The Herald of Wales. — 1889-02-16 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MOLE ABOUT THE RAZOR.  NNW POINTS IN TEE CASE.  BlIftiNGE CABE OF MISTAKEN ID/INTIM  .TbeSwaeea Moe Court w.s tilled at an sarly boor on Thuredsy morning by an ex peotant mowdtin satimpotion of the magi.. serial itquiry into the guilt or o:bctw'se of Themes Allen, who is to emooly on the chug* at murdering Freerick Getrgo Kent at the Olo'eter Hotel, on the nictr.ing of Sunday last. The magistrates on the D.neh were—Bin Wor.hip the Mayor (Ald.llllllfB JcnPe),tfessrs. 7. C. Fowler, (stipendiary), J. G. Halt, J. 0. Vv.-Permitter, A. Mason E. F. Daniel, and J. Clarke Rieborde_r. fa the Grand Jury ullery a number of ladies were accommodated with tells.  Mr W. R. Smith appeared- In ccurt for the are time Awe hiaillatea, and was vety cordially retieind by the credide of the mut. Hs was engaged by She L'it need Victualeas of Swansea to proeettute on behalf of lira kent, wiiVe Captain Coll:photon watobei the CAO/0 on behalf of the polmo. For tha prisoner Mr T. G. Wiliama, of Llauddo and Swansea, appeared. The learned gentleman haft been fully instrnetad by the prisoner, and cross-examined the witnor-sea with the idta of proving that the poisoner Itad no burglarious intention in being in the Gloster on Sunday night, and that the V 011.1,38 011 Mr Kent were inflicted in selfdefence.  itluor tie inqusst the polio° have been making Ziligent inquiries' ooncernlng the prisoner's ante° ,clents,isnd have secured meet valuable intormatim. In the first plum, they have proved to their own satisfaction that the prisoner le not the man who wart to sea four menthe ago in the B.& Katie of Louden in company with a min named Dickensoc, of Moamar]. They have Lund the man Dickenson and confronted him with the primmer, and he has Mated that pzitoner was not the man who lodged in his house, while Mrs Shepherd was there. Mrs Shepherd therefore in recognising the Flamer as the man who had stayed ill Plaamarl, and whom she in company with Mr a Dickinson bad watched to fft, was the victim of • ease of mistaken identity. This is certainly an extraordinaryi.ident that bleak men are so much alike, mistakes of this kind are easily made. The police also find that the .prisoner exactly corresponds with the descalption furnished them by the Newport pollee of the oolcured wan Tom Allen, who was sentenced to six months Imprisonment for stealing a gild watch there in Jure last. There to one distinguishing mark about the prisoner and about the Newport catch staalee, which is pecnaliair, and that is a veil defined dext, or soar, upon the left Lrehead. _ .  The police have important evidence of the accquainumoe of the prisoner:with the Glo'ster Botel, and will be able to ahow that the piemur had been in there before the night of the murder. With regard to the razor it appears that Mr Barnett, hairdreseer, Ynstern Buildings, lost a razor quite recently and suspects that it was dolma from his shop. 'Abe rsz.ir bound on the floor of the room, however, was not of the kind lost, and Mr Barnett states, haying examined the razor need in the murder that it is not of the kind generally used. It is a moustache razor, quite a toy affair, and would be used only by men such as the prieozier who had but little hair on the Gee. There is only one place in Swansea where such razors are sold and that is the ironmuigery establishment of Mr John Evans. When the minor cases had been disposed of C•ptain Oolquhoun, speaking to Detective Morris, who was on duty in the prisoner's dock, said, .'Put up Allen," and the ooloured culprit was artoordingly ushered into the dock where he was accommodated with a seat. The prisoner when arrested, called Unite f a Zulu, and said he was from Liandula. The le ay he pronounced ale word plainly showed that he lied, for a Zulu would have called the piece Isandwilians, the name it bears among the natives. Allen is in short, a West Indian Digger, but a good looking and more than ordinarily pluckfspeeimen of the race. TiH prisoner followed Mr Smith's able opening epee& with close inierest, and certain portione a the address created no little sens,tian amongst the audience.