The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-04-03 00:00:00

13;•:VIZES, M.tau 27.

(iktorc Mr. I; won MARTIN.)

Seratin Manzano, a fipanianl, wee place•l ill the dock
charged with thewulilil tour, ler of Anastasia Trowbridge
at A oliconilse, on the if November butt. The pri•
oilier claimed the privilege of being tried by a mixed
jury.
Mr. Edwards and Mr. W. Ffooks were conned forth. ,
i•rosecuti•in ; and Mr. 11. T. Cole and Mr. W. M. Cooke I
defended the prisoner.
An in!wrpreter being sworn the prisoner pleaded "Not
Mr. Edwanla stated the ease, from which it appeared
that the prosecutor, the husband of the unfortunate
woman, lived with his wife ninny years in a cottage at ,
a lonely pl ice called .‘slicuoithe, in the parish of Tolloral I
Royal. On the morning of the :Ird day of November I
Li prolleeUtor lei:aka:4.d with his wife at lialf•past
Ilu was in the employment of Mr. Oritee, residing in
the neighbourhood, and engaged on tin. roads about
half a mile Isom his cottage. At 7 o'clock lie left his
home for the purpow of going t•• his work. He stayed
at that work until almut 1 o'clock, when he returned
I • to his dir suer. There was a ••orden in front of the
cottage, allll a path leading up to the door, and when his
wife trent out she Wiwi in the habit of placing the key
of the door in • hole they hod mode for that purpose.
hi this morning, on returning, home. the prosecutor I
f•iunil the door locked, awl on %Torching for the key it
was not to he found. This iron-oil his sitspiciona, and
he looked in at the window, but cool.' not bet any- I
thing. Ile then went round to the hock of the house, •
and on looking through a window there lie yaw his
wife's feet on the groiiii•l, she apparently lying down.
Ile immediately broke two panes of glass, opened the
luau of tin, wialow, and got isito the room, avian lie
discovered his wife lying with her back to the wall, her
face covered with blood end quite dead. On that he
i aaaa msliately procured an iron bar, forced off the atm.'e
of the door into which the luck shot, came out of the
house, and rut up towanla Josue cottages at Aalic iiiii he,
and immediately returiii••l to the houye, aeasimpani,sl by
Frsh•rick PAIN .11,, two women, and Mr. Corhyti, the
l,uiliif,,f Mr. I :rove. Oil discovering the state of the
body the men went in ilifr..relit •lire.tiona to give the
alarm, Mill the tWo •11 remained with the jinn.,
cuter, who took up the body in his arms, and evinced
those feelings tlat a nail was likely to exhiliit meter
the painful ciremostances. Mr. Curtly,: then returned
with Mr. Grove and searched the house, and on going
measly' the room was found Very 11111C11 disturbed ; the
things were smattered about, and on the proacutor
coining up lie discovered that some clothe. had het-it
carried away, and, among other things, two ••uatri, a pair
of legging, a hat, an •I•iihrella, and a poir of bouta, one
of the coats bong a tweed and the °err a blue coat,
which had been presented tO the husband of the sour.
dered woman by an agricultural mociety. A doctor tea.
sent for, lull on the 111.kre being examined it Was found
that there were splaalies of blood insi•le the door and
about the wills and a great smear of blood fur twO
yards from the So,r hito the nuns, where the body Was
hying alel nine outside the door ; her face was dread-
fully cut with sonie sharp niatrument, and it would areui
that she h •cl been 111.:1;:geil along the groan,' to tic spot
where the hudy wu lying. Toe lower extremities were
cold, but aume pubs of the thighs had warmth iii them,
and from all appearances the murder had been cow:
nutted about 11 o'clock. It appeared that at the time

of the murder the unfortunate woman was in
the act of preparing the dinner, for the fire was nearly
out, and there AILSOt Oil it col&tsiniiig SOWS
turnips, and some potatoes wete lying on the table
peeled and prepared for boiling, and she had
Leen ironing, as there WAS a shirt lying in the room
alrea.ly ironed. There was a Raw found in the pawne
loch woially hung up in the house. and when the body
wt.. ezoitined it was f I that two of the blows had
evaletit:y Iteett inflicted wills the saw, because there
were mar's, on the okell clearly allowing that those
blows hail been so inflicted, mot the white handle-of a
razor was found :wide the back-door, and the blade at
another spot ; and the iderence trout these fact. wan
that h 44444 e one letti entered the house at about 11 o'clock
on that day, called the woman to the door, commenced
the attack, and ultimately murdered her. It was evi-
dently done liy sin,. one having a white-hat:4lot razor,
and who came for the purpose of laying his bands on
any property he could get. The evidence to connect the
prisoner with the clime was as followe;-111 the month
of October the prisoner was wandering shout the
country, anti appliol to a Mr. Sainsbury, of Eastvltell-
ball Farm, fur employment. Ile was engaged for souse
few days, end during that time a man named Noah
Sainsbury saw in the prisoner's possession a razor with
• white handle, and a Ida looktiig-glatia for the purpose
of shaving. About the 20th of October the prisoner
left Mr. Sainsbury's employment, carrying with him
the white-hie:idled razor and the looking-glass, and after
he was arrested, which was some slays sultaequent to
the murder, die hohing-glass was in Lis v....session, but
the razor wan gone. Nothing was seen or beard of hint
from that tinw until the :Ildh of Ikfolter, when 1w was
observed in the neighbourhood of Hie cottagi. at a plate
called Alvenliston, about four miles front Ado:melte, in
a state of great want and distia as, begging bread at the
house of one of the wits, awn, and at about 4 o'cluck on
the same day ha was seen at a Lowe at lterwitk St
John, &Wilt OilC utile from Asitconthe, and • 111111 twined
Taylor observed that at that time he was wearing a
curd waistcoat, and that cord waistcoat was, after the
murder, dincovered in a wood at some distance from the
prosecutor's cottage. On the 81st of October he *h
seen at Ilusbutore, a very short distance front AA-
(musk., begging; the lid f 4 Ntivewber he was seen at 7
in the • g melt r a stack el where he appeared
So have slept during that night ; the same fl'fY hi' was
•Cirli at Allot her I olaer in Milani /loyal, and et 10 he
s: seen at Ferne•lecase, making swiss to people to
isinke thew me:, t•taiel he Willitea .thing to eat ;
awl at lialf.pa.d. three he was again wen lisle mile off.
Ou the 2nd of -Nowenthec he Was wen by six witnesses
in the tat.ighboterhowl, soil after the murder all the
clothes he had on that day were found its a WU,
seine distance from the cottage whore the murder took
place. At Indf.past lion the night before the murder
he was seen on the Downs near The lest, and it was
not known a lit re he slept that night. On the morning
111 the murder two men, father and sou, were working
in a valley near the cottage. and at about 11 o'clock the
father called to the son !mune across the valley. and im-
mediately afterwards they SAW a 10:111 come fr the
cottage with a befell', and make off, the loan hewing
as lie walked, awl the prisoner was limping at the time
he was apprehended. On the nest day he was seen 20
miles oft having in his piaression every single article of
dress, awl the umbrella as well, ahich had beets taken
away from proseeutor's house. The blue coat he had
otfured for sale. and also • waistcoat for 2.., which was
Olin of the waistcoats taken front the house. On the
7111 be was Keen near Wareham, offering another waist-
coat for sale. On the 10tIt he WAS Melt at Farley, in
Hampshire, and there he sold a coat which was identi-
fied, and on the Ilth lie was apprehended at South-
ampton, one of Ids fingers being cut, as if by a razor or
souse sbarp.instruinent. _

The Intsbenil of the murdered woman was called as a
witness, and subjected a very severe cross-es•mina-
C by Mr. Cole, but nothing Waif oiiried varying from
the above statement, and a number of witnesves were
called who proved the other statements, after which the
Court adjourned until the nest morning at 9 cluck.
The jury were removml under the care of a bailiff.