The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-13 00:00:00

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ACCIDENT THROUGH A TRACTION ENGINE,
In the Exchequer Division, May 5. before my um,
Pollock and • special pry, Budd a
m Harris was au scam
to rmocrr ropeneetein for personal injuries arising
the gagged negligent management of • tenttraction mem. The defendant attributed the accident to the fault plaintiff hituself.—Hr. llVlntyret .', n
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`..... mid Mr. ors..
~,,,d for the plaintiff ; and sir. llLeod represented the defendant —ne plaintar it 7,,
butcher end doMer at Overton, in Hampshire,- and ift: defendant to. gentleman of eonsideruble nevem, uri
at Whitchurch in the same county. Oa db. tgd, IL.st
liCa, the plaintiff ram returning front Basingstoke to Ma church in his horse •nd cart, sod • traction algae mid
by the defendant ea, going the mine road from 0%4" station. As the plaintaff approached the eagles etow.t;
the plaintiff got out of his cart and led the horse some
distance beyond the online Before the phentiff had mr p into his cart the eng ne started and to friglitermf
rsonie that it reared, knocked Use Punta dem. the
re,4
dragged one of the wheels over hi,
s thigh. A
' g0tt.....,
topped the home, and the plam ff w take. 6.--.-7.
another conveyance. The Phutittlf alleged that he suffered
I great bodily suffering, a actable:tie Ices i&ehis brain..
vaneirlzrefirom, itterzntrattifl iortion of _ j lee. tmy
04 .
aooordingly.
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OUTDOOR RELIEF AND PAUTRRISS.
A Parliamentary return recently obtained at the -thee,
of Yr. Mellor, the Conserentive member for Asitt:ii.
Ly tut, coutalna souse • Skiable statistics as ti pe eicaw--
tire con of relieving al:de-bodied paupers in and out ef workhouse, and ought to disabuse rand rued.o inn
cotottoon delusion that it is cheaper to give • man kep.a
croon • week am us out-door pauper th..ate how
hut:then of his entire mainte
w nance as an in.door papt.7
It is well known that those counties in •hieb
low-et—that is, where there tilotu.ensonfitheria
mining industry --ore also those most noticeable f --
exceesive amount of pauperism. And at, aaa
?neatly supposed that the miserable wage received hy
um labourers of, lay Dorset sad Devon, rea
reason forth. very great percentage of int
coantlea The fact that in Donetshine about on, at a
covey fourteen of the population is throeirally in a the of peuperism. is of ten explained by the circeewww.
Dorsetehire wage are en low as itheci owe to "meat
"ability of provision being ,11114. for the eraie.7
casualties of • laboureee life. Bat an examinees
the facts, as shown in Kr. Neyorti, rrtnrn
, tato
the concluslen that meanie. a tot. 114 Indasze
Ware the hem tatetehts teem %Mien% and
The tree exenneeetell of the to. ',nee. sad
tiee peeped= oil cierteht caw*, in the Wend Seeleee,
.nd of Dimly th. whou of Wain, al the had gems a
poor-law etinetaistratioa, eieetielly the layieh gietehawn
of outdoor relit And the proof is that in other ethane
of a similar dam, wham • better sythe the hews iede
the see just referred to orempige ihawawct
hig, with
most beneficial caosequences to both steate;e:
Plo7ed- Speaking broadly, th'en 01Pthrsense in
chief induerial counties in 18767 the ether e
the suers population of each district, sith
whore lb. cent Sulk of the labourer. med is
...kn.. „nu. the charge the over ss. • bed are ta
. The thee i
Derbyshire walk Tot, in Durham. Chetive,
West Riding of Yorkebtre it was la. ; with is Lem.
shire it was only b. Id. per head. Gelman/sr with thee
hives of industry, the yroorratis charm to LmohatMe .rm In Norfolk. 7el Racks. ss. Id. ;j Somme,
5.31.; in I/Jr•Dt, iSt 51_ ;in Conoridnehim, 1111.. ia
Wilts. pearly 64: in Radnor ISs. 9d. : eied la theme 8. 41. per peed of the nopulatith. The usenet.' Is that In the populoue unions pauperism tithe distaelefel
to the minds of the Ignorant and unskilled thie tench i•
always ready to live upon the labour of ote,ca eblld in
tbe rural union, the opposite wars' D adopted In the
wholesale administration of out-door relief, by which a
man's children thing him money morel, by ea, her..."
• practical premium Is given to Improodsuce sad idles...
In the four manufacturing ao4. mintor meta ihw.
named, where the cost of esithertem ranted from fa 7d,
to Si 24. Per hew] lon 1876.7. 'he snot spat to to-
rebel represented from 32 to 91 per cant of the mute
In the agricultural mantis., where te caw
ed se. per head or upward., the on-doof PAW DDI
only from about 16 to 94 per cent Newt no the feet
expect, stands at the 'sty bottom of the Englishman's,
ear 164 per cent of the poor.law eXpelplitan be
drfOted to is-door relief. Somerset it not each bete.
the pets being 611 per cent., while that of Witte ea ts
per net In dinglosey, where the btal c-as of enema
per bead was Sa. 4ci, or about four titthe that of Lee,.
ahaat only 41 per cent, of that expenditure was devoted
to In-door r.uef. against 593 per cent. in Lte,inft.
Another contrast, entirely between turicei.nr,a
ought logo far to decide the cretiovere. Tn. re emu,
eountiee- Cumberland. WestmoreLnd, and Sbr othtio-ei
which the oat of pauperism is alone at as kie • Intl a.
ID Derbyshire or Durham, and lee than hall eke
it is in Wilt. Of these favoured el:steer.% te
most renituirable is
.Shropettira, which • few mars aro
was in no better rondtrion than lb,. ec.icatac.y t..
pneralt Through the ex-rtious of the I ite S. B ,tioe
Leighton, an enlightened Conservative lentilortt, tertian,
Unions resolved to restrict the diitrilotton of ander
relief solely to the more deserving poor, ad ~, iaga 0.
the thriftless the test of residence in the work both. The
results are most remarkable, and deserve the cosuideanie
of every one desirous of raising the moral roaditioe of the
labourer. Within a small fractico, oni -half of the ,fst
pauperism in Shropshire trent in tile erve of is-lost
relief Is 1876-7, with the effect of redeme the thaie
the population to 2i. .4 per bead—beint the than half
the expenditure per head of &menet Dorset, ad Wilt,.
In round numbers, the difference is Nei to • yeti, Os
of .019.000 the inhabitants t I Dorset, t 0)
if (
IN reeds ta inWirldth. and of £70,V30 as regards the pope
of Somerlt —Bread Nerewrg.

THE ALLEGED MURDER NEAR BATH.
aumczo TO DTATP.

At the Taunton Assizes on Monday and Tomb',
before Baron Huddlestone, Catherine ("media 50,
charwoman, was indicted for the wilful murderof her
husband, Samuel Churchill, at Knowle st Gam sear
Chard, on the 14th of March. The Court we medal
with spectators on both days, and persons via bud
bonnie, in the hall experood great Acuity is
getting in.
Mr. Hooper and Mr. Warry prosecuted; lb. Si.
Aubyn defended the prisoner.
The facts appeared in our paper at the time of the
occurrence. Churchill and his wife lived in ea iodated
cottage in the little village of Knowle, situate midway
between Chard and Sturminster, the only oi her occu.
tent of the dwelling being an old woman of 99, the
wife's mother, who was bedridden, and neatly deaf sad
blind. Churchill had been married twice; bin irst
wife died about 25 years ago, leaving an ..nly daughter.
who is married to a man named England. Moot 10
years ago he took Kitty Welders to live with him, sad
for • period of 18 months she lived with him as his
wife. During that time she bore a son, who was
named after his father—Samuel. After they liscl less
living together for about • year and ',half the pewees
were induced to marry, and they did so. Bat their
marriage life bad been an unhappy se, an/l, as atir
readers will remember. it tenxinsted fatally on the
morning of the 4th of March last,on which morning. it
is alleged, the wife murdered her husband The
motive for each an atrocious crime WaS distinctly
traceable, and the woman was put upon her trial on
the charge of wilful murder. The wife had hem beard
frequently to utter threats against the II moo; she
had described him as an" old devil." whom she welled
dead, and in other similar terms. In the coarse of
the prisoner's examination before the magistrates she
admitted that on one occasion she gave her linefeed a
blow upon the head with the blade of a turniolsoe,
and cut his skull open ; but pleaded that she did "
in self-defence. Her expressions towards him were
adduced in evidence as indication, of a vinlest Wed
On the morning of the 4th of Nfarch lasts ranee
named Whatley palmed the deceased'. cottage sad
heard groans. She 'topped and listened, sat thee
heard cries of " Murder, 'in oil Churchill's voice,
which she knew. She went to the beck of ths
big, and, looking through a gap in the beige, bed bon
thenos into • window saw the hack and shoulders of
a woman inside moviiigtoo and fro in front of the Ire
place, as if she were pushing something Men eiss
the fire. The wittiess went te a tell near with bet
husband's breakfast, and than returned agsin tad
when near the front of the cottage heard the key owee!
in the lock by someone inside. It was weal "eu
known in the village that Churchill and his wile heed
very unhappily together, and tLcrtiore lesse NAM
was taken of these sounds. But when about two hewf
afterwards Mrs. Churchill came out of her dweller
end called in a labourer, telling him she had biannY
and commg back had found her husboad en the ke•
burnt to death, suspicion was awakened. The
police were called in, an examination was made. sed
spots of blood were found all o+er the nom, deetial4l
traceable from the fire-place to the front drew, sad se
the table, and bloody finger marks were nose the
sawn at the side of the fire. The old man was best
to death, his head and shoulders being as didgesud_.,
that he was hardly recomileabla His feet se"
shouldsn were charred, and when the doctor am' to
examine him the greater part of the almll idl dr.....
the shoulder was so math burnt that tbe nth"
only hung by a bit of {bay. The case lat
the prosecution was that the wife murdered the old
man. He had it appeared made a will in ismer n
his son, boueathlig to him some house pommel
which he had • but his we had some time er
with his fthher and left the house. The old less
threatened to fra to Chard and alter his will is isysse
of his daughter, but the wife prevented hiss kme
doing so. On the morning of the 4th ol Blank Sr.
the son (who at times visited the how bet sot WO.
his father was there) breakfasted with his wenn
before his father was up, and thee left the hawk lb.
supposition was that the father beard him elowesmns
and determined he would put up with it no knew;
and put on his beat breeches to go into Chard allo
have his will altered. When he came down ie .bel`k
fast his wife, having a imapicion of what be was
to do, made up her mind to thwart his dmerre.:,
conjecture Ina that the struck him on the 0" with
17;
• bellook. that he put up his head to parrY wed
second blow, w and 'waved • cut tipoa the fOssfelleiva,
the left hand. The old man fell, and his wow
put him upon the fire to try and obliterste the !!!!!
bysewamoutntedae IcirooviollitictEeshadThassr.:l:itfitbiter:dle
v.imeatalanibi
°lgitereting the cute on the scalp is obvious. It%
have said before, when the doctor touched ".
to move, it the back of the bead tumbled og•
witnesses were celled for the defence einullb,__ aii,..et; the
t.„..Au13711 mad* an eloquent speech, Poinum
of the mei. res
—We jury rTitired, and after being &beat g
bow and a half, returned into Cowl and esfel*
thagemuld bring in a verdict of manalautinse.,
exPleined the law upon that point, end ex"' a
"ter minutes' further osesultation the Or: I."
verdict of guilty. sad flid
The Judge sectioned the prisoner to died',
sot hold out any hope
Them was no reommosadation to mercy.

Erge's Cooos.—Gaarzrut. aro Conrogrnts.—•" BY
• thorough Imo wkdo of the natural laws which to.
the operations of &geales and nutrition, Sad ty •
toroftll application of the fine propel ties of asal•
selected monk Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast
tables with a deliast4y flavoured beverage whirl' mr
so vs us many heavy doctors' liii. It is by ths Whir
use of such articles of diet that a oonstitutios mar
gradually built up until strong enough to resist 0.17
tendency to dams.. Hundreds of subtle makidles
are floating around us ready to attack *beaver there
lea weak point. We may mope many • Meal MA
by keeping ourselves well fortified with pens Wood sad
a properly nourished frame."—(& Swan 641.011 i.—
Sold only in Packets labelled--" Janis NMI 0••
Hentesopethio Chemehis, Limbs."