The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-03-14 00:00:00

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Hermits are nOt—cal—dCid-yet— ''''''''''' at, duhiii•
wood is still alive, and is likely to live to the annoyance
of his neighbours. He must he a very old man now, for
it is years ago since he secluded himself, and he was then
not young. lie was wealthy, bade beautiful villa at St
John's.wood, and moved much in society. Late in life he
resolved to marry. He proposed to, and was accepted by,
a very young' holy. The day was fixed. The wedding
breakfast WWI prepared, for collie reason, at his own house.
It was actually laid. But when the happy morn arrived,
the bride had departed with a man she loved better Se
great was the blow that the disappointed tirldeeroniu went
home and never stirred out again in the day time.
According to the ladies the breakfast remains on the table
to this day unteuctied. Certain it is that the once
beautiful villa has been allowed to fall into ruinous
disrepair. The garden is a collection of overgrewa ws,,jg
which the neighbours have difficulty in keeping out uf
their adjacent Rowers. A few weeks ago the conservatory
fell in with a crash. The old man does not show himself,
except at nightfall, and he is depreciating the value of
adjoining property so considerably that an action against
him is talked of.

REMARKABLE MURDER TRIAL
A remarkable trial for murder ham just taken place at
Nenagla The accused, Michiel Burke, was tried twice
before, in conjunction with his father Martin Burke, the
victim of the outrage being Stephen Scanlan, the sonin-
law of Martin Burke, and, of course, the brother-in-law of
Michael. Since the last trial, at the Summer Anises of
1875, Martin Burke, died of disease of the heart Th•
old man, Martin Burke, resided at Killenaule, county
Tipperary, and had for many yeses occupied • farm of a
acres under Lord Rona. Finding himself in embarrassed
circumstances in 187:I, Martin Burke entered into an
agreement with Stephen ScanLan,. by which it was agreed
that Scanlan Should marry Burke 's daughter, and that the
land should be maimed to Scanlan, he agreeing to pay
Martin Burke's debts, to drain the land, and execute
certain other improvements ; the old man and his wife to
be supported on the farm during their life. The marriage
took place, and Scanlan paid the debts of Burke„ who,
however, evinced • stror.g disinclination to execute the
assignment of the farm. lie appears to have been instigated
to this course by his son Michael, the prisoner in the pre-
sent case, with whom he had been for some years on un-
friendly terms, a state of feeling however, which ceased to
exist shortly before the murder. Vora; Burke was also
heard to use threats towards Scanlan, and on one occasion
he assaulted him violently, adding that what he had
, given him was but a foretaste of what he intended to give
him hereafter. On Sunday. Sept Id, 1,475, Scanlan and
his wife returned from chapel about six o'clock in the
evening. They drove up to the deer, and Mrs. Scanlan
had just alighted and entered the house, her husband re-
maining behind with the horse and ear, when a diot was
Bred, and Scanlan fell dead. The old man, who was in
the house at the time and who had heard the shut, evinced
no anxiety on the !natter, and refused to go down stairs
to see what had occured. It was proved that he had
been seen that day taking out a Run on the pretence of
fowling. This gun was not in the house at the time the
shot WWI fired but was found shortly afterwards in a
ditch close to the spot Irons which the shot must have
proceeded. It was also proved that he had been seen the
previous night in friendly conversation with the prisoner
in a public-house. The prisoner himself was seen furtively
leaving the immediate neighbourhood of Scanlan's house
a few minuted after the shot was fired, and he was arrested
early next morning in bed in a house at Thurles. The
boots which he wore corresponded exactly with footprints
found close to the spot from which the shot was discharged.
At the two previous trials the jury disagreed. This was
the Ca., again on Friday, and-they were discharged after
seven hours' deliberation.

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country.

Printed and Published—at-8, High-street West, Doscitssr.;
in the wish of Holy Trinity. by Geo- Fiurl"L.4 ti "
Pariah of Fordington. Dorchester, for the Propriteor.
Tasiglay, March H. 1876.