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THE MURDER AT LLANRWST., ,A, 1?ur?eJ‘ accompanied by circumstances of almost unnaral-S c f f11/ and horror’ has just conie to light in this remote a mirfrnL * P-l[t of the principality. About two months ago ’ named Margaret Davies, ostensibly actinginc a i)euv6fpn °nf Viln Jones’ a husbal!“ry labourer, hold-*nffirent °“ tlle mountain Moei Trefriew, within a various coniertnS?0' ’p this Parisb as suddenly missed, and [ aKSr vm aur8 foIlm5l1 38 *? tbe caust; ot J»«r absence;hCT miu“u?ld\no°dy to r b”™™- Friday last? Wever! ted the deed of bloed hp^PPOsed, after having com mit-s-.ench arising from its decomposition attracted to thl ,nnr lit dogs of the neighbourhood. This aonears tn htvl i « of annoyance to tlie assasin; for further to conceal -u11?0 undertook the revolting task of exhuming the body and In it? putrid state conveyed it to the distance already named where it was discovered accidentally by tracing a dog thither who w been repeatedly seen resorting to the spot to feast upon the dead Nothing, as yet, has transpired to throw light upon the cause which led 50 the perpetration of the deed. The supposed murderer was immediately taken into custody by the police in ordJrOn**?2*! 5f'sulg7°-f au in(3uest uPGn the mutilated’remainsOn Monday, the 3d inst., the coroner for the county held an in-quest upon the body, when the following facts were proved :— l°™ari sistel‘10 *ile deceased, had seen her on the 9th of May last in Llanwrst, when it was arranged that on the 25th of the (^C!n|ltn d?y) they sh0llJd £° together to Cape! Swl A day W1tness caI1ed at the prisoner’s house,SaW' priS0I?ir s so.nwh° informed her that deceased Ht 5? th* Pn*m*r, and he did not know where she had gone, nthfmnfw her/e^rn, but no one was then in the house, nfnr^ii I «ray she again called and saw the prisoner, who a t]!e deceased had left him, and that he didW • * i6 ,she.had gone to, though he had heard her say at she intended going to Holywell. At that time the prSone? vLn -fy 16 deceased meant to return to her service.nnrfiJ-'Iu ness- exPrefed her fear that the deceased was without nonej, the prisoner observed that hekuew she had 31. and more.Tp iSSfSafldJjlat he intended goingto Holywell in search of her. ll ^^1°! ?iT 1’J ?u his way home cailed on witness to i ) thee’ but that deceased could not be found, -tter thrnn^0^ rf pmoner so called» witness bad received a lamp b ? Llanrwst post-office, signed with the prisoner’sforming Iher 1that silie was to send for the clothes of the and r.0“W not return untilril lt;?a»nfc i ttUU uuul no- return imtueceMed. A®be paid 30s-. he had lent theunnintari «?rn1*S obsei7ed at this interview, that slie was dis-ppointed at finding the letter came from the prisoner and not rom the deceased as she had at first imagined? upon which theSSrwrQnt111* I16 dmlent her any Ietter or authorised any ImPs whM CiS0’ iiere are at Prisoner’s house a pair ofhoes which were deceased’s best pair, but her common pair are m _^ltnes® identified the corpse as her deceased sister’s, flftf J?ae.s’of th.e EaSle Inn. Llanrwst, proved that on the iffy, i f lasVlie Prisoner came to him to ask him to write the :lnlb 0rf Iefewed 5?’ which did- The prisoner and last ltness only reside distant faom each other about two miles Witness asked the prisoner his reason for not calling or sending r10’,, ^ePly was, that he (prisoner) “ would rather send; -i *u0Tnv. ,ys. after Prisoner came to witness and asked iin wnether his (prisoner’s) name was put to the letter? IVit-®aid ** ]raa], uP°n which the prisoner remarked that he ished it had not been. Prisoner then asked witness not to tell iy one that he had written the letter for him. Last Monday e again called upon witness and asked him what he should do 11 Pf0plel Wltness inquired what people ? He answered the people. They talk of doing me some harm about the old Oman you wrote the letter about.” Witness asked him where ie nad gone to; and he said she mentioned, before starting WaS g°il-g t0 HolyweH- but he had been there, and uld hear nothing of her. — John Jones, of Brynrhug, Capel armou, nephew to the prisoner, proved finding the body in a Jtt, about a quarter of a mile from prisoner’s residence. Dogs td been mangling the body. It was taken up, and brought to e prisoner’s residence.-Richard Kenrick Nicholls, .uperin-naent in the Denbighshire police force, apprehended the pri-ner on suspicion of murder, upon the body being found. On turday last lie, with Mr John Denman, the chief constable, j Henry Hughes, of the Cottage, Llanrwst, went up with ceased s sister, in order that she might, if possible, identify the ay. Mr. Denman’s dog, immediately on getting into the priso-r s yard, ran towards a mound ofturf-fence, the boundary of the id adjoining the prisoner’s house, and in his holding, from which ■cumstance, and having been told that dogs had frequently en seen there scratching up the earth, the mound was caused be spread and opened. The marks of a spade were soon dis-verc-d in the heart of the mound, and it had the appearance ofvmg been opened before ; proceeding with the digging, they me to two-toe-nails of a human being, with flesh attached sreto. In the mound there was a great stench as of a dead------- ^ oLviioii aa ui a LiedIJ.ay.—Mr. Henry Williams, surgeon, of Llanrwst, made a post 'rtem examination of the body; could find no marks of vio-ice or symptoms of disease. There was considerable venous ioa in the lungs. Was of opinion that the deceased might ve met with her death by suffocation. The two toe-nails were ise of a human being, and these were two missing from the *pse. They corresponded. Nails would come off by the body ng in damp earth.'—Other witnesses were examined, and the y brought in a verdict of “ Wilful Murder against the priso-r, and he was committed to Ruthin-gaol, to take his trial at i next Denbighshire assizes.—Carnarvon Herald.
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Lloyds Weekly London Newspaper
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Sun, Jul 16, 1843
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