The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-01-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE.  An extraordinary outrage, alleged to have been committed in the Aberdare Valley, upon an old fawner named Jenkin Morgan, of Penderryn, on De! cember 30th, has only just come to light. On the day in question Morgan visited the house of two persons in the neighbourhood, who prevailed upon Lim to drink whisky until he became intoxicated. Whild in this state his hosts cut off the whole of his hair, his whiskers, and his eyebrows, and then mutilated him, and, blood flowing freely, they ap, lied a hot poker or won to cauterise the wound. The old man asserts that the first thing be recollects we being taken upstairs, where he was placed on a bed. He did not wake until midday on Sunday, the 31st, when he remembers hawing more liquor forced upon him until lie again ;became unconscious. Ha believes that he was visited on Sunday night, but has very hazy recollections of what occurred. I On Monday morning he awoke sufficiently from his stupor to get downstairs and escape. His wife, noticing his appearance, asked how it came about. and where he had been. He gave an inco. herent account of what had occurred, but kept secret the injury he had received, and it was not until some days afterwards, when inflammation set in, that he divulged the fact.A surgeon wee sent for and attended him for three days, when, the injuries assuming an alarming aspect, other medical gentlemen were called in. It i.i stated that both the men itnplicsted left their residences immediately upon learning that • doctor had been to see the injured man.  MN E MONTHS' RAILWAY ACCIDENTS On Thursday was published a Blue•boek containing particulars of the accidents reported to the Board of 'nada an having occurred on the railways of the United Kingdom in the nine months ended Septeurber 30 last. Accidents to trains, rolling ,stock., permanent way, tie., caused the death of 22 persons and injury to 677, against 18 killed and 790 injured in the corresponding period of last year. Of the total killed 10 were passengers and 11 servants of the companies, while the remaining one's's' a man riding without authority ripon an engine which exploded ; of the injured 585 were paesengers,9l servants of the cornpanics and the other a woman residing near the line. . During the nine months there were reported 20 collisions between passenger-trains or parts of pus serigerstrains, by which 4 passengers were killed and 224 passengers and 12 servants Injured; 33 collisions between passenger-trains and goods or mineral-trains, engines, &c., by which 1 servant was killed and 130 passengers and 20 servants were injured ; 18 collisions between goods-trains or parts of goods-trains, by Which 17 servants were injured; 2 cases of trains coming in contact with projections from other trains travelling on parallel lines, by which 2 servants were killed; 36 cams of passengerstrains or parts of passengerstraine leaving the by which 1 passenger and 1 servant were kil:eil and 32 namengers and 11 servants were injured; 7 eases of goods trains or parts of goods trains leaving the rails ; 13. cases of trains travelling in the wrong direction through points, by which 1 servart was killer" and 14 passengere and 14 -servants sere injured; 13 cases of trains running into stationeor sidings at too high a speed, by which 114 passengers arid 2 servants were injured ; 102 cases of trains ruining over cattle or other obstructions on the line, by which 1 passenger and 2 servants were injured; 35 cases of trains running through gates across the line at level-crossinge, by which 1 servant was injured ; 4 eases of the bursting of boilers or tubes, Ac., of engines, by which 1 noon and three servants were killed and 5 s••rvants were injured ; 2 cases of tire failure id reseimmry, splines. ke. of engines, by which 11 pas. sengers aud 1 woman were irijured; 1 White of a wheel, by which 3 passengers were injured; 327 failures of axles, by which 1 servant ass injured 8 failures of couplings' by which 5 mummers and 1 servant were killed and 49 pissengers and 6 ..ervants were injured ; the burning of • railway pier, catering the death of 2 persons; and 4 other accidents involving ihjery to 3 passengers. Of the 403 persons killed and 900 injured by ace'. dents from causes idh r than accidents to trains, 71; of the killed and 691 of the injured were passeneer s. Of the latter, 25 were killed and 52 injured by falling between carriages and platforms, viz., 14 killed ! and 31 injurfd when alighting from, and 11 killed and 21 injures' when getting into, trains ; E , were killed and 481 Kneed' by falling on to plat Ii rime, ballast, &C., viz, 5 killed and 440 injured when slighting from, and 3 killed and 41 injured when getting into, trains ; 26 were killed and 6 in. whilst passing over the line at stations ; 68 were injured by the closing of carriage doors ; 9 were killed arid 20 injured by falling out of carriages during the travelling of trains, and 8 were killed and 67 ! injured from other causes. 55 persons were killed r min 27 injured whilst passing over level crossings; 188 weenie were killed and 123 injured while trespasa. in.: on railways, and 49 persens committed suicide on ; the lines. There were also 374 servants of the corn• r ponies or centractors killed and 1,734 injr.red by.acci meets other than those included in the first division, , of whom 24 were killed and 283 injured while on , coupling vehicles. By Accidents of a miseellanemn t character 32 persons were killed and 3,052 injured I Thus the total number of personal accidents re perted to the Board of Trade by the several railway companies during the nine months amount to 836 persons killed and 6,363 injured. •  A few nights since a farmer named Proctor, aftm mi.ncceasfully attempting to sell a cow at Otley, ,tarted to walk home to Newell Carr. He had got suns little distance past the workhouse f the Warfe. dale Poor • Law Union when some unknown ruffian soddenly sprang upon himoind threw what afterwards tinned out to be quicklime in his eyes". He knocked him down, rifled his pockets, and deeampcd. Ths eight of one eye is gone, and that of the other is in jeopardy.