DREADFUL TRAGEDY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1162, 19 April 1872, Page 2

DREADFUL TRAGEDY.

On, the 39th of February the circiimstances attending the ahbeking tragedy at the Alexandra . Music Hally ''Sheffield, ,

. ; 7? i >> v •• j , -■ ■--••■. weije flilly in>estigated before Mr Coroner We|j^r. >^homas Bradshaw, who was thefnighVwjitohman at the hall, was found suspended^among the " flies" over the. atftge^Sffcf-iiifl wife lying with her skull fractured and insensible in the wardrobe. She was removed to the infirmary, where she died. Paring a short period of conmTOßmßWfoiaiH^^ band seemed, very poorly, aadj-could^ not hold a limb still. *Slie" fetohedhini threepennyworth ..of ..whisky, .and_he..j!§ejßed_ he carried a razor inthis;p6cket. He told he'r-he-would- murder her and himself too. She talked to him, and after tea he seemed better. He asked^w^^take him some supper at half -paira^^^at night. She : complained thaVii^wia^Sw for her to be out, but. he. insisted on her ;going. W^en she gqi to the doot he knocked her doiy& with Jiis. fist and blacked/ier eyeJ , When she got up he kissed her, and asked )?«r to go into the music-hall, with him, and promised not'lto -hit "'her^ any : more. As soon' as she got inside he'said; that ; he was going to murder her and himself "tob^fend that it"was no <use for hfer. to- scream/ 1 as her screams would not be heard there. He then pulled her into the wardrobe.and struck her on the head^ with' i a: hatchet* She remembered him going with ajlantarn to look at her, and she begged him to dress- her wounds, as shY-was dyinglji/but he went away, remarking, " You. sed what your Chris, (referring to the man she had' 'married during BradshaW's absence in Australia) has brought you to/ and she saw him no more. Tliel jiii^ retnrned'a overdict of wilful murder against Thomas ■jkra&hawj.and iha^;ie."^tpr^ards 'jJ6in- (- mitted suicide when in a statebf je^ous frenzy. ' ' ..- ,-.. .; :!I r/ -f....-,,;',.-^*. : , u .. ~S'-%