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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-01-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

PRINCE OF WALES.  The corps, 'ti-s-Said-by Albert E., Has treated been in way unfair; But doubtless Wales believes that he Has always " H.A.C.-ted on the square." THE Misrtsrox Bow.—" You would really have been ashamed, my dear, had you been here on Monday. That forward Miss Fetcher perambulated the Hi gh-street,carrying a bunch of mistletoe in a most brazen manner. She was saluted by all the gentlemen—that is, I mean, bowed to. When I remonstrated, she said she liked to tantalise the men."— Extract from Private Letter, Muss Grundy to her sister Tabitlia. "A LEAP FOR (Wu:roar) Lint—Scene--A Suburban villa. Time—December 31st, 1888, 11.20 p.mMamma: "Why, Constance, dear, whatever mskea you wish to see the old year out so particularly? Fria sure you will catch cold at church. Why are you going. ?"—Constance " Why! Why, Mr. Goldmore 's going to take me. It's only 20 minutes put 11 now—only 40 minutes more of leap year—but have him yes!"  MISUSE OF THE REVOLVER A record gathered from the columns of the daily newspapers chews that during the year just closed the revolver was responsible for at least 92 deaths in Great Britain. Of these, ten were those of people murdered, and three those of murderers who expiated on the scaffold crimes committed with the revolver. Two murderers have been sentenced to death for the Tunbridge Wells shooting case, and two others—Dr. Burke and a man who shot his sweetheart at Barnet ' —were sentenced to death and reprieved. During the year there were no fewer than 69 cases of suicide, including those of ten men who had committed or attempted to commit murder, and four clergymen. The fatal 'accidents" numbered ten. Numerous cages of shooting with intent occurred. The prosecutions under the Gun Licence Act have been very few, and as it is unreasonable to expect people to pay 10s. a year for licence to carry a pistol, the act ,s evaded wholesale. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in introducing his Budget, threw out hints of legislation to meet the evil, but nothing has been done. In the meantime an enterprising trader at Birmingham is turning out cheap revolvers at the rate of 12,000 additional every year.  William Lane, an engineer's otter, of Chelsea, felt ill. His wife went to the chemist's for some medicine. Before her husband could put is to his lips he fell back dead. A convict named Harry Wyndham Carter, from Chatham prison, has appeared in the bankruptcy court at Chatham. He was brought to the court in a cab, handcuffed, and in custody ef two warders. He is described as late of Piccadilly and Kennington Hall, Ashford, and the petitioning creditor claims £29,000. The debtor not only refused to answer questions, but even to be sworn. He seemed much affected, and sobbed out that the proceedings were an attempt on the part of a brother to rob him of his estate, and he would do nothing to promote the scheme. The proceedings were ad.lourned.  LOIll LINZ !--Poz Tar
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-04-03 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HUGE MATRIMONIAL SWINDLE.  The characteristic Parisian swindler in matrimony has lately been abroad. The most recent specimen of the set is a person called Veins, Iwho sometimes called himself Vauriage, and ;..t others evoked souvenirs of Swiss touts by introducing himself to customers as Von Rig, He had been a clerk in a large matrimonial warehouse in Paris, but growing tired of a life of subordination and small returns he resolved to I set up in business en his own account, His first step was to open a Hymeneal Bureau and to advertise. He announced in a newspaper that he I had on hand for the Marriage Market a young I lady of twenty-thsee, with a tulle of .£lB,OOO as a dot or dowry. It was stated further that the fair heiress, being rich, did not want money but " position," and that she was a Protestant. Others were received by Von Rigi from nearly every European country. , There was as suitors a Belgian Captain of "Gendarmes," an Italian officer, a Justice of the Peace in Luxembourg, an Helvetian lawyer, and several Frenchmen, one of whom was a doctor at Macon. From each of these Von Rigi , received contributions for his information, I which consisted principally in explaining the reason why the heiress adopted an abnerinal 1 method of finding a husband—this was because her father had committed suicide. ' To all the suitors it was explained, moreover, that the marriage would be adjourned until after the demise of the lady's grandam. The letters read is court were of an amusing character. The Belgian Captain remarked that he was always inditing, compositions in prose or poetry to au imaginary fair one, and he expressed an epistolary hope that the young lady with the dot would correspod and live up to his ideal. The Italian officer, being a devout Catholic, hesitated before marrying a Protestant, and a Heretic, hoping, no doubt, to find somewhere else a more orthodox person to kiss, while a wealthy Gallic distiller, considering the lady's lineaments, as set before him in a photograph, to be those of a rather advanced in years, forwarded fifty person Von It gi for a fresh carte-de-visite. The distiller, however, had his suspicions, so had the Justice of the Peace ; and Von Rigi was watched. It was incontrovertibly proved that the rich Protestant young orphan was a creation of his fertile brain. He got off with is month's imprisonment.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-04-03 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MORRISTON STRIKE.  DEPUTATION TO MR. WILLIAMS. Mr. Williams having signified his willingness to"meet a deputation of the men on strike at Worcester and Forest, a deputation consisting of about 40 workmen waited upon him on Friday evening. Being too many to go to the office they were directed to go to the annealing-room, where shortly afterwards Mr. Williams arrived, accompanied by Mr. Joseph Davies, Mr. John Jones, and Mr. Rowe. Mr.Willianis,upon seeing Mr. David John, said "You are 'not one of my workmen now and I expect you to retire." D. John "I have been elected as one of the deputation."—Mr. Williams: "Oh, that doesnot matter."—Mr. Charles Williams, Worcester. rollennan, asked 'ii they could not discuss the case of David John."—Mr.Williams: "No, I will have nothing to do with that case."— Mr. William Morgan, Worcester, thunan, said "then they could do nothing, they were a chain, and David John was one of the links, and without it the chain would not be complete," and thereupon the deputation retired.  An English syndicate with all the necessary capital, viz., 90 million francs, has appeared in place of the Hentsch combination to pierce the Simplon Tunnel. A letter from Antwerp states that the liabilities of M. Ferdinand Vandertaele, a merchant of that city who recently failed, and subsequently committed suicide, amounts to £184,000, against assets for only £48.000. . _ . .  At a pleading diet in Lanark, Shaiff:Birnie on the bench, Francis Joseph Corcon n Ronum Catholic priest, pleaded guilty to a charge of beating with a cane a boy named Joseph Hunt, a little over nine years, son of James Hunt, labourer, liirkfieldbank. The priest pleaded provocation. He was fined or fourteen days' imprisonment. The boy was a pupil at the Roman Catholic School, and had been playing truant.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-05-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE FORM HER MADNESS TAKES.  THE AUSTRIAN EXPRESS HAD.  STRANGE HALLUCINATIONS. A well-informed correspondent writes us the , following, which he describes as the truth : ' The Empress of Austria, who is at Wiesbaden, ; occupies outside the town a villa, which is guarded by police agents, and no stranger is allowed to approach it. It is a singular fact that during the last hundred years there have been twenty-seven cases of mental disease in the royal family of Bavaria; and even the present Regent, it is said, is not free from the hereditary taint. The first symptoms of her Majesty's illness appeared as early as 1880, in the form of delusions. Since the death of King Louis of Bavaria these delusions have assumed a particular form. The Empress's delusion was that King Louis came to her in the night dripping wet in his shroud, from which there ran a perfect stream of water which filled the room and threatened to drown her. She would wake in a fright and call for help, saying she was drowning. These mysteries generally ended in a fainting fit, and singular to add, for some days afterwards, the Empress appeared to be free from hallucination. On her return to Vienna last year the Empress absolutely refused to see her son the Archduke Rudolph, declaring that he had not paid her proper respect. Shortly afterwards the Archduke committed suicide; and it was, as everybody knows, the Empress herself who broke the news to the Emperor. At first he refused to credit it, thinking it was only another delusion of the Empress. Within a few hours of the sad event it became an imperative necessity that the Empress should be confined to her own apartments, for she was continually repreaching herself with causing the death of her son, and exclaiming, "It is I who have killed him." Shortly after these incidents, when the Court retiirod to Pesth, the Empress had another terrible fit of hysteria. And then came a short period of calm; but when it was proposed to ' proceed to Lockl, the Empress declared that nothing would induce her to pass through Vienna, " the accursed town," as she sailed it, and so a circuitous route had to be taken. And  now, here at Wiesbaden, the acute crisis in the Empreiseo illness has passed, for softening of the brain haa set in. Call there be any hope of radical cure?
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-05-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MONMOUTHSHIRE TRAGEDY. HORRIBLE MURDER OF A PARAMOUR.  THE SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.  A horrible murder, followed by the suicide of the mutderer, was committed at a place called Tanybank. Tredegar, on Saturday evening. It appekrs that a colter named George Higgins, alias Jones, alias Daly, aged from 28 to 30, has for some time been cohabiting with a married woman named Bridget Daly, about 40 years of age, whose husband is supposed to be living in America, he having left his wife and four children some years ago to do as best they could. On Saturday Bridget Daly was drinking at the Red Lion Inn with a man named John Evans, who is also a cotter. They left the house shortly after seven o'clock at the request of the landlord, and, proceeding up Red Lion-square, turned into the vaults, where Daly.was followed by her paramour. There they appeared to have had some words, and Higgins struck the woman three or four times. She afterwards left the vaults in company with John Evans and her daughter, aged seventeen, and proceeded to her home. Dsly had not been in the house five minutes when Higgins made his appearance, and turned Evans and the children out of the house. He locked the door, and directly afterwards George Yates, living in the next house, heard a disturbance, followed by screams. He jumped through the window, and was horrified to find the woman Daly lying on her side weltering in blood and apparently dead, and the man Higgins in the act of falling to the floor with the blood gushing from a wound in his neck. Shortly after wards Police-constables James and Jones lip_ poured on the scene with Dr. Brown, but life in each case was extinct. The woman had been stabbed with a pocket-knife just behind the ear. Hundreds of persons were quickly on the seene, and the greatest excitement prevailed in the town. The murderer is said to have bern very jealous of Daly, and remarked to someone on Saturday that he meant finishing her. The woman was very industrious, and was engaged. at the coke ovens at the Bedwellty Pits. dhe occasionally gave way to intemperance, and on one or two occasions had been fined for drunkenness. The place where the tragic affair occured is at the back of a row of houses some four or. five in number, and about 250 yards from other idwellings. It is said that the murderer was well connected, an was a native of Shropshire.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-04-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ITHE MURDER O9AN ACTRESS.  The inquest on the victims of the Gospel Oak tragedy has heen completed in the Coroner's I Court, St. Pancras. Mr. Bernard Abrahams, solicitor, appeared for the relatives of Miss Green, and Mr. Curtis, solicitor, of Lincoln's Inn, watched the case on behalf of Mrs. Hunt. The bodies having been identified, Charles Matthew Green, clerk, brother of the deceased woman, deposed that he last saw his sister alive on Montky:week. He waslaware that she had been living with Hunt. She had formerly been in the theatrical professsion.. Mrs Kluth, landlady of the house in Mansfield-road where the tragedy took place, said that the couple called on 29th March, and she believing them to be respectable Married people, let them her ground floor apartments. On Monday last, when she was preparing their lunch, they returned from a walk, and she heard them quarrelling. Shortly afterwards she heard a sound of firearnot, and rushing to the dining-room she was horrified to find blood flowing from beneath the door. Mr Muth said when he forced the door open hunt was lying against it with a pistol in his right hand. He was then still breathing. Mr. James Curtis Leuau then produced a medical certificate to the effect that Mrs. Hunt was unable to attend. He said he knew Hunt as a gentleman of independent means, and last saw him about nine days ago. Medical evidence having been given. Charles Green, recalled, said that his sister had lived with Hunt upon previous occasions. Hunt frequently struck her, and had often threatened to take her life. He told witness ' that he had a revolver, which he displayed, saying and I shalluseit." Witness, however, did not pay much attention to these threats. He knew nothing about Hunt's previous life or character. Hunt was of a violent disputation, but he was not in the habit of drinking.  e The Coroner having summed np, the jury found " that Miss Green died from the effects of a revolver shot inflicted by Ilunt. and that Hunt committed suicide whilst temporarily insane."
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-07-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SWANSEA APPEAL CASE.  RE HOPKINS AND SONS' BANK Rurrcy.  In a Divisional Court of the High Court of Justice, on Tuesday, the case of Hopkins and son, 'el parte " the official receiver, trustee, Mr. John Crow Richardson respondent, was heard before Justices Cave and Field, on appeal from the decision of the Swansea County Court Judge. The original mcion WM heard at the December and January courts in Swansea, when Mr. Naylor (from the office of Mr. Moy Evans) appeared for the official receiver, and Mr. Abel Thomas appeared for the respondent, at the bearing in December, and Mr. Glascodine in January. The motion was to set aside as a fraudulent preference a mortgage for £250 given to Mr. Richardson by the debtors. His Honour allowed the motion no far as £lOO was concerned, and found in favour of the respondent as to £l5O with apportioned costs to each aide. The official receiver now appealed as to the £l5O. Mr. Tate Lee appeared for the appellant, and Mr. Glascodiue for the respondent—Mr. Tate Lee read the depositions of the witnesses and the affidavits filed in support, and submitted arguments to chew that the mortgage was, as to the whole £250, a fraudulent preference.—The court called upon Mr. Glascodine to shew cause why the appeal should not be allowed.—Justicc Field The question is, aye or no, did the bankrupt give this securityl'— Mr. Glascodine argued that the deed was good, and quoted authorities. Mr. Justice Field celled for the County Court judge's notes. Justice Cave: The county court judge's finding is utterly unexplainable. There can to no shadow of doubt that she intended to prefer this gentleman. The county court judge should not have heard Mrs. Hopkins' evidence and even though he did hear it. it did not go evidence, enough. The appeal must be allowed with costs here and in the court below. Justice Field concurred.  The Welsh members of Parliament have resolved to decline the proposal of the Government to exclude Monmouthshire from the action of the Intermediate Education Bill.  A Penygraig collier has attempted to commit suicide at Penarth. He threw himself from a railway bridge into a stream, but there was more mud than water, and he was fished out. He has been brought before the magistrates and remanded.  The steamer Longhurst, of Newcastle, which arrived at Cardiff on Wednesday, reports a tragic affair while the stem 'or was coming up the channel. The second engineer, a middleaged man named Macdonald, suddenly jumped overboard and was never seen again. - -  As s safe, permanent, and warranted cure of pinion s, Scrofula, Scurvy, Bad Lees, Skin& Plood Diseases, and Sores of all kinds, we can with confidence recommend CLLSKR'd
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-07-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE. At the City Coroner's Court, an inquest was held concerning the death of William Harry Jervis, a clerk of Kinford-road. East Putney, who shot himself at 158: Fleet-street—The widow of the deceased stated that herhueband, whose age was 41, was a clerk in the employ of a printing and publishing company. He had paid a deposit of £l5O, and of late had been very much depressed, as he was afraid that he would be unable to get his deposit back, and he could not get his salary. The anxiety appeared to have thoroughly unhinged his mind.—ln reply to Mr. Todd, a local gentleman who represented the deceased's friends, the witness said her husband was to have received a salary of £2 10s. a week, but as a matter of fact since February last he had only received four weeks' salary. The whole of the amount had been borrowed frOM him by a promoter of the company, who had only paid him back a couple of pounds. Deceased had frequently applied for his money, but could not get it. The result of this was that he had to sell nearly all the furniture in his home to provide a means of livelihood. The assistant-editor in- the service of the company deposed that a few days ago, in consequence of what he had been told by the deceased, he convened a meeting of the directors of the company to consider the promoter's conduct. The latter did not put in an appearance until after the meeting, when he tinted up in a state of intoxication. On Monday another meeting of directors was held, which desensed attended. He was requested to wait outside the board-room while some preliminary benneos was disposed of. Witness, who acted as secretary, was reading the minutes of the last meeting, when he heard the report of a piitol, and on going oeXaide he saw the deceased on the floor, with a revolver in his hand he was shot in the head.—By Mr. Todd: Witness had also been taken in, and £3O was owing to:him. An execution had been put in, and the geode in the office were-sold. The jury returned %verdict of "Suicide while temporarily insane," and added a rider that they considered the Public Prosecutor should, take up the , matter.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-04-24 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ROMANTIC SUICIDE. DIRITEARTENED LOVER DROWNS  HIMSELF. HIS SWEETHEART EMBRACES TILE CORPSE. An inquest was held at Great CornaM. Suffolk, on the body of John Shave, aged 21, who committed suicide by drowning himself in the River Stour. He had been (carting a young woman name Betty Bruce, who gave evidence. She said they had been engaged for IS months, and had never had a cross word in all that time. Her lover suffered much with his back, having strained it 15 months ago when lifting a piece of iron, and at times he was very quiet, but he did not take a very low-spirited view of the matter. He woe with her on Friday evening, and u Saturday night she received the following letter from him, written in pencil :—" My Darling.- -When you read this letter I shall be in another land, far away. I have not the conscience to meet you again on earth, 80 I have done away with myself ; but, my own dear girl, I do not want you to fret at all about me, for I ant not worth it. lam exceedingly sorry to think I hurt your feelings last night ; the Lord knows it. You asked allf. to forgive you, but it was me that wanted forgivenem, but I was ashamed to ask you. What few things you have of mine keep. and say nothing about them. The little money you have of mine spend on yourself. I beg 1 you not to let this trouble you, for I do :not know what to do with myself, and this is what I have chosen. Love to mother, I cannot ask you to taccept my love, for I am not worthy ef it. My darling, I wish you goodbye, and God bless you. P.S.—lf you want to find me. I shall be down by Lady's Bridge." Miss Bruce, continuing, said she did not know what deceased meant in his letter by .• hurting her feelings." He had complained about being ehattod by the daughter of the landlord of the Louse where he lodged, but witness was not jealous f her, as she knew the deceased did not think anything of the girl. The constable who examinial the body said he found under a wide belt. next to the shirt of the deceased, a portrait of Mi.; Bruce. A verdict was returned that deceased drowned himself whilst in a temporary state of insansity. A very affecting scene took place in the yard at the rear of the inn where the inquest was held, when Miss Bruce took a last view of her dead lover. She embraced the corpse, and kissed it passionately.