Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1874-06-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY.  George Henry Coy Lon, 22, ham been indicted at the Central Critninni (tout, in London, for the wilful loonier of one fibe-garet Ball The primoner pleaded •• Not Guilty " • - Mr. 'Seeley and Mr. Sims conducted the_prosecution. at the instance d the Court Mr ; . Mon.gs Witham. (with -nun nag Mr. Charles Methene), the tequest a the Sheriff, and in emaisiderstion of the prisoner's pove.y andertouk the defence. -••- *  The trial, from the attendant circumstance, which were in many respects pecoliar, excited considerable intermit llee prawmer daring am trial hal • peculiar end rather eccentric look. He Wand, neverthelen, to the proceedings throughout with much interest  • The primaer, it will be remendared. obtained hie livelihood am aboeblark, sail be hved with his mother and several brother. and eiders ta a small house in Homer-road, Soutb Hackney. l'be deceased, silo waa a Maim. healthy woman, 1.7 yearn old, bred with bar husband mil tat, children in the same home. The familia. were on the mod friendly terms, aod the soner was in the habit of calling the deceased " sunk'. there being, in fact, no reldionship whatever between than. The fatal occurrend took place on che 6th May. The deceased had perted from Ler husband in good health and spirits shortly before, and she md the prisoner were at.., going towards their home about two o'clock in Me af.rnoin. Very won afterwards the primmer went to Min Lane, • wonmn wbo ridded mthir oPpoeite hie own bruise, and he told her that he had come to bid tier Good-b.," and naked her to tall Lis mother that she would not at. him again fa London ; and he added, "I have doue a murder. / have hung Mag... Mrs. Lane, in reply, mid, "Go along, Ida not believe you and the prima. remanded to this, •i Well, if you don't believe am, teat..... tind me," and he went scrod the road It hi. mother's home and pushed open the data. The idiom. Lam followed hinh and the mold.at the door was opened ahe mw the deetheed, appanntly ittiag earn dr butler etre, with the maim An ohs wm given, and the we. aidled in, mid the dammed was cut down, 6.1 Mthough the body woo Pill wenn, she mastoid dead. Tbe prisoner left alter this had taken pls.., and he met • 0.21 he knew, and made • similor statement It bat that he had previously made, and at lb, dice time produced the duplicate for • pm of earring, which he did he had taken from the deceased and had ...meal for eighteenpence, and he 1t.,. up the duplicate. Nothing more wd men of the primmer .6111 16. following morning, when he was found on • bench in the Victoria-park, fad Weep. There did not appear to be the slightest mon. oiggeeted for the conamidion of the a. by the pnsoner. except that he intended to deal her eanings. The prisoner and the deceased had always been on the mod friendly terms, and that. was not the lead 'p. pearame al a struggle having taken place. It hi aloe • nmewhablei fact that the primier is a diminutive peer, and the decensed was &powerful young woman, iamb more than • match in ph.cal power for the primer The deceased a,.. amid extmirdinary peeition when found, and it she had 5t00..1 up the rope would have Men perfectly it.,.., mil /he would not hath sustained any injury from it. being placed round her neck ; at that there appeared to be some bulimia.. that the cm was me of suicide rather than of murder, and but fur the daMment of the prisoner himself as to his having committed the niurder, thin would probably have been the coodusion arrived at. The wimems who were ...lied fir the prommition proved the facts as Move given. When the prisoner wa. dken into custody, he said that it was true that he ha. 1 kllled the decoded. and be had added that they bad hail • .truggle and be settled her, and if he had not done itab, wimla have settled him. Wlicu he eras taken to the police-ouirt, he dked the constable whether he had we better plead guilty, and when he twirl tier Ia could not give him any ad doe the primmer aid Ye did ~tan, what they del to hien so than  hualdrons t:f the nstrans in who was emnaised tar dr ratlardiaw rated, maw he questions put Itariart Wahiawa, Ant tire was nothing in is =Zprimer by dr lady or the position oned nal Irwril rot won inconsierent with dr trisriba Ant dram mg MY of sokid. Who darn att fr prbarr area that deceased ird braalf, aad It Ira urged mun the day at drat aw Impearbility that a boy like the taltratr raid balm restroyad the life of s ypung sod Sento. Ina r demand Ira !entre...l Cri Mr Lod Chid Non; in ramming up eme to dr Ivry. abranrad that it ins ma dew