The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1875-04-02 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LETTEN. izur rEs BY 'mu: Frederick Rant was in M, da.. I r ; 1. 7. remand, at the ant,h c. ut. b :e Chance. cl.a;r4cd wi,h hi wilful to niot liR ••. Eli,a, nn I Annie, his dsughter, aged ser en ye:l,-, by coy 5..; their throats with a -a or, at No. 3, Melbourne tenses, Dulwich road, Penge, en tne 21,f March. Ile was further charged with endeavouring to murder 11 s two sons. Arthur and Poley, aged respectively nine and five 3 earß, by admit 1..ter:ng laudanum to them. Ladly, he wa, sith attempting to commit suicide; firs, by tskP laudanmn, and secondly by plac ng himself on t • rails of the London, Chatham, and Dover' Earl "a' at Penge. Mr. William Moore, prosecuting officer the Associate Institution for Improving snd Enforeiug the Laws tor the Protection of Women. was present ; Mr Whitwell appeared for the The following is a copy of the liter wr:tteo by the prisoner, and which has been frequently referrtd to in evidence:—  7•Tar .111.  Dear (3 iiest..For many days shave }mil us haunting sense of coning ruin upon me and mine. and all of my own causing, throu h any mail folly in thinking that I could make up for Moitlity's by ray own conneetion. It Ins I, , u, a mret ui el failure. I have just ini,ed a tn.. Of my policies. and have phid Rot".erloi It' I hini .t done this I should have lilt II ,-r, ty tit p iy all . v. peneea. As it is, you taunt take ....bat is and sell off the furniture ter the rest. I MI:• tlitilizht it wonlil ever come to this. I cannot ask you to forgive me, for it is too awful, but I situ sure if hive molly mere days I shall eo mad, and then Wiallt Will my paiir wile end ithiltiren ' do:- So I mast saeriii e my future Welfare for them, as I have always siteritioed my past life for them, and they, poor innoventa, shall be pate from the pauper's fate that is u ida, to them, thrugh they little think it. It is a terrible result from On, lot ui 1111%,t die, but I sue no way „pf cape. I dr,. i•i n to Mr. Morley take and begged- him to ta". • hind:. btu. tie m ill not. I saw my poor fitter yi sterilay, bet could not dart; tel him all that 711-:s in in rin nit. His addl.( in is I I littie Alie street, near the Cone:net-vial road. Tell Mr Mu.rl.y that he night have saved ma, if he would. I sin utterly undue-n, and when you reeeire ttis I slodt The foregebitt perihin f the letter is jr ir h.utl tie foiloseiog u There g I. r toy Wife- ard family bet rule ; sti I I wirild b ire ,net. it, if I I.ed not serum that the ireold bare nrie;iient ; bet it -won't. I losur tie eldetreu telkU.g how. I an. nil!. anti stall tie mad for ever and prat. 'yet iisk theca at tI utter lune if! ever did anythii !_r I am li:darned of. Oh, oh, id, there is an itril spirit i. tl e ireid. Tell ley father to sell u;• and pay *di ertirrises, a d tell William Merl.ty, as *your.' tit Intro illurey on me, to tale jut-rho Al. et t rirphan At-y um, I would never have .10110 this, if I bad not thought to pat them ell in heaven before I went to hut Iles woke is. Mr poor derliajt wife end Annie are safe, but: why not all it I have alwey's lived a lit.. of self.saer:riee, and 11,iVt am defeated and lost at lint • Ask Mr Hooks to take Fred, for the lore of God and • his mother —WV: but Morley will do the rest. I went to him at ten o'clock the other night, hut it was of no use: but he would not come home. I orm a wretched victim of the fates. Pay Miss Maws .:1:71. She is the beat girl one ever had in the house." On the same sheet of paper was Who written the following:—  "March 21, 1875.  "Mr. Guest,—Mr. Gue.t keep the money. I am mad. Nify sister eommitted suicide. My brother we mad ; snd I wanted to send :IL the eh;tdren to heft,en before I tm hell. bet c °mot finish, they trill wake. M's 11:.nt's mother's address, 10 or 12, Neanham.street. SS Mark's, Whiteebnpel, near Alie street." . _ •  The prisoner was eommi ted for trial en the charge of murdering his wife and child.