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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-12-11 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE BURRY MURDER.  A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT.  -STATEMENT BY THE YRLSONER.  SENTENCED TO DEATH,  The trial of Wm. Dukes, at the Manchester Assizes, for the murder of George Gordon, at Bury, lust September, was resumed and concluded on Thursday. The attendance in court during the day betokened culminating public interest in the ease. Mr. Robert Mitsurgeon of Bury, who assisted at the post-mortem examination of thebtaly of Gordon, described numerous wounds, some of them ghastly, on the head and face. The skull was fractured, the train congested, and the frontal I bone and right orbit bone fractured. A number I of blows must have been inflicted and the injuries I were such as might be caused with a hammer or a pick like those produced. Witness next described the numerous blood stains he saw in the room at Duke's house. There had been an attempt to hide some of those by means of varnish and whitewash. Witness,cross-examined, said he did not think any of the fractures on Gordon's skull could have been caused by his falling backwards ou the fender with another man upon him. Corroborative evidence was given by Mr. Isiah Jones, senior house surgeon at the Bery Infirmary. He aloe said that none of the fractures could have been caused by a fall unless the man had fallen from a height and come to the ground directly on top of his head. This concluded the examination of the witness. Just after Mr. Blair started to address the jury for the prosecution, Mr. Cottingham, who defended, asked that the prisoner might be allowed to !mike a statement. The judge decided that he shoulu be heard. Dukes then came to the front of the dock and in a clear firm voice addressed the court. He said that Gordon had quarrelled with him and in a fit of passion attacked him, and rushed at him with a hammer. Dukes avoided him, but he made a second rush and he threw him down on his head anil struck the fender. Being in a passion andunder the influence of liquor, lie did not know what he did, but he believed he struck Gordon on the forehead with the hammer. The statement was listened to in court with breathless interest, and created a great sensation. Mr. Blair then summed up the case for the prosecution. There was perhaps, he said, on the part of the defence, an object to reduce the crime to one of manslaughter, but notwithstanding the advice prisoner had received, the jury, in the face of the prisoner's statement, could scarcely come to that conclusion. Mr. Cottingham, replying for the defence, said that prisoner no doubt had been guilty of deceit and fraud towards his employers, and for that reason was doing his utmost to keep out of George Gordon's way, instead of seeking to do him an injury. George Gordon, who was understood to have been a man of hot temper, was doubtless exasperated by the continual irregularities of the prisoner, and the statement of the prisoner as to the circumstances which occurred, leading to Gordon's death, was both probable aid ingenious. During the delivery of Mr. Cottingbam's speech the prisoner was much affected and wept with bowed bead.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-05-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SUPPLY.  Mr. J. T. D. Llewelyn presented the report of the committee on the water supply of Lienamulet Higher. The report stated that the pure water supply of Llansamlet was inadequate, and recommended that the storage of Gellydeg be increased to 600,000 gallons. This would coot about £3BO.  After a lengthy discussion, it was decided that the survryor be instructed to prepare an estimate of the construction of a tank which would hold 100,000 gallona, and the matter..was adjourned until the next meeting. This was all the business of public importance.  At Watford Petty Sessions, Walter Joseph Taynton, aged 15, him been committed for trial on the charge of wilfully murdering his sister Jessie, aged ten. _ _  A ':Daiy News" telegram from Cairo, dated Wednesday, says that the Dervishes attempted a raid on Tuesday on a village ten miles south of Wady-ll:rife. The fort opened fire upon them, and they were compelled to retire. A shocking tragedy has been perpetrated in a lodging-house in Castle-street, Cheshire. A man about 30 years of age arrived two or three days ago, apparautly in search of work, but failing to get employment, he was found last evening at the bottom of the stairs with his throat out in a moot frightful manner—two deep gashes and r: stab into the windpipe He was removed ui the police ambulance to the infirmary and the doctor informs our correspondent that were is no chance whatever of his recovery. At the Walsall County Court, before his Honour Judge Griffith, George Lawrence, brushmaker. Butts-street, brought no action against William Wood. the Barrel Din, Staffordstreet, to recover £4, the value of a fox-terrier, which he alleged to be his property. Mr. Gillespie cpparep for the plaintiff, a d Mr. E. Evans for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged that he received the dog from a man named Enoch Took, not long before Christmas, and that on the I IthoFebruary it was loot. but was afterwards found in the possession of the defendant, wh refused to give it up. On the other hood, the defendant declared that he received the dog in August last, when 1 it was about. five weeks old, from a man named William Kendrick, and that it was in his possession until the Saturday before Christmas, when ; it wan lost : but it was retu ued on February 11th. His Honour ordered the dog to be brought into court, and that was done, the plaintiff then calling'•Dfashn," and defendant "Nip." The , animal showed le, particular liking for either, but it made the liveliest demonstrations of delight when Tonics appeared. His Honour took this I as settling the matter in dispute, and although he heard the evidence of the several witnesses called by Mr. Evans, he said he believed the dog—which could not lie—rather than the witnesses, witnesses often perjuring themselves in that court. He ordered the dog to be returned to the plaintiff, and the court costa to be paid by the det ,n,Lse .  Cz.tu•  Were,  :
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-06-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

REMARKABLE CAREER OF CRIME.° •  The Chantilly murder case has all the elements of a sensational novel. Hoyoa the prisoner, is a Hercules in physical strength. He is the son of a zieh farmer in Belgian Flanders and succeeded to his farm and a capital of , £4,000. Hoyos married twice, and his wife died soon after her life had been insured for £4,000 in the Gresham and Germnis offices, of what at first seemed to be the kick of a horse on the head. But it was proved that Hoyos had a few days previously bought a horseshoe and nailed it to the end of a mallet and though he was acquitted, owing to the evidence of some doctors who doubted whether a mallet thus arranged could have caused the death, the officials at Mons never believed that the horse killed the poor woman, lie was also once accused of having murdered a Belgian judge, and in 1876 found guilty of having forged bills. The other offences laid to the charge of Hoyos were beating his second wife, who had to leave him, and having forged documents in order to get some insurance money. To escape prosecution for his felony he fled to France, where he was successively a gardener, coachman, dustman, brewer, land steward, woodranger, drayman, &eedsman, and foreman in a factory, always leading a mysterious life and constantly changing his name. In 1885 he returned to Belgium, and was imprisoned for two years. After that he induced a young lady of Mons to elope with him to Paris, and persuaded her that he was one Degaultier, a millionaire farmer. They agreed to marry, but the real Degaultier, discovering the fraud, forbad the banns. Hoyoa subsequentlyl was a steward, and was dismissed for having attempted to strangle a gamekeeper. Being out of work and without money, he planned the crime of which he stands charged; but, so as to have two strings to his bow, he sought through a matrimonial agency to marry a wealthy woman, and advertised himself as "a childless widower, strong, handsome, amiable, well connected, having £6,000, and seeking youth, beauty, and good means." Failing to find a rich match, Hoyos then taught to insure his own life in six different offices for £52,000, going in a different character to each. When the policies were effected, he looked out for somebody whom he could kill, and when , dead pass off for himself, and he hit upon a poor outcast Belgian, Louis Baron, who was rather like himself. On the 31st of October Baron was last seen alive, and his corpse was found soon after crushed into pulp on the railway near Chantilly, with papers belonging to Hoyos in his pockets. Hoyos meanwhile fled to Valenciennes, where he passed himself off as Baron, in whose favour he had made a holograph will dated the 30th of October. This will was ul.o found on the dead man's person, and a duplicate was in Hoyme possession.  Mr. John Gilbert, the vetemn actor, is dead. • Scotch Liberal members (so the " Standard " ways) are arninging to send a deputation of their number to Edinboro' on the occasion of the pr.entation of the freedom of the city to Mr. Parnell.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-01-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MUSWELL HILL BURGLARY.  At the Highgate Police Court on Monday, the four men, Burdett, Clarke, Smith, and Lyster, were again brought up charged with burglary and shooting at George Atkins at the Norton Lees, Muswell-hill, with intent to murder. Mr Pollard, who represented the Treasury, said he proposed to offer evclence showing That , some time ago Lyster and Clarke were together in Bristol, and on the alarm of thieves being taken up, the man named Spaff.rd pursued a person who turned round and presented a revolver. Spofford can swear to the man Lyeter. The landlord of the Mail Coach, Kingsland-road, swore to Burdett and Clarke as the men who called at the house shortly after the burglary and tendered in payment for drink a Jubilee four sniffing piece, one of which it will be remembered was stolen from Norton Lev 4.  A merchant from whom the puree was bought identified the framwork fund at Clarke's house, and said a similar purse would not be found in London. lie admitted the frame might be that of a bag. Dorothy Atkin, a little girl, recognised some articles found with the frame as similar to those she had lost.  The cook next door to Norton Lees, who met four men near the house just befcre the burglary, thought Clarke was one of those men, but declined to swear to him.  Henry Wright Atkin, the tenant of Norton Lees, corroborated the evidence already given by his younger son, tiannyer Atkin, and added that he was uncertain whether ene or bth of the men whom he first saw getting out of the bedroom window fired at him, One man, however, fired twice at witnete, and subsequently at Bannyer Atkin, who had a scuffle witn one of the men and pursued him for some distance on Muswell Hill-road. Returning to the house he heard other shots and found his son George had been shot. He knew , none of the men  Spofford, the witness alluded to in Mr Pollard's opening, said on the 20th of December he was in Clifton Park, Bristol, when helsaw five! or six men come from a bonne, and hea,d (sties , of "police." He believed Clarke woe one of those men and was sure that Lyster wee another. the latter being the man whom he chewed and who pointed the revolver at him, ssyi g "If you savence I'll fire." Amos Russell, aseihtent to a Bristol pawnbroker, said in December a man, whom he believed to be Lyster, twice pledged with him the ring produced, and other articles which were on the last occasion redeemed by a London agency. He also knew Clarke, but could not remember under what aireumstances he had metihirn. Lyster he was not able positively to i lentity, but he picked him out from a number of other men. Several witnesses have been called for the purpose of treeing Lyster to Southampton where he was apprehended from the home in Shored itch. Mrs Bernard, who was vwiting her mother at Ciifton Pars at the end of December, stated that she lost £l,lOO worth of jewellery, and that she recognised Clarke and Lyster, the former being the man who was held by the footman, but escaped, and the Ist ter one who got away at the outset, The prisoners were again remanded.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1862-05-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MURDER IN TIPPERARY.  (From the Clonmel Chronicle.)  Mr. Gustave Thiebault, about two months ago, was obliged to evict some tenants, three brothers of the name of Halloran, who lived on one of his own farms at Boytonrath, there having been, we understand, an arrear of £l6O due on the farm. The land wan taken up by Mr. Thiebault, who proceeded to unix-we it. Mr. Thiebault, a few days ago, left his house to proceed through Dagstown, to visit a farm at Shanbally, which he got by mutual arrangement from a man named Hyland. He went through the lands of D-igstown and got on the public road near the house of a shepherd named Fogarty, proceeding along the high road tcwards Golden. On his way he had passed a forge nearly opposite to the demesne gate at Rockwell. In this forge, that day, and a short time before the dreadful occurrence, there was seen a three-pronged pitchfork with a stout ash handle and heavy iron rim This fork was afterwards found lying beside the murdered man, and broken. He carried a double-barrelled gun, and was accompanied by a fine setter dog. It has yet to be : revealed whose was the hand which here felled him to the ground. The public road to Killeenasteena is remarkably exposed. A visit to the spot convinced us of the fact that any ocenrtence such as this fatal event taking place on that road must have been distinctly seen from the various farmhouses round, if persons were on the watch. At half-past six o'clock in the evening, information was given that Mr. Thiebault was lying stretched in a dyke beside the public road. A yourg lad; named Hickey, who made the discovery, said he thought the gentleman was drunk, and gave his reasons for not going over to render assistance, that his dog was sitting beside him barking and howling, and snapped at him when he attempted to approach the deceased. Michael Hickey and his brother then proceeded to the spot, and found the remains of the unfortunate gentleman weltering in blood. He was lying by the road side. Ms gun lay near him, both barrels discharged, and the stock smashed off near the butt, the broken pitchfork and heavy stone resting partly on the side of his head. In the back part of the head was a fearful wound—the effect probably of the murderous blow dealt with the pitchtork which smashed it in two places. The flesh was torn from his face. A large gunshot wound in the left side of the body, over the region of the heart, told where the contents of both barrels had entered, apparently after the unfortunate gentleman had been knocked down by the smashing blow which the iron fork inflicted. A large pool of blood woo there, thy stones around were also stained with it, and over all— when the police came, at the instance of Hickey in the first place —the poor setter stood guard, howling pile)usly. The three Hallorans were at once apprehended on suspicion, and the Coroner's jury has returned a verdict ot Wilful Murder against one of them—Thomas. This man was seen speaking to the deceased on the day of the murder, within thirty yards of where the body was found.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1862-07-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THAII4B—. _ DOWN TAllllB—Ss tek Daps. iee. 21t, 31a,y25., 3 1 1 lisooo oLoy • way Bill. It appeared that these persons were the -- The House then went into Committee of Supply, but next. FROM . t 2 o r 1 FllO.ll 1,2, 3,1, 2, 31,2,24,204.1, instruments rather than the principles in the transac- the chairman immediately reported progress. Mr. SCULLY complained in strong terms of the way in -tions, and, as be thought, an examination by a select THAMES EMBANKMENT BILL, which the Irish business was transacted, and which Irish aM. p.m. p.m. 11.01. p.m a.m I p.m. I p.m. a.m. i p.m. committee would be more satisfactory than an examina • members were treated. Cardiff (Adam-street Sta. 9 1512 50 61n765 3 30 Rhymney • Walnut Tree Bridge.... 933 8 633 8 18; 348 Pontlottya tion at the bar of the House, he moved that a select Sir R. PEEL warmly defended his conduct, and as- 9 39; 1 69' 634 9 34 4lt Caerphilly committee of five be appointed to enquire into the whole serted that he had done all in his power to forward the lowa,' of the circumstances. Irish business to suit the convenience of the Irish mem- Hengoed Junction lO 25 45 75 8 3-31 410 Pengam lO 3 2 231 61810 e y 2; Lord Itnoecuam seconded the motion, which was ber3. Pcngam .. 10 32 521 712 8 40; 4 15,11engoed Junction agreed to. After a few words from Mr. MAGUIRE, the subject Bargoed The Jurisdiction in the Homicides Bill passed through dropped, and the House went into committee on the Tyr Phil 10 48 287 28 8 58; 4 331Caerphilly—Arrical committee. Thames Embankment Bill. Pontlettyn Ithymney ll 0 2 20, 740 9 10; 4 451Carditf(Adam-street Sta. 11 10 3no 6 5010 45 6 *.t _ • -- - • -- •  Mr. Winn: gave notice that on Tuesday next he should move a resolution to the effect that her Majesty's ministers should instruct the commanders of the British naval and military forces in China to avoid any intervention in reference to the rebellion, except for the protection of her Majesty's subjects. Mr. GARNETT asked Sir J. Shelley to explain how it was that a resolution which had been passed by the committee on the Thames Embankment Bill, did not ' appear on the original minutes of the proceedings. Sir J. SHELLEY stated that he bad moved a amainThe Earl of DOMOUOIIMONE moved for copies of cot.. tion on the 20th June, for rbe correspondence between The remaining clauses underwent considerable disrespondence between the Colonial Secretary, the Govern- the Treasury and the ward of Works and the Woods elision, but after the compromise suggested by Lord ments of Canada and British Columbia, and the Hudson's and Forest. which had been carried with only one 1 stssr----- -- --- Palmerston the previous evening it was entirely of a Bay Company, respecting the establishment of a means diHllent, the Chief Commissioner of Works, but j hoped they would arrive at a proper consideration of the t metropolitan interest. The bill eventually passed the UP
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-03-13 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GUILTY. Ilia Lordebip simmer' the blaik cap, and spoke as fellows hisonor at the bar After a very patient inveirtigation, and I have He doubt on the part of the Jury after leaving given due attention to everything that could he urged on your behalf, they have come to the roll& usion that you ale guilty of the murder of this 3.mn,,.; man. [Prisoner I one net guilty.] In coming to that concluoion they must have believed the evedence which showed that it was premeditated on your part; that you, e•xpressed the intention before-band to do him miechief, ; that you repeated several times that intention, at • subsequent part of the day; that you carried out that intention by the uso of tint weapon, the stone which has been produced, in the mast dasturdly and cowardly manner ; that you approaehdd him from behind where his mother was leading him to his home, and that you struck hire without his having the slightest chance of lefendieg himself. All this the jury newt have believed in coming to their verdict, and I have no doubt they considered the evidence carefully. Upon me the law imposies the duty of peeling its sentence. I have no discretion in my hand ; it is not my sentence, it is the eentence of the law. Ido earnestly hope that you will c resider and consider well the awful doom consequent upon that sentence. I trust you will take advantage of any time that may yet ha allowed you to.. consider well your crone •ed heartily to repent of it . You struck that unfortunate young man down in a moment, without giving him time to think of the eh Inge thet was abut to take place In his state. The law well lee • morn IWO cdiii to TOO than you were to him, fir you well have time to bethink yourself of the change which may await you. I repeat, I earnestly lt,pe %oil well avail yourself of that time. I brunt that your ease may inepreas upon those who see your fate the cone .quences of thnt which led to your crime Von were in a elate of drink; your victim was the same; and would that the example of your case may lead persons to consider the effects which may result from their indulgence in that abominable habit of drinking. I do not wish for one moment to aggravate th 3 position in which you steed ; and I shall proceed to perform toy duty—the duty cut upon me by the law— of passing sentence upon you. That sentence is, that you be takon frotn the place where you now are to the place of execution, that you be there hanged by the neck until yCu are dead, and that your body be buried within the precincts of the prison where you shall have been last confined. And may the Lied have mercy upon your soul:  The prisoner, who was very pale, but did not other. wise exhibit emotion, was then removed Ilium the dock. When he wits being removed his sister, who wan among the spectators at the back of the Court, fainted, and did not recover consciousness for some time.