The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-04-19 00:00:00

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Burster; Amens? a? DOCIIIJ MIMI=It
Woacarralt.—On• of the most pedal some of
attempted murder whisk it has been our daffy Ile rued
esserred at Wearier ea 'Teseday morale. The .
pargetrator of the dreadful outrage is open mee
named Walter Joees, throe M years dip, eon of Mr.
, Welter Jones of the Collismnimpeeinete, see of lbs
Oldest and most reopened cargoes ef the ellp. Anse
completing • liberal edneatioss, lie meet tattle eigneari
ins department of the West Midiaml (sear Chest
Weston.) Beltway, me up to the time of this ewer-
macs be worked in the workshops of the sesusay it
Shrub-hill, horsing lbs steamiest potties ef his
business. About six weeks sines, it appeers, he went
to Mr. Perris', voguish, Mealetesammeemet, and
asked the price of a saloon pied. Re fret asked for
the pistol on lure, Mr. Parries Muth( to let hies have
it, as he did not know him. The young esse Miss
gave the name of Smith. Mr. Pertins vit bias the
weapon, and took 10a., cm the undsret.sdi.g UNA be
should subsuneatly pay Is. more. Notting *kat kle
customer did not oall for tune days, Mr. Pemba made
inquiries after him at the address he gave, and there-
upon foetid that no "Willie. Smith" was there, we
was known there. In • few days the yew inea
turned up again, and asked to perekthe some petal
ceps. Mr. Perrins recognieing him, 'barged him with
being the pertain who had bought the pithel, eel owed
him Is. The young was denied all knowledge et the
inatter,and said he lived at Malvern, aad erase fersegier
to Worcester. No Mare Was hoard of hies we
Monday night, when Mr. Perring yea my him, has
this time he coistented bimetal with Melded shout eat-
ads the shop in company with author yang maa.
Early on Tuesday morning, soon after Mr. Pus.bd
shop was opened, be heard the skespoirme bell rug,
and looking up front an apertment Weeds he sow
Jonee walk across to glue coos, sun itsgthe oat •
pistol-ease, and ran off. The aim outlined • hityr
finished Belgium six-barreled revolver, ilea
handle. This implement it was whisk wee thp smug
of indicting the mischief whisk ensued. NOSSIONI St
this weapon, Jones appears to have leaded the MIN&
six barrels with ball cartridge, sad, puttied it in Ids
micket, to hare strolled down towards • Mid adtelalng
Pitcheroft, whore the Militia romults see emderyming
their preliminary drill. On the rood thither, erbee Is
Moor-street, he nest • tittle girl baud. Rau Hall,
(metros years of age, who was taking hoe elenee—•
younger girl, about eight years of see—fee • web. The
elder of the sisters drat saw Jose§ sittiag ea • stile,
and shortly afterwards he eau up to her and said,
"Hera. cone along with molar • yolk in a aerriege.*
She replied that she could not, for she must maks hosts
hnine. He said he would give her pigsty of
if she would go with him, and added, "If youlaZ4
some with me in dm selnalso I shall shoot yen..
Becoming alarmed, the ran away from hint, and he
iraniediately drew the revolver from his peek* and
shot at her. The poor girl happened to hue bee left
band on her left 64 at the time, sad she mothered the
ball at the batik lithe hand, the taimilepaseng threnek
the hand between the tones, sad striking against her
ski*, when it raised • large lamp. The report ef firs
arms, about eleven o'clock ia the morniag, sees
brought the inhabitants of the vieizuty to their doers,
and •myof " Murder" was raised Pot
Drew, who us patrolling at this spot, p leranstntrioes
to an entry sloes by, and securing hint brought him
back to the road, and took him toward, the Adieu
hone. On the road Drew turned his bead to look et
the crowd behind, and his premier, as quick.. light-
ning, pulled the pistol from his pocket, sad shot St
Drew's head. The aloe staggered, sad the men
tumid, but was bony pursued by Use mote dark's of
those near. Horan up Rritaania-place Into Brlleisallo
road, through Love's-grove and down into Mooretrest,
where be was for a time lost sight of. He had, hews
ever, chomp so unpropitioes route for refuge, fee
adjoining was the County Polies Seethe, sad in •
moment Superintendent Phillips, and some 1v,., six
county constables, who were waiting for their petty
sessions, at eleven o'clock, had surrounded mid were
tutelar, the neighbourhood. A very few mimeos
s-reel to drive him from the hack of the prersime he
drat entered, and he got on an outhouse, aid Into a
house occupied by Police-countable Striae, of the meaty
feu, and there ha was secured, with the revolver still
I. his hand, and in the act of raising it to police-we-
stabler,' no. His arm being secured, the weep= was
taken from him, and he was taken by Seperietatatient
Phillips and P.C. Stale to the City Police-station. He
appeared to act with great conning, be walked
quietly now sod then after kerning • comer
and in reply to three or four persona, •ho at differeni
times inquired of him as to the truth of the ',amour of
attempted murder, be said that too persons bad bees
shot, and that the man had gone the way he us
going ; and -hen the crowd were in hot pursuit of him
I, turned round and aimed at the nearest of lb. number.
On searching him at the station home • number of
edeklocke were found in his pocket. He appears son
to have known anything of the girl BAIL and his ens'
duct is believed to be that of • lunatic As soon es
information of the occurrence reached the ensiles-
house, a cab was despatched to Moorotreet, to the
house to whiab Drew bad been lad, and Drew and the
girl Ball taken up, the former to his bones, and the
latter to the Infirmary. U,. Everett, target's, Weeded
Drew, and found that be had receieed • deb eimead
ocly—that by an extraordinary accident the ball must
have entered his mouth, and gone out of his cheek,
pawns beteeen the upper and lower jaw, without
fracturing any bone. There was considerahl; hemorr-
hage, but no immediate danger is apprehended, The
pistol is in the charge of the dowel polies. Showily
after soon the prisoner was tabu into the polies-ever%
and formally remanded for a week. Throoghout the
whole city the deepest sympathy with his parents is
expressed by all chasm His father wan me of the
candidates for the olio, of surgeon to the county pet
at the election which took oleos at the ression bold
lately. Upon a more careful examination of Drew's
mouth it is found that several of hi. teeth ere blows
out, and part of his tongue out out by the
Mat.T.—Mr. Gladstone has rather • Medea., to draw
out the thread of his verboany finer than the eta* cif
his argument. With a sundial of marls two mallow
ants half to dispose of, be takes a Teensy off the income
tax, and abut an equal gross an.. off the duty ea sugar.
And he takes three hours to inform the House of
Commons of thine two simple elements in his budget.
—We are not surprised that he refuse at present te
touch the malt duties. Nor is it to be woadered at that
he deprecates further agitation on the subjest. N.
doubt
expected
is becoming more formidahlis than
he el when he last year told • deputation of
(*noon to agitate if they anted toget rid of the hex. The
fanners took what be told them "at the feet of the
letter" in • manner equally unwelcome and souposted.
—There is something rather disingenuous I. his present
mode of treeing this question. England still driaks
beer, but Ireland and Scotland have become maims M
dram-drinkers. The tax on malt, which has raised the
cost of ult liquor at least 300 per mat, to the=
consumer, has almost annihilated its use in
and Ireland, and yet he ventures to say that to repeal
the duty is unduly to favour England. One would have
been inclined to think that, injurious as this lan bed
proved to England, to Scotland and Ireland Its nulls
bad been absolutely disastrous.— His antertion that the
repeal of the beer duty, levied is the revolutionary war,
had never been recovered, in censorious
ounminption of malt, though trim in letter, is entirely
fallacious. The repeal of the beer duty amid not be
followed by an increased consumption to any great
extent, because ttie production of malt liquor was WI
subject to a microscopic espionage as the part of the
Excise, and has remained a virtual monopoly. HMOS
the reduction of price has not hose in proportion to the
amount of tax repealed. Had it been other-arias, the
suite would have been very difereat, not only
In England. but in the sister kingdoms. —No doubt •
penny off the income-tax will be popular, awl there is
some ingenuity in Mr. Oladstone's aaggestion of re-
ducing the incomedax because he does not tooth malt
The grievances of direst taxation are always more per-
sonally felt than those of indireet. Heusi the produce
of waking Om income-ter, which is a direst personal
nuisance, a competitor with the malt-tal for reducdthe.
On the whole, the reduction en the price of sugar will
not be more than • halfpenny • pound, sod so sun •
reduction in price will hardly ineroari sonsemptio•
sufficiently to recover snuck al Um tax.—On the other
hand, had Mr. Gladstone dealt with the mall-tax la •
statesman-like manner, he would have totally repealed
it, said so finally settled the quaintion ea far as regards
feeding. To providc for tbe three minims el reuses
minted be would have imposed • moderate duty on the
finblied article, beer, instead of the raw tutorial, malt;
and probably the simplest mode of doing this would be
to require the polite brew-re to keep a book cuteiniseg
nu entry of all beer 'old daily, with its pries, sad a levy
a percentage on that price.—If this were due, the
price of beer could be reduced from ((purposes a pot to
twopenoe, and an increased 0001.1/1111pt ion would seem
redintegrate the romans. The only ilia:4l4 is private
brewing, which we have always thought amid he dealt
with by 'reeking private brewing returnable amoog the
mused taxes, and charging the duty as • geresetage
on the rental. Them is no more reuse to Guru
that there would he fraud in ratemieg private browned
than in returning dogs or bores. • and as to Mr. Glad-
stone'. difficulty of collection, bacium of 40,000 tremors
as gene 13,000 snaltaters, there is a beerorm already.
—We believe if Mr. Giedstou bad not allowed his
personal feelings against the leaded interests to kave
influenced him, that such • policy as we have poised
out would here been • greeter relief to the
than what he has proposed. Malt would have bLorta
free for feeding putout& Irshiad sad limeland would
have been gradually weaned from whiskey. The
English labourer would no looter have bees drima to
the public-bow.e. Beef, mutton and wool would have
become cheaper. and we should no topper itstliatraral
decrease of 90,000 acre. of cultivation in i
of 450,000 head of do:h.—Tie Realm.
DISCOVERY OF VA LIOABLI PIOPERTY. —ESA, IR
Tuesday morning au of Her Majethy's keepers wee
making his costomory inspeetiou of ths Royal dee Is
Windsor Greet Park, and on his triad Sas deer Pea
by gears Bells theerved his deg remain for some
distance babied, and to leers the plass reheatteatly.
ike keeper reamed to the 'Ma, and feud the dog had
seretabed • large bole in the moth. The dog ooetineed
teariag ep the earth nntil at lasteau to • beaker-
, width thetained a lams onntiose of 'skiable gold
sad silver welshes. also • quatity of geld sad silver
theme. The property had evideetally leen stolen and
pissed owe duets, the night, se thou .11k. watches
were milli ecath with the right those( the usethire hedi-
wag, Is is upended that them areal, a may prove le
he • portion of the plunder from a house at Henley-on.
Thames, whisk had ham broken into sad robbed the
night previous.

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FATAL CILPIaINCT.-01 Wedueedsz
the Rev. Thomas Wilson. the
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the Roam catholic inmates ofrw.
Liverpool east-
house, died from the effects al typhus fever, esught Ia
the diasherge of his duty. Mr. Wilms, who tree about
30 run 0(.,, was takeu 11l a weak ago with foyer,
which wen shoved Itself Is a etalipiest typhus I.
and betoca stout robust use. his suirsdarea:•••7
wat• Mr. Wilson is tbs dist Ram
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