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The Herald of Wales. — 1889-11-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

UNLUCKY HOUSE.  "There is no luck about the Lenge !" is the I exclamation which many pm* are uttering to There has been anothex crime on the c THE AMERICAN IRON TR APT' pisnaises in the Rue de Sem in which Madame Cornet was murdered by her manservant, Mar- In the estimation ut the moughtful members chaudon, more than four years ago. On the of the trade, bays The Iron Age, the test ground floor is a hairdresser's shop, menace to the future healthy condition of the kept .b y a iron and steel industry is the danger of a radiutl M. Robin, and on Monday morning the neigh- advance in prams now impending. We have in boars were startled at hearing the report of fire. .ons issues pointed out the „as which arms proceeding from this establishment. Thet.K prevwould follow in the train of a boom, but the , rushed into the shop and found M. Robin _wi , a revolver iti his hand and his a " -saistant, matter is of such importance that we wonal not Prude, a young man of five-and-twenty, lying '" be performing our whole duty if we did not endeavour still more urgently to cheek the moveon the ground with a couple of bullets in his chest and a third lodged in his neck. The ment. Within the past week sensational despatches have been sent out from Pittsburgh wounded man was removed promptly in an arz which are well calculated to excite consumers bulance to the Charite Hospital, while Itoom I and to hasten the advance in prices which the quietly walked to the nearest police-station to inconsiderate are welcoming. The daily press give himself into custody. 'The elt_eialeeesee, adds to the effect of these statements by- glaring questioned as to the reasons which led him to head-line,,, as though it were neeeesery to '.. the murder of his assistant, replied that .fe had just confessed to him that She had impress the country with the belief that the iron de was in a mad whirl of excitement. "carrying on" for a long time with .the,t tra While every iron and steel manufacturer desires BO /10 himself of the rims • to he manitairsai at a point which will to ureek his vengeamie on Prude, I yield him a fair profit on his operations, it may hanging between life and death, safely be assumed that there are very few who ANOTHER ARISTOCRATIC wish to see extravagant motes prevail'. Opinions ' differ widely as to what constitutes a fair profit, Henry Fletcher Valle-nee, of Doctors' Co , bet when the state of trade is such that all BREACH o.b' PROMISE works well located can market their troduet and (Amnesty Lane, was Amok off the roll of CASE, without oompeting, BO vigorously wah one solicitors, for having aided a man wham he another that priers are cut, there can be no doubt knew had committed criminal offence, to escape PHYLLIS BROUGHTON that a margin of profit exists. 'rhis satisfactory from England.
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-04-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RINCE.  During the steeplechase of the Tickham (Kent) limit, on Tuesday, the master, Mr. Higden, was thrown from his hoses and had his collar bone broken. The young man, Phillip J. Osborne, who is suspected of having stolen the E 650 belonging to the Great Western Colliery Company, is still at large, and not the slightest clue ha& vet been obtained.  Mr F. C. Webber, tho late Cara= Tort master:, has been presented with a handsome clock, subscribed for by the officials of the office of wh hhe was so long the head. At Aitken, Minn., on the 2nd of Arm, ei 4.46 o'clock, it became so dark that lights were neoessary in business houses, and the air was filled with snow as black and dirty as though it had been trampled in the earth. Six ounces of snow and one fourth of an ounce of dirt and sand were found in the bottom of a dish.  The I  dirt was very fine, something like emery, and contained particles that had a metallic lustre. This dirty snow fell to the depth of half an inch. The atmosphere at the time presented a peculiar ' ' greenish tinge. There was a little wind blowtog from the north-west, though there seemed I to be considerable wind higher in the air. Solid Chunks of ice and sand are reported to have I been picked up in various places. A Central News telegram from New Y, on Tuesday says : Mr. Gladstone, replyingto a Buffalo correspondent, sayu that the tendency of English elections, the quietude of Ireland, and American sympathy are precursors of the "triumph of Home Rule." A correspondent having forwarded to Mr. Gladstone a copy of Dymond'e "Essay on War," with a preface by the late Mr. Bright, recently published in Manchester-road, the hon gentleman has replied: April 18th, 1889. Dear sir.— I thank you and am glad that the advocates of peace are active, for militnrismisthe conspicuous rant of the age, and it is the road to war. Yours faithfully, W. E. Gutnerows. A terrible tragedy is reported from Pennsylvania. A fireman named Prank Ham**, employed at a mill at Blue Run, seems to have lived very unhappily with his wife, quarrels between the pair being of frequent occurrence. On Saturday the ill-assorted pair again quarrelled and the man, during the storm, became so enraged that the woman lied for her life, and, fearing to return to her home, she remained with a neighbour the whole night. Next morning she stole back to the house, trusting that his passion would have worn off. Hanging from a beam just within her door was I, hulthand, dead. The poor woman's shrieks brought her neighbours, and a further examination showed that the four children had bee murdered. Two of them, aged two and respectively, were lying in the bed, their being almost severed from their bodies. eldest children, aged six and eight, were on the floor, one out and in many tho tifher bait% atabhcd through the  I t 7„ I='  7ork I
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-06-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WARL FLOWER.  CHAPTER V. (CosTnruan).  Morning came, and soon all Abertawe knew another fearful crime had been committed. The whole town was in an uproar at this new addition to the list, for the most philosophical blood boiled to think that such deeds could be committed with impunity in this pretty, peaceful town. The wisest heads could nd no motive for these bloody assassinations. Robbery could be no motive, for the victim's belongings were left untouched. Something must be done, and quickly, that this stain upon the town's escutoheon be removed ! _  Now the clue is found ! A pease of guards surround the bloody footprints on the road, while others crawl laboriously along the houseto track the murderer, if possible to his lair. With the aid of ropes and ladders, the occasional red marks were followed from street to street. What wonderful agility the murderer =tat have possessed, to spring across gaps from house to house, to clamber down walls and up again, to run along narrow ledges where a single false step meant almost certain death. On, on went the pursuers, foremost &rumng them being Gas, with Captain Gale and others whose homes the fiend had entered like a plague, and left a wilderness. Forward they pressed, hoping, longing, vieing with each other, thirsting for summary vengeance now the murderer seemed within their grasp; along one street, down another, and another, across gaps over which be had sprung, while the increasing crowd in the roadways shouted encouragement and vengeance. Time passed—with untiring perseverance the ghastly tracts now plainly seen, now conftu3ed and faint, now disappearing altogether tills tell-tale ' mark led further on, were followed until the outskirts of the town were reached. Either here muskhe be found, or they fail altogether. But, see ! again the tracks disappeared into a garret window; the pursuers burst it open. The curtains were torn and stained with crimson finger marks. They torn, and followed the foot- , printa into another room. As they entered, a man, with pale, haggard face and blood-shot eyes sprang off the bed and confronted the unexpected invaders. The man was Frederick Davey, the friend and former companion of Gofe glaring alternately upon them and an object lyiag in a large crimson stain upon the bed, with speechless horror and amazement. The object was a human arm, the arin of the murdered man, torn and still bleeding, resting upon a pair of blood-stained shoes. To seize Davey was the work of a moment. Before he could utter awordthepursuers sprang upon him. He was pinioned; the officers kept a guard upon the room, while others ice him into another attic and through the back of the house, to avoid the infuriated crowd. In a few days, Davy's guilt was made manifest by the circumstantial evidence_ Besides the bloody tracks leading to his room, the arm, and shoes, a blood-stained knife was found beneath the bed. His explanation that he first woke up to find the hideous objects in his room was regarded as decidedly flat. The evidence was heard, and the prisoner was condemned.
The Herald of Wales. — 1889-12-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TIER FIRST DAY OF TUB SNOW.—Froten-out sportsman to artist: "Here, Jones, you draw horses, don't you? sell you this one cheap. I can't draw him, and I'll be banged if be will draw me I"  A MAN OP Rirsocrnen.—Waiter (at cheap restaurant, going up to proprietor with a plate) : "Gents is complaining of the stewed rabbit, sir; says its high."—Proprietor: "High, is it? Say stewed rabbit's 'off ' then, and make it jugged hare—sixpence extra."  Minilam, A/mew-Slam : "Hullo, Speckleworth, what are you dumping those stones there for? "Bpeckleworth : "Oh, I've got a rich old cuss rooming down to-morrow to look at this property, and I'm making a little natural cascade here to pull the scenery together a bit."  VISITOR (at an Irish village, to landlord of village inn): "So Lady Kathleen has just got married, has she? "—Landlord : "It knocked a rale ould-fashioned wake into fits; for divil a sober man was there in Ballyknockem on that day."—Visitor "I suppose the affair was an expensive one altogether."—Landlord : "Ixpinsive does yer call it. Begorra, the hroide's trousers alone cost six bonder' potufs."— Visitor : "No, Tim. Not her trousers. You must mean her trousseau, surely."—Landlord: "I don't know phwats Trz German name for it is, but that's what we call it down here, anyway."  Dauga, the Lorraine Jack the Ripper, whose trial for four murders began early last week, was found guilty on Monday. There being no extenuating circumstances found, he was condemned to death. A telling piece of evidence was produced at the 3nd. One of the witnesses swore that else saw Deno with a bottle in his hand going to a house where a murder, by beating in of the brains, was subsequently committed. lie a door was hammered in by the same implement that smashed the skull, and no ease was found, this was thought favourable to Dane', but the Procureur discovered that he used a wooden tool, shaped exaotly like a bottle, for smoothing lithographie Stones. When it was produced there was no longer any doubt, the other evident being all strongly against himi  woman's best friend in (he wear and tear of life —A pin.  The good the young , This is particularly tills of chickens. .  When you hear a youlg man eay that a girl hal no heart you may be pretty sure that sbo has hie. A young man who keeps a collection of locks of hair of his lady friends calls thorn his hairbreadth escapes.  "Your business!" asked a judge of a prisoner. "I need to be a dentist, now I am a pugilist. Then I used to put teeth in; now I knock them out." The agent for a patent coffin map in his circular, " Undertakers who have used it pronounce It a perfect BUCCOPB, and we ask you to try it, free of charge, and judge for yourself. Business man : "I'm,going to hire a detective." Ordinary man : "What for—to use in case of an ,roergency." Businesi man: " to find a policeman us cane of an emergency."
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-08-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ALLEGED INNOCENCE OF A MURDERER.  Some new and startling facts have come to light with regard to the famous Lipari murder case. The Hone Secretary is considering a memorial signed by 1,000 co-roligioniste praying for a reprieve, and his solicitor, Mr. John Hayward, has written a pamphlet on the affair, which has made a strong impression on Mr. Justice Stephen. Mr. Hayward was at first disinclined to send the pamphlet to Mr. Justice Stephen, such a course he said being altogether against legal etiquette. Urg.d, however, by the Solicitor-General, Sir Edward Clarke, he consent?d,to sena the pamphlet which, as already stated, immediately produced an impression on the judge. The very next day Mr Hayward received a note from Mr Justice Stephen, requesting him to call upon him in his private room at the LAW Courts. Mr Hayward, of course, went—gladly, but not a little surprised, for "never," he says' "in the whole course of my experience had Iheard of a judge Beading for a pplic.tor in this way before." The sut, Prilr• however, not stop there. Several mlews took place nd at each interview Ms- • Justice Stephen seemed morn and more impressed with tlm facts that were laid before him. Sir James Fitzjames Stephen has not the reputation of being a very impressible or soft, hearted man. But "his anxiety, his agony of mind almost," says Mr. Efsyward,in describing +..aaraleics, "were obvioi2s. 'lt would be hang ft.'. terrthle lie said, 'to . .—e man, when in reality he may have been nAlf killed by the real murderers, who by that means endeavoured to hide their guilt. Why was not all I this," he asked again, "submitted to me before? I cannot tell you what I think. But I eau tell you this, that if I were not I, I should heartily wish you success." The whole case is being thoroughly goncinto by the Home Secretary. Mr Matthews has not only dealt with the details of the evidence given at the Central Criminal Court, but has called in the scientific aid of Dr Stevenson, the great analyst, in reference to the allegation of the prisoner that the condition of his coat was such as to show that more nitric acid than he was roved to have purchased— one ounce—bad been used upon the garment. The feeling in Court at the trial was that there seemed to be some ground for this proposition. The whole of one side of the coat and the sleeves were burnt, not in spots, but in large patches, showing considerable saturation. The condemned man stoutly maintains that he is innocent and the general impression now is that he will not be hanged. The Central News says, with reference to the telegram forwarded to the Queen on behalf of the condemned man Lipski, by his solicitor, that it is entirely against the practise of Her Majesty to interfere in such matters. The usual eourse is for Sir Henry Ponsonby to retransmit such appeals to the Home Office. Lip• M's solicitor has asked Scotland Yard to ass st b'm in his efforts to obtain furthe, evide ce in proof of his client's innocence. Up.vsrds of eighty members of Perlisjient have ali..aLy signed a memorial to the Beeratary praying for commutation of LiEpraki.e. sentence.
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-11-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EVIDENCE.  Mary Lewis, Croft Cottages, Llywnhendy, Uanelly, widow, said: The last witness, William John Lewis, is my grandeen. I remember Saturday- week. My grandson came in about 12.30 o'clock. I sated him where he had been through the dirt. Ho said he had been for rabbits' food. I asked him where he had been for it? He said In Cepel field, and that a man had come into the field, and he ran into the hedge, and then he said, "Dear grandmother, I saw two men drag a man in, and strike him with a awful thing down in the field." I said hush," and he said, "Yea, indeed, they have killed him." I said "hush," and he said he was saying the truth. When he went to eat his food he shivered and trembled. I went out and pulled up some food for the rabbits. I did not see him again until to-day. , tole no one what he had told me, as I did not 'think it true. I said on Monday what the boy said, and that I had not believed Idol. When T heard of the murder I told them what he said. I did not believe such a thing had taken place. Mr Howell: Does the by spend much time with you?—Yes. I hail him at 4 years of age. Is he fond of bringing stones into the house ? —No. I did not look at the clock. I was making a cup of tes;and that was why I knew the time. I haive net spoken to the boy since about it. Mr Wm. Pritchard, cashier at Dafen works, sail: We had in our employ the deceased, Thomas Davies, and also Charlie Wan. Jones. Davies was engaged as measensier and to doodd jobs about the works. I remenitrr Saturday week. He went into Llanelly every morning, down to the docks first, to see what goods were there for our works, and then to the post Oleo for the North mail bags. The post-boy, on the Saturdays, would go to inset him and exchange bags with him, giving him • bank bag and getting the post bag. He had it locked on that morning, with a cheque inside for £590. He was expected back at a quarter to half-past eleven. He did not come at the usual time. Charles Wm. Jones mime back at the usual time. I asked him for DaTi9ll. He said some boys had said he had gone to the works. I said, "Don't listen to ' boys, go back at once to meet him." , He was a long time ooming, and I got uneasy, ' and went to the gate and ordered mother man to go and look for him. About five minutes to ' one o'clock I heard that the money had been stolen, and that Davies was in the ditch, nearly killed. I went to the spot at once and found Mr Maclaren there. He handed me the I cash beg, which was cut. There was £255 in the bag, and 1355 taken away. William Walters, Laketield Place, Llanelly, cashier at the London and Provincial Bank, said: On the 1 ith inst. Thomas Davies brought a leather bag containing a cheque for £690 to the bank and had it cashed.  The other witnesses examined were Mrs. Elizabeth Samson, Margaret Rees, and Mary Richards, and the ingueet was adjourned until 1.30 on Wednesday,
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-08-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CONFESSION OF THE CRIME.  An entirely new avoet was given to thLipski cage on Sunday, when the conviet mad the following confetniun to the Rev. S. Sieger who :c, acted a, his interpreter andspiritual adviser. :  I, Israel Lipeki, before appearing before God as judgment, desire to speak the whole truth oencerning the crime of which lam accused. I will not die with a lie on my lips; I will not let others suffer, even on euspicion for my Pill. I alone was guilty of the murder of Miriam Angell. I thought the wo.nan had money in her room, so I entered, t!,e door being =leaked, and the .oman asleep. I bad no thought of violating her, and I swear 1. never approached her with that object, nor did I wrong her in this way. Miriam Angell awoke before I mould search for money, and cried out, but very softly. Tuereupon I struck her on the head, and azed her by the neck, and closed her mouth with my band so that Al should not arouse the attention of these who were abount the house. I had long been tired of my life, and had bought a penurrer It of aquafortie that morning for the purpose of puttiug an end to myself. Suddenly 1 tlioudht of the bottle I had in rlie pocket, and dew it out and poured Isom of the contents down her throat. She fainted, and re egilizing my deeperate condition, I took the mot. The bottle was an old one which I had formerls used, and visa the same as that which I had taken with me to the oil shop The quantity of aquafortis I took had no effect on me. Hearing the voices of people coming upstairs, 1 crawled under the bed. The woman seemed ¶ already dead. There teas oaly a very short time from the moment of my entering tke roe, until I was taken away. In the agitation I also fainted. Ido not know how it was that my arms became abrased. I did not feel It and wets not aware A it. As to the door being locked on the inside I inysal did this immediately after I eutore.l the room, wishing not to be interrupted. I solemnly declare and believe Roeenbloom and Schmitz know nothing whatever of the crime of which I am truil.y. impioro them to pardon me for having in my despair tried to cast the blame upon them. I also beseech the forgiveness of the bereaved husbaud. I admit that I have bad a fair trial, and acknowledge the justice, of the sentence that has been passed epee me. I desire to thank Mr Hayward for his efforts on my behalf, as well at. all *doso who have interest d themeelves in me daring this unhappy time Thie confession is made of my own free will, and is written down by Mr sieser at my request. May 003 comfort my loving father and mother, and may Fla accept my repentance and my death as an atonement for all my sine. (Signed)
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-12-03 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE DEPENCE.  Mr. Howell said he would not call any witnewel; at the present stage of the proceedings. He was placed in s very awkward position, as there was a strong preyudiee against his client even by the evidence in the court. The papere had also: published every little item of news againat the prisoner so that a feeling had gone forth that the man should hang. He might my at starting there had been, no doubt, a terrible murder, and he wan as anxious as anyone in the town, that the real offender should b 3 found. He did not seek the position to defend the prisoner, but it wan brought to him, and he did not for a time accept it. The evidence could be divided into three parts, let, that of the boys, 2nd, that of the police, 3rd, the statement of the &ceased. They had, a very capable police force at Llanelly, and the superintendent had show great zeal in !working up the cane. In answer to the question as to where he wee working, Rees bad said it was at Longhor awl not Defeo. Why P because he knew that strangers were not allowed in Dafen Works and it would mean getting the men into trouble if he had stated he had been there, ;so he told them an untruth. GHOST  REES  Richards, one of the witnesses for the prosecution said he left home at 10 o'clock, stopped half an hour at the Boars Head, and maw him at Jones% the barber'. after eleven o'clock. Rosser said he saw him at the wicket gate at five minutes to 11 o'clock, consequently it must have been Rees's ghost that was having a shave at Jones's. About a quarter to 11 another saw him going ap the road towards Dafen, while Lewis said that after it was all over, and he had ran two miles' he got to Llwynhendy before 12 o'clock. As to Mrs Hughes, he did not think that there bad ever been such extraordinary evidence as that, and she had given it with a strong exhibition of feeling, and in a most peculiar manner. The I. police had contented themselves with the evidence of boys. They had not attempted to get caste of the footprints found near the body, but had tried to make up for their sheer and absolute neglect of duty by trying so run the man Rem in. There were huge discrepancies in the story of the boy Lewie, who said, amongst other Wngs, that be would not be able to renosnise the hanger, which he called a hatchet, but he was positive as to the man. Mr. Howell urged the bench to calmly weigh the evidence, and guard &delimit the accused haying to run the obanoe of trial by a jury in the present excited state of pablk feeling. The feeling of indignation against murder was very proper, but such statements had been made in the paper, without correction tha the accused would not be likely to have a fair ttrial. There were huge improbabilities in the ease, and the statement of the boy Lewis was fall of improbabilities, and had completely broken down.  nu-sorsa