The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-09-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDEROUS STRUGGLE IN THE ALPS. Attacks upon tourists travellingalone in the Alpine districts of Switzerland, Italy, and the Tyrol, uppear to have been .0.. the increase. of late. /he objects of the assailante has almost imeinably been robbery, but the murder of the lonely traveller 'IA often been the result, the robbers employing sometimes the dagger and eoinetimes firearms The latest of these outrages is to d iii a letter, written to the Cologne Ca, tte, from Martigny, in Bwiteerland, by Herr Paul Letts, a Benin bookseller, who WAN Making a pedestrian tour in the neighbouring mountains. He says, "I was proceeding on foot from Vernayaz (Gorze de Trient), when, about half way up the Col de Balsa, I met a stranger e,tning down the mountain. We saluted ...cob other and begen a conversation. It was only afterwards I peiceived that his object was to wic-itain my position, and he succeeded in it no far that, through my own inadvertence, lie learned that I Mad secended ti e mountain alone. I had Lode him good-bye in order to resume my journey, and be had replied in a strong Austrian dialect, when Om next moment I was felled to the ground by a shot that struck me in the neck. The fellow then seized we by the lex, and attempted to drag me to the edge of the deep and precipitous slope of the mountain side. But he did not succeed, as I was able to pull myself together, He then attacked me again, and taking aim coolly, remarked, 'Oh, I have ante her ft.r you.' He thee fired a second shot, and two more after that. All this pegged very quickly, and I was only now able to pull out my own revolver. I ruined at him,when he at once castaway, quickly but cautiously. I tried to follow him, picui7 'op on the way his umbrella and my own ope._„..-r, which had fallen out of it. case. But alter a few steps I had, owing to the loss of blond, to lie down. 1 valid not affied to fire haphazard, as I only had two ctrtriclos ii my revolver, which I thonrht it necessary to keep, in the event of a renewed attack. With tuy revolver cm my knee, I awaited what might happen-. Aft- e • few minutes three gentlmen approached me, ,comese up the moantein. I found they weed etii cuts from Lyons, and I told them my story. 'SO fey tried to assist me to go back, but I wax unable to proceed, and them to procure other amistance, no that I teliglietd be carried down. This woe dom., and about two hours after this &deck I found ni)self in the Hotel des Alpe., Trient. Toe medical eoatuinaiion 'hewed that, in addition to the wound in the Reek, where the ball had paased out again under the right ear. I had two oth-r wounds,tbe second being between the right ear and the temple, and the third, in which the bullet had entered my body under the arm and i appeared to have remained n the lung."  While the rejoicings were proceeding on Thursday at Oulton Hall, Cheshire, in honour of the ooming of age of Mr. P. H. B. Egerton, eldest son of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Sir Philip stumbled, and, falling heavily, dislocated his snide. A pig dealer named Quinn has been fined ins at Widnes petty se-slops for taking pigs' into an affected area, and selling 1101Ile Of them before they had been on his premises 28 days.  Attention has ..been called to two. races ail men