The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-12-01 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TWO WOMEN MURDERED. our rejoinder with the greatest pleasure, and , At the village of Kirkfield Bank, near Lanark, 612 that he was ready to • subscribe to a "Daily Fridawnight, a young man named William Brown, Leader" rand. • medical student, murdered two young women and then committed suicide. The names of the murdered One of our most public spirited men celled and women are Charlotte Sl' iers, aged 35, and Catherine said—" lam so satisfied of the radical black- Hamilton, aged 16. The crime was committed guardism of the Church party at the disesteb- between 10 and 11 o'clock, when the visitors had lishment meeting, that I shall gladly contribute for the most part retired to bed. The first intimation from £1 to £5 to a "Daily Leader" Fund." ,of the crime was received from a postilion named A Volunteer officer called to say that he George Kay, of the Station Hotel, Lanark, who had been at Kirkfield Bank to a party, and he obaerved gloried in the manly position taken up by the some object lying on the roadside. On returning he 'Leader," and that he was determined to see a stepped and found it was the lifeless body of a. few friends, so that freedom of the press should women with her throat cut. He raised an ai not be stamped out, and the neighbours turned out, when it was found "A Member of the Town Council" is satin- , that the body was that of Mies Si,iera. At the fled that the right is on our side, and he intimates I eaine time it was discovered that the servant-girl, his desire to contribute a guinea to a "Daily . Cetherine Hamilton, was lying in a dying state at Loader" fund. ' the door of the house of George Elder, wheelwright, I where she had been knocking for about half-an hour. A venerable Nonconformist Minister bids us .Tlie inmates thought they heard a faint tapping, but "Stand firm ! " and all will be well, as no one spoke they did not open the door. The A Member of the School Board asks one of ' sii I was removed into Mr. Elder's house, and being our reporters to notify his wish to subscribe two us ible to speak, she Tote with a pencil the words, , ".1 illie killed us both. The girl died early on Same guineas to a defence fund. da v morning. On an examination of Brownville A Working Man has called to say he will be House, the body of the murderer was discovered on glad to give his mite, for the truth must prevail. th-• lower floor of the house, and a sharp pointed knife "One Who Knows" says '• Ihe action of the was found near it. No motive can be assigned for Rev. Eli Clarke is not altogether his own the deed. It is said that the mureerer Brown was individual action, but the first shot of well- susSering from insanity. He had been seen lately known churchmen in the district, in ~.u.,., I.„,,l'iVsg in the garden "'king and laughing t. what, is called Church Defence. The ' "'"--" fund from which the broken chairs in the Albert Hall (37 in number), and the expenses of the "reply meeting" has been taken is an elastic one. What is a hundred guineas a-piece to men like Mr. flewelyn. of Penllergare, Mr. Howel Gwyn, Lord Emlyn ; and what is from £lO to £25 a-piece to lesser de, fenders of the Church? The advise of the reprsentative of the Ceetral Church organisation (Mr. Byron Reed), at the ' "reply meeting," to organise, has been ' taken. No stone will be left unturned, so that Nonconformists must equally stand shoulder to ; shoulder, and the result is certain; and that, too, i in the near future. In your case, yai are defending freedom of the press—the right of written discussion—and you shall willingly have my subscription, should, as I hope, a "Daily Leader" i fund be at once started."