Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-09-24 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE HOMESTEAD RIOTS.  The trial of the Anarchist workman Bergmann, who on July 23rd, during the labour riots at Homestead, shot Mr. H. C. Frick, the manager of the Carnegie Mills, took place at Pittsburg on Monday. The prisoner, who was not represented by counsel, pleaded not guilty. Six charges were preferred against him, among them being those of felonious assault and battery, entering a building with felonious intent, and carrying concealed weapons. —The principal witness was Mr. Frick, who recapitulated the story of the outrage. He said he was shot and stabbed in several places, receiving one wound in the neck, two in the back, and one in the side.—Other witnesses having been examined, Bergmann, who conducted his own defence and refused to be sworn, began to read from a pamphlet, which declared that the injustice practised by the ruling class was to blame for what had occurred. "I belong," said the prisoner," to those who were murdered at Chicago." When Bergmann had been reading in this strain for about an hour, Judge M'Clury interrupted him, and said he must finish within a certain time. The prisoner replied,"l can have all the time I want for my defence, and will take all the time I need." The judge: "We will teach you differently, if you think you can dictate to us; you shall have till 1 o'clock, and that is twice as long as would be give" to an attorney if you had one." Bergmann, contTsuing, said "The reason for my act was to free the earth from the oppressors of the working-men. I wanted to punish, not murder, Frick. It was not him I assaulted, but the person etho oppressed labour." When the time allowed had expired the court interrupted the prisoner, and submitted the case to the jury, who returned a verdict of guilty without leaving the box. Sentence of 21 years' imprisonment in a penitentiary and one year's bard labour was then passed. On receiving it the prisoner exclaimed, "I didn't expect to get justice, and I haven't got it."  A farmer named Mitchell, living at Rathben CaLtra, nirts miles from Ballinasloe, on Tuesday night killel his mother, an old woman, and afterwards pulled out her tongue. The police have arrested the accused, who has confessed to the crime.  An inquest was held at Leamington on Saturday morning on the body of Alma BromwiPh, a girl of 17, 1%11,, had died in Ow hospital from the effects of burns.—The jury returned n verdict of accidental death.  The dead koody of a clergyman was found in an apartment at the Westmins-er Hotel, Rhyl on Friday night. A five-chambered revolver of nr.e.:l calibre was also discovered, and with this weapon deceased had apparently shot himself through the mouth, from which blood was flowing. Three of the chambers of the revolver had been recently discharged. The body was afterwards identified as that of the Rev. Joseph Weldon, of Morton Vicarage. near Led. The r, v. gentleman had been staying in Rs 11l tho ;.ict f  The Thames in the neighbourhood of Kew Bridge and Isleworth presented a remarkable appearance at low water on Monday morning. In various parts the bed of the river was exposed to view, and several steamers, launches, and barges journeying upwairdl got aground and had to await the turn of the tide. Children were paddling about in the centre of the stream, and in several places it was almost possible to cross from one bank to the other on foot. Higher up, towards Richmond and Teddington, a similar state of things existel, and the water running though the centre arches of the several bridges in the locality was scarcely a foot in &Or