Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-10-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WIWI. . . . .  Ihe Act of Accusation was read by the ;wilier, and it stated that on the day of the tragedy the only outer lodgers in the hotel were two persons, who quitted it some time before the fatal event occurred, and the master and servant.* Who were on the ground Boor at the time of the occurrence and it in inferred that If Readly did not commit suicide, no hand but that of Risk Allah could have slain him. A motive for tho crime is suggested by the circumstance that by the death of the young Englishman the accused became entitled to a large sum of money. The youth appears to have been known by the name of Ready or Read, but his proper mole seems to have been Macklin. Ile was the son of William Macklin and Rosamond Read, and was born at 1/reenwich on the 17th of July, 1844, consequently he was between three and four months under the age of twenty-one years at the time of his decease. Ills mother became • widow and contracted a second marriage with William Plasket Lewd*, p I.» died in 16150, leaving her • fortune of about )25,4001. The following year she married a third husband, the accused Risk Allah, to whom, on her deesi..ao In 11,08, sh- hefitus.th, it ell her fortune. Upon the occasion of her third marriage a Settlement was made ny which young Rustily wou:d have become entitled to 6,C001. If he obtained his majority, but if he did not live to that age this sum reverted to his mothee'a disposal. Itcadly having died three months under age Risk Allah, as the residuary legatee of 1.1, mother, became entit.e.l to this money, and, in fact, he received a large portion of it under • decree of the Court of Chancery, dated the 21st of deity, 1866 It appears also that he insured young 11.1:city's lite fur 1,0001, and obWeed payment of this sum tee February last. By a decree of the Court of Chancery In 1811, Ride Allah had been appointed the guardian of his stepson during his minority. So much for the theucement of the crime. The circumstances from which Risk Allah's criminality Is inferred are principally as follows Ile and toe youth had been loeging for eight or ten days at the Hotel du Rhin, when Readly fell 111 of some bowel complaint, which require 1 medical aid. On this occasion thick Allah told persons In the hotel that the youog man had something weighlog on his mind, and might hang himself or throw himself out of window. dome days alter this remark • chambermaid, named Brouwers, observed the accused place a gun in Readly's room, and this act, it is argu-d, is !neonstatent with the apprehensions that he would commit Suicide. 'l'he gun was put In his room on the 26th of March, and he did not die till the murniug of the 30th. About three o'clock on that meraing he rang hie ball. One of the servants came to his assistance, found him ill and out of bed, and with Risk Allah's assistance got him back to bed again. The girt Brouwer, looked into his room at seven o'clock sod saw hien sleeping quietly. Alamo half an hour afterwards Risk Allah came downstairs to his breakfast, and until nine o'clock walked up and down in front of the hotel. Be then went upstairs, knocked at the door of 119etilt's room (No. 7), arid called the waiters As the door was locked they visaed Into N 0.7 through No. 6, which corninculcated with it. The chambermaid, however, observed that a Commode which she had placed against the door of communication between the two rooms had been die' placed, and It Is thence interred that some one must bare gone out of the young man's apartment, through No. 6, between the hooted seven and nine in the mot Mug. On entering with the waiter., Risk Allah went immediately to the tahle, and found a piece of paper with these words written on it, " I have done It." The circumstances seem, however, irreconcileable with the theory of suicide. Toe body was found in the attitude oi.person calmly sleeping ; the clothes were undisturbed. From the manlier in st hien the wound was Inflicted it appear., by medical testimony, that death must have been instantaneous, the charge of tee gun having perforated the head. But the two arms were found under the coverlid, the right hand resting on the stomach, and the left arm extended by the side of the body. iii. pronounced to have been absolutely impossible that alter tiring the gun the unfortunate pouch could have put his hands ' clothes  under  When the accusing document bad been read right through. the President proceeded to interrogate the accused, often cautioning him to reflect, to pause, to take time, not to I answer the questions •. dime /aeon Ineonsideroe. With • sudden and impressive energy, when leaked whether he did not know that the sum of 6,t/O0 three would revert to him, under his contract or marriage, In case of iteadly's dying before he attained the age id 21., Risk Allah they protested his entire ignorenco of any such provision. On every point I of this tremendous Acta d'Accueation, the prisoner was Interrogated rigidly, though with the repeated warnings to which I have referred. Ills answers were shrewd, prompt, terse, and those either of a man strong in 101100011011 or or a very bold malefactor; in any cam they were the answers of • more than commonly intellectual man. The first witness who took the very embarrassing position of the centre of the court, where there Is a little raised platform with • chair on it, was Mr. John Smith, senior keeper of records at the Court of Probate, in London. This ofiloer merely produced the documents referred to In theaters...pima Risk Allah hey and during the time that the whom at iii the middle of the 'natio° ball, an anhuated di. union as to the genuineneu of the signatures and line Integrity of the writing and alterations wan kept up between the President and the accused, who, by-the-bye, too: a great deal of labour on hinted, unchecked by ids advocates, M Lecbend, of Paris, and M. Charles Gran:, of the Brussels bar. :Cocaine Hoglish, with correctness of diction, though with a strong foreign accent, Risk Allah Bey enoonnterod each II gllsh witness directly, without allowing his intetroptions to lose any of their force by passing through the translator. At the close of ti.e day, the proCeedinge were a•ljourned.