Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1890-02-01 ()

DETAILS.  From enquiries' we have made, we learn from Mr Albert Moseley, who has charge of the branch shop of Mr Beech, next door to the shop of the late Mr Davies its Victoria-street, that the story he has told of the significant cry heard from the lips of the deceased about 9-15 on Saturday night is quite true; and Mr Moseley, says that although doubt has been thrown upon his statement, he feels that what he accidentally heard will yet be found to be one of the chain of facts connected with the unfortunate case. Mr Moseley's statement is that at the time mentioned above he was in the back yard of Mr Beech's shop when he heard MrDavies' voice,with which he was very familiar, saying "Loose me! Loose me I Loose my throat." The words were uttered in a way that indicated a struggle was proceeling between the speaker and someone else. Mr Moseley said when he reached the door leading to Davies's back yard the noise ceased, and he did not! hear any footsteps. There is a large shed which etands , between the two yards, and consequently this would prevent Mr Moseley hearing whether any struggling ,tQQk place after he had heard Davi4a voice. Mr. Moseley further states that he Went into 0118 yard some time afterwards, but he did not hear anything farther. The arrest of Richard and George Davies, (*the sons of the murdered man) on the charge of having killed their own father, takes away some of the interest attaching to the story of the attack by two unknown then, as described by the younger prisoner, and besides 'throwing doubt on the truth of the story, brings into prominence a number of incidents which cast suspicions upon .the prisoners, which incidents we should have been reluctant to publish had not the police taken the responsibility of arresting and bringing the accused before the magistrates on Wednesday. The story of the attack as narrated by the son George, seemed in some degree to lack consistency, but that might charitably and reasonably be attributed to the state of mind incidental to the startling position in which the youth alleged that he was placed, People have also wondered how he escaped the man behind the trap, who must have had a murderous weapon in his hand. One curious fact in connection with the case is that Richard Davies, junior, should alone have, ventured himself in the some-pony trap along the same lonely war, which, possibly, the alleged murderers had taken when escaping from the scene of the crime. It is more remarkable still that when he found the police in Crewe be did not tell them that his father was dead, or had been dead or murdered—although he knew he was dead—,but only told them that his father had been knocked down and robbed. We learn from an old inhabitant of The Hough that there is a short cut from the scene of the murder to the part of the village where the White Hart Inn and the cottage of the Davies' family, which would only take about four minute P to traverse. On Wednesday morning, Inspector Oldham and another officer from Crewe, and afterwards Colonel Hamersley, the Chief Constable of Cheshire, were in the village, and, we believe, the clothes which the two youths wore on the night of the murder were removed from the cottage. We were informed also in the village that it is not true, as previously stated, that rs Davies went from her cottage with her sons to the spot where her husband had met his death.. It is also §tated, on reliable authority,- that °My- the sons went first to the scene cif the erirne;• and it is evident, on an inspection of the • surroundings. of the place. that if an alarin adequate to the horror of the occasion had bee- raised, many people would soon have been on the spot befote the, assailants of Air Davies could have goe. • away.