Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1883-12-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DETAILS OF THE CRIME.  On Saturday at midnight a sore-it's disturbance took Place in Christina-street, Cardiff, resulting in the eubserytient death of a young man named Patrick Melee, and the erten of five men, two of whom, named Edward and David O'Brien, brothers, are said to be directly and clearly incriminated by the evidence. The cese ia one Oi ..n extmordinary and sensational deseript ien,and our readers will be gratified to learn that cone of the persons con concerned are residents in or natives of Cardiff. 'the row was between seamen, and theprincipal actors in it were Irishmen. The details will be found below, but by way of introduction we may here state that the unfortunete affray which thus led to the destruc' tiou of the Woof aperson whohad not yet reached his prints had its origin lathe drunken freaks of some of the prisoners. These men made themselves obnoxious by their impertinent intrusions in the 1 houses of SOWS of the resideuts in Chriatinaettreeti and the result was a row, in which the passions of • the participators were provoked. The deceased and a num rained E. Andersen had been Mg in a public-house, and on leaving they oiaed in the entaie, in the course of which , they were both stabbed, the deceased in the region of the abdomen. The tight woe a very exciting one, and it is ousted that one of the prisenere deliberately attempted to cut the deceased's throat. The knife was knocked from his hind, tied on regaining possession of it he inflicted the fatal wound: They were conveyed to the (ilarnorganshire and Meninoutliehire infirmary, and it was at once Seen that the condition of the decereed, whose bowels were protruding, was hopelese Hu received medical treatment, and survived until Sunday. Dr. Paine, one of the local magietrates. with Mr. T. H. Stephens, &elicitor, took his dying deposi :ens on Sunday morning in the presence of the o•Brieus. Deceased made a short and simple statement. tie said lie had been to a public-house drinking with some ft iende. When he got out into the streets there was a row going en. and he took part in it, and mac stabbed, Ile thought it was a foreign seaman who slabbed him, and he did not recognise either of the O'Brieus. At the time of waking this deposition deceased Was in a very low state, almost pulselesa ; and he said himself that. he knew he would net recover. Hie death took place at there o'clock iu the afternoon. Cardiff his Mien cetaparatively free front crimes of this description. The last case oceurrei at about midnight on the 23rd of February, 1882, whoa a seaman, named John Sharman, murdered a young join belonging to the town, named I."en Tierney, by stabbing him to the heart. Sharman nests girl of questionable character, named Margaret Jones, ins public. house. Ho paid for drink for her, and wished to accompany her to her home. She endeavoured to escape from him, and sought the protection of Tierney and two other men whom she met in the street. 'this led ton row, and before the men bap, rated the murder MIS committed. Sherman received great provocation, and as the aseizeis the , jury reduced the charge against him to mailslaughter and recommended Min to mercy. On the tot of May he was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, and thie term of incarceratioa fin has since undergone and completed.