The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-11-15 00:00:00

THE TERRIBLE MURDER OF A SWEET.

HEART AT PRESTON.

Aspinal Simpson, • young man, was sentinced to
death at Manchester Amite, on hiondav, for the
murder of his sweetheor t, MIN An Radcliffe, le years
of age, the daughter of an innkeeper. at Proctors. The
evidence adduzed at the trial was to he fo"owing
effect : —The p imner, since the death of his father,
had lived with, Ilia widowed mother at Preston, where
they are ow: well known. The deceared was the
delight., of tie. Alfred Radcliffe, keeper of the Bell
Some 12 or IS ,no ohs ago the prieoner and domed
became acqii wed, hut the girl', father was very moth
onposed to tlie intimacy, and he several times forbade
the peomer c aning to the house. In oppoition to the
•tat'ier'a wish they contioutal to see each other, •od
a-le •te,.l a secln led paeriage as their meeting place.
N..ta •tlistanding • charge in the girl's condition, the
courtship appeared to cootinue. Some months before
the notri'er the pris mer met a girl, named Richardsoc,
with whom he pretioiaely kept company. She setel
him w:ly he ilid ot get married, as be had keot
company with the deceased lone enough, and 64
replied—" To—with getting married. I'm only after
the cash bags there." About six weeks before the dry
of the murder • conversation was overheard between
them in 'he portage, in which the prisoner asked the
dec ntred if she had g it him &LI more money, to which
ahs answered, "I cannot bet !ways robbing my lather
f y.m." The girt wan only 16 yearn of are. About
eix weeks before her death the girl presented to h. •
father a form of consent to the mar•iage, which she
it•lce I him to eign. The father refused to sign it, but
she wee importunate, and presented it to him again
a month later, and then he signed it. On the 29th
July the prim ,ner went to • barber's shop, and aft e
ha had left it was found that • razor had diaappearti.
Th• marria;e was fix, d to take place oaths let Angus,
lint the prisoner postpone lit, On August 3rd the de-
co ot.ol and the pri -otter were out togrther early in the
mo nit:g. They went together to the sir Walter Scott
public-house. and the prisoner ordered two bottles of
ism mode, which We oUppl fed to them In &room which
they .iccupied alone. They were so luist that the land-
lady's dau.rhter peeped into the room, tbinkiog they
had gone, but found thion sitting together near the
venni.... A few minutes afterward, the girl heard
so tic bin fall, and went nein to the room to see what
it wig She met the murdered girl a arming out of the
dote, her throat fearfully cut. The girl shouted out in
terror and ran away, and the decorated turned back
Into the room, fell down on the hearthrug, and died in
a few minute.. An open razor, corresponding with
he one take n from the barber's shop, was lying on the
table. The abate of deceit nod, who was very much
distressed, said her sister wan very fond of the
prironer, and the following letter to the prisoner was
in her sister'. handwriting t—'• Dear Jack,—l think
you had better come do. a either to night or in the
moraine sod ask him what he has against you and I
spaded g tetestber. If I have to speak to you no
more I bite made up my mind to make away with
myself. as 1 cannot live without ening or speaking to
yo-t. lan nearly heart-broken. Good.bye for the
presmt, and a million kisses from your darling wife,
A. Stnetuns. Excuse bad writing and spellimr
writt min baste. Tell him that you really love me,
and if he will only have von you will wait a few years
for me." William Bradshaw, who went to the house
where she girl was murdered immediately ester the
murder, when he saw the body lying on the floor, asked
the prisoner who had dons it, and he replied " It's me."
The priaorer wan found ; and on hang inked if
he had anything to say. replied, "No, sir; I am gotta
satisfied " after being sentenced he walked from ths
dock without evincing any emotion.

THE NEW DEAN OF CARLISLE.
The QUIN'S has been pissed to approve the appoint-
ment of the Be.. John Oaks% Irina of St. Saviour'',
Hnxton, to the Delloo,ll of Carlisle, in the nom °litho
Very Rev. F. Close, D.D reehinod. Oakley use •
*choler a Br...lanes Coil-ge, Re was appotntod in 1876
vicar of St. S,vionr's 11 ,xtm.

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