Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-04-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ROAD MURDER.  A gentleman, resident in London, has sent the following letter for publication: awl we trust that the kinb feeling expressed will meet with a heart) response:— I was pleased to see the extract from Mr. Inspector Baker's Report on Factories, just presented to Puhanient, and having reference to the case of Mr. Kent, who has long been one of the sub-inspectors, copied into your columns. The sentiments contained in that extract do honour to Mr. Baker's sense of justice, his humanity, and his courage, and I trust they will meet with a cordial response from the Government and from the public. I became acquaint-d with Mr. Kent in consequence of the accidental circumstance co.' a residence in the neighbourhood of Road, at the period when the murder of his child took place, and being deeply impressed with a conviction not only of his innocence, but of his entire ignorance of the author of his calamity, I endeavoured to befriend him up to the period when his unhappy daughterconfessed her crime. In the experience of a long life I have never witnew-ed such overwhelming agony and suffering as were the lot of Mr. Kent during a wretched existence of five years. The victim of a foregone conclusion on the part of a vast portion of the public • held out to scorn and indignation, with all the details and circumstances of supposed guilt, as the murderer of his dearly loved and favourite boy ; appealing in vain to the constituted authorities for an inquiry by which he might establish his , innocence, and willing ti incur any expense which he I could ill afford—for teat end ; driven from town to town and from village to village by the jeers of every lad in the streets who could pick up a stone to cast at him, the wood r is that the weight of so many troubles, I all coming so thicklyupon him at once, was not greater I than he could bear. His unhappy wife, we hear, has succumbed to them, having beenstricken, I fear, with I hopeless paralysis. In addition to the loss of his child, the calamitous illness of his wife, the goading torture of mind which the suspicion of his guilt by those he daily met through 1 five long dreary years must have occasioned him, possibly the horrible pang might have come over him, although he endeavoured to drive the dreaded idea from his breast, that the daughter, whose mother's insanity lie knew had developed itself during the infancy of her child, had been, as many alleged, the murderess of her little brother. Do not you think, with Mr. Inspector Baker, that itpc, nobMf publiceneaigsazet nsitsdao,pieioni seli:irufceiowyn,wri,thdrtiohhe.o:ff iedenricrea, the public, which has done so teri:a hutnnee brokene nt he e,e.th.ndas tnmd.r period he iry:oh:tbutehthlg. iymhehr sttt discharge oenn,n..yemou i ass unjust ycie, en:ccfao, nt:hmihgomni his duties. The only interval when they were not disdieyreit:alzel ch.? an x ious to made against him, he obtained, through the kindness his 'afrirdestf fearl retire, in your hands, feeling sure that the British public, which has done him great injustice, will nobly not be slow in making him amends.