Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal. — 1895-08-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MURDER ON THE  MOORS. Execution of Hudson. Story of the Crime. On Tuesday morning Robert Heseßine Hudson was executed at York Castle for the murder of his wife and child at Helmsley. Prisoner, who all along showed indifference as to his fate, slept well during the night, and ate a hearty breakfast. Subsequently he was visited by the deputychaplain, who remained with him, reading and praying, until Billington entered the cell, and performed the preliminary pinioning. Hudson received his executioner with the greatest calmness, and walked to the scaffold with the utmost firmness. A drop of seven feet was allowed, and death was instantaneous, The prisoner made no direct admission a the crime. The crime for which Hudson stiffered was a terrible one. Ho was a young Man, with a wife and baby, living near Thirsk, One day, from a long drive with him, Mrs. Hudson and tbe child never returned. As ho trace of them was found, search was made, and revealed their murdered bodies buried under a few inches of the soil on the moors. in the meantime the murderer had accounted for their disappearance by the dastardly story that his wife had eloped with another man. But the evidence proved that the young husband had out his wife and child's throats in that lonely spot on the moors, in the hope of getting a small legacy of £l7O which had been left them.  The Central News Glasgow correspondent telegraphs that petitions are contemplated under the Corrupt Practices Act in cases of five other Scotch constituences besides Falkirk Burghs. Opinions are being taken of leading counsel on the evidence.  Mr. A. R. Way has on sale at his premises in Wind-street, Swansea, a Blue Book containing the report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the amendments of the Acts relating to joint stock companies. The report includes the recommendation of a good many Chambers of Commerce, including the detailed answers given by the Swansea Chamber to a series of questions submitted to it. One of the recommendations of the Swansea Chamber was that shareholders should have the opportunity of confirming or otherwise all contracts entered into in connection with the company, and on this subject the committee recommend clauses having for their object the securing of greater publicity for existing contracts. A remarkable looking widow, named Ann Jane Timer, was committed at T,Cmgton, Staffordshire, on charges of burglary and housebreaking. On the 6th instant the prisoner was seen coming out of the back window of a house, the ten,amt of which was away, and was secured after a sharp struggle by a neighbour. Skeleton keys and other housebreaking appliances were found upon her, and much stolen property was found at her house. Prisoner pleaded guilty.  Fresh troubles are reported at Marsovan. Two American missionaries, one named Briggs, are said to have come to grief, but it is not clear whether they have been killed, or only wounded. An Armenian refugee, just arrived from Ven says the Turks have taken everything from the Armenians in the district. The sufferers plead that the powers should act strongly, and above all, quickly. The Turkish authorities have received advices stating that Zinakli Tui Kish, a Turkish village of three hundred houses where provisions had been refused to a band of insurgents, between seven and eight hundred strong, has been burnt, sad nearly all the male populatioA killed.