Northern Times. — 1859-07-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BELGITIMI -'' IN SOUTH- STAFFORDSHIRE. The ,Correctional Tribunal of. Charleroi is just now On Sunday morning a horrible case of murder, similar in occupied with a charge brought against the Trappists circumstances and almost equal in atrocity, to the one at of the convent of Forges-lea-Chimai of cruelty Moat Colliery, Princes End, was made known, at a small place called Lower Gornal, which is a small town of towards the children placed under their care for cottages belonging to. Lord Ward, in the parish of Sedgley. educational purposes. The evidence already adduced The scene of the awful event is not more than four miles proves that the conduct of the reverend fathers has from the Moat Colliery, the place of the late outrage. . been of the most inhuman kind, disgraceful alike to For some time a man of the name of William Hyson, a their religion and their humanity. Some details of brewer, and occasionally a gardener, and who formerly was the case are embodied in the following remarks from a publican and kept the Old House at Home in Dudley, the Independence Beige, the leading paper of and has been in the police force of this county, has kept Brussels : loving company with ,a smart-looking and very attractive " While the accusation against these men—whom their yonng woman of 18 years of age, named Mary Smith profession seemed to call to the mctice of virtue—was not the daughter of William Smith, a shoemaker of Gornal verified by pUblic and judicial documents, we, maintained Wood, who is very respectable, though humbly to do. Hyson a prudent- ieserve, leaving to the tribunals the duty of is double Miss Smith's age. He represented himself as a separating truth 'from falsehood, and of fixing upon the single man and without iucumbrance, and she received him proper persons the responsibility of the odious acts de- as a suitor for her "heart' and hand." Through domestic nounced by the public voice. The motives which dictated differences with her sister, she did not, though in opposition this reserve no longer exist. If justice has not yet pro- to her father's wish, reside at home, but lived with a woman nounced, at least light has been thrown upon this affair by named Mary Ann Hickman, as a lodger, during which time the depositions of the witnesses examined. We now deem Hyson is said to have been received in favour, and ,that he it our duty to speak, quite as much as we previously felt it by his manifestations purposed marrying her, having oF our duty to remain silent.. We will state, then, that we 1 have read with profound stupefaction, and with indignation still more profound,, the reports published by the journals of Charleroi of the first proceedings of the Trappist trial. In her two guineas a short time ago to buy her reading of such monstrous refinements of cruelty, we may well doubt whether we live in Belgium in the middle of the 19th century,and ask if men whose fertile imaginations : have invented such means of torture for poor children are i not the descendants in a right line of the Torquemadas, the I Petor Titelmanns, and Juan de Vargas: Let our readers 'judge for themselves. The witnesses for the prosecution against Auguste Vertulle, otherwise Father Augustin, unanimously proved that that excellent man was the sworn Itormentor, the contractor for all the dirty wet* of the. ' convent; and that this post was far from being a sinecure. I An ingenious refinement of barbarity had Multiplied and varied the punishments destined to lead back to the path of duty the Unfortunate little beings subjected to the Idiscipline of the convent. There was the punishment of the savate, that of the cask. that ,-,e +l.- •  new sill  he was receiving 7s a v  for Messrs. Cresswell, ironmasters, Tipton, in addition tc having a respectable dressmaking business  Saturday  She kissed her sister and sister's child  previous night repeatedly, telling them she should "never see them more  covered floating in Askey Bridge Pool. On being taken  out she presented the appearanco of having been used roughly, as both her arms were bruised. Two persons of the names of James Marsh and Jonah Hickin have declared to policeman Taylor that they saw Hyson with the deceased  o'clock to twelve at night on the  Gornal  the Coope  a little a'  .s to be ma  W  iver the Fielc