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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-04-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LOUBLE CRIME.  A murder wee committed on Saturday afternAin, in Fleet-street, Farriuguou-street, by a lauouring man, upon a woman tout/ whom be cohabited, awl he then committed suicide. Tim man was of luddielent lharacter, for he seldom worked, preferring, it id said, to live in idleness upon a small annuity which the woman pomessed, and upon the proceeds of fusee selling, which some of the woman's cnildreu carried on. It appeals that the roan and woman, whose names are respectively Territ aid Stallion, lived with the five children in two small rooms, at 33, in Fleet-lane, and on the morning of the tragedy Territ and Stallion, with two others, went to the Holloway prison to fetch the eldest boy of the woman home, he. having on Saturday concluded seven days' imprisonment, to which he had been sentenced for stealing some trifles in the City. The party celebrated the occasion by getting intoxicated, and the man Teirit while thus intoxicated, spoke as if jealous of the woman. lie was seen going into hi rooms about midday. Shortly after, the buy who had jut been brought borne fiom prison, went into the rooms and found both the man and woman with their throats cut, lying in a pool of blood maths bed. Dr. Wilson, of Ferringdonntreet, attended and found that both were dead. There is little doubt that the man drew the woman upon the bed and cut her thioat, and thou cut Ms own, both actions being b 4) ellectual as to cease inunediate death.  Wytp;laswor, being the 26th day of the Hebrew month Nissan, the year 562 s from the creation' 6! the ' world, the Jews celebrated the Kidon.scli hakamma, or benediction of the sun, which takes place every 28 years. It is known as the fetish, years are iimar, tine pfpple ef that nation celebrate the neomenia or renewal ef the moon, which is always the commencement of the month. According to a calculation et their Rabbis, the heavenly bodies, after tleo. snpvemeutsi during tke twenty.elght yea resume In respect to eich other the identimit prisitron that they occupied on the first day of their creation, which according to the Bible was the fourth day of the week. At the end of twenty-eight years • new solar cycle commences, end always one Wednesday  MORGAN Cr,Al','
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-10-22 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION OF A BOT.—A correspon. dent writes to a contemporary as follows fromTedding. ton :—" I beg you will give publicity to the following fact which occurred here on Monday. One of my buys, aged 10 years and upwards, was standing at the gate of my residence, when ho was invited by a passing tramp to come and speak to him. The buy declined to do so, and the fellow therem ou gagged him, and, by means of threatening to kill him with a large catsp knife, which he showed him scveral times, so intimidated him that the lad was dragged by the ruffian from hence through the populous pla Nts of Twickingham and Richmond to Hammersmith, where the fellow ultimately went into a publio house, leaving the boy outside, after enjoining him to wait for him. The boy, however, seized the opportunity thus given to escape, and was successful in eluding his vile companion, and, by means of making frequent inquiries made his way to Richmond, where be mot his brattier, who brought him safely home, much to the relief of the family circle, which was in a state of great anxiety, having exhanstedall the sources of inquiry as to his whereabouts."  The letters and papers from Vienna are full of the consternation which had been caused, the more en. pecially on the Bourse, by the suicide of Joseph, Graf Von Wratislaw, who stabbed himself on the morni,g of the 9th, having dined the previous evening with the party given by the Emperor in honour of the Crown Prince of Prussia, It appears that the deceased, who owned the estate of Wottez, in Bavaria, though prin. cipally residing in Vienna, had lately been much depressed by the heavy losses which he sustained during the recent panic. The amount he lost upon shares in various companies with which he was connected appears not to be exactly known, though it is stated it must have been very large, and he had lately to pay differences to the extent of 200,000 florins—one account says 700,000. Arrangements had been made to cover the losses by the sale of his estates, and the necessary documents were to have been signed on the very morning of his suicide. Besides being thechair. man of the Board of Directors of the Vienna Bank, the deceased was a director of the Francis Joseph Railway and other companies; but so great had been his difficulties of late that he had been compelled to pawn his jewels for the necessary expenses of his household. The Graf was 49 years of age, and was unmarried. He was a Knight of Malta, a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and had been decorated with the Order of the Medjidie, a first class of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Greek Order of the Redeemer.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-03-12 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SCENE IN COUBT.—Walter White, waiter, appeared to an affiliation summons, at the instance ol Mary Fitzgerald, a servant. The corroborative evidence, however, was not considered sufficient, and the summons was dismissed. Complainant then rushed between defendant and the door, and laid the child at his feet, sobbing and screaming hysterically, and saying, " It is yours and you shall keep it.'' It was picked up and plaeed in her arms again, and she was removed, screaming, from the court.  JORN Sro:vo, a malster, who was convicted at the December sessions of the Central Criminal Court of having forged the will of one Henry Trimmer, has been brought up for sentence, which had been deferred to await the result of a memorial sent by Spong to the Home Secretary. No reply having been received, the decorder said that the course of justice could be no zger stayed, and ordered that the prisoner be kept in penal servitude daring seven years. Tern BODY Of John William Cooper, who was suspected of having murdered hi a wife and her father at Poplar a month ago, has been found by amaterman. It was brought to the surface of the water by the motion of a large vessel which. left the London Dock. It in  very mu.Ch decomposed, but it was at once identified by persons who had known the husband of the murdered  woman. There were no marks of violence on the body, and the presumption is that the deceased committed suicide ARRANGEMENTS have been made for a series of readings by Mrs. Stirling of the Midsummer Sight's Dream. Several entertainments of this description have been given by this popular artist at Brighton, which have been received with very special marks of favour by the audience. The London series will commence early in April, and the Orchestral Union will perform in can. . . . . . •  mention with them the charming incidental music of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream._  A
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-03-12 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE AT PENCOED.  On the morning of Saturday last considerable excitement was created in this picturesque village by the announcement of the suicide of the wife of Charles Beesant, a plate-layer, in the employ of the Great Western Railway. The body was found about six o'clock on that morning by two men named Thomas Davies and Evan David, who were on their way up the line to work. It was lying on the side of the line, about twenty yards from the bridge between Pencoed and Penprisk. One arm was completely severed from the body, which was otherwise severely injured, the brains being scattered on the rails. Both the men knew that the deceased had been missed from her home during the night, the one Evan David having been aroused by her husband and asked to go to her daughter's house to see if she had gone there, and they immediately removed her remains to the Britannia Inn, For some time past deceased had been rather depressed in spirits, and had spoken despondingly; but on the night before her death she seemed much more cheerful, and assisted her husband in hanging up some bacon. When her husband awoke about four o'clock in the morning he missed her, and instituted a search which proved fruitless. Margaret Treharne, who resides between Beesant's house and the railway bridge, was astir that morning about two o'clock, heard a light footstep passing swiftly by in the direction of the line, and, in ashort time after, she heard the mail train pass; and it is conjectured that the unfortunate woman must have placed herself in front of the train and so met with her death.  An inquest was held on Monday morning, at the Britannia Inn, before T. B. Reece, Esq., and a respectable jury, of which the Rev. J. J. Jones was foreman, and a verdict was re _ turned to the effect that the deceased had committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-11-19 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

NORTH. ANIPTON.—On Sunday evening the town of Northaniptop was alarmed by the report of an attempted murder and suicide in the open street. A shoemaker named Potter bad been living with a married woman named Key, and he conoeived some jealousy in regard to her intimacy with other men. On Sunday night, Potter saw his paramour in company with a soldier. His jealousy was immediately excited, and he drew a razor from his pocket, iushed up to the woman, at.ti made a cot at her throat. She escaped and a cab being procured she was at once conveyed to the infirmary. Potter then made a gash in his own throat with the same razor. He, too, was conveyed to the infirmary, where he is progressing favourably. It is believed that he will recover. The woman was not so severely injured as her would be marderer, and her recovery is expected.  SINGULAR SORNE IN A CiiintOn.--The parish church of St. Pancras was, on Sunday morning, tho scene of a very singular, and to the parties particu. larly interested, anything but pleasing occurrence. There are a great many marriages solemnised at this church on Sunday mornings, and this was the case on Sunday. Among those presenting themselves to be joined together "in holy matrimony," and who had passed through the ordeal of the customary "three times of asking," were a young couple, apparently in the best of spirits and full of expectations at the happy event, attended by the usual retinue of bridesmaids and friends. The surprise of the bridegroom may be better imagined than described when told by tho officiating minister that the marriage had been forbidden on the previous day, by his father. The bridegroom, it appears, who is 25 years of age, had given a fictitious address, and this coming to the knowledge of the father, who objected to the union, he at once took steps to prevent it. Upon being informed by the officiating minister that, having re. gistered an incorrect address, he could not proceed with the ceremony, the bridegroom indignantly demanded a return of the fees he had paid, but was informed that they could not be returned to him, the officiating minister adding that if the bridegroom succeeded in effecting a reconciliation with his father he would on any future occasion perform the ceremony. The bridegroom, with a wry face, then left the church, accompanied by his "blushing bride" and 4 host qf disappointed end sympathising friends.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-05-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE NATIVES OF- BOMBAY, to mark their estimate of Judge Arumld's character for even-handed justice without reference to caste or colour' have instituted a scholarship, to bear his name, in the University of Bombay.  AN INBTRUMENT has been invented at the Cape for "ascertaining with accaracy the variations of the compass from local attraction or other causes, whici are so puzzling, and sometimes so dangerous to navigators."  TUB Manus are highly indignant at the appointment of a negro 89 Minister from the United States to Hayti, their inference being that a negro had been appointed because no white man of ability would accept toe position.  . AMONG THEATRICAL NOVELTIES tVe see announced that at the Royal Alfred Theatre a room for children under five years of age has been established, when, on a small payment per head, they can be left while the mothers see the performance. A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, heir to extensive property in Clare, attempted suicide last week in consequence of his family declining to sanction his marriage with • domestic servant. He fired a pistol at his breast, and the ball took effect In his left arm.  IN A LETTER to Earl Spencer, the Home Secretary has conveyed her Majesty's thanks to the people of Ireland for the attachment to her person and family as manifested In the reception lately accorded to Prince Arthur on his visit to that country.  AN OFFICIAL TELEGRAM received in London from Adelaide states that the expeditionary party sent to North Australia arrived at Port Darwin on February 5. They send word that there is a good port, good land, good water, and a healthy climate. . . .  A BOY NAMED BEAL has met with his death in a curious wanner in Sheffield. Pursued by a drunken man, whom some other lads were halting, he fell, and his head striking against the kerb-stone he died almost instantly. CLIEVEDEN, the beautiful residence of the Duchess of Sutherland, on the banks of the Thames, near Maidenhead, where her Majesty the Queen a year or two back made a short sojourn' is about to pass into the hands of Lord Grosvenor, who has purchased it front the Duke of Sutherland.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-05-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAVAGANT DESIRE.—An editor in West Tennessee says he would like to be the next census, because it will embrace 17,000,000 women. WATER AND MILK —A physician in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates that the people of that city pay 43,000 dole, a year for the water in their milk. IT was stated at a recent convention of working women in New York, that a majority of the girls em. played to operate on heavy sewing machines in shops, " last " only one to two years, although a few stand the labour a little longer time. "Their backs give out, their spines give way. It is that ugly motion of the foot that spoils the spine." . . . . . . _ .  AN acrobat rides a velocipede (with grooved wheels) upon a tight rope, twenty feet above the heads of his audience.  A Nriv YORK physician reports a curious case of a dog, which had just died, having fresh blood passed into the carotid. The dead animal was revived, stood on his feet, wagged his tail, and lived over twelve hours, when he died again,._  GENERAL APCLILLAN Is to appear an a public lecturer. IN a Pittsburg court, the presiding aldermaa descended from the bench and kicked a pugnacious witness into the street.  IN Des Moines, lowa, two barbers have been fined 7 dole. 85 c. for working on Sunday. The justice said. "it was legal to sell runt and cigars on Sunday, but not to shave."  GEORGE FRANCIS FRAIN has retired from The Revolu, lion, Mrs. Stanton, the editor of which, feels obliged to say of him, "He has been a source of grief to our numerous friends, and an annoyance to Os: In Pennsylvania, to furnish poison to enable anyone to commit suicide is to become an accessory before the fact to a murder, and punishable with death. THE Mount Vernon estate of George Washington was advertised to be sold by auction on the 10th instant. THE King of the Sandwich Islands recently had his skull cracked by the falling of a cocoa-nut while walking in a grove at his country seat. THE governing class of America, the yeomanry, who insisted on General Grant's election, are bitterly disappointed by his failure to emancipate himself from the trading politicians.  WILLIS FAULKNER, type founder, of San Francisco, formerly a newspaper publisher of New Haven, has lately fallen heir to five Million pounds sterling, and has left for England to claim his inheritance.—United States Economist. [Who left it him?] IN Treasure City, White Pine ruining region, a resident recently died, and a man was hired to dig his grave. When the funeral cortege arrived they were informed by the grave digger that he had struck a splendid lead, and stoked off a claim. He refused to allow the body to be buried in the hole he had dug. WREN you ask a Western man his views on the Indian question he nays: "Well, sir, we can destroy them by the laws of war, or thin'em out by whisky; but the thinning process is plaguy slow."
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-05-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OUP FAUX IN PETTICOATS.  The inquest on Maria Espley, whose death from Injuries received by an explosion of gunpowder has been already reported, has been held. George Shaw, a porter in the employ of Mr. Langley, gunpowder agent, Hanley, said on Friday afternoon he brought 5 cwt. of gunpowder, in five barrels, to Mr. Eipley. He was directed by the woman who opened the door to put the powder in the saddle-room. He put the powder in, and Mrs. Espley locked the door. She then invited him to have a glass of ale, and signed the delivery book, by making a cross. As be was coming out of the yard the woman Who had let him in (Sarah Buxton) said to him, "You have done wrong," which led him to go to the neighbouring pit to see Mr. Eipley, who said the powder mast be brought to the magazine, and sent two men with witness to fetch it. There was no leakage in the barrels, nor any fire in the room. He did not notice any peculiarity in Mrs. Espley. She seemed to know per. featly what she did. The explosion occurred about ten minates after he left the house. Sarah Buxton said she was directed by Mrs. Espley to tell Shaw to put the powder in the trap-house. Mrs. Espley showed him where to put it. Witness told Shaw to go to the pit as fast as he could for Mr. Espley. She did this because, as the man was going away, she saw Ms. Espley take some matches from the mantelshelf, and she tried to pull her back, hut could not. Witness was afraid of something wrong, because Mrs. Espley woo very tipsy. She tried to take the matches away from Mrs. Espley, who threw her of, and said she was not going to do anything. Mrs. Espley had several times expressed an intention to commit suicide.. She did not think there was any cause for Mrs. Espley's state of mind except drink. Witnesswas satisfied Mrs. Espley set fire to the gunpowder fir the purpose of destroying herself. Frances ltintphy, sister-in-law to the deceased, said she saw Mrs. Espley on Saturday morning. She was very much burnt all over her body. She was sensible up to her death. She said to witness, "It's a bad job," and she replied, "Oh, it is; what could have possesed you ?" Deceased rejoined, "I am very sorry," but did not say why she did it. She had been in the habit of drinking deeply for two years, and had been worse during the last six months. When sober she seemed to be mentally well. The jury found a verdict of "Temporary insanity," coupled with an expression of opinion that such large quantities of gunpowder should only be left in magazlnes. The deceased NM 45 years of age. The building in which the exploMon occurred is a perfect ruin, scarcely a vestige remaining standing except a little of the walls.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-12-31 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.— On Christmas Eve, a young woman, named Harriet Candler, residing at Twickenham, committed suicide under distressing circumstances. The deceased lately left service, and during the week had been making preparations to give her brother—a young soldier, who had obtained a seven days' furlough to spend his Christmas at home—a hearty welcome. Aocompaied by her father, sister, and brother, she went to Isle. worth to purchase the Christmas provisions. They were all returning home in the evening by St. Margaret's Road, and upon nearing the bridge over the creek from the Thames she suddenly broke from her brother's arm, jumped upon the parapet, and threw herself into the water. The brother bravely jumped in after her, but the darkness of the night and the suddenness of the act precluded the possibility of saving the poor girl. The young soldier was got out in a very exhausted state. The body of the deceased was soon after recovered.  A girl of fifteen years of age, named Lydia Perry, a domestic servant, wat charged at Worshipstreet, London, on Monday, with having attempted to commit suicide by taking poison. A gentleman named Weston, was passing through Wells-street, Hackney, on Thursday night, when a boy called his attention to the girl, who was lying on the ground insensible. Two bottles, which had contained laudanum, and both of which were labelled "poison," were handed to him. The girl was removed to the German Hospital, WiICTO she continued insensible for eleven hours. When consciousness was restored, she said she had made the attempt upon her life through love. The pri-oner's "lover," who had called Mr. Weston's attention to the prisoner, was called as a witness. Ho said he was only fourteen years of age. For the last nine months he had been in the habit of seeing the prisoner. On the night in question he WBB with her, ald she swallowed something in his pesence, then kissed him, and said, '' Good-by." Immediately afterwards she ran away, and the boy, seeing her fall to the ground, became alarmed, ana called Mr. Weston. Mr. Newton remanded the prisoner for a week.