The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-01-15 00:00:00

Silty:KING 111.7RDER AT WINDILY, NEAR
BRISTOL

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1111itrril.. Thurmlay. I ;f14.1 ohot at through the window and knocked almost
The ..illage of Denary, which is located at about five I movie's off his seat, the shot o ntering his right cheek,
mile.. ‘, twarol of thio city, wi le.t night nook the neck, and shoulder. de was in a precarioma state for
scene 0.1 011.1 of the most brutal murders which it has ' some days hut ultimately rallied. Bib lish was Implore-
been for • long time pant our duty to chronicle. Occu• I tended on the 17th of Dereinher, and, when alum il
vying a amen cottage, oitmited at shout Alil yords from 1 with ellooting Crooke', said to the officers. " I have
the church in that villoge, were an old man. mime" i been expecting you coining. I wish it hod killed the
George Watctinan. and his wife Strait. The hasboend ; brute. But I sin all right. for I have not been
Wlll of the advanced age if 75 yearn, and the wife .ine 1 out at night or fired • gun for a month." At the
two years bin junior. Toe,' were humhie and linden- I request of the officers he pnidueed his gun—s doubled
nice persons; but as the cottage and auout an acre of i barrelled mimic—alit the left barrel wen found to ',eve
lend adjacent were their own property, it in believed ; been recently discharged and to contain oily lielf a
that the murderer. suppooe I then, to he 1.04cre.e.1 I cherge, with newonaper as wedding. The other
of tummy. The old man farmed • Mill guano I barrel. however, which had not been fire.l an recently
tity of ground, and also kept • cow and sold ; contained a full charge of wised shot of the some sixes
milk, by which means be Ilan enabled to eke out 1 as the shot extracted from fromkes' woeinds ; an" the
a slender but cumfortaibk income. It would even, i wadding of this barrel wee of Woe power of precisely the
from a deposition insole by the obi man, and by other ' mote description as the wadding found in the Iloiloe of
teal y, that at oboist I o'clock last night, the egad I Crooke, shortly alter he woe %hot. In one of Engl kVA
ample were conversing by their fireside, when they 1 pocket,, wax also found some loose %hot and come 1 aber
heard a knocking 0.1 the uotside of the door. The old corresponding to the shot wool wedding ii-e.l is the
men rot up to answer it, but before lifting the latch he person who shot Crooke,. [king reqiii,te.l by the
adopt.," an raped...tit which Im alwaysoboerved by ask • ' police-oftleo•ro to lire off the powder in the two "eirrela
jog wli., Vll4ll there? The person outside answered, "Ii ; after the charges had been withdrawn. lie did no, end
is John. the Winford poliee....e—a roar which uohop• I then sail he wished Crookes's bead bad been at the
pily suceeedeol, for Mr. Waterman. knowing a policeman muzzle oi the gun. He also said when in custody at
of that oatom, and euppositog it to be him. undid the , the Sheffield Town-hall that he expected he should yet
dour. lie 113.1 110 ...tier done so than he received a I seven years forth. offence, hut if he got off lie woul.l
heavy 1.1 .w from a thick heavy etick on his forehead. "give it t:rookes if lie was able." Mr.. Crooke*, who
He sta i.eresl and ran hack, upon which two limn rushed . ran for a surgeon a few minutes after her hushand was
in, on- 1 whom knocked him down, sitol struck him ', shot, olepmeol that she overtook • inan in the wood,
wavers) desperate liloa aon the Lead. Tie old I who, : terlietelv on teeing her, crouched down. She
man sneceeded in gettom un him legs again. when they I was frightened and screamed. She sae sure the
bdol lion that lie must show them where his muney prisoner English was the Mo. It also appeared that
was, moil force.l him tandems.. He said it was in a hoz. ' the Primmer w•l3 throe months ago convicted of
end Icing opened the box to which he pointed. they ' trespassing in pursuit of game on the evidence of
procse.l. il to rasaack other boxes in the room, aud also : Crooke mid that he at that time threw stones at the
a CIIVS: of tick went. From those they took a silver i proaecntor, stool threatened to knock his heed off. For
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er.t,,,b, . ,ilver med .1, a bottle of brandy, a ~,,, e bottles the defence witnesore were called to, priory an atiti, bat
of lionie-..iade sch e. mot a handkerchief. flii turning the Bench coottoiolen4l the ease one for • jure. An
over the bed they found a pair .of loaded pistols, viltiult application wv.: made to admit the priooner to hail. butt
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they took, and then retuned down gain, compelling was refuoed. A second man, named Ibbetson. WM in
the ola 1111111 to accompany them. Having posoessed cnstooly charged with being an accomplice in the crime,
themselves of some breed sod hewn they drsgged the hut the evidence against him was unsatisfactory, and he
old mast into an outhouse and bound hint wi% a coed to sea remanded.