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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-12-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

REMARKABLE TRIAL FOR MURDER.—The following in the gallant Captain's programme of the weather ftorn case was tried on Wednesday, before MrJustice Keating Christmas till the end of January.—' December 26 to at the Midland Assizes, held in Leeds. A young man January 18—hard frost likely to prevail ; January 19 to DaMt d John Glynn was charged with having, or the 6th 22—fall of snow, with high winds; January 23 to cal of November, 1855, at Otley, murdered a lad named of month—sleet, with rain.' " Richard Jewett, by stabbing him in the abdomen, so The case against Mr Thomas Reynelds, the Secretary that he died' The evidence proved that the boy Jowett of the Anti-Tobacco Seciety, was heard at the Westwas, on the evening in question, playing with several mineter Polieemourt Monday. A Mr Inns& had been 'other boys in the streets, Ile was found afterwards lying threatened with proceedings for smoking at the Barnes on the pavement, in great agony, and, being removed station of the South-Western Railway. ILO WAS told home, a serious wound was found in his abdomen, where that proceedings would be taken at the instance of he had apparently been stabbed. He was able to speak the Anti-Tobacco Society, and he wrote to the defendant but very little before he died. His mother deposed that on the subject. In reply he received a letter, which at that time the prisoner was brought into the room informed him that if he chose to pay the flne-40s—to with other boys, and that her son said to her he believed the man who made the charge against him, no proceed, Glynn WES the boy who had stabbed I im. But no action, proceedings weeld be taken. Instead of ding so he took out a a summ , A against Mr Reyntilds for seeking to extort appears to have been then taken on this. In October, money. In his examinetion,on Tuesday, he said the threat Glynn was arrested on the information of a companion of his named Leathley, and charged with the murder which if proceedings did not put him in any fear, and therefore bad happened nine years before. The man, Leathley, the magistrate held that the case failed technically. Mr deposed that in 1855 he was the companion -of Glynn, Selfe however, strongly reprehended the course taken and they worked in the same mill. On the night of the by the society.  murder he, with Glynn, walked to Oticy, wh re they Ila the boy Jewett standing near a lamp-pest, Thtre was ill-blood between Glynn and Jewett, the witnees said, because the latter had beaten alynn'a brother. The prisoner crossed over the road, knocked the boy down, drew a knife, and stabbed him. Leathley said he did not t-11 all he knew at the time, because Glynn threatened him if he did, lie was absent from the place after that, but returned ultimit •ly to work there, and he bore this evidence now in crnsequence of a recent quarrel he had with the prisoner. The jury concurring with an observation of the judge as to the character of the informer's evidence, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-05-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

REPORT FROM MONMOUTH AND SOUTH \V ALES.  [From the Mining Journal]  May 19.—1 t was stated in last week's report that the demand for iron had received a check, owing to the advame in the rat , of discount, and this week I have to chronicle a still greater check, in consequence of the announcement that the Federal Government intend to raise the import charges to 50 per cent. This is a vry serious matter to the ironmasters and tin-plate mak, rs of this country generally, as America is a large customer for both iron and tin-plates, and the shipments to that country within the last six mor.tha have been tar above I what was , xpected. The books of the makers up to the present are well filled with orders, and the works are in regu!ar empl ,y. The Aberrant Iron Company are ! extending operations at Llwydcoed, and the Golynos Iron Company are about to blow in another furnace. The Co.l Ttade is, upon the shale, in an active state. and the demand continues brisk; for both house and steam coal. The remarkably powerful new pumpingengine has been completed at Abercarn, and this colliery promises to become ono of the most extensive and valuable in the locality. fhe rumour is again revived that the joint.stoek principle is about to be applied to one of the local colliery firms, one of the partners will retire. It is also reported a similar plan will be adopted in the case of an iron company, and the erg ital required in this instance will be very large. Another, and I am certain a very pleasing report to the working classes, is that the shops are to be dune away with at Abernant, Llwydcoed, and Plymouth. If l this should prove correct, Mr Fothergill will be one of the most popular employers on the hills. The new copperore whams ofM, sore Elford, Williams, and Co., Swansea, are now completed, and in working ord. r, having been constructed, and arranged at a very considelab!a outlay. They are named the "Swansea Copper Ore Wharves," and comprise the newest improvements in this, the staple trade of the port. There is storage accomodation for between 6000 to 8000 tons of ore, sod the floors of the wharves are all chalk and cr to, thus preventing waste. The yards are all carefully covered in, and every precaution taken to prot,ct the valuable substance of which the wharves are to be the receptacle. They are situated close to the river-aid, and the machinery for crushing is so arranged that the engine hoists the ore out of the vessel and crushes it at the same time. The engine and machinery ale new, and .f the best possible description, everything having bean select, d with the view of providing the most perfect tamilues for the purposes intended.  At Dorf ,r,l a little girl has been po:foned through Ic; butt mum A man named Riley was executed at Glaarw on Mo day morning, for the murder of a woman Lady.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-10-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TUE ALLEGED MURDER IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.  On Saturday last it was currently reported that a commercial traveller, travelling in a first-class carnage near Llanelly, on the South Wales line, was attacked by two ruffians who were in the same compartment ; that they fired a pistol at him, which fortunately missed him; that they then robbed him of £l4O in cash, his gold watch, and his luggage ; and that they afterwards made their escape out of the door. A Bristol paper of .Ntonday morning even goes so far as to publish the following from a correspondent "who has a reputation for general accuracy .." " A report reached Cardiff on Saturday night of a gentleman (a commercial) hating hem murdered and robbed while travelling in a railway carriage, near Llsoilly. It is stated that he was shot, and plundered of £240. The guard of the train hea,d the report of the pistul, anal saw two men running away." The facts of the case are simply as follow :—A young man named Davies, who is said to he a native ot Cardigan, was paying his addresses to a young lady living ja Bigh-street, Swansea, who, in addition t i her personal thaarms, was possessed of a very desirable amount of ready money. The father of the young lady, having made some enquiries relative to the young suitor, did not look upon his claims with a favourable eye, and declined to allow him to continue paying his attentions to his daughter. On Friday evening last, while yet suffering from his disappointment, Mr Davies entered a first class carriage at Llanelly station, intending to proceed to Swansea. On the arrival of the train at tho next station (Loughor), the attention of the guard was called to a first•class carriage with the door open. In this carriage Mr Davies WHS discovered, apparently in a state of complete stupor. On being aroused, he made a statement to (lie effect that two men who were in the swine compartment had offered him a bottle containing liquor, of wliiji he partook, and which he found to " burn his inside." They then (according to Davies's statement) fired a pistol at him, which missed him ; and having robbed him of £250, a gold watch and his luggage, they threw the bottle out of the window, and on appro aching Loughor bridge, where the train slackens its pare, they jumped ont. This is Mr Davies's story, but it is not considered to be perfectly reliable. The guard says he heard the report of a pistol, and very possibly Mr Davies fired a pistol and swallowed a small quantity of sulphuric acid, and somehow or other, in the strange way in which myths and legends do from time to time arise, imagined himself the victim of the robbery. As to his having £260, that is believed to be quite "unhistorical." On his arrival in Swansea he was found to be suffering considerably from the sulphuric acid which he had taken, and Dr T. Williams was called in. On Monday he was so far recovered as to be able to leave Swansea by train, and it to to be hoped he will lose no time in retracing his steps to hia native hills in Cardiganshire.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-11-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SUNDAYS. allowed him his own why. Providentially the engine- am ain p m am aim pm -driver found it necessary to atop at Vantage-road, and Swansea dep. 81011 0 4 0 .. .. Llandovery I succeeded in obtaining aid, and had him remuved. If Llanelly ..(S. W. R. St.) :012 0 5 5 .. ..Lampeter Road I.lanelly Docaa 5 12 5 510 .... Llangadock 915 12 0 we had been compelled to run all the way to Swindon, itynea .. „ . Heaven, who preserved us, only knows what might have • Llangerniech happened" The writer adds,—"No e, I thinkyou willagree Pontardulais .. .. .. • • with me when I say that it was a shameful outrage to put Pantg o ly, non 94012 43 548 Fairfach t, dep civilized people. True it is we were only second-class passengers, but that is not sufficient reason—at least to us—why we should have been terrified almost out of our Sul:nudffgine lives, and disgusted to loathing by the conduct of this 40 drunken scoundrel. Never did I feel so utterly helpless. Fairfach 10 I put my head out of the window, and I called till I became hoarse, and, although the guard was within a i few yards, we might have been murdered for any help e him: oti-t-h-a-tjs'iZ I he could have rendered, and all this in open day, and on me neaviest ut them emote , the Great Western Railway ! Perhaps if the wives and I.l' daughters of some of the directors had been in the carriage something might have come of it, but of course as they travel in the first class such a thing is not likely to happen to them; and yet poor Briggs's case shows us that even there people are nut safe. How long will the GC:or:7 .... „ 933 .. 640 .. .. Llandeble Cross Inn .... arr. 10 b - 5 55 .. .. • Duffryn a Derwydd Road la.,l4a..anldlaile Road Glanryhyd Llangadoek Lamoeter Road dovery 01020 - 610 .. .. PantylTynon 945 12 47 553 _ .. 950 12 50 557 .. .. 955 12 55 8 0 .. .. 10 5 1 5 6 5 .. .. 10 10 1 I 1 6 10 .. 10 15 1 15 6 15 .. 10 20 1 20 6 20 . 10 26 1 25 6 25 .. 10 30 1 30 6 30 .. 10 40 140640 .. Gamant Hutment .. Pontardnlala .. • Llangenneeh _ I Rynea .. Llanelly Dock 955 12 40 45 .. •• 10 0 12 43 50 .. ••• dep. 920 .. Cross Inn .... „ 936 ... Cross Inn .... arr. 10 5 .. „ 10 20 .. 10 12 12 55 10 18 1 3 55 .. 10 25 110 15 10 34 120 24 .. • • .. Llanelly .. (S. W. R. St.) 10 40 125 30 - • • • Swansea 0 Harn_a_nt Passengers will be se down or taken up at Gellyeeldrlm or Cross Rays, if required. so- All Tr Ins are Is), 2nd, Mt 3.d Class.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-04-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CASE OF SHO MN° A POLICEMAN IN SWAN4EA.  Tge Thompson, chronometer maker, was charged, that het on the let July, 1862, did firc a gun at Policeconstable Henry l'engelly, discharging the 0 intcriti at tam, with the intention thereby, of his malice-aforethcw,ht, ti kill and murder the svid Henry l'engelly. As stated in our lait, the prisoner absconded at the time, and was not apprehended till last week. P.c. Pengehy (31) gave the following evidence :-1 mu one of the constables of the borough police haw of Swahsea. About 20 minutes past 1 on the morning of the Ist July, 1862. I was on duty in the Oystermouthroad, when I heard a row in Paxton-place. I went there and found the prisoner making a great diAuroance, shouting, &c., within the rails before his own house. I went within four or five yards of him and said, " Mr. Thompson, don't make this noise, you are disturbing the whole neighbourhood." He replied, " Yon are the —I wan't to see, rii have your bloody life," and turned round and ran into his house. Presently I heard some one inside cry out " father's got the gun." I retired a few paces. He came out and said "You— ['ll blow your brains out." He raised the gun to his shoulder, and while he did so, I began to change my position, in order to avoid the shot. He fired the gun, and wounded me in the left arm. I then ran towaida '  him. When I was within two yards of him be raised the butt end of the gun as if he meant to strike. me. He dropped it however, and ran into the house and shut the door. I did not attempt to go into the house after him, but walked in another direction, and met police-constable Thomas Morgan, and a civilian named Turner. I said to the former, " Torn, there's no mistake, he's wounded me, come and break the door open," but he made no reply. This is the great coat I had on when I was fired at (producing a great coat, the sleeve of which was perfectly riddled with shot). The woubds were examined by Mr. Essery, about half an hour afterwards. I was seven week.r confined without being able to do anything. The prisoner immediately absconded from the town and I did not see him till he was brought here last Thursday. The police-constable alluded to was dismissed the force at the time.  Mr T. A. Essery, surgeon, said :—I examined the wounds of Police-constable Pengelly about two o'clock on the morning of the let July, 1862. I found a severe gun-shot wou.nd in the left arm, extending from the breast up to the shoulder. I attended him from that time to the 16th of August, when I discharged him cured. I extracted several shots, but there are some still remaining which could not be removed in consequence of the position they were in. This concluded the case, and when the prisoner was asked if he had anything to say, he replied, " I wish to reserve my defence."  He was then committed to take his trial at the
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-09-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CAPTURE OF MULLER. (From the Globe.) The telegraph has flashed up the news this morning that on the 24th of August Francis Muller was arrested on board the 'Victoria,' with the watch and hat of Mr Briggs in his possession. It is now nearly nine weeks since the body of Mr Briggs was found ; and since Muller embarked in the 'Victoria.' On the 9th of July the foul crime was committed; the suspected murderer put the broad ocean between himself and the long arm of the law. In spite of this device to escape, his pursuers actually arrived before him, and forty days after he quitted the Thames he fount himself a prisoner in New York. Ile made many mistakes, but his greatest was in taking a passage in a sailing ship. Ile might have known that steam wluld frustrate him if the police alighted on the broad trail he had left behind. But, although it was reasonable to suppose that the steamer would beat the sailer, yet it was not reasonable to suppose that Muller would bear w.th him to America the watch and hat of the murdered man. In a dark night he might easily have dropped the watch over the vessel's side, and have contrived to lose his hat in the first gale of wind. He did neither the one nor the other. He clung to the watch. He kept the fatal tell-tale hat. Whether he be innocent, as he alleges, or guilty as most persons believe, there is at all events evidence against him far stronger thin that upon faith in which many a felon has paid the forfeit of his life. Indeed, some truly surprising facts must come to light, before we can be convinced that Muller is not the right man. Here is a murder and robbery. Whoever killed Mr Briggs took from him his watch and chain,  and in the hurry of a moment, when set:mule were precious, the man who killed Mr Briggs took the hat of his victim and left his own. The man who killed Mr Briggs exchanged the chain he had captured for another, and left behind him the box in which that new chain had been packed. Pressed for mon( y, 11.2 was obliged to pawn his new acquisition, and still furth-r pressed, to sell the pawn-ticket to a fellow-countryman. But he kept the watch; he kept the hat. Hurried to depart, he even forgot that a photograph of his face remained in London, and even when he had embarked he had the imprudence to write a letter indicating his track Now the man who transacted business with Mr pc ath—name ot evil omen for him—the man who sold the pawn. ticket, the man who gave a little child the jeweller's card-board box to play with, the man who took the wrong hat, leaving his own as, at first, the sole clue to him, is Francis Muller, the man upon whose person or in whose luggage have been found the hat and watch of the murdered man. This is all circumstantial evidence, but how closely ole fact follows on the heels of another, until the last link of the chain is found at New York. Muller may be innocent; he will have a fair trial ; and if he be innocent, that innocence must be proved. The drama is not over, but we have reached another act, and, to all appearance, it is the last but one.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-08-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NON-PAYINCHT OP POOR RATES—Samuel -Wilson, farmer, of Knelstone, was summoned by the overseers of Ktielstone for the proportion of poor rate, amounting to 16+.—In the absence of Nfr Ga+koin, who could prove the letting cf the farm, defendant applied for an adkiurnment.—The two overseers had come fourteen miles for the purpose of sppearing in this case, and the defendant was informed that in the case of an adjournment he would have to pay their expenses. The defendant said he entered on the farm in Knelstone, in December, and he then agrced with the former tenant that he should pay the taxes. The Bench, however, said the defendant was liable to the overseers, whatever agree• ment he might have made with other parties.—The rate was made in November, and the amount he would have to pay was 17s 6s in addition to cos's, altogether £1 13s 91.  1110NDAY.—Before EM. Richards, El., and Dr  Howell.  William Ford and William Weston were charged by P.c. Joshua Rid ards (41) with being drunk and disordefly between one and two o'clock on Sued ly morning, Ihe constable said : I was on dety near Sloane st. and It a-d a noise in the timber yard. The defendant, Ford was with a prostitute, and they were all very drunk and mak:ng a great disturbance. I requested them to go away, but Ford only lau;hed at in.. I t ink hold of lovril, but the defendant Weston threatened that if I did not let him go he would dash my brains out Shortly afterwards the prisoner made his escape, and Weston let go his hold of me. The defendant Ford weet into a honse and I again arrested him And brought him to the Station. West ra said hr did not interf re but that he went with the prosecutor to look for anther c Instable. The Head Constable did not press the charge against Weston, and the magistrates accordingly discharged him. Ford was fined Ss. 61, including costs. Elizabeth Morris applied for sureties of the peace against her husband David Morris, wko had threatened to take her life on Thursday night week, the night of. the regatta, while she was in bed. After threatening her he took out his knife and flourished it over her. 'rho defendant when asked if he wished to cross-exatnin. the plaintiff, entered into a long rambling statement to the effect that he had missed several things out of the hott-.0 which he afterwards found she had taken to a certain house in College-st. On one occasion, having missed his marriage certificate he asked her what had bee-ime of it, and she replied that she had burnt it. On anther occasion she was going to take a silk dress and burn, but he to prevent her took hold of it and deliberately cut it up. His wife cried out "murder" and several of the neighbours came running in. The Bench reminded him that all this had nothing to do with the question then before them, and asked him if he hod ariyteing to may in answer to the charge. He continued his statement for some time, and was at length bound over—himself in £2O. and two sureties in £lO, each
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-01-16 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TERRIBLE MITRDER BY AN ARTIST AT ,5L71:11,,Y.  A SWEETHF: eNT OFDIJOED AND kIITHDERED. 'We have been keying a surfeit of horrible ,rimes recently, but the latest, which has been perpetrated at Godalming, Surrey, when the ..ircum,terseee surrounding it are taken into eensuleration.appears to be tho most dietreeeing of them all. It appears that on Nlonday evenintt an artist, named Jeukies, en'iced hie sweetheart, 1141110,1 Emily Joy, CI girl of It, tomo his studio, which is nitueted in • garden almost in the oeutre of the town. He trot eento.d her, and then strangled her and inade off, looking up the place. On Tueedsy, he walled into the 'Punchbowl Inn, about ten miles chstanland confessed the crime. The landlora at once took him to Onildford, and hooded him over to the police, to whom he ma e a statement. Two eon-.tables were sent over to Godelming, and foiled the body as deecribed by the prisoner. The fine wile a , horrible eight, a haneserchief teing stuffed , into the mouth, and a hoe tied tightly round the neck. Jenkins, who is, of course, in custody, is quite calm and collected,end maintains , an almost stolid indifference. When questioned by Superintendent Berry. of the Guildford police, he said that the girl was the daughter of the woman with whom he lo tged, and that he was engaged to her. Ile had enticed her into his studio, which was :Amsted some distance from their house, and had ravished her and .ben strangled her. Jenkins then handed over the key of the studio to Soperint,o3dent Berry. After making this statement he became very excited, and expressed a hope that he might be hanged. Be wee detained in ousVely. A later telegram saye:—The chocking murder of Emily Joy at God 'ming has caused the greatest senastion in the town and neighbourhood. A resident, William Ede, Rays he heard screams coming from the direction of Summer House on Menday, but did not know where they came from. The owner of the place was several times in the garden with a man servant whilst the corpse lay in reummer House. The prisoner says ho had on prospect in life, and he cornmuted the hurible deed in obedience to sudden impulse.  The inquest on the young woman' amed Jot, I who was murdered by an artist named Jenkins, on aonday night, was held at Godelmiog to. day. '!ho mother of the deceased produced a I.2tter written by prisoner, in which he said he mil Foamy were going for otter; they it ved each her dearly and swore they would never , part ; be asked that both might he buried in , one gtave. Dr. Newman, who conducted the po-t-mortem examination, said that death was sausei by strangulation, end the girl was violated before her death. The Chief Constable I ended in a written statement signed by prisoner, in which he said he took ' th-, gitl into his studio, when a mad feeling came over him, and he caught her IT the throat, and as she was dying he gasped "Good bye, darling, I am dying." 1 The jury retained a verdict cf wiltul murder, and they wave their fees to Mrs. Joy, who is in poor eitenmatanors.