The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-12-25 00:00:00

THE STATE OF IRELAND.
THE MURDER NEAR GALWAY.

Further detdls concerning the shocking murder of
the unfortunate (armor Motion are to hand. One
who boo rioted lie scone aO4 °Alerted the fnotw
writ. —The viatim is a ruon of 48, nomad Thomos
Morino, and It appeam that about three years ago be ids
Ireland for America, loosing his wife behial him to
manage hi email farm, and leaving also in her those five
children. He from time to time rent money to his wife
and children to help to support them, and it is under-
stool that on his return, oho it di weeks ago, he
br,,Q,t,t with him a coosidershie aunt of money His
wife had c 'cottoned it .-OCUDy the farm during his absence.
Koelon's residence isoith.h • few yards of • p hut,
which oval *eta/giallo lat C onb • wuoli vii a. about
woven ;atlas from Galway, on the road to Head'ort. On
We I titoday night Iloylm and his wife were returning from
visiting his brother-la-law, stout nine o'clock, and on
their way, while passim.; aloud • horsen, • snot was led,
and thee, hi. wife ear., a second shot Both isofwor
to hays taken awl in the forehead lust ahoy*
the Olt ore. Ho fell back into the arm, of hist
wife, who was lust behind him, and fell helpless on
the croon-I. Bhe proceeded to tura ro-n Ito speak to him
and then found her hands wero °mond with hieod. Tha
man who had fired the shots. •ori who bet ire firing bat
celled out ;wk., "foible Tom Broisnr jamp -4 over the
ditch, ant, seining the WOlXisa, pulled her back from bar
husband. nod Cain( a plea of paper from his pock,*
plans dit on the breast of the yips man. This paper, on
mousination, bore the word. " Torn Brown.' and there
war also writing inside, the sulmtsnos of which the polioe
think it airisabla not to disclose for the pre- en'.
The rent of Noylon's holding was about £lO. and he
had recently got It redwood in the L ,nd Court to .CT it.
He had been o poteessloo of the form all his life. hoeing
mom into p1....11i0n of it 011 the death of his f tth ••• His
wife Is about 95 year, of an. There am rainy rmenns
Iran for the murder, though no otto 050 i-11 eheolute
th• camo of it. Ole rum itir is thtt Moot,, h. has
known hi he Monectod with the minors!) N
before ha loft awl •'so while in Atueriea, ant that he wao
si of having given some iaforinalon et, out their
ding.. An3tber ratornest is that ho toil lend Vitt had
been lying Idle, and fr ',Mot people were evicted.
An inqueet was held on Friday at Oloaboo onto, body
et John Wotan.
Tim Jury found • verdict ef Wilful Murder &wield
sorue perm, r persons unknown.
The following are the coot at. of the Lothar said it have
bee, placed on •h I hods :-" Not oe to Thm Brows-[
h ard shout your work at Cr... duff, ao don'tput mo to
any trouble any more. I don't like to diagram your
friends. Don't putt,. to any more trouble, foe you ought
to give up before I give you the deableberng itene"

ALARMING EARTHQUAKE IN LISBON.
Ao earthquslcs "book was felt at Lisboa on Seicr.
day, but did not *mute much n tic,. Two boors later,
however, there was • monad shook, which lasted twelve
coc.ode. Is was arsoompanied ny aubt rrastean numb-
lines, and caused a panic a oong the inhabitant'.
8 me old buildings and high obisno-ys were slightly
dan...cei by the shook. wlrch was felt throughout lb'
o At Setubal the inhabitant' were so alarmed
et at toy made fur the seashore.
AN ARI"'--

TIC ARTISAN.
The Hon. F. F. X hia, of lidenthorpe, near Dumas-
ter, was summoued at the Clerkenwell Polloe-oourt,
London, to show cause why he shoal,' not contribute
towards the mainteosace of the illegitimate child of
Mary Cotten, of Bryan Mew. Dairy, Islington, of
wnich child he was ailag.l to be the father. Th•
eellenos of the o ,mpiainaut was that front March,
1882. to July, 1888, she was ho mermaid to the Rev. Mr.
Brook, vicar of Ourietohurob, Donneeter, and canon of
It.wk OatbedraL The defendant, • son of Lord
Auokland, boarded with Mr. Brook at the same
(line. Mr. Wyae (for the defendant) sail he was
Instructed to admit the paternity of the child
on behalf the defendant. Mr. Ricketts (who
prosecuted) said that In this case he must
ask the msgl4rati for s4inetbing more than the
ordinary oasts. Mr. Wylie urged that the defendant
wee not in a position to pay a large sum. 13.• was 1111
articled pupil at the Great Northern Works, at Don.
caster, and worked there, going through the SUDO
course as an ordinary workmen, and earning only •
few shilling. weekly. Lard Auckland himself (Mr.
Wylie added), was • oomparatively poor man. He had
• large family and had put out his sous to industrial
pursuit. Toll deign lent was now about nineteen
years of age, and the oomplainant at the time of the
Intimacy we. lees than eighteen. Mr. Barstow made
an order for the payment of ss. per week until the
&Lid reached fourteen years of age, together with 51s.
costs.