The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-04-24 00:00:00

THE DoRSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY. APRIL 24, 18S3

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010 AM AT ST. MART'S CHURCH.— •• el learn that The brute Seaviotar may think himself fortunate that
the nrgan primsoted to the above church by Mrs. R. Marwood did not receive an order to provide him with
Ilidgelt. of San ,dold, as • memorial to her lat• • new collar. Mr. Crow% In spite of his protestations,
hosband, bas &Mewl, end will at once be placed in the richly dowered his rig months. Thera cmn be no
dna b. Tb. ~rg.n Is supplied by the well-known firm excuse fur midle• aged men with families to
~f ()inflow and Co., of I.ondon, who have supplied Indulge in the wicked awl very rals•iiiiir
wend in this neighbourhood, and amongst them the acts of badly-disposed boys. Rabbits and Hawkins
One in Kingston Church.
were very rghtly found not guilty, and Meatus
Durdle and Kerley may thank their lucky stare that
0011111 OASTL). lb. jury woald not believe them, even when they told
05 Monday cooing a meeting of resident house- the truth. The Punishment in the fake coin CYO was
holifere in the borough was con vent dby the Mayor (Dr. si gularly inadequate, and th, p iitonera may be excused
Humble) in the National Schoolroom to protest the triumphant laugh with at hich they received it.
again 4 the Municipal Cori orations Act relating Mr. Matthews an 1 the Judge, as will be
to unrrformed boroughs. Many of the inhabitant...l ut sw n, had one or ts o set ta.'s. Th -. pannier little
In an appes,ume, and resolutions were unanimously wormed is rather au ovrr-r-t 4 MAU, and
i „seed praying that Corte maw be left intact and the naturally is prone to be inflated with the
j:rotest be forwarded to Sir C. Mike and to their importance attaching to • prominent member of •
l'Arliamenter• repreaentative. The Mayor read the circuit which posers, sin it. ranks but 'witty few men
terinr of the Charter, end tare Interco. lug information of any note. Lady Diana Hudd'eston accompanied reliiting to the subject, an &leo Invited remark. from , his Lordship on the bench throughout the week, and
,ny present. This WWI rellPOndifd to 17 P 1, it may interest our lady readeis to know that she
w 1.,.. ,jeoe upon various m mere caused some wote • different c atoms on each occ ision—ranging
amusement. For instanc., the Mayor had no mace from • rmy red on the opening day to • sedate black
Ike big predeotertore, where was it? The Mayor on the Tuesday, when the trial for murder took place.
replied it was not the property of the borough, as kits
1.1•1.1 •BOCT POOL!.
00,0,0.0. Is not the no ...production of the WACO
a rem in for enquiry ? Nuieences were loudly CuTil-
ill .inc.l of in West•striset, such as anything but re-
freshing breezes from the alauehter house, together
with the waggon* and rubbish lu the wr. ng place.
P. abate the I itsptc•or of Nuisances will are to this on
his Di at round.

weeding. In canna ot conversation be induced
him to sign the pledge and cone to God's hone,
which he did on the week.night services. On
being pressed to e.me on the Sunday he declined.
But during the six week, he declined be had been
saving enou,h earth to furnish himself with a new euit
of clothe.; teen he went to Got'.u
hose on the
S inday als, and be was wont to own that it was
better for blot, for trade, and Christian faith. One
day he said to me—Mr. Vitughan these little . ne• love
you; th-y know
You were the cn e of my being a
tint f •ther to thern, and making lAlf plan. a home.
Mr. Vaughan went oa to say if temper tnce will not
.ke us Christine. it will mats I/0111 ke-p a. sober.
John Stoat Mill wa. once AAA e g0...50n in
philosophy, resoecting heads and hearts. We want
the peoples' head, and heart.. A little schoolboy
being once a.ked the rineetion "What in the chief
end of men ?" moet readily answered "The end as
j got the head on. air." Well, then, he rou•t say now
that rnen, who had their heads on right, cane to this
conclusion—that strong drink has no place down their
throats. Many sign the Wedge for the benefit of
others, others for their own benefit' insny get lbs blues
bOO.O they se. a-, many of the "Bit. of bloc." and
yet have not heart enough to t‘ke it themselves.
Duringa mission lately held in Yeovil. at wh ch our
worthy
chairman wa. present he (th., openk-r) had
met with • gentleman, whi, having ben induced to
take the pledge, sail now he had t .ke.. it he me •nt to
kelp it ; he told the speaker it would make £3OO
difference to him only in one yenr. He we, ton to
say he ha I met with Another who hp' spent E4O in
three 11. ye when io• S dieburc, and all lie 1. ii t ..how
for it was a bruised shin. Now he wears the bit of
blue; thi, littlolit ..f blue ribbon th.n is trieful as j
Weil le ten: ortant. He hail never hail that •In l
'iterate dricker was worse than a drunkard, J
although at one time it had app.areoll in the
polar. that he hat made that statement. Ile was
then as well &I now prepared to c nate .die', any
such remark., yet if you take your children to •
drunkertEn home they would with h.stor shrink from
its very appe trance, yet 'gain take them to a c .mforte
able home where all • pear. to he 'briatian-like at that
their wincing,
plea-, they may be willed to take • glaw of wine with
r any other friend@ who may be
present. H. a toped all that no one would die sooner
abstsining. Who are th se that can enoceed best,
in work or play, in head or hand work' Those most
certainly who, are total abstainer", .4 which we have
amide proof by many great and notable—Cattle
Webb, also thwe wh tot part in the late AmCo
expediton. Some forty yew. ago, some few men up
in the Northern U unti-e could see through the drink
q tee i .n, now in .ny, cc. our thourends. In continent'
he advi.ed the Chairman and all to keep pegging
away, pegging away, and they would surely win the
The CHAIRMLN then vv° roan. of the Toadav's
reeetne, afar which he cal'ed on Mr. W. BINGHAM
t addree, the meeting. N.. sooner hal tiai. gentle-
men eto Any and beck-not with hi. index finer, and
spoken to wine idle lade in th• back p .rt of the hall,
than complete silences pr nailed, he having as It were
the m eta y ov.r the offenders. He very kindle tl4
them there war 'three till, galor thern to choose. Ist. sit
quiet nb-re they were; 2nd, come to the front seats
where they would be able to wand hear hotter; Zod,
if they would not behave there wag the door.
The Speaker, in introducing himself said thet•
were two cameo why he was there that evening
in reePonw to lb. chairman's invitation. The trek
was the great kindne., of the chairman, who, without
pay or reward of any kind whatever. bat been solely
at his own expense the country helping the
great work of temperance ; the Sec 'nil inu.e was a ray
seteems.l friend in the wink of temper .nce with
whom he I omerly was Ntineate, namely, Mr.
Th On creaking of biding matngs for
special work, Mr. Bingh.m said, often people se to be
f 'and who a-e cantina tlly meting many objections,
yet never will thew one. step forward, and endeavourt o
do better. lies .id there IMO timen when he trusts It-'
hew thew objections,hacanse you how then that three
people began to und-rst •nri the roes ion. Some people
d • not like to be woke up to the w-tk, yet if the lark
is Ii gin and pro-per they mad wake unto it. You
know if y..n do not keep up your public meet in_a y on
msy certainly expect sin. reclaimed ones to fall hack.
The epe.liter said he wite once at • mild c meeting in
Cl ucest-r, during which time a fine strong robust
looking ha-g--man ask 'ii if he cull be allowed to
speak, which permission wears Oily view.. him, tt
appeared, by what the b. g"-man nail. th A there w• re
very dill rent ways of talking to rezlaim the drinker;
awn° Pe u.le would talk ebont y on, alto.. wool 1 talk at
you, and if there woo an• 'lnc tiling in this world that
would rise a man', monkey it wa. chile; it dhli IR .re
harm often than it did golf. Tolkin: to people
I. the grandest and met likely thing to benefit
them ; go down am nest them, spent t them,
give them a kind word here, and a kind word
there ; be sympathetic, sympathies with them thr ugh
being t Mee.' to (not about, or at, for this 'away,
carries its own reward), and upon .thi-ed with wan the
very cause of this barge-man being able to stand Net,
and with many other sip I..ns be conld eay thu.
notice was written on hi lips—" N. shale no
exeept on bu Mr Bingham dwelt at some
len,th on the different mole' of 1 Ile Anomalies Com•
pude., why some were r jet el, why ame hal to noy
extra premiums .11.1 so fo•th, 00l fully convinced wee
he that total e•etainer. hod 'be bet of it, ti pr
which many,] fferent c dent atione were aohltic d. lie
said there were many ben-fit eorietiee in the count.y
(at !Ma moment some verso% menti .ned ab oit the
Rechabites). Rechabite. ! 'beeps .ker said, have gal
• R•ch..bite Tent here? work it well then. keep it w II
before the public, it is one of the last • onetio. a
tamperst se working-man co join ; it ehiehls him
from man•, ves Innen ieint.,l,tt.tee and la g...s that
are tut .voi 'ably ronn•ortel with some inetitutl
He wi.hal to inform them h t he w.. g tij
the Bailable.... on hi. return to lin-min-thaw he
was g"irg to he made an honorary uponber of one • f
the tent. there. The awake, thin lorc•ldy dwe't
on the economical part of the arnica rptesion,
so doing he add a enrplu. d liar might be
the means of artking or ruinin... a a Ann. Ile way of
an Mu...ration he mntio.n oi the case of a Staff rolahire
man who hat .Iwev• regularly kept no that hoii hey
of holidays—Saint Mud ty. No work t' be done by
him on that day, and the day following hews. n
in av. ry genial moo I. However, on a cart 'in Saint
M'oar, as he wa siting aims In the t üblichons.
ki!..hen, with hi. elnow on th. table, and his heal on
hi. hand, mane thought, parsed thr nth hi. run I ; he
knew full well he ha 1 n 0 money lett, knew th -,t ev, y
drain he to-k from the pewter pot left the les. for
him All of • sled lee he tepee' the landlady'. be'
doo' • little open, enouth for him to en" she was
ronking herself in an ea.y chal-, and singing "
Woriiing for ale," and the re'r tin of each
"He'. Working for Ste." TO. lean to. nitudi for the
poor fellow; he knew full well he was wo eking for
her. If. In his mod, then and there, form. it a res lo-
tion, hastily ri s' • paaing nut of the inn, with au-h
a" Good day, Mlonie," that t •ok the lady quite by
surprin, becann he
.s.riv hour. Str.ight off to hi. en k went he; .on
ar•i•int there no one dare esk him any Twat( in., h iv
or why b. had come; he was not the sort of temper
to la tr lied with on Se. Monday afterro In. Wh.n
leaving the work. in the man: he entere I int,, con-
versation with one ..f the ternpiance w rk.nen. tat
him h- wished to elan tbs oledge, bor th-re most h.
one condi.ion, tha. was that he wool I promise blot
to say nothi, g about it to envore no.til he . ail given
him p-rmiesion to do so. Hie friend told him he wan
willii g t- d anything that was reasonable .n.l that
would help him to sign the p•tdg.. an 1 he-ti it. Artsr
ehewing the difference it, this man's after Ile be said
there was a wok to do. 40-ne e n'd (1.. 'hi', other.
th .t, and so on. There were many things th t temp .o-
-" 0. Young fallen c .uld do eltich oung men conk,
never eine ech to. He concluded his .d Ire e, whi h
was of nearly an hour's duration, with much earner'
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were, but sail in the emrse whtr • we are certain
there are none such t • 113 f•,un I. Re then mitimd
the older people to m •ke the way plain a. pomible f.
the young peop`e. lie cone'n lel hy referring them
to Napole••n of ••41 in one •4 Ws brilliant b Adm. how
he again ant again led on hie men to victt•ry, ant on
Lb. result which fo lowed.
Hymn 56, a• d Ilene [action by the Bev. Bum
concluded the me. t•ng.

A few bite of blue were donned mvi one ptedge
Wren. At the close the hymn "Sowing Seed. of
Wariness " was eons, dories which the collea,lon was
made. The hymn "Gospel Belle ere Ringing" closed
most soj ,yeble and pr.,fitable evening.

TOFSDAT.

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On Tuesday evening thews:lond meeting of the three
days t.tnp. nonce in Won woo held in the Corn
Exchange. There was a fair attendance, an I was pre,
sided over by Alderman J. J Norton, o.f Poole, and
there were 410 on the pla.form Rev. K. Evan, ( .f
Poole). Dr. A. G. 11. Crespi, Rev. T. Bur', and Mr.
W. Bingham (of Rirmingho m). It commenced by
Singing the hymn" Work for the Nightie Coming. '
Prayer having been offered by the Rev. E. EVASO,
of Poole. 272 Hymn was sung.
The Cgottagoot, in • I•W npeteng remarks, gave a
little of hi own personal experience in the temperanoe
question, in which he vividly dealt out facts that
were terrible and most beart-sickening to bear—facts
of what hal come under his own odatervation.

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The Rev. E. Evans, being cakd on to speak,
all he considers I the temperance movement to be an
@auxiliary to the gospel. There were, he said, many
stumbling Mick. In the Christian Church, and the
chief cause of these was the drink. Not only as a
minister, bUt aa a man, be was prepare] to help to do
away with it. He c ,ndclered temperance or total
abstinence to be the handmaid of the gospel. It goes
before (very similar to John the Baptist in his day)
and prepares the way for the gospel, sod It had his
fullest sympathy and co-optration. He was very
glad to be able to say many of thou who
were now connected with, and In our churches,
were won over by temperance men. The
drunkard we. waiting to see the Christian come
over, and the young also looked up to Christian people,
and expected them to come first There were, he said,
some very good, kind, and considerate people, who
have, as yet, not been able to see their way clear to
cone over. He would therefore most earnestly beg
of them to d so; he assured them their c inrci-nca
would approve of their so doing, so would Christ.
In conelneion, the rev. gentleman said he wanted
them to be all Christians as well an men of temper-
! ance ; he strongly advised them to , come to Jesus,
and assured them that He wool I deliver them from
all tempts, in in this life, and take them home to glory.
Hymn 92 wee rung, during which the c Ilection
we. mule. A a do was then sung by Mr. F.
Howell—" Standing by a Purp rse True ;" the ch rus
'i.e heartily taken up by the audience. Messrs.
Norton and Evens having to leave to catch their train,
the chair was then occupied by Dr. Crawl lie gave
notice of a c .ffes supper in connect' n with the Good
Templar'. to be held in the Town Hall, on Weders•
day, the 25th. He enforced the need nf a More care.
NI study id the question, in whii.b be said he h .ped
they would make themselves more thori,ughly
acquainted dnring the rummer months He then
called on Mr. W. BinflnAln to address the meeting.
Mr. W. BINGHAM roie to his work full of ardour
and vigour. He wished to impress upon all present
that it was in their own power to alter the state of
thiege which the previous speakers had been dwelling
on. He had been an abstainer ever since he was 15.
After dwelling on incidents connected with the life
and work of his Sunday echo il teacher, he went on to
dwell for a time on heart power, al.° on sympathetic
force. The Band of Hone M ivement was a great,
grand, and noble work. So with our Band of Mope
Movement it is not a matter of reclaiming, but id
keeping from the evil that might, sooner or later,
overtake the young and promising youth of our nation,
such things Wes he went on s, show, wars of a re-
•duc ive type, also elevating and educating. He
sputter) then strongly et eke of the continual
laarlysiotagu
_there were oorinected with the drink
traffic, in whi& be said we should gall as did the old
pilot, not orlosTouring to and out whore the nob,

The Judge then delivered the followleg rebuke :
What hi the meaning of all this conduct, Mr.
Matthews? You ere ref. rring to the el pwiti .na' and
I must look •1 them. I roust trouble you to clodnct
yourself nr,rerly, or I shall have io take proceedings
that will be very u,pleasaue.

Marthd Pitman gave corroborative evidence, and
said the next morning the deceased showed her crop.
and marks round her neck. (What she said was not
a imissihie as evidet c..) On the evening of the 11th
of March she went to see ths deceased. She wee
upstairs and id bet, and the prisoner was downetsirs
I hweimdth the
.dacyceashe eedl.l4 .1
nuoisttedro,
linehyth"foltewitHh t'lbLe roSpeb.
Upon that she (witn • / Pdid "Oh, George how can
von Pay so, when th ve little woman told me herself r
Awl then he ad"' What I done wax in the height of
passion."
Orme-examined : She did not tell the Coroner he
struck her three time., ',rearm, she was ant 'AM, but
she told the meurierates that. To the Coroner she
sell he struck.her.• violent blow.

Re-eZamined :She had no dt.tub-ishe maw aree blows.
Charge B,skett, labourer, living next door t-t the
deoesmed, rementb,red on Sunday morning the 4th of
Mtroh, he saw the p-imoner besting the woman
through the window. She WI begeing for merev and
said " Oh, dear, don't tie rge, don't beat me so " and
he swore and 'all" You I'll do for you before I
hare done with you.
James On, labour, r, was with the bolt witnem at
the time he hd in, ntioned, and game like emijggs..
Priooner had a dick in hie hand.

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Cm...examined : Before they could get to the back
door to interfere prieonAr WAG not in the street.
Sarah Foote, wife of I 'ha Fa's and m tther of
the deceased, paid she wag at her d °letter's h tugs the
day before her death. the 11th of Mar.b. She was
cut for to make her bed. She c told ntt g t her one
of bed, sack. could not b.. moved ; but as she lifted
the pillow she saw blo sl 0 zing out of the he and
she called the prisoner up, t•nd told him he had been
slowly murdering her 'laughter. Prisoner made no
reply. She handed a rope, whioh was found In her
daughter's home. to the pollw. Her daughter's child,
Iltt'e Tanswell, nothing to do with the prisoner,
came for her.
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Elizeb!th Lane. on the 12th of March, laid out the
decsased for burial. Thera were • greet many usurks
of blows on the holy, an I a mark round the neck.
P.C. Goddard. one of the Blandford p dice, produced
the rope and Oat cup. HA cube quent'y apprehended
the prisoner, and char.:id him with causing the death
of &mina Tanswell. lie muds no reply,
cheek. logesm, M. SE an I L. '.11.1.., wee
eer.t for to see th de,e sal o ; he 6'h of M.rch, and
attAnded her unt I 'be She romplaine If pair,
in her ha I and ch-st. 1. the 13th. staiieted by Dr.
Spooner he made a poet rn rt on the b It wee
somewhat emaciated; this wAe eight hours after death,
and, the rigor mortis being well marked, shows.' the
was in • tolerably healthy c inclitioo. There were
marks on the tight hand, ou the knees and instep,
bruises most trobehly cause,' by a rope, end elm on
the neck from similar canoe.. There was a small
wound, about an inch in extent, at the back of the
head. On opening the body he funnel the heart Per-
fectly healthy, with a small quantity of serous fluid in
the pericardium, showing the heart's action had
ceased some time before. The lungs were con-
gested, and showed tracts of previous 'ileums-
tion, especially n the left side, and wilier.
once to the pleura. That ii.flammation was
not sufficient to cause death. There was injection
of blood inside and ontaide the skull, corresp
with the external wound. On the left temple there
was s large clot of coagulated blood resting in the
cavity of tbe brain. The brain Itself was broken down
and disorganised, and would produce cerebral
congestion, whkb might be caused with a blow from
a cup. Paralysis bad set in on the eight side befoits
death.

xamined: When he was going to the woman's
bones on the 6th, be met the man, who was coming in
his direction. The appear.. tie were apoplectic, fnm
the congested state of the blood 'easels. Apoplexy
might arise without external causes. Intemperance I
was a prominent cause, and irritation was an accom-
paniment of intemperance very often. Blas opin on
was that these causes origanateel with the blow, and
increaved from the excitement afterwards. Blood
clots on the brain were sometimes formed with ut
cause, and terminated fatally. The appearances were
inconsistent with ce ebral apoplexy. Before the
magistrates be said death, in his opinion, arose from
oersbral apoplexy.
Re-ex twined : Cerebral anoplexy might be produced
without any blury, or it might result from ons.
By the Judge : The cerebral spot lexy in this ca.*
must have been caused by some external iojory. The
appearances were not con•istest with apoplexy from
natural can es. one ra rtion of the brain being so
injured, while others were in a healthy condition.
Edmund Monr4eSpooner, 81.R.C.5. and L.A.H.L.,
assisted at the post mortem. He bad beard Mr.
Ingram's evidence, and agreed to it as to the cause of
death • but he believed I'. to be impossible f .1. any
andie;al man to say how that clot of blood was pro-
duced, but be couli have a reasonable belief, and his
was that it was caused by the blow at the back of the
head.

--lila concluded the ewe for the prosecution, and
Mr. Castle reviewed the evidence he had called.

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Matthews replied on the win of the prisoner.
He reminded them the learned canna& for the prosr
cution in opening the case ba.l admitted the charge of
murder bad rested umn the blow which was struck
with the jug, he would ,carcely have asked the jury to
convict. If they were to lake the evidence MI it had
been presented to them in arriving at the conclusion
logically it was nen dn the blow inflicted with the jug
In the publichouse bad p.o lucid the blood clot on the
brain, which was the CaMO of death. It we., there-
fore. for them to consider whether the blow was
inflicted under eireumsta era which would justify
them in finding the prisoner guilty of murder, or such
as be contended, ell reduced the crime to manslaughter.
It had been said that this man raised his hand
there was In his breast a &sir.. take her life. The
blow was 'truck on the 37t h of February, and yet they
found that on the fith of May, when she was lying ill
at borne the pti.oner went for a doctor.
Mr. Cantle said he could not say that.
The Judge remarked the evidetoe was that the little
girl was sent, and the duct ,r met the prisoner as he
waa going to the house.

Mr. Matthews continued to arose that at all events
she was an assenting party teethe vi.it of the doctor and
also that of the mother, and therefore was desirous of
doing what be could. The evidence of the witnesses
was open to criticism, al, hough he did not wish them
to say that they could Dot accept it in the main. But
he thought it was open to the criiici-rn that they were
dealing with three women who were good friends of
the deceased, and that they ha,l certainly exaggerated
the story as they had to'd it from time to time. It ,
west not unlikely that they woold. Their sympathy
must have been much sr used. Ought they not to
watch the evidence with the greatest possible care?
Let them look at the alleged c mfession of the prisoner.
Here the witness told them he PAM that if blows would
have killed her he should have killed her long arc.
Before the coroner she nail if blow, would kill her 'he
would have been dead long ago. There wee a material
difference. The prisoner had Heel with her fir some
time, but she bad left her husband with whom she had
had children. What caused h-r to leave that husband?
Were the prison, es word, a reference to the cruelty she
had sustained at the han Is of the husband and n t of
himself? It was surely left open to that interpreta-
tion. The evidence Mee. K de gave in the first instance
would have allowed .4 it, hot what she had stated to-
day destroyed it. No doubt she felt • considerable
amount of sympathy with the dreamed, and he did not
blame her for it. Let them again consider the question
of provocation. There was no doubt the prisoner was
very angry with the woman, and he submitted on sub-
stantial grounds she bad been drinking in the public.
house for an hour and a half before he came in, and he
still found her drinking, and then he did something to
her. Where we. the independent evidence of the land-
lady? The whole of the (seta showed there was an
antagonism between them with reference to this driuk-
log, and, however blameable his excess, that he aria
not unreasonably angry. If he had intended to have
done her grievous injury, would he not rather have
struck her in the froot of the hoed rather than at the
tack, where she was protected by her hat? No doubt
afterwards there was • tupelo. on i on bin part an un-
manly tussie, between them, but that had been intro-
duped, together with the statement as te the rope, he
would not say to prejudice them against the prisoner,
hut that it was prejudi,dal could not be denied ; but
could anyone say thst the disoolouration on the neck
had produced death? If there wes nothing certain in
the evidence upon which they could have the opinion
that the woman died from the vialeoce of the prisoner,
then he was entitled to an acquittal; but if they took
I more rasunable view of the case, and, at the same
time, as he believed they would wish to tin, • merciful
view of the case, they would say the crime whi h he
had committed was not of that nature for which his
life should be forfeited, but the lesser one of man-
slaughter. The law of this country, although in some
phases severe, was in wont humane, and in none was
it more humane than when applied to a person in the
desperate posi.ion of the prisoner. It made greet
allowences for human passion, and said that since we
were all of um, MOM or less, governed occasionally by
temper, since it will happen even the most sedate
of us were overpowered by • sense of injury
which, to some extent, obscured our reason. This, he
said, applied to the crse of the prisoner, and refitted
the suggestion that he intended to take the life of the
poor woman. lie urged upon the jury not to prase his
words or his acts too heavily against the prisoner.
They tended to show that be was not all • man
should be, but they mast remember that they
were not dealing with a pers do of refinement or
education, they were dealing with an one incited man,
and one who ha I not enjoyed the advantages they
had, and they moat not allow themselves to be pre-
judiced by his mere acts and words of brutality. The
learned counsel, who was inaudible to the reporters
in his closing remarks, concluded by asking the jury
to find a verdict on the minor account.
111, Lordship summed up at some length, and
pointed out the law, remarking that he was hound to
tell them that from time immemorial it had been laid
down by the authorities that the law did uot permit
any league, however provoking, to reduce the crime
of murder to manslaughter. If a man struck • blow
which occasi ,ne I death he was guilty of murder, with
this qualification that if there had been great and
serious provocation, and, a nom kills another, not
with intent to kill, and uses an instrument which
apparently would not be likely to bring about fatal
results, then it would be reduced to manslaughter.
No words or gestures, however provoking, were con-
sidered in law provocation sufficient to reduce homicide
to manslaughter, if the killing were effected with some
deadly instrument, or with the intention to do grievous ,
bodily harm, but if it were effected with a blow of the
fiat, or • blow from a stick, or other weapon not likely
to kill, it woo manslaughter. The late ohlef
Justice Tindall ha I laid it down—the Print:Mid
question was whether the person who inflicted the
wounds was labouring or not wader such provocation
that he was not mister of his understaodieg at the
time, for if there had been time for the blood to cool,
f and or reason to resume its sway, then it was murder.
He (the learned judge) quite agreed with what had
been said that they should not allow the suggestion
about the rope to prejudice their minds against the
, prisoner. But they moat take it into condileratlim
I that the prisoner was a violent and bratsl man, and
one not unlikely to do that which was charged against
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them look at it in that light. Having reviewed the
medical svidance, hi. L srdebip raid be thought they
would be folly justified in taking a reasonable and
humane view of the cafe, but trot of all, and above
all. • reasonable view, and «1 ally important was it
they should bring to the discharge of the important
duties which now devolve I upon them—the courage of
their a invicions. The prisoner wag displeased at
seeing her in he publichous., and it was not an un-
important (Act that the instrument used was at hard.
In c roclusirm he said if they thought tha facts showed
rushes aforethought, or an intention to do grievous
bodily harm, it was mwder. If, on the olter band,
they thought he WAll ego t.d ly 'he heir thrown ov.r
him, and di I not inroad to do grievous injury, it was
manslaughtsr.
After a 'cry rhrirt deliberation the jury returned •
verdict of manslaughter.
The prisoner, who tad been allowed ti be seat d
during the hating of the case, was then tsld to stand

hfatthewe handed in testimocials as tocharacter.
The Judge, addressing the prisoner, said—Thu jury
have taken a merciful view of your case. The line
between your conduct, and that which would have
justified • verdict of wilful mur :er, isa very narrow
I one. Had you been found guilty of mur ter I eh inld
have felt it my duty to have left you for di st.h. At
times it has been my duty to advise Her Majesty to
eat sod mercy t • p inner, but I could scarcely have
felt myself jus ifiea in any lit Aerence on behalf of a
man who has c inducted hiuicilf so brutally ail you
have done; acd it sp ski much for the safety of trial
by jury that the jury have been enabled to do you
justice, attlat.ugh eve; y one must have fel in his heart
detestation for your conduct t that p ,or woman. I
cannot doubt you used that rope, although 01
probab'y to the ext int the women thought. You
st-ark her in the publichouse, you knocked her down,
and then you seized the first thing at band, • p
and broke it over her head. Whether you struck her
one blow or more does not matter. I have very grave
doubts whether I ought not to send you lot • penal
servitor], for life, but your learned counael has pointed
out that you are • young ma ant I have had sum*
testimonials handed to me which speak to your
character. lam willing t hope that, even in a mam
who has exhibited such brutality, there may be some
evidence of a softer nature, and, therefore, I shall
not pass upon youth. extreme centime,. The ssotenos
upon you is tht you be kept in penal servitude f
20 years,