The Herald of Wales. — 1890-11-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FENALII 6XLECHMIL.B SVCDZSCIL  It i; uMleratCl-o-d-thai tfe-e-v.icrenne----74 Mrs. Sorrell, female searcher at the Kaolin/2 Town Police Station, will not be called until towards the closes of the case.  Did Mrs Piercy Commit the Murder without an Accomplice?—A Parallel Scotch Case —The Irritation of the London Mob.  To quostion is much debated- -Cordd a oursparatively small-sired woman, like Mrs. Mercy, commit a murder in t> way described m the proceedings respecting the Hampstead trtgedy P 'rho answer , the proof is found in • notorious Scotch osae, known as " The Sandiford Itarder," -- • little Glasgow _ _ full woman, named Jewels f Lachlan, killed a fullbodied female friend, named Jessie McPherson. The two women had been frisnds, and one night tho woman McLachlan visited McPherson—an unmarried woman, housekeeper for • family named Fleming. All of the Fleming family, save the grandfather, were from home at the time of the tragedy, and the murdered woman lay for two days in • looked room, which the notoriously - inetnisitive old man had not the curiosity to unlock. The police, in the first inetanoe, reached the conclusion that the old man was guilty of the crime. In the Hampstead tragedy the aroused woman Fleecy, or Wheeler, was saspwAed by her tots:Wet on seeing the body of the victim. In the Glasgow case the woman McLachlan was su.speeted because of the Lane's; of her testimony-. Her house was 'watched, and her name getting into the newspapers, a pawnbroker came forward and proved that McLachlan had pledged with him a set of silver plate belonging to the Fleming family. This clue WU followed up, and at bee trial the jury brought in a verdict that Mn. McLachlan was guilty of the murder of Jessie McPherson, and she was 1:011. demned to death. Before sentence was pronounced, her counsel read a statement signed by the accused, in which she named the old man Fleming as on accomplice. She Wee, e. to penal servitude for life, which in, .itieen years imprisonment, and at the c.o.- • ot that Limo Ole wan liberated, and is understood . to be alive to-day in Australia. The old man, Fleming, on his death-bed, and with eternity before him, declared his innocence, and he was believed on all hands. The proofs of guilt against Mrs. Finny are more striking and conclusive than against the Soitehwoman. In one cue the crime was suggested, apparently by illicit love and a desire to have Hogg as a husband, while poverty was the underlying cause of the Sacodiford murder. It was noticed that while Miss Hogg gave her evidence on Monday, she never once looked at the accused.  _ —Although the medical men cannot account for the canoe of death in the case of Mrs. , Hogg's child, the evidence seems to point to deliberate life-taking. One naturally asks— Can Mrs. Pieroy have been in a sane 'gate when she committed the crime P At Monday's hearing of the ease, Mn. Pieroy (whom it will be more convenient to describe by that title than by her own name, Eleanor Wheeler) was somewhat better dreased than on the previous Monday, wearing a loose black sleeveless mantle, plainly made, and fitting her imperfectly, and a dark green felt hat with broad leaf caught up at the back, and trimmed with velvet and ribbons of the same colour. Her hair, which is dark brown and appear* to be long and thick, was °oiled in • simple lmot at the back of the head. She stood erect in the ' dock as Mr. Gill opened the case for the , prosecution, quite motionless and impaasive, moving no feature of her face, save for an occasional movement of the lips. As evidence of the irritated state of the public mind against the man Hogg, it is stated that omeintleman on emerging from the court with a , was aken for Mr. Hogg, rand • very rough crowd trooped after him yelling and shouting all the way to the lifitylebone- : .:cad, where he effected his escape in a hansom cab. One or two female witnesses also had td be protected by the police, until in the bone-road they were able to obtain the shelter of • four-wheel cab. It is noted that "lack the Ripper" and his mimes are for the moment forgotten.  A limea telegram from Cairo dates that the what crop is fairly good, the:bean orop M large, and the ootam mop is the largest on record. The Nile is now going down eatiidaotorily, and there is vary little tog, wtdoh at this period cam Wares the optima mop.