The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-01-23 00:00:00

Enentination of all the

Accused Men.

It will be a trltisfaction to the country at larm to
learn that all ("lava the men eh:intr.l with the brutal
anal horrible mur,ler of Polk, Congtable Cox, at
N..therton, near Yeovil, are now gafely ',deed in
&mince vile. Many bar.l thin...no have been “ahl
mraiurt the potic,• by neople who &neje.' thenmelveg
born i,rivate ileteetive,.; and the B.anemet t'on-
otaloilaty have !wen roumlly alume.l by imtimilivant
I ,on lon orinf A—the would be e, Fifm ro for in.tanee
--for not havint; at "nee eiptured three ileAperate
11V-n. clatme.l with a 4111 more .le,perate minty, and.
emfwlerate...
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ha. .hown. that all this ritniteration has
14.-01 i. ,11.44eA 41.1 impertinent, nald that Supt.
.ritukti.wi e th,. riAt when he stuelt to it that the
fAlow4 were hanging. abent the neighbourhood.
Feat. e t !mut them down. he atarrol them out ;
erry 4hop in al, nobzhbouch.w,d where these Men
lived W:.1.4 clos-ly watched, and .11y me leavimt either
ho h to mbmit to a rizbi cross-ex:unination as to where
the mt.plies. were 7. panz. The result was as the "cute"
officer qA ;welt 1, they were bnumht to hew, and. unable
to bear therrivations beina hunted like with beasts,
their owe mental torture and their Wily privati•ini,
they :taw in. .

THE HOCAE OF THE PRI4OECE.44.

As you enter the village of ifardington which
~traggi,o mg for nearly a couple of miles, you
descend a sharp bill, and about halfway down it cone
on the cdtage of Hutchings. Ins cottag, i• mie of
th-e abotnications that sanitarY %mid,' sweep
on' the•fiee of the globe--a.lwelling which is in itself
3 hayin:k been cribbed out or the waste.
These tvretebed dwellings wav be seen lint to • fre-
quently, and their • Met-Lion:Ode feltures aro only too
But generally aft a narnav Alin of land
thy abut, on the ..no side, on the road, awl on the
other an a wall of earth awl stone, topped with an
,a,l he he. A miserable strip of dank garden ground
stretches on either4lc, u wok only as the cottage.
Vegetable gmwth is out of the I,ieution hero bat
an out-honse or other place that afford.: tempwary
shelter Is 'sire to lie foinoL Such a place gives a
fuzitive two or three exits and entrances. If he heard
any one coming down the rice! as he is coming up he
cm enter his territory at the far end, and, if necessary,
crouch beneath the hedge. If he wants to leave fie
can run up ml down without being perceived, and
can get away aermis the field at the bark if he doesn't
ch...se to drop into the road. Such a Place is old
!bitching's.

A few hundred yards down the Mad ii a big_Ter
house, where Peter livA. and where the fugitives
were Atarte4 from on Wednesday momffig, The road
her sweeps noun' to the left, giving the rascals the
additional advantage of a run round to any point
within a quarter of a mile, tinder the emwealmeet of a
fir plantation. At the back and side of his cottage
this plantation stretches to a cansiderable distance,
/Ma Obi the orther or ri.zht shle is a hill with plenty of
furze and a great deep ditch. Fugitives from juitha3
have here almost an embarrassmont of means of escape.
A woo 1 at the lack, a plantation on one side, a
meadow commanding points on the road for a quarter
a mile, a thick furze brake, a d,:cp ,litch, and at the
top a country from which they can ~lueree their
rammer,: :00l take Any direction of three out of the
four cardinal points of the compass. This was Pitt',,
t,la'e.
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-The other son. Gael, lived a mile if, up the tillaga,
hate that ha•:the advantage of standing ualerthe
the high 'reel that surround the vie:trace
sna low m
• -• • 4 three rn.vls. Attached are out-
and at the jnnetam.—
, and there were atleast
.tyes, a statue ann •
fair ways of escape for "Jeliy," 2e wai termed,
in eatie of a visit by a policeman.

THEIR C,UTCRE.

Th • way in which they twrivel into the hail& of the
ipolkai in at iimgent emihrowle•l in mygtery, or at all
events., in uncertainty.

I A butcher named Vagg, of West Coker, is associated
with their apprehension. One account says they gave
themselves up to him. Why, perhaps, it is difficult to
imagine. Another that they were in so exhausted
a c onlitiou that he took them into custody himself
At all events about eight o'clock this Saturday
mormitig, Vagg drove up to the police-station at
Yeroil, in a cart covered with a tarpaulin. "Here,"
he asked, " where's the Superintendent." A
few m .re words and the Constable (Gilson),
who had answered the door, lifted the
tarpaulin and there were the wretched father
—old Hutchings and his son Giles. "You may
depend I didn't pull them out very tenderly" said the
constable to no —who looked as if he had been having
a very trying time of it. And they were then taken
tit the cells.

-2s--;ecunt is that he met them at a place called
I 3"
Stumpt-stoue, deep cutting on rheAelMgne
when they were Is. dreadfully exhausted that they
could . der no resi.tance. All we eau say is that if
that were so their few hours incarceration in the
polic--cells must have had a wonderfully
beneficial effect.
l'Pon being 'searched at the station nothing was
found upon them, hut. it is sail the tom . 4 the trlwiers
of the old Man bore ,ts.ins of blood.

THEIR KNAMINATIHN.

This afternoon about one o'clock Mr. G. Harbin,
J.P., and Nfr. Tr ..yte-Bullock, f.r., attended at the
elation for the purpoie of formally reloading flit,