The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-12-16 00:00:00

11•NSTON.

BROOKING AoolDmaT.—On Saturday, Mr. Comyne
Leash held an inquest at the Plough Inn, Menstoe. out
the body of John Fort, sged IL years, who was killed
the day before whilst in charge of • cart mare beloogim
to his employer, Mr. ifeatyard. Charles Fort stated
that he was seat, in smarmy with the damaged, to
fetch three bones from the geld. He took charge of
two, sad the deceased took charge of the other, brown
seem whisk witness had been told woo a quiet animal.
Deceased led it from this lield by • hand dill with •
*bola attaehei to it. lie had pulsed through the gate,
and was in the next field, whim he (wither) peened
through the gate, and as he woe in the sat or abut*
the rate he heard the doomed ay out "Woo
Witness then saw the bons ftuap. sod the boy fall
11/14114 It/ leg% The bores then started off at • gallop,
dragging the deceased by Ito side for about 210 yards,
and was then stopped by • gate leading Into as 'plots-
log lane. Witham than went up to the deceased and
spoke to bum, but he did sot answer. He lifted him
up sad undid the chafe, which was fastened ireey then
around his wrist. Deceased groaned; he was Metellei
very moth from a wound at the beck of the head. lie
got him home, and he ouly breathed once or twice
afterwards. The poor boy's skull woe fraeland, and it
is conjectured that his head was dashed masa the
gate. The wrist was eat through to the bone by Use
tightening of the Atha. A sordid of " Amidental
death" was returned by the jury,

BL A HDFORD.
PlONOTlOX.—Tossday's London Gantt" sostalni
the following :-12th Lanese'. —Lieut. Edmund Moreton
Maneel.Pleydell to be Adjutant, vial Lieut. the Hon.
W. J. Stewart, who has resigned that appointment.
BUDD= Desra.—We regret to state that on Monday
last Mr. W. Sapp, printer and bookseller, and for
very stony yaws manager of the Poet-elks In this
town, died very soddenly. The dammed, who was
much esteemed and resp-oted, not poly by the
initabitanht Itiandford, but by • very large Angie of
friends la the neighbourhood, bad "offered tot many
years past daring the winter months from. severe
ehronie sough. Be had been poorly for several weeks
post, the cough being more than usually skits's*, but
had steadily kept to his work preparing the eonoleding
part of the Index to the "History of Dorset " a work
which had emoted all his spare time for the last 14
years. On flooday evening he appeared more cheerful,
and on Mooday morning imtended to bit business; but
aboet one &Moak, feeling the pain In his side ino, ease,
he went to bed and said he abould Ity • enestard
plaster. Be was left about ten minutes whdat
dinner was being prepared, and abut two o'oloek, on
its beteg taken to him, be was found dead. Bo sadden
did the announeemeot came upon the members of hie
family that they could not at first believe it, bat were
soon convinised It was too true. His nephew, Mr. N.
H. lifp'oener, under whom, method charge he bad been
some Urn., was at °see summoned, and the abeent
members of the family telegraphed for. Deep imen-
inlieration 1. 1.11 for Mrs. Shipp and the family in their
sudden and sad bereavement ; and the townspeople
generally feel they bare lost an old and tried friend.
Deoseeed was 66 years of age, and the new edition of
the" History of Dorset," the greater gait of which be
had lived to publish, will aver be amocuated with Lis
memory as affording an Instance of patient untiring
labour.