The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-02-17 00:00:00

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Now I bays been requested by one who was preaent
t contradict in rdion4 ifs entirety this " t.rrible
but true tale." That the sou, A men lad
drorA is &located, with a misfak a kintint.a his
neighbour. had given him apirio. That be got into a
maudlin oon lidoo of grief, and kissed his mother in
her coffin, crying out "Oh! she can't be dead, oh.
can't be dead" is also true. But that he
ever polled her out of the kO9lll. 4.4
dragged her downstairs and shook bar is to use the
vigorms Knslish of my informant, " a --
I should not have quoted bin w. rile hid
nit subsequent enquiries shown me they were not
110.iNfTVIIII. I took the trouble to look into the
matter myself, not chooelog to act tuo,n mere wet-
thole and I found that the facto were really as they
had been used to me; and the charge LI draggitg
the holy out of the c ,ffin ,tuWli.tAlf• is at ours 'li •
posed of by the indisputable fact that the c filo in
which milk Ike buy was dowitenirs at the tqwe f
Reilly
yr
it
lauell lib; buttert
he character hiarf aciatrer. Nortono his tottnshosoulldl
furthat least take the trouble to assure himself of the
truth of Ma statementi b-fore be makee them, and not
be I. at away by every g..stiping old woman or lying
toady who ohms. to ion to him.

The Mr. .L Whitworth, M. P., who presides at the
meetings got up in London a favour f the c 'uric
William., is an old gentleman of 70, and member for
Dr,gbm'a. He is a shining lishi in the ranks of the
Alliance," ai.d very go .11 nat4red. Some year a
his good Liam.. led him to li.ten to the argume ti
enrol of his teetotal friends, who persuaded him there
was room for another dai:y in L ,don. It duly
appeared, and ran about six months, and Mr. Whit-
•orth found his balance at hie bankers diminished by
some five hoses,

• •
I see by the Seto that at toe next of these meetino
.• Pole magistrates will speak." flow it it
these gentlemen allowed tbe man to be sent jut pene,
servitude bet. re rsiang their pr taste? A few wadi
from Lb' mar steriel bonen at the time of the 0... m
mitt.' would have dune him 1:11,I1) beiielit than ad
these tltle explosion+ are at ill I.keiy ever ti secom.
pli.h. I fancy it was the evenly of the sentence that
suddenly converted Williams from a pestilential
perjlrer into a martyr. If he bad been awarded two
years' bard labour only, 1 don't think it very likely
any one would have troubled •b,..ut this 'ate.

Mr. Nirton, at the meeting allude Ito above, sal,
ti,noe the •nd of August last they bed boat three
policemen—thro policemen in the prime of life—rod
there were tiro others who saw the white feather and
resigns I." Now, taken in connection with the rest
of Mr. Norton's apeeci, one must be wilfully blind if
he cannot see what inference the speakers wished hie
hearers to draw ma to the cause of those vacancies in
the fume. Can anything be mire uncharitable, I wag
going to say brutal, than theill reit ctions upon the
dead? It is true they cannot harm those who are
gone, but the poor fellows, all of whom I defy any
one to MY Wt rt not most civil,obl.ging, and hardworks
log officers, have left behind them widows and
orphan,. What must be their feeling, when they read
week after week thellittle breaches of discipline of wh eh
husband or father might have been guilty when
alive—breeche• trumpary that they were fully met
by the ceution of the superintendent or magistrate—
ate I up in public and published in the newspaper..
The temperance party cso afford Li be fair goys
Mr Norton. Let as hops they ciao afford to be
decent I and that the exception in this case, as In
others, only proves the rule.

With regaril to the tw-foonstables who "sew the
white feather," whatever that may man, and resigned
they were not by., More than 30 years' hard work
—(thus, who run out a.t .104 the polio, • should try
• lee turas at night duty when the glass is below
(retsina( point ; when they do I hope they will out
I rireL to put, bottle of giagerbeer in their pocket)—
surely has entitled them t • littia rest in the evenioir
of life. And, if lay memory 'trees me right, Mr.
Notton hiamtlf proposed or seconded the granting of
the superacaustion to sue of thorn, speaking ia high
term, of him, u,, rather, not having auythiag t i toy
again t him. which to the alderman It about one sod
the tame tbiag.