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The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-08-01 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDER OF TWO CELLDREE.  Mary Jane Heathoote, aged twenty-eight years, inisiding with her husband at 66, Kynastontead, Stoke Newington, was found at an early hour the Thursday morning near Chingford Hotel in s wet and distressed condition. She made a statement to a man named Higgs, and he informed the police, with the result-that she was arrested shortly afterwards. When Mien into custody she oonfessed that she had muttered her two children—Florence, Ned four, sad, -Amelia, aged five by drowning themgpping Forest. Policelnspector Jones detened lobe Woman and directed, a search, the tesult being that the bodies of the two children were found in: about nine inches of water at the bottom of a ditch near 'Connaught Wain». The 'woman was °honed, on her own confession, with luivingmuirdirdd heletivo.thildren, and was remanded in custody, 'Mrs. Heathoote simply said she drowned the little ones, but gave no reason for the nommisidon of the crime. The prisoner is a woman of respectable appearance and it Is added that she was also in morbAnimfortible oirounistanoes. _  On Saturday Mr. Lewis held an inquiry at the ting's Head, Chingford, into the circumstances. The evidence showed that the children were found In a )rook lying side by side upon the,irlaoes, quite ,dead: The woman Hiathoote had told a constable ,before being charged that she laid thq, children in tthe stream, intending to drown herself also. There 'was not enough water, however, and the children were suffocated by mud and water-weeds. In a pooket-boot on her person was found the following ,stter to her husband :--" Oh, my dear husband, I exaniot live any longer. All is against us, but I would face it all if the children were well, but they never will be again. I have prayed for them day and night, but no change has come. We must all 'die togother, for illness means ruin to us all. Ever since 1 went home I have noticed a change in everybody to me' which I cannot bear. Oh, howl ;long to be at rest, for this is amfuL Lay me with •my darlings." There waswarisalti deal more, but thewater had made the undecipherable. The jury returned a verdict of l murder against the mother, and added a rider expressing an opinion that she was of unsound mind at the time, after an attack of influenza. At Waltham Abbey Petty Sessions on Tuesday, Mrs. Heathoote was committed for trial on the charge of wilful murder. Prisoner was declared to be insane by- Dr. Fulshaw. •••=111•1.111"."111111•11111. It is reported from Malta that during target practice on board H.M.S. Trafalgar, while firing full charge, the looking bolt of the left gun in the after turret broke, and In trying to get the gun into position to fire, the bed of the right 67-ton gun shifted, putting the turret completely out of action. The ship's artificers worked night and day, hut the turret was practically useless for three days. An additional mishap occurred in lifting the bed of the right gun, the piston•rod being damaged.  Into
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-08-29 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BRUTAL MURDER AT STOCKTON.  A brutal murder has been perpetrated at StooktolA-on-Tees. The police on receiving information of the crime proceeded to John-street, and there found, in a small two-roomed house, the body of a woman. She was frightfully mutilated, and quite dead. Her head was almost severed from her body by a terrible gash, whilst her skull was battered in on the right side by a number of blows, evidently ceased by a hammer, the weapon being found on the floor. The woman seems to have been attacked near the fire-place in the kitchen, and then dragged to a coal-closet in the scullery, as though the murderer had purposed hiding the remains. The house was occupied by a blacksmith named William Wood, aged about 35, and the woman was known as his wife, although it is asserted that they were not married. She is said to be a native of Pickering, Yorkshire, and she has lived with Wood for a number of years. They have three children, two of them boys, aged ten and eleven respectively. The oldest boy was the first to discover the murder, seeing his mother's body as he came downstairs. The man had decamped, but at about ten o'clock he walked into the police-station at Stockton-on-Tees, drenched with rain, and said, "I want to give myself up for murder." He then made some further statements in regard to the crime, and was duly apprehended. Rumour attributes the crime to jealousy. An inquest was held the same evening, when the evidence showed that the deceased's name was Anne White, 34 years of age. The police inspector confirmed the facts reported above, as to prisoner surrendering himself at the polioe-station. After being duly cautioned, he made the following statement, which he signed :—"I have come to give myself up for murder. I have murdered the woman I was living with this morning. Her name is Anne White I did it with a chopping axe. did it because she was too friendly with a man named James Cook, of Cooper-street. They were away at Scarborough together all day yesterday, and I was at home with the bairns, and afterwards went to Redcar. They would go to Scarborough whether I would or not. She told me last night Cook and her had had their portraits taken together at Scarborough, and he would bring them when he came; he had gone on to York. I killed her when she was kneeling cleaning the fender. I am very sorry now I have done it. I used a knife to finish her with to put her out of misery."—The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Wood.  Mr. John Shemmonds, a chemist, of Wizton, near Bournemouth, has died from the effects of accidentally inhaling the fumes from a bottle of ammonia, which exploded in his hand as he was opening it. One of his eyes was shockingly burned, as well as his mouth and throat, which were penetrated by the concentrated vapour, causing acute congestion of the windpipe and lungs, and the deoessed must have suffered intense agony. Tracheotomy was tried as a last resource, but in vain.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-10-03 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

RUSSIAN GRAND DUCHE4S. committed a murder for which a tramp named prizes awarded in connection with the educational Gray is serving a sentence of penal servitude for classes and athletic clubs of the association, • _____ life. At the Rectory, Horn•Blotton, the residence of -cod of the Grand Duchess It is stated that a London cabman has met with her son, the death took place on Saturday, at the Mosoow, after a painful a remarkable stroke of lack. An uncle who went advanced age of 101 years, of Sarah Thring, widow grand Duchess Paul out to Australia nearly thirty years ago, and whom of the late Rev. john Gale Thring, rector of -cident. Her Im- he had never seen in his life, has•just gone over to Alford. 'n the park with the majority amid loft the Cockney Jehu • pleasant A .p. woman named Jane Cakebreed, sixty 'years of `wnso wife of little income of £2O a week, age was charged gt a London polioe•court this "1"41 being At a meeting of the National Thrift Society, it weak with being drunk and disorderlyi This ‘eriman was decided to invite the parents of sohols,rs whose made the 236th time she had been charged under -etly school fees have been reinitted to open accounts similar circumstances. '''• for the children either at the School -Penny Bank The Paris waiters held a crowded meeting on or the Post Office Savings Bank, and to cosy into Sunday night to protest against the conduct of -same the amounts hitherto paid for school fees. their employers, who have not kept their promise following telegram from the Viceroy has to allow them to wear a moustache. They assert --ived at the India Oilks. " prospeou that "their dignity as men and citizens" suffers -any in Central Madras, and conditions keenly at having to shave. "n Rajputana. There is a marked An boy named Edmund Long, aged five years, Tipper Burma In consequence of thelion of a railway eignalman at Prittiewell, was travelling with • porter named Clarke, to Brain-n at the War Office shows tree. Near Ingatestone the child turned the - obtained last year, eon- handle of the door, and on its flying open he fell •; iicbglOrwere under on to the metals. He was instantly killed. *he whole number An attempt was made on Saturday at Plainfield, Conn., to poison 25 persons, many of whom are 'el Goodwin,. now in a critical conditionT At • small entertain. 4 in eight- mein croton oil was added to the coffee, and par- to the taken of by the company before the discovery was "ring made. - a The bodies of three boys named Alexander and Robert Lawrie, brothers, and Robert Meek, their ousin, were discovered on Saturday afternooon in Union Canal near Edinburgh. The boys went -w on the canal in a punt, and it is supposed eat capsized. of number two section of the Man. "anal has been satisfactorily corn'lay there were twenty-six feet ' 'loin. About • third of the , 'es, of the canal will in the .1 •n for, regular traffic. -re is reported from , en Museum was ' 'ors, and a case As diamonds 'en of the 'inner -to,.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-11-07 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LOCI-OUT IN TUE LONDON BOOT TRADE.  More than a hundred firms eneaged in the boot and shoe trade of Louden on Monday carried the threatened lock-out into effect. The remaining firms belonging to the Masters' Association decided to await the result of a ballot to be taken on Tuesday night by the executive of the Natiomil Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, on the question Whether the " laws " of the Union should he upheld before carrying the mandate of the association into effect. The men concerned included the whole of the larders and finishers. The clickers, rough•stuff cutters, and machinists received a week's notice from the employers that they also would be locked out. These men work under a weekly agreement, hence they were not *locked out at once. It was impossible to accurately estimate the number ut IlleLl thrown out of employment as the shops are , scattered all over the south and east of London, and the officials of the Union decline to register the names of the men locked out, as they repudiated the action of the men which led to the present crisis, and refused to lend their assistance in any way until their authority had been vindicated. The number was, however, roughly put at 5,000. The present dispute arose, the men assert, owing to the inaction of the board of arbitration, whims Is composed of representatives of the employers and employed. They state that when any difficulty arises the employers' representatives generally fail to enter an appearance at the board meeting, and a settlement is thus postponed from time to time, while the workmen have to continue at work on the employers' "statem!"nt ' of prices. This complaint against the board of arbitration Is supported by some of those witting on the board, and it is this want of action which seems to have led to the existing dispute. Tired of waiting the men employed by one firm (Messrs. Green and Son) turned out on strike, and when the firm's work was sent to other shops to be performed the men there refused to touch it, and also struck, until nearly 500 men were involved. The Union refused to give its countenance to this procedure, and withheld strike pay. Serious dissatisfaction was the consequence.  The ballot resulted Ins decision by a large majority to support the officers in "upholding general law." A peaceful solution of the difficulty was hoped for. The Duke of Rutland, yielding to the representations of the Duchess, is about to close two or three wayside hostelries on his Derbyshire estates.  The Windsor magistrates have committed Dorothy Davies, a midwife, to take her trial at the Assizes, for the wilful murder of Annie Simpson, aged 22, a single woman, by performing an unlawful operation. They also o...mmitted Mrs. Mary Ann KAM% in whose house the deceased lodged, on the charge of being an accessory before the fact. , The Governor of Texas has offered 1,000 dollars reward for the capture of any member of the mob which last week burned a negro at the stake for the murder of • family.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-02-28 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE WHITECHAPEL MURDER.  THE ADJOURNED INQUEST.  The inquest on the body of Frescos Coles, who was found dead in Swallow-gardens, Whiten...lmpg, was resumed by Mr. Wynne Baxter on Friday. Further evidence was given with regard to the proceedings of the demmeed and the man Sadler on the night of the murder. Their visits to various public-houses were described, and the movements of Sadler were traced down to within five minutes of the time of the diseovery of the body. That discovery was made at • quarter-past 2, and Sadler's movements were described down till ten minute" past 2, when he was in the neighbourhood of Tower-hill, and, as several witnesses testified, within, five minutes' walk of the archway in which the body was found. No evidence, however- was adduced to show that Sadler waa teen in Closer, proximity to the archway. The inquiry was adjourned till Monday. The inquest was resumed on Monday, wheel evidence of considerable importanoe was given. After several witnesses had been examined as tolleving seen the accused in various places during the night, Duncan Campbell, a sailor, deposed that Sadler sold him a knife for a shilling on the morning after the murder. He went into a lavatory to wash the knife ; there wan no blood on it, but when he put it into a bmin the water became salmoncoloured. A marine store-dealer to whom Campbell had in turn sold the knife stated that he sharpened the big blade and ate his supper with it; it was very blunt when he got it. On the other hand Sadler, whose statement to the police was put in, stoutly protested that he did not sell the knife and that he had not one to sell ; his shipmates, he said, could testify that he had not carried • knife for years. The last he saw of the woman Frances Will when he left her In the lodging-house when he was turned out. Medical evidence was then given, Dr. G. Phillips, the divisional surgeon, and Dr. Oxley concurring , that death had been caused by three distinct passings of a knife over the woman's throat. Death had been instantaneous. There were marks of finger nails on the chin, and there was reason to suppose the woman's assailant had held her chin by the left hand. The post-mortem had revealed no trace of alcohol in the stomach, and there were no chronic traces of alcohol in the body. There were marks on the back of the head as though the deceased had fallen or been thrown backwards on to the pavement. Insensibility might have been thus I caused. Dr. Phillips thought she was on the ground at the time the throat was cut. In his opinion her assailant had cut her throat with his right hand while he held her chin with his left, and that he was on the right of the woman when he inflicted the wound. Dr. Oxley thought the assailant must have been in front of the woman. The knife produced was such a one as would have inflicted the injuries. It warn not a very sharp knife that was used. The murder was not carried out with great skill.—The inquest was then adjourned until Friday.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-11-26 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OPINION.  JURIES AND PRISONERS.  The Deily News, commenting on the curious hitch in the trial of the man charged with the Althorp murder, says :—lt is rather hard that a new Judge, travelling his first circuit, should be confronted with such a novel and perplexing problem. Mr. Justioe Kennedy, whose practice has been chiefly commercial, adjourned the Court till the following morning, and is understood to have utilised the interval by oonsulting the Lord Chief Justice of England. The result has already been stated. That. it was necessary to begin the trial again we fully admit. Good or bad, who or foolish, the law must be obeyed, especially by judges, until it has been altered. If the examination of witnesses had been resumed next morning as though nothing had happened, and if Macrae had been ultimately convicted, the whole proceedings might have been quashed on a writ of error, and a marderer turned loose upon society. But why the next Assizes? Why should not Macrae have been at once arrainged before another jury? Better, far better, that there should be some disturbance of the arrangements on the Midland Circuit than that Macrae should be denied for two months the opportunity of vindicating his innocence, for which he asks. We need not eater into the legal arguments that Macrae, having once been given in charge to a jury, cannot be again submitted to that ordeal. Mr. Justice Kennedy is perfectly competent to deal with such a matter, and the discharge of a jury who hopelessly disagreed has never been considered a bar to a recommenoement. The Daily Telegraph observes: Mr. Justice Kennedy probably acted in the only way open to him when he decided, after mature deliberation, that as the juror had left the precincts of the court, and gone forth into the contaminating and corrupting atmosphere of ordinary life, he was no longer a fit and proper person to try any prisoner. The result, however, besides being financially serious to Mr. Asplin himself, is also one to be regretted for other reasons. It is distinctly hard on a prisoner to have to endure the ordeal of being tried twice over through no fault of his own. The fifty pounds might, perhaps, be usefully employed as compensation to the prisoner and to the jurors for their loss of time. Yet there is this to be said for the erring jaryman, that if he is to blame for leaving the box those also are to blame who permitted him to do so. There are probably a good any jurymen who, if not conducted to thei.• luncheon room by • bailiff in the usual way, would see no particular harm in lunching elsewhere, especially if they had the added incentive of going to procure and post an "important letter." It is against the law, no doubt, but prudence would dictate that if the law considers it essential to preserve juries from eontact with the outside world it should give them as few opportunities as possible of escaping from durance vile.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-12-24 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXECUTION IN PARIS.  A BURGLAR GUILLOTINED.  A few days since in Paris the murderer, M. Crampon, who, after committing • burglary at the wine-ship of M. Desvois, fired repeatedly upon those who attempted to arrest him, was guillotined, he having teen found guilty of killing two of his pursuers. The crowd outside the Roquette Prison was much smaller than usual, and only • small body of journalists were present within the military cordon in addition to the officials engaged in the execution. The weather was dull and oppressive. The scaffold was erected in the early hours, the guillotine being placed in position at half-past 5, and the horrible paraphernalia was all in readiness for the execution by a quarter-past 6. M. de Paris, the executioner, the Commissary of Police, M. Leygonie, and the investigating magistrate, M. de Cognac Greffier, of the Court of Appeal, entered the gaol at seven o'clock, being reeeived ou the threshold by M. Beauquesne, the director of the prison. They were at once conducted to the cell No. 1 where the culprit had been placed pending the carrying out of the sentence. They found that Crampon had already risen, and was halfdressed. The object of the visit was, of course, known to him instantly, but he bore himself with the greatest fortitude. The Director, M. Beauquesue, said to him that this was the moment for him to prove his courage, to which, however, the convict made no reply. The executioner's assistant at once commenced pinioning him, and making the preparations for the execution, during which Crampon wys asked if he had anything to say, to which he replied, "Justice is too inhuman. What I have to say will go to the tomb with me." In reply to a further question he said, "I don't ask you either to provide me with drink or a smoke." He made hie last confession in a few brief sentences to the Abbe Validier, and then at 10 minutes past 7 the doors of the prison were opened and Crampon was led upon the seaffold. To all outward appearances he was perfectly calm and collected, but careful observers regarded him as being in a totally dazed condition. From the moment that he appeared on the scaffold until he was thrown upon the block by the executioner's assistants he did not remove his eyes from the knife. The work was expeditiously carried out, and at 12 minutes past 7 the convict's head fell Into the basket. The executioner, M. Diebler, stated that although Crampon seemed dazed, when he walked on the scaffold, be bad exhibited the utmost firmness throughout, and died courageously. By half-past 7 all the implements used had been cleared away, and the crowd had entirely dispersed.  One day this week • cabman took to New Scotland-yard • parcel left in his vehicle by a gentleman. It was discovered to contain securities to the value of £15,000. These were claimed by a stock ,roker, but the honest cabman was rewarded with £75. •