The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-01-26 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

BRUTAL HOMICIDE AT BRISTOL. A tragedy of a most brutal character was enacted in Bristol early on Tuesday morning under the follow. ing circumstances : .  A man named Samuel Sinnot aged thirty-one, a hawker, longed at the Balmoral Tavern, Lower Castle-street. On the Monday evening he, with his wife, visited the mother of the latter at her residence, Exeter-place, Ilotweil,. where there was a kind of family gathering. About midnight Sinnott and his wife, accompanied by Mrs. Shinott's sister and her mother, left the Botwells, .d tney all proceeded together to the bottom of Castle etreet, where the mother and her daughter parted company with Mr. and Mrs. Sinnott, the two farmer gums Gown Ohl Marketvireet, towards the house of Mrs Sinnot's sister, and Mrs. Sinnott and her husband proceeding towards their lodeings in Lower Castle-street. :Sinnott was perfectly sober. When they arrived at the Balmoral Tavern, the place was closed, and Sinnott knocked for admission Whilst walling for the door to he opened a man named Ware, with whom Sinnott is said to have been on had terms, approached, having in his hands a gun. Upon seeing Sinnott and his wife Ware immediately advanced towards them, exclaiming, "You're the I'll give you knocking at people'. doors Suiting the action to the word, he attacked the man and woman with the weapon, beating Sinnott with savage violence upon various parte of the body. So brutal was the assault that no resistance could be offered by the poor man, and his wife went to his assistance, but she in turn was attacked, and received several blows from the butt end of the gun. injuring her on the head and one of : her arm.. By this time the deceased had been knocked down, unconscious. An alarm, however, had been communicated to the police, and Police-constable Reed went to the spot, and Ware was apprehended and conveyed to the station On Sinnott being also taken there, Police-constable Reed saw that he was Insensible, and therefore ordered the stretcher, and had him conveyed to the Infirmary, but on their arrival at that institution, the house surgeon, having examined the body, at once pronounced life to he extinct. Mrs. Sinnott was likewise lent to the infirmary, where she was detained, the injuries she had sustained being severe. The blows were delivered with such force that the weapon used was broken, a portion of it being picked up on the spot after the termination of the affair Ou Tuesday forenoon the coroner for Bristol opened the inquest upon the body at the infirmary, and took some formal evidence. The inquest was eventually adjournel for a post-mortem examination to he made. The interest excited by the occurrence was intense. Hundreds of people congregated around the gates of the infirmary to catch a glimpse of the sccuted, and the stretts in the vicinity of the Council House wore, later in the day, when the prisoner wat charged with the murder before the magistrates, also densely thronged, so that great difficulty was ,xperienceti in conveying the prisoner along. Ware, who is a shoemaker, is twenty-nine years of age.