The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-19 00:00:00

WILFUL DAMAGE AND CAPTURE OP A
LuNralc.

At last the mazy man, Jobs Norihomr Rend, hag
made It too hot for bimetal', and is conveyed where be
ought to Iwo been taken .me months ago. Some
time ego this man, in whom lankily rune an eccentric
taint, threatened to stick a garden fok into Mr.
Iftruar ; hi. ensult on Kr. tile. we lately rec tr led,
end may two or thr e daps ago he threatened a in in
with a polt-r in Kime•Ptren. Od Mor.d iy
sot 11.1iPalt nine. Mr. K. C iroom roger,
F. nine'. Well, wee etaoding in his shop, when Mr.
Read came an I stood at the do r. Mr. Combs°, see-
Int( he wanted him, went ut and asked rln what
he wanted, when Read pointed to s .me buck..., and
ache I the price. Mr. C .mhen told him they rattged
front 10d. to Is. 4d. each. and Roth t. o't up two bu •kits
about 11. to le., when Kr. Comb., went% . look at the
price, which wax marke 1 on the bottom.. Reed
then lifted his hand to strike Mr. Couthen, who
sald—" What fa the matter ? I am juet looking
at the pries,. to use whet to charge yin." Real then
took out his parts and rave belfte-s .vereirn to Mr.
CI nben, who again took the bucaet to look at it, whoa
He'd seised the bucket and struck him with it. Mr.
Robert Patten Wa4 close by, and said ''H. want kp
look at them to koow what t chatge von," and NI,.
C mitten having done a', gave lie et fla chew. On
this the lunatic lifted up the bocket, and said " Mrh .t
I. it to Ir.? Law !or pay and Ite pail?" sigh g this
he dashed the bucket at p 4,. Comb-n, who jumped
sway. and it 'truck the bar .pf th, window, and
arum/led twu ve-y I tree an I thick panes of glee.. Me.
Comb n got instde and locked the door, when Real
Intel nit .. hei bucket and •un odue lit th gh ahother
pane, daeluing the ~1... in •ith 'itch vi .lence and
determinati ,n that a pane u the other or chop sde of
the cue was also broke., .tid t• a fregmeuts -cot flying
all over the sit p win low; but fortunately little other
damage wag d Me. Mr. 'outlam thot wevt and
Informed the polic ; it wars ).1 iztel the man arre not
fit tu be at line, and Mr.. Itead wus ale told. She
wanted Mr. Gtmben to have her Anshan I taker, up;
but he rood tared she was the perern to do the.. when
she went to get • certifle.te of insanity. Or. Me Lei.in
Came to examine Read, when the lunatic e.in • out
with • garden fork to pan bun thro.l.:ll. The Captain..
doctor retired on hl, line- for a to. ant a•tononi.itto,
and came on again ready for the enemy with • er.
It was new Resd's t irn to ".ff-et a strategic move-
ment to the r-ar"; but h. w wit.c.l,l by the p
and at night, when he no t d iwo as sow to
Castletown, four p tlicemen oautio• sly sirpro mile I
Mo., and au Idenly two te vet hen ..n eit, er le, oppi
to It him by force to the Polic -stritd in. whence im wss
remove) t ..he linitm, an I theme ,aft-r t
the Asylum. The ptiblc mind und-r. hill I.
calmer, being relieved from • rl.ng, which might
have broken out at any moment. Although Read has
something like insiolty in his family, it is believed
that the running-down of • verse] of his preyed in his
mind, although hie solicitor (Mr. R. N. Howard, we
believe) obtained him by way of nocomfrenee • poly-
nuptial sum.