The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-17 00:00:00

ARREBT OF A BUPPOSED MURDERER.

On Christmas Day • young man named John
Hanley ware dabbed to death on leaving a publichouse
In Yorkatreet, Leeds. His murderer was known to
be a man of bed character, named John Ross, with
several aliases, titer the murder he disappeared,
and, as no trace has been found of him, the Govern-
ment have leaned • reward of CM, and circulated his
portrait and description. In the latter there are two
marked peoulierithes. One, that his eyes, se some
poetic individual once said, look lovingly towards
each other, or, that in plain language, he squints; the
other, that he has • mole upon the left shoulder. On
Wednesday evening last an individual, apparently on
the tramp, went into the Haltater'e Arms, Leybend•
street, and called for • plat of beer. The consumption
of this occupied him scene two or three hours, during
which he appeared very sexious a) avoid being seen,
and refused to go into the taproom. Nothing, how.
ever, Iva. thought of this, but on the following day the
landlady, Mrs Stevens, had to attend as a witness at
the Town Hall. On pawing the police stational» saw
tb eertralt of R 046, and at once declared that it was her
mysterious customer of the night bef ire. She gave
i 6111614306 to Mr. Sept. but, who immediately sent
out la wank of him. He was shortly after be aight in
sad certainly presented • most remarkable Skean to
the wanted man. He not only possessed • slight
squint, but was marked with a mole on the kit
shoulder. He wse very tailors, refusing to give his
Dame MI I say 111 re thal th it he had coma from the
other sue of London, and was 2.5 years of ege. The
murderer's age is stated to be 27. Howev•r, he so
nearly answered to all particulars that Mr. Hunt
divained bier, lie was photorraphol and his carte
forwarded to Leeds, but on Friday night • telegram
was received from the chief of police of that place
stating he was not the man. Accordingly, on Stator.
day morning the " cuepect" was released, mid with •
few chilling., some bread and cheese, and • written
"p..." from the Supt.. was started once more on his
paregrioationa by no means diepontenteri with his
adventure. We 'believe he afterwards visited some
publichouses, where his (un)varni.hed tale was eagerly
SO" ned to, and conduced to his having a pleotifal
supply of base on the cheap. The part that seemed
most to be relished was when he narrated how hie
portrait was taken, and told his hearers bow be mode
up inch awful faces that bis own mother would nut
have rec rgnised him in it. This, it may be stated, was
a little item born in his own fertile imagination.

111 NB 0 RN 1.
airy ANSMONS.

FRIDAY.
(More Mr. C. J. Parke, chairmen, Rev. C.,rr-Gilps,

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A couple of labourers, of Winton, named Levi
Walton and Henry Barton, neither of whom ap
were summoned for a game trespass on lands, il'
belong-
ing to Mr. John Austin, an 1 situate at l‘inson. A
groom In :the employ of the prosecotvr deposed to
se log the defend...la fereetin4 in 3 onpany with two
other men, who, however ran away b•fore they could
be indentified. Barton mught • rabb.t and killed it.
—They were each fined 40., and co.s..
John Owen, labourer, of Constitution-hill, wee
summoned by the police for drunkenness on the 29th
of December.—P.C. Northover's story MY that on the
slternoon of that day be found the defendant lying on
the BournemouthYoad, helplessly drunk, in fact so
incapable wea he dieting had to be taken home In a
cart, fin the other hand the defendant declared he
was caning at the Mine not from drink, but illness,
and he nailed his landledy, Elisabeth Rockford, who
was with him at ttit thin, sad who declared that he
was ill and not drunk, that be was often taken soddenly
Indisposed and ease fell into the ire whvn so affikted.
—The Bench gave him the hinvfi of the doubt, and
dismissed the csee. -

George Aisle and John Yeomen were rammened for
it llPseeiM on lands adjoining the Ticbborne estate,
over which Lord Wimborne has the right of shooting,
oaths nod o lest mouth.--Goorge &Amain. • limo-
keeper, more to bd.h defendants as haring bait
engaged In the treenam, but Yeoman called three wit.
asses, wbo incontestably proved he waa net near the
Osee 4 the time, apd the case against him was di..
missed.—Lisk pleaded guilty, and was fined El.
Joseph, Wok and Ralph Opine'', of Lytchett
Midterms, and James Burt, of S .ftroda. ter Marshall,
were summoned by the police for cruelty to a horse.
—Captain Cla k-Kennedy deposed the defendants
with others were engaged in Umber clewing, and be
raw them beating the three hones attached to the
car, lege unmercifully with large sticks, the waggon
haring got embedded in the mud. All the ho sea
shovel marks of blowy, but OM especially its chest
being a evened with a greet deal of blood.—ln answer
to tit Chairman, hoover, the witness said on account
of the distance be Ins sway from them be could not
swear to either defendant pm e lirtlr as having Inflicted
the blows.—Stephen Head, gamekeeper to GePtale '
Kennedy, eolunteeral to give iridium, but be7mbil
not carry the cam imam, and the Bench diem
George Rattan, taborer, of Mason, was Abed be. fee
drunkenness.