The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-04-01 00:00:00

BRUTAL MURDER IN BUCKS.

On Monday afternoon it waa duo., red that a dread-
ful] =ardor lu.d been oommithad in the village of Oving,
about tie miles from Aylesbury, sod that a emu
named Mary Ana Evans, aged aeons 40, wife of Heavy
.was, a pig sad eon!. dealer of thst village, was the
victim, Henry Evans, the huhand, how of late given
way to dissolute habits, and the deceased, by bee
Industry as a milliner and dressmaker, aupporteu him.
Quarrels hid taken p 1..). between thorn, owing to Ma
hewing contracted debts unknown to her, which she
has bad to pay. Nothing, however, I. at present known
as to the c cute of the murder. 0,1 Sitarday morning
the hoeband went to the house of his father, • very
respectable old man, living direst', apposite to him,
and said that his wife had locked up the bouts sad
gone away. Nothing was thought of this statealeat at
lb/ tow. The husband stayed at his lather's hone. on
the Saturday night and all day oa Sunday. On Sandav
It was suggested to the husband that the house should
be broken into, to me if his wits was really gone.
This, however, he objected to, saying that it would octet
El to pet the door and lock right again, and that his
wife would grnatble at that 011 her reser.. On Saoday
night Is• again slept at his father', hones, and on
Monday morning he went away in his pony and tart,
Baying that he was going to a neigkboariag village.
About four o'oloek in the afternoon it was determiaed
to break open the honer. TWA was sooordingly done,
and • horrible sight presented 'wolf. Mrs. Keane was
found in the peerage, lying on the grimed, dead, with
her throat out from ear to ear, and iver bead feerteily
battered. A large dinner knife, towed with blood,
and a poker, bent, and with blood and hair spin it,
wen found in the house. The polio* at one, began Se
near the country La search of the katbend, and at
eight the same evening he was apprehended by Mr.
Superintendent Shepherd, as he was driving In the
pony and trap in the clireetiort of Oving. S las of the
prtecteer's clothing wit found seined with blood.
Upon bring *barged he said he should tett a about
It. The Jetport was adjourned.
At the toques' • great oases of evidenoe was take',
showing that the husband of Mrs Ivan' was • dissi-
pated MM., sod that although he was well °outwitted
be bad beets in the habit of quarrelling with his wife.
When taken into oultody the key of the house was
found in his postai, and an overcoat be wore no the
morning of the =ardor was In plane saturated with
blood. There were marks of Maod spout his shirt and
upon hie trousera After he had been looted up the
prisoner, who whoa apprehended denied the 'barge,
said. " When I was taken I was oosairm beck home, ter
I know I bed lei a nothing bet sorrow and trouble
bellied; I shall own to It all." The whole of the
'widens@ isolated oonolueleely as to the galls of the
orisooer, and his asuduet after the warder showed him
sob. perfectly awe. He told all with whom he °auto
In lewdest that his wife had left him, and taken the
key of the beam with her. The Jary, after • few
momenta • deliberstion, returned a verdiet of Wilful
Murder against !leery Ivens.