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THE MUSDER AT LLANSWSr,nd, - -?fp6 1?ur?^* ‘Accompanied by circumstances of almost unparal-her Sh b^tality and horror, has just come to light in this remote nst amiridtplt( i P-Srt of the Principality. About two months ago nt i ’ named Margaret Davies, ostensibly actingttej £2e|!r onP Evan Jones, a husbandry labourer, hoW-iad mL of rLlf r? ° t!le ®«“Htato Moel Trefriew, within a eir I various coniectu?^100’ 1!J tIlis Parisll» v as suddenly missed, and rn- all howe\*er vpnf Vv 0r*m?d 88 *? tlle cause of her absence; ate i away but stih no{iVn^r6? m the true one* weeks rolled5 Sa2S5Si.SilShe - ted the deed of blocd lL ?ra[ly supposed, after having commit-ss-.ench arising from its decomposition attracted to thl Snf tht 5y, dogs of the neighbourhood. This anneal tn invo p in of annoyance to the assasin; for further to conceal hi-V,(rt undertook the revolting task of exhuming the body and In it? ae putrid state conveyed it to the distance already named where it e- ™ discovered accidentally by tracing a dog thither who had ce been repeatedly seen resorting to the spot to feast upon the dead rt Nothing as yet, has transpired to throw light up!m thecause ;d which led to the perpetration of the deed. The supposed mnr-in derer was immediately taken into custody by the po ice in ordJrtS n°naM 1*?° If111' °-f au in^ the mutdated'reimdnsle On Monday, the 3d mst., the coroner for the county held an in-l_ ^uest npon the body, when the following facts were proved xriThomas, sister to the deceased, had seen her on the 9th of d May last in Llanwrst, when it was arranged that on the 25th of the i_ mon^1 (Ascension day) they should go together to Cape!a wW*?* lu day W1,tness caIJed at the prisoner’s house,y HpH liftSaW- PriS0I?eur s S?P who informed her thatdeceased e Hie prisoner, and he did not know where she had gone.1 On fhP°9lt;S j v? ller/e*ur.n’ bu* °«e then in the house, e On the 29th of May she again called and saw the prisoner who- n/Sl V I t]\e ?eCeaS“ halt;1 !eft hiin' anrt that he did • * i6 ,she.had Sone to, though he had heard her say SM nn? inte?ded «oin3 t0 Holywell. At that time the prSone? Wh m vay 16 deceaselt;J meant to return to her service.mnrfoVll. ® exprefed her fear that the deceased was without monej, the prisoner observed that hekuew she had 3/. and more. tX ld£iat he intended goingto Holywell in search of her.Ill h?Ai°iH?LyWel ’JUld ,011 his way home called on witness to Two A™ i r ther-e’ but that deceased could not be found, le ler t^rnn'wb r? prisoner so called, witness had received a n “ ’ th? Llannvst post-office, signed with the prisoner’sforming 1her 1that silie was to send for the clothes of theSfsSh“hirftw Prisoner and would not return untilAll baints, but that he expected to be paid 30s. he had lent theannoiMeri 2 /? °^serf'ed at this interview, that she was disappointed at finding the letter came from the prisoner and not from the deceased as she had at first imagined? upon ^hich Sbeothp^pr nif J1e had lent her any Ietter, or authorised any ; ^ dso- TJj«? are at prisoner’s house a pair of[ shoes which were deceased’s best pair, but her common pair are : m!Dt Witness identified the corpse as her deceased sister’s.2d nf tL i^i -0 gle Iim’ Llanrwst* Proved that on the ML of June last the prisoner came to him to ask him to write thewitnLc ref6-rled ??’ whi(? hfc did’ The Prisone* and last witness only reside distant faom each other about two miles.Witness asked the prisoner his reason for not calling or sending there, when his reply was, that he (prisoner) “ would rather send after. Prisoner came to witness and asked xurn wnether his (prisoner s) name was put to the letter? Wit-™1^D!f1*7i.ltjVasJt.upon 'vh.ich the Prisoner remarked that he Wished it had not been. Prisoner then asked witness not to tell any one that he had written the letter for him. Last Monday he again called upon witness and asked him what he should do«'Vbp ™ Sf°plel Wl}less Squired what people ? He answered ’ the people. They talk of doing me some harm about the old woman you wrote the letter about.” Witness asked him where i?e* £ gone . 1 and 116 said she mentioned, before starting SSmH? Was g°ll-g t0 Holywe11- but that ire had been there, and could hear nothing of her. — John Jones, of Brynrhuc, Capel ,ra*lril0t1,» nephew to the prisoner, proved finding the body in a held, about a quarter of a mile from prisoner’s residence. Dogs nad been mangling the body. It was taken up, and brought to the prisoner’s residence.-Richard Kenrick Nicholls, .uperin. tenaent in the Denbighshire police force, apprehended the prisoner on suspicion of murder, upon the body being found. On Saturday last lie, with Mr John Denman, the chief constable, and Mr. Henry Hughes, of the Cottage, Llanrwst, went up with deceased s sister, in order that she might, if possible, identify the Do«y. Mr. Denman’s dog, immediately on getting into the priso-ner s yard, ran towards a mound ofturf-fence, the boundary of the neld adjoining the prisoner’s house, and in his holding, from which circumstance, and having been told that dogs had frequently been seen there scratching up the earth, the mound was caused to be spread and opened. The marks of a spade were soon discovered in the heart of the mound, and it had the appearance of Having been opened before ; proceeding with the digging, they came to two-toe-nails of a human being, with flesh attached thereto. In the mound there was a great stench as of a dead * • body.—Mr. Henry Williams, surgeon, of Llanrwst, made a post mortem examination of the body; could find no marks of vio-! Jenee symptoms of disease. There was considerable venous ! biooa in the lungs. Was of opinion that the deceased might nave met with her death by suffocation. The two toe-nails were tnose of a human being, and these were two missing from the corpse. They corresponded. Nails would come off by flie body lying in damp earth.'—Other witnesses were examined, and the jury brought in a verdict of “ Wilful Murder against the prisoner, and he was committed to Ruthin-gaol, to take his trial at the next Denbighshire assizes.—Carnarvon Herald.
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Lloyds Weekly London Newspaper
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Jul 16, 1843
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