The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-09 00:00:00

BOARDING SCHOOL ILaNAGESIENT.

Damages were awarded on Wednesday, at Hole-
worthy, North Devoc, against a keeper of a boarding
school and his wile for negligence towards a pupil
teacher. The counsel stated some strange details,
calling corroborative evidence. Plaintiff having been
engaged as a pupil teacher found that besi lee the 20
girhi. there were 30 boys all sleeping in one room, the
capacity of which the judge rern..rked warn not enough
Li. five. Plaintiff bad to make the beds in the boys'
dormit aty, which was the only place they had for wash-
ing. and as there were only four ba-ins, half of them
often went down dirty. rli• sheets were only changed
twice in oue half-year, and when measles and other
illus. occurred Holloway's p N were the only
toolichis aduald.istyd, no doctor being called. Plain-
tiff had to sleep in bed with four otheni, and when an
Infectious and loathsome disease broke out they all
caught it, and by it plaintiff, when she left, was dis-
qualified from taking another situation for s,veral
month& Several pupils carried the infection to their
houses. Althou,ch the household consist. lof seventy
persona, only one and sometimes no female servant
was kept. The ju Igo summed up .trougly against
the defendants, aud the jury awarded £lO damages.

RXRCUTION AT OXFORD.
At eight o'cl ck Monday morning Juno Hawke. &young
farmer, who was senteneesi to death ex the last Oxford
Ss,is a forth- murder .if Miss Allen, wart executed within
the walls ..f Oxford Castle. The prisoner had been ma-
im:el to Hiss Allen for about two year*, but in cons.-
qtrence of his Seemlier habits she told him she *mild have
nothieg more to to with him. On Dereashor 15 1.4 he
sent to her grandfather's hose, ant a. *he would not
reconsider her decision he shot her three times is the
bely. Bhe lingered for • Ism days, but enbeequently died
ol her wound.. Howled did not take any supper on Sunday
evening, but he drunk • pint of beer, remarking to the
warder in charge, "Here, your g..,c1 health. This is the
last pint on earth, for this time tomoirrow night 1 shall
be with her in heaven, who toonorrow morning I am
pleased to die for. He did not go to bed, but remained
In prayer nearly all night, seeming in good spirits, and
award nasally merry. He frequently kissed • lock of Kir
Allen's hair, which be had au hi. prweeasion, remarking
that be +horrid soon be with her in la . He said he
was quite prepared to die, and felt wry God bad forgives
hire for the crime he dad cd.minitted. mks walked
wail] • firm step to the seeffold, and refused any assistance
from the prison warders who accompanied him. He
quickly ascended the steps of the (silo es and 144.4 the
rOD• +event' times Marwoul, who WWI the executioner,
speedily drew the cap over the culprit's face, the drop was
pulled and Rowlea was dead. The surgeon of the gaol was
of opinion that death must have been instantaneous. The
drop was seven and • half feet, and the ripe which was
used bad done similar service four times previously. A
short time before the execution the Governor of the
prison offered Howl." a slam of wine, hut be replied he
would rather not have it as he believed he could die firmly
without it.

lirfora the execution Rowlet ;nada the following state-
ment : The morning I shot her. poor thing. she told me
that •Ile could not town' me, and the Present. Abe cat.
me I ronld burn theru or do what I liked with them. I
said, • You don't mean it.' I said, *Come my dear. and
give me a him, and she dung horsed &way from we.
After all my money was gone rou, poor thins, she gave me
the cold shoulder. and it nearly broke my heart, mid
baring such a sadden change I lost my senses for • few
sisemds, and th • crime "MG done." Miss Allen wee •
beautlful girl of 20.