The Warrington Examiner. — 1872-11-23 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

THE WALTER PRESS IN AMERICA.  This country owes much to America in the matter of the wonderful Hoe printing machine. It would seem from the following quotation from the Scotsman that we are beginning to reciprocate the favors of their typographical inventions. Some time since we took occasion to describe the marvellous mechanical creation known as the "Water Press," which seems to promise no less than a revolution in the art of rrinting.  The first Walter Press other than those used in printing The Times and the Scotsman is now at work in St. Louis, Missouri, the proprietors of the Missouri Republican having been fortunate enough, notwithstanding the almost prohibitive duty of something like 30 per cent, on the value of all manufactured machinery imported into the United States, to secure an arrangement for the manufacture, in The Times - office, of one of these printing machines. Copies of the Missouri Republican, printed on the new machine, have just come to hand, and the results in so far as the appearance of the work is concerned, highly satisfactory. The issue of October 27 contains a long account of the Walter Press, illustrated with a large engraving, and the productive powers of the machine are spoken of in the highest terms. An engineer and a machinist from The Times office went to St. Louis with the machine, which, it is stated, was unpacked, lowered into the machineroom, erected, and made ready for working in the short space of five days. It is satisfactory to find that tbe debt which this country has so long owed to the United States in the matter of printing machines—Hoe's machines, which have for a long time monopolised the work of printing the impressions of all the most largely circulated newspapers, being of American invention— is thus beginning to be repaid; and it is creditable to the enterprise of the leading Missouri journal that it, and not one of the energetic and widely circulated newspapers of New York or Philadelphia, should have been the first to take advantage of the wonderful capabilities of the new invention. The paper used for the Missouri Republican in connection with the new system has, we understand, been manufactured in this country, papermakers in the United States not having yet acquired sufficient knowledge as to the mode of reeling paper in large webs suitable for use on the Walter Press. It may be worth noting that a Walter Press will soon be in use in Vienna, one having been despatched to the proprietors of the Vienna Presse, and another is being manufactured for the same paper. The catalogue for the Vienna Exhibition will be printsd in Vienna upon the first of these presses, and paper fcr it is at present being manufactured in this countiy. In the course of a few days another Walter Press, the manufacture of which is just being completed in the Times-office for the use of the Scotsman, will be erected in the Scotsman office; and, when ready, it and the two that have been in use for some time, will be worked simultaneously each morning in throwing off the impression of the Scotsman, at the rate of nearly 40,000 copies per hour, printed on both sides. Two Walter Presses for the proprietors of the Birmingham Daily Post are likewise being manufactured, and they will, it is expected, be at work in Birmingham in the course of a few weeks, thus adding a third to the number of newspapers in this country printA in this new way.—Scotsman.  MURDER IN MANCHESTER AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDEhER. A shocking murder was committed late on Wednesday evening, in School-street, near Sussex-street, -Lower Broughton, by a man named William Clarkston Garstang, and was followed by the suicide of the murderer. Garstang was formerly employed as an omnibus conductor in Manchester, but about six months ago he went to America, and only returned to his home, where he had left his wife and daughter, about a week ago. The murdered man, Robert Tebbutt, a grocer's traveller, was on visiting terms at Garstang's house, in School-street. There is every reason to believe that the motive of the crime was jealousy, Garstang having entertained a belief that his victim had, during his absence in America, been paying too marked attentions to his wife, an assumption which appears to have been unfounded. At about half-past nine o'clock last evening Teboutt, who had been a friendly acquaintance of Garstang's previous to his leaving for America, called at the house, and was for some time engaged in all apparently quiet chat with him and Mrs. Garstanw nouses 3exc ae un tdrrea osft a the front room of the house, which block of three recently ' turbance appears to have been heard by. oug no h adrstang's daughtar, who was in the kitchen at the time, some allusion had evidently been made to the alleged intimacy between the murdered man and Mrs. Garstang. In consequence of the conversation assuming some such disagreeable phase Mrs. Garstang suggested that Tebbutt should get' away home. Acting on this advice, Tebbutt was in the act of leaving the room, when Garstang drew from his pocket a four-chambered revolver, and discharged one of its barrels at his visitor. Tebbutt fell, but raised his head, as if to rise again, and Garstang immediately fired a. second shot, sending a bullet into Tebbutt's head behind the ear. Garstang then seems to have put the revolver into his owninouth, and discharging it, sokilled himself. Mrs. Garstang, in alarm for her own safety, ran out of the room and took refuge in a neighbour's house. In the meantime, the police officer on the beat, constable Stubbs, was called in; and Dr. Lowe, Lower Broughton-road, and Inspector Little, from the Broughton Police Station, were sent for. Before the doctor's arrival both men were dead, and, indeed, in each case, from the close range at which the pistol was discharged, and the frightful character of the wounds inflicted, death must have been almost instantaneous. The bodies presented a shocking appearance. The head of Tebbutt lay in a pool of blood in the lobby outside the room door, while Garstang lay straight on the floor of the room, the revolver lying where it had fallen from his hand, at some distance from him. The bullet had passed through his head, coming out at the right side. Garstang is described as having been a, very hasty man; but an incident related by his daughter to the police seems to prevent the conclusion that this double crime was finally determined upon in a moment of passion. Shortly before the time at which the murder and suicide were committed (about a quarter to ten), Garstang went into the kitchen and gave her a key, and told her to open a cashbox "in a little," and see what was in it. The box, which was afterwards opened, contained some private papers and some caitridges, each about an inch and a quarter long, and apparently the same as those with which the pistol had been loaded. 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