The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

SOMERSET WINTER ASSIZES.

(Before Ur. Justice WILLIAMS.)

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Tat FROgg llLlROgg.—Bgard Greasing, a powerful-
looking labourer. 31 years of age, was arraigned on en
indictment, and on the conmer's inquisition, charging
him with the wilful murder of his nephew, Urialla
Greenland, at Frame. on the 10th of August last.
Mr. Pn.leaux and Mr. T. W. Saunders conducted the
prosecution ; and. at the request of the learned judge,
Mr. Brudrick defended the prisoner.
William Milgruve I sin a labourer living at Buck•
land, near Frome. I know the prisoner. On the 10th
August he was living at Buckland. I knew the deceased
Uriali Greenland. He lived at Brickland. We were all
three farm labourers. On Monday, the sth of August,
we went to work together at Codforil. Wilts, I.banit
six miles Impend Warminster. We worked there up to
Saturday evening the 10th of August, when we set out
on our return home. We stopped at a public•house
about a mile the other aide of Warminster, and hal
WM. refreshment. The prisoner had a long spring-back
knife at that tone. I istionlil think the blade was
between Dove and four inches in length, and about half
an inch in breadth. It hal a pointed top. On au way
we got a lilt in a brewer's dray, mid we caine to a
I,uhlic-1 as near the Prom* atation, called the " Live
and Let Live," where we 'stopped drinking for WWI
tiOIN. nit prisoner sang while we were 11l re. We hal
thrift, or four quart. of beer between seven of sin. I
afterwards left the house with the two Gceeulailds
ll:tweets ten and eleven o'clock. After we hal got come
distance WI the road we stopped. We lied four scythes
and four reaphisuks with us. Two of t:.e scythes were
tied together on unit stick, tool two
separately tied. On inch hbole of the
scythes there were onsets cut out to prevent them f
hurling. They Sr.' little sticks, into which the edge of
the scythe govt. (The scythes were produced. Ind
identdied by witness as being in the same state as when
they left Forme on the night of the alleged murder.)
The reap ngsliooks were bound with straw. When we
stopped on the road the ssothes auJ hooks were put
down fiat on the road—not all in out place. Uriali
Greenland *aid to the prieoner, " L.A we put our
rvtlioniug to rights. Byer.l." Ti.. primmer said be
would not pay until lie hall 181. for the gun. Urinal
MR le no answer. Tile reckoning was for railway fano
~14.1 a little victuals. 1 saw the prisoner lull his band,
Uriali fell hack OR the ground. As he *as tallies
he said. "Oh., Bill, he 15... bven and hit that knife into
I." I picked nn L'riali RUG placed him heck agaiost the
husk. asl.l mid to Byard. " Thee bast been awl done it
now." Byard said, •• Bill, you can swear it?" and I
said, "Yes, 1 can." Uliah use about two feet front me
when he fell, sud the prisoner was about the ease
dtstanoe, oi perhaps uut so much. I did not see
whether the prisoner lied anything in his loins). When
Urieli fell lie fell right aw.y from the aqtlies. Upon
that I ran to the turtepike•gato, about two himoled
yards off, for usistante. I saw Mr. Gone, who keeps
the gate, and also Mrs. Gum, and they went lack to the
spot where 1 had left Uriali and Byard Greenland.
Byard was keeping the deseaard's head tip against the
hank when 1 gut bail. I maid to him, "Bun down to
the gate, and tell 'riu to look sharp." He went, and
came hack, I then ran down to the gate again, awl
from there to Mr. Be&CIIR111.0. I then CRUM back, and
met G.ne at the gate, inol lie went to the smut where
trials Greenland wan. I found the prisoner with his
lands round the iiecerueil, Mr. Gene said that Uriab
wail dead, and that I luel better get a doctor. I ran to
Mr. Mallam, surgeon, and toll what hail happened.
He came bsck with me. We hound the dead man alone.
Deceased was shout twenty-two or twenty-three years
of age. I think the prisoner was his uncle. The de-
ceased wax not • very big man,

John Miwrl. polior-constable o Bueklanda, proved
the •Hirelieni: of the prisoner. On being char;sil
with haring caused the death of Uriah Greenland. he
s .id that Uriali ran spinet the scythes. He said that
he In.t hi* knife at • place where they stopped, beyond
W.rminiter. . . .

Polierpsergesint Welts raid that on examining the
clothe, the prisoner had taken off, one or two sputa ef
',loud were found on the collar of the waistcost : there
was a hole in the pocket of the jacket Isrge enough for
• knife the wee of the handle found to have fallen
through. The deceased took out • summons against the
prisoner on the 29th of April last.
A number of other witnesses were examined. Mr.
Brodrick addressed the jury for the prisoner, and the
ju lire summed up.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but Teem-
mendett the prisoner to mercy on the ground of there
being no prenie.litstion.
Be was sentenced to death in the usual form.