Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1869-11-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CARMARTHENSHIRE.—FOT betweeu thirty and forty years the agricultural portion of South Wales has been free from murder as from all other serion's crimes, , but within a few days the life of a poor young woman has been taken under peculiarly distressing circumstances. The circumstances are these :—For the last few years, a nice-looking country girl, the daughter of a labourer, living in the village of Dangeler, Carrnerthenshire, lived as a servant with John and David Davies and their sister, who conjointly kept a farm called Frodai, situate near Connill. The two 'brothers, who are from forty-three to forty-six obi, paid their addresses to the girl Esther, who was about twenty-two, and who saems to have been unable for some time to make up her mind which suitor to take. At length, howeevr, she aggreed to marry John Day i-i, and left the ferra. Her father went with her to fetch her clothes, oiad on leaving she told her father that David had threatened her that she should never die in her bed. After remaining at home a short time, the sister induced Esther by the offer of higher wages to return to the farm as servant, and as the wedding was delayed a little she went back. After remaining a few mouths she left to be married to John. On several occasions, while John wsa sitting with her, in her father's cottage, the other brother. David, used to come and hang about the cottage, peeping in at the window. After the wedding, Esther went to live with her husband at Blaendial Farm, near Llanpumpsaint, where they got on very well. On Thursday night, the 4th instant, her husband went to a neighbouring village to hire a servant, and she went on the same errand to a cottage close by. Her little brother accompanied her, and she returned about half-past eight, the night being very dark. On entering the house she went into a small room adjoinging the kitchen, to lay the supper for the servants. They plated a curtain of cotton check on the window. In a few minutes a shot was tired threugh the window, and the charge entered her breast, an inch below her heart, and passed clean through the body. See sprang to the kitchen door, and said in Welsh, "Oh, dear, who has shot me ?" Thare a-as in the house the boys, the oldest about twenty, and a girl. They were afraid to go out. In ten minutes they went to a neighbouring farm to get assistance, and during their absence the poor woman died, twenty minutes having elapsed betwwu the shot and her death. The charge consisted of a heave- load of different sized shots and a bullet. The bullet, after passing through thee body, went nearly throuceh a dairy door. The hue. baud arrived home about te^ o'clock, hut stsauge to Stly, gave no alarm to the p.lice officers till next morning. On the arrival of the police, they discovered the marks of stocking feet among the soft mud, and tracing them on found them to give place to shoe marks leading to the direction of toe farm where the jealous brother, David, resided. On Friday night, a policeman went to David's honse and aresteil him on suspicion. He said he knew nothing at all about the matter, and that at nine o'clock on the night of the murder he was courting a girl at a farm three or four miles from the scene of the murder, which was 00IZIIIIItted about half-pest eight. The policeman rode to the farm indicated, and it is rumored that the girl at first denied that David had been there at nine, but afterwards :More that he had. He is known to have a gun, but he says that he has lent it. On Saturday he was brought be ky.theOsmusethea Justices, sod was reatanded.-u Birminfilem Not.