The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-03-30 00:00:00

imperial 'parliament.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
MONDAY.—There WAS • Warm debate on the PIACC
Preservation (Ireland) Bill, which was ultituately ad-
journed.

NSW Nom.
On the motion of Lord Kemeimanx, a new writ Mae
ordered for the tarough d tri4port in the room of Mr. T
A. Mitchell, decemed.

TuKSDA Y.
The }UAW resumed She debate on the Irish Coercion
Ada, and spent a whole evening in the discussion. The
:t.,ters were mostly of the Irish contingent.
A ' scene " took place between Mr. Sl' LLIVAN awl Sir E.
WATKIN respecting a question which the latter put early
In the sitting as to the Irish land agent who was shotott in
Tipperary on Monday.
The debate was brought to a close by the PlutnlEß ; and
on the Ilmise dividing. Lord Robert Montague amend.
ment was defeat d by a majority of Ms, and the NM was
read a rs,..cond time.

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The House rose at Ime o'clock, and wio
until the sth of April.

ka.sEx munDERN,
At Coklndsb.r on Thursday Mama* J•Aw•ni, charged
with the wilful murder of Solomon and Susannah John.
son, hie father and mother, was, taken before a bench of
magistrates. The prisoner,. who sat between two police-
men, is a short, strong-built man, with black hair and
whiskers, and his wild appearance and strange behaviour
clearly indicated insanity. Eliza Mills, the wife of a
labourer, said she lived in a cottage with three lets at
Fordham. Friday evening last she saw the deceased
persons safe. The prisoner here said "That was when
God first called one by His grace manifestedly." Witness
continuing said Thomas Johnson slept in one of the rooms.
About seven o'clock the next morning sine heard him say
don't go down I'll kill you." Almost 'lire. La wards
to his mother, " What are you looking at Inc for if •im
she Caine to witness, who, in omsequen, c Wlnat she
said, scut her little boy as quickly a. tssisildo for assist-
ance. The mother then left jot went into her house
again. Two or three iniontas afterwards witness KAVI the
ad people in the f..,a.-niton. The prisoner came out with the
poker .Lrack his father with it several times. The
prisoner here said, " Ile is playing upon the harp, he in
risen from the dead." %V itness, in continuation, said tlqn
prisoner struck his father across the head with tht
and I said, 'Ohs, Tommy, you'll kill yip; father."
Leaving his father lying in im pit, the
prisoner went to his mother :Ad, 'struck her across
the shoulders with thc, eker. She ran round
till she got nes.; a Well, and then dropped ,
down. Ile kept striking her any saying he would kill her. I
The deeeoded said, "Oh, Tummy, You'll kill me, and lie
Totaied, "I wilL Witness ran for inssistance, and on her
return saw Mni, Johnson sitting near the well and bleed,
Mg. She said, My dear neighbour come to me. Witness
nald, " I cant for a few minutes, as I n,to afraid of
Tommy." She locked herself up for ;few minutes and,
finding the prisoner did not items, went and led the
deceased into her cottact. In five minutes she asked to
be led to her own hauls. Witness having complied with
the request, ran to the ashpit, and found that the father
was dead. While the depositions were being read Ihe
prisoner exclaimed, "Praise Him, praise Him, prias, flin4
ye noble army of martyrs, Pride. Him." Tubal Partridge,
blecluiruith, of Fordhatn, said that last t;eturday morning
he wad tent for to go to Johnson's. About hall way--the
whole distance being one maa—las met the prisoner with a poker on his shoulder. .fie stopped him and etheel
him what he had been doing. He replied, " You let Lae
go pest, you don't know who I as.. ; I m Almighty aed -
Witness let him go past, and he said. " Soon eitheenTde he turned routict assd struck witness
twice, ',wing, "I'll yen." Witness and a fnm. d then 'en closed with himened lathe scuffle the poker *ea
broken. EventuellY they strapped hull sit lhualtint
to the 1.474.34 ViliO4. After some further the
Prisoner mas asked If he wished to say anything in
deferion To
.this he replied that "ha came to destroy
the devil's kingdom and to build up Almighty God's,
tte was fully committed for trial at the mud JIMM
maims