The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-11-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TRAGZDY.  day night-shatked by the report of a tragic occurrence at Newport. Happily the annals of the town are comparatively free from records of serious crime. The population is remarkably mixed, and the dangerous element cannot be eonsidered absent. But peace and good order are on the whole well maintained. Under the kindly bat efficient rule of Chief Constable Abbe the police force has for many years dkainguished itself far more by the care and gamer with which it has striven to prevent /serious crime or to make it, commission diffi• colt than by its sternness in hunting down and securing the punishment of notorious or audacious criminals. Unfortunately the Chief Constable and his energetic staff were called upon on Wednesday night to perform the more unpleasant and lesa satisfactory part of their duty. They were required to investigate the facts of an • alleged murder. A working man, a riveter by .trade, who for thirty years has borne the .character of a peaceable citizen, reported that , his landlady was lying at her residence with her throat cut, and that he was responsible for her condition. The Ow is briefly told. There ie no mystery AMA it; and happily it is free from many ii Itis more hideous features by which many tragedies are painfully distinguished. It is simply a practical illustration of the old proverb—Anger is a short madness. The man had returned home from his day's work, and found his lodgings, as usual, attractively homelike. All the outward signs of //the dwelling told of comfort and of the appreciation of comfort. A quarrel, however, broke out between the man and his landlady, and in a sudden outburst of passion he, according to his own confession, committed the deed of blood which speedily terminated her life. Poignant remorse immediately followed the outburst of passion; and the grief-stricken man at once proceeded to deliver himself into the hands of the police. That is the whole story. It is sufficiently sad, and it bears its own moral. The fate of the poor woman and the distress of her family and friends must excite the keenest commiseration; while the resentment felt against the self-accused murderer must he modified by the contrition he displayed, the moment the crime was done, by his voluntary surrender to the authorities, and by his desire to prevent suspicion falling on anyone else. His thirty years life in Middlesbrough, and his conduct after the death of the woman who ministered so assiduously to his comfort during the past twelve months, show that, notwithstanding the terrible crime which must now he laid to his charge, he is not a nia.n of exception. allydepraved character. Thefact, however,that a man of his stamp and type should have figured in such a tragedy gives a warning to all classes of the temptations and dangers which surround all deflections from the path of virtue. A man of quick temper or of easily excited passion may commit in a fit of ungovernable excitement a crime which may produce as much misery as s premeditated deed of blood.  TUN member for MiddlesTHE Ikacroes brongh wishes his conAND THE stituency to be abreast of L