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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1872-10-25 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED MURDER IN BARROW.  At the Barrow Police Court, on Monday, a labourer, named Charles Goldsmith, in the employ of the Corporation. was charged with stabbing Saml. Gaul, with intent to murder him, on the previous day. It appears that some time since Gaul lodged with the prisoner, who is a married man, and lives in one of the wooden huts erected on Old Barrow Island. After a time, the prisoner imagined that Gaul was on rather too familiar terms with his wife, and gave him notice to leave. About a fortnight since, however, they seem to have settled their differences, and Gaul again went to lodge with the Goldsmiths. On Saturday night the prisoner and Gaul again quarrelled, and, while drinking together on Sunday evening, the subject was once more broached, and hard words passed between them. Ultimately Gaul went into his bedroom and laid down. Shortly after this the prisoner was seen to leave the room in which he had been seated, with a knife in his hand, and to enter Gaul's bedroom. Sounds of a struggle were soon heard issuing from this room, and on some of the other inmates of the house going to see what was the matter they found Gaul lying on the bed, with a fearful gash in the side of his neck, reaching from the ear downwards, the wound being about 21 inches long. Medical assistance was procured, and the wound bandaged. I The prisoner WRS apprehended about a quarter of lan hour afterwards. The case was adjourned in I order to see how the wounded man progresses.  The Duke of Cambridge iimpected the troops in Colchester garrison on Friday.  The Earl of Shrewsbury's Glamorgan estates were brought to the hammer at Cardiff on Friday. There were in all 53 lots, and the sale realised upwards of .552,000.  The Count de Wimpffen, an Austrian nobleman, is at present the guest of the Mayor of Liverpool. On Monday evening the Count dined at the housed Sir Thomas Edwards MON, and to-day he will, under the guidance of the mayor, visit the various objects 1 of unblic interest in Liverpool. NORSIBLE ACCIDENT IN A ROMS DALE COTTON MlLL—About nine o'clock on Monday morning, a temble accident occurred at the mill of Messrs. Crabtree, Burnley-road, Beall), The machinery was being started after breakfast, when a man named Robert Abbott, employed in the scutching room, was engaged in putting a belt on the , shafting. From some as yet unexplained cause (but in all Probability through his clothing being caught by the belting), be was drawn over the shafting, whirls was revolving rapidly, and before assistance could be rendered to the unfortunate man, or the machinery stopped, his body was literally torn in Pieces. The body was mangled and dismembered in such a shocking manner, that part of a leg and thigh was actually dashed through a window adjoining. Several medical men were promptly on the spot, but their aid was of course useless, the unfortunate man being killed instantaneously. He has left a widow and large family.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-03-20 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE 31ST INST., Mr. H. B. Sheridan will move a resolution for the reduction of duty on lire insurance.  ApvlcEs FROM BERLIN mention that the Queen Dowager of Prussia, widow of the late King, is seriously ill.  THE Poe has accepted the offer of three squadrons of Hungarians made to his Holiness by the Primate and the clergy of Hungary.  A SPECIMEN of -ilia wolf -fish was caught off the Isle of Wight, Ust. week. It is one of the rarest fishes In the south of the British Islands.  TIM LATEST ABYSSINIAN news is that a reconnaissance is about to be made from tho British headquarters to the Lake Ashangi. MR. MURPHY caused another storm in Rochdale on Saturday, in which there was pistol firing and a promise of bloodshed.  THE FIRST SPRING SHOW of the Royal Horticultural Society was held in the gardens at South Kensington on Saturday, and proved a decided success. THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER continues gradually to mend, but is not yet pronounced out of danger.  HORACE BUMBOLD, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Berne has been appointed Secretary to her Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburg. ALGERNON BERTRAM MITFORD' Esq., has been appointed a Second Secretary in her Majesty's Biplomatic Service.  WILLIAM DoRTA, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legatiou at Stockho.m, has been appointed Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Lisbon. THE CAMBRIDGE CONSFRVATIVE CLUB has adopted a resolution expressing confidence in Mr. Die. raeli upon his appointment as Premier.  DR: WATRIIB, who was imprisoned under the Lord• Lieutenant's warrant on a cnarge of Fenianism, has been released on bail.  THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA, it is reported, will pass the summer at Moscow, for the benefit of her health. FRANCIS RNOLLYS, Esq., has been appointed one of the Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters in Ordinary to her Majesty, in thie room of Capt. Robert Tench Bedford, R.N., deceased. HER MAJESTY has conferred upon Staff Commander Alfred Balliston, of the Royal yacht Bldn, the appointment of sergeant-at-arms in the Lord Chamberlain's department.  TILE VICARAGE OF TODNIORDEN, vacant by the death of the Rev. A. J. Plow, M.A., is worth £3OO a year; patron, the Rev. Dr. Molesworth, vicar ef R3chdale.  AT MANCHESTER, Timothy Faherty was tried the other day for the wilful murder of Mary Hamner, at Droylsden, on Christmas Day. Ile was found guilty, and sentenced to death.  A DENBIGSHIRE PAPER tells of a man who fell over a precipice at Bethesda, and remarks : "The fall was about fifteen yards, and the poor man, who was going home that way, died instantly." THE NEW BADEN CABINET includes a Jew— Herr Elstetter—as Minister of Finance. This is the first time that such an office 1149 teen conferred in Germany upon one of the ancient faith.  A SMALL VOCABULARY of the Tigrc; language, composed by the well-known African traveller, Von Beurmann, and edited by Dr. Mera, has just been published at klelle.  ON SATURDAY MORNING a terrible collision took place on the Dowlais awl Cwrnhagoed Railway, which caused severe injuries to about 30 men and. women.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-08-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE LYING-IN WARD of St. Pancras workhouse is about to be placed under the charge of Miss Nightingale for the training of nurses. As there are about live births a week in the workhouse, it is considered a favourable place for the purpose.  ArFEW DAYS PoziO some workmen, while diggi.lg out the foundation for a warehouse in Blackpool, Lance shire, came upon an oyster firmly imbedded in the clay at a depth of five feet from the surface. At the time of the discovery the oyster was alive.  - IN THE ACTION in the Common Pleas brought by Mr. Home against Mrs. Lyon for the return of some articles of jewelry which were said to be worth £5OO, an arrangement has been made and the action discontinued.  A CONCESSION for laying down and working it submarine cable between France, Corsica, and Algeria, has been granted to M. Louis, director of the journals Des Tilegraphes and Des Posies. The privilege is to last for ten years.  THE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES of the city of Mexico have made a contract with an English company to supply the city with gas. With well-lighted streets, it will be perhaps possible to walk half a mile at night without being in constant peril of losing one's purse.  THE LIVERPOOL CUSTOM OFFICERS have been ordered to examine very closely all sheep brought from Slesvig-Holstein, as the small•pox has broken out among them, and great vigilance must be observed to prevent the disease coming into this country. ON MONDAY AFTERNOON there was a serious fire at Hanley. The warehouse of an earthenware manufacturer was ignited by a spark from a neighbouring chimney, and before the llamas were extinguished the building was completely gutted.  _ MR. MEADOWS, of Thornville, Wexford, has sold his famous yearling bull, Bolivar, the best young bull at Dublin Spring and Leicester Royal, to Mr. Brierley, of Rhode.bouse, Middleton, Manchester, for SOO guineas. INTELLIGENCE has been received from hfogador of the assassination of Reid Mohammed, uncle of Sit Mohammed, Caid of Haha. On the news of this murder reaching the latter, who had in his absence delegated his powers to his uncle, he immediately returned to Azagar, in order to do justice on the assassins.  IT HAS BERN ARRANGED that for the future the train services of the Mont Cenis railway shall be in direct correspondence with the French and Italian railways. The entire time occupied between Paris and Florence is reduced to 36 hours, and the letters are delivered a day earlier in Florence. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON has yielded to the solicitations of Baron Haussmann, and consented to spend the 15th of August in Paris. The fireworks are to be magnificent, as the Municipal Council has determined to spare no expense to attract foreigners to the capital during the rejoicings. A PROPOSAL is under the consideration of the Government for the appointment of a bishop for the army, instead of a chaplain-general, as at present. The bishop would have episcopal powers at all stations to which our soldiers are liable to be sent where there is now no bishop.  AT
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-02-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DARING ATTEMPT TO MURDER A  LIVERPOOL MERCHANT.  One of the most extraordinary and daring attempts at murder and robbery that has ever come under the cognizance of the police of Liverpool (and such offences are by no means rare in that town), was committed on Monday morning. About half-past eleven o'clock, Mr. Adolphe Kusel, a wine merchant, who has an office in Tower-buildings, Water-street, was alone there, his clerks happening to be all out on business at the time, when two persons entered. One of them appeared to be a woman, and the other, seemingly a middle-aged man, had a large beard and moustache. The latter holding in his hand an advertisement cut from a newspaper, made an inquiry of Mr. Kusel concerning some wines he had on sale, saying he wished to sample them. Mr. Kneel was going into the outer office to show the wines, when his interrogator jumped upon his back, and began beating him in a furious manner upon the head with a life preserver or loaded cane. The other ' person then joined his companion in the attack upon. the hapless merchant, and the latter was felled to the ground, the two beating him savagely. His cries of " Murder " were heard by Mr. Hopps, a merchant, who occupies adjoining rooms' and he and his clerks rushed to the assistance of Mr. Kusel. They found, however, that the door of his office was locked, the ruffians having turned the key when they entered. The door was forced open with an adze, and they found Mr. Kesel upon the floor covered with blood and most seriously injured. Near him were standing his assailants, who treated the matter in a very cool, off-hand manner. They were, of course, detained, and the police sent for. Mr. Kusel was taken to the nearest hospital, where it was found that he was fearfully cut about the head and face, his right arm broken, and, other severe injuries. On the prisoners being examined, the supposed female turned out to be a young fellow named John Wilson, a clerk in the establishment of Mr. Wood, confectioner, Bold-street, who had obtained leave of absence for an hour or two, and borrowed his "get up" from a girl of his acquaintance. The man with the moustache and beard (which Were false) was David Harris, a clerk in the office of Mr. H. S. Williams, attorney, Moorfields. They are beardless boys, neither of them seeming more than 13 or 19 years of age. Mr. Kusel was known to keep large sums of money in the safe in his office, and the object of the young miscreants in attacking him no doubt was, if not to murder him, to maim him to such an extent that he would be unable to prevent them robbing the place. It is expected that there must have been some collusion between the would-be thieves and some one on the premises, as the young men had obtained a key of the office door, and it is singular that they shauld have made their appearance when the whole of the clerks were absent.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-03-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ATTEMPT TO 3IUIZDER POLICEMEN IN BEDFORD-SQUARE. _ _  James Clancy, 23, deacribed as a reporter, was chargi A, at the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, with feloniously shooting at John Chown, with intent to murder him.  Mr. Giffard, QC., conducted the prosecution, with Mr. Poland and Mr. Beasley; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Rihton. The facts of this case will be fresh in the recollectio of our readers. The prosecutor was a police-constable, and on the 18th of January he went with another constable named Chamberlayne, to watch a house le Itidmotithe street, Gray's-inn-road, for the purpose ui apitelienuing the prisoner, who was suspected to be concealed there, upon the Charge of being a dwelt, ter from the Royal Engineers. After witting al day the prisoner came out, and the officers folios el him to Bedford•square, where Chown went up to him and asked him if his name was Clancy. He repli.d that it was not, and that it was Reed, awl that he live 1 at Camden-town, and that he had just come from thence. Chown, upon this, told him that he should apprehend him for being a deserter, and the moment he add this the prisoner put a etick between lie legs and threw him down and ran off. Both the officers pursued bin, and he then turned deliberately round and fired a revolver at the prosecutor, and the bullet whiz,. d close past his ear.. The pursuit was coinin o 41, and just as Chamberlayne came up with the prisoner he fired a second shot, and it had the effect of blackening his whisker. Chamberlayne then seized the prisoner, and at the same instant he fired another shot. A bystander said to Lim, "You rascal, what did you try to shoot me for?" and he replied th it be did not mean to shoot him; and when lie was asked who it was he intended to shoot, he nodded at Chamberlayne. As the prisoner was Wog conveyed to the police-station he said, "I have ha 1 a good fight, and fought a fair duel, and I am only sorry that I have not been paid for it." A revolver was taken from the prisoner which bad sir chambers, and three of them appeared to have been discharged. Upon his lodgings being searched there were found a quantity of bullets and gunpowder. Mr. Ribtou addressed the jury very briefly for the prisoner intended to commit the dreadful crime of they es;nmi He ghtfaiarrlg fairly entertain unde r mealldtoheebctirwcubmetabtearn tebse, wilful murder, and as to the other intent alleged in the Indictment, that of doing grievous bodily harm, he said he should not for a moment attempt to struggle against a conviction for that offence.  Some witnesses were called to speak to the character of the prisoner, and they described him aa a remarkably quiet, gentle, well-behaved young man. Baron Bramwell having summed up, the jury almost Immediately found the prisoner guilty of shooting at the prosecutor with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The prisoner was sentenced to be kept in penal eery.tude for life.  , The learned judge ordered the officers to be pd a reward of in for their bravery and good conduct.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-01-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CHARGE OF SHOOTING.  John and William Williams were charged with shooting at Cullum Leeder, gamekeeper, with intent to murder him.  Mr. Simons, Merthyr, appeared for the defence.  • The evidence was very voluminous. The prosecutor is a gamekeeper under the Countess of Dunraven, and lives at Coity. He was called to Morfa Wood on a certain day, and saw four men there. When he had reached them within thirty yards one of them said, "Stand back." He proceeded, but had not gone more than two yards when William Williams fired at him. The night was quite bright, and he was able to describe minutely the dress and appearance of the man who fired, for they were then only five yards apart. He also saw John Williams there, he did not see a gun in his hand. After the gun was fired, he went up to John Williams. and another man presented a gun at his (Leeder's) body, and it snapped. He struck William Williams with a stick on the right side of his head. The blow staggered him. Tackled William Williams again, and they had a fight, witness using his stick and prisoner the gun barrel. Prisoner was knocked down, and he said "Fair play." Witness asked him what fair play he could expect after shooting at a man, and struck him a blow on the left side of the head, which caused blood to fly from the wound. Let him get up, and called on Thomas Lewis to take hold of prisoner. Said, "Tom you had better give up." Was mistaken in calling him Tom, and found out his mistake before parting with him. A man struck Lewis with his gun, and broke his arm. This was the same man as snapped his gun at the prosecutor. John Williams, the other prisoner, aimed a blow at the prosecutor with a life preserver; and some one else hit him a blow on the back of the head which knocked him senseless. He also received a wound on the left cheek bone. Prosecutor said he had no doubt the prisoners were two of the men engaged in the fray that night. It happened about midnight on the 10th of December.  William Potter, another gamekeeper, gave corroborative evidence, and swore to the priaonera.  After William Williams had fired the gun, the prosecutor attempted to close with him, he said, old on, it was accidentally the gun went off"  Dr. Leahy, M.D., proved that he examined the prisoner William Williams's head, and found the marks of two tolerably recent wounds. bin M. Allen described the wounds on the prosecutor and Lewis, whose arm was fractured. Some other evidence was given, and Mr. Simons, for the prisoners, called witnesses to prove an alibi, and that the wounds on William Williams's head were caused by a fall in the quarry where he worked.  It appeared that John Williams's wife was confined on the 10th December, and the baby was still-born.  The prisoners and their mother were seen that night by several witnesses, and at such a distance from Morfa Wood as precluded the possibility of their having taken part in the fray at midnight...  A fellow-workman and another deposed to the wounds.  The Bench dismissed the case.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-08-09 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

HIGH-HANDED JUSTICE. [FROM THE "MILT NEWH." ,  The discussion in the House of Commons on Monday about the execution on board her Illajest 's ship Beagle will probably have the effect that Mr. Gorst desires to bring about. As re, ards the act itself the explanations given by the law Officers of the Crown were far from satisfactory. J lie two facts which first strike the mind of any one who reads the discussion are that the man who nil 4 put to death was executed by virtue of a juris iction devised ad hoc, and that he was not, after nil, the man who did the murder. An Englishman was Wiled in a quarrel, the cause of which was variously stated, in Tanna, a South Pacific island. A naval officer in command of H.M.S. Beagle, acting no doubt under specific instructions from his superiors, landed on the island, and tried to arrest the murderer. Tke village would not give him up, and therefore the officer carried off smite of the people as hostages. At length a native was sent to the ship, who was described as the murderer, but who was only the murderer's brother. He was, however, with his brother when the deed was done, and he seems to have been really an accessory before the fact. He was tri, d on board the Beagle, found guilty, and c.,ccut,t:. In other words, a man was tried and put to death or a crime committed in a country over which ..11 have no jurisdiction, and found guilty on evidence taken in the most irregular and random fashion. The Attorney-General argued that we cannot deal with savages as with the inhabitants of a civilised country, and that of course is quite true. But even when dealing with savages we must have some pr. n ciples and rules of law for our own sakes and our own credit, if not on account of the savages. It may bethatinthiscase the man put to death downy a his fate; but tinier such a mode of capture aud trial any number of innocent men might be made victims of mistaken or false accusation. The Attorney-General argued, too, that it was a mere act of war on our part, and needed no I,gal joltsdiction to justify it. But, if there has to he war, it would be better on the whole not to disguise it in a masquerading imitation of the forms of civil law. We doubt much whether the people of the island were profoundly impressed by a tiii,l IV I !I, seemed only to affirm the principle that ,o cho .1 must be hanged. The Attorney-General. no, ever, does not seem to have known or to Lair cared to represent toe mind of the Clovernment. The statement with which Mr. W. H. Smith wound up the conversation practically unsaid all that Sir John Holker had been saying. It amounted to a pledge that the conduct which tlic Attorney-General defended should mot be repeated. Mr. Gorst and his supporters may be content with this assnrinev.  Lord Norton has accepted the presidency of t!i, Social Science Congress, to beheld at Cheltenhv'“ In October next.