The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-10-31 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

MURDER. --On Wedneeday, three men, who were able to give assistance in the work. He should , named Nathaniel Evans, Joseph Evans, and John Wil: were taken into custody on be hapy, if he saw any way to assist, to do so in a dons I limns, navvies, employed on the Narberth-road and ntionp of book, (Applause.)—The H. Iles I Maenclochog Railwely, seconded the resolution, which was carried toe. eon.— , a charge of having murdered George Jefferiee oh. At the conclusion of the conference the members of the ', William Williarne. also a navvy, and a native ofthorm association dined at the Neptune Hotel, under the presie ' bury, Gloucestershire. From the evidence adduced at deney of Mr. It. D. Gough. the inquest, held on Friday, before William Vaughan The evening meeting was held in the Assembly Room Jam., Esq., it appears that, on the night of the 13th connected with the Literary Institute, for the purpose 1 inst., the three primenre attacked the deceased on the of distributing the prizes and certificates to evening ' highway, and beat him with stakes and a sweeping. scholar, gained during the past year. The chair was : brush, causing such injuries that he died on Wednes. occupied by Lord Lyttelton.—The Chairman, in open. , day morning, rasing such injuries that he died on rug the proceedings said be was glad to see before him ' Wednesday morning, after lingering for eight days. a goodly list and stock of prizes to be distributed. As • Two or three witnesses stated that they witnessed far as that went it showed that the work of the associa- . the occurrence, bat were afraid to interfere, tiou nmet have been quite se successful during the last and although there were n dozen. navvies lodging year Iv in the past years. He was sorry however to say . within a dozen yards of the spot they gave no alarm. that such was not the caee, although they dietributed . Mr. Griffiths, solicitor, Carmarthen, watched the proPrizes and certificates according to the exhibitions ceedings on the part of the prisoner, but produced no granted some years ago in connection with that body. evidence, and was, of course, prohibited from addres-iug still they gave them ae the result of competition which the jury ; leM at the mag,isterhd inquiry, on Friday was M fact less on the whole, and wkich for sometime neat, the defence ivill be that there arose a qneetion of peat had become small by degrees and beautifully les, . nationality amongst the navviee, an.l that, on the night boa . present who were acquninted with the details of ! of the fatal occurrenee, the accused, who are Welshthe work of night-sehools would all agree that they had men. were pureued by some dozen Eng,lieh navvies, and been supported with difficulty for eon. years past, for on heing closely pressed they turned, and one of them whereea they had not been left to themeelves more dealt Jefferies a terrible blow on the head., laving him than any other branch p o eentary eaon sup- insesible. The others, on seehis ing their com ailion fall. orted by GOTernm flem ent, yet they could duet n not but think retired to their lodgings. Tis the stor; as told by that they had not received a sufficient amount of the prisoners, but as they hare no witnesses, and their support. coneulering the difficulties under which they I own mouths are close& it will be difficult to make ood lalmured ma the assistmee which the Education De. i such a defence. They bear an excellent charaetegr in tphaertymmeunt,trovpeeto..t.hethe.dtnztaoiou.s.eommf th,enr ~ein„,..triy,; offißue! ! tThhe.i:Loeitiborfih...yood,raeleturnd theil i.s.groeiltnlyvierirtdbi:Lr fa.vTohn.ri Oh at was likely to remain for mem, time, they would) the deceased died from a fractured skull, but by whom begin to see Hist there wae a strong feeling on the ile. - the injury Wil, inflicted there was no evidence, to straw." Portanee of evoniug schools ; end they could not bat Ia other worde, they did not believe the witrUssre.  MR.