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inination, he said he did not intend 

 to fire the pistol, but that it went 

 off by accident, though his object 

 was to rob. 



14. The Carmarthen Journal 

 gives the following statement, 

 respecting a most horrible parri- 

 cide. 



" It is our painful task this week 

 to record one of the most atrocious 

 and unnatural murders that ever 

 stained the criminal annals of this, 

 or any other country. The follow- 

 ing particulars have been stated 

 to us by a friend, as accurate : — 

 Richard Glover, a potter, about 

 eeventy years of age, his wife, 

 nearly of the same age, and their 

 son, William, aged forty, lived 

 together in a small cottage, at 

 fiydyblue, in Monmouthshire, near 

 the turnpike-road, leading from 

 Merthyr-Tydfil to Abergavenny. 

 On the morning of Friday the 3rd 

 inst. the latter, horrible to relate, 

 started from his sleep, and, seizing 

 a tram cart axletree, killed his aged 

 father, by repeated blows with the 

 same on his head : which being 

 done, he dispatched his mother 

 also, and afterwards repaired to 

 the house of his sister at the dis- 

 itance of about a mile. On his 

 •rrival there, he proposed to 

 -liquidate a debt he owed her hus- 

 band, and produced three guineas 

 .in gold, which creating both sur- 

 prise and anxiety in the husband 

 and wite, they of course questioned 

 him as to the source from whence 

 he had procured the same. This 

 shortly produced a full confession 

 of his guilt, and an acknowledg- 

 ment at the same time of his having 

 taken the cash from his mother's 

 pocket. He was immediately se- 

 cured, and on the neighbours' en- 

 t«ring the house of his murdered 



parents, a scene too sliocking to 

 describe presented itself to them ; 

 the old man weltering in his blood 

 on the floor, and his wife nearly 

 expiring on the bed. Medical 

 assistance was immediately called 

 in, but was of no avail. The 

 coroner's jury having sat on the 

 bodies, a verdict of wilful murder 

 was found against the prisoner, 

 who will take his trial at the next 

 assizes for the county of Monmouth. 

 He, like too many of our modern 

 criminals attributed tliis most san- 

 guinary and revolting act to a sud- 

 den and irresistible impulse, pro- 

 duced by a dream, that the devil 

 had appeared to him and com- 

 manded him to perpetrate the 

 same." 



Three brothers of the name of 

 Quail, of a respectable family 

 in the neighbourhood of Down- 

 patrick, who had each adjoining 

 town parks, had great altercations 

 about the damage done by some of 

 their cattle on the corn-field of the 

 eldest brother ; when much anger 

 and a violent scuffle took place. 

 The eldest Mr. Quail was opposed 

 by the two younger brothers, and 

 fell in the scuffle. He afterwards 

 went homewards ; but finding him- 

 self unwell, got into a house in the 

 skirts of the town, where he lay 

 down on a bed, and soon after died-^ 

 A coroner's inquest brought in a 

 verdict that he died from excessive 

 passion. 



15. A whale of enormous size 

 was towed alongside of a South-sea 

 whaler, lying at the Mother-bank, 

 Portsmouth, where it was cut up 

 in the usual manner for obtaining 

 the largest quantity of oil. This 

 fish was observed, on the preced- 

 ing Friday, following a shoal of 

 small fish through the Needles 



