The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-08-02 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE LLANGIBBY MURDER.  The mires for the county of Monmouth wo commenced on Tuesday. Baron Pollock sits the Crown Court, the nisi prius business comip , before Mr. Justice Manisty. Amongst the bills found on Tuesday by the grand jury was CT against Joseph Garcia, the Spanish seam. charged with the foul murder of William Watk , his wife, and three children, at Llangihby. ], prisoner will not, however, be tried at tilt assizes, an applicatipn for a postponement, tu, by Mr. Maddy, Garcia's counsel, haviag 1 acceded to. The arrival of Garcia from gaol caused great excitement, and he was gre,• with shouts of execration by the crowd assenil.l...l outside the courts.  ASSIZE COVET, Tuesday. Monmouth has shown signs of great excitem touching the trial of the Spanish sailor for murder of William Watkins, his wife, and t 1 -children. This morning the prisoners for were brought from Usk by railway, but an tien was made as to Joseph Garcia, who driven up in a fly. A large crowd was draw. near the entrance to the assize courts, w aci prisoners are received. As soon as he got the carriage he was hooted and hissed, an. strongest feeling of execration appeared I manifested. Mr. Baron Pollock, the le:., judge who presides in the Crown Court, r very pointed reference to the case in the cour his charge, designating it as one of the ), horrible cases that had come under his it, r since he at to try criminal cases. Very : after the grand jury had entered upon , duties they returned a true bill against Jo Garcia; and he was called up to plead; that time Senor tracilla, the Spanish Consul, not arrived from Cardiff. After luncheon Lin plication was made by Mr. Maddy (instruct, Mr. Ensor, of Cardiff), to postpone the trii,h affidavit, which was put in and read, F, forth the grounds on which the applicatior made. Mr. Baron Pollock consulted with  Justice Manisty, and then he granted the a] tion. The prisoner was thereupon sent 1 gaol to wait the recurrence of the next gaol delivery for this county. The prison, pears very much changed since he was conic for trial. He was more anxious and restics ;  hair was brought down over his forehead, a', was paler and thinner. It would seem, they. that he has undergone a change from that indifference which was so marked a charaet, on his first and second appearances beim. magistrates. The court was crowded durin_ early morning, but as soon as the case wtis posed of for the present public excitement abated. There can be no question that a course has been taken. The circumstances (a Llangibby tragedy are so recent, and so vi. impressed on the public mind as to make it \ doubtful whether 12 jurors could be found could dispassionately consider the evidence a: present time. The more certain the public . ment as to the guilt of the prisoner, the needful is it that. the trial should be del.  until a period when public feeling shall 1 cooled down. Another reason of importatl. favour of deferring the trial is the proba, that in the autumn the trial will take pl another court. That will take away any blance of partiality or prejudice which zni supposed to exist in Monmouthshire.