The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-03-25 00:00:00

MURDER AT BRIXTON.

A teriiiile murder was committed at Brixton on
Fu.. syafterooon by a young g4ldeinius necoed
Seymour Buyer Kilts, a stockbroker. The accused
lived at 35, SYSII.r-road, Brixton, his mother, Mrs.
Mary itelion, aged 60, being the only °trier occupeot
of tee boas be.idee the servant. It appears th.t the
eon bee fir some time been strange in his manner;
In fact this slight mental aberration =tad beck sa
the se six months ago. He had Latterly been scarcely
ospeble of attending to badness. On fiaturdey he
took to his bed, complaining of feeling 111, and Dr.
Barraclough, who was attending hie mother also, on
that day saw Ur. Helton. All went well until about
three o'clock Tuesday, when the servant was as.
weighed to hew the incessant howling of the little pit
noodle dog, which had been in Km Helton's
bed.roont. Oa =Verlag the roan elle was horrified
to it. her mistress lying half off and half on
the bed with her throat att. She was quite deed.
Some ate at owe malted for Dr. Barraclough, who,
on his arrival, pronto:mod life extinct. It wee notloed
, that the bed-dlothee were disordered, from which it
seems that the =fortunate la ly must have made
Dome struggle, however feeble, to realist her assitilent.
Her head lay on the pillow, while her feet wen touch-
ing the fidir. The servant 84 dowe the stein in
hysteria, and nsighuours 5,00 leformed the police. A
detective, Inspector Berne., of the W vision" tiered
Lb. boas and prooeeded to the bed-room =copied by
Mr. kteltua, which eras on the seine La as that
occupied by Mrs. Helton. The unfortunate map was
found in bed, Ws night @flirt being ciivered with blood.
He was droned and taken down stars and conveyed
to the polioe.etstion. It ha, trauspired th.t the
mother and Goo had lived together for about three
years, sod he had shown himself devotedly attached
t her. It may be not 4, as a poesible iodioation of
mentel .berraticia, Nut both the thcasel and the
declaimed were under the impresaion 114 there was a
conspiracy to poison than.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AS A SPORTSMAN.
It .ugurs well for the long c inuance and prat-
parity of spoit in this country, tint our held pbscures
eleoutil Lave such an ardent Napo wter and follower as
our future King. The reo.ptioe he meets with
wnerever he goes is a proof of his great p,pulerity ;
and it can be safely said that no King .4 England
ever came to the throne beloved so much by hi. sub-
jects as the Primes promlses to be.
As • hunting man, the Prince. at one time or
soother, Ins participated in the joy. o! the chase with
roost of the leading packs of the country. He has
never been • five-days-a-week man, as his time is t
mach occupied, but that he thoroughly one. the sport
when he is out is proved by the zeal he displeys In
keeping with the lint fight. As • young man. whilst
at Oxford, he generally hunted with hod
field's hounds, and a tale ha. reached on of • rather
arousing adventure he experienced in 1860. The
Rine. bad berm out with the S uth Oxfordshire. near
Garaingtou, and was returning h,,me, when he
waa taken prisoner by a ma. named Melee.,
one of the regular "money or your life " sort of
farmers, for trespassing, On being informed that he
was detaining his future Sovereign, Mr. Hedges re-
nearkeel, " Prince or no prim, have my money,'
end he drew his emend's). Since that time th s Prince
has earned the name uf being • real good man across
country. Elgowen years ego. when enjoying • week's
hunting at Badminton, leo one want hitter than the
Prince of Wales in • quick thing over the iliddingtou
Vale ; and when stopping with 3,1 r. Henry Chaplin—
who thou kept his hooting stu 1 it the BurgherM
Chantey at Lil2oo:o—the Prince showed the L'ocoln-
shire yeomen, go ,d men and true in the saddle, how he
could negotiate 'heir c ,uutry. With the Pytcbley Isis
populerity wee proved by the euoromus crowd. that
used t ,bone to meet the hounds wheu it was known the
Prince would be out, e.• ha has twice been the guest of
L rd Spencer at Altborp, and we mutt borrow • little
from the pen of that fine writter, "Tim Gentlemen in
Week "—el.. now u. more—to dncr.be the Prince's
first day in the ',Whiled/. Alter descrihing the find
aod the ran, the dot dl. ..f which will u. t int,reet our
reed,,, at the preeent time, he goes on to say "On.
good hour did they ruo, during which his Royal High-
ness was certainly not like • candle under a bushel.
Everybody who ha I not too much to care for in him.
self paid mocked att,ntion to his performance ; and
it is not t much to soy that if over clue,, acquitted
himself to the eathfection of hie examiners, the Prince
of Wein did so on that eventful Di mains I 11,, not
trangreas the remade of confidence wish which I have
beeu honoured, in qu 'Bag the esti:gamic, of a very
hard rider and • very good judge: ' Mere are few
young moires bred and born in • Minting counter
who could h 4d their own with his It Tel Highness."
One more word from the m ,nth of Charles Payne—
the huntamen of the P. tahley—opropos of this day'a
hunting :-- Well, Cherie.," s Lrd Soenosr," and
what do you think of the Prince of Wales ? " " Make
a capital King, my lord," replied Charles, t inching his
cap. "I'm glad you think so. And why?" "Sure
tel Sure to do that.my lord; sits 60.811." Other peek.,
such es the Quorn and the Vele of Aylsebury, have
been patronised by the Prince ; and frequently when a
guest id the Duke of Manche/oar at Kimbolton he
honoured the Fitzwilliam. fie is thoroughly at home
with the West Norfolk; and at Sen,lringharn he sets
• good example ti other genie preeerven, and shows
them that both pheasants and fosse can live in the
cams coverts. His Roy.' Highness, together with
other members of the family, fr, quently honoured the
hounds in Met district with their presence, and they
never appear better pleased then when they met at
Sendringham. After the de ,th of the Prince Coneort
, the Prince of We ee Caftans I t keep she harriers at
Cumberliand L wigs until 1866, whe's he gee. Clem
up, aud Sir It Meet kliwvey he, hunted them ever
mince. Hie H ,yal iiighnees's huntsman WM Jew.'
King, and George Fin was his whip.--Sponing
Mirror.