The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1870-05-13 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUCCESSFUL APPEAL FROM A COURT MARTIAL.— house. She went 'a few doors and 'orrowed a Recently, Arniourer Sergeant Sinton, 42nd Royal butcher'a knife. She. then proceeded to District Highlanders, was observed by the adjutant in the School No. 13, and calling out her son James, aged , lines of the 33rd Regiment, at Aldershot, in cornsevering years, cut his throat from ear to ear, nearly pany with the armourer sergeant of that regiment, severing his head from his body. A little boy a , named Burnett came out of school with James, and and wearing his working dress. The adjutant sent I witnessed the murder. Mrs. Marsh, after committing to him the bandmaster of the 42nd to inform him the horrible deed, rushed at the boy Burnett, but that he had taken notice of the irregularity. Sinton , he ran and escaped. She then return ~ leo"All right," understanding that the banded to her home frner was giv. g lli him friendly advice, and not and went in the back yard, where another son, '""'" placing him in arrest, for the latter continued to William, aged seven years. was swinging, his little , sister, Mary Jane, aged four years, being at play walk away, On the following day the adjutant asked Sinton if he was not aware that he had been ' near by. She seized William and cut his throat, , „,„„ai , placed under arrest, and, on Sint= replying in the I causing instant death, and I,,iiitgtr.j.,:i !negative, he ordered him to the confinement of his I her little girl and applied her weapon, , room, whence he was subsequently marched as a I her head. She then went into the house an I eut ntted prisoner before the commanding officer, and the fob the throat of her youngest child, George, lowing charges were read to him:—" First, conduct about two years and five months. The h nolai];‘,l to the prejudice of good order and military discipline in having been out of his lines improperly nearly severed from the body. She next *mei' 1 i. ,dreesed ; secondly, breaking his arrest while in arher mother, aged about fifty-four, and very f . cutting her throat so terribly that she cantio(t4l.si'ii:ll:rest before being set at liberty by proper authority. vire. Mrs. Marsh, the murderess, Countyis Kgee;ri " I 'lie was tried by a regimental court martial, and I twenty-seven, was born in the • ' Y, rtl- Ibmund guilty 011 the first charge and not guilty on I land, and has been in the United States abo it 3s. per \ 3., ahr: 'th ranks and foe second. Hifi punishment was reduction to the twenty years. She was married some ninerfeiture of pay amounting to day. ago, in this city, to William Marsh, a barber, It appeared that he was not aware that any partien, left her about eighteen months since to find enip oyler dress was, defined for armourer aergeantsduring ment elsewhere. He is now said to live in New working hours, and that when in the lines of the York City. The reputation and character of Mrs. Marsh is said to have been very good. She was un33rd regiment he was there for the purpose of inviting Armourer Sergeant Lamb to dine with him doubtedly temporarily insane when committing the mcording to fraternal custom, the 33rd Regiment murders. The faces of the murdered children, as having, just arrived from Portsmouth. The !melee. they lie side by side to-night, are as placid and lars of the case were embodied le a memorial to the calm as if they were composed in sweet sleep. They Field Marshal Commanding in Chief, who wed an are dressed neatly, in the same clothes they wore irder to the commanding. officer to reinstate So ton, when killed. At nine o'clock t o-night the mother, who has been reinstated accordingly in his former who is confined at the Eastern Police-station, was. ank and position, and receivee his back pay. conscious of her deeds.—Neau York Times, Aerd 23.