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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1865-01-11 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RAILWAY CARRIAGE—At the Usk (Monmouthshire) Quarter Sessions, held on Tuesday, before Mr S. R. Bosanquet (chairman) and a full bench of magistrates, Alfred Brown, the station-master at Hengoed, near Roymney, surrendered t , his hail on a charge of having in leeently assaulted Mini Mary Ann Griffiths in a railway carriage between Crumlin and the TredegarJanction on Sunday, the 4th et D-cemh 3. last. The court waa denied), crowded, the cue having created • great deal of ex eit-inent. The prosecutrii d'posed that she was an assistant at a draper's shop in Merthyr, and on the 4th of December she went to Blaenavon by train. 03 returning at five o'clock the passengers had to change carriages at Pontypool, and Miss Phillips and Mini Edwards were with her when the train stopped. Toe prisoner was in a first-class carriage, and Miss Paillipe, who knew him, asked him to take care of her (the prolecutrix) as far as she went, and he mid he would do so with much pleasure. He opened the door, but ' witness said, " Mine is a second-class ticket;" he I said, "Never mind, get in, I will make it all right. You will be very comfortable." After the train left the station she obierved there was no light in the carriace, but the prisoner did not say anything. Before they got 0 Crumlin they talked about Miss Phillips, whom he had not seen for a long time. After leaving the Cruadin station he got his feet " entanzl•d" with hers, but she thought it an accident, and sat back on the ,cushion. He then got up and tried to kiss her, but she pushed him away as well as she could. She was very much frightened, and begged him to keep his seat, as she was unwell, and hid been so all the evening. She told him, in reply to his questions, that she was engaged, and he then slipped down on his knees and lifted up her clothew, and otherwise insulted her. She said if he continued to do so she would cry out murder, but he did again insult her, end she fainted. In struggling with him she I oat one of her garters, and both her stockings were down. She recovered just as she left the Trolegar Junction, and he offered to get her some brandy, which she id dined. Ile again pulled her tower.% him, but she struggled and got away from him. At Ilengoed ha got out, and said, " Miss Griffiths, I hope you will pardon me." Bat she did no; answer him. On arriving at Merthyr she met one of her friends, and, while telling her what had happened, she fainted. Next day she laid an infoimation against him. The witness ' was severely cross-examined to show that she had given some encouragement to the prisoser, but her evidence in chief Was not in the least degree affected thereby. The jury, after a few minutes con-ultation, fooad the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to nine months imprisonment with hard labour in the House of Correction at Usk.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-07-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DISCOVERY OF THE MURDERER.  On Monday morning a cabman named Jonathan Matthews was faken to the Harrow-road Station, where he made the following communication :—" I live at No. 68, Earl-street, Liss oi-grove, and am a cabman. Last night, and for the first time, I saw a placard in the Edgware-road having reference ti a murder committed on the North London Railway. I communicated ceitain information to a waterman named Amos."  The following is the comenunicaton made by the cabman before Mr Henry, the chief magistrate at now-strect, on Tuesday afternoon '1 know Franz Milner. He is a native of Cologne. His age, as he told me, is 25, and for some time past he has been employed flea shirt-cutter in the firm of Mess's. II idgkinson, hosiers, of Threadneedle-street, in the city. Seven or eight months ago he commeaced to keep company With my sister, and, as her suitor, he was in the habit of corning to my house. I remember one Sunday in Oct her or November last he came to my house and said to me. You have got a nice hat, where did yttu get it from ? I told him I had bought it from a man naintd Wa!ker, a hatter, in Crawford-street. Muller said, " Weil, I should like to have one like it.' I said, 'Well, try this on. and he did so, but found it too tight for his head. I then said, •i know your 849 now, and I get ill t one W...fur you.' 1 diil so, and in the following Sunday he came and took It away. Some time af erwards he came to my bowl again, when I said, " How well that hat wears; I have had three hats since then.' I laid hold of the hat, and noticed on the inside brim a pi colter thurubmark, caused by the bat being put on and taken off by the hand at one particular spot. Trio hat produced (the one found in the railway carriage) is tie same, and I could swear to it. Last Monday week Mil I.r visited my hous..i and saw my wife. Afttr pa}ing her the usual compliments he took a box out of liis pocket and pulled out of ii a gold th tin, which he said he had paid £3 10s for that morning. He then fixed the chain on a watch and gave the box to my child to play with. [The box was produced, and identified by Mr Death, who ass present, as the one he bad placed the chain in.] Muller their exhibited a ring which he had on his finger, and w!kb was similar ti the one described by Mr Death. Muller then began ti complain, saying he had been very unfortunate ; he had been down to the city, and a cart havieg passed near his foot he had sprained itni ankle. He then salt I, 'I am going to Canada ; be sure you Ewe Jonathan (rosining me), and tell him nob ti go out to-morrow morning until I come, for I praticulaily want to see him.' For two or three utoraiug• I waited for him, but
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1864-05-11 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RAMSDEN, M.P.-In reply to e request 4 17 Implanted in the human soul? (Cheers). N.) doubt ' made by th the report just read which rendered it necessary for him 18 e Batley Liberal Registration Society, that 4 6or 10 per Cent out of the hundred may be owing, for he would support Mr Baines'. Borough Franchise 81l interpose i to between the committee and the meeting. , 4 In Re could only congratulate them that the Bible was to 4 14 aught I know, to the influence of the law, but 90 or 96 now before the House of Commons, Sir J. W. %widen per cent is ow.ng to (hat feeling to which I have re- has winten, declining to do so on the ground that if egr . They and increasing eat demand among all nations of the 4 22 4 U ferret. Whenever you hug( a min in the fase of the the Government avow their inability, it is clear that no ,r, h r ; all public under the circomstances .to which we mire so accustomed in thi county, if you do in the slighprivatehad upon the plat orm ambnioadors from 4 private member of Parliament can have any prospect of maaagalaa' who bore testimomy to the value of the 11 e 5 si Scriptures, and he hoped tbe day was not far distant • 4 success, Sir F. C ley, the other member for the degree deter by the shocking nature ef the punishment, Wes 4 14 W t Ridin of Yorkshire in reply s„ p similar ap. when ambeesadors from other countries would be pre4 19 I sill undertake to say that you by so much-nay, by gh bd ' h . -ruled his intention Sent at their rneetiegs to bear the like testimony to its 4 23 Much mere-weaken that other great security which' cation from t e same, oy, as tug value and usefulness. He had much to say, but if he 4 10 depend') upon the reverence for human life. (Cheers). to support Mr Baines bill. MURDER IN Rome. -M. Allard, a distinguish. Ispeech be should only move the a 'option were to makes sp . b .. . 4 AO A discussion ensued, in which Mr. Newdegate, Mr of the report, in doing which he should e anticipating 474 Roebuck, Sir F. Crossley, Sir J. Walsh, Mr Hibbert, Pa.inter, of Lyons, who et the c onmencement of the a much better speech from a much borer man, and A 7 • R • h 1:i. th • ; na winter went t i Rome with 19 m i er, wile, • four 5 15 and Mr Maguire met part. Mr Ewart withdrew his should nut, therefore, exnrees himself further. . s 34 children, study the th• just b • to egi ea musters, s n m urmon ;n, Lid Lord H. Lennox withdrew his amendment, Bishop of Wiecoastea, in rising to move ;_.= ,;u__ ___ ____; .... er_o___ dered in his studio. When found he was in a dying The Lord /AC= and it was agreed that a Royal commissiou on the subjeet the edoption of the report, said the last words which
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-06-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

COMMITTAL OF A MOTHER FOR STARVING HER CHILD TO DEATII.—At the police-court of St. Hillier'e, Jersey, on Tuesday, Sophia Gu.mault, wife of E lward Quenault, a brickmaker, and a ticket-of-leave man, was charged with having caused the death of her infant child by starvation. On the 13th of May she was *barged at the same court with drunkenness and neglect of the child. On that occasion the child wee exhibited in the court, and the sight caused a sensation of horror in all who witnesind it. Although five months old, it measured only 17 inches in length, and weighed only 21b. 10z. Its legs were no thicker than a good-sized man's finger, and the poor child looked snore like an animated doll than a human being. The mother on that occasion was sent to gaol for a week, and the child was taken to the general hospital (the workhouse). For two or three days the child could not retain its food, but it gradually recovered strength, and by the end of the week was able to eat well. At the expiration of her term of imprisonment the prisoner eldimed her child, and it was given to her. Two days afterwards the police were informed that the child was dead, and, on going to the house where the prisoner lived, found her very insensibly drunk, and the child lying on the table, the room containing nothing else but a handful of straw. On a post mortem examination being made, the stomach of the child was found quite empty, the medical officer declaring that death had resulted from etarvation. The husband of the prisoner told the police that she had killed her first child in the same way, and he hoped she would be hanged. The prisoner, who had nothing to say to the charge, was committed for trial on the charge of murder. THE USE OF NAKED LIO UTE IN Mierss.--An inquiry was held on Saturday, at Bolton, before Mr Taylor, borough coroner, respecting the death of James Hamer, 31, a collier, who had sustained fatal injuries whilst employed at one of Messrs Hulton's collieries, at Over itulton, near Bolton. Mr Dickinson, Government inspector of mines for the district, was present, and elicited from the witnesses that they went down into the mine with closed lamps, but were allowed to work regularly with naked candles on finding there was no fire-damp present, as the mine waa unusually free from gas. On this occasion, a fellow-miner, also named Hamer, fired a shot, shouted to deceaeed, and ran into a place of safety himself. Unfortunately, the deceased rushed with his lighted candle into an old working about half a dozen garde off, where there was an jaccuniulation of fire.damp, arid an explosion immediately followed, by which he was so burned that death resulted. There was no fence whatever guarding the old working..— Th. Coroner, in charging the jury, blamed the firemen, bat said the neglect did not ameuet to manslaughter...... The jury accordingly retrumed a venliet of accidental death, and ceneured the fil email for not making a fuller examination of the mine.  A
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-03-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

FRENCH VILLAIN.  The assassin Leruaire, who, on Dec. 20 in last year murdered a laundress aamed Bainville, whom his father was about to marry, was, on Monday, brought to the bar of the Awire Court of the Sine, in Paris, to take has triaL The facts charged in the indictment were all admitted by the prisoner with a cynical frankness almost unparalleled, and which caused a thrill of horror in court.  -- The prisoner lived with his father in a house, No. 10, Rue de Chants., La Cowell°, Paris, which belongs to the latter in fee simple Lemalre senior Is a locksmith, and his son &Witted him in the business lie was always au idle fellow and when hie mother died Lu 1865 he said, in answer to some observari in of his fath°r soma the necesetty of attend!, g to businees, that it would be easier now since there was one mouth less to feed. Last autumn Lemaire, senior, though sixty-eight years of age, determined to marry again, lie proposed to, and was aecepted by, Madame flainville, a laundress, who rented a set of apartments in his house, where she lived with her daughter, a girl of seventeen, and a young apprentice. The m.rriage was fixed to take place on Dec. 22 lu Dec 20 tone Lamaire (aged nineteen), having ascertained that his faller was gone out to dine with • friend, told Madame Baluvllle that his father wanted to speak to her, and by that means induced her tn accompany him to the rooms occupied by the L.matres. As soon as she got inside he shut the outer door and attempted to pus • rope round her neck, with which he intended to hang her to a strong nail, which he had already driven into a wall for the purpose She resisted sufficiently to prevent him from fastening the rope, and thereupon he took • poniard, also In readinen, and stabbed her in twenty places, exclaiming repeatedly that although she would not be hanged sho should die all the same, and that be would stick her till the loss of blood carried her n if, The scream. of the unfortunate woman alarmed the conOhne and other inmates of the house. She c mtrived to stagger te the doer, which she opened, and then fell dead on the optimise, at the het of the persons who came to her sight. es  Tee Esareerer waa Brewed insemeilately. file confessed before the Judos of lastraelten, and repeated the confessio• es els betel, slat kit Intention was, at ser hanging Madame DaWyllie, to get her daughter and apprentice successively tato his room and depose of them In Ike same way. He hoped to effect the three murders without not.. Then he would have laid in watt for his father's coming lime and muroered him After 034 he would have taken all the money end valuables in the two households and have gone off emrewhere to have • great lark with the moray. He knew that he shoal be camtht ultimately, hut was deter. mined first thorouvly to enjoy himself. He was sorry his plan ha. I not succeeded. So far from having any repentahc., he would try sgtoi if he had the opportmity, only he would menage'hetter Toe prisoner was defended by 31. Verdieres, and the trial lasted throughout the day.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-08-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OPER-E.-We understand that, in accordwill be quite an average. Oats are a good crop. Beene =co with a minute issued by the Lords of her Majesty's vary ; winter-sown have done very well indeed; spring- .freasury, an instructional letter has been forwarded to sown are a nnewhat deficient. Around Market liar- the Postmaster-General to admit into the public service borough, Hinckley, Melton Mowbray, and other places of that department well recommended youths of about in Leicestershire, farmers have been enabled to secure a fourteen years of age, to he trained to the higher duties large quantity of all kinds of grain. The yield of wheat of the subordinate departinente. The pay is to be 6s. will be beyond that of many years past, and barley per week for the first year, with an increase of 6d. per quite equals expectations in most districts; in a few month until they reach the age of seventeen, when, if, places the crops will be light. There are no complaints they continue in the service until that time, they will be to make of oats, but beans will be only a neffierate crop, eligible to the receipt of 18s. per week, and to be drafted In the 'neighbourhood of Cai.tor, Lincoln:hire, the into any one of the departments of the establishment for crops ale unueually- free from blight. nerve a work is which their superior officers may recommend them as general, and there is every prospect of a most abundant being peculiarly fitted, with a prospective progressive yield. Throughout the latter named county the harveit salary. Six lads were admitted, we are informed, on is at its height, and reports, on the whole, continue to Saturday, and as soon as it is possible to complete the he of the most favourable character. In almost all parts necessary arrangements, we understand a much larger of Derbyshire the yield or wheat i&expeeted to be heavy, number will be taken into the service. We further the ears being both large and well filled. Oats have learn that the only requirement for the admission of been gathered in excellent condition, but the yield will these youths is not Parliamentary patronage, but the renot be large. Barley is very highly spoken of. Should spectability of their connections ; and the only qualifi_ the weather prove favourable this ,week (nod it has cation required on the part of the candidates is that opened beautifully fine), great progress will be made they should understand the first four rules of notationwith the harvest throughout the above-named c ninties. addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and TILE LIVERPOOL Mem:mt.-At the Liverpool Assizes be able to write a decent hand in sentences from dicta. on Monday, Jose Maria Alvarez, a Spanish sailor, was time This mode no doubt will in future be generally indicted before Mr. Justice Blackburn with Vie wilful adopted for recruiting this branch of the public service. murder of James Harrison, on the 12th of May last, II CONDITION or VIE FREEDMEN IN SoUTil
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-03-18 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DETERMINED ATTEMPT TO MURDER NEAR DEWSBURY.... . _.,_ _ About eight o'clock on Thursday evening, a daring tied •- " ferocious attempt to murder was made at the ribose of Edward Owens, weaver, Lydgate, Batley Carr, Dewsbury. A man named James Stephens has for some years (and until recently) lived with a woman resident in the neighbourhood, but lately, on account of his bad conduct, the woman, as well as her daughter, a young woman about 23 32 o 41 years of age, named Ann Bottoinley, have been determined ...,.=.m.to put an end to the connection. This, instated had enraged the fellow and he has repeatedly vowed he wotad take both their 'lives, and then destroy himself. On the , evening named, the mother went to visit at the house of Edward Owen, and Stephens hearing of it followed thought after, and the daughter hearing of the fact ought he 1281123, _ 2 1 —l—, .28 12 , i-- 1 1 3 might do some injury to her mother, and went as well. _ ema m m a lv. She had no sooner entered the house whore her mothel II IS !A , 'll 0 426 and Stephens were than the latter rushed at her with a 80 11 12 4 41 knife, and furiously stabbed her on the left thigh, and 40 1117 -. 4 56 almost before she could cry out, " Oh, mother, he has SS 'll 42 6 stabbed me," he inflicted another below her left breast. I 12 2 lb 6 10 The mother at once seised hold of him, and dragged him10 111 16 $T stop . away from her daughter, but, in doing so, she. also re- 30 11l 26 51 6 40 ceivod a cut from the knife on her left arm. Stephens - ------- - , 615 68 , 112 46 2 159 • flf4 ..5 , 1 1 5 13 614 The Archbishop of Warsaw, Monsignor Folinski has then fled from the house, and though information was at 640 NT 117 83 A 624 tendered his resignation as a member of the Volish ot o dn. bore hr e d ' once sent t lig po ic ,an a search immediately ~,,,,,,,,,,, 456 27 130 46 5 Council of State. commenced he could not bo found ; but about ore I.l.nelly FKeidr7:lll,lye . . 7 1 47 10 64 141 644 35 16 644 o'clock on Friday morning hearing that the police wore Lonebor 7 9 65 15( 4 25 Mr. Gully, so well knovrn on the turf, and for many 1 57 14 30 socking him, he went to the office and asked what he was (lower Road years member for Pontefract, died on Monday, at his 735,1 23 11 20 114 7 9 14 45 7 9 wanted for Superintendent Thomas at once charged %am" seat, near Durham, in his 80th year. He leaves a widow him with the offence and took him into custody. Swansea A. and nine children.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-11-18 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SUNDAYS. DOWN TRATNS.-Week Days. I SUNDAY,. 'without the Church whose narrow formularies they 1 23-1141123 i Mp 11.28 1,-2.3 Ml ii twelve o'clock on Monday night at Camberwell but he , 1-41 I-27 12 3 123 Ts 3 12 3 have subscribed, and all argumeuts against National Starting 11rom Starting from had prepared himself with a deadly poison, and am pm emiam Prn a n‘,p m , Churches derived from the spirituality of Christ's 925 310 630, 9 0 4 0 Merthyr sl6' 2 35 6401910 1 4 10 after his capture he died at the station to which the Cardin kingdom are pointless to thorn. The human race, 1934 559 639 . 9 9 49 Troedyrltiew 823. 2 40 6471917 ! 4 17 police had cgmveyed him. The whole family has con- IN'itr'e t frecJunctlen I9 43 328 6481 9 18 419 Quaker's yard Junction .... 834 253 6581 9 28 428 and of course every nation, is pervaded by the sequently been destroyed. Trefiweet '9 55 340 7 I ,9 30 430 Aberdare Spirit of Christ-hence the nation, in its collective no 0 345 761935 4 35 Treaman The online of the murderer is Samuel Hunt ; he was Neiiirberiedegtatennction, dep.;lo 0 345 721 950 450 Mountain Ash 829 'I 48 652, 9 32 423 capacity, is competent to form a spiritual chnrch. thirty-four years of age, and a traveller in the employ- 'lO 6115:7251 9 56 4 56 Aberdare Junction.. arm 18402397 3 9 33 4 :13 1151161 This, in some aspects of it, pleasing hallucination, tnent of Messrs. Butler and McCulloch, seedsinen, her. I orth lto to 3557 32 ,19 05 0 Aberdare Juncti••n Sep.' 54413878 9 38 , 4 30 is, we imagine, the fundamental reason why, refute ballets, and druggists, of 13, Hart-street, and South- I andy lO 15 4073710 5 5 5 Treherbert dep. 817235623. 8 56 . 3 59 114111 ill detail as you may, the Broad-Churchman 1 row, Covent-garden. He resided with his wife and two Ystrad 10 26 41t74910 16 6 16 Ystrad Treherbert arr. 10 34 4191 7 58 10 24 524 randy "1 8 36 264 644 915 , 415 remains unconvinced. lie has the true gnosis, I chilhren in St. Anne's Cottages, Wellington-street, Aberdare Junction arr. 10 11 35671819 46 4 46 Porlh 'B4l 2 .19 649920 4 20 though, from his deep sympathy with the moral ' Camberwell-road, "and lived what is commonly called a Aberdare Junction,. dep. 10 11 8567189 44 4 46 Ihtfod '84533 6 53 ' 9 '24 424 character of Christ, he suppresses the disdain of the "cat end dog life. Mountain Ailt Treaman e. 'loBo 410 7MS 1106 5 5 Nowbridge dep.l 456 815 721 • 920 450 _ .._ Aberdare Gnostic, and regards the unenlightened with pity. kI 5 7 They are "brethren for whom Christ died." lie IT is understood that Mr. B. Cobden, M.P., will Quaker's Yard Junction ....10 21 4:672819 58 4 MI Walnut Tree Junction Trowlyrblew 10 52 417 739 110 7 5 7 Llandad can afford to bear with them, as the heathen address his constituents on the 24th inst. It is not un- Merthyr philosophers bore with both Christians and Pagans. likely that Mr Bright, M.P. will be present, and take -=s- - _ But to him, as to the philosophers, the national part in the proceedings.