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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-01-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING CASE OF CRUELTY AND  STARVATION.  At Gainsborongh on Friday, Alfred and Sarah Blow, man and wife, were charged with the wilful murder of the illegitimate child of the female prisoner. P.S. Wynne deposed that the female prisoner came to him by the relieving officer's directions, to tell him of the death of her child. She said it had been ailing, and on Sunday had a fall downstairs, but she did not think it had broken its neck. It lived till Monday morning. No doctor had seen it. An inquest was subsequently held, and an iipen verdict returned. No ! medical evidence was taken at the inquest. Witness subsequently gave instructions for a post-mortem. examination, which was performed by Dr. Duigan, arid, on the result being made known, he canoed both prisoners to be apprehended on the charge of causing the death of the child by starvation, neglect, and illtreatment. Duigan said the post-mortem examination showed that the child Was full grown, but exceedingly Width' and attenuated. There were bruises on the head and face, and two gaping wounds on each kide the hi o, one gaping to the ext eat of ono and a half inches ; and both three inches long, and going through the skin and muscular fibre down to the bons. They might be caused by cords tied round the body. There were dry exeorations over the knee, arid dry sores all over the body. The stomach he found completely empty. The intestines were also quite empty, and very much noutracte I from inanition. There was no trace of any kind of food. The child did not weigh more tnan one of six or eight months. His conclusion from the examination was that the child's death was caused by the want of food and inattention, accelerated, probably, by the injuring to the head.—Eliazbeth Booth, who had nursed the female prisoner through a fever firth months ago, said that the child, during the three weeks she was there, was systematically ill-treated. She had seen the male prisoner knock the child down with his Sate, and would not allow her to pick it up. When he cattle house from work helloed to thrash It with a asick, for no apparent cause, and would never allow it to come to the same rahle as himself. Witnees had also seen him lift the child up by the hair of the head, and shoot its knuckles with his fingers till it could hardly stand. The mother encouraged him to strike it. She used to call downstairs, " Hit it, hit it i"—Elizabeth Green said she had seen ths husband put the child up the chimney, afire being in the grate at the time, and other. wise ill use it. She had seen the mother also strike it unmercifully with a stick.—Another witness declared that the child had been tied in a chair with cords, in a room without afire, from six till bed-time, frequently during the recent severe weather, on the plea shot it WAS dirty.— Both prisoners were committed to Lincoln assizes on the charge of wilful murder.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-01-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BRUTAL HOMICIDE AT BRISTOL.  A tracelly of a most brutal character. was enacted in Bristol early on Tuesday nmrning under the following circumstances  A man named Samuel Sinnot, aged thirty-one, a hawker, lodged at to Balmoral Tavern, Lower Outlaw reel. On the Monday evening he. with Ide wife, visliol the mother of the latter at her residence, Exeter-place, Elotwelle where there was a kind of family ea herb g About midnight Sinnott and his wife, accompanied ny Ars. Sinnott's slater and her mother, left the Flotwelle, and they all proceeded together to the bottom of Castle- street, where the mother arid her daughter parted company with Mr. and Mr.. Sinnott. the two former going down Old Market-street, t 'wards the house of Mrs Sinnot's sister, and Sirs. Sinnott and her husband proceeding towards their lousing. in Lower Castle-stredt. Sinnott was perfectly sober. When they arrived At the Balmoral Tavern, the place was cloned, and (Sinnott knocked for admission Whilst waiting for the door to be opened a mark named Ware, with whom Sinnott Is said to have heen on had tf rn.s. approached, having In his hands a gun. Upon seeing Sinnott and his wife Ware immediately advanced towards them, exclaiming, " You're the 111 give son knocking at people', doors." Suiting the action to the word, he attacked the man and woman with the weapon, beating Sinnott with savage violence upon various parts of the body. So brutal was the assault that no resistance could be offered by the poor man, and his wife went to his assistance, but she In turn was attacked, and received several blows from the butt end of the gun, injuring her on the head and one of her arms. By this time the deceased had been knocked down, unconscious. Au alarm, however, had been communicated to the police, and Police-constaffit Reed went to the spot, and Ware was apprehended and conveyed to the station On Sinnott being also taken there, Police-constable Reed saw that he was hmensinle, and therefore ordered the stretcher, and had him conveyed to the infirmary, but on their arrival at that inytitutlon, the house surgeon, having examined the body, at once pronounced lie to be extinct. Mre SinnoLt was sent to the infirmary, where she waa detained, the injuries she had sustained being severe. The blown were delivered with such force that the Weapon used was broken, a portion of it bah g ii,-ked up on the spot after the termi- &thin of the affair On Tueaday forenoon the coroner for Bristol opened the inquest upon the body at the infirmary, and took some formal evidence. The inquest was eventually adjourned Mr a post-mortem examination to in nAde. True Interest excited by the occrirrence was intense Hundreds of people congregated around the gates of the ill.' firmary to catch a glimpse of the bc,-wed, arid the SEM ti in the vicinity of the Council House were, later in the day, when the prisoner was charged with the murder before the magistrates, alto densely thronged, so that great difficalty was experienced in conveying the prisoner along. Ware, who is a shoemaker, is twenty-nine years of age.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-01-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDEROUS ATTA( K ON A GAMEKEEPER. Titus Lewis was charged with having. on tho 15th December, maliciously wounded Janice Musk. The prosecutor deposed , I am a gamekeeper, in the employ of R. D. Gough, Esq. About eleven o'clock on the 15th Dec. I was out on my iounds, and when near Cwmtawe-isha farm, I saw a net laid across a bridge leading to the farm, which was stretched from wall to wall. The prisoner and a man named John Griffiths were there, and the former had hold of one end of the net. I asked them what they were after, and the prisoner replied, After kiliirg a rabbit." I said, "Let the net go, and be off about your business." I took hold of the net and gave it a tug, and while I v as doing so, Griffi, ha came by my side and struck me a blow on the head with some hard substance. The prisoner then came up to me and struck me with somsr instrument a heavy blow on the bead. I fell to the ground, and while down they both beat and kicked me on several parts of my body. One of them kicked me in the mouth, and broke one of my teeth ; I received a heavy blow on the shoulder, and several severe wounds on my head, which bled profusely. I hod a doubled-barrelled gun with me, and I held it over my head to protect me from the blows, and while doing so it went off, but did not bud any one. In the ettuggle the stock lot the gun  was broken and the barrel bent. After struggling with them on the groin(' for some time, they dragged me towards the canal, and one of them said, "Lets thrown the b—." Alter they had drawn me near to the canal, I let my gun fall to the ground, and struggled up and rushed from them, and in doing so knocked tile prisoner down. I called out "Murder," and the men ran away over the bridge. I crawled, with S,llllO difficulty, to the top of the bridge, and culled out "Richards," and the servant man at the farm came to me on the bridge and assisted me home.—Mr David Thomas, assistant surgeon of Ystelyfera, deposed that lie examined Musk on the 16th December, and found seven contused wounds on his head, four of which had cut to the bone. The wounds were such as might have been caused by the life preserve now produced.—Jou.ph Richards, farm labourer, at Cwmtawc-islia form, gave corroborative evidence.—Emma Musk, wife of the prosecutor, deposed that on the 16th instant she went to Cwmtawe Bridge, and found a quantity of blood and some hair nn the ground. Near the spot she picked up 11 the head and handle of the life preserver now produced —Other evidence was given, and the prisoner, who declared, "I wasn't near the place, and them things were never in my hand," was committed for tlial at the Sessions or Assizes.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-09-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TERRIBLE "LYNCHING" SCENE.  Some months ago, says a Chicago paper, Alonza Tibbets, of this place, was arrested in Maine, on the charge of murdering Thomas Page, a brother of Tibbets being reporeed to have made a confession charging him with the crime. At the trial this brother refused to testify, the court sustained him in the refusal, and the prisoner was acquitted by the jury. Much indignation was manifested at the verdict, Tibbets being generally believed guilty; and a few days since a meeting was held in the neighbourhood where the Tibbets' reside, in which it was resolved that if they did not both leave the country in five days they would be lynched. The two men refused to go, and the excitement became intense. On Friday a large meeting was held south of the Illinois River, and some 200 citizens resolved to hang Alonza Tibbets ; in the meantime, the sheriff had committed him to gaol in the place. Saturday morning, hundreds of the citizens of the county can:e in, threatening to carry out their designs, and remained upon the streets all day. At three o'clock they held a meeting, and resolved to break into the gaol cod get Tibbets. They immediately repaired to the gaol, broke open the iron door with crowbars, and took Tibbets across the river dridge to hang him. The Mayor, S. B. Thomas, Judge Keating, Judge Grant, Major Webber. the late mayor, E. B. Hann, and many other citizens, did what could be done by them to prevent it, but were overpowered, and carried away by the rnitli bodily. The crowd took Tibbets in a waggon across the river bridge, put a rope around his neck, fastened it to a tree, and gave him an opportunity to speak. He said 1—  My horses were poisoned by Thomas Page. Flad I desired to kilt him, I should hat, done it then 1 did not kill him.  . I can prove I was not near there that day. I know not ding about it. Mg wife knew nothing &nod it, and I ion innocent.  Someone from the crowd asked him his brother Joseph did not kill Page. He answere.l, Since then Joe has told me that he meant to kill l'age, and did so." He was naked why he did not testify so on the triaL He answered, "Because he was my brother." They tied his hands behind him • he knelt down and prayed about three minutes. When he rose up they asked him what he wanted done with his body. He replied, "Give it to my wife." He then said, "Gentlemen, I die with a clear conscience • I am innocent." Someone then elided to the crowd, " you satisfied to hang him ?" The crowd shouted, "No !" but thos,, in the waggon drove suddenly away, and left him dancing in the air. Efforts were made to cut him doWII, but all such were in vain. The mob kept all away until he was dead. Great excitement prevailed. Some of the most influential men in the soutuern part of the country are the leaders in it.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-12-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GOULD. Tn a second edition of the same journal appears the "Dying Declarations of the Manchester Victims." The Irishman, in giving these "declarations," says: "It has been stated in the English papers that the three victims at Manchester left written declarations in the hands of their confessors. These did not think prudent to give them publication, just as they persuaded them from sneaking on the scaffold. We, however, see no reason why these documents, copies of which we have been forwarded, should be withheld from the public, more especially as they an worthy of the occasion, and contain grave admonition to courts of justice." "The declarations" follow in the subjoined order:—  1. Declaration of William Philip Allen. I wish to say a few words relative to the charge for which lam to die In a few hours morel will be going before my God. I state in the presence if that great God that lam nit the man who shot Sergeant Brett. If that man's wife is alive, never let her think that I am the person who deprived her of her husband and if his faniih is alive, let thorn never think I am the man who deprived them of theft father.  I suntan I have committed other sins against my Gel, sal I hope he will accept of my death as a homage and adoration which I owe Ilia Divine Majesty; and in atonement briny past trangressious ago net him. There is not much use in dwelling on this subject much longer for by this time lam sure it in plain that lam nit the man that took away the life of Aergeant Brett.  I state this to pot juries on their guard for the future, and to have them inquire into the characters of witnesses before they take away the lives of innocent men. But, then, I ought not to complain. Was not our Saviour sold for money? and his life sworn away by false witnesses? With the help of the great God I am only dying to a world of sorrow to rise to a world of joy. Before the judgment seat of Go I there will be no false witnesses tolerated, every one must render an account for himself. . . . .  I;,rgive all the enemies I ever may have had In thls world May God forgive them: forgive them, sweet Jesus, forgive them. I also ask pardon of all whom I have injured In any way. In reference to the attack on the van, I confess I nobly aided in the rescue of the gallant Colonel Kelly and Captau Deasy It is well known to the whole world what my poor country has to suffer, and how her sons are exiles the world over ; then tell me where is the Irishman who could look on unmoved and see his countrymen taken prisoners and treated Ilk murdererswnd robbers in British dungeons. . .  May the Lord have mercy on our souls and deliver Ireland from her sufferings ! God save Ireland !
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-09-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TRH GUINEA-WORM DISEASE. The most eon tradictory opinions have been expressed by correspondents in the daily journals on the subject of guineaworms disease (remarks the Lancet). The real :acts of the case are simply these : In certain tropical parts, minute worms abound in stagnant pools anti swampy ground. These have the power of penetrating the skin, in virtue of their " boring" properties, and subsequently grow to a large size, causing, after a few months, local irritation and the formation of quasiabscess, which is a provision of nature to aid expulsion of the worm. The lower limb is the part most usually attacked, and the worm makes its way thither via the feet of natives, and simply because they are commonly unprotected and in contact with the bare ground. But Europeans would be equally liable to guinea-worm disease did they go about with bare feet. ! Any other part of the naked body brought in contact with water or mud containing young worms might be ! attacked. Only those bathers, of course, get the disease who use water in which guinea-worms exist Abyssinia is one of the countries in which guinea. worm disease abounds.  Ihnn-FLovni BUNKUM !—The Fenian John Brady, of Sardie, Mississippi, recently concluded a speech in these worde ;  Will not all eoneede that Ireland's oppressors are unheller than the unhoUest, more inhuman than the most inhuman ? Let the American ask for the shrieking mother of the Revolution let the Scot ask the blood-reeklng plains of Culloden, the chains of the murdered Wallace: let France ask the dismal rocks of St. Helena let the poor innocent Hitoloo RA the hatcheries of 1858-9: let the world ask for Black DY'ith, who in charnel. and in coffins keeps the only record of Indies wrongs. Yes, they are condemned by the curse of a ruined land, the curse of the widow, the curse of the orphan—the curse that would drag to hell the spirit from on high. If there be a hell whose deep oarnuation beemirs utterance, there they will writhe and for ever burn. Is there an Irishman in this assembly, can there be one on earth, the tire of whose soul doe. not torture him to mutinies. at tie contemplation of his wrongs I Is there one whose chains sound more musically now than when Henry forged them? when Cronnwell heate I them to redness 1 1111, that I could awake the voice of poesy from the neglected harp r,f Brian Born Though its strains be steeped In melancholy, 'twould tell of ancient glory, of inheritances over which you are sleeping. lint thia Ido shout, with one of your noble ancestors—Rally round the shamrock of Erin, resist its enemies with the last nerve of your arm; resist to the last drop of your blood ; resist to the last grasp of your existence, and then, like the father of Hannibal, take your children to the altar, and swear them to eternal revenge.  What eloquence he would have been guilty of had any one put a pin in him !  - • THE ENGINEER Or
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-07-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CHARGE.  His Lordship observed that three years sine • he had been commissioned t, hold the assize for th.• county of Glamorgan, and he had great pleasure in having now to again hold the assize in the county, especially when he found so numerous en attendance of magistrates preeent. The calendar, he Was sorry to say, was not a light one, bat he was much pleased to know that the grend jury was composed of gentlemen of such ability and expeuience, and he satisfied that they would not have much difficulty in disposing of the bills which would be laid before them. There were only two or three cases on which it would be necessary for him to make any remarks. There was a case of murder, in which a man nem d Watkins was charged under the indictment for wilful murder, and if the facts set fourth in the deposi- • tions of evidence were to be taken as conclusive, he feared that they could not do otherwise than return a ; true bill. There WRS a ease of wounding with intent to murder against a man named Jones, in which a true billwan returned at the meet assizes, and it was therefore unnecessary for him to take any observations upon the subject. In another case, that of Jeremiah M'Carthy, who was charged upon an indictment under the coroner's warrant for manslaughter at Swansea, there were no chcimetances connected with the case which would present any difficulty to gentlemen of such experience as those on the grand jury. There was a case in which two men were charged with attempting to murder by stabbing another man. His lordship said there was some little confusion in the depositions as to whether more than !MP knits hrei hoeo used, as a unite was found upon the person of only one of the prisoners, and a knife was found upon the ground near the spot were the encounter had taken place, and where there was a great deal of blood upon the ground. It was only necessary for him to point out that, according to the law, if two msn were acting in concert, it was not necessary both should be proved to have committed the crime of striking a blow, but they were equally guilty. It would therefore only be necessary for them to consider whether the evidence showed that the prisoners had been acting in concert, and if not they might ignore the bill against either of them. There was only one other case on which he would make any remark, and that was in the case of a man and his wife who were charged with larceny. He would merely observe that the law assumed that a woman was acting under the direction of her husband, and therefore she was not reeponsible. In conclusion he urged the gentlemen of the grand jury to give their support to all institutions which had for their object the promotion of habits of temperance and honest living among the poorer classes.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-05-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—NO eruptions.— Cold winds, heated rooms, and disordered stomachs, display their deleterious effects npon the human skin. Roughness, irritation, eruptions about the mouth and nose, cracked lips, and chapped bands, are readily cared by the application of Holloway's Ointment, which renders the skin soft and healthy. This Ointment is the best corrective of the red spots, dry patches, and irritable pimples incident to tender skins ; it saves all the torments of such affections, and spares their unsightly blemishes, which are not slight or questionable advantages. Holloway's Ointment never disagrees with the most sensitive skin. Ladies may use it with implicit confidence ; they will find it exercises a demulcent influence whilst operating as a thoroughly detergent agent. MUTINY AND MURDER ON BOARD AN ENGLISH Wenn. AT Sax—lntelligence has been received of a dreadful mutiny and murder at sea. The particulars are as follows :—The ship ' Falcon' reports that on the 26th of February last she fell in with the English barque ' Beatrice,' when a boat from the latter vessel reached the ' Falcon' with the second mats of the ship ' Beatrice,' Mr. George Howard. He stated that he WU requested by the captain of the ' Beatrice' to solicit advice, and assistanse if necessary, as there had been a mutiny on board, a fortnight before arriving off Anjer, which she passed on the 21st of February. The object of the mutineers being to seize and dispose of the ship, they killed and threw overboard the chief mate, stunned the captaM with three blows on the head with a bludgeon, and I struck and woulided the second mate with a harpoon. Tar second mate, captain, steward, and carpenter kept possession of the cabin. The crew smashed the companion and skylight covers, and through the aperture in the skylight the second mate shot one of the mutineers dead, when the others ran forward. Two of the ringleaders were ultimately put in irons, but there was no place below suitable fir their confinement. One of those who killed and threw the mate overboard was allowed ta be at large to assist in working the ship. In this fearful state of affairs Captain Taylor, of the • Beatrice,' resolved to make for Singapore, but was persuaded by the master of the • Falcoa' to run down to Batavia, as it might take too long to reach Singapore so short handed, and advised to sectire the man accused of murdering the mite. Arrangements were made for signals to be hoisted botore the two vessels ported company, in case of any renewed attempt on the part of the mutineers to prevent her steeling for Batavia. Subsequently, at the request of Captain Taylor, the captain of the Falcon' lent the Beatrice' two hands, and c)neented to take on board the mutineers, who were placed in irons and removed to the • Falcon. B vessels then proceeded on their voisae, the ' Falcon' landing her prisoners at Hong Kong, where, no doubt, there will be an official investigation into the mutiny.