The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-12-08 00:00:00

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FATAL AOCIDENT TO THE HON. HENRY

NELSON.

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A melancholy accident occurrid to the
Nelson, youngest brother of the B.it Han. I
Nelson of Trafalgar Hone, user Uownboa. ml
honourable gentleman lived with hie mother, the
Dowager Countess Nekton, at Lndbrd Hams, and
also occupied a farm, celled White House Pans, at
LudforcL It apples" that en Baisldayafternoon
Mr. Nelson took a little aid wee
in the act of returning toel Hones, when the
accident occurred. On hia arriving at th. Itinidnon
Gate, Matilda Moody, the wife at the platelayer,
noticed that the horse was very restive, and abis
inquired the cause. Mr. Nelson told bee be
it 6d been frightened at a bons-threshing
near the road. The animal bolted, and the =forts-
nate gentleman was thrown c and dniggel see
distance. He received very w
ere—injuries, and
when taken up be WM perfectly inseneffile. He
was removed to Lndford Homes, where be die' d the
Same evening. The deceased gentlemen Was very
much respected in the neighbourhood, and a large
circle of friends are thus thrown into mourning
by this sudden bereavement.
An inquest was held on the body at the National
Schoolroom, Ledford, before R. M. Wilson, Esq.,
county coroner, when the following evidence was
given :
Matilda Moody saki she was the wife of Reuben
Moody, the keeper of the &Adorns turnpike-gate.
She was standing at her door on Saturday last close
by the gate, a little before three o'clock, when the
saw Mr. Henry Nelson on bonebaok, elides"u
to get through the gate. The bone was restive,ria
not succeeding, he got off and led it up lobe gabs.
He paid her the toll, and she asked him what had
frightened the horn, and he replied that he thm
it was the noise of a horse-threshing machine.t
tightened the girths, and she tried to hold the bone
as be mounted, but it broke away from her I twang
right round before he had both feet in the stingps,
and paned through the ante. After it bad gain
about 150 yards it bolted, and she loin sight of if
when it arrived at Mr. Jukes residence. The
deceased was then on the hone.—The threshing
machine alluded to was not near the road.

Joseph Enna said he was butler to the Dowager
Countess Nelson, of lAndford House. He was
with the coachman and carriage of Captain Nelms%
on Saturday, about a quarter before three o'clock
in the afternoon, when he beard a horas,gsllop by.
The coachman, who could ass it, rid 1- Ws Mr.
yinq Nelson's horse. He got off the box of the
and ran to the gate. He saw some one 1 in
road, about 150 yards up the bill, a little
Captain Wigram's gate. Witness ran up to '
and took hold of him, but he was sperohler
He could not find any bones broken, and be Urn
took Mr. Nelson out of the middle of the road,
whore he was lying, and put him by the ads of it,
with his head lying rather higher than his body.
Witness ran back for Captain Nelms, and they both
want up together to him. Witneee raised Mr. Nelson
Warring posture, and he became yr, siek,and threw
up a quantity of food. The carnage WY broughtl
and he placed the unfortunate gentleman in it. and
Want with him to landlord House. He threw up •
little blood on the way, after he had loosened Is
necktie. Witness believed him to hays bra sonaiblit
for a minute or two. He was undressed and placed
in bed. Mr. Corr, surgeon, arrived within an hour
and a half of the occurrence. Dr. Taylor, of
Brassy, was sent for, but did not arrive until ;Rex
death, which took place about a quarter-par eight
o'clock. Mr. Nelson was 28 years of art last illy
About 12 yards from the spot when be found lin
wither observed on the ground a mark se if be
been dragged that distance. His clothes had
of having been rubbed along the ground on:
shoulder and knee.

Mr. Cesar, surgeon, of Dovniton, said be reached
Landlord House shortly after five on Saturday
evening. The deceased was insensible, and ap-
pamtly suffering from concuasion of the brain.
There was a slight abrasion of the skin on the knee,
and a slight contusion on the right side of the heed.
Occasionally he spoke, but was not sufficiently 001.
looted to answer questions. He lived about three
hours and shelf after witness first AIM him. He
was with him when be died. About baDan-hous
after he came be rallied partially from the 0011.
CUMB/011, but then symptoms of compression of the
brain met in, and from that be never rallied.
There being h 0 further evidence, the jury returned
a verdict of "Accidental Death."

EVERLEY.—Perry tisamous, FILIDAY.—Befog•
T. E. Fowls, Esq., M. H. Muth, Esq. M.P., Rev.
J. H. Gale, and Rev. H. S. C. Crook.—
Few was summoned for assaulting a little bofe°43
years of age, named William Rowley, on the 7th of
November. The defendant discovered that the beam
of his plough had been out by some one, and as the
complainant bad been bird-keeping in an adjoining
field he accused Howley of having does It. The
defendant then took the boy in his arms, and carried
bin, into an adjoining hedgerow, where he put
chain round his neck and throwing it over the
•of a tree,be pulled him about two feet off the
This wan corroborated by the complains+. e
sister.—The Bench sentenced the defendant
to three month.' imprisonment,—John Kimbra
was summoned for saardting Henry Barker, se
Purvey, on the 18th November. The complainse•
failed to make out hie case, and it was dismissed.
The summons against Samuel Holmes for assactlthag
Jesse Hailstone was also dismissed. --Eliza Perry,
of Collingbourne Kingston., for using threatening
language to Elisabeth Walker on the 19th October,
was ordered to find two sureties in £lO each
to keep the peace for six months.—
Emma Gale was summoned for emmulting
Mary A uni Potter, at Collingbourne, on the
11th ult. There was a cross summons in this
cue. The parties are neighbours, and live under the
.me roof, and they were each ordered to emtet into
their own recognisance* to keep the peace for six
months.—Henry Mamas, for fighting in the publk
streets at Collingbourne, was fined sa. 6d., including
expenses. —William Cook was fined 4s. 6d., includ-
ing 00144, for damaging grass at Pewsey, the property
of Mr. H. Pike.

WAHHINSTER.—Licruaz os CHURCH RAM.—
On Thursday evening, C. Williama, EMI., of London,
the secretary to the liberation Society, delivered •
lecture at the Temperance Hall, on the "Objection. to
the system of church•rates, and the measures widish
have been proposed for their abolition."—Mr. Farmer
took the chair, and briefly introduced the lecturer, who
thanked the churchwardens for having been the means
of bringing him to Warminster. —lin Williams argued
that cburch.rates were unjust, and said that not one
churchwarden in twenty would defend them on the
ground. of justice. Churchmen complained if they
had to support • district church they did not use,
but how much harder did it fall upon the Dis-
senters whom form of worship differed so widely.
The people in this country had, alter all, very imperfeet
views of religious liberty. They would never have
religious liberty until they had religious equality. Ths
state of things now existing was, he submitted, never M.
tended when the Establishment was first formed. The
lecturer referred to the Parliamentery debates upon the
question. What advantages they had gained, whited'
vantages they were likely to gain, and what would be
the result of the struggle. The lecturer semilisded
by urging them to do what they could to Neer.
its entire abolition, which he wished should be carried ea
in a mild and conciliatory spirit. The thanks of the
meeting were given to the lecturer and chairmen, sJ
the proceedings terminated.
WAININISTZII ATILINAUM.—The last tly
lecture was delivered on Tuesday evening bymtarater-
house Hawkins. Esq., on "Geology, as illustrated by
fossil remains." As us always the ease when this gen-
tleman visits the institution, the lecture wee well
attended, and was delivered in so plsasing a manner that
its stores of valuable information will not mon
be forgotten by those who were privileged to hear It.
The ruarvellcsudy quick and correct power of chalking
out the outlines of animals, possessed by Mr. Hawkins,
added to the many large sheets of pictorial illustrations
exhibited about the room, brought the subject vividly
before the audience, and appeared to please them very
greatly.
WOODFORD.—A very interesting lecture was
delivereckin the schoolroom of this perisb by the Rey-
E. Duke, of Like House, on Friday evening, on the
"Mountain Scenery of Switzerland." There was a
crowded andience,and he kept the fixed attention °lbis
hearses by his very graphic amount of his own sacest
of Mont Blanc. His descriptions were muck aided
by some excellent Wow/v.600s in water colours by
Mr/ Duke. The villagers retired well pleased With
their evening's entertainment.
TISBURY.-Bumms Dcarit. —On Saturday week
last Mr. Henry Howell, • farmer being at Mould=
Farlagh, came to Tisbury to visit his brother, Mr.
John Howell. He appeared quite well with the
exception of a cold on the chest. On Tuesday
evening he complained of • pain in the obese, but
after supper he seemed better. He was in the ash
of looking at a book, from which his daughter was
singing, when be suddenly put his band to his fore-
head as if in pain, and immediately expired. Mr.
Green, surgeon, attended,but life was extinct. An
inquest was held on the body before R. M. Wilson,
Esq., coroner, on Thursday, when Mr. Green gawp
it as his opinion that death bad reached from the
rupture of a blood vessel, and • verdict to that tack
WI returned.

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