The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1880-02-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  The town of Reigate was thrown into a state of the greatest excitement on Monday afternoon by tit., report that a murder had been committed, and that the perpetrator of the deed had committed suicide, crimes from which this neighbourhood has for a vitt long time been free. Inquiry elicited that a willow named Ann Noakes, carrying on the business of 4 laundress in the Croydon Road, was the murderess and that though the act of self-destruction had at been actually completed, grave doubts were enter tamed as to whether she will recover. Some tins ago, it seems, the unhappy woman gave birth to s child, but, it is stated, did not take the tumid to' ceedings against the father, because of his prostis to marry her, an engagement which has not bee fulfilled. Oa Monday afternoon, while a girl name Wisbridger, who assisted her in the laundry, out of the way, Mrs. Noakes locked herself and child in her bedroom. The girl, on her retu finding she could nut get into the house, raised alarm, and the door was broken pen. Search brit made, a note was found pushed under Mrs. Neakei bedroom door, and, on forcible entry being effeett into her room, a shocking sight presented itsel The child was found lying on the bed with its he nearly severed from the body, and by its side lay tl woman, with a frightful gash across her thro Medical assistance was speedily procured, but child was quite thosd... the woman is not La survive.  the north-west there is still a very active inyl for all qualitics 4.frf hematite iron, the Ammtvan man,' for which is uftabattcd.  intelligence has been received of the death, ejiji, on Lake Tanganyika, of M. l'Abbe While attempting to MU the African continent. A labourer, named Frederick Johnson, was ivol guilty at the Surry Sessions, and sentenced to fi‘' years' penal servitude, for brutally assaulting ' Isdice-constable.  3lr. Frederick NV. Dann, lace manufacturer, hi he,ti remanded, at Nottingham, on the 4.llar'' a having forged and uttered a bill of exchalq• for 4100.  l'he Moucestershire Law Soci..ty has just glut a library in the county town, and, as it ig the en one of the kind iii the county, it is likely to I very useful. Six men. of the iteiiio r Minor°. of Pritartii. eluding the liceond mutineer, carpenter, cook. throe Wlllllll. ILIVI 1)001 1111111111 at Dover, Ii wieekeil ion milts of! ( 'ape rinixterr,cel ukrht vrd lust. TI.. gupt,in aSeEtwvir,,, were drowned with the ship. Ti.. gaireivors pieked up in their boat by a brig., on the 24th. al" lironalit to Dover.  The Eduention flepar!ment have inform"! P.m-marsh Seboot Beard that Ow pf,sition of 31, Hatfield. fof the nu rebels of lb.. atierted by the fact of bis 'Living been lino' f' assaulting the head master ef flu ba,l, who lo sent lei impertinent letter to Mr Ilmf;ield and eft,. members. The Beard have if solvf d In submit 1: head mastresletter to life Hepatment for an epiuf‘ as to its prepi ety.  At Dewsbury a MAC of imposition on the Niro,* Fund has been brought to light. Mary Filrharro• residing :it nitley, was I priedmier. 'her bust/Aril who GLIA killed in the tlimeati war. ske :is. per week as lung as she reunified a widuw. hot• in eaS4' shi, became a wife again. ..he was only. Mittel, 10 half. Eighteen yvars in she man liii, nd ilia wit the full peroion it rr 14111 The Ikmeli I' Milted her for trial.  ? r,. ei sh, thtph V. 'Custom: LIE Britid Par Haunt: vitt u 1.41. with dud: hog th: ilo ding accident, J that not attr• taw to i ti tt tti turn I .4 in: to ho lay th: thrart , but trt ,expteter. ;•. 11 IL r. Fr r