The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1873-01-03 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GREAT-WESTERN RAILWAY Plymouth Sound, a salute of 17 guns was being murder has been committed in Hollywood, county and other articles, the property Albert, 29, was charged with fraudulently endeavourd from the Royal Adelaide guard hi tD s p, a evens, Down, about five miles from Belfast, the victims (South Wales Division.) Lloyd, of Colehern Terrace ing to obtain £4O from Messrs. C. Northcote and _,. se pore, on Friday afternoon, when a serious accident being two women—Miss Kerr and her servant. Two - prosecutrix said the prisoner Co., shipping agents, St. Dunstan's Hill, by false Persons dressed in women's clothes, were seen occurred. Two 24-pounder Armstrongs had been " father in the same house. Witness Pretences. The prisoner had been a clerk in a ship-f the h bout eight o'clock this coming ' out o e house a. fired, one of them was being reloaded, when, owing '. wasiOng articles, including a lace veil ping office at Dunkirk, in France, and had obtained. to fire remaining in the breach-piece, the char morning, and they have .been traced by. the aid of a_ anteater, from her bedroom. On looking Information which he had sadly misapplied. On charge farm servant as far as this town. Miss Kerr had the 23rd December the Norwegian ship Penelope exploded with fearful effect. Five men who were e carpet to lay down on the stairs she missed . p • standing round the breech were severely injured, living with her only one woman servant. The murpieces. She spoke to the prisoner, who refused cleared out at the Custom-house in London, and on d discovered b the milk boy, first e der wasy e ini y, who gay and three of them lie in a serious state in the Naval allow her to go to her room. Witness said the 27th a telegram was received by Messrs. North- the alarm at the police office. The police had to Hospital. The captain of the gun was the worst h,.enk , nothing should be removed from the house until cote and Co., the agents of the vessel, which par- De the door in order to effect an entrance. injured. One of his being blown entirely away. gi•-- op ea • • t the carpet was found. About ten minutes after. ported to have been sent by Captain Andreason, 3 th Miss Kerr'a body was found lying in e pantry, y h. It . •s, wards, the prisoner called her in and said she was the master of the Penelope, from armpnt was The stump has since been amputated. The others with her head smashed in. A smoothing iron was , . very sorry for what she had done, that she had to the effect that the vessel had come into collision, were dreadfully burned. It is stated that the accif d lying The body found near. e y of the servant was yen, taken the carpet assisted by her servant. Witness and had lost lb d fathoms that he had iiii aala anchor, an 40. ms chain, dent resulted from the culpable omission to sponee out the gun as customary. The accident caused o. found in the lobby at the head of the first landing; •• • ht. lost about £l.O worth of property from her shop in t not applied to an agent in order to save it • •without was, it is said, any marks of violence. • t- eir November last, but the prisoner's father gave her expense, and h e requested that £4O should be im. great alarm on board, and the remainder of the Miss Kerr was in her 80th year, and the servant salute was fired from Her Majesty's ship Cam. it was .85 not to say anything about it.—Emma Adelaide medmtely remitted to him. After the receipt of was also well advanced in years. Up to the present of fish into Pratt, servant Dto Mr. over, said the prisoner gave the telegram, Captain Andreason, who had not left ""'",,ge, no arrests have been made. The town of Hollywood the boat must her two pieces of carpet to take to her mother's the dock walked into the office and the attempted is in a state of excitement. The police will, it is fraud ' frustrated.,i WRECK ON THE CUMBERLAND end gone down. house. She did not know the carpet was stolen.was The police were commun -