The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-08-15 00:00:00

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We have admitted that the cireunistiuwes to which a e
have adverted, being generally known or surmised, it was
necessary, or at leitst desirable, that they shooki be more
fully investigated. But it must also nail that public
feeling has been revolted by the ...tuner in which this
investigation has been conducted, and by the lengths to
which it has been pushed. When the fact of the previous
existence of a criminal connexion between I kr. Gully and
Mrs. Bravo had been established, the ISAill object of the
exposure bad been gained, and it was a cruel, and even a
barbarous, sit to subject a most unhappy woman to hours
of 'eves-examination for the mere purpose of eliciting
4.taUs of this oonnexion. and even, as in one instance, of
endeavouring to extort the circumstances under which,
nearly six Joan ago, this fatal passion arose. It was at
this point that Mrs. Bravo, with a perfectly just indigna-
tion, turned upon her torturers, and refused to answer
any more questions respecting Dr. Gully, For Dr. Gully
himself no similar plea can be urged. In violation of the
heavy responsibilities of his profession, and with no
excuse from the passions of youth or even of middle as,
he abandomed himself to a selfish intrigue, and he wumot
complain of having brought himself into his present
condition. But that a crass.exanunation. even in a
Coroner's Court of a rru.h.d and humiliated woman
should have been pushed to the length it was at BaLham
is a disgrace to the Court which allowed it, and to the
manliness of every one who was in the leaat degree
vesponaible for it. A Coroners Court offers, in our
administration of justice, the exceptional instance of
admitting the examination of accused persons • and
though it has often been alleged that in Epglae4 the
general introduction of this practice V( ,auld not lead to
such abuses of it as are a itiieun,4 abroad, it must be said
that the te,„tiey just ce,wltitiesi affords painful evidence
to the contrary.

(Saf,,eda9 Review.)
It is hardly too much to say that the inquiry
an to the death of Mr. linivo iii, in every way,
one of the most di listing public exhibitions !chi& I'
have been wi in this generations. Opinions
may differ as to the necessity or propriety of so eatetuled
an investigation, but there can at least be no donbt that,
the manner in which it ha, been conducted throughna,
has given just offence to all rational and decent oar .
The daily mess of loatlnc...e scandal put before the ole.
in the newspapers ; she gloating zest with Wv üblk
audience in c4mrt, including even ' _Ma the
themselvsA. up to the enjoyment of 144 • •aenes, gays
Of social
pro. butu.
woman, to whom reputation was dimx, be- spectacle of a
the whole
her, by questions as cruel as the mg* ving wrung from
of dishonour, not only as a an open confession
.videace • the course wrang-
the
in
ling mod vulgar levity " me of those h
uwmprec.ple and
nenldteutaetainguaagilp;lipfrht oulwat.n_sai:vou:ahry
lama e..pec to set ow exampleo
of w might have
_ omusap. ure. meet unpWieent kmd.lNot
, a
.g "Mmuties, hut the of evidence and
judicial. ll:Nun, were continually broken
the coroner sitting in blank helplessness.. and
appan,nily quite incapablo of keeping counsel in order,
fc: confining the examination of withal's., within due
limits. On the whole, then, the mystery of the case
seems to he very miserly as dense as at the beginning ,• and
it may be that it would have been well to have been
content wi the first inquoat, and to have avoided this
nnossillortab e outbreak tif sciuidal. It should be observed,
however, that the foilitre of the first inquiry was due to
the incompeten.cu of the coroner, who refused to receive
evidence of importance, awl closed the case hurriedly, ; and that the mismanagement of the second infuses is also
attributable to the anion cause. As it is. this enquiry has
bona to scree the ends of professional sensation-
alism rather than those of justice, and a ben unnatural sympathy has been excited for persons who in themselves very little deserve it. The case, in hick bad been a great
study in the morbid anatomy of bunion nature, and from
thnt of view Le.,y Iv pronounced a suCCesa. As a
ludieW incident, howevei, it is much to be regretted,
b disordersia stations
s admission,
life and

TA r T,kgrope.)
"There eau be no doubt as to the propriety et their
(the 4474 concludim. It id now mom dear than ever
Mt the original enquiry wad as we at tbe time felt it our
duty to point out grossly ini.ututiessd. It signaled la
the course of the evidence that as soon as it was found
that an inqueet was inevitable. Mn.Oos wrote in Mrs.
Bravo's name to the ref to auggest that the enquirythould be held at *1 riary, and in to timate that
Mesita would be 14'0,6 for the jury. The obvious lon-
sty th
mu i..7‘...omi_ht, only a a plane with what
A
. maws IQ us men what ste_ps the law
ai the (lawn may think fit to adept. The rule on

each occootous is to offer • reward to any person not bei
the actual murderer who will turn Queen's evidence anal sio secure • conviction. The reward ought, for otnimis
remits to be a large one, and It is tar advisable that it should be issued in general terms without aoy special exclusion of the party actually guilty. So much IS clear
obviously the matter can not rest where it Ii withoat
of Jtu
„nisoorriage toze. Murder, we are o• w je,unei
hos been dope, and Us • duty that iii,bas should be speedily visited upon the it by yi
possibility, the cruel crime which has been committal
mu be brought bouts to them.

The verdict correaPtedN ProhaNY, with the lebef
of
bad been produced for the theory of sui,ide than w,„
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particular desire either to prevent or reprobate it 7
more unsatisfactory inquiry never terminated ill
.t.tafaetrary verdict, and the only result gained by th, public is a doubt whether. after all, the public eXianiiii,
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.elp the end, of
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, ,
(3 &nay Pair).
Though the inquiry has lasted fire weeks, we are es /sr
off as ever f min any light on the One point at issue low
killed Mr. Bravo? The lives of various persons base bete
ransacked in search of motives which nught conceirabr
have induced one or more of them to kill him, the pnewni; existence of such motives has been established--and thus the matter rests. Or rather, there it does not rest. far
unless this Coroner and jury, these solicitors and mused_
were honest in endeavouring to ascertain who
Kr. Brave, Ills the most immense and Mocking ill° pert. nonce that the country should daily have had forced upon
It the nauseous details of a number of incontinent ang
unprincipled lives.

THE Nur° PU1111..1:
drhiedi,ore_o:.d.:o7644
The following, received this week from Jamai be.
lady in Canterbury. will be read with intered bcineL;
of our readers:—' My deer,.—This letter is to be
history of the Bravo faintly. They are .ah Iltrri
family: This term is eleldied to the oldest (soil; 1-ttsft
Island. There is but one family of Bravo, or
In the world, coming from Portugal The
united itself to the be Castro', and the 0-.-"tl•saltir
Charles, and Alexander. The first is still &Iry
vo
able for old age • Charles married, and lei k
Itmßorawrmileovroer""lYlwil'i:sla7Zilm hman'ieeavcrl:f odlr:hughhwisouracekrLdMiedftesliorsesil leans-
Charles,
amndl43:l
his money to Joseph, who married a w
of Turner, who had three children—therlie e auft and dumb, and Melly, rather silly. ("ham deaf
the name of Bravo, and married 3yht meLurner look
knew them all very well Alexanier ~D 4117
Bravo's third son, was more than broths, tn-,„'•
father, although but • friend ; and this cloaer rnad•
existed to the last, and has been perpetuwairt
children and children's children, which bringi it dont.
ourselves. The Bravos of the generation motels with our own, i.e., the fourth, have married; we
remain single blessings. Alexander Bravo's children
were very beautiful, and grew up or brought thenueless
up in a very wild manner, clever; they only learnt what
they liked, and the rest of the time they spent M 'di
races and driving ; they stood on the hor-t's lacks LIZ
of sitting lake sensible ladies and gentlemaa ; and :nay
Bravo, at thirteen years of age, drove foorinhand WWI
an ease and grace now almost a thing of tLe past; her
skill in riding is to this day • by.woed: mem the
eldest, married twice, is now • Miss Graham in Sew
Zealand. Moses married and had six child: m. Strikes
married Mrs. Linch. Alexandeg med llaty, whs.
Alexander engaged to a Canadian. bus. Hat): amuse
Sydney Moyeey. Fanny Venetia and Na• 4 twias.
Charlie, the flower of the family, in Canals. Alexander.,
Colonel Bravo, • dandy old hechelor. John, plain, bet
the most polished gentleman to be met with, and clever,
and my very particular friend' some day I will tell on
mere of him. Sany married Mr. Carr; her
daughter is just now the talk el the island. Beautiful
from the crown of her head to her tiny feet, cleme
amiable, and delightful, she is to be married to-day to
Sidney Forster, son of General Forster, of the Ilona
Guards, and twin brother of that Mrs. Plowden whose
DV= was mentioned in the prayers' if you remember,
she had a bet with the Prince of Wales; besides, he is
related to numbers of jolly people. Ethel is a very
fortunate girl in getting such a handsome, clever mak
and so desperately is love with herself. Charles Bravo
is an old bachelor; Teddy you know of. After his
comes twins, nicknamed Toti and Tartar. Toti was is.
awful flirt; was engaged several times and broke theta
off herself' has the reputation of having broken more
than one hart, still is utuwerried, but much changed is
all respects; her great beauty, though not no great u
Mrs. Carr's, is gone for ever, and owing to great
misfortunes she is changed in herself. Tartar married a
naval officer of the name of Fetidly.. I must conclude
this history now. When I mention one of them you,
will know in what relation they stand to each other
Charlie Bravo's death has been a great blow to all his.
relations and friends, and every packet is anxioudy
looked for. Colonel Bravo. 'Dick,' writes oocaiionally,
but not often. From what he says I don't think the
parents will ever get over it.