The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1872-09-27 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LAWLESSNESS IN CHICAGO. water on Saturday. On the morning of that day. A vigilance committee has been proposed in which was very fine, though the wind was puffy, n party of four young men sons of leading residents Cli 1:111..,,O, in cons, quence of the defective police administration. In a letter dated the fith inst, we read: of the town, went on a fishing and shooting excur"Our wonderful prosperity this summer has flooded as sion. As they did not return at four o'clock, the city with ruffians of every grade. A quiet announcod, nor some hours afterwards, search was made down the river, resulting in the finding of citizen was last night stabbed to the heart for insunken boat off Weston Shelf, near Netley Abbey, a mitring the cause of an insult to his little daughter walking by his side. The county gaol c uitains ten apparently answering the description of that in m which the party had gone. Nothing could be seen murderers. Christopher Rafferty was this morning placed on trial for the cold-blooded killing of Police of them, and it was feared that during a sudden and somewhat extraordinary tempest which had Officer O'Meara, and every effort was made to bully witnesses and browbeat the Court, the room being swept over the town at midday their craft had crowded with low-browed roughs. The tragedy of swamped, and that they were all drowned. They last night has stirred the community to the bottom, were, however, found by some friends late in the sad the men who made Chicago will see justice evening, having had some difficult in beating home, done, if it be at the bands of a Vigilance CommitIt subsequently appeared, however, that Mr. C. tee. Henry Greenbaum, of the German National Bernard, a young gentlemen residing in the town, prepared the following call, which will was missing, and as it was known that he too had nl Bank, has Tuesday morning, supplemented by . the gone fishing in the morning, the fear was enter- signatures of 75 leading bankers, merchants, Jourtatned in regard to him which had been felt in the nalists, and railroad officials;—' The recurrence of case of the other four, and unhappily with too much foundation, for his body was found yesterday cold-blooded murders in our midst cannot longer be all to pass unnoticed by our citizens generally, (Sunday) morning off Weston, near the boat which with doe regard to the safety of society. The people had been found sunken. Mr. Bernard was the only of ellieago must demand that murderers shall be child of Mr. Joseph Bernard, a gentleman much 1"".1. To this end we invite all citizens to meet esteemed in Southampton, who has been both a ' mass meeting on Market street, corner of liladiborough and county magii-trate, being chairman of 150 The deceased 1, on Thnrsday next, at eight p.m.'" the local bench of county justices. On the 10th, " in view of the murder mania," the was called to the bar during the past twelvemonths, Grand Jury acted promptly. A correspondent of and held his first and it is how unfortunately s proved to be, his last brief at the recent assizes at the Noe York Tribune says —The first case that Winchester. His father was present at the findcam. before the Grand Jury to-day was decided hug of the body, which has been removed after hardly twenty minutes deliberation, and the to the Sun Inn, culprit fund guilty. The case was particularly aggravated by the circumstances, the murderer