The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-04-27 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY A FF.\ IR.

At litratford isilicseastrt, lext4on, ii Satiir
William V. 11ranch, 19, wax chatg,sl with iihoaing
Peter Jeffreys. From the evidence, it appear...l th‘t
the primmer on Friday went to the nsiiilenee of the
prneesittor, to whim' he was known, curl
shmit haring nrerheenl two men planning
to r. 41 the premieee. Whilst comersing with 1ir...,
cli^r.° aunt, 0,. Iwisoner, who WWI lalsinting
great excitement, declamt that he leapt in,'
breaking into the house. Upon the partii, f” mg
an examination, however, nothing ws•
amiss. As they were proceeding to anotli, 1.,r,
the, house the
.prisoner muddenly rat., I a
which he held in him hand, and fired at .1. tfr,,
allot penetrating the litter 's eye. The. ion.. r, .10
denied the charge, wee remanded.

countenance his friends in Feat Dorset last week, has
left behind him • piece of valuable advice, which,
addressed to the party I.;tit4'all7i aPPearl oPwci*llY
adapted to one el them When Mr. Mime! said, 'as
an old man he would advise them to draw it mild,'
he must have had in his mind's eye the gentleman I
who, without a blush, had Just said 'he could entill• I
dimity assert that there was nothing further from Whet appears to hem peculiarly brutal ea.. .4 wife
the intentions of the present proprietary of the rder VIM OOTlTittlid in tllmimester on Swell.
Western assent than to turn it into a Toty The deceased woman is Sarah Ann Hewitt, ~,r.el II
newspaper!' We all know Mr. Farquharson years, and her husband, who is accused .1 eau-Ingle(
by this time, and are prepared to bear from death, is ',Award Hewitt, who is year .1. two
him any amount of assertion : 11,1 that even this younger than the deo-awed. The (sets were stabil to
thumper will only occoeion the usual laughter at the magistrateson Monday morning, when theill..ll.,
his audacity. It is not 12 months ago since he was was brought up, and charged with killing hie w,fr!'Y
running about constantly abusing the proprietor, and striking and kicking her. Mr. Chirl.ll)l Chiefol).
denouncing the paper in whose fortunes be has now • Conetriblel explained that the prisoner was
stake to the amount of along reven.and.thirty shout new o'clock on Sunday night. The man and
shillings • year. His present commission appears to his wife had lived in Wella's court, Sherlsirne
be to r, through the county and puff the paper which The decoyed, before her !marriage with the priexp]r
he was wont to sneer at. The labourers know that was a widow with four children, and sin' e their
the Gazette has been bought by a party of Tories, of marriage oho had hail two children by th,
whom Mr. H. R. Farquharson, temporary socceasor One of whom was preinatileely born. Awl hid -in('
Warton, is one. They are not such fedi as to died. Prisoner was a boiler maker by trade.
believe that they gave for it a gond deal more than it having ben out of work, he ant Iv. family hal
was worth out ill pure philanthropy, or without suffered privation, and recently the dees.weet a1.11."1
intending to make up in political capital what they to the magistrates for help toward. IsirYlng iv
have conk in sterling money. l'ou have a heel task child. Prisoner left home ..n Monday, the 12th ineto
before you, Mr. Henry Farquharwin, to persuade and got work at Sharpness. lie returned to U 1.5,0."
them to the contrary, and you are making your work ter in Saturday, and gave his wife a soverriM hut
more difficult. Listen to the admonition of a wage demanded is of it back, which she refused tO r""
counsellor, and endeavour in future to ' Draw it him, and this mooned to have made him anal. Mr`
" . Curtis, a neighbour, hoard vio o
lent blws_len "u
sr ",lc

It hae hem mated with a great shoot of aiteurance, in the promner'a hotter, and cries of " llurder.
and we know not with what reeeon, that whatever she did not go to the bowie, having teen forbidden t,
noir. the towns of the North and Midlands take on do an. The oriels, however, continued, and ele
the Irish gliestion, tie, South and Weatern constitti. woman say, "Ik. coca.; I'm being murdered.- t`h:
micea will he, found .lewt loietile to the measures. arconlingly wont and found deceased ct•,i Po",
The Tories in Dorset., we know, are hogging the down lietwoon two chairs. Primmer held tip
notion the party bwri, will b.. ohliteraterl, to their mil Ids hunt towards Mrs. Curtis as if he was
advantage, aml th it there will 1w a .tanmede oi strike and kick her, and being alarmed
tilierala from Get camp "IF. ilsdstone. IVe bold hack ; hut afterward. 'he went in atvl
the belief Dorset will gise a strong support to the ta• wed. She left., and ofterwants oitain
principles of the mesaurea pn.potinded hy Mr. oho lwlieved Were kicks and b10w,.; bet in. Pant
Gladstone. Theflostmeetingaa ilonoetf,iheral Anemia. the door oh., found it was locked. Nothing m-7
non held since the Bills were lento:lit forward took , occurred until between three and four o'clock
place at Weymouth on Titeadav, and, as we expected, ' Sunday afternoon, when another disturbance
tbe
an nthuaiaatic motion of confidemie in Mr. I ilitilstone hears' in( the prisoner'. bedrootn, and
and Mr. Sturgis was pared. That the other 'Arend : floor. Between four and he o'clock pristine'',
Assoriatiims in the county will follow this example went to run his wife acroen the court lot "..1
we have little doubt. kitchen or brewhieme, where he struck her. kw
3 thud ,111.„.
At the Sheffield Police-court, on N1...14ay, David her down, and kicked her in a brutual mann,.
Donnelly, a draper, warn remanded until Thuraday on neighbour. went out, and demented returned icr
a charge ui the manalaughter of .1. H. Gillett, a looms, and was taken atoblittily ill. They tr.^l
eportqrof the Sportsman, her brandy, but she Was tutoraviciont and obe
It ts probable that Sir T. HrAine May will be swallow it, and between *even and eight ittit,emi
mimed to the peerage. The right hon. gentleman died. The coroner (Mr. Chipp added) had ntua.aia•
performed his last official act as Clerk of the House of postmortem examiostma, and he asked "...-
CuthMOtti 011 Saturday, traton to gnat a reload wail ash i Monday'