The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-03-19 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ALLEGED MURDER OF A GUARDSMAN.  At the Westminster Polite-mutt, on Monday, Patrick Duffey, a private in the Ist Battalion Scots Guards, stationed at Chelsea Barrieits, and Thomas Rushton, a private in the Medinet Staff Corps, of Vincent-square Hospital, were chimed with killing i Ernest Watts, • private n the Bed Battalion Grenadier Guards, outside a publinhouse in fit. Ann's' street, Westminster, late on Saturday night. Both the prisoners gave their age as 22 years.—Prederick Creswell, a private in the Grenadier Guards, deposed that at about 11 o'clock on Saturday night he was in the Three Elms public-house, St. Ann's' street, with his comrade 'Watts. Duffey was there, and a man in the uniform of the Medical Staff Canis; but he could not swear it was Rushton. 111erre was a fight between two civilians,and Duffey plashed one of the men. Watts said that he should not have done it, and witness told Watts to keep quiet. Watts sat down ter about a quarter of an hour, and then walked over to uliey with the idea of making D king friends. Duffey said that they might as well go outside and have it out. Watts said that he did not want any bother. Duffey and the Medical Staff Corps man then rushed at him, knocked him out through the door,so that he fell just outside. As soon as he was down Duffey gave a run and kicked him whilst he was on the gromid, somewhere about the head. Whines went to pick Watts up, and Duffey kicked him (witness) on the right shoulder. He fell down, and some civilians picked him up. As be got up he went to look after the prisoner Duffey, and saw that he was running away down Great Peter-street. A_policernan came and took Watts on a stretcher to Westminster Hospital.—ln answer to the magistrate, the witness said that he saw the Medical Staff Corps man kick Watts after Duffey had kicked him.—Mr. Alexander Cato, senior house physician at Westminster Hospital, said the soldier was brought to the hospital at a quarter to 12 on Saturday night. He wee brought in dead, and must have expired at least • quarter of an hour previously. He was unable at present to state the cause of death. The external injuries on the body were not sufficient to cause death. The external injuries he noticed were a contused and lacerated wound on the left side of the chin, with very little bleeding. There was another small wound on the right side of the upper lip, and a deep bruise on the right side of the neck. That was the only injury which could have caused death. The other two wounds were not sufficient.—The prisoners were remanded in custody until Saturday.  Mrs. Frederick Neihausmyer, a young niarried woman, living at Lima, Ohio, became insane over the continued illness of her baby. She took the infant from its bed, rushed to an _openi cistern and jumped in. Both were drowned. 'lke Hamburg American liner Suevia, which it was feared last week had been lost during the gales, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday after an adventurous passage in consequence of her machinery having broken down in mid-Channel. Mary Walker, or Trainer,36,was found lying dead on Sunday morning in a pool of blood in a court in Jail-square, Glasgow. There were marks of blood on the house floor,and the window was open. Peter Trainer, her busband,who had been quarrelling with her, is in custody. 'Cho sale of the Ilr.iylondr.s collection sN..w York, the greatest sale of books err held in America, has only realised a total a 125,0CA/dol. 4.25,000), their original cost cost being 165,000,1.1. The first edition of Shakespeare's collected plays. published in 1623, fetched 42,000(1,31. (£8,400), and a first edition of Virgil, printed in Venice in 1470, was knocked down fnr 3.000da1. (26001.  J. Page, Bull Street,aor gbildren's Garments; very pretty styles