biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-12-08

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Late on Friday night a shorking occurrence hap.
penal at the Metropolitan Miaio Hall, Higware.road,
Leedom It ae-111. that on tho aiAllt a young
Mtn, at, unt it years of air. was taken to the
M.,lyneurtedreet police station by a man well.kipian,
who stated that he thought it better to bring the
yang man there for the police to look after, U he
scented to twin capable of taking awe of himself, and,
owing to the company he haul 'well With, Wita its
ilaitger of losing hi* property. It was aw`ertailleil Ott
the yoillig Man hid hia purse in his po.,,,madou, aml it
contained se. ere' sovereign*. tbelulenly he disap-
peared oilt isl the at Ilion, and ax h. wroi drunk the
Innio•Ctile Milt after him, had Inns broa..tlit !awl:, and
char:red I with being drunk. gave the lianyt
Thomas Stokes. .tlsest ...von "'Hoek on Friday
morning he was liberated on his ,inn reeounaanee*
appear and answer the charge at the Nlerylet
lorme, court at 11l o'clock thesaune He did
not, however, suirrescler to his recogiikance., and
nothing inore was heard of hint until on Friday
night. shortly after wit O'clock on that night great
alarm we. creatal in the pituCthe Metnipolitan Mitsic
Hall by the di*Ch3rhre of firearms near the orchestra.
Someone near the spa saw a young man draw &revolver
from hia coat and fall down imtn Omatable
Smith, 3s, hapismid to be in the hall at the time, and
Seeing What had outrred immediately haul the Man
conveyed I u the St, Mary's Hospital in a cab On
typing examined by the lemon surgeon it was found
that life WAN eßtillet, the bullet having, it i* believed.
passed through the heart. Near to where the
damaged fell wa* found a sia.chainlowed revolver, five
chambers of which were loaded. I ludective.sericeaut
Rev. rd utfterwar I. Flaw OW IFNI), at the lioquital, and
remignisal it ad ti,, man who had been chanted with
drunkenness. Inquiries had been male, and it turns
out the ,ha,,ateirm lialliot is .rh 44 Arrillg, MO that
he wa* gentleman's footman in a foully residing at
Coveudialt.square and at St. Leonard's.