The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-02-26 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUPPOSED MURDER.  An investigation was lately held as to the death of a woman named Mary Ann Pearson, 54, of Albert-street Great Grimsby. On the morning of the Bth Feb. the husband gave deceased a sovereign, and she at once commenced drinking. She was addicted to habits of intemperance, and many quarrels between the husband and wife were caused thereby. On the evening of the day above. named, the deceased reached her lodgings about six o'clock very drunk, and commenced preparing tea for her husband, who (also intoxicated) reached home about seven o'clock, and went up-stairs to his room, and an altercation was then heard to commence with regard to the sovereign, and from the evidence of a woman named Mary Ann Drew, the wife of a fisherman who lived in the same house, the husband repeatedly threatened to kill the woman, who was then heard to fall down the stairs. The woman Drew, with her sister, hastened to the stairs, and there found the deceased crouffied down with her head between her knees, and the husband following down the stairs; he then, from the evidence of Drew and her sister, a young girl 15 years old, named Dinah Webb, struck deceased on the head and kicked her in the back. The women then, with the assistance of a brother, got the woman into their own kitchen and placed her in a chair and then left her. Alice Webb, the mother of the former witnesses, on reaching home at 11 o'clock, found the deceased lying on the door, and in great pain. On being asked by the wi!ness what she was doing there, deceased replied something about her husband doing, but she had not sufficient strength to make herself understood. Witness then went up to the husband, who was in bed, and asked him to get his wife upstairs. The reply from him was, "I will not; I have tried my best with her; I can do no uod with her; and she may lay where she is." Witness then left him, and having put a pillow under deceased's head, left her for the night, and the woman lay in the same position until the husband came home to his dinner. The deceased complained of a pain in the back of the neck, and she had no use in her limbs. The husband was again asked to take his wife upstairs' and after a time he, with the help of two men, carried her to her bed. The witness then frequently saw deceased, and perceived that she was gradually sinking. On Sunday she urged the husband to send for a medical man, but his reply was he did not know where to get one. On Wednesday night, on witness going to the room with one of her daughters, they found the deceased much worse, and apparently dying. They then went in search of a doctor, and eventually succeeded in procuring the attendance of Mr. J. E. Hoyle, of Cleethorpe's.road, whose services, however, were of little avail, the woman succumbing to her injuries at half-past one on Thursday morning last. On the evening of the same day the husband was taken into custody by the police, and on the following day he was taken before the magistrates at the borough police-conit and remanded. On the afternoon of the same day an inquiry into the cause of death was opened, and adjourned till a post.mortem examination be made.  "