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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7859, 29 June 1905, Page 4

MAD WIFE'S APPEAL FOB / DEATH. HUSBAND'S CONFESSION. If the confession of a ppor man now lying ill at Epsom Police-sta-tion can be credittd, he murdered lis wife at her own request, and vtis gWJ to give her distraught mind peace. The tragedy occurred in the Lon don County, Council Asylum at lloiiton recently, and in majij' respects was remarkable and dramatically pi tiable. The two persons CDnccrncJ in it were Walter James Harry Clapham, aged twenty-six, a wheelwright's latouurer, living at 101!, Camben-grovc, North Pcckham, and his wife Bessie Amelia, of the suiro age, who for the lost nir.e innntl K has been an inmate of th*;. asylum. She was suffering from imental derangement of a rather complicate! Character, and for some time .'"to- 1 Loen iil in bbdy. Clapham. a fuirl ■veil-built man of niudium size, ha,! jived (i regular life sincj this: trouble iif ;vis wife's intanity Came to him. He has struggled to* krep the 'hon t together for the sake of his two young children, and always in the delusive. i.Vope that some day the cloud will lift from her mind. He was a regular visitor to Hot ton on the days whom patients we? e allowed to see their friends, but these visits made him more and more dejected. For his wife, it is said. wished to seqk I'elrel' from Iwr insarity in death. Too well 1 guarded to lie able to commit suicide, she put t| r suggestion constantly to her hupfcand that he should '''bring sc inething to do it with," to use his own ppj-as'-A GRIM INTERVIEW. It. was visiting day at Hortoii, an•: Clapham, presenting his visiting pass at the lodge, "wfalkcxl along the winding paths, gay with wallflowers, tulips, and for-gftt-nuMiots, and was admitted to the.F Ward of the huge building. Nothing waa noticed in his demeanour to excite suspicion. His wife, being ill. was in a room opart from the other inmates of the wand and, he was allowed to see liter for a few minutes alone, a nurse standing outside the door. What precisely happened then Can only be told by Claphaini hi-mself But death entered with him. A fev moments kites' ho stepped out of thi room with Staring eyes and blanched ehoeks, and said to the/ nurse, "She'f dead ! " Startled, sh?o entered the room Mrs Clapham was' lying on the floor, with blood pouring from two dee,) gashes in her throat. She died almost imniedialely. When he was arrested Clapham said : "I don't cmc where I go now. as long as she has gone. I .wouldn't let a cat of mine come to this j ing. She begged me to bring „ thing in to do it." At Epsom Clapham was brought before H'm magistrates. Sergeant Blackman told of another confession made by the prisbner : "That is right," said Clap Ham "ThanlqGod she is out of iher misery. I am suffering-. The sooner they hang mc the better for t'he sake of my poor children." The prisoner was itiunndod. He appeared to 'be fainting whoa removed to the cells. —Daily Mail. market is full of ' worthless s,ytffnno ' substance and quality, ft. costs youno mors. SPREAD THE NEWS. NEW PLYMOUTH CITiaENS ASSISTING IN THE GOOD WORK, Day by day and hour by hour the "Little Conqueror" becomes better known and more respected by the puljlic. Nothing in modern times has reached . the high pinnacle of popular favour in so short a time ; people talk about it and they have reason to. They tell their experiences for the good of their fellow beings, and through gratitude. . To ; publish their expressions is but to show that the same experience awaits you. Here Is the experience ot a New Plymouth 'citizen : Mr A. Blanchett, coach painter, of this town, says;—'"My daughter has suffered a great deal with a pain in ' her back. It was caused by the unhealthy action of the kidneys. I fancy that kidney trouble is prevalent in Mew Plymouth through the water hera containing too much iron and not sufficient lime. I got a number of remedies for her, but each one proved useless. At last I got a box of Doan's Backache Kidney pills at the Co-operative Store, in Currie Street. She used this remedy for a time and has iieen perfectly free of the pain ever since. I consider that such -a remedy as Doan's Backache Kidney Pills should be recommonded to all who suffer as she did." Take no substitute It is Doan' Jackache Kidney Pills, which Mr Blanchett recommends, and you ant the samo -remedy. But be sure they are DOAN'S. I<WV V^ _ BAKRACLDUCHS PROGANDRA ■ rnuu uUewtAii CERTAIN CUREFS LIQUID [TO BE TAKEN] AND TNR J RHEUMATIC LINIMENT* TO BE RUBBED IN BARRACLOUGH'S «'HOIA BRiND' s CURES Are Obtainable From ..'. FRASER (Chemltt), A*d Respectable Medici n » ,V»»iiori BratzsWraii