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The Herald of Wales. — 1887-12-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE LOCAL OYSTER  ---TRADE. MUMBLES VERSUS .NORTH SEA  --Q. Do you ca,ch as many now 55 0" 01. —A. Lord bless you, no. Why aI. • • ago would bring in 600,000 iu a .• •.• eight months. If one host now mes V..• season, she in cousiderel to have ••• • well. Q.: Oyster dredging must hos r fortune 30 years ag —A.: Ah, '•••• we did'itt get the price for as we do now. The highest i • was Is. a thousand, and we uo • before, get 60s. to 655. • thoteee years ago, you or any one else down to the perches and opened ss u• • as you like and no one would have . • to you; but it an uld not be well te now, as every oyster costa about , • ' You think the Minubles Oyster t, s••• wlll recsiver itself ?-0h yes, as 4,004 a p that they are being supplied with all inferior quality fish front the North Sea. At this point the interview terminated.  .0. her mother did not want her. She was high spirited and atabborn, and said ohs would go .ett that night and get a situation. T acted why should she gl on much a nigh. that. It was Thursday night, and ~he wee n..t. likely to get a situation, and we tried persuade her to remain home, bt.t she would :4., *u.l we never saw her again. The Coroner: Was her mailer kind to her? Witness : Yea, always, but the girl did not think she was wanted, and I told them to he %cry kind to her an she might go "on her head" a- she said she would, and eel stet .d lust weak. David Beard, contraotor under Messrs Cory, Yen, and Co. gave evidence as to the number , of times the boat passed up and down the canal between the 3rd of November and the date deceased's body was found. The boat went nu and down daily. The Coroner then asked whether the jury were content with the evidence adduced before them, or would they adjourn again. I The jury expressed a desire to conclude the I inquiry then, as there was nothing apparently to be gained by delay. Mr. Strick then lucidly reviewed the evidence which had been given on both days of the inquiry. In conclusion, he said there were too or three theories to account for the death ot the deceased. She might have been murdered and thrown into the canal, or she might have had a fit and fallen in and wee cut by the propellor, or she might have committed suicide. There was no evidence before them to satisfactorily support either of these theories, and they would have to surmitte. The doctor's evidence would, no doubt, help them materially, though some parts of this were peculiar. If he were to find a verdict himself he would be inclined to an open one" Found dead," as thers was no evidence to show how the wounds were infli3ted or how the poor girl got into the canal. He could not advise them to bring in a verdict of murder but if they brought in an open verdict, and if anything transpired in the future there would be nothing to prevent the case then going before the magistrates. The jury returned a verdict "Found dead." )
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-05-07 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RETIRES TO HIS BED-ROOM AND A SHOT IS BEARD.  HE IS DISCOVERED WOUNDED. Considerable excitement was occasioned in the neighbourhood of Somerset-place, Swansea, on Monday evening, by a report circulated to the effect that Mr. Attalio Lazzario, a nephew of M. Anselado, the respected vice-consul for Italy, Lad shot himself. The voung man is well known in shipping circles in Swansea, is of quiet inoffensive habits, and is exceedingly popular with all with whom he is acquainted. It appears, according to a statement made to the police by a servant named Annie Williams, that young Lazzario came to the house about 9.20 p.m. She heard him going upstairs. After reaching his room, he slammed the door and immediately afterwards she heard the report of firearms. She west Into the parlour and there saw M. Tarrabochia and he at once went upstairs and returning told ' her to fetch Dr. Hall, which she did. He came immediately. A policeman was called, a statement being made to him that the young Italian had :hot himself. When he arrived at the house he found Dr. Hall attending the sufferer. There was blood running from his ear and a six-than:a-ere& revolver lying on the bed, with five chambers undischarged and one empty. Dr. Hall advised the removal of the victim, which was done at once. Arrived at the hospital, Dr. Jones, the resident medical officer, tried to extract the bullet, but faiied. The revolver, now in the possession of the police, is one of the cheap ordinary make, which may be purchased at any ironmonger's shop for 7s. 6d. or 10s., and is in fact, similar to most of the revolvers in the hands of the police, which at one time, or another, have been used for criminal  purposes. We are happy to be able to state that the young Italian, athleo Lazzeri, who attempted suicide on Monday night, is not dead, as reported in the columns of a morning contemporary, for upon enquiry. at the Hospital we were informed that Lazzen is progressing as favourably as can be expected under the circumstances.  A Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of th Newhaven steam packet Victoria was continued on Wednesday. Mr. Robinson, second engineer of the wrecked vessel, said their voyage bad fallen off about quarter of an hour owing to the bed coal supplied them. Complaint had been node to the officials but without effect. John Kingwood, seaman, described the work of resole. He found it iruposible to land near the scene of the wreck, owing to a heavy sea, sad therefore rowed out.
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-08-13 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MISERABLE LIFE AND  DEATH.  An inquest has been held at Woodford, before Mr 0.0. Lewis, on the bocy of Benjamin Sanderson (87), a sitrprical instrument maker, who committed suicide by hanuinr on the previous evening. On proceeding to view the remains an extraordinary spectacle presented itself to the jury. The deceased, who wig currently reported to be very rich, lived in the striotest seclusion in a wretched mud hovel on a piece of waste ground in the Yornington Road, upon which he had " squatted" some fifty years ago. Th. hut of one room contained no furniture, with the croeption of an ancient easy chair ar.d a deal tabm, light being admitted through a small aperture over the door. The flooring was of earth, and an old hammock was Altp.2 up to the rafters. Henry Sanderson, 46, son of the deceased, said: My father hac not carried on his business for many years. We couldn't get him oat of this place; we tried many a time. I last saw him alive on Tuesday. He wernsd all right then, and in his usual health. He did not often go out. My little boy told me that his er todfather was hanging up, and I went in and out him down. He was hanging to the cross rafter. I found him dead and cold.— hue C kroner : What state of mind has he been in for some time past P—Bad in his head. He tried to hang himself fifty years ago, only my mother cut him down then before he wai dead.— How did be live P.— Oh, he'd got plenty of money that I paid him for the houses. He always lived one way— on dry bread and tinned victuals—and he would always live by himself.—Other evidence having been given, the jury returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst labouring under temporary insanity."
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-09-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A SWANSEA LAD.  At the Swansea Police Court, on Thursday morning, Thomas Hopkins, aged 16, a respectable and well connected lad, living In Russelstreet, Swansea, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Goat-street police station, and also with attempting to commit suicide in a police cell on the 22nd inst. Mr Glasbrook Richards appeared for the prisoner, who evidently felt his pe.ition most acutely. P. C. Johns (24) deposed that about 7 o'clock on the previous evening, prisoner came into the police station at Goat-stieet, and wanted to give himaelf in charge for stealing his brothers' gold pin. He was drunk, and as witneea demurreeito the request he made to him, he said "If you don't lock me up I'll smash the windows in, I will be locked up. I'm d—if I go out." Witness then locked him up. Prisoner then told him that he had a revolver with him. He searchedhim, and found only 3d. About 10 minutes past 7 he went into into the cell, and saw prisoner on the ground, trying to strangle himself with his scarf. The Stipendiary: Do you think it Iva. very tight. Witness  : Oh yes, sir ; I had a job to get his hands loose from it.  The Stipendiary: Did he say anything then. Witness. He said he would "do " for himself. He said that before I locked him up. Prisoner, on being asked if he had anything to say, said, I took some things from mother's 1 house and pawned them; ggotinto bad company and got drunk. I did not know what I was doing." , Mr Richards, for the prisoner, said his client , got hold of some money, and subsequently became intoxicated, and did not know what he was about. Prisoner had never oonunitted himself in this manner before, and he asked the , bench to discharge him. The Bench bound tho prisoner over in theimm of £2B to be of good conduct for three months, ' and having been severely reprimanded by the stipendiary for his foolish eonduct, he was dia. eharged.
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-04-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DETERMINED SUICIDE IN A SWANSEA POLICE CELL.  A man named Michael Kelly, a tin worker aged 47 years, and a well known character in Swansea, on Saturday afteinoon committed =icicle, by hanging, in a Swansea police cell. The act was done in a most desperate manner, under the most tragic circumstance. The deceased lived with his wife at 8, Llanga. felach-atreet. On Friday evening the pair would appear to have quarrelled, and the deseased turned his wife out of the house. The husband morning, the on Saturday morning returned and beat his wife with a soldming iron, and she now has two wounds upon her head, though not by any mhaler-plas67"twee'lßeve then rtiurdat of 137 deceased was brought under a warrant to the cligh-street police-station, and he was sober, and it was stated did not appear to be in any way strange, or excited in his demeanour, lie was placed, in the usual order of things, in one of the police cello, and on being visited, at a quarter to two, by P.C. Ferguson, was found suspended from a small piece of iron, a little distance above his head. His tongue protruded, his eyes were open, and he presented every appearance of death by strantrulatioe. P.C. Ferguson and P. C. lenkine, the other officers on duty, at once cut the poor fellow down, and immediately ran for assistance to Mr. D. Lees, chemist, on the opposite aide of the road, and also to Dr. Thomas, both of whom were immediately upon the spot, but the restoratives supplied by Mr. Rem and the skill of Dr. Thomas proved to be unavailing, for the deceased was quite dead, and life must for some time have been extinct. The act of self destruction was committed in a mo.t determined, and also by • most ingenious device. Deprived of any facilities for hanging himself in his cell, deceased had resort to his pocket handkerchief and the scarf round his neck, and he fastened the two together, the one round his neck, and the other attached firmly ti the piece of iron front which he was suspended. The method of selfdestruction was simplicity itself, but it could not have been more effectually carried out, as our reporter, after visiting and inspecting the cell, is able to affirm.
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-11-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

VISIT TO THE SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY. LOCAL THEORIES. THE INQUEST.  STARTLING EVIDENCE.  [BY OUR SPECIAL 'CoOII2IIPONDEIIT.3  Mosareron, Thursday afternoon. The excitement erected in Morriston by the news of .he tragedy enacted on the bank of the canal which ruos through its midst grows more intone. an the hour for opening the inquest aiprosobes.. Thooe who live near the scene of the Grins appear to have no manner of doubt but that murder has been committed, but these living farther away give another interpretation to:the melancholy event. One thing is oertain, Hannah Proieer is dead, and the doctor avers that she has been murdered. He is the first witness to be called at the inquest,or rather recalled, for he had already givon his impressions of • casual view of the body. Oa arriving in Morristoo, I went to the spot where the parents of the deceased live. Her father is a blacksmith and lives, tcgether with his wife, in one of a row of three cottages opposite "The Travellers Rest," an ancient hostelry on the rood between Morris • ton and Llausamlet, and just beyond the Forest Worke, of whichihfr Wm. Williams is the proprietor. The people in the neighbourhood appear to know but little ,bout the deoessed. She hod been in service in Lloneamlet, end later, , es has been previously stated, she was in service in Swansea. Here she does not appear to have given satisfaction. and eousequently left at the expiration of a month. The deceased was not particularly comely in appearance,for. a defect in her .vision greatly impaind ter beauty.  Superintendent Howlet thee afternoon has male several calls;ia the neighbourhood of the dwelling of the parents of the deceased, and hag snceeeded in getting several fresh witzessee. These, it is understood, will show that the relations of the deceased with her mother were not of the most amicable description. It may furteer be shown that the girl's mother aroused her with being eneiennt though in this the mother was mistaken as the doctor's evidence proves. would tend to show that death was the result of suicide, but the postraoetem examination, which was made by two doctors, negative, this idea altogether. The 1 theory is that deceased, while walking up the lonely pathway along the canal, which is deeoribed below, was either murdered by a male companion or by someone who met her on the way.
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-09-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SALISBURY.'  The report of the Select Committee on Sunday Poetal Labour well issued on Saturday. The Committee recommend that the collection and despatch, and delivery on Sunday of books, circulars, and printed matter, except newspapers, be discontinued. That the collection, despatch, and delivery of newspapers on Sundays, be discontinued in towns where two-thirds of the members of the town council or local board are in favour of it, and likewise in any villa ze where two thirds of the inhabitants are in favour of the discontinuance. A. window delivery it is re trunended should he substituted for a limited time on Sunday, in plies of house to house de-, lively. Where the discontinuance of the Sunday delivery is adopted the committee fuither recommend that sorting clerks, indoor officials, nd rural messengers should be relieved from work on every alternate Sunday,  LOCAL AND nisTiiitcr. Important resolutions are to be submitted at the miners' demonstration at Uwynpia, whiohs las already announced, will take place on Monday.  Captain Wm. Sayles, eldest eon of Sir Wm. Sayles, by Rosamoui, eldest daughter of the lon Lord Tredegar, died on Friday tfternoon in London.  On Wednesday morning, at the S sath Tunnel Dowlais, a haulier, named Wm. Williams, was killed on the spot, in consequence of some pcbris falling accidentally upor him.  A meeting of the Council of the University College of Wales and Miamodthshiee pies held at the College on Wednesday, when the reports of the several professors were read,:lind were very satisfactory. A number of the forges and mills at Dowlaiin were relighted on Wednesday night in on. sequence of the fresh supply of water, tinddt ia believed that by next week the whole Will 6e ist full swing.  A verdict of suicide whilst in a temPorITY state of insanity, has been returned is the ease of Samuel Evans, the railway guard, who committed suicide by drowning at Pontypridd, under circumstancee already rePorted. The unfortunate man,whose body was discovered, under eircumstAnces already reported, jUd outside Shrewsbury railway station, turns out to be John Evans, a collier reopeotably gounected, belonging to Cwrnottlyn, Bhana. At the meting of the Merthyr Bawd of Guardians, on Saturday, the board renewed for four weeks the relief granted temporarily a month ago in respect of the maintenance by Mrs Lewis, ~f Troedyrhiw, of the child of Miriam.
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-05-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE TIN-PLATE TRADE.  DELEGATES' MEETING AT SWANSEA. Oa Saturday, the usual fortnightly meeting of delegatee of tinplate workmen was held at the Bird-in-Hand, Swansea. From the report of the secretary, Mr. Thomas Phillips, Llanelly, it appears that £lB6 per week are new required to pay the men now on strike the arranged amounts, viz. 158, per week per man, and is per child. The amounts received fell short of the requirements, not that the rate of contribution, 4 per cent, was ,too low, but that many works had neglected paying for some very unworthy reasons. The Gurnos workmen had been offered terms by their masters, and upon many items the men agreed to them, but the meeting advised the men to insist on getting apprentice money fer tinmen, and the uullmen to be paid extra above . .  -1.10-ths Per box. A discussion tOok place as in the payment of washmen in the Swansea Valley which appeared to the meeting unsatisfactory. The report of a committee appointed to consider Mr. I-tenders scheme of union was taken into consideration, and met with a favourable reception. It is arranged to inaugurate the new union in the course of three weeks. It was arranged for tin-late workmen to take part as a body in the demonstration in honour of Mr. Gladstone, and that on their behalf an addr-sa be presented to him. 3fr. Phillips sod Mr. Randall, of Llanelly, and Mr. J. H. John, of Landore, were appointed to draw up the same and present it.  A young man named John James Hill, living at Islington, shot himself thrnugh the head, at ' King's Cross. London, on Thursday morning. In a note which the suicide left behind it was stated he was driven to it through want of work. Eight men wer arrested in Paris, on Welfiess day night, for perpetrating several robberies in I the street. The robbers walked about in cornponies of three. One lassoed the unsuspecting citiz.zu, and when on the ground the se..ond I thief knelt on his chest, while the third rifled 1 the pocket. A new Teasel, one of the finest modellel screw steamers of the size afloat, was launched, en. Ttorsday afternoon, et Cexcliff.  J le :1 , 4110.61/ Ulla* .0
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-09-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

PETTY SESSIONS. (WEDNRSDAT.) AN AMERICAN LUNATIC.  _ . Mr. 1). C. Edwards, solicitor, applied at the sessions for an order on tho County Bench to refund to the Llanelly Parish, the snm of £1 125., the cost of conveying to the asylum, 10s. 62. the doctor's fee, and 12 months main • tenance, £l2 125., for one David Williams, who we, supposed to be an American. He came to Pemlirey in 1886, and in February last, he lost his reason, attempted to commit suicide and was sent to the asylum. They had made all the enquiries, out could not lint out his place of settlement—Mr. J. H. Blake proved the necessary notices—Mr. Benjamin Jones amid the certificate was signed by Dr. Williams and Bar. Mr. Evans, Vicar of Pvmbrey. He had made enquiries and found that the man had only been in the country three months before he attemptvd to commit suicide. The case was adjourned. ,  AQUINO OUT OF TILE XLDNIOUT ILYPEEBd. A like order was applied for in the case for Kate Wolf, who on the 18th May, 1886, jumped out of the midnight express at Loughor, and wile found to be of unsound mind. Her removal , from Llanelly east £l, the doctor's fee 10e 6d, and one year's maintenanee, £2O Is 6d. There was no question that this person had been born in Ireland, in fact, had only been out of Ireland for three months, which were spent in service in London. Her mistress observing that Wolfe appeared to be getting insane, sent her back by the express, out of which she jumped. The late Mr Thomas Jones had her removed. The bench said that in consequence of her jumping out in this parish the union had to support her, and the necessary order was made.  Alfred Da;ies.,-an orp--1;n-fTe—m-Tlfe workhouse, was brought up on application to commit him to an industrial sohool. He had been sent to the Board School with the other boys, but played truant. He had been brought up with an aunt, but as he played I truant, the relief was stopped, and he was gent to the workhouse. It is the custom to mend the 'boys in charge of an elder boy, but the little boy ' would run to his aunt's. The Hester said the boy was vary quiet id the house.—The Bench said the'y were asked to send him to an industrial school—a sohool where only thieves were sent. It was a different thing to send him to the truant echoed at Bwansea.—The Hester said proceedingre were ordered to be tasen against him. but be thought he would be better in the workhouse. The boy was accordingly taken back to the workhouse.
The Herald of Wales. — 1887-07-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE SOUTHAMPTON TRAGEDY.  A young man, named Richardson, living at , Southampton, on Thursday night, shot his two !Sisters dead, and then committed suicide.  It appears that the young man Richardson, who after murdering his two sisters, oommitted suicide on Thursday, at Laura-place, Southhamption, was 23 years of age, and worked as a clerk in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's office. He appears to have gone home, in Thursday evening, about half past eleven o'dock, and found the front door bolted, at which he was considerably annoyed. One of his Sisters came down stairs and let him in. She remonstrated with him for staying out so late, when he at onoe got into a terrible passion, and declared he would murder all in the house. Going upstairs he seized two revolvers, and made a rush for his mother, who, however, succeeded in escaping into her bedroom and securing the door. His sister Emma, of whom it was said hi was very fond, went to protect her mother, but received a revolver shot and fell down. He next attacked his second sister, named Florence, who rushed to the drawing-room window and shouted for help, but received a shot on the neck. The shots were heard by some young men who were passing, and also by a constable named Bogglen on the beat. The constable and several others buret open the door, and on entering found both the young ladies in a pool of blood. Miss Emma was Stettin a dying state, but the other was conscious, and in reply to Bogglen said her brother had fired the shots. Medical aid was at °nos sent for and Dr. Wade was soon in attendance. Miss Emma, who was shot on the breast, died shortly afteawarda. Search was made, and Richardson, was ultimately found on the landing just outside the servaat's bedroom, who on hearing hie threats, locked herself in. When found, he was bleeding at the mouth and had a revolver in his hand. He lost a large quantity of blood, the staircase being perfeAly saturated with it. He died about one o'clock in the morning. ?CM Florence is lying in a very precautions state the wound on her cheek being considered dangerous. Mies Richardson' who waa idiot by her brother, at Southampton, died on Monday afternoon. This makes the third death.  I however,