The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-05-01 00:00:00

TEIR HENSTRIDGE vnrs MURDER,

SENTENCE OF DEATH.
Taowrorr. Friday.
George Whit., 2.5. described as • laborer. was irtAired
and Mao charged upon the corn,. inquieilion w,th the
wilful murder of his wife. Olara White. at Henstrdge. on
the 28 hof Harsh Mr. Ho pir and Mr. Hugh Neville
were counsel for the Crown. It was under toxl that DO
conewel hat been assigned to the accused. Pr syn.,, who
hat the appearance of a gro on, preeerved tb• calm de-
meanour which has character...l him since the perpetra-
tion of the horrible off-nee. When e-ked by the C en k of
Arraigns. he pleaded " Guilty' with a arm and unwavering
voice. . . .

.Iri's Lordship: You undentuid the nature of the charge
against you—that you wilfully and with your malice afore-
thought and murdered your who f
Prisoner :Yr., eir.
His Lordship : You fully nwlerwand the nature of the
amis. and &wire to pload au hp
Prisoner: Yes, sir.
His L rdsbip sent for Mr. H,t,ley, the governor of
Taunton Gaol, and had a brief conference with him the
prisoner was then put down from the dock for • abort
time.
Prisons, having been brought up again,
The Clark of Arraigns saked—" What do you plead
now _

-11-‘l.soner : air•
The Omit of Arraigns: What hive you to say why the
Court should not give you judgment of dealt. according
to 1 or I

-gri:-oisse male no repty, and
la lordship, having assume I the black cap, said: You
have pleaded guilt, to • murder of Avery cruel charetrar.
Before I accept-d that pies I was magi 'us that yol should
fully conspeehthd the nature of the oormequeno•• which
mud inevitably follow, and 1 &eked that you should have
time for rellectiou, and that the position in which y itt
have pl mad yourself by that plea en.oil I be lull, explained
t. you by the governor of the g 01. That has b 'us d n •
awl yw still maintained thv plea ertrch you first offered.
0110.113 t hvlp thinking that sat, the only atonement whioh
you can offer for the heinous of which you have
been guilty. Ido not with ti aggravate the p.m which
YOU must flea at this moment, hot lb.ercomatanom of
your calla ought to be brought bet we the Court that they
may know the cousequenoes of • crime such as you have
eommitt d That ou letendad the death of that

unhappy woman, noiCin'y your own confession to-day bet
the circuinstanc $ el-arty show. You visited the spot
w here she wellbeing In retlrement ; you hod expressed your
Intention to put so end to bar life before you went time ;
you led bur from that spot to another where you gave ha
ref reshments ; took her Into the road and there you brutally
murdered her, rebbing her first in Iwo places with skull.,
sod thee besting, kicking, and i.l-using her to • moot
Inhuman manner. Your time on earth is limited; you
mast inevitably forfeit your life to the offended laws of
your oountry. Lit me beg o' you, as one man to another,
to spend the few momenta nf your present :lowa:* Is
making your poem with tip Deity you hese Oirelaffeff-
course which you have taken t--day is the ant step
towards contrition; follow it up, and you may olstslo that
ferglyeaeas in another world which you cannot expect in
I alle. The sentence of the curt upon you for the crime
ef wilful murder, of which you are 0O convicted, la that
you bet Own from the Wane where you are to the prison
Times you came, and from thence o a • day appointed
tbat you be taken to a piano of execntioo that you be
time hanged hi the neck until poor body be dead ; that
your body when deed be buried wit lin the Preiducts of
the prison in which you shell have bmn confined alter
this your conviction, and msy the Lord hav• mercy upon
your mil.

your

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The prisoner, who continued to be +optimally unaffected,
then stilett'y waked from the dock.
His Lordship afterwarde seat for Sormantellinjor Shin-
brook, of Vie Blackmosr troop of the Dorset Yeomanry
Cavalry, who interfered while White wm beating his
wife, and knocked Mos down. Addressing &meant- I
Ms) it Stenbrook, the learned Judge said :—I think you
are so dowsing of °relit in this oam, in which George
White has pleaded guilty to the murder of hie wife, that
I have sent for you ts simnel publicly my MOO of the
courage which you exhibited oa Hist occasion. The as.
White was ill-treating an nitlmPnY +OI2IIIIA A* wee
screaming for moistness mid there were two sum parsons
seer, but with strange want of presence of mind lead of
mirage, they wet:sited themselves with throwing stones
at the prisoner, who was at that dam acbadly murdering
his wife, with the ides of withdrawing hie attention from
her to them But the moment you cMg up and asser-
t deed that a woman was in &siren. you, with remarkai.le
end pralessros tby enamel, noel without considering the
position in wh.ck the men wee who we. Meaning the
women, or waiting to &wedeln whether he wee armed
with a dawn, .s•pon, yon, with preiewworthy courage,
felled him to the ground. In so doing. I in .y WI you that
you di 1 so more then you were justified in doing. You
pr.it• cted the women, but unhappily tee 14e, for she died
almost in, martietely. You evinced a courage and premed
of mini very creditable t o you, and elthough the reword
I am going ti make you is of value only for its intrinsic
worth, it is the ra ward ar wanes I. thers'oree order you
to receive the sum of XS
wimentellejor Stentwook Thank you, ray lard. I
only did My duty.

MS SHOCKIIVUMUR.DER AND MUTILATION

Long Wove the beeittahti of the trial the es tort wail
crowded. The man was it abed to be 12 years of age, and
• gerdener, whilst his wife'. age appeared in the pollee
calendar se 30. though she awned double that ass For
soma years previ .oi to the latter end of 1881 toe prisoners
lived .t Soreweburr. There were seven children to toe
family, none of them being by the present =softie',
b.th wieners having been previouly married. Ode of
the chi dean, the deceased, eas between nine and tan
year, of age, and the danght o of the male priroaer by
hie former coarriste. Od le. 11 t Ddenaber, 1901.
Hips and his wife lift SoreweburY and went to
Kynners'ey. a village about four miles from Wellington,
Shropshire where the mete Ouster took • situaiton as
groom. They brought with them only four of their
children, including the deo-seed. agelost whom,
according to the teeth:day of eireeease, the supra-dna'
stout...ad the urn st cruelty. The Out witness celled
w,.Hr. Joseph Dots. • g +disease of Welliaat in, who
found the bed of the deceased in Appl-1 P. 331 while he
was walking to Wellington on February 11-A. His dot
that wet with him ran to tho p uI, and kept running
excitedly beckeards end forward, oa the bank. and this
caused him tolook into the water, and ti• saw sontethitur
which at first he thought wee • rat On closer exudes
lion he found it was • brown paper parcel, which he drew
out and untied, end 13 his horror be found a human bud.
Next the heal was • brown unveil bog.—Dr. Thomas
13 tad, lecturer of Forensic foniigery it the Westminster
C Aegis said he had examined the heed bunt in A.ppley
Pool. It weedear that the head had either been boiled or
routed sorer &strong fire. Oa the left temple there were
marks of extravastatloa of blood, caused uradoubtedil by
• eery heavy Mow during life, and the injury which this
mark indicated wool I be sufficient to c mu death, if not
instantaneously, in a very few minuet, and there were
other murk. on the out that were proof of violence dor.
tag Ilf.. In his opinion death heri been mooed by • violent
blow on the tom pie with a heavy instrument. —IL is deth
Hughes a washes, of the two pri.onere at Lyons-61er,
eel lon the morellos of al 10th of Janaary toe deeded
WM. lin her home. See waa very dirty and hungry, sod
had two black even • large bruin, on tee eheok. and on
on the elbow. She asksi for some bins to ma, and *id -es
gate her • piecs of bread and butter. So, remained till
, one o'clock, when the hotel* priuner called at the nous,
I and 'slide she was • very naughty gir', took her away.
The child seemed frightened. IFitneel told the female
prisoner that the child said she had givea her the Mark
eyes that nursing, and that she had bun in gaol twice
for baiting her, and her father once for the same thing,
end the female prisoner replied—' Oh, you asoghty
elsid. how can you disown your pulsator —L taiga
Terser said the primeness. ease to live next door v. her
at Kynoereley on the 119t1i of December lad. 13 as.
time alter they came she heard • noise cased by the
filling of • strop. It was • noise like the buckle of satrap
Solid make being struck log Oost the Boor. At the same
time she heard the voice of deceased cilling, " Harder,
murder."—On the 'Gestation of the lune' Judge could
foe the Crown withdrew the charge of wilful nuttier
wawa the male primmer, and preceded against him lo-
belias an etc *gory alter the fact —William Mayas, 13
years of &pawnor the male prima's, now gave evidence
against hie father. Whilst in toe witness-hoc he free
quietly burst into tears. The boy maid that on February
let his motors came into the (ardor' to put ease clothes
ea the line, sad went into the house before him. When
be went back to the kitchen, about three minutes after
to, rootlet, Polly had disappenred, and he never silt her
afterward., His mother was not ia the kitchen thee. Sh•
taw to Ids from *vitals% to take a tab of warm soap-
suds up to her. He took the tub half. way up4eirs, and
then his mother took it from him sad carried it into one
.of the bedrooms. He afterwards took • cup of water to
Me illiether updates, but As stood et toe door and he
odd set see into the room When his father came bone
for diaper he asked where Polly was, and eritnue said he
did not know. His wither cried downstairs, "Do cocoa
apetaire to me," and he went np. He cease out of the
bedroom and said "Shall I go for a doctor!' end bit
mother said "Stop here." His father again a.ked if
he should go for • doctor, and his mother said, "No. no."
After Maur his mother went upstairs, pod remitted
there • long tune. Witness then detailed the condact of
hls father and mother oaths linday. His mstb.r sad
to him, "If anyone ski you whore Pollv is, say she has
gone to her grandmitheeo" Oa the Friday night his
in 'thee said to his father, "When are you going to take
Polly off r and be replied, "At seven o'clock." His
mother was not kind to isvuy. She USW to " clam" her,
and to "lather 'her 1,1II•tlielle with • loth, the same as
• horsewhip. See alo used to " bather " him with toe
sione thing. Si. wat kind to Annie, who was her own
child. On the 19th February the mole priestlier expressed
his desire to make • siateineat. The statement wee token
down in writing. In toe coons of it priaseer said, "When
I west to my dinner about half-past oar, last Thursday,
the mother and her (Polly) were upstairs The mother Woe
melting • mournful noise. Ify bide girl was then oa the
bed, and appeared dud. bly wife told me she left Polly
cleaning up the fireplace, and when she anemia she found
she had fallen down before the fire. She picked her up,
and took her upstairs. I think the reason she was anxious
to make away with it was that she had not treated the child
properly, tied not given it food enough. On the Thursday
night when I came home I saw it was quite dud, and we
left it all that night and the next day, and at night we
cut it up with • knife and an old broarnbook." Oa the
Saturday morning she took the holy away, and I went
with her 900 or 300 pude on the r ad. Wass site came
back I edged her whet she had done with it and she said
I have pot it in the S info, near Mahon-bridge. On the
following morning she wanted ti hurt the head. hut I
would not yitld to that, and I Mould think she put it in
Appley Pool on the Tuesday, se ehe was at Wellington.
Ido not know where she loft the lege She told my eon
Will t • say *he had tattle Polly og. dressed no, ort tius
Saturday. The legs were put in on Sooday." Saber
quently the women made • statement. which was also
tame do-n in •ottng, sad r. aI in court In it she
declared the innocence of herself and her hoshaad of the
murder, but coofested to concealing the body. Her
boatload took the hogs aid put them in Appley
Irt!e Judge having lammed up, the jury retired at %runty
minutes put seven °Work. and after half on hour's
deliberation found a verdict of " Vaaelaughter" against
the female prisoner, and the at ale prierreer "Guilty of
being an amesory after the f • Lordship sent-no
the man to It mows imprisonment, and the woman to
portal eireitode for 42 yievs, at the same time strongly
denouaciag her itahuounity.