The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-03-17 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DREADFUL MURDER AT CAR.DIFF.  THE MURDERER COMMITTED FOR  TRIAL.  On Monday morning a deliberate murder was eonswitted in a fish-honse at the East Moor, Cardiff. A Asherman named Edward Stelfox, who had permission to fish, had laid an information against another man, named John Webber, who had been intruding on his domain for some time. 111-feeling had existed between the two men for a year or no, but Webber, hearing what Stelfox had done, went to the flab-house of the latter on Monday morning, armed with a doublebarrelled shot gun' loaded with duck shot, and fired off both barrels at Stelfox. Both shots took effect— one in the breast and another in the legs, and he died in a few minutes after the first shot was fired. Webber was arrested by the police and conveyed to the polico,station. He is an old man, and gave his age as 62 year 0: be has travelled a great deal, and spent much of hie time in Australia and America. The murdered man, Stelfox, leaves a wife and daughter. Webber was brought before the stipendiary magistrate in the afternoon, and the following evidenoe was given : Thomas &Hick said lam a- fisherman, and have been in the employ of Edward Stelfox. I was with him this morning when he weighed out some flat fish for me. I was standing on the door. I saw the prisoner John Webber. He came there armed with a double-barrelled gun. Be came to the door where I was and stood there looking at Stelfox. He asked, "Are you the man who moved the !planks?" Stelfox *aid, "No, I would cot be the man who would do sneli a thing." The prisoner said, "Ton are the than, as I -have hearrl you have hecn all about the place telling all about ; Shoot 'you," and with that he fired off the gun. The witness then stated that the prisoner was standing in the room about three feet from Stelfox when he fired. The deceased, when lie saw the prisoner with the gun, and heard him say he would shoot him. said, Oh, Lord, Jack; don't shoot me !" but then Webber fired immediately, and Stelfox exclaimed, " Oh, Lord, I 4.1# dead luau." Deceased took hold of the gun and tried to take it away from the prisoner, but he resisted. Annie James said she was at the fishhut early that morning. 'when she heard a gun tired, and Steller ran in, exclaiming, "I am dying ;" he fell in her arms, soil ma few minutes died. A witness said the prisoner gave him a gun, telling him that he had shot Stelfox, and asked him to bring it to the copper work. Dr. Pratt testified that he examined the wounds in the thighs and lungs of deceased, and said that either one w,jithl have been sufliient to came death. . . .  Evidence as to the arrest of the prisoner having been given, a witness named Partridge identified the gun as his. He had pawned it in December, and had sold the prisoner the ti the et.il of the year. The prisoner was then reminded till Wednesday, when the result of a put mortent examination was made known. "he pegoner, wh2 ha, e manned quite unmoved since ehe 4iorning of Lb eqccurrence, was committed for trial tit the next assiLes on the (barge of wilful murder. A coronet's Mullin,' wa= then held, when, after hearing imilar evidence, the jury brought in a verdict pf Wilful Murder " against the prisoner. 4