The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1892-04-08 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TEE CENTRAL GLAMORGAN GAZETTE-FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1892.  A T.LEGED ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  THE ANARCHIST CONSPIRACY AT 1 ! TERRIBLE CYCLONE IN THE UNITED STATES. WALSALL. A tornado passed over the North-Western States VERDICT AND se-NI-meet& on Thursday. and cau4sl enormous damage and The trial of the prisoners charged with conspiracy great loss of life, in some cases whole towns being was concluded on Monday at the Stafford Spring devastated. A hurrie 'no passed over Chicago. A Assizes before Mr. Justice Hawkins and a jury. house at the corner of Halstead and Pearce Streets The prisoners are : Frederick Charles, 27, clerk ; was struck, and three persms were killed. Serious Victor Cailes, 33, engine-driver; John Westley, 32, damage was also eausial in other parts of the city.brushmaker ; William Ditchfield, 43, filer; Joseph J h The :term traversed a distance of one hundred Thomas Deakiu, 31, clerk ; and Jean Battolla, 30, and fifty miles over the rieliest farming esaion of shoemaker.—The prose, utias_s counsel on behalf of the State, which is dotted with small cities and the Crown were the Attorney-General (Sir Richard villages. Further particulars of the great storm Webster, Q.C., air.), Mr. Jelf, Q.C., Mr. Alfred show it to have beenione of the most far-reaching Young, and Mr. Sutton : and the prisoners were and destructive ever recorded in the North-West. represented by Mr. Willis, Q.C., with Mr. Crane- The house blown down in Chicage was seven touu for Cailes and Battolla: Mr. 3. W. McCarthy Istoreya high and constructed of brick. The three for Deakin and Mr. Boddam for Westley.—The persons killed were children, but several adults were Attorney-General, in replying to the speeches for the tttally injured. The disaster created great excitedefence, said that when two, three, or more ment in the district, and the ambulance and fire persons co-operated to commit a felony, they were alarms were sounded. One family,-numbering 13 each guilty of the felony. This was no new law. Ipersons, who occupied rooms in the rear of the buildAny person who supplied materi:ds, or ist any fig, were at supper when the house collapsed. An manner procured materials, or committed, or was infant was instantly killed, while the other members accessory to the commission of any crime under the of the family were pinned down by timbers and other Act, was guilty of felony, and could be treated as debris, which fell upon them. They were released a principal. Mr. Thompson told them that the las soon as possible from their terrible position, but police, as of malice aforethought, had picked out all were seriously injured, and it is exeected that certain passages from the literature found in order some will not survive. At Kansas city the windhad a to prove guilt on the part of the accused, whereas, velocity of sixty-four miles an hour. The principal be said, there were among- the same documents less damage there was done to roofs, many of which were violent paragraphs or passages. It reminded One carried away, and to plate glass a large quantity rather of some person who might justify the pos- of which was broken. Four dead bodies, however, session of seditious or wicked documents on the have been recovered. A later telegram from Chicago ground that he carried about with him at states allot her child and three of the adults injured by the same time the New Testament or the Book the fall of a large building in that city have now of Common Prayer. They had it from Deakin's succumbed, thus bringing the number of deaths up