The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-08 00:00:00

VGLPECIDISM IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

No little excitement prevails amongst the members of
the Cambridgeshire Hunt, owing to the wholesale destruc-
tion ~1 hounds and foxes this season by poison in one
particular part of the hunt, viz., in the neighbourhood of
Longstowe, • parish situated close to Caxton, the kennels
of the Cambridgeshire Hunt. It is stated that during the
past -o.seni tio fewer than nine hounds, two foxes, a cat,
and two jackdaws have been known to have dial Iron
pnison. One of the dogs was examinA awl tested for
poison, an.l strychnine in rabbit's :ind loillock's liver fresh
swallowed wee found. One fox was analyzed. and found
to have died from arsenie, and the fog was proved to have
died from strychnine in freshly swallowed rabbit- Thy
worst cteo was, by the fortunate suspicion of a woman,
prevented from poi-oning a family. A working man
picked up a fresh rabbit near his house, and desired his
wife t. cook it. Wit she refused till,, no, IN it might be a
bait for poisoninz. Some of the rabbit was given to the
cat, awl to two tame jack laws, all of whom died from the
elect N. certain knowledge is passes...est of who the
acts ; but circumstances lead to very strong
miscreant is that has done therm slastardly and daugel;mla
s.picions
Iwint entertained against the keeper of a certain gentle-
man in that neighbourhood, who last season made a threat
to the secretary of the Hunt that there should be na faaaa
there.

STOKES AND TIIE WHITECHAPEL MURDER.
; At the meeting of the Psychological Society on Tltursalar
night—Mr. Serieant Cox presiding—the secretary, Mr. F.
I K. Munton, reel the report of an interview which be had
with the man Stokes, for the purpose of sifting tin.
' evidence as to the voices which Stokes said bad informed
him of the murder of Harriet Lane, He found the witnea.
tole intelligent, and by no nuttn. so illiterate as the public
report., of his evidence would indicate. Ile stated that he
himself was the author of his published letter, which was
thou 'lit to be beyond his powers of diction—he intended
It who private, awl did not know how or why the goal
authorities perni;ttssl its publication. Prom Stokes' nar-
rative it appeared !hut he fancied himself Posses*ed of a
kind of ••segond sight," as the Scotch cull it : ho imagined
Shat whenever he dreasusel of his deceased mother, trouble
of some kind followed. On the night before the eventful
tiatunlay when Wainwright vs. taken into custody, he
had a vivid stream of conversing with his mother; he was
consequently depressed, and in the course of the day told
his wife that lie was out of sorts, bad no appetite, and was
sure that something unpleasant was going to happen.
Igster in the day, when he looked at the hornble parcel. h.
he seemed to hear a diginct voice by his side say throe
I times—" Open that parcel r He could have worn that
I somebody behind bins uttered the words, and turned
round to look, but could see no one, and tried to dismisc
' the thing as al.tlfd. The voice startled him again with the
same words. He opened the parcel, and could never
' forget the horrible feeling that crept over him when he
saw its contents. Ile dosed it up, and Wainwright
noticed his confusion, saying "What's the matter I Yon
; haven't touched that parcel, have you r' To thia he
.eplieq, [don't ftel veil nd Law: had na tea.- Wain-
wright said. "Why, is isn't Line yet,'' and he (Stokes)
replied, "All, but I didn't get my dinner either." Stokes
adds that he slid not attsnupt to explain to the Court
; several thing*, because if lie made the slightest mistake
; the lawyers badgered him so that lie was afraid to say
I anything.

A worn-out parent iu Chicago has mimed his baby
both. Iswause he has murdered sleep.
While • Selinsgrove iniuLter wa.s in the midst 0( his
di.coayse a young man opened the church door, and stood
there casting furtive glances over the congregation. The
clergyman paused, gave the youth a withering glance, and
remarked " Go out, young man ; she's not here." He went
out. Such thoughtfulness on the pare of the clergyman
would save young men much trouble p,nd anziety in more
claws than tiglinagroie
A. distressing suicide ot a young 14,1 y. Miss Luke, the
daughter of the late Hey. Samuel Luke. of Pembroke
Chapel, Clifton, near Bristol. WM discovered on Friday
nioruing. Deceased, who was &Isn't 23 years of age, had
interested herself, it is stated, with the woman', suffrage
question, had been much given to study, and latterly had
been rather eccentric in her manner. Her body was
found in a pond near Itedland-green, not far from her
residence. _

PaILINGIC DEATH OP A CLEILOYMAN.—Two or three days
ago a young .lergyman, the Rev. Herbert Kemble, sou of
the Rev. William Kemble, rector of South Ilenningtleld,
Essex, wan well by the wife of a gentleman, with whom
he we. lodging, to jump out of Ilk bedroom window
without boots or stockings. The lady pursued him wine
distance, but lost sight of him. lie waa some days after
furl lyim in r ditch (!erAl and on Ws fag, the water
I,epig 14;4 atittoiee. to cot•ct '

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Friday iiii,rning a gun accident of A painful character
took place at Anent, near Children!. Mr. Jonah °matter,
a justice of the peace for the county of Surrey, was
shooting rabbits over his estate, with a party of friends.
In passing through a meadow Mr. Oastler shot at what
he thought was a rabbit, but it turned out to be the head
of a boy named Edwards. Mr. Oastler, who is near-
sighted, deeming he had a good "pop" at a rabbit, fired
his charge, a powerful one, which entered the boy's head
and neck, indicting frightfnl injuries. The screams of the
boy showed Mr. Oastler the mistake he had committed.
Medical assiaanse war at awe clAyntal, 4 the boy war
cons eyed home
San INCIDENT at biaalisog.—A sad and strange
occurrence took place in a church in the neighbourhood of
liartings on Thursday last A well-known and much-
respected clan was standing at the altar with his
expectant bride, a baronet's daughter. The service had
proceeded as far as the solemn question, "Wilt thou have
this woman for thy wedded wife," eic., when, instead of
replying, the bridegroom looked wildly about for a
moment, and then saying, "Oh! Daisy, Daisy, save !rue r
fell dawn in a tit A terrible Keene immediately ensued.
The bride was carried away in a fainting condition, and
upon a medical man being summoned, he wave very faint
hopes of the bridegroom s recover,.
in the muse cf thg case of "Wigrion u Ferguson,"
wag before the Master of the on Wednesday,
Mr. Kekewicli, the defendant's counsel, made the remark
that he had no authority from his client to accept the
terms which the hammed Judge had suggested as to costs.
This drew from the Master of the Rolls (Sir (i. Jesse()
the answer—" Ni authority ! What are we cowing to t
What authority do you want? Are you not counsel in the
care I What has your client to do with the conduct of
your case when once he has entrusted you with it? All
he has any right to do is to withdraw his brief if he is not
satisfied with your mode of conducting it" Eventnally
the case was settled upon terms which had licon suggested
by his lordship.
It is understood that In tte tonlesaion whoa Henry
Wainwrioht loft ba admitted his guilt, but denied that he
was this a/tual murderer. Ile said he and Thomas agreed
to despatch Harriet Lane by enticing her to Henry's pre-
stupefying her with drunk, and shooting her. This
was done, ut she was tired at by Thomas. The body was
kept in a room for a moth before it was buried under the
floor. As the confession implicates several other person.; persons besides the Wainwrighta, it has very prcia,rly been
determined not to publish it, cis :t would be unfair that
Sti,c, wLc, ao, ptobably, Innocent, slsould be under the
ne of an accusation made by a murderer.
t the Kendal Police Court, on Monday, Thomas Dixon,
15 years of age, was brought up for discharging q bullet
from a catapult at a passing tral,e 4e4; (4,611161 nm on
Saturday afteincoo. lirisamer Mulothers were out shoot-
ing at birds with these dangerous toys, and he had shot at
a luggage train and bit a van. A passenger train then
came along, and he again shot a bullet, and said to his
1 companions, "It's broken a window and hitteu a fellow
' right on the lug." No one was struck, hewaym, the bullet
being flattened against the dun on the opposite side, but
the Orals caused much excitement amongst the occupant,
of the compartment me Magisflete, Wetence4 the hey
to six weeks' imprisonment
Before Sheriff Sconce, at Stirling, last week, Jane Lynn, '
domestic servant, Denny, sued William Logan, miner
there, for £2O in name of damages, in consequence of his
having had her proclaimed in the pariah church with a
view to marriage with bins without her consent The
pursuer avers that although she is acquainted with the
defender she has not yet contemPluted inacrYing him,and,
further, that shc would not do so. For the defender it was
stated that the parties, with another man, named Wright.
were drinking together is a public-house in in Dewy, On
New Year's night, and in a jocular way it was proposed
they should be "cried" next Sunday. Pursuer's sister ,
went with Wright and gave In the "cries," with, it is ,
alleged, her knowledge. Defender was drunk at the
time, and did not know very well what was going on. It
appears that the pursuer fainted on hearing the proclaims.
two made in the church on Sunday. The case was
adjourned for proof.