The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-22 00:00:00

HORRIBLE MURDER AT CHICHESTYR.

COMMUTER, Thursday Night.—This morning our
usually quiet city was thrown into • state of the
greatest slam and excitement in consequence of • crime
of the most atrociotui nature having been perpetrated on
the outskirts of the city, in a lane called Love-lane, by
one of the privates of tha 59th Regiment, a portion of
which is stationed at our depot.
On Tuesday night, at about half-past eleven o'clock,
John Clary, • private in the above-named regiment, was
, mimed from barracks, having taken with him his great
coat arid rifle, with ten rounds of ball-cartridge sad
eleven percu.ion saps. In consequence of bis having
taken his rise and ammunition it was suspected at the
time that he meant mischief, and every effort was mada
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to find and take him.
About twelve o'clock last night Sergeant Stringer, of
the city police, was waiting at the north gate to rout
hie men as usual, when a young man named James
()uteri, • student in Bishop Otter's Training College,
him, bade him good night, d proceeded at •
re an
pace towards the college, which is situate at the
top of Love•lene. He had not palmed the sergesaft hog
before the police officer heard the report of a rifle, and
as he thought it rather an unusual occurrence at tha
hour he at once proceeded to the barracks. When he
arrived there he found the guard astir, as the sentry
had heard the report and informed the sergeant ef
Having loaded their muskets with ball cartridge, the
sergeant, with some dozen men, accompanied the police
officer to where the sound had proceeded from. They
had not gone far down the lane :before-mentioned when
they heard a groaning noise, and, on searching, they
found the young man who bad passed the police-ser-
geant • short time previous. He was lying on the side
of a bank, wounded by a rifle bullet. He said that be
was coming up the lane, and, by the light of the moon,
he saw • soldier on or close alongside of the stile leading
into the field where he was lying, and that its he same
up to the stile the man ,int up his rifle and fired at him.
Although hit, he managed to get over the style, and
fell where he was found. The soldier ran off down the
lane towards the town.
Haring taken a gate off Its hinges, the guard
the unfortunate gentleman on it, and conveyed tn..;
once to the college, which is about 900 yards off. Drs.
Pretend, Duke, and Bond were speedily in attendant"
but the wound was of each • desperate character as te
at once exclude all hope of recovery, the hall having
entered just below the breast-bone, and passed out near
the spine, making •clear hole through the body. After
lingering for about an hour and a half, Mr. °Aden died,
retaining his senses to the last. The deceased was •
very fine young man, about 21 years of age, and pea
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rally liked by all who knew him.
All the men of the 59th who could possibly be spared
were at once turned out, with loaded rifles, to scour the
country round, and not • cover or oo2ee renitined on'
searched. Sentries WI posted at every lane and cross'
lug round the town, and every exertion made
to insure the capture of the murderer.
The man's rifle has been found sticking out from a
hedge.
An inquest was held on the body of James Outon,
on Thursday evening. After the examination of several
witnesses, the inquiry was adjourned. Superintendent
Parnell, of the Midhurst ;police, apprehended Jobs
(leery, the soldier, the supposed murderer of James
Outon, near Cooltersh all-mill:a few miles from Petworth,
at 7 o'clock in the evening of Thursday, the 17th inst.
He had his uniform on when captured, which was not
done without difficulty. He was brought to Chichester
and lodged in the city gaol the BMW evening.
Ten OUTRAGZ is DUBLIN.—DUBLIV, Friday.—The
investigation into the charge against Curran, tb• cab-
man, was resumed to-day. Miss Jolly described the
outrage and assault made upon her, and identified her
assailant. He was committed for trial.
Six FAIIIINTKADR BUlNT.—Grest Gidding is an
extensive pariah in Huntingdonshire, and lies five miles
to the south of Stilton, on the Great North-road. Its
village—which must be well known to all who hunt
with the Fitzwilliam hounds—consists for the most part
of a long straggling street running from north to south,
and made up of farmsteads, cottages, and public-house'.
It win towards the Northern end of this street that a
fire broke outlet the rear of some farm buildings about
half-peat 1 o'clock la the afternoon of Wednesday, the
16th inst., and, assisted by a stroag north wind, raged
with a fury that threatened the destruction of the entire
village. As it is, six farmsteads and three cottages have
been totally destroyed and the flames were scarcely
subdued on Thursday afternoon. As the fire broke out
in the middle of the day plenty of help was easily
obtained, and the live stock, with few excep-
tion', escaped injury; but the names advanced with
too great • rapidity to allow much grain to be saved-
Only two fire-engines reached the spot, and, as there
were four or five fires simultaneously raging in different
directions, their aid was well nigh ineffectual in arrest-
ing the progress of the flames. Many houses have
been injured, and as, for the most pert, they are reed'
thatched, their escape from total destruction RAI a
very narrow one. It is more remarkable still that •
' farmstead in the very midst of the fire also escaped
burning, Owing to th• very active exertions of its
owner ; but the flames caught the stacks and
thatch many times. The season of the year
sod the plentiful harvest calmed the stock-
yards to be unusually full, and during Wed-
nesday night they blaaed with • brightness that
made itself apparent at a long distance, even in the
light of • brilliant moon. During the night the people
were busied in removing their furniture and goods to
places of safety; but the wind veering round to another
quarter, drove the flames away from the village street.
Nevertheless, although the greater danger was averted,
• line of blackened rains, of tending for several hundred
yards on the west side of the street, marks out the de-
vestating track of the fire. The property destroyed
belonged to the Honourable G. Fatewilliam, Mr.
Mills, and others. The greater pert was Mewed,
and, as is commonly the case, the lose of
the uninsured portioti falls on those who are quite
unable to bear so heavy a calsniity. The Itre is supposed
to have originated from some loafer-matches lighted in
sport by children in the rear of the farm buildings. A
mile eastward of Greet Gidding is Little Guiding.
where Micholas Ferrer lived. On Monday evening, the
14th inst., • fire broke out in four thatched cottages in
that village, and speedily reduced them to • hese of
ashes, the inmates saving themselves with difficulty.
In this case the fire is supposed to have beak wiped by
some hot embers being thrown away in a hovel.

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