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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-05-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MONDAY.—Before the Mayor (E. M. Richards, Esq.), and G. 0. Francis, Esq. Arresserem SUlClDE.—Richard Jeffreys was brought up on remand charged with having attempted to commit suicide. It appeared that the defendant's wife procured a summons against Min for having assaulted her, and this so preyed upon his mind that he took a quantity of vermin poison with the intention of killing himself. The defendant is subject to fits, and on his first examination had a very severe one, while in the dook. He is an out-door pauper of the Swansea Union.—Defendant begged the clemency of the Bench towards him for this offence, and promised that it should not occur again.— Dismissed. _ .  AM /Xl:U.—Mary Harries IVAN charged by Isabella Deer with having assaulted her, on the night of the 22nd instant. Complainant said she was passing up Highstreet, between twelve and one o'clock in the night in gut Mien, when the defendant crossed the street, and on approneatng her struck her a violent blow in the face, and called her a " c tw." —The defendant called a female companon, who witnessed the whttle affair, to disprove complainant's assertion, when the Bench, after a patient inventigatimi, adjourned the cane for a week, in order that a polie.t-oflieer, who knew something of the matter, might attend. M•aitetr OFFENCN,—WiIIiam Baker was charged on remand by Mr. Bennett, with hiving, the 12th inst., unlawfully sold a quantity of potatoes, out of the market. The delendatit admitted the charge. Mr. Bennett said that cases of this kind were constantly occurring, although he had bills posted about to warn people against selling anything out of the market. A market constable, named Davies, said that he had aeveral times cautioned the defendant that he wan not all twed to buy things in the market and hawk them about the town. —The Mayor said that it Was plain the defendant had broken the law, and if lie did so again, he had no doubt a heavy penalty would be inflicted. To-day he would be fined les. 6d. including costs. AN
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-09-26 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.—A painful occurrence took place at Penzance on Sunday, on which day the sister of Mr. Beringer, jeweller, committed suicide. It appears that Mr Beringer was at Redrutb, and that the sister was in charge of his Penzance place of business. At about 11 o'clock on Sunday morning the servant left the house to go to church, and on her return she found the door locked. Thinking Miss Beringer was taking a walk the servant went to her mother's house and returned at four o'clock. The door was still lucked, and the bed-room window open, and the blind down. She thought this strange, but went again to her mother's until 6 o'clock. When she returnel she found things in the same st.te, and at once called the police to the circumstance. The house was forcibly entered, and Sergeant Wallis found the young woman in the passage quite dead. On examination, it was found that there was an incised wound in the bend of each arm about an inch in extent. On proceeding up-stairs, a razor was found with blood upon it, and there was also a basin its the room containing about a pint of blood. No one was found in the house with the deceased, nor did it appear that anyone had been on the premises since the servant had left in the morning. WORKS OF NEcnssirv.—Some Lancashire farmers, who carried their hey on a Sunday, when it was threatened by a storm, were lately fined at the Atherton Petty SeSSiOPS 20s. each and costs, for violating the law of Chatles's reign, that "no carrier with any horse or horses, nor waggoner with any waggon or waggons, nor carman with any cart or caits, nor wainsman with any wain or wains, nor drover with any cattle, shall travel upon the said day, upon pain that any person or persons so offending shall lcso and forfeit twenty shillings for every such offence." The act, which extends and carries out this act, does, however, except " works of charity and necessity," stmonyd which securing the harvest siust ceitainly be reckoned, and we have no doubt that the conviction is illegal. However, the farmers quite properly refused to pay, and were distrained upon for Ore tty three shillings, twenty shillings fine and three shillings costs, and a valuable cow taken from the Messrs. Cleworth, near Leigh Vicarage, a sofa from another man, and so on. The law has certainly been misinterpreted. Hariest work has always been regarded as a wok of necessity. There is rather high authority for pulling an ox or an ass out of a pit on the Sabbath day, ond saving the ass's food from the weather is scarcely li as a work of charity. In fact, except to prevent rsgular trading, which would involve the labour of tlntritling persona, these acts ought to be a dead letter.6'pecletor. Tier
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-11-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE LOGIC OF CRIME. (From the Nonconformist.) Sir Edward Lytton has remarked, in his romance of "My Novel," that the Devil is the greatest failure in the universe. We have an impression that an exactly similar remark was made before Sir Edward Lyttou's (lays; but perhaps a common, but seldom•expressed thought, that lies at the bottom of most minds, made the observation seem so i familiar that it appeared, when we read t, to only the repetition of something that we had previously seen. It is,:however, at all times, worth reflecting upon; because the first superficial impression of a man whose faculties are just beginning to awake to the observation of the relative 6113CC55C5 of Good and Evil is that the Spirit of Evil is the greatest success in the universe. Look almost where one will, he seems to ba triumphant. There is, in all the world, more ignorance than knowledge ; more misery than happiness ; more im?urity than purity; more sin than holiness; more rebellion than love. The contemplation of these facts has made some men, like our own John Foster, regretful at the extent and length of life. The less life the less sin ; and so they have expressed their joy at the early death even of their own children, being persuaded that, had they lived, they would, in ad likelihood, have known more of pain, suffering, and sin, than of the contrary. Perhaps this is true; but is the Devil, therefore, the greatest success in the universe? Does the Logic of Crime lead one, inevitably and irresistibly to the conclusion of the actual triumph of evil? One history, in the past ten days, will be a suffi cient test of the soundness of this belief. • * • Samuel Hunt's voluntary and self-caused death was the conclusion to which the logic of crime had driven him. Every sinner is a bad reasoner, as well as more or less a bad man. There are no persons so destitute of common sense as those who run after evil. Hunt miserably and wretchedly failed in his on. grand purpose, which was, to make himself a happier man. His suicide was his confession of failure. All the world knows that, cunning as he was, he utterly miscarried. He, at least, failed, and his failure is a proof of the failure of the Spirit of Evil which runs through this portion of the Universe of God. For the law of the spiritual world, we apprehend, does not differ according to place. If the instrument—a willing enough one—failed, the master failed. Yol may measure all the Devil's trumphs by the triumph of Samuel Hunt. Succeed? Yes is a certain sense. He undoubtedly succeeded in his crime, but did he succeedin his intention ? As we sin in little things or great, to that degree we fail, and there is only this difference between man and the Devil—that the latter has the worst history and has lived the longest life. The ordinary mural from this awful murder is told in our statement, but the case of Samuel Hunt has given it a inure terrible aspect than any that we can remember. From one end of the civilized world to the other he is pointing the conclusion to the Logic of Crime.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-08-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

AND SVICIDE.—On Wednesday morning, shortly after 12 o'clock, the inhabitants of St. Matthew lietbnal.green, were alarmed by the news of a mosbrutal murder and the suicide of the murderer. It apt pears that the (rime was committed at No. 4, Globe street, Globe-roach, Bethnal-green. the house was occupied by a weaver named James Dupey, with his wife and three children. They retired to test Ihortl7 after 11 o'clock, all lying in one roam, and about midnight screams of Murder !" " Police !" were heard. Several of the immediate neighbours rushed out and met the elder son, about 18 years of age, who exclaimed "Oh pray cern,. upstairs ; my father has killed my inc ther l" A Mr. English pi oceeded to the apartment and discovered a most fearful scene ; the wife was lying upon a small bed in the coiner of the room, in her night-dress, with her thr at cut from ear to ear, and Gat bedclothes were saturated with blood. The husband had made his esripe cut of the house, followed by one of the neighbours. lie ran at full speed down Globe-street, in the direct:on of 'Victoria Park, where he succeeded in getting clear away Several persons went in pursuit of the murderer, and when they readied the Regent's-canal, near the chief entraneciro the park, a coat and hat were found lying on the towing-path. Information was given to the police-constable on the beat, when he called Mr. Russell, the lock-keeper, who procured the drags to discover the body of the murderer. It was then about halfpast 12 o'clock, but the body was not recovered until fi o'clock the next morning. Mr. Mph, the surgeon. examined the body on the towing .path, and found a frightful gash in front of the neck, which bad been inflicted immediately befere submersion. A razor, besmeared with blood, was found ie the deceased's pocket, and the weapon (which was handed to the police) was found to be ene wh,ch the deceased used ti shave himself with at hone,. Mr. Burrows, the sionmening officer of the district, preeeeded te the house at an early hour the next 1 morning. a, d made inquiry. He interrogated the elder daughter, and it would appear that she slept on the floor, by tile side cf her parents, when she was suddenly aroused Icy her father stepping upon her. She sat up and heard a gurgling noise. 'rice deeeasecl woman was struggling, and exclaimed faintly, 'Oh, Henry, don't cut my throat." Iler father was partly dressed, and, placing the razor in hie trousers poik,e, lie ran out of the house. The cause ul alt cannot at present be ascertained, but I man, wh , was 68 years of age, had been subject to attael.s of delirium.  of lbw f,a &Tea:  Pcintel and published by THOMAS MORTON HOME, at the lleraid Office, 51,
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-11-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—MURDER OF THREE PERSONS IN A CAB, AND SUICIDE OF MURDERER. A tragedy, to which our memory supplies no parallel, is reported in tlii London journals. On Saturday night, a respectably-dressed mail, accompanied by a woman and two little girls, got into a cab at the Shoreditch Station of the Great Eastern Railway. The cabman was ordered to drive to an inn at Paddington, but while passing through the city, the man told hint to pull up at a public-house, and get hitn wine " halfand•half." The driver brought the liquor to the cab, and it was drunk by the persons inside. The journey was then resumed, but in Holborn another stoppage was made. The man got out, paid the fare, told the cabman to drive to the place origidally named, and then walked away. W hen the inn at Paddington wa reached, it was supposed that they were poisoned by prussic acid, whieli the man had mixed witn the" halland-halt" drunk in the city. The man who committed the murder was arrested at twelve o'clock on Monday tight at Camberwell, but he had prepared himself with a deadly poison, and shortly alter his capture he died at the station to which the police bad conveyed him. The whole family has consequently been elestioyed. The name of the murderer is Samuel Hunt ; he was thirty-four years of age, and a traveller an the employment of rdessrs. Butler suud NieCUilGeli, deedanlen, herbadAs, nod druggists, of 13, Ilart-str,et, and Southrow, eovent-garden. He resided with his wife and two children in St. Anne's Cottages, Wellington-street, C.ouberwi...l-nad, and lived what is commonly called a "cat and dog life."  r ARLIAMENTARY lIEPORT.—Mr. White, in his Lepert to Parliament on the employment of children in Match Manufactories ( just published), alluding to Bryant and May's, says "There is nothina unpleasant or objectionable here ; ths factory is remarkable for the excellence of its ari engem-test, both for the health and comfort of the workpeople." This is very important testimony, as in the same Report the Commissioner speaks of the dreadful uisease (neerasis, decay of the lower jaw-bone) prevalent amongst those engaged in the manufacture of mdtnary lucifers. ihryant aud May's Patent Safety :dutch IGNITES wax ON THE Box, thus affording to life and proptit ty the must effectual protection from Fire. A New
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-08-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ALLEGED MURDER.—Dr. Lankester on Wednesday evening resumed an inquiry at the Salmon and Compasses, Penton-street, Pentonville, on the body of a young woman, named Mary Ann Berridge, otherwise Best, who, it was alleged, had died under suspicious circumstances, Mr. J. Wakeling appeared on the part of a man named Seat with whom the deceased had lived. Mr. T. Beard attended for the friends of the deceased. The deceased had died in the house of Best, and her sister declared her belief that she had been murdered by him. Beat stated that he was absent at the time of her death. Magaret Lucey, who was examined on the first occasion, was recalled. On Monday week, the day of the death of the deceased, she had arranged to meet Best in Holborn, but she was beyond her time and returned home She admitted that she had lived two years and a-halt and had left her husband to live with him. Both the deceased and Best had told her that she was his sister. A Mrs. Hobby stated that she saw Best go out, and on his return he called her down stairs and exclaimed that his sister had committed suicide. Mr. Beard called a Mrs. Caig, u, who stated that she received some articles to be washed. A gown which belonged to the deceased was produced, torn, and in the samestate as it was when sent to her. The Cot oner said the gown might have been torn in being taken off. Mr. Sheeehy, the surgeon who was called to attend the deceased, said the dress was not torn when he was sent for. On the part of Best, a youth named Bramble was called. He resided next door, and saw Best go out of the house. A policeman named Green stated that he saw Best in Gray's-inn-lane on Monday week between I and 2 o'clock. A witness named Burton said that he must have heard any noise in the meta. The place was not in disorder, nor was there any appearance as if there had been a struggle. The Coroner said there were sk,lllo OilCUlLlStallvoB in the case which rendered an edjournment necessary. There was no proof that Best hod done any violence or threa::• cued to use tiny to the deceased, and it was positivel) proved that he had left his hoes.) and was near Holborn between 1 and 2 o'clock. It was in the power of the jury to adjourn the sitting, but if they thought with him they could return a verdict of suicide. The jury deliberated Nome time with closed doors, and then returned a verdict, "'That the decensed:came to death by her strangulation, but how the same was produced there was no evidence to show."
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-11-21 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE LOGIC OF CRIME. (From the Nonconformist.) Sir Edward Lytton has remarked, in his romance of "My Novel," that the Devil is the greatest failure in the universe. We have an impression that an exactly similar remark was made before Sir Edward Lytton's days; but perhaps a common, but seldom-expressed thought, that lies at the bottom of most minds, made the observation seem 80 familiar that it appeared, when we read it, to be only the repetition of something that we had previously seen. It is,:however, at all times, worth reflecting upon ; because the first superficial impression of a man whose faculties are just beginning to awake to the observation of the relative successes of Good and Evil is that the Spirit of Evil is the greatest success in the universe. Look almost where one will, he seems to be triumphant. There is, in all the world, more ignorance than knowledge ; more misery than happiness ; more impurity than purity; more sin thou holiness; more rebellion than love. The contemplation of these facts has made some men, like our own John Foster, regretful at the extent and length of life. The less life the less sin ; and so they have expressed their joy at the early death even of their own children, being persuaded that, had they lived, they would, in ail likelihood, have known more of pain, suffering, and sin, than of the contrary. Perhaps this is true; but is the Devil, therefore, the greatest success in the universe? Dues the Logic of Crime lead one, inevitably and irresistibly to the conclusion of the actual triumph of evil? One history, in the past ten days, will be a sufficient test of the soundness of this belief. • * • Samuel Hunt's voluntary and self-caused death was the conclusion to which the logic of crime had driven him. Every sinner is a bad reasoner, as well as more or less a bad nian. There are no persons so destitute of common sense as those who run after evil. Hunt miserably and wretchedly failed in his one grand purpose, which was, to make himself a happier man. His suicide was his confession of failure. All the world knows that, cunning as he was, he utterly miscarried. He, at least, failed, and his failure is a proof of the failure of the Spirit of Evil which runs through this portion of the Universe of God. For the law of the spiritual world, we apprehend, does not differ according to place. If the instrument—a willing enough one—failed, the master failed. You may measure all the Devil's trumphs by the triumph of Samuel Hunt. Succeed? Yes is a certain sense. He undoubtedly succeeded in his crime, but did he suceeedin his intention? As we sin in little things or great, to that degree we fail, and there is only this difference between man and the Devil—that the latter has the worst history and has lived the longest fife. The ordinary moral from this awful murder is told in our statement, but the case of Samuel Hunt has given it a more terrible aspect than .any that we can remember. From one end of the civilized world to the other he is pointing the conclusion to the Logic of Crime.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-02-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF A MAOISTRATE AT WOLVERNAMPTON.—AN event happened near Wolverhampton, on Thursday, whioh occasioned much consternation throughout that town and its immediate district. At a little before nine in the morning. Mr. Alderman Charles Clark, who was the mayor of Wolverhampton in 1860, who was a magistrate for that borough and for the county of Stafford, and who was member of the firm of Messrs. T. and C. Clark and Co., hollow-ware makers, manufacturers, end ironfounders, employing about 600 hands, shot himself in his own bedroom. Deceased was about 53 years of age, and leaves a family of five children. Early in life he suffered from a temporary derangement of intellect, occasioned by disappointment in relation to a projected matrimonial alliance ; and recently he has been under medical treatment for a disordered stornech. In the past few weeks he has displayed little singularities and eccentricities of conduct ; but this behaviour, as it was construed into evidences of a little passing vanity, did not at all excite apprehension as to the soungesa of his intellea, especially as it was no bar to his perform. lag his duties as magistrate and alderman and as one of the active principals of a large.' manufacturing concern. On Wednesday, he was at business up to five o'clock in the afternoon. On Thursday morning, he took breakfast with Mrs. Clark, and then retired to his bedroom. He had scarcely left the breakfast table before the report of a firearm alarmed the household ; and a domestic and Mrs. Clark ran im stairs, where, npon tho floor of his bed-room, they found the deemed gentleman lying dead in a pool of blood. The back of the head was blown away, the weapon used being a breech-loading two barrelled gun that the deceased had brought A fest months before from Paris. The deceased seems to have placed the muzzle of the gun in his mouth before moving the trigger. The harmless singularity of conduct referred to was first displayed when he became a director of a new joint-stock banking company that has' been started in the district in which he resided. His finances were in a most prosperous condition; and the melancholy event can he attributed only to his slightly impaired health, superadded by a little anxiety relative to one of his children.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-04-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—We regret to announce the Mr. John Thomas, formerly of the firm of Messrs. Salsa and Thomas, drapers, Haverfordwest, was found dead in bed at the Swan Inn, in St. Clear's, in Carmarthenshire, on the morning of the 27th ult. It appears that the deceased, who was a commercial traveller, arrived at , St. Clear's about 10 o'clock on the night of the 21st ult., and immediately proceeded to the shop of Mr. Williams, druggist, where he obtained twelve opium pills, which he stated he was in the habit of taking for , a complaint from which he suffered. He remained in bed nearly the whole of Sunday and Monday, but on the following day (Tuesday), he got up about two o'clock, and returned to the hotel at ten o'clock under the influence of liquor. After partaking of bread and cheese, and drinking some ale and whisky, he retired to bed, having previously given instructions as he had done on each evening, that be .should not be called in the morning. On Wednesday evening about six o'clock, the ostler entered the bedroom, and asked the deceased if he was ill. The deceased replied that he was not ill, and asked for a glass of water. A glass of water was also given him at ten o'clock, when he said he was quite well. On Thursday nurning, the ostler found him dead in bed, and from the appearance of the body, life had been extinct for some hours. On the chimney piece in the bedroom were found the pill-box entirely empty, and two phial bottles that had contained laudanum. An inquest was held on Friday before J• P. Lewis, Esq., when a verdict of Found dead in bed,' was returned. From papers which were found on the deceased, it would appear that he had not done any business for any house since the year 1861, and there is every reason to believe that he was in distressed circumstances, as his clothes were almost worn out and only one penny was found in his pocket. His bony was interred at St. Clear's.  _ TliE