The Herald of Wales. — 1888-03-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE POLICE WEAVING A WEB.  A 'RESTS EXPECT, D. Our Llanelly correspondent, writing on Friday morning, saye : —I learn that when lt.ae was told tha the feeling against him in L'anelly WAS: so strong that hardly a person would sign the petition for his reprieve, he heard the statements with the utmost indifference. It was only when Mr Howell spoke of his parents that he broke down and wept bitterly. I understand that Rees would have confessed to the learned and popular advocate himself, but Mr Howell did not press him, as be did not consider it a port of his duty to extort an admission from a condemned criminal, and, if I mistake not, it was the learned advocate's counsel which induced David Rees to send a statement to his father.  Ile police ar^ assuming the role of oysters, and are mute. They have something on hand, and Captain Scott went to Carmarthen yester• day to got more exact information than he had previously been furuiihed with. At any moment to.day you may expect to reeieve a telegram from me givieig an account of a batch of arrests. The pollee have had their eyes on certain parties ever since the trial in Carm then. It will be remembered that in addressing the jury Mr Arthur Lewis, the prosecuting amuse', said that he secrmd man might be in that court within the sound of his voice. Aa he said this, a certain person h iling from !Jaen, was seen to get very excited, and when the Judge said in deep and emphatic tones : If the second man be in oourt, let him tremble," this pirty was observed to edge anxiously out of the building. It is said that. on Sunday the same individual attended prayer meetings and service from morn till eve If I may be allowed to predict, and I do so bearing in mind the American maxim of Never prophecy ualess you know," I may say that the Llanelly tragedy will and in a way little expected by anyone. Berry, the hangman, writes to say that Tuesday`, the 13th day of March, will be a convenient date for tho execution of Roes, as far as he is concerned, and it i 4 probable that the execution will be fixed for that date.  Tho following vdo cinggrA is n•iw being hawked almut the streets of Liaiselly : In Carmarthen prism now a wretched Mlll Care hangs heavy on his brow as the time quickly flies. . For the L4uelly murder he must on the scaffold stand, Ile must pay the penalty) by the laws of the land. Cliorus Rees is convicted and soon ho must die. It was a cruel murder no one will deny; Poor Thomas Davies was found neariy dead and cold— He was cruelly murdered fur his master's gold. Monug has been the cause of this cruel crime, David Rees has broke the laws and suffered in his prime. He is oast down with sorrow that he has taken Davies's life ; Now he looks with horror on hie unmanly strife. Ho looked sad and dejected as in the dcmk he stood, For thore he had reflected upon the deed of blood. The judge's stern features no mercy SOOII/3d to show, When his sentenee he told him to the gallows he must go. He was taken (run the dock like a man who was nearly dead, Ashly pale and trembling by the gaoLrs be was led To the cell for the condemned and to leave it  never more, Until he goesito his end—to eternity's shore The fearful crime of murder is never justified, Our pity is with the victim, who by such a crime has died ; 11011148 DJViCS was unoffending, and your eyruparhy we _crave  Fo; thre frienl;l:e-leres bhind Mil, who are weepiog o'er his grave.