The Herald of Wales. — 1889-05-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DRIVEN MAD BY "JACK  THE RIPPER."  An inquiry was held at the Rose and Crown, Church-street, Edmonton, on Friday, into the circumstances attending the death of Robert Mixon, aged 62, a shoemaker, lately living at a common lodging-house in Whitechapel, who , committed suicide in a moat decided manner on Easter Monday.—Sarah Muench, of 76, Well. ington Road, Bow, deposed that the deoeased , was her brother. She last saw him alive in the ' Edmonton Union ten weeks ago. He was suffering from acute mania caused by the murders perpetrated by "Jack the Ripper" in Whitechapel, close to where the deceased was living at that time. These frequent murders, occurring as they did r near to the s.e where he was Irving, unhinged his mind. , The knife produced belonged to ban, and was used in his business. Besulea the murders there was nothing to account for his madness. In November he wandered away from Whitechapel, and was found in a dying condition in Edmonton, whence he was taken to the workhouse.-. Police-constable Albert Byte, 338 N, deposed ' .that at three o'clock on the morning of Bank Roliday he was on duty near Union-lane Gate when he heard zuans, and a little further on he discovered the deceased lying in the road almost smothered in blood. The witness called Dr. Jones, who said the man was nearly dead. An ' ambulance was procured, but the deceased expired as they got to the union gates. The deceased was known as "Mad Jack. "-- Inspector Ainaley deposed to being called by the last witness and finding the deceased lying in the road with a large gash in his throat. Close to the 4. he found a bald shoemaker's tools,  , ale Tot while in the grass at aide of the road ha' There is a municipal vaeane9 a. -Lareelles Carr has been chosen as the Trades' found a knife-covered with blood.--The jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily Union candidate. , insane. Breconshire Liberal's in meeting assembled, have expressed their Liberal's, sorrow at the Xils Various occurrences of a tragic nature have, death of by Jones. says a Paris correspondent, signalised the open- The failure is announced of Mr. Titus Henry g of the "Gingerbread F•ah..e The latest Parker, solicitor, of Newpoit. His statement of drama enacted at the fete has for its heroine a affairs shows a deficiency of £738 Gs. 21 young female named Mariquita, who is an The Cardiff School Bm.rd is exten ling its "extra-lucid soronambnlist " and fortune-teller educational facilities, and is just about pruvidby trade, and dwells temporarily with a grand. ing_accomodation for 1,900 more scholars. mother in a boOth in the Boulevard Richard Thomas Williams, a Welshman, has distinguished himself by jumping overboard from the Lenoir. For some time past an itinerant couleetioner--said to be of Teutonic nationality, like Leminion Line Steamer Sarnia. He was, of many of the Proem—has been casting sheep's- COUO3O, drowned. eyes at Mariquita, who was, however, too busily Lively., satisfaction is expressed by the work. engaged in her professional pursuits to heed his men at the Dowlais Works at the decision of advances or his protestations. The confectioner the masters to grant an all-round advance of broke into the booth wherein Mariquita was wages. p with her grandam and awoke the pair. Another disappearance is reported from Carpita told him to go sway, but the swain dill. This time it is an official of a public ited in remaining., so the young woman took company, whose accounts show a deficiency of a revolver and flied at the amorous Teuton, about £3OO. who went home howling with a bullet lodged in Under the influence of drink, an elderly his jaw. He has since been taken to a hospital, Abertillery man named John Lane attempted to and Mar-ignite remains unmolested, the "agents commit suicide. Taking this into consideration, of the law" opining that ahe was quite right. the 'Predegar magistrates after giving him a A Brussels' telegram states that the astonish- warning, decided not to send him to gaol. lug- of the Bing of Holland has pm. The Welsh Utilisation Soaety has decided that it willprobably be szmounced that in future it will direct its attention to the , ins*, for which day the States work of providing suitable books adapted to the convoked for nomination of a new requirements, influencing teachers, school boards, and other educational authorities in  at Cardiff. Mr