The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

THE LATE MURDER AT ArituaTmL

In our last issue we laid before our readers a
full report, of the circumstances of the murder which
took phips, lately at Waiditob, and the inquest
on the murdered man. There are, however, several
oireamataaces connected with the melancholy affair
since come to our knowledge, which, perhaps, may
not be altogether unacceptable, to our readers. It
a that two of the chief inhabitants of the
village, which numbers about 200 persons, were
Mr., Daniel Stone, the deceased, and Mr. Charles
Pasha, who now lies under the charge of wilful
murder. They were first cousins, being the children
of brether and sister. Mr. Fooks was immediately
Am. the commission of the deed taken into custody,
and will remain so till his removal to Dorchester
gaol. The prisoner rents about 80 antes of land,
under Lord Wynford. He has property of his
own, and is regarded in the village as wealthy. He is
stall, stronedark-complexioned "fiery" man not
.very ha
inthe •illage where he was lican
and bred. Two Of his bare, : highly respectable
men. life—the one at Toiler, and the other at
Okideock,„ The unfo deceased was of short
inatbrie,' :and light complexioned, deseribed as "a
Utak joldog man." e occupied the,stme quantity
of land as the prisoner, under Mr. Oundry, the
present High Sheriff of the county. ll* also had
palmed his life in the village. He has a brother
living at Inseam Farm, near Menton Mallet, and
ie related In Mr. Garland, of Hyde. His sister is
married to a cousin of the prisoner, who lives at
Loisgbredy. The deceased was not more than ten
yarile• from the prisoner when he received the shot
which pierced the spine of the neck, and he fell a life'
I less corpse. The remark which the prisoner made
immediatelp afterwards whet his bedroom door was
burst open, points to mi old grudge, and it is said
that the bad feeling between them had its origin in
• dispute about IMMO property, and also to the fact
that the prisoner, at one time, wished to pity his
addressee to a sister of the deceased, to which the
tatter had a strung objection. The deceased also
appears to have been inclined to jibes, and to hays
terdited him about some youthful indiscretion which
had left its. etniseptenees. The holm hem which
the bloody deed was committed is a thatched and
whitewashed tenement—that of a small farmer'.—
on the opposite side, about 30 yard*
distant, is the house of the deceased, a similar,
but smaller residence. The shot from the
first barrel struck the wall of • cottage I
some 20 pads distant, tearing down the piaster
and smashing several panes of glass. The shot
which was intended to add suicide to murder passed
through the exiling of rookies ballroom. The
murderer was the senior overseer, and the murdered
Sawa. has the senior churchwarden of the parish.
AMU, being a sportsman, kept several guns in his
Mem and it is reported that on the morning
preele'as• to the murder he sent a double
barrelled gun to Bridport to be repaired, with
a strict injunction for it to be sent home that even-
ing, as be would want it the next morning for
"a particular purpose." It is mid that the prisoner
expressed demise that be had also had an oppoe.
teal* ".,of disolargieg one of the barrel. at Mr.
Stone's brother. tt first he seemed very callous to
what he had done, but he DOW feels considerably
depressed, and on Sunday morning, for the first time,
expressed a wish that he "had not done it." We
Inn&refen& that his friends now assert that he is
insane, Ana Ikea beezi for some time past, and this is
ao doubt the pies that will be setup at his trial.