The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-07-12 00:00:00

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The adjourned inquest was held at the Guildhall, on
Friday, before G. B. Aldridge, Esq., borough coroner.
T Mr. revanion represents' tba widow and friends of the
deceased, Mr. Dickinson (Town Clerk), the Quay Trasteee,
and Mr. Budge, the Bridge Company.
The C goner. addressing the jury, said as doubtlessly
they were aware, he bad issued his warrant for the
apprehension of Paull, but the police bad not been
surcsatful to Bodine him, therefor,' they would have to
proceed without referesos to him.
Daniel Collin, railway signalman, living at Market-
street, peel., raid he knew both Bibb' and Paull by eight.
On Saturday, the 25th, be was at the bridge gate, and saw
two men pass In. cart over the bridge, and when he got
to St. Clement'. Alley he saw Paull in another cart, about
120 yards from the bridge. The dist cart was going at a
walking pace, at this rate of about 10 miles an hour.
By Mr. Dickinson: He could not tell how far Hibbs was
a-heal.

iy-Quror •. He did not riee the deceased at all.
By r. Budge: It we. • starlit/Ist night anil clear,
Michael Bather's, of Lytchett Matravers, was in Poole
on the evening in question, and while driving home his
wife, who was eitting with biro, told him to hold In as she
heard some one driving at • furious rate, and he did so.
The eret who passed him were • man and a boy in • high
cart He WS4 told afterwards it was Paull, but whoever
it was be appeared to he sitting "anyhow " in the cart,
arid was grumbling to himself. He salted him what wee
the matter, but he could not uaderstand what answer he
made. He was going about 10 mile, an hour, and driving
recklessly, pulling *mural times right across the road.
When he got to the turn eT the Junction he stopped in
the middle of the reed, and he (witness) then pawed him.
Just rafter that Hibbs came up, and he asked him what
was the matter with the man, and who he was. Hibbs
said one of the ftshman. He met no person when he went
over the bridge. He should have seen them If he had, for
he could see 60 yards &Thal&
By juror,: If there had been anyone near Mr.
Sydanhant's well he could have seen them quite dictincuy.
It was about 20 toil when he went over the bridge. If
the man who was named to him as Paull was not drunk
he never mw • man that was. He seemed to him both
drunk and silly.
Edwin Oberitt, joiner, of Heatherland, Hinson, we.
riding. with Mr. Hibbs on the smudge of the 25th. They
called through the toll.gate about 26 minutes to eleren.
There wee a cut behind them, which was some 1.4 or 2Q
yards 10-lund them. Their cart did not go over anything;
they did not have any sensation whatever of having done
so. Mr. Hill and himself then drove on as fer as the
National S.:hools—Tabout half • mile. The other cart here
came up with them. The man who was driving did not
pees them, although they left him the proper space to do
so in. Ile flourished his whip at them, as if he wished to
challenge him for • race; but Mr. Hibne took no notice of
him whatever. He heard kiln say. "None of that, none
of that;" u much as to say he would sot be bests*. He
then dropped his reins on the hones Meth, end It started
off at • sharp trot. When they came up with him •
second time, he again spoke, and pulled his horse to the
right in rather • wild meaner. He appeared to be very
much the worse for liquor, and wee driving In • reckless
tort of way.
By Mr. Dickinson: He muttered sail half drunk. Hibbs
did not speak to him.
By Mr. Trevaaion : There might have been someone in
the road on going off the bridge,. and be might not have
seen them It was not a very bright night. It would be
rather darker at that part of the rosl than in other places.
He could not rimember what lamm were lit.
By • Juror: He did not hear the trap behind pull up for
anything.
By Mr. D:ckinsen: He was quite positive their horse
did not knock • man down in the road. It was not
possible for him I. have done it without his knowing it.
The oat he was riding in was a low pony-cart
Mr. Supt. Heat stated that he had inspected the spot
where the occurrence took *am sines the best enquiry.
The blood In the road wee about &'t. from the sliding
doors. Poe road was BC, wide from the wall to the
curb. The forpeth was on the left-hand tie, after page.
lag off the bridge. The inesisured the disthnee from the
lamp on the e side of the swing to the Own of the
accident, and it we. lifift., *ad from there to the next
lamp 282 ft. This last lamp was lit by the town: but 64
believed it was bridge property. flare Is a bracket
between the place when the accident took plus and the
lamp on the Poole ride, but no lamp. The lamp on the
flamworthy side is not lit in summer, and there hee been
no Imp in the bracket for four or five years. He con.
Wisest Paull • very reckless driver, and he had been sum-
mon el and fined here and in other towns for driving
furiously. Re was not a steady man at all.
By Hr. Trevanlon : He had a subparts for Dim from
the coroner, which he served upon him personally, end he
bad seen 44.1hing of him since. To the best of his recollee.
lion it was not • very 1,,r1t14 night It was necessary for
the officer whom he eget tolske • light. He believed the
lamp at the bracket was It by gas, but that pipe had bun
cut off. The lamps be had referred to were fifift'spart,
and that certainly 1441 too far sport. The lamp on the
Hatuworthy side, and the bracket lamp, ought both to be
lit in summer as well as winter. Having reeard to the
public safety, he should saw that roost decidedly they
ought to have been lit on the night in qneetion. They
had esceired numerous complaints about them.
By Mr. kydge ! He had been superintendent of P olio 13
year& He believed, but be Would not swear, that more
lamps had been lit lan Mae &Use than yhete were on that
night. He should o etainly sly they hod been lit before
now between the months of Much ant September. He
bad not communicated the com pi Tints he had rie droll to
the officials of the bridge trust. He WSI not aware there
had been any accident before on the bridge.
By Mr. Trevanion : lie had spoken to Mr. Hoare, the
bridge collector, about the want of best.
The Gironer Then succinctly revivedl the evidence, and
having done so he thought the t video°, stowed that there
was sufeeient light to have shown person, driving any one
who might have been in the road. Notre absence Teemed
very extraordinary. sad he could not help thinking that l•et
rather thought it desirable ii be out of the way. He
thought the evidence given lei the boy WS, pretty correct
He also believel in considering their vpr lict they would
have no doubt the deemed came by his death through
being struck down and ran over by a cut, and he pee.
tumid also They would have to doubt but that Paull drove
that care They must satisfy themselves either that the
deceased came by his death accidentally, or that Null in
, • furious we, did negligently drive over him, in which
bate he wld be guilty of manslaughter. Fr his own
pert be mu not see any circumstanced that would tend
to show this to be an occidental occurrence. Paull
appeared totim to here extol bi ted mist cri mine neat Irene 1
-1 impropriety. Howerpr, left the metier in their
1. -tided they would gies a true and proper verdict.
174eas, 'ea retired for about a unties, of an hour,
t
Tee Jury, hire.. the foreman (Mr. Wanhill)
on heir return into
-.4 lei his death by being
the Wry found that the demi,. r driven by George
kooCked clown end run over by a tr .0 of a trap
Nall, who was drunk and unfit to have &ie.. - that
at the time, and thy also added that in their opilitau..
the bridge was not properly lighted,
The Gunner said that amounted to • Yerdidt of man•
slaughter against Paull.
The Bode., clerk to the bridge trust, said he would like
are to lay Tho remarks of the jury before that body.
Several of the Jury bore testimony to the insufficient
lighting of the bridge.
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Ws understand that M. winiam Hinds has
resigned his position as gardener to Lord Wimborne,
Canford Manor, and leaves there in a few weeks.
We believe Mr. Hinds is leaving his place in first-rate
order, and shall hope soon to beer that snob • good
practitioner has found another field in whkh to ratplar
ajs Ail --Gardeners' (Aroma&

BLANDFORD.

MILUANT. -A body of the B Battery 6th Brigade,
Royal Artillery, on Thuridey halted here for the
night There were about 80 men and six crone.
Major Hammond commanded. They wore C 4 route
for Okehamnton.

SUNDAY CLosll.lo.—PAtitions have been recentl/
presented to the 11 H -nse of Commons by the on.
11. B. Portman, •
M.P., in favour of closing pub!ic-
houses on Sunday from the Weeleyan bodies of Blindfonl, Iwerne Minster, and Fasnham.
AOCinitNra. —On Friday last a couple of serious
accident' happened in this town. In the liest'anstnnos
• man named Shave, a groom to the Rev. Mr. Heath,
of Dytchett Matravere, was driving into the town in
a car: accompanied by his wife and his father-in-law.
an Id man named Mow. Just as they got near Mr.
Nloakton'e, tailor, who lives on the Wimborne-rowi,
the wheel of the trap went over the grating of • drain.
Thin gave way, end the wheel consequently going dowo
collided with considerable fil-Ci ageinet the etone
the coneequonc • being that there wee • sudden jerks
which threw ell three of the parties in the trap int i
the mad. Mrs. Shave and Most., when the paseere.by
—among whom was Mr. W. H. Atkineon, the well-
known .olicitor—ran to their assistance, were found
lying in pole of blood, Isenselesn. Shave bail fallen
upon his wife. and escaped with &shaking and a friiht.
Medical assistance wee sent for, and in the meantime
restoratives were administered, and the unfortunate
pe iple were br aught round. Mr. Sandy speedily
arrived on the spot and, on an examination of Mrs.
Shave, it wan found the sin ill bone ,4 the left arm had
been broken. Her face we. also considerably lsoerated,
as was Mote's. The bone was se-, and they are now
...etting on well. The cart its7lf was turned over on it.
ei e, and the potty started off, hut was speedily
etoopeni. —The second accident ocenrred wi bin it
few minutes of thin, in East-treet. and happened to a
little boy three years of age. the son of a towelling
vendor of wicker•wol. He was trying to get no into
his father's cart, and filing, the wheel passed over
an Ihi thigh was hr he. The injured limb was
-et by Dr. Daniels, and by bin advice the Poor 110°
felloe was taken on to the Dorset County Hospital at
Dorchester.