The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1849-05-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE COUNTY OF MONAGHAN. atrocity, g Drum Catherine time since, so! in I  AB _.l by some reside with On Tuesday in trust for  set on fire to ~ portion of , had not  . bodies. The feet of flames, which showed that was applied. Two were immediately was Thursday, when a wilful mu.- . was returned against both the and they were committed for trial.  _ , Dublin Packet of -ence of a discovery _ that morning. From that a native of England, city for years, and who branch of the legal profession, in which reputation and business, lately got mar,t respectability, who had a fn."' was  MR HUDSON and some have  It is happily but seldom that it becomes our painful duty to record an instance of the double crime of murder and suicide in this peaceable locality. We are this week, however, reluctantly compelled to report one of the most horrific tragedies which has ever transpired in the principality. Early on Wednesday morning, a rumour gained extensive credence that in the neighbourhood of Llanybyther a man had murdered his wife and child, and then committed suicide; and, upon making investigation into the circumstances, it was unfortunately ascertained that the report was but too true. The name of the wretched perpetrator of these inhuman deeds is Thomas Davis, a small farmer, residing at Cefnrhyddlan-issa, in the parish of Llanewog, Cardiganshire, and it appears that early on Tuesday Tiorning, while in bed with his wife and child (the lalter nine months old), he attacked , them with a razor, and, having first nearly severed the infant's head from its body, he attempted the destruction of his wife. He first cut her across the wrist, severing completely all the arteries, and peat gashed her throat and face in the most frightful manner. Not content with this, he cut her across the abdomen, rip ping it completely open, and causing the intestines to protrude. Leaving the house he rushed into the Tivy, for the purpose, it is imagined, of drowning himself, bat, finding the water too shallow for his purpose, he returned to the house, and attempted to cut his own throat. Failing, however, to sever the jugular vein, he ripped open his own abdomen with the razor, which caused a similar protrusion to that which his unfortunate wife experienced. Police-sergeant Edward Lloyd, of the•Carmarthenshire constabulary, stationed at Llanbyther, hearing of the occurrence, immediately repaired to the: spot, and found the little girl in bed, with its throat frightfully lacerated, quite dead and cold, The wife, Mary Davies, had escaped from the house, and, having proceeded about a field's breadth on the south side, fell down. When found, she was still alive, but lying exhausted on her right side, in a ditch, with her intestines visibly protruding, and her throat, wrist, and face, cut in a most fearful manner. She could speak faintly, and in reply to questions answered that her husband had perpetrated this outrage with his razor. She was immediately conveyed into the house, wrapped in a blanket, and on a further search being made on the north side of the residence, at the bottom of afield, the husband was found lying on his left side in his shirt sleeves, having his throat lacerated, and his abdomen cut open from side to side about an inch below the navel, with his intestines also protruding. He was still alive, and could speak more distinctly than could his ill-fated partner. He :acknowledged to the police-constable that he had killed the child, and that he had cut his own and his wife's throat withlhis razor. The razor with which the direful deeds were perpetrated was found lying in a brook adjacent to the spot where the unhappy man was discovered. A surgeon was speedily sent for,lwho dressed the various wounds, but at once pronounced each case to be mortal. His prediction was verified by the death of Thomas Davies, at 11 o'clock that night, while the decease of the wife happened at 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning.--Treslonan of Friday.