The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-01 00:00:00

HORRIBLE DIVRDER IN CALCUTTA

A most atrocious murder has been committed in Cal-
cutta. In April last a goldsmith, both by caste :Intl trade
living in Anelserest-strect, gave his daughter, a girl about
nine years old, in marriage. She reniained at her father-
in•law's till a short time ago, when she returned to her
own father's house. The wife of an opposite neighbour.
who is also a goldsmith by trade, asked the girl to COMO
over and show her wedding jewels. The two families
were on friendly terms, and the girl, with her mother's
Permission, decked herself with the jewels, said to be
worth many hundreds, or. a: 'sone assert, a thousand
rupees, and went over, with female pride, to exhibit to
her friends Inc nuptial presents. She had not been their
long, however, when she WWI seized, her throat cut, and
leer body, being stripped el all the valuables, was buries!
in • standing pcsdure in a workshop of the house, the
inunatem of which consist of the owner and his wife and
two workmen. When the police, on getting information
to the niureler, went to the house and questionesl these
Persona, they one and all declared that the inurderesl
child had never conic to the house, awl in this
statement they resolutely persisted till the body was
exhumed.

TRAGEDY IN MANCHESTER.
A young South American merchant, a Mr. Barge, walked
into the Prince's Club at Manchester, on Tnesday after-
noon asked to see one of his friends, a Mr. Maclean, shook
hands with him with a " how do you dor' as the porter
Hosed the Wow upon them, and three Welondel after shot
his friend through the head with a six-chamber revolver,
and then put the muzzle of the weapon to his own heal
The coroner's inquiry has not explained the tive of the
crime, although it has brought to light the fact that Mr.
Barge had recently been suffering from depression,
thought himself ‘" thoroughly bad," moray, althmagh that,
it is said by his br.,ther was absurd, awl war looking out
for a officur of police "watch a w m," it is presumed
his wife, although he had only been married six week.,
and in default of holing an officer to take this service in
hand had been Inas:rim:about Mr. Maclean's house initial,
ordering the driver to tell him if he tetw a lady or gentle-
man or at Mr. Mwlean's gates. It W:l4
arldrently a case of insane jellously n the part of Mr.
Barge. for Mr. Maclean had .oily well Nits. Barge once in
his life, and Mrs. Barge's brother-in-law says there was
not the slights-sit ground for jealously or ill-feeling.
brother at the inquest add he became intensely pilalS be
prayed a great deal, and when he did he assumed a
pmuliar poaition which I never saw assumed before,.
Coroner : Did he ever give you any anoilver as
to any particular circumstance that caused his depr.ssionf
No; I never could elicit that
%Mit Particular position did be aasinsio in praying
It was a ucculiar prostmte one, and he used to extend
his arms.

Did you consider that his gloomy apprehensions were
mere 11111.4iillIS
Entirely.
I you think he was unwell,' in his mind
I do not believe he was wend in his mind for the last
nine months. Ile use,' to write 'wryer', out on piper, for
the purpose of 'Wu them to MS r), well-known
prayers that he wrote from the Prayer-book.
liii you know that he rarrir,l a revolver!
I did not, but I know that his was Mire attemp-
t."' by thieves. Ile had two saloon pistols, but I did not
know he had a revolver.

Are you aware from what you observed that your
brother had any cause of ill feehug towards the ,lecear‘ed
Mr. Macltsui

Ile merely knew Mr. Maclean ass mendsm of Ili. club,
and at the thee wheu Jet!cries mul 1:o. failed my brother,
on several oceashows expressed to me sincere c"muni-cra-
tion for Mr. Maclean. Ile always spokd very favourably
of Wm. I had never known Mr. Maclean until about
three weeks No. I never heard him speak unkindly of
Mr. Maclean.

Di. you suppobel hail any ground of °Maim aotinst
Mr. Maclean.

I never heard him even hint at anything against him.
I believe be hml i,u grounds for anything against bite.
Mr. Maclean was at my brother's house only once. Ile
had not much acquainkince at the house. The only visit
he paid there was paid a fortnight ago to-1 ~,,, row.
Do you consider it likely that that WAS the lint time he
met Mrs. Barge I
I believe uniloubtely that that. t was the first and only
time he ever met her.

Du you know that he consulted any surgeons aa to his
state of mind
- - -

Ile told me onee that he hail consulted Dr. Reiland, but
he did not mention any one else.
What made you say to your brother, when you met him
at the club, " How do you feelr
Because he had been on different from day to day.
Mr. Gouldthorp: I wish to ask whether Mr. Barge ylid
not receive a letter this morning from his brother who is
now dead, dated yesterday t
Mr. Addison: Oh yes it is here, and I will put it in.
The letter wax then read by the Coroner as follows
"itt. Mary*.-gate, Manchester. August, us. 1574.
My dear Fred, I implore your panloo for what lam going
to do. I cannot Isar longer my awful thoughte. I have not a
owl to Warn In the world for what I am about to do but my
own sell. . .

—•
This is Belk% c me, my tor brutlicr.
Volllll,

A TOUCHING
_STORY.

A talc of love and sorrow, strictly ronftn.l to the green.
grocery huaineet. is reported from Berlin. A worthy dame,
who kept :i stall in the fruit market in that capital
fascinated by the deep baritone voice in which he cried
his vegetable., became deeply attached to a market
gardener who supplied the dealers. This attachment was
not unwelcome to its object., as it greatly facilitated the
sale of his shack; neither was it displeaaing to hill wife,
who valuing the sociability of the good w an. was tin
visiting t 411114 with her would•lie rut at. Thus all went "ii
smoothly till one day the ineloilious voice of the young
market gardener was hushed in death. The grief of hi.
Late customer was extreme, and she spent the whole day
in the mortuary. The widow, who thd during hia
time been KO tolerant of her affection for the iloceaaed,
became exaaperathl at this display .:f feeling, anal, after a
short but fievere struggle, ejected the unauthorised
mourner from the mortuary. The Litter, however,
attended the funeral ; shortly after which workmen
appeared in the graveyard, who erected a fuilenditl moniP
meta to the decesutel, with an inwription intimating that
it was erecti..l by those he had left behind. The widow no
sooner now this token of affection than she "Mom,' it Loki
removed. Her former friend I,rometh..l against her fcr
churchyard desecration ; and the caae, which was tried in
two courts, would have been g,,i ~ g 00 noW.lied not the two
mourners suddenly agreed to mingle their tears amid make
it up.

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BItUTALIITY IN TII SLACK COUNTRY.
Mr. Spooner, stipendiary tuagistrate fur West Bromwich
and the surrounding districts, ill trying some auault cases,
expressed his astonishment at the brutality %fill which
he hail to deal. George Johnson is labourer, was charged
with assaulting Mrs. Sarah Martin, It widow. It appeared
that, without the slighteut procuration, as the wuusssss wise
walking in a public thoroughfare, the Intoner struck her
In Use th and nearly knocked four of her teeth inst.
Slie was ui t stupefied by the blow. 'The prironer said
lie thought she warn somebody doe. The stipendiary :
Anil you think that ass excuse, do you I A !stage epidemic
I,oeluel to have CUllle upon use, and bulnethilli: Meat he 110110
to
.top it. For your cruel. bratakanil uncalleil-fursuerault I
shall sentence you tomx months milinsonment with hard
labour, and after the expiration of that term you %yin have
to find two sureties for your future gust behaviour. Thu
prisoner manned artoundul at the wntenee. In the next
case William Steed, plasterer. was charged u ith assault-
ing his wife, who appeared in court with a hideously die.
coloured eye. About is fortnight ago the prisoner and two
or three hrete3l art Upoll the pool' %WWII, and, in
her 00-n words, beat lice" till she was black and
blue." For the aomtilt also took out a warrant itniiiist
her husband, who in Use mesuitime hail left her.
On Sunday night he returned and beat her again,
tedd time giving her a black eye. Hu daughter aud •
" young man' aasisted in the assault. The stipendiary
remanded the ease for a a eek, wi that the other parties in
the disgraceful nuault might he proceedmi iiganot. Mures
Taylor, an engineer, was also charged on is warrant with
assaulting his wife. The prosecutrix said her huslamil
threatened to kill her, and behaved so violently that she
hail to leave Use hollde. tihe aim about the street long
after midnight, and tried in vain to pursued° the prisoner
to let her in. About four o'clock in the morning lie mine
down Le her awl beat her about the side of the head in is
shocking outliner. The stipendiary asked how often this
prisoner liscit her The Proseentrix •. About every other
week, our. What slues he beat you with?. -A poker, a coal
luinimer, or a knife. The stipendiary : What a dreadful
life you must lead ! The pnuecutrix : Ile carries a knife
about with him, and threatens to cut sup heart out with
It The primmer was sentenced so six weeks imprison-
ment, with hard labour, aud was bound over to keep the
poem after his terns of imprisotunent hail expired Mr.
Spooner added that it was no use only binding over such
fellows; they only went and made • jolilication of It,