The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-01 00:00:00

WIFE MURDER IN BRISTOL

.lust before twelve o'clock on Friday night, Williaru Hole,
a liar,;e-owner, wag b.t.ught lute the Bedminster liolice-
ritation. chargeil with the wilful murder of his wile by
cutting her threat.

--ice-IniTs-on-e7,7ivino was evidently under the influence of
drink, said, in answer to the charge, "I did It; I mit her
throat, and here I am." In answer to further inquiries,
the prisoner said "I don't make any reur,ark, I done it;
have suffered from a drunken wife for eight months."
Sergeant May reminded the prisoner that he was charged
with the most senous offence that • man multi be charged
with, and be replied "lf you give me a charm I will go
and drown myself nowllllroo.gba.ii'unkenand incorrigilde
wife, though I hope it pi all over now.
Mrs. Hutu was removed at cnce to theGenere Hospital,
hut on her arrival there life was found to be exiduct, her
throat having been fearfully gashed.
Appusottly she was first knocked down, and from the
appearance of the ruts the deed was perpetrated Vaile she
was rn the ground, which possibly accounts fur the bent
condition of the weapon—an ordinary carving knife.
In Bedminster police station, prisoner atiouipted to
commit suicide by strangling himself with his pocket-
handkerchief. The act was observed before he hrd
inflicted any injury upcn himself, and from that time
until his removal to the Bridcwell he was constantly
watched.
It emulator some years the dow,estic Into of the unhappy
couple has been einbitte,reil lay the prisouer's cohabitation
with another wuman, who km borne him several children.
The mammal wife were themselves childless, their only
odfspriim a eon, being killed in Ilath-street, some years
ago, through being run over by a waggon.

AITEMPTED MURDER NEAR MXFORD.
A deliberate attempt to murder a young woman was
made on Thur.lay night, at Brim Norton, near 11gford,
iy a labourer of Ilatuptoammilisliohn Rad bourne. Pnamer.
it 31.1,4141'd, 11.1 I enlia3irig his addressed to A nu Fan' liner,
S young wound' 22 ymirsuf age, residing in the village, but
she had latterly decided on rejecting hint. Raszperated by
this resolve, Itadbourne determined to nairdor the girt
and accordingly persuaded her to accomparty bun out for
a wait on Thursday °vatting. On reaching the village
aturchrard he drew • table knife and attacked her, cutting
her tkrost in a terrible manner. Fortunately the woman's
cries °might assistance, and the fellow was apprehended.
Faulkner it hands and wri.ta were badly cut in struggling
with her assailant, and she lies now in a dangerous state.

SHOCKING MURDER OF A MoTHER BY HER
TWO CHILDREN.

re-betiLe.6irs.
Every Murder is shocking and more or leas linitai • but
all murders are not foul and unnatural. Thursaay's
Tribt,uaoa gives a report of one appallingly as„
natund and to the lowest desgree foul. The theatre •sf tea
The accused parties were a peasante
T 1
and his deter Anna, aged respectively —.. and .
were tried on th
Plain, an ea.e charge of strangling their mether, the
baby farmer and the owner in fee of a
widow
and • fertile piece of ground at Favrollee Th.
d mil 4
niname in dthe
rutther and slaughter cultivated the property, and Albin
crime was the handet of kat.
were two
a good lump of money, but
thrifty. reputed to
i have saved
was not eeteensed n the
co timune though it vi on appear
the moral etandard there is not high .Her
. er cottage con
ed three rooms. -
One was use.l so a store-room and
Min
a contemn room, and the third as
dairY ther as ' "0 °raere bed. in
this chamber. One
• bedroom. ...akes( with a neighbouring farmer. The widow sr..
s
Was eipied by the widow and her nurselings, when she
took in infanta to he brought up by luind. and the other
bytare Allan and Anna. They had slept together an
wee I I d' ambitions of giving her daughter a goo. s once
grew up their ther who
roo" asked a witness, "she was a good neither, and
thought of the future of her daughter. hbe worked It.
and early to secure her a rich match. Besides, were not
'hi
not like n'
tuanepend
d wheniion ey the'on a third bed. "Que voulvez-
d
dAlbin and Anna brother and sister !" Whilst widow Plias
W" brawling the dower, Albin came to the cow:N.l n
that it wee high time for the old woman (she was 49) to
take herself out of the way. Anna WWI charged with
having shared his views, Here is what the acte ill'AreUll3-
ti"u "eve! -"On Juno !I, towanis one o'clock in the morn-
ing, Allsin Plais ...mato fetch two wo.nen, named Adelmar
and eadorge, to lay out Ilia mother,. who, he told them,
had just diet They were eurpreied at his haste to
summon them. Their astaniahment wee heiehtened when
they went to wrap the defunct in the winding-shoet.
Anna threw herself on the corpse of her mother, crying
out that the night clothe. must not Inc stirred, and that
alone all things a finger meet not be laid on the handker-
chief which was round the dead w 'nines-h. When the
hectare( the mayeral,y came to sign the order for inter-
teat of the arms, shoulders, and
clavicle showed 111 per
11 that vedenee had been Prectieed-
tmenotos he
on ai; the
uid " Perceived marks of etratigulation. Con-
ur
Questioning the children of the widow Pia., they at tint
told him that their mother had been for some time
possessed with • suicidal mania. The night of her death she got up out of her bed, and railed to Albin to come and
help her hang herself; and Albin, seeing she was bent osi
sel(-destruction, gave her, the assistance she desired."
Bert I should call attention to the wonderful belief
cunning French peasants have in the credulity of evereene
dee. I have often been ainazel at the extent to which
this belief is pushed by villagers and country girls coming
as servants to Paris.
chTliblerenac) ithaddraelocuumg setmimeeivf.u.ribl there isat.asitee.sl:—t: Widow Pia* to enjoy more quickly than they would in
the natural order of things her little fortune. usa jun.
:1 she fell ill, and ceded for a doctor. In the evening
Albin pounded • packs' of lucifer 11141,111-, in half a pint
of brandy. Next morninz, when the hqu,r was saturated
~10irenc.tekele
the
~siicskteru,..l%-!,;:smba,latkssa.
it,
laninnsd
with phosphorus, Is,. took it to his ...other, and odd
Isis
here is t s
" ac physic the doctor ordered you." Ile left it
tapltrieehrerresel'thtthoeuit,' whistling, to wort in the isivailuse Anna
gave half • glans of the potion to her mother. Venially and suffocating symptoms followed. In the night the
widow had • syncope, and her daughter thinking her
dead, went to fetch two 01.1 women for the laying out.
But the appageatly defunct woman came to life again,
and called tor • doctor. who was brought He visited her
twice, and deposed that the children concealed her siymp-
toma from hint Albin had slept away for three days. On
the lith he came to Imes the night at home. On the Bth,
ageing that the poison did not work, he said he must have
recourse toaeurer method, al on the blot set about pre-
paring a cord, with a running knot, which he hid away 1111
a corner until the moment came which he judged faveaue
able for the success of his enterprise. VLen the eliefech.
clock struck 11 the brother and sister got out af bed.
The former took the halter and, on tip-toe, eepeesehedi
his smother, who, fatigued with the poises, and the.
vomitings, had fallen into a 'loop sleep. Ito then slipped
the loop round her nest and jerked her with the conk
towards him. 11., sister, in confedee, said that ht,
dragged the mother with the ((wee si a borne. The
wretched woman jerked omit of her best and pulket
with the halter a-nes the room to the hearth, where.
albite kneeling on het chest, tightened with all his
strength the slip-kn.g. Anna, according to her own
account, etogl looking on. it was a bright night. The
window shutters were not closed, and the moonbeams fell
upon the murderer and murdered. When the . death
struggle was Over, the girl Plats weet to her mother s side,
lifted an anis, and let it fall, to aase if it fell dead meta
:le flour. Finding that life WM ottani, the brother ads
sister net about comealing the crime. They talicedi
the corpee 1-u the bed, undid the halter, and, Neel •
handkee-hief round Use neck to hide the sleeks a
the cord. This done. Albin relieved his butdemeed hi-east
by a lion-M.le Islastilieisty (the acts, desousation dime
not say whst it was easelle), he and Alllll4 agreeing that
to hide the trases of etrangulation they ouht to gek
through the Wile( isit before day broke." lidos* the
judges Allan mesh: a full meleesiou, but Anna titre:whim*.
declared she bosh no Part in the munler. The Smother
charged her with having Matigated lisa. %hen asked
why she stoed by a passive spectator all her mother's death
struggle, which lasted twenty minute., she defended her-
self on the gronel that the ibex .5, beted, that Albite
had the hoe,.n, key in Li. picket, and that she wan afraid
if she went to the window to give the alarm lie would
strangle her tea The jury retiirned a verdict !omits...
Albin of guilty, with extenuating cireunistames. Hç. was.
weer:tingly sentence,' to hard laleiur for life. Ttre
of Anna not being established to the eatisfactienot the.
jury, she was acquitted.

CREMATION OF MR. NARAXANi WASSODED,..
The remains of the Hon. Narzywn %maim, member
of the LegislaUve Council of Bombay, what* husentedt
death through the fall o a building was reportsd by tele-
graph, were solemnly uemated on the burning-ground at
sonapore. The Ittsiy was jawed, after it was recovered
from under the nuns, en the fluor of a larix apartment
at the ric.r of one of the wings o' the house, and the
(C11441{0 i4serulvni of the family, seating themselves around
it,;,-ave themal via up to unemstrollable grief. The unhappy
widow was overwhelmed by the dreadful valsandy which,
hail befallen her. A great number of the leading nemben.
of the European and various native refunitinisies called,
and took a last look at the remains as they lz,y -veered in
white rube, the lower part of theface tieing alone exposed.
It was at first intended to perform the last °theca on the'
ground adjacent ti the temple at Walkeshwar, but ulti-
mately it was cousiderrd that the Iturniukground at
Sonapore would be Is more appropriate ,Celle. hr there Mr.
Narayan had, at considerable cost, erectiil a place of
shelter for mourners, planted trees, and in other ways
shown his nntnifirence. The procession started about
seven p.m. The bier, composed of two long pieces of
bamboo with actinide of reseepierea, and covered with is
rieli white shawl, was upheld by the Ile....asthrx eldest
brother sot t hem of his read intirnate frietid•i an.l relative:
—Mr. lizignuath Narayan. Mr. shantaran Narayan, and
Dr. Shantaram Withul. The sacred fire, whirls had been
kindled with due ceremonies at the house, was
carried in front in a brazen vessel by the den-eased,
sou. The funeral WWI largely attended not only by mem-
bers of his own caste, hotly those of other castes ant de-
nominations. When the pray wien reached Sonapore, the
bier was placed on the ground while the pyre was being
constructed. Men with short crowbars made six holes me,
the earth, and in each of those was placed • rough piews
of timber about four or five feet high. The pouts, moved
two and two, were about a yard distant from each other.
Three logs Mont six feet long each wen, placed °apiarist ot
wood between each lair of uprights, as, as to allow a free.
draught under the whole. A number of smaller logs wero
placed on these large ones, and were covered with sandal-
wood, which made a sort of bed for the reception of the
body. this was being done, • number of torches of
win4al-wOod were I,eieg carefully ignited by the dampers
son at the sacred fire which he had brought with hint for
the purpose. Prayers were said while the ignition was in
Progress. All being ready. the bier was brought to the
side of the Pyre, and the body was divested of all cover-
ings except a cloth around the loins. It was then lifted
on to the Nee, which was by this time three or four
feet high. The upright posts confined flie hotly on either
able, and prevented the possibility of its rolling off. Small
blocks of sandalwood of various lengths —from six inches
to two feet—were placed lightly on the body. llits
demased'e son then took a brazen vessel full of wider
and carefully sprinkled a circle on the mirth around the
funeral pile. Ile next seized a brand from the sacred
fire and applied it to some dried leaves or similar
combustibles placed under the pyre. That did notset fire
to the pile, however, and was not intended to be more
than A C !thence with the ceremonial ; the brand was
rod, but not blazing, and • spark or two only fell from it.
The relatives were then, as is usual in such rases, led
away from the pyre by the friends around, so as to spare
their feelings as much as possible. When they were laden,
few yards off and their hacks turned to the pyre, large.
less similar to those at the tare were plaitediover the.hodi
which now became completell;esiorde all but the leek
which were left exposed et rby accident .ts, design.
The friends applied reatches to the sandalwood brands,
and, when they llaihd up, set fire to the combustibles.
Owing die.44tlolk, la the dampness of the ground, and
occatichal dICIPS Of Mita, it was • matter of some difficulty
get the mass to bum. Cocoanut oil was thrown on the
wood, and screens were held by men ate as to regulate the
draught, and after • long interval the pyre blazed imp
tt.!hfeen-hilezinii)n%wdhoolnw:asifnelvinuuthniotitiaarsyt. ofininioulyrnaoifuhrftehtf.ui nidfloruhembui
jivt7al_releaderTnu"'"l,,4o of
India, August ti, 1871.

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