Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-10-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TRAGEDY IN SOUTH WALES.  WIFE MURDER AND SLITOIDE BY • PUBLICAN.  - ... A terrible tragedy occurred is Cardiff on Tuesday morning. An innkeeper named David Jon., who kept the Blue Anchor Inn in St. Mary-street, murdered his wife and afterwards committed suicide. The domeetio servant, a young woman named Brace Hoosiers awoke about eight o'clock, and thinking it arrange that . her mistress had not called her as towel she [ went to the door leading to the bedroom and knocked. Failing to get an answer, she infotnied the barman, William Henry Quiek, who forced open the sitting-room door givieg ewers to the bedroom and knocked loudly. Still there was no sneerer, and, becoming alarmed, be broke open the bedroom thew nod entered. A ghastly scene then presented itself. Stretched on the floor, With his feet towards the dour alai his face lying over a chamber utenaii, was Mr. Jones, the landlord. A double-barrelled gun was by his side, and in the region of his heart woes tamale wooed, evidently caused by • bullet, from which blood had flowed profusely. Lying on the bad, which wee on tire, was his wife, sleo shot through the heart. Quick onstediately gave an alarm, and Supt. Tamblyn, together with several detectives and remstahlts, was soon on the epos The poor woman was carried into the sitting-room. Dr. Roche, assistant police surgeon, weS sent for, end after a sensory examination he pronounced life tube extinot in both noseS. The bodies were yet warm, sad death had nut taken place more than trio ot three hours before. The only persons sleeping on the pramsee at the tints were the servant girl and Minnie Jones, daughter, and Maggie Williams, niece of the dssased, sects aged about nine years l'hey slept in upper rooms, and neither they nor Hocstou bad heard any report.. Mr. Jones, it same, had . been suffering frost erysipelas in the left [ eye, which was quite black, and had bow attended by Dr. VachelL He was extnrordinastly I irritable, and for the last three months had rasa dered the life of his wife almoat intolerable. 04117, on Monday the doctor told him that he ought to he cool-Med. In the opinion of Dr. Roche discus had affected the brain of the unfortunate. man 'and rendered him temporarily inseam It is eupposed that he got up about six Solo* [ dressed himself, and went downstairs for his gun, I which he kept in the smoking-room. Is was a! double-berrelled breech-loader, and having loaded is, he proceeded upstairs, locking the sitting and bedroom doors after him, and shut his wife through the heart as she lay asleep in bed, death being apparently instantaneous He then appears to have shot himself through the heart. Two . undischarged cartridge. were extracted front the gun, whitet in his pocket were toned two full cartridges. Mr. Juneir was about 32 years of age, [ sad biewife a year or two younger. She was U. handsome natnela. The man had kept the [ Illute.Aneher since 1889, prior to which ho was landlord of the Glendower Hotel, East Wharf. [ Hew. s Freemason and -crack pigeon shouter, [ attending matches all over Me country. An inquest was held st Cardiff on Wednesday on the bodice of David Joao., 32, and his leife, dans Jones, 29, who were found dead in their bedroom at the Blue Anchor Hotel, St. Marystreas, on. Tuesday morning, having both been *hot by a [ double-barrelled gun. The evidence 'bowed that the man bed been a greet sufferer from erysipelas, and had of late been drinking to excess. The jury found thitt whilst in It lit of insanity he shot his wife, and afterwards oOmmitted suicide.