The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-30 00:00:00

KILLING A MAN WITH A CART.

A gloom like • funeral pall hung over this village on
Christians Day, &nil most of the inhabitants felt
deeply the and news of the death of Mr. Charles
Lta4gs, who had met with an a cident on the previAis
lueeday. It seems that deceiteed, who wait a small
farmer, butcher, and dealer, was returning from Wey-
mouth market with his horse and van, and that he, now
Warmweil Crops WAS run into by a horse driven by •
man named Ire:and coming in the op elite direction,
and such wan the force of the collielon that the shaft
of Ireland's trap ran through the front i at of the van
and injured the bowels of deceased in • frightful
manner. Ireland went on to Weymouth, and Mr.
Beggs, who exclaimed that he was done I or, went and
saw Mr. Bartlett. He afterwards went home, and,
though medically attended, died on Wednesday.

not mown
Wee held before 11. Lodi, Boa., utputy coroner, when the I
lollowing evidence was given :
Geerge Charles Banta, grandson of the deceased, said on
Tuesday lest he went to Weymouth with his grandfather,
and about seven o'clock they lit Weymouth to return
home in • one-horse wagg.n. They stopped at the Plouth
Inn, Osinington, on the road, his grandfather got out and
remained about • quartsr of an hour; be took something
to drink there, but wee not the worse for drink. On
leaving the Plough they came straight on towards home,
and when bet•eeu Poxwell and Wartuwell-croes his
grandfather called out to a pecan coming in the opposite
direction to hold in. Be celled three times, but the
person did not do so, and the cart came against their (tie
(Bases's) waggoo, the' soaft came Ist, their weggon,
. and struck hie grandfather, who said " Ita is all over
with me." The driver of the cart said "Stop a
minute," and the deceased told him to above ttie cart
back, which he did. The man then asked what was the
matter, and deceased said he wci hurt. It. went on, and
the other mail stopped to take up his harness; witness
saw him take up some; but they went on and left the man
in the road. Witness's grandfather's cart was on the left-
hand side of the road, and quite does to the hedge, and
there was plenty of room foe the other to pass on the
other side. The other man'. horse got up from the shaft
of the cart ;it was light. Deceased said it was Oliver.
Benjamin Ireland hare asked the witness if his grand-
father told him to shove back the cart, and witness
replied "I thought he did;" but Ireland returned—" He
did not ; I shovel it 6n:eh of my own word."
William Beggs. who Ines at the Plough Inn, °soling-
ton, said on l'aes lay last be came from Weymouth with
his brother, who cause into the Plough, and had some
refreshment, leering about quarter-past eight o'clock for
his home, and about hislf.past nine the same evening, the
young man present, Benjamin Ireland, came in and tied
two pennyworth of peppermint and went on. The next
morning, Hibbs, of Winfrith, naked witness if he had
heard about his brother. and witness answerol—" No, be
left all right last night." Hibbs replied he got nia into
last night, and hi eupooded it was one of those fish carte.
Witness returned—' Oos of Odeon's ; the man called in
here last night, and it Wight be him." The pence
present, Beodunin Ireland, was the man, and the next
day (Wednesday) towards tke evening Ireland passed
witness's hoses again, with one of his carte. Witness
asked him about his brother, and he denied knowing any-
thing about it. Wanes" return, d—" You know very well
you had run into him, for I heard your own father say so
today." Be then replied that witaese's brother ran into
him, instead of his running into Sing. Witness asked
" Why did you not tall me, that 1 night hay" cone and
seen to my brother r But he aoswered nothing. The
I bone had • bad repute for temper ;but Irelaud was not the
I worse for drink when he was at witnessed house on TUOL-
day night.
Jams, Bartlett, medical man, residing at Winfrith, said
on Tuesday evening deceased was brought to his house,
and someone Paid he bad been driven into. 1) -.need add
it was • bad job; it was all over with him. Witness tild
him to go home, and he would attend him at once, and
west to his house, and examined him, and found he had
received • tremendous blow in the region of the bladder,
with severe contusions and effusion of blood, and he
must also have received internal injuries in the bladder
and bowels. Witness tried fomentation, and stimulants,
and next morning found the lower part of ilscesoors
bowels quite black. Was of opinion that death was
caused by Internal bemorrhege and .shock to the system;
he died at 10 o'clock on Wednesday.
William Webb, sergeant of polite at Wisfrith, went with
W. and C. Baia, the son and the brother of deceased, to
the spot where the collision took place, and found on the
ground a piece of Chinas Basin's waggon from the near
front wheal, compared it with the waggon, and found it
corresponded. Also took up severe' pieces of the waggon
which he found in the centre of the road. Could see the
tracks, some Of ty yards from the place of a wheel similar to
Charles Sew',; these tracks bore gradually I. the left
side till they were as close as poinitila to the extreme edge
of the road, so that the waggon could not with islet), hare
gone nearer. Could see no track in the opposite direct i in.
There was quite sufficient room for auother vehicle to p so
without difficulty. Wanes, pieked up some horse hair in
the road, and found on Bogs' wagsoo • piece of wo
with horse Lair and flesh attached; the piece of hair and
flesh fitted into • wound on the near gide of the horse',
shoulder, and the piece of wood which must have entered
the horse corresponded seas tly with the wound. Hod
seen the cart which Ireland waa driving; but there were
no marks. . . _