The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-08-08 00:00:00

SUMMAND NEWTON.

SERVICES in connection with the building of a new
l'rimitive Methodist Chapel were held in the above
village on Sunday and Monday. July 30 and 31, 1x76.
On the Sunday three sermons were preached in the
teaming and evening by Rev. W. A. Laphani, and in the
afternoon by the Rev. 11. PlalL On Monday afternoon
a goodly number of people from various parts of the
Sturminster Newton Circuit gathered on the cite of the
proposed new Chapel. The Rev. W. A. Laphani gave an
address on "the rise and progress," and the Rev. 11. Plait
on the "polity arid doctrines" of the Connexion. The
very interesting work of laying stones and bricks wu
then proceeded with. The four stones being laid by Mrs.
T. Perris, Mrs. W. T. Kingsbury, Mr. T. Therry, and Mr.
T. l'erris, £5 being placed on each stone. Several friends
then laid bricks, placing sums varying from 10s. to II
upon each. The couipany then adjourned to tea, which
was provided in the shop and yard of Mr. Kingsbury.
More than WO partook of the cup which cheers, but not
inebriates. In the evening a public meeting was held, and
able addressee given by Messrs. 11. Brown, J. Christopher,
11. Wheeler, and A. Stone, of Southampton. The Rev.
Plait made an excellent chairman. The inhabitants
of this most picturesque village made the occasion quite a
holiday. The monetary result was most gratifying—
neatly £5O being realised. The chapel which is to accomo-
date nearly 20% will supply a want long felt in the
neighbourhoml, and its erection will form an epoch in the
history of Primitive Methodism in Buckland. The cost
including site, will be about £lOO, and the contractor is
Mr. W. T. Kingsbury, of Buckland Newton.

BRIDPORT.
SUOMI DEATH. —On Tumday morning a painter by
tho name of John Oliver, aged 56, was found demi in bed
by the landlady of the Sailors Home Inn, South-street,
where ho was lodging - that night. An inque.st on the
body of deceased was held at the Sailors' Home Inn at
live o'clock the same afternoon, before Mr. N. M. Loggin,
Coroner.—Thomas Legg, a lodger in the house, saw
decesuiedi as he was going to bed, and the landlady asked
him to light him up, and he did no. Witness slept in an
adjoining room, and heard him get out of hed and fall
down in the I,a.itige. iienra him any to SOILIOODO. "Don't
serve mo so bad. Heard him open some other dour than
his own. Witness heard a voice other than his own bay
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they would throw him down stairc if lice:one there again.
This was about one or two o'clock. Heard deCC4III.4I 1111 E
"1 did not think, George, you would serve me like this.
—Mary Ann l'eadon, landlady of the house, said deceased
came there yesterday, and wanted to sleep, and as he
appeansl ti lie steady she let him. Ile went up to bed,
situ was in bed most of the day. There was another
lodger by the 1111111 C of Christopher Wells, with kis wife
soil child sleeping there besides Mr. Legg. Said to Oliver,
if y.ai du not give up the drink it will kill you, and he
said he would give it up to-morrow. Witness did not
know which bast he slept on; there were three beds in
the room. She found Min on the bast mar the window,
with lac legs hanging out of bed, quite dead.—Joseph
Ciampi said about six o'clock, as he was going to work,
Mrs. Peadon called l.im.i and asked him to come in, as Mr.
Oliver w:11.4 dead. Ile wont up and examined him, and
the.. scent for the police.—ehristopher Wens slept there
last night with his wife and child. 15.1 not hear any
noise in the night, and not know decease.L—Slarggret
Wells saw de eased yesterday lying on the sofa in that
room, and he asked her to fetch I • a seidlitx powder.
She sent her little boy for it. --Christopher Wells, re-
called : wit luck his dour last night.—Thoinsc ixds.
: Was certain lie heard a voice threatening the
deceased to throw him down stairs. After he heard a
wgs s isnivcrsation Imetween a 1111411
and woman.—Juseph Chard, recalled: Did not see that
1 the side .if his face hist a blow.- -Elizabeth Oliver, a
' relative of iletej.iell. living at lkauninster, said there was
a rising in the side of his face. Ile formerly had the
king's evil there when young.—Verdict: "Death from
excessive drinking."
Itosmuciii Parry SINSIONS, Tuesday. —Before Mr. C.'
Tucker (Mayor), and Mr. S. W. Whethain.
WilUaus Pomeroy was moiled by P.C. Wake for being
drunk and disorderly in the liorough or: the 19th July.—
Fined .2.c. lkl. anti l/s. dui costa—in default 7 days

imprisonment.
John May, net braider, was summoned by his employer
Edward Forman, under the Employer and Workman's
Art, 1575, for leaving his employ, and claiming damages
to the amount of I:1 Ms.—Defendant was ordered to pay
the costs Sw lid., and to agree with his master to pay him
the claim .C 1 Ws The costs to be paid half on next
Saturday, the other half the following Saturday, or
judgment summons would be issued.

THE CHARGE OF MURDER BY A FATHER.
At the Taunton Assize; before Mr. Justice Blackburn. '
Charles Hale, a coal miner, was indicted for the wilful
murder of Emma Hale, his daughter, at Cainerton, on
the 4th of April—Mr Saunders and Mr. Hutch prose-
cuted, and Mr. Norris defended. —On the 19th of April,
the body of a young girl, aged about 15, was discovered in
the Somerset Coal Canal, in the neighbourhood of Canter.
ton, by a young man named Heals, and was identified
beyond doubt as that of the prisoner's daughter. Upon
medical examination it was found that the body must
have been in the water a fortnight or so. There did not
appear to be any marks of violence upon the body.
There was a bruise on one of the thighs, but in all Pro-
bability it was caused after death by • boat, as the canal
was navigated by • considerable traffic—almeet exclusively
in coal—from Radstock towards London. Prisoner
admitted that the child was his own, and, suspicion
naturally turning to Inui, he was apprehended. Ile was
is poor man—entirely destitute the latter years of
his life had been almost entirely spent in the Clutton
Union Workhouse, Hale WM a married limn, and had
three children, of whom the deceased was the youngest.
Many years ago the wife separated from him, and was
summed to be now living in Bristol ; at any rate, the
deco:wed was entirely bereft of her care, and left to her
own slender resources, and was repeatedly an inmate of
the Workhouse. The last time she entered the Union
was in November, 1074, and she remained there until the
3rd of last April. Prisoner went in on the Itith March,
and gave notice that he Intended to leave on April 3rd.
Hales wish was to leave without taking the girl with
him, but the master of the house informed him that by
the rules it could not be permitted. Prisoner demurred
about being burdened with the child and prevented earn-
ing • Being, saying he was a very poor emu had no house
to take her to, and aid not know what to do with her.
Prisoner and deceased left the union at 10 o'clock. What
they did, where they wandered, or how they managed,
Was not known ; but at nine o'clock in the evening they
were admitted to the house of a Mr*. Webber, at Pease-
down. Carnerton. The girl asked Mrs. Webber, • kind-
hearted friend, for a eight's lodging, and she slept there,
but the prisoner remained out. Both had breakfast there
the next morning, and Mee. Webber suggested that the
girl should go to Bath the next day with a friend and
endeavour to obtain a situation. Prisoner demurred, as
the girl's clothes were unfit for service, but it was arranged
that she should sleep there that night, and go to Rath on
the morrow. The Hales left at 10 o'clock, and were next
found about half-past three at Keynsham, where they
met a drayman coming from BristoL Hale told him they
were going to Bristol to find his wife, anal leave the girl
there. Prisoner suggested leaving the girl at Keynsham
Union, but it was not done. For smne unexplained reason,
when the Hales returnet to Mulford, the girl became
very excited, anal called out "Murder !" While they
were in the Radford Brewery yard a Mr. Langford spoke
to them, and noticed that the prisoner—who asked for
assistance—was the worse for liquor. At this request Mr.
Longford directed them to Carnicot 14 miles distant,
and they went along the towing path by the side of the
canal. It was by no means a deep or wide canal, and the
bank was very shelving. At the spot whore a girl was
found—a mile from Radbury Brewery—for a considerable
distance across, the water WIS only 4or l feet deep, but
20 or 30 yards from the spot where the body was found
there is a stop, and the canal is very much narrowed by
walled sides. At ten o'clock the girl, alone, went to some
cottages at the point where the highway branches off, half
a mile from the fatal spot, and in an excited state applied
to three persons —Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Ruddock, and Mrs.
HOIISC—for a night's lodging, but they were unable to
accoinmodate or assist her. At eleven o clock two persons,
named Job West and Philip Holbrook, living at Camerton,
Wore standing outside their cottages when they heard in
the direction of the canal, half a mile distant, two loug
screams, apparently from a person in great distress. They
heard no words or further exclamation, and Holbrook,
who went 301/ yards along the towing-path to find what
was the matter, could see nothing, though it was a light
night. After the Hales left the Radford brewery the
prisoner was not seen until nearly ten o'clock, when, in
the road leading to Carnicot he met • man named
Sperring, awl asked him, "Have you seen my girl r At
twelve o'clock he was met by Wm. Ashman on the
towing-path between %%merlon anal the place
where the body was found. Prisoner made the
same inquiry of Adman, awl again of Alfred
(look, a fireman at the new COSI pit, where
prisoner went a few minute* later. Shortly
after he was seen at the Red Poet some
distance beyond Canneot. Halo made no enquiry about
the girl. and on 14th April, when P.C. Davies asked him
where the chill Was, he replied, "Oh, I suppose she has
ran away." When the body WAS pointed out to him, and
' he was charged with murder, he remarked, "I know
nothing about the maid: I wish I was dead, like her."
—On the evening when the body was found prisoner
visited the Red Pant, Wellow, and in reply to questions
Hale said he thought the body was that of his daughter,
and added, "I suppose she got along with some boatmen,
who pulled her about, knocked her on the head, and
threw her into the water." Replying to a man named
Gregory, who asked, "What made thee kill thy maid r
prisoner retorted, "Thee bast done as bad as that. What
mule thee turn her out of the union after I for/ I didn't
want her, and hail nowhere to take her too."—Mr. Norris.
In the course of an able reply for the defence, admitted
that undoubtedly there Wall a motive present to the
prisoner's mind, not to get rid of the girl, but to separate
himself front her, and to endeavour to get her some home.
It was true, too, that the prisoner displayed sonic disin-
clination for the girl to come out of the Union with him,
but his demeanour and conduct towards the girl showed
that he desired the girl to remain in the house in order to
rancid her from the dangers and hardships which she
would be exposed to in a roving life—the sorrows and
hardships which he would have to endure and undergo.
The only material issue was how the deceased got into the ,
water. If the prisoner deliberately pushed or flung her
into the water he wait guilty aif about the foulest der
which Was over perpetrated. But if there was any other
intelligible or rational explanation WI tO how she came
there, the prisoner was entitled to acquittal, whatever
their suspicions might he, or however ominous the eir.
cuiustances. Admitting that most probable the scream*
were those of the deceased, the learned counsel argued
that the evidence was as consistent with the girl tumbling
in or drowning herself. The moat reasonable conclusion
to arrive at was that the deceaseal accidentally fell in,
though it would not be serprising if, weary of her hard
she destroyed her life. Ile granted that then, were
such circumstances of suspicion RA Might be fairly laid
before them for explanation, hut the balance of certainty
pointed to the conclusion that however the girl Calllo to
her untimely eget the certainly dial net tied it at the
prisoner's Munk—llia lordship, in • up the Case,
Said thst SiiiSlidositiii whet. the body was (mind. it WAS&
fair inference that the screams were those of deceased
when going into the water. Probable she would scream
whether falling in or drowning herself, but if her father
throw her in it was a murder for which there WAS no
excuse: and if the evideium Mal to the conclusion that the
primmer was present when the girl, got into the water,
they might consider hieu responsible for it. His lordship
greatly regretted that the prosecution had not gone to the
slight expense of bringing a map ti explain an intricate
locality. There ought to be exceptions to the rule com-
pelling a father to take his children with hini when leav-
ing a workhouse, because it was not fair or reasonable
that a man should be prevented from supporting himself
111110•11 he took his child to starve with him,—The jury,
without retiring from their box, deliberated for • minute,
anal returned a verdict of not guilty—hits lordship: Quite
i right, gentlemen.

BLUR GowN.-Blue Govrn, who. it Will be remembered,
won the Derby in 1868, when Lady Elizabeth was such a
great favourite, and was subsequently sold by the late Sir
Joseph Hawley for .C 5.000 to go to Germany, has this
week returned to England.
WATERS' QUININE WINR iOT Sixteen Years has
been universally admitted to be the best Tonic known,
and a useful and agreeable accompaniment to Cod
Liver Oil. "We can bear personal testimony to its
value as a tonic." -Standard. -Agents for Weymouth,
D. PIDGRON and Sox, I:rovers ; Shaftesbury, G.
KERMLET, Wine and Spirit Merchant. Sherborne :
CRUMP, BROM., Grocers Cheap.streeL Wholesale,
WATERS and Son, di, Eastcheap, London; and
Lcvms and Co., Worcester.
EMIORATIoN TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA.-Tho ship Lady
Jocelyn, Capt. Jenkin, 2,138 tons, chartered by the Agent
General for South Australia, sailed from Plymouth on the
28th July, having embarked at that port GU emigrants,
who are under the charge of Dr. Mac Cormack, Surgeon-
Superintendent, Resisted by Dr. Sleeman ; and ineluding
79 single female domestic servants, under the care of Mrs.