Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-10-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE CARNARVON TRAGEDY.  ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.  At the Carnarvon Borough Court. on Monday. before the Mayor (Mr. Bugbird) and other megiatraitors John Cmcnwell, a window Meaner, was charged with having ceased the death of his wife, Ann Cromwell. Mr. 3. T. Roberts prosecuted on behalf of the police, and Mr. Lloyd Carter defended the prisoner, who appeared to feel his position keenly. Mr. Roberts, in detailing the case for the prosecution, said that Cromwell and the deceased ' , had cohabited for several years prior to the I marriage, after which it appeared they had led a very unhappy life. On the night of Friday, the 22d ult., the deceased, who, with the unsonar, lived in a rerun in Mount-pleasantsquare, followed a fisherman named Albert Jnnes into a house iu the court occupied by a man named Morrie The prisoner then came up and asked his wife, "I. that the bawdy hone* you kept r Re also made a remark as to her conduct. The deceased was siderequantly seen to stagger at I! the top of a flight of steps leading to the outside entrance to the cellar of her house, and to drop into a sitting posture at the bottom. Ann Jones, a neighbour, heard her calling for help, and on proceeding to the apot saw prisoner in the sea of kicking his wife, who was endeavouring to protect her face with her hands. No one could say how many times the prisoner had kicked her previously. Later on Borne neighbours helped to remove her to the living MOM of the house. Nothing was afterwards known as to the deceased's movements, but according to the evidence of the decerreed'e children it appears that when the family were in bed it MOM was heard as if someone was , falling d :wnstairs from the living-room into the cellar, where the deceased was found the following morning. No one seemed to have rendered any assistance to her during the night. Medical testimony would be called showing that the two falls into this cellar could not have been the Cane. of death, and that the wounds on the heed were far more consistent with kicking. The skull had been fractured, and the centre of one star-shaped wound strewed that repeated blows had been given on the some spot. There Wits also • large number of impressions of a toe on the plaster of the wall against which the deceased's Lead nested when she was kicked by the prisoner. Mr. Roberts asked the bench to commit Cromwell for trial on a charge of wilful murder. The evidence was almost identical with that , given at the inquest. Dr. Griffith, was crvea-exarnined as to the cause of death. The wounds en the heed were consistent with kicking, but this fracture might firm been caused by a fall. • Mr. Carter, for the defence, said that although every opportunity lied been afforded the police to investigate the matter, there was not a tittle of residence which woolt warrant any jury to convict Cromwell either of murder or manslaughter. It was to be regretted that more than one doctor had not been celled, se that different theories might have been submitted. But they had @heady gut into a sea of theories. Personally, he would not hang a turn vat on the theory of is doctor. (Laughter.) The most consistent theory wan cliat of the defence, viz., that the deceased met with her death through to fall into the cellar whilst in s state of intomestion.  Upon bemg formaily uharged Cromwell said, " I sui not guilty of the death of my wife." After a private ooneultation the bench oommitied the accused for trial on a charge of manslaughter.  ALLEGED GROSS CRUE url—ro