The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-12-22 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TIIE CHESTERFIELD MURDER.  At the Derbyshire assizes, on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Lush, Samuel Watts, aged 36, shoemaker, was charged with the %IMO murder of his wife, at Chesterfield, on the Bth of November last. Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Kennedy pr, scented; Mr. Blackburn defended. The facts of the case wit; be gathercd from the opening speech of the learned counsel for the prosecution. It appears that pri,oner had been residing at Chesterfield, and got his living as a journeyman shoemaker. He had a wife and two children—one a boy six yeats of age, and the other, one and a half years. On the night of the 7th of November (from the statement of the elder boy). the whole of the family retired to rest; the father, mther, and infant sleeping together, and the elder boy, Edward Wallis, at the foot of the bed. Early next morning, the elder boy was awoke by a no se, and directly afterwards he heard his mo,her screaming, at the same time a quantity of blood "spurted" from deceased upon the lad. Immediately afterwards deceased fell over by the side of the bed, and never spoke afterwards. Prisoner then left the house. The boy then got up, and told a neighbour and Mrs. Hopkinson, who mother-in-law of the prisoner. She went and foetid deceased dead. Mr. Bluett, surgeon, was call, d in and examined the wounds. There was one between the fingers. A second wound went up the coEar bone into the breast. Mr. Bluett made a post-mortem examination of the body, and gave ii as his opinion that the wound on the breast caused , death. Active search was made for the prisoner, and on Thursday morning, the Bth November, at ! two o'clock, he was found by Inspector Brady, of ; the Derbyshire police, in a pit cavern, at Walton. !near Chesterfield, in the occupation of Mrs. I Ludlam, but so disfigured by ilia as to be scarceb recognisable. He asked the inspector if his wile was dead, and on receiving a reply in the alfirmatire, he said, "she must have put me about my I much," adding also, "and there were !mire. about."—Witnesses were called in support of the learned counsel's statement, after which 31r. Blackburn addressed the jury, urging that prisoner was not responsible for his acts. He called Mr. Gisborne, surgeon to Derby Gaol, who gave evidence to that effect.—The jury, altor being absent about two hours, returned into court w,th a verdict of guilty, and recommended him to mercy.—Ht" Lordship then passed sentence of death in the usual form.  Two goods trains came into collision at Aytoun on Sunday morning, detaining London trains by three hours. They hal to come round by Kelso and Et %moll's.  It is reported that the body of Dumas w;11h removed from Puy to Pere-la-Chaise, wh-re a eplendid monument to the autuor of " ,Ifente Christo" will be erected.  During the last month the receipta of the Paris theatres amounted to 1,309,330 f. being 115,616 i. less than in November, 1869, when, however, there were two more theatres open. At Lahore a newspaper is about to ho publish° l hi Arabic. The Arab press is becoming extoisive. It has urgans in Egypt, Syria, Bagdad, Canstantinopie, Barbary, and now in India. Herr Antoine Rubinstein, the pianiit and composer, had an enthusiastic reception at the fir,t of the philharmonic concerts in Vienna. He is director of the Viennese Conserva oire.  Two new dramatic works by Dr. W. Jordan— Graf Drente," in five acts, and " Tiiuschungen," a "comely, in five acts—will shortly be uroduzel at one of the principal German theatres.