The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-05-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN WALES.  MISTRESS MURDERED  HER GROOM.  According to a Wrexham correspondent the vale of Greeford was on Monday night the scene of a terrible tragedy. A man named She Hard, a groom, who had been for many years in the employment of the tenants of Holyfield, Gresford, returned home on Monday night, having been away in Liverpool tor some time. After his mistress, Mrs. Whittle, had gone to bed he went upstairs. The servant, Prudence Taylor, heard a shot fired soon afterwards, and ran upstairs. she was horrified to find that Shellani had shot his mistress. Upon asking him what lie had done, he pushed a revolver he had in his hand against her lace, and said that if she spoke or stirre.d lie would kill her too. Her murdered mistress was then lying on the floor near the bed. The girl being too horrified to speak or stir, the murderer took the pistol away front her face, went down on his knees, and offered up a prayer. He then put the revolver to his mouth and shot himself. The girl rushed downstairs, but, regaining courage, she went up to the room again, and was th it surpised and horrified to find the bodies of both the murdered wohian and the murderer Lying side by side in the bed. Shellard, whose wound had not proved immediately fatal, had in the meantime out his victim's throat. A blood-stained razor was lying near the bodies.  "Ithat sort of a person is Mrs. B. ?" asked a village gossip of the butcher, who had been seen talking with a new resident. "A perfect lady!" was the enthusiastic reply. "she don't know one o' meat from another!"  Hints on health.—Don't shake a hornets' nest to .3ee if any of the family are at home. Don't try to :he the right of way from an express train at a railway crossing. Don't hold a wasp by the other while you thaw it out in front of the lire to see ii it is alive.  Telegrams from Denver, Colorado, state that a read has btoken out between the Navajo Indians and the cattlemen on the ranches bordering on their reservation, owing to thefts of cattle by thc Indians. Two serious encounters have takeu Mace, in which eight whites were killed. The Navajo reservation covers an area of 12,000 square miles in New Mexico and Arizona, extending ft the southern border of Colorado.  Keeping Lent.—Mrs. Jones: "I'm giving a big limier-party this week, my dear. Can you lend me some knives and forks? I haven't enough." Mrs. Mown: "My dear, I would with pleasure, but I've let all my spare ones to the dear vicar; he's zot a lot of other clergymen stopping in his house bra week's prayer and fasting." - -•  M. liecque-, in the Fiyaro, lays claim to tha t,illow ing delightful aphorism : " The worst of ,ality is that we only wish to share it with our •uperiors." That might have been said by an Irishman. But even iiermans can perpetrate bull,. Witne:is Jean Paul Richter's cliarnii:4; de‘niption -if the dwarf who was so small that he only reached ' up to his own knee,to say nothing of anyenp else's." Angelic bagpirs.—A genuine Highlander was one lay looking at a print from a picture by one of the old masters, in which angels were represented blowing trumpets. lie inquired if the angels played on trumpets, and being answered in tne affirmative, made the following pithy remark• 41.1ech, sirs, but they maun be pleased wi' music' I wonder they dim" borrow a pair o' bagpipes:"