Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal. — 1895-09-21 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

REDGRAVE. The Coroner, after reading: When was this letter received P—This morning. The Coroner: I see it is dated the 16th, as the first letter was. (After examining the envelope). But it could not have been posted on Monday for the postmark is the 17th. Mr. Stallard: And you will see also, sir, from the postmark, that it was posted at eight o'clock on Tuesday. The Coroner: All you have to consider now, gentlemen, i his condition of mind at the time he did this act. The death of his wife appears to have a good deal to do with it, and I think you will come to the conclusion that he took his own life whilst in an unsound state of mind.  The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity.  The Funeral.  On Thursday, at noon, the remains of the unfortunate Air. Redgrave were interred a Llantwit Cemetery, Isleath ; the body being born (at the request of deceased's friends) by six memo bars of the Borough Police Forte. Only th. immediate relatives were present at the funeral.°  It is stated that deceased half-an-hour before the departure of the train on Tuesday night called at a well-known hotel in Swansea, and in the course of a conversation with a‘barmaid, declared his intention of destroying himself. The statement was regarded at the time as a joke, and no further notice was taken of it. Before leaving the bar he gave the girl at the bar a ring as a keepsake.  A little boy named Samuel Walker was savagely attacked by a mare in a field at Lockerbie. The beast kicked the boy on the forehead and on the upper part of the body, and inflicted such serious injuries that the boy died.  The Emperor William has invited the Prince of Wales to shoot with him a few weeks hence Springe, in Hanover, where the vast beech ' forests swarm with wild boar, and splendid. sport is always obtained by the imperial hunting parties. John Edwards, mate of the barge Laiclia, has been drowned at the moorings, near Chelsea,. while attempting to board the craft. Edwaras had only recently taken on hoard the Lobelia the place of his father, who was drowned from the same boat three weeks ago. Preparations are now being made at the War Office for the early re-armament of the whole of the Volunteer Infantry, numbering about 175,000, with the Martini-Metford rifle. It is expected that the first issue of the weapon will be made to those corps of London, and the home district which hafq ranges suitable for its use. The Martini-Metford will be the fourth rifle issued to the Volunteers since their formation, its predecessors beini the ,muzzle-loading Enfield, the Snider-Enfield Ibreechloader, and the Martini-Henri.  An elderly gentleman has dropped dead in London after running to catch a tramcar. He appeatred to be a man in well-to-do circumstances, but there was nothing found on him to lead to identification.  In a police prosecution at Marylebone of a bookmaker for street betting, charges of deliberate perjury against the prosecuting constable and another uniform officer, who eon oborated his evidence, were made by three detective officers. The magistrate characterised the case as a most extraordinary one. He was satisfied with the evidence of the constables, and finel the defendant 405., leaving the police to fight out their differences among themselves. A man of 39, named Joseph Huard, who was attacked with dydrophobia, at Laval, threw himself from a first-floor window and was killed G a the spot. He was bitten by a mad dog in December last, and was treated at the Pasteur Institute.  On the overseers' list for Marylebone was the name of William Booth, of 101, Queen Victoria-street (General Booth, of the Salvation Amy), as holder of the tenement, 5, Burne-street, Edgware-road (a shelter and barracks known as the Great Western Hall). Mr. Underhill objected on the ground that the general was not the occupier of the premises. The rate collector said he thought the objection was a good one, and the Revising Barrister disallowed the claim.  , ,  I  1 1 A