several persons have been arrested on suspicion from time to time, but the strongest suspicion attaches to Prado, a Spaniard, supposed to have been a friend of Prausini, the Italian, who murdered two women and a child in the Rue Montaigh. Prado was captured by the police the other night as he was committing a barsbuy in a house in the Champs-Elysees, and since his incarceration a woman has "rounded" on him. His career has been more stirring and eventful than that of his compeer and oblleague the late Prankini, who expiated his crimes on the Place de is Roquette last summer. Prado, it is said, served with the Carlists as the Comte de Linska, and was even attach< (11 to the staff of the Don. During hie campaigns he fell in love with the daughter of the Governer of San Sebastian, and at the siege of that town he suceeded in entering it disguised. He was captured, however, during one his attempts to see the senorita of his affections, and was oondemnad to death as • spy by • court-martial over which her father presided. The lady, it appears, bribed the sentinels, who allowed her lover to escape. The pseudo De Linska was, however, wounded at the outposts; but he eventually rejoined the Carlists, and was made a colonel. After the war the adventurer went to Madrid; was reinstated in the Spanish army, became • eavalry eaptain. and ran away from Seville with a young Madrilena whom he had followed thither. He married the lady, but she died shortly afterwards, and the adventurer, having been struck off the roll of the Army, went to Paris, where he utilised his knowledge of French, and obtained employment. In the French capital he fell in love with a young Swedish girl, whom he seduced, and he was at the same time the favourite Adoeis of two larisiennes, one of whom was • wealthy widow. Fruit), as his real name would appear to be, disappeared suddenly from Paris at the time of Mario Aguetant's murder. Ho next "turned up" in Mosambique, and last year returned to France, taking up his quarters at Bordeaux, where he meta new " flame " in the shape of a pretty Bordeln I,r, and occupial the moments that were not devoted to her in endeavouring to organise a band of "filibusters," who were to conduct operations on the Spanish frontier. His busy brain was also, it is reported, devising other schemes, ouch as a 't Oolon• isation of Mozambique," and a "Revolt in Canada." his last most daring exploit was the burglary in the Champs Elyeces, in which he wounded a policeman, but was pubecquently arrested.