The Herald of Wales. — 1890-01-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MOP. lam mete in something very sad has happened.' The woman Mill equivocatedt ,greatly, fearing the effect ' ;Toe my mother inVier then situation, and at first the family joined in the attempt at concealment Finally, however, my mother's alarm and earned entreaties drew from them the terrible truth that her brother had just been stabbed at the top of tke village and killed on the spot.. ~•".fhe molanonoiy • event nen thus occurred. My none, Francis Fantnm, hod been dining at Shipley Hall with Mr. Edward Miller Mundy, Member of Parliament for the munty Shipley 'Hall lay off to the left of the village tie you looked up the main street from my father's house, andjabout • rails distant from it; while Eleanor Fall, my uncle's residence, was situated to the right; the road from the one country seat to the other crossing nearly at right magies the ripper portion of the village street, at a point where stood one of the two village inns, the Admiral Rodney, respectably kept by the widow H —km. I remember her well—a tall, fine-looking woman, who most have been ear.dseme in luse youth, and who retained, „,even peat meddle ago an air superior to her thtdition. Ho had one only child, a son, then wane twenty. Ho was a good-looking, trick, young fellow, and bore a very fair character, tie must, however, as the event showed, have been of a very hasty temper. "Francis Tantum, riding home from Shipley Hall after the early country dinner of that day, somewhat elated, it may be with wine, stopped at the widow's inn, and bade the son bring him a glass of ale. All the latter turned to obey, my uncle, giving the youth a smart switch across the beck with his riding-whip, cried out in his lively, joking way, "Now, be quick, , Dick; he quick!" "The young man, instead of receiving the playful stroke as a jest, look it as an insult. He rushed into the house, snatched up • carving. knife, and darting back into the street, stabbed my uncle to the heart ea he eat on his home, so that he fell dead, on the instant, in the road. "The sensation throughout the quiet village may be imagined. The inhabitant!' who idolised the murdered man, were , prevented from taking summary vengeance on the homicide only by the constables carrying , him off to the Aloe of the nearest magistrate. ' "Young H—los was tried at the !next Derby Assume; but (justly, no doubt, taking into view the sudden ' irritation caused by the blow) he wee convicted of manslaughter only; and, after a ' months' imprisonment, returned to the village; where, notwithstanding the strong popular feeling against him, he continued to keep the inn even after his mother's death. Hens still present to my recollection a quiet, retiring man never guilty of-any otherirregularity of conduct, and seeming to bear about with him the eonetant memory of his rash deed—a silent blight upon his life. - . .  " So great wart the try for my uncle, and such the deep impression of his tragic ! cad, that so long as that generation lived the ' church bells of the village were regularly tolled on.the anniversary of his death. "On comparing the circumstances and the exact time at which each occurred, the fact was substantiated that the apparition presented itself to my mother almost instantly after her brother had received the fatal stroke.,