The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-09-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DREADFUL DOUBLE MURDER AT SEA. Patrick Kelly, 341, a sailor, was tried for the second time on Saturday at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Charles, for the murder of two sailors nan.ed Chapman and Parry while on a voyage to New York. Nothing is known of Kelly's antecedents except that about half-a-dozen years ago he had a serious fit of delirium &mum in San Francisco. At the end of last June he was an inmateof the Sailors' Home at Gravesend, and from there he shipped on board The Erin, under the command of Captain, Tyson, as an able seaman. As soon as the vessel 110 put to sea Kelly evinced a sour and morose disposition, and openly avowed his dislike to the ship and everybody on board. One day the officer on duty ordered the starboard watch to take in sail, and while the men were doing so Chapman made use of a coarse expression, without addressing it to anybody in particular. Prisoner asked if the words were meant for him. Chapman said " No," and Kelly replied: "I will make the ship hot for a lot of you; I can• fire you." The following morning the tragedy took place in the forecastle, and was described by an eyewitne.s named Whittaker in the following words : "I was sleeping in my bunk when I was awakened by a cry. I jumped up, and was surprised to see Kelly standing over Chapman, who was in hi, bunk, groaning feebly. Prisoner had a knife in his hand, which he was driving into Chapman's left breast. Chapman's face was covered with blood. Parry was sleeping in another bunk close by. He also was awakened by the noise, and when he saw what Kelly was doing he uttered a terrific cry. As soon as he had taken the knife out of Chapman's body he sprang upon Parry, seized Kim by the throat with one hand, and plunged the knife into his heart with the other. Parry Was still in his bunk when this was done. Shortly after Kelly wiped the knife on a piece of cloth, which he had taken from a bunk, and walked quietly up the ladder to the deck.—At the first trial, on Friday, Mr. Tickell, for the defence, set up the plea of insanity, there being no dispute as to the facts. Prisoner was under the delusion that voices sere plotting against him, and that all the crew of The Erin had agreed to persecute him. After deliberating for over four hours, the jury were summoned back to court, and the foreman intimated that they had not been able to come to a unanimous opinion as to insanity. Eleven were agreed.—The jury again retired, and after deliberating for another threequarters of an hour, they returned, and intimated that there was no chance of their agreeing.— His lordship then discharged them. At the second trial the Jury found Kelly guilty, and he was sentenced to death.  The Eiffel Tower strike is at an end. At an interview with the workmen's delegates, M. Eiffel proposed terms, which a majority of the men afterwards accepted, the whole of them thereupon returning to work.  Another suspected Nihilist murder is reported from St. Petersburg. A large box reached that capital by train from Warsaw, and, being insufficiently addressed, it was, in accordance with Russian official custom, opened with the object of examining its contents—which proved to be the dead body of a woman, about 30 years of age. The corpse was dressed in costly clothes, with a profusion of lace and a number of jewels on her fingers and in her ears. An examination of the body shelved that eke had been strangled.  fre thi let till  sto of , out 18i 2f t  att ow dui thi tre the  I I 1 1 • • i