The Sun. — 1851-07-07 (London, England)

MURDER AT CARDIFF.  A young man named James Loynes, who had for some time past acted as a bully to a notorious house of ill fame, situated in Whitmore-lane, Cardiff, has been committed to take his trial at the next assizes at Cardiff, for the wilful murder of Guiseppe Samucow, an Austrian seaman, by beating his head in with a poker, without the slightest provocation. The murder was committed last Tuesday week, and the prisoner immediately absconded, but was subs( (ineptly captured by P. C. Wright, of the county constabulary at Treforest. At the examination before the magistrates tho principal evidence against Loynes was that of Giovanni Forenpo, an Austrian sailor, who deposed that he was a seaman, and sailed in the-same ship as the deceased. He was in company with him on the night of the fatal occurrence, and went with him into a public-house kept by Catherine Thomas, where the deceased was struck with the poker. When they got in, witness saw a girl who had stolen some money from him n few evenings before, and desired the deceased to ask the girl for the money, as he could speak English. The girl said she had no money, and began to scream out. After that the landlady went out of the house, and returned in a short time with the two men. The moment they came in she shut both doors and bolted them. One of the men took up the poker from the fireside and struck the deceased on the head. The person who struck him, judging from his face, his hair, and his height, was the prisoner. Witness believed him to be the person. When the deceased received the blow he fell. His head was cut open, and witness and a companion picked him up and took him to another house, where some of his hair was cut off and plaister put 03 the wound. After that they took him to a druggist's shop; the druggist dressed the wound and put fresh plaister on, and he was then taken on board ship. It was about half-past 11 o'clock when they got on board, and in the morning they told the captain what had occurred. The deceased remained in bed all day, and died about ballpast o'clock in the evening. He was attended by a doctor on Wednesday morning, and when the doctor came in the evening he was dead. On looking closely at the prisoner Loynes, witness ahculd say ho was the man that struck the deceased with a poker. After the blew was struck he ran away. This evidence was corroborated by Antonio Segowitch, another Austrian seaman. The constable Wright deposed that on his apprehending the prisoner he said, " I know lam the man you are looking for; I will not deny the charge." Witness told him afterwards that ho was charged with the murder of a foreign sailor at Cardiff, when he replied, " I do not deny that I am the man, but I did not strike the blow." Mr. Samuel Wallace, the rurgeon who attended the deceased, said that when he first. visited him he found a plaister above the lett temple, on removing which he observed a contused wound two inches and a half in length. He tried to probe it, but it being such a contused wound ho could not reach the bone. The deceased could speak, and described his feelings, complaining very much of the pain from the wound. He seemed very weak and faint. Witness applied some soft lint to the wound, and made him Ile down. He left him a little composed, and desired that if any inflammatory symptoms took place he should be sent for. In about four hours after he w 4 sent for, and as he was going down he met another messenger, who told him the man was dead. The wound was such as would ba produced by the round end of a poker. He had subsoquentiy made a post mortem examination of the body in conjunction with Dr. Edwards, and found the skull fractured. He was of opinion that death was caused by the blow inflicted by the poker or some such instrument. The prisoner declined saying anything in his defence, and was committed to take his trial for the wilful murder.  [