The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-10-24 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT.

Itlelksham has been in is state of commotion
at the elopement of a blooming young lady of 18
with a "gentleman," who leaves a wife and four children
behind. Both parties are most respectably connected. It
ROOMS the parties had for some time past boon correspond-
ing clandestinely, and the fact was discovered by the
gentleman's wife. A short time since the husband and
wife proceeded to London, and on their return he managed
to elude the viligance of his spouse at Reading, and dis-
appeared. Thinking perhaps he had stepped into another
carriage she went on to Melkshatn, but not finding him at
home she returned to Chippenham, where she found her
husband and him charmer alnut to journey to other climes.
The scene between the outraged wife and her faithless
husband ran he more easily imagined than described,
anti censiderable exttitement was caused at anti near the
station at Chippenluun, where the htutband, it is mid,
declared his wife to be insane, and that he was taking her
to a lunatic asylum. The young lady in the meantime
went on to Bristol, the gentleman remaining behind todo
battle with his better half. He managed sonactime after-
wards to again elude her and follow the siren on whom he
bad net his affections by another train, and we hear they
have reached Paris. The wife, we believe, is entirely
destitute, having neither money:nor relations, and she has
been obliged, to wok W.lrif.4lloo at the handl* of the
guardians, while lie, it is Mid, as well as the young lady,
La s recently teen left a large sum of money.

A KEEPER KNOCKINOIA MAYS EYE OUT.

Thirty pounds damages for knocking a man's eye out was
the sum, with full costs, that WWI awarded at Westbury by
the County Cmirt judge toe man named Henry Davie. The
plaintiff is a labourer, and evidently there was no particu-
lar good feeling between him and George Hill, game-
keeper at Chalont The first act showing want of self-
control was that Daviii went and got drunk, and while in
that state was pot valiant, went out-side Hill's cottage
door—which by-the-lay WaS thirty yards back from the
road—called him some objectionable nickname, and used
other language which brou.:htout the keeper. A disagree-
ment t.sik place. blows pawed, and the keeper knocked
Davis down. He also struck kilo with • thick stick
while he was down. The medical man who examined
Davis at leeward', deposed to the deplorable plight in which
Le found hint, his back being one macs of bruises and the
sight of one eye entirely destroyed. There could be no
em-ale for such an unmanly, ferocious assault, and hence
the verdict for £3O.

SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY AT THE WILTS

CMJNTY ASYLATM.

A system of robbery, Whie-lilie;e—i;;;Oason to believe
ban been going ,m for a considerable time, st the Wilts
County AsAunt, has just been brought to light.
Packages have, it seems, been forwarded weekly from
the Asylum to the wife of the storekeeper named
Nuth, who lives at Keevil, and these having at length
arote‘ed suspicion, the policeman at Keevil on Thurs-
day awaited the arrival of the person who was In the
habit of bringing them, and on lifting him leave the
usual package at Mrs. Nuth's lodging walked hi, in
company with another policeman, and took possession
of it, and brought it the cone enening to the Asylum,
where the contents were found to correspond with the
bulk from which there is little doubt they had been
taken. Nuth, who, from his appearance, in between
60 and 60 wears of age, was on Wednesday bronght be-
fore Mr. Meek and Mr. liedliontt at Devizes, the
prisoner pleaded not guilty of stealing, and was com-
mitted for trial at the sessions. The prisoner, we
underotand, had a &Ilan+ of £4O a year at the Asylum,
vrith rations ; and his wife was in receipt of a good
salary as schoolmistress at KeeviL

SUICIDE OF 'A GIRHACTIga."
3lonilay afternoon. Coroner Graham held an inquest at
lilackhill, near Consett, on the body of a boiler-plnte
roller named John Holliday, who committed suicide by
honing himself with a neckerchief to an iron bedstead.
The dee,ased was. a most extraordinary character, and
wem vre!l known all over the north of England for his in-
temperate habits and his gluttony. As a workman. he used
to earn on an average £27 a fortnight, having, aswas stated,
worked for as much money as would have sunk a ship.
When at work he always had a bottle of brandy or
champagne to supper. On one occasion his wife took
a roasted duck and his usual bottle of liquor to the iron-
works, but a small piece of the fowl having previously
been cut off and given to one of his children, Holliday got
into a position, and threw the basket containing his supper
amongst the machinery, telling his wife as he did so that
she had to bring him a whole duck next time. Latterly
he lost his eyesight, and had been heard to say he would
put 411 coal to himself rather than become a burden to his
fatuity.