The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-09-03 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT WATERFORD. The Ftveman's Journal gives the following particulars oft. shocking tragedy :—"The victim was Mrs. Emma Lannigan, and the murderer and suicide Henry Lannigan, M.D., one of the dispensary medical off. rers of the Waterford union. It would appear that Dr. Lannigan, after serving sac medical officer in the navy, settled down in Waterford about five years ago, rind was appointed medical officer to the Kilmendan Dispensary by the Waterford Board of Guardians. A bout two years afterwards, he married his second wife, Miss Emma Leckey, connected with a very respectable family in Waterford city. They lived happily cnongh together for the first 12 months, but after that lime Dr. Lannigan fell into habits of drinking, and Mrs. Lannigan being a woman of rather violent temper, quarrels frequently took place between them, and latterly the servants often heard him threaten her life. In fact, so reckless had the doctor become that on one occaion he lifted a knife to the servant girl and threatened her life. On Friday evening the deceased were expecting a clergyman from Lis. more to dinner, and it was intended to lake advantage of this gentleman's presence to got their only child, a baby some six months old—baptised. A difference took place between them on this bead, Mrs. Lannigan expressing a wish that the rector of the parish, the Rev. Mr. Bourke, should perform the ceremony. Dr. Lannigan, who was excited (having being noticed by the boy servant to be under the influence of drink), kicked over the dinner table, and took up a knife, which he laid down after putting it to his wife's throat. He then took up a double-barrelled gun which was in the room, but this he also laid down. Mrs. Lannigan took her child and ran out of the house down to a neighbour's, and the girl heard the doctor swear and say he would end her (his wife's) days. He then returned and ate something, and told the boy to hat, ness tine hone, and take it to the town and leave it there. The boy went to do this, and the girl went to call her mistress, stating that her master appeared quiet. The mistress went up to the house, and left the girl with the child, telling her not to come up, as she did not intend stopping at her own house that night. About fifteen minutes afterwards the girl heard the sound of a shot. That was at about six o'clock in the evening. The boy returned to the house after liarDossing the horse, but found the door locked against him. He then went for the girl, and, accompanied by Mrs. Hunt, the woman in whose house Mrs. Lannigan bad taken refuge, they proceeded to the house and got in through one of the windows. They found Mrs. Lannigan dead on the floor of the parlour, bleeding from a fearful wound in the left cheek, and the doctor lying with his head on her breast, across tho floor, his right hand on his breast grasping a revolver, and blood oozing from a wound in his temple, from which the brain protruded. He was living then, but he died in a couple of hours. A double barrelled gun which was in the parlour when the girl left was found in the bedroom, one barrel loaded and another apparently lately discharged, and one of the chambers of the revolver was empty, with a broken cap on thin. nipple. The boy stated that when he heard the shot Inns master came out of the parlour and uttering an oath said, 'She is gone,' but lie thought at the timo the remark referred to the gun. He then went to get ready his horse. No one appears to have beard the sound of tine second shot. A coroner's jury have returned verdicts of wilful murder by her husband while under the influence of strong drink, in the case of Mrs. Leanigan, and of death by suicide in the case of Dr. Lannigan himself. Both appeared about 80 years of ago. Mrs. Lannigan was a handsome woman, and is as well liked in the neighbourhood, as also was her husband. The servant boy swore at the inquest that ine had brought 14 bottles of porter to the doctor the day of the murder, and it also appeared that a quantity of wine had been drunk."  The special commission with reference to the Ulster d i urbances concluded on Friday. Tim commissioners pressed a hope that their report wouldpromote future  A society for the relief and education of the Ornf 'lnd dumb intends to build a church in Berlin, in which divine service will be held exclusively for ti,eir benefit.  The foundation stones of anew Wesleyan chapel, at Asnieres, near Par* were laid last week, by Mr. T. llnzelhuret, of Runcorn, and Mr. Jonathan Holder, of Rheims.  The Council of King's College, London, have nominated the Rev. Richard Frederick Lofevre Blunt, vicar of Scarborough, to an honorary fellowship in King's College, London. The post of physician extraordinary to the Queen in Scotland, has become vacant by the death of the ltlv. Dr. James Begbie, for a long time a successful practitioner in Edinburgh. Mr. Charles Read will, it is said, describe the great boat race of Friday last for the benefit of the countrymen of the gallant Harvard crew, in the columns of the New York Tribune.  The proseeuLion of the officials in Woolwich Arsenal who are charged with having committed a series of front's upon the Government was brought to a coo. CIONiOII OD Friday, when the prisoners were committed for trial, bail having been refused.  SERIOUS EXPLOSION ON BOARD A STEAMER AT TYNE Doer,