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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 231, 6 December 1888, Page 3

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A BRUTAL MURDER Mbs Mountain, landlady of a pnb’ichou=e at Sherburn, Yorkshire, was brutally murdere I by her son, who acted as her manager. On the evening of October 8, after the house had been closed for the night, the accused went into the room in which his mother and a maid were sitting, and looked the door. Shortly afterwards Mrs Mountain suggested that they should go to bed, to which the son rep’ied that he was not going, nor were they, meaning his mother and the servant. Little notice -va* taken of this threat, but Mountain persisted in his statement that they were not going to bed, and shortly afterwards commenced to knock his mother about, and getting her on the floor, commenced to kick her to death. With so much violence did he carry out his threats that the poor woman expired in about tw-> hours, in the presence of the girl who was perfectly helpless, and who was threatened by Mountain that he would serve her the same. His brutality did not stop wilh the death of his mother ; but he stripped off her clothing just before she died, and continued kicking her for some time. The features of the poor woman were beyond recognition. Such a frightful scene as the room presented can scarcely be imagined. The prisoner appears to have fallen asleep after the murder, when the servant gave the alarm. WHOLESALE CAPTURE OF SLAVES. Letters recei ed from Aden contain particulars of an exciting chase after dhows which occurred a few weeks since on the East Indies station. On September 15 H M.S. Osprey sighted Mocha, and after standing up the coast until night steamed slowly down the coast. At daybreak the following morning the Osprey sighted three dhows and on the dhows paying no attention to the signal to stop started in pursuit of them. A well-aimed shot at the maet of the largest of the three dhows speedily brought her up, but by this time the other two were nearly a mile ahead and widely separated, so that the capture of both was by no meanseasy. A fortunate shot through the sail of the nearest resulted in her soon being made a prisoner, and then the Osprey went in pursuit nf the third dhow, and eventually capured her. On search bning made it was found that the three dhows contained over two hundred slave:-*, male and female in nearly equal p nportio s, and by fir the larger propor ion being Christians from Abyssinia. The prizes were towed to Aden, where the vessels were condemned, and the slaves taken charge of by the authorities. THE JEWS IN LONDON. The contradiction to the astounding story told by the Vienna correspondent of the Times of a superstition that if a Jew be intimate with a Christian woman he can atone for his offence by her mutilation, is most empha’ic Mr Hermann Adler, writing from the office of the Chief Rabbi, Finsbury square, exclaims: “ • Woe unto the ears that hear this ; woe unto the eyes that see this ! ’ I can assert without hesitation, that in no Jewish book is such a barbarity even hinted at. Nor is any record in the criminal annals of any country of a Jew having been convicted of such a terrible atrocity. These facts were conclusively proved by Professor Delitzsch, of Leipsic, and D- Bloch, a member of the Austrian Imperial Diet, on the occasion of the trial of Ritter, who, living in an atmosphere surcharged with

anti-Semitism, had been accused of this crime, hut who was ultimately acquitted, there being, as your correspondent admits, no doubt as to his innocence.” A second letter signed M. Gaster, Pb.D., Chief Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ congregations of England, contains the following:—“I cannot find expressions strong enough to condemn these atrocious crimes, but it makes man still more despair of the progress of mankind when one sees this revival of absurd legends disposed of long ago. Baseless and without foundation as these legends are, they are dangerous even in normal times; how much more in abnormal ? Who can foresee to what terrible consequences such a superstition might lead when ihe people, frantic with rage and terror, get bold of it and wreak their vengeance on innocent men ? . . . Elsewhere we have to look for the perpetrator of these horrible crimes, which cast a gloom over the most civilised town in Europe.”