The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-17 00:00:00

111:RDIM IN EIISTON-ROAD.

Os Wednesday night an old widow lady, rending at No.
Sortonecreacent. iston.roed, was cruel:, murdered in
he, own house. The name of the demand was Igye.
Rachel Samuel. and she win in her 75th year. She had
one of the best farniutied home*, la the Crement, and
althoueh powered of iedependent means, atm received one
lodger in the person of M. Birechi stryky, • profaner of
music. This gettleman cum borne shortly after cuidnigtt
to Tuesday, and finding that his nipper had not been b.d
m canal, proceeded to the kitchen with the intention of
calling his landlady's lineation to the Oalintlon. To his
armies and horror he then diecovered the deed body_ of
Kra Samuel Inner on the ft.e ins pool of blood. Much
alarmed he started off at once for Starr-street where he
knew that the deceased's son resided, and apeedily
returned to Burton-core-ens with the sass acccennuded
vs conitahly and Dr. Keswick. of TaWatock -square, Dr.
g a tehiso Polic,eurgeon t , the E arnving
later oe. Mrs Samuel, on examination, waa found to be
lying on her beck, benne a severe wound on Me bead and
bruises on her hands and fa*'. Life, apparently, had been
extinct for in leaat three hours. Hidden behind • scrams
wee • Mops of wood newly broken to which lost-pap were
attached. Appearances inflate that this was the instru-
ment with uhich the fatal blows were lamed on the
deremeel It was deeply marked w.tti blood although,
singularly enough. aa min:opt had bee. made to with oat
the stains with • piece of home Ilmoml. which the
murderer had thonghtlmely left ',stand. There were
variant • of blood about the kitchen sad these could
be as far es the fourth seep leading from the kitchen
to the beriemens, but no farther. On thul Ow* of wood
already referred to wee vane human hair correspondine
with Kra Santisera Th- deceased lady, who is mid to
have been of slightly eccentric habits, wore shout her
waist speedier kind of pocket In which the carried her
keys. This pocket arid it. content. were gone when her
Lind body was discovered. sad • pair of boots were after.
wards found to be missing. No &usenet, however, had
seemingly been made to nIISGVI any of the veluehle
Leticia, of furniture, tt. which the house contained.
Mrs. Samuel and M. Birech_ystryky were the only
permanent occupants of 4, Bartan-CTIOOnnt. A girl
attended daily to moist in cleaning, Mc., and she amens
Shot when she left at fom o'clock on Wednesday Se,
mistress was in her u,ual health. There were then some
workmen in the house engaged upon some repairs. but
V..., it seems, left shortly siterwards. The cirname
Manor leave no room for doubt that a COgratdly murd.,.
with plunder for li. probable object, has been coanni:tml,
rh• matter ia ha the hands of the polior, who are not with.
tot hops. of discorerias tb• criminal, but who, mom.
naturally enough decline to dbscto.. the nature of
the clue of which they declare themselves to be in pouen
sloe. Whoever the murderer rimy have Mee, it is cm-
aidered cheer be entered end left the home by the front
door—Mary Donovan, efLutosater-mreet, Borough.road, •
monied woman who was in the home aloessetth deceaded
about eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, bae been
'muted. The simple motive of roimery I. now aseigned
fly the crime, it having since Thunday night bees
discovered that the wedding ring of the dammed had
been taken off her Inter, and that she had saved, so Is
believed to have been known to the prisoner. a gum M
about i:2O to no. The sum baa been found in • box
untouched, huts large pocket which the deoseeed wore ia
the front of her dress, sod the existence if which would
Probably be known to the prisoner, has been torn out
end is missing, and it is thought that she Mad hats
been under the imeression that the money wise kept
in tn. pock•L That the wedding ring wee the oily tbng
except the pair of boots the deceased we, wearing at the
time of the murder, taken from the home, and that no
search had been mad* for the money, after it wee
covered that it wee not in tlais pocket, 11 Pip 1.1.3 by the
,opposition that the prisoner did not at drat inuen I to do
.ace, than stun her victim, and on ending sot the real
nature of the deed she bid committed became frightened,
and 'quickly aa pouible made her ne.pe. after miinly
attempting, ail rep Tted to wash sway the blood stains on
the door. The deceased wag • very nervous woman, and
when her lodger, the musician aborts mentioned, was out,
she generally chained up the street door, and would admit
nobody except the prisoner, in whom she had great
confidence, and with whom she had kept up an acquaint-
anceship a/ ter theieconneci lone, mistreesgand servant bad
been severed. The story of the prisoaer is rendered the
more improbable by the circumstance that the hones be-
longing to the deceased was one of the best in Barton-
crescent. and certainly not soch • place as • man looking
like • labourer would have sought apartments in The
case has been taken up by the Treasury, and one of their
law cflicers will prosecute in the matter at Emnetreet