Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-10-20 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER OF A MOTHER. A murder, under most revolting circumstances, has taken place at Sherburn, a village near Selby. Late at night, Mrs. Mountain, an old woman between 70 and 80 years of age, the landlady of a public' house, was ferociously attacked by her son, who literally kicked her to death. He then stripped off her clothing, and threw portions of her body into the fire. A police-inspector stated that an arm and a leg were fractured, the face was unrecognisable the teeth were strewn over the floor, and fragment; of bones were in the fireplace. The man also threatened to murder the servant girl, and kept her in the room in a state of terror. The prisoner, who is a short, thick-set man of about 30 years of age, was brought up in custody the next day before Mr. H. E. Maxwell Stuart and other justices, and after formal evidence had been given by the girl Annie Hutchinson, he was remanded for a week. The prisoner presented a rather wild appearance, and said he did not know what he was doing; he thought it was some-on, who had come to rob the house. The man, it is said, is evidently a maniac. Ili indulgence in drink has, it is stated, rendered him quite ungovernable. Some weeks ?.go, after a carouse, be rushed about the village at night like a madman, and worked himself into such a paroxysm of rage that he had to be watched for several days. A revolver at that time was diecreetly placed beyond his reach, but he succeeded in finding it, and this was the weapon with which he menaced the servant on the night of the matricide. It reads strangely that the man was fond of his mother, for his mode of demonstrating kffection was alike revolting and iemarkable. Additional information about the murderer discloses the fact that he contemplated matrimony, but that his mother was averse to the wedding.  James Dunn was evicted from the Singletone state, in county lA,lith, and died the same evening. He had lived in the same house and paid rent for half a century. Ile was SO years old, and exclaimed. as the emergency men carried him nut, "I have not half an hour to live." His wife and daughter were misorably poor, and the efforts to effect a settlement with the agents were unavailing, the terms being far beyond their means.  There is now to be special mission work in the East-end, it being organised by the "Free and Sovereign Grace Mission." Count Hatzfeldt, the German Ambassador, who ban been on leave of absence in Germany, arrived at Charing Cross on Saturday to resume his diplomatic duties.  One oi tne reading lights of the American railway world, Mr. Blanchard, the chairman of the Central Traffic Association, Chicago, is expected in England this month on business connected with the launch ing of something new and important in railway enterprise in the States. Mr. Blanchard's is a name that carries great weight in America. He has had 3i.• years' railway experience, for 10 .of which years he was vice-president of the Erie Railroad. For the last two and a half years he has been chairman of the Central Traffic Association, in which position he has become generally acknowledged as a leading authority on railway combinations, and his services are considered so essential to the well-being of that body that although Mr. Blanchard had given in his resignation, in order to devote himself more thoroughly to his new undertaking, pressure has been put upon him to reconsider his determination, and to hold his resignation in reserve until r4”,s January. so he is g over here on leave of st,Anoe only.  Twenty-five persons have heer: kined at a vinecre festival in MAdraa bv an L-.:::roweek.  - --T-EItRIBLE