The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-11-27 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LOVE, MURDER, AND SUICIDE IN  AMERICA.  It will be remembered that in June last we published the details of a horrible murder in Grant county, Misr; Catherine Jordan having been killed by her lover, William E. Kidd, in Glen Haven, June 15, 1868. There were ercumstances of such peculiar atrocity connected with the crime that public indignation was aroused to the utmost, and large rewards offered for the arrest of the murderer. Mr. Delaware, a resident of Glen Haven, managed to trace the mwderer, and with the as. sistance of Frank Winship, of Sioux city, lowa, arrested him in Noble county, Minnesota, on October 8, Kidd Riving himself up to all appearances willingly. Ile was taken to the railroad es soon as possible, and while on the cars, October 14, near Jefferson, Green County, lowa, committed suicide by taking strychnine. Careful search was made about the person and clothes of Kidd for concealed weapons or poison, but nothing was found. After taking the poison Kidd told of it, saying, "You searched well, but the small paper of strychnine had been sewed inside the lining of my pantaloons, wherei its discovery was next to iti3pos• sible." The poison had been provided for use in case of need. Kill's death took place one hour and twentyfive minutes after takiag the poison. At intervals between spasms be conversed freely, and even with cheerfulness, giving directions as to what should be told his friends at home, &c. Tbe following is the substance of a confession made by Kidd to Delaware on the first night ef his capture :—He and Katie Jordan had always been intimate friends; that he loved her, and told her that if she didn't marry him she never would marry any one. This was two months before the murder. A couple of days before the act he took his trunk to Caaswell, and shipped the same to S. 0. B. Martin, Mammal's. On Monday evening thereafter, he went with hie horse and buggy to Malvers to see her ; asked for her, and she came out to see him ; they talked awhile, and he asked her to take a ride with him, saying that it would be the last ride she would ever take with him, She got into the buggy; he referred to the presents be had made her, and, that he had a set of furs In his trunk that be had infended to give her, and other rine, be had given her ws4 not worn ; be then returned her pictnre, which she took and put in her pocket; he let dawn a f,nce and passed through a field, came to a ravine, turned his horses quartering across the road; he then took out his revolver and told her to shoot him; she refused, and asked, "William, what are you going to do? I am afraid of you;" be then took out his knife, and she said, "My God, William, are you going to cut my throat I" He answered, "I am ;" he then placed his arm around her head and aimed to draw the knife across her throat; she seized the knife, and in so doing cut her hand severely; he then wrenched the knife from her and cut her throat, holding her head with his arm until life was extinct; he then alighted and lifted the body out of the buggy, Intending to throw it into a sinkhole near by, when the horses started; thinking somebody was corning he left the body and jumped into the buggy, drove to his father's, left his team, and got a horse and fled. The rest of his confession refers to his life after this diabolical murder, which was such as might be expected of a wretch so abandoned and desperate.—Madison (Wis.)Journal.