The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-08 00:00:00

AN ELOPEMENT IN HUMBLE LIFE.

Fri.lav afternoon Inspector Walker, of the Brad-
ford borough police. was successful in apprehending
William Gosling (re) snd Mrs. Issisharn (54), in •
room at the Northbrook Vaulta, Bolton Road, Brad-
ford, where they had been living together a• man and
wife since last October They were brought to the
Town Hall, and identified by William Leasham, the
woman's husband, and Gosling was taken in charge
by Detective Garnham, of Ipswich, who had come to
Bradford with a warrant for his apprehension, on the
charge of stealing furniture and other effete belonging
to Ledsham. Mrs. Ledsham is the mother of ten
children, and grandmother to seven others. Gosling
was remitted to the cells in the Town Hall, the
woman remained in the police office, and Inspector
Walker, with the Ipsvnch officer and the woman's
husband, took possession of the effects in the room,
which Leash= claimed as his. Gosling was taken
back to Istivrich Saturday. The particulars of the
case are as follow, : —ln April last. Gosling, who was
• pensioned private of the 2nd queen's Regiment,
cause to Ledshain's house, who is • timekeeper and
has been in the army, and stating that he was in a
deplorable state, begged to remain until he got his
pension. Ledsham took psity on him, took him in,
and be remained as a lodger until the let of May,
when he got his pension, and showed his discharge
from the army. He continued to lodge at Ledsham's
until the 2nd of October, and led Le&harn to believe
that be was in employment, as he obtained some
better clothes. Gosling took advantage of his position
to get on intimate terms with Mrs. Laisham, and as
Ledsham was absent at his duty from 530 a.m. to 6
p.m., he waa kept in ignorance of what was going on,
as he had since found that Gosling was not in employ-
ment, but had been found in clothes and pocket
money by Mrs. Ledsham The linaband had his
suspicious aroused, and mentioned it to his wife, the
result being that on the 2nd October she eloped with
t= , stripping the house of everything, even to
and bedding, taking Ledsham's clothes, and
me whole of his three months' pension, amounting to
£Bl. She had also E 9 in head for the rent, and aa
Ledsham kept • heerhouse he thought the brewer was
paid, but found that the latter had nct received any
money for months, and being compelled to give up
his house he had to pay the brewer £22 6.. W after
the valuation of the house had been deducted.
Irezialuun ea.l his wife had been married 34 years, and
up to the time that Gosling came to lodge at the hones
she was a sober and virtuous woman. The fellow
seems to have have had such influence on this elderly
woman of 53 that she had in addition to the above
things, taken the children's under-clothing. Gosling
was wen conveying the things on a hand cart to the
station on the morning of the elepemest, and they
were driven to the railway station in • cab, departing
for Peterborouth, from whence they came on to
Bradford. Ledaham thinks that his wife must have
been drugged by Gosling, as he describes her as one
of the fondest mothers, who would not be likely to
leave her hone and family as she dia, except some
strong influence had been brought to bear on her.

A report of the resignation of General Borel, the
French Minister of War, is contradicted.
A Gunnison,lent at Rime telerraidis that Victor
Zmounuel Is ill,
_and that three physicians are in atten-
dance upon his Majesty
condo night Mr. GeorrueD,uncan, who represented
Dundee in Parliament for years, died at the age of
el. Mr. Duncan wee a inien.draper by trade.
From Florence the death is anawnosd of General La
Marmon The deceased wu in his 74th war, having bees
bons in Het He commanded the Italian troops which
took part in the Crimean campaign.
• letter liaa been written by Kr. Gladstone is which
be expressos his conviction that neither in Asia nor In
Zoom doss the present condition of the war offer any
warren, whatever for insomnia tending to bring no nearer
to bloodshed.
• man who met embarking death by falling from St.
Vincent Ricks, Bristol, on to the railway, 300 feet below
the Clifton Suspension Bridge, was emu to climb over the
roi.es of the cliffs just before he fell, and it Is believed
that he committed aikido.
Her Majrty Ma remitted the sentence of two years'
swal servitude passed by • court martial on Laurence,
"pew, of the lit Brigade of Royal Artillery, who
heed guilty of having written letters of • senditiurs
Waracter to a person at COfit
At the Wor•hipe.nut Police-court on Settatday, the
Gaslight and Coke Company. of Horseterry-road, Wesn
ialmiey, eras Med 74 foe baring autiolied Ps of • Inc
memipeting power than that described in its Act of
Parliament.
By the death of the Marquis of
will he mated in the Housed Cornmtisilestage:i=
bs beirpresuraptive to the marquiaate is the late s
Ibrother. Broad Bruee, abs bee sat slain iv
fee that constituency since lan Lord Umberto death
Berner and the Lord-Lienkmency or Wilts at the
of the Prime Minister.
illstordair• "Ace are soonrtng the country for
iihromoio ~bow. mated for • dating sees or highway
"mare, While the Rev. M. Beaumont. chaplain to the
of Lkhfield, was proceeding to his hems., horm-
emdadni eta meta, • wen accoshad him and
oked for relief. Two others Men • sod Kr.
Susoment was Muck on the heed and =Lef his ewes
oustalnind newir AA star
A ...et recoiling case wee heard at the Worm, e
smarter seedons on Wednesday. when George Pntnah
Swum, was charred with having outraged Homage
Kiri& The prosecutrix was only twelve years of his
bit no Prisoner married the errs sister, and he
eu. Augiut lest A few days atter that sweatier
in his own hoot and the if
sedoced the pmeemtailinumptiti
mower intimacy was
discovered that de girt onaas
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