Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-10-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

AMERICAN TRAGEDIES.  A correspondent of the Montreal Herald ryes the followlog of a frightful crime witch recently was 04,1:mitred in Hamburg, Canada, by some persons as )et unknown:—  About ten o'clock on a stormy night a family were aroused by the son of a neighbour, John node, who knocked at the window and called " Help, help, fire, fire:" On opening the door, young Thode was found lying unconscious near the window, and near him several small boxes containing securities, silver ware, and Nome money. Having carried him into the house and awakened the servants, in order to get more help from other neighboure, they hastened to the fire. They found a barn in the rear of the dwelling house in flamee, but were surprised not to find a single member of the family which con• sisted of parents, five eons, a daughter, and a maid servant. In knocking repeatedly at the door they got tn reply, and becoming alarmed, they broke the win• flown and thus entered the house. They saw flames issuing from the bedroom of the three eldest eons, and inn going to the room in which the parents, the daughter and the youngest .n slept, all the occupant,, of the 1.00111 were found covered with frightful wound., and dead, and the beds covered with smoking straw. The dead bodies were removed from the horse in order to rescue tlieni from the fire. On the next morning the corpus of the three eldest sobs were found ; the one on the place where bin bed stood, the two others in art ungluing stable, through which, it!. thought, they tried to ...ape. Moat of the wounds, it appeared, had been inflicted by sharp instrument., but some by clubs. the eon who alone escaped from murder was likewise wounded, and wee during the first day unable tospeak. He sulreequently recovered his speech, but could not furnish any information that gave any clue to the identification of the muldereni. The murderers tire still at large.  A rrrerbobdent of the 131,N-bond biapol,h writing from Thick,bghem Grirt.lb.use, hterrorr eth, §tivolt the (Mowing particuldra of the terrible tragedy which receoLly occurred {here ; About three week. ago, or more, Mr. 4 Waltoo,  % Vir t,  a wealthy mill-owner of this town, arose early in-th-e-morning. with the alleged intention of visiting his mill and plantation, but suddenly changing his route, returned to the house. There he found Mr. Jam, Leach (a young lawyer who make. Mr. Walton's house his home during the sessions of court) in the room with his wife. The husband at once ordered Mr. Leach out of the house, and forced the execution of his mandate at the point of a revolver; after which, he called for the carriage, and putting madam in, sent her to her mother. Nothing further of interest transpired in the case, except that a bill of divorce was filed by Mr. Walton, until lad Saturday, when Leach again rode into town. After strolling about the village for some time, ho met Anderson IValton, a son of Antony by a first wife. Anderson reproached Leach at once with the scandal, which Leach denied with great emphasis; whereupon Anderson shook his tiit in his face, at the same time putting his hand under his coat. "So you will shoot me, will you?" yelled Leach, and drawing his sixshooter, he fired, and young Walton fell pierced through the lunge, the blood gushing from hi mouth and nostrils. Just then, Mr. Walton the elder rushed up and fired three shots from his pistol directly at Leach, but missing him entirely, slightly wounded Captain A. T. Mostly and a negro. Once more Leach fired, and the elder Walton lay a corpse. The ball entered just above his heart. severing the main arteries and causing instant death. The Rev. James H. C. Leach, D. D., a highly-respectable Presbyterian minister, died soon after hearing of the drama in which his son bad acted so prominent a part; possibly in consequence, though as to this no one can do aught but conjecture. Mrs. Walton was one of the wives of Hobert, the aeronaut, whose ears were cut off in Louisville, Ky., for bigamy. Soon after their marriage he ran off with her money, leaving her destitute, though legally free, for he had two wives living when he married her. Mr. Walton became so enanioured with tne beautiful widow that he bought her wedding clothes, and lavished on her every luxury that wealth could procure until the recent affair, which led to the double homicide. Leach has been justified on the plea of self-defence."