The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-02 00:00:00

A.NOTHILB, SOCIAL SOLNDAL

William Rodesy, 52 isms of age, wits on Wednesday
eziupon his trial at the Kingston Amis.', for felon.
wounding Mn. Rose kllen Curinston, with
latent to murder her. Tee prosectitrix, w.th whom
Rodway bad been intimate both ht,fore and after her
marriage, is the wife of • gentleman of oonsiderable
property readies in the neigbotirtiood of Farnham.
where be devoted himself to 'Mantic, permit., per•
timbal, to that of astronomy. and Ite had bruit an
obseivatasy for the p.p.* el warrang on hie mantilla
operations. Mr. and Mn. Oarringtoo had been married
three years at the time this omerrenee took pleat. On
the 110:1 of August leas, the prisoner went to her house,
and, upon beteg admitted, made • ferocious attack
upon her wish • knife, Oas of the wounds was of •
oaudi4 danger.am shame.", and it seised to have boea
by tie merest elhanee that lirs. Curtest.% escaped with
bar life. It is said tiat she &Actor.' to b • very
Illiterate person; esti shit said else maid not write,
and only real writing a little. In crose•ez siainat:on
slay said primmer used to odl me Ross. I first breams
anstaitited with the prisoner See ',ars ago at Bristol.
Ii may have been to Jemmy, 1865. lii wail at that
time connected with the TGIII Thumb inhibition, end
I remained with Min from this period till I was married
to Mr. Carrington.
The learned Judge—What do you Mall by remaining
with the prisoner?
Witness—We were living together am into and wife.
Cross-es 'litigation (anti:mad—After this we kept •
beerohop in Itiding-tiouse-strest, Portland-p am, In
1868. Alter leaving the beet-shop we went to live in
Cleveland-street, in Wirier, and while we wore therm
I beeame acquainted with Mr. Carrington, and 1 was
married to htdi on the 16th of Aimed, 1869.
Mr. Clerk—That is two years at Angnsi, no three,
as you have st trod.
Witnees—l don't know. Mr. Carrington has the
tiertificat.!. I met Mr. Carrington in lissentatrost
between fear and See in the evening.
The learned Judge—Did you speak to him, or did he
speak to you?
Witeem—Re spoke to me, and I went with him to
the theatre the same Might. Aft it. Ole Mr. Carrington
used to visit me at my honse in the Ilunpstead.roed.
The prisoner was living with me at this time, sad eon-
tinned to do so untd I wee married to Mr. Carrias:oo.
I warn parsing se Mrs. Radom% and Mir. Corrine.°
frequently see the prisoner. Knew he w. Mr. issi-
way. Mr. Canine., took opwrtmento for me t.p bo
married from, and immediately afterwards we seta to
Peru. . . . _ .

.....,
Mr. Cllrk—When you returned from Paris did you
go from the Charing-eras Hotel beak to ta6 house
where the prinner vas living?

Witne;lLYee.
Chief Judie. I3owille—Did you go on tiring et the
hones In the Heinpetend•road with the prisoner ea you
did before?

wiTL.yes. until he took another bout et Bolder.
.^N. The prigenor did not take this hone., bet Ito's!
11, Ca-rinoon VA-. 1 wisuod (or • hoile,
he took this house. It was arranged that I was to
remain at this house until I eoedd be 'deemed. it was
not arranged that the prisoner should go to this hones
So live with me. I objected to go to Kr. Carrington's
own house until I bad barn educated. He need to
some and visit me from time to time. The prisoner
aelnally took the home, but Kr. Carrington paid for
It, and IS was Miran in the name of Mr. B idway. I
remained at this house more than twelve month., and
then moved to another in Simpson-menet, Battersea,
which was taken in theism. way by the prisoeer.
Mr. Clark—What name did you paw by at this time I
Witness—As Mrs, Cantegton.
Crom-ezunitation eontineed—Mr. Carrington made
me as offer of marriage very seen after we become se-
coaluted. He did not tell me that be was very
wealthy, but he said something about £25,000. At
first I did not wish to marry him. and I told him I
did not etre to marry say one. Ha did not offer to
settle a oonsiderable sum of money upon ma if I would
marry him. He never told me that he would give sue
12,000 if I would marry him. He had taken out •
marriege Lessee previous to the one upon which I was
married to him. He Said me he would provide liberany
for me if I would marry him, end at length I consented
t. do so. I went to Bristol lart year, but Mr. Carries-
ton did not go with me. The prisoner came down to
Bristol their me. Re had all my papers and letters in
his poemesioa at this time, and very probably be had
sertilleate. I told the prisoner that I mut go and
live with Mr. Carrington, and that be wool! sot allow
me any more mosey it I soutiosed to be connected
with biro: I never wrote to the prisoner Weans. I
could not write. My sister had given me envelopes
&dammed to him, and 1 used to print a few words upon
• sheet of note-paper and send it to him.
Mr. Clerk—Wes it arranged that a letter with dole
upon It should MSG that the prisoner vs. to come to
Farnham, end • letter with 11101111111 on it that you were
coming to town? Wit/eras—No.
Kr. Clerk—No micas/sof any kind were agreed upon
between you
Witness—After I meet to live with Kr. Carringtoo I
did writes lettecto the prisoner, but it did not wattle
any signal for the prisoner to come down to Farnham.
I did go to 1•004100. o one 01101111100, and met the
primmer at • tavern is the Westminster-road. My
older* wee to get from him some thine he had of mine.
I also once met him moidentally at the Waterloo
Stance on 17sh of Judy. I believe it was en moidental
meeting, but I may have sands an appointmeat with
the Osofter. It is possible that at this interview the
told me that he Intended to go to America,
Cirr did not dissuade him front doing so, esti advise
hint to try and get a situation as tho driver of a tram
ear. I remember a man named Garrett being sent to me
by the prisoner, bet I did aot tell him that I would
provide the money that was neoessary to obtain •
lioseoe as a tram-driver. This man used to writ
&elms of the primmer upon envelopes. I always toll
the primmest that I should be happy to moist him in
obtaining some employment. I was vase to Smarted
about this time, and I remembered before I went leav-
ing word for the prisoner at the inn in the Westminster.
road 'lnstil should be at Waterloo @tattoo ate particular
time. I believe that! met the prisoaer at the appoi,.trd
time, and we went to the Strand, and sevcrsi other
plows, and among them to Doubiet-street,
where the prisoner was then living. K husband had
gone to Scotland before me, and! was about to follow
him on the 61 of August. 1 met the prisoner on the
day before at the railway station, and we walked about
together all day, and when we arrived at the Boston-
square station I found the train I was to go by bed
started half an hoar before. I stayed on this night at
Druromotas Hotel.
Lord Chief Justine Bovnl—Al ?
Witnesm-No, not alone. I wished to stay alone, but
the prisoner would not leave me.
Crose-examination oontinued—l telegraghed to the
prisoner from Baptised that I had arrived safely, and I
may have told him when I was coming back. I did not
goad any such loiters as have been usectioned to the
prisoner from Hootland. Mr. Carrington and I come
from Seed slid together, and I left him on our arnval
in London, and went to meet the primmer at the New-
inn, 41 the Westminster-road, where I ha.l met him
before. This was on the 11th of August
Mr. Clerk—Was anything said at this time by the
prisoner that you would not be able to meet him at the
New-inn, bemuse it bad been foetid out that you were
soother mian's wife?

Witness—lt was known at this house that I was
another ummVe wife.

wiahed to stay 'lomat the Drummond
Arms, and t3II the prisoner that 11r. Carrington would
he sure to find It out if I stopped with him. The pri.
soner raa determined, and said that he would not liars
goo, sod I us. obliged to consent. Toe prisoner was
awaro that Mr. Carrington used to mit me, mid be wad
ie the home when he came. He used to ten me that
he would set marry me. I told the prisoner that I had
met Mr. Carringtin, and ail that took pia» between us.
He used to raw to Mr. Curit4ton u ny bn.ther, and
Mr. Carrington did not know of the roil notate of our
counection until bug after our Bofors our
marriage Kr. believed that nee use
my brother. ?Valluseir was being odmated, W.soCarring.
' tag made sa alleeranee, end mpg to eon
mass mosey till the time I sweet to live with Mr. 151.
Heaton et the house mar Farnham. Ire need to live eotholy upon me, and he knew quite well that all the
mosey I gave Mamma from Mr. Uarringt Tito
goner did no work from the time be left the beer-honse,
and I awes, supported him from ttmt time.
rim
7.eire• pearsias wimrcouit.andcgullty, and seateased to twenty

The Rev. Bohai Own., Sapid minister, vvia FUM•
=Mid on Friday, before the tleethampton magiatrate,
for refusing to hare Ina child vaccinated. lie said tie
bad bean adviaed by a Londoe doctor not to base it
doe& The bomb mule an order for the vseslassio•
within six w.à. M Own has hie Was Saul he
awcoamilmass.

•
Emptrial Varliament.
,!(.1-iE or Loitu&
m,,,, • The 1t.4 al *went taring leen girth brOomolowooi
sLra •their lorliihip. 104 Ku-hod QU T,oollsh tho
ot Aiwa

OcmitnNs.

IH ist:DGE-r

A. r • silo I. aitnutitioe l our last note, th
to t ol t6o Exth
t - tutionv.•:.l, 11,1
WWI of tine limb of aloakment from L6U to MU, and
to apply I inoo ors under 1:300; n linen of the
boase.las on ic.ops and Oft*. under EA/ value, hid •
reduction of the doty on co...ffee and chicory.
There were not many jokes in tho spateh ; but, is
giving • reason for taking off the hJuin duty from
°Moss amply occupied by a care-taker, the right hon.
gotALman said the Act of 11469 exempted warehouses
and shopemoupled by • person for purposes of ph.
georion, But that gave rise to the qasetiou whether
the words " • person ' mat be etrlctly defined to hi
single individval or whether • more liberal laterpegtse
ihrn ought not to be given to them. We hew. referred
the ghettos, to caution v• ry learned in tin. 15,4.4
tv y have a tehel U. that • peroon" mayansia
11147fil 1 Wet, ed lo cmi haroly be oaf,' to b., • marr..4
.. an to the wooer ammo of tin, word unbar his ergo
1, thing with Lign, therefore the wife must sin ba
theluded under tb, dolt/draws of "a penes "—(a&ja.
But if you include the wife, it Is and young
cannot possillr to hparated from their mother, sad,
therefore, a man, his wife, and all his little sellhen
mast be included under the definition of "a psems"—
(laughter). but then a illtaifir quastmo mas putt,
the am:marl leamed In the law. "Suppoes • mas aid
his wife had grown-up daughters, ought they to be
removed from She owe of their mother ?" Th, salless
was "Certainly not." So that, In fah, then eons to
Included in the definitio• of "a person " a 'kis
family. This gave rise to • good deil of sqhbiling
.-aptoutily em efli wire excluded the Wash of the
Act, and he thought it best now to tamps
lkr3
ens if the inhabited part does not erased • naa
LIU.

In reference to tho ceffee and chicory redsoilens,
Mr. Lowe said his neat sob) at wet one which latest*
ttic family, and it is raid to relate to anksr, iele theduresa.
handled million, of human beings, that Is,
Coffee haa great claims upon our oanaidatatkm (hear,
boa). It.. stimulating, and may be gel upon trhd—
Arne& I fear not a very saohissfal on•—epliael miere
lajudeth stimulants, to which the limestone thirst of
the spirit revenue by no memo reomanilas me. The maw
enlitiflu of oar.. h.. oat twereamd. Thee* wee • len
of 1:46.000 upon cote this per.its hLtory has been
• most rorlaneboly one. I will fuss scats a fa. guy.
which will show Low the ma'am stunts : —ln 1840 the
consumption of elf -e wax over one pound per bead
it wa• still • LW, over one posed pm heed ; he
19. po tar (row pert—king of the spheral
which walled upon ottex articles id twesemptaaa7TeZ
cotuall fallen off to under one pound per heed ; and
in 1671 It had slightly rueovered, sad the eosinampties
then was one pound and three decimals per heed.
That was to say, the consuraptioa of (offs,. la that
erben an many other ottani; had risen •
florensted end Lel deers hied, sometimes oersted some
limes under one pound per bead. There are
then, reasons why oil.. should ho dealt Undid/
with. lii. not an article that out be tried et sem.
r. quires • Omit in preparatins—rotating—whish MAW
it more difficult to be gut at by the working gleams; sod
is, iriolinni to think Vint in thia country, where we
are aotorioasly not good csooka—dlutabter)—there la ne.
Re much made out of eAfee as th re eight be • iii!
an streogtheiteal in this °maid on by the admitted
kotkoss ot those readers whiato you meet with at the
corner, of the it•olota early in the morniag—ilseghterli
Now, the dray on coffee ls At peasant LO pie mut. The
sort of raw coffee 1. 61. pr pound, the dety beteg 34.-4
very moire arid heavy to, on an article of food—(bmar,
hear). The r that iffe• yi.l Is is £368,000 •
,aar. Of imams I mtht class with It the article al
Aiopry, welsh is Donut [nes the handmaid and mew
times the rival —(1 rod laughter). Chicory yield,
Oedema duty 1:127,0d0 a year, wi that the whole ditty
oa coffee and chicory le £493,000 • pm. Now I seders
to propas• tmt we should emptily • Forties GI ear
smiles IA reducing the duty on coffee hear, hear). I
propose to reduce the duty on eoffee by oos half; it is
now 28. per act.. and I propose to redoes it 14r. the
cwt. Customs duty no chicory is 26.. 61., and I pro.
pose to reduce it to 13.. Al. The Excise daty for ems
(raise is something leas than 24.. 31. I propose he
relate it to 12i. 10. The loss to the nevem from
these reduattros will be £230.000 a year.
The increased abatemeot to in•mme-ter payers as
amount. up to 1390 was introduced as follows : —Ths
tese is no doubt aware that in 18,13 my hoeoerable
friend, the tin.° Chancellor of the &chequer, intro-
duced a new principle hit, the ineometsx—that
he introduced the prineiple that when • mea's Insane
wan below 1.100 (•nd below £lOO DO Win was rubieot
to the tax) lie should have the privilege of deducting
kW, on which sum no tax should be levied. This was
done by way of relieving the poorer classes of 'DOOMS-
PaY•111. It thews ti me that the prinable then
intrialined has ben au exceedingly sound ono. It Is
founded on tho erosible principle t,,at • man should
pay t ties, end that in order ti aid him to pay them
ri lie/ should b. granted to a contain point. No elm
In the community la so severely touched by taxation as
the low. r or poorer &asses of persons who pay Income
tax —(eboers). Everything seems to lilt them—(hear.
bear). The Income ti,. the hociertat —their articled of
consumption are taxed, with the exception of
La which I soon hope to add effer. Their coffee, their
beer, and their tea are taxed, and then burial this
,hey ar.• heavily ;;; CCI in io:t1 r Xis —(lear, Le ,r)-
-si the pres.nre ii not (*walla d exclulivsly to the
lower payers of inmate-tax. I must say' I have bees
*hooked by kitties that I have received from patinae.
in this position. (attaining the most piteous appeals to
give them thne,deolaring they knew not where Writ tlielr
hands on the money. 01 amino one meet loans to be
berd-b,karted to such appeal, where, possibly, 213 d O&M
Di • leaa in inialortune than in extravagance or folly. Bat
really this dos of people seem to suffer arid do aoffer
more (noun tsxstion than any other and I think
that the Neuss twat do wisely in consider-lag their rose,
and not turn • deaf ear to each persons. Agreeing thy.
self with the principle laid down by my right hoe.
friend, that there should be a (Retain grWs la the
lacrome-tax in which I may presume a man's meths to
be so circuutheribed that I ought to allow him a cedes
portion from which no tax should be taken, It herefore
propose to extend the lim.t of this abate.
meet from 1:200 to ; and onsidering how
mug& dearer llvin hut become, I propose to thereon
the amount which is to be exempted from Wallet
from L'6o to £BO. The persons who are now affsetel
by the abatement number 273.000; the pormas who
will be affected in addition number 167,000. The totill
number relieved in this meaner will be UMW. The
cart of this abatement to the rename will 6411310,000.
The right hen, gentleman took off twopenos from
the income-tax in • few words. Said he, lot year—l
will thy meet uswillinicly—l wee sompelled to raise the
inoome-tex. The oontruittA wee told that this wag
required owing to temporary preemie; that it wet
required only for temporary purports, although that
was doubted and contradicted. That temporary arra*,
bas pared away, and the committee will gather that it
is now in our power, as it is ia our w 11, and no doubt
salt is in theirs, to undo whist we did last year
(cheers).
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The proposals of the Chancellor cl the Exchequer
were generally favourably received, but several demands
were made foe Um repeal of the duties ea farmer's
h wets used cemashiaally to Wm the tastily to semi
and opou °oily doge. Amongst the other
discussed were the house duty, the omit tax, sad the
insoles tax. to the sod, ell the reeolutions sloslian
St. Budget WIMII agreed to.
WEIDA,. —The adjourned detate on the University Tub
(Dublin) Bill we. mounted nod coucluvied. The Howe dlrldsd
—For the mooed rending. 94 or Mr. Sylvan's sanendmentAl
majority for, 73, The Mil wee red • second tune.