The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

WIIITCHURCR CALNONIOORUIL

nest 001 fatal gun mini lent, eaneed
by tbe pery nity of • led, bee muttered at Rervishay
farm. Mr. floaeybun, who in the minuet. rof the faro,
pod his wile, ami• from home on Tuesday, sad about
three o'clock in the alternate, Job Humpy, of Stoke
Abbot, a lad .1 15. who has been in service three,
menthe, hal his dinner in the kitchen. Mr Honey•
ton's danght r ant Ann Limy, a Orewkerne girl, aged
16, merest in the house, were present. When Homey
I at loWsi his dinner, he tort' up a gua standing by
the ebb, penis • pereenelon can, sad seamed it. hen
no diseherae follower,. Ulm Hoo•ylnis "held trdline
him" as sbo Nays, "that the gee was loaded sod some-
thing mittit happen," but he mid h• knew it was ant
touted. foe he had one day fired off the charge Maisel'.
He put ma nnother osp, sod pointing it at the girl
Idico/ a' Ann, ru *boot you." She ran to the dr.or
In feu, when it. pun weal off, and the sh.ree *mend
this pairs ann and cheat. She eselalmed "thi I Mar,*
returned to the kitchen, and sat does in • chair. Vies
Honeybsn rno Opt no the front frielatene I, and Homey
fol'owed her. Sim told itn to go back and see what be
h'a dee*, returned hersell aft r hint. The poor
shoulder was tbss covered with blood. tilos
Hoooybuo lout Hussey amietanee, but be did not
Mora. the bathed the girl's face with cold
water, and outdo boy as oomformble mobs eould, amid
then nailed Ur. Gillingham. • neishbonring farmer.
Hs sent for • doctor, sod r-torned to the Moms with
P.B Hitch, who nays, "I found Ann Lteey sitting ins
(disk in • fainting state, and bleeding front • bres
wetted io the shoulder. She slaved for water v. ry much,
and I gave ber BOWL 111.1t•tO4 in putting hr St bed.
We gays her mum broody. After WO got her upstairs
she ounohtinid of her lees being mil. We pit.. some
sloths on the wound, end tronet to .top the bleeding,
end we Wee got pane hot water and pissed it by her
feet. The bleed, wide\ had preciously mated, then
b gun to dow siain. Sim afterwards beciaree mores .Im.
I ask d her then how It had occurred, end abe add
• leek' had snapped off two caps and put oath. third
and promoted the gun at her. She attempted to
run mot ne the door, end Homey mid, 'l'll shoot you,
, Ann.' With the some, as elie got hold of the door, Ht.
' pun went off, and the Gallium lo Ig el in her ann.
She said the boy stated that thn g.n was not loale.l."
The poor girl died about nine o'cloak its WOO *wooing,
end A. boy OP/ taken Into custotly. Al the int0...4
held ."11 Wednesday evening, before N. U. Lonein,
Seq.. coroner, Kr. I. fl W. bit, seeping, of Beasninster,
'mid he new the gill about 8 o'clock on the treeless
evening. If cud a trnosha wood on the upper awl
bot• imtl of the left arm, imitiedia'ely beneath the
shoobler joint. The lower msg.& of the shodl-er lolede
in mottos& sod the ribs, and I lisliwat that the Ilion
had wounds! tie left load, slthough that is imoomible
to say withoua • pod works' essoiinntente. I believe
she dad from loan of b ood, and shock to the Groom
named by the gunshot wouad. I loosed ray finger
ow far as I weld through the ohms, but I could And
watching but the broken boom The jury, after Boom
deliberation, ',tanned • reeliet of marmlaughter militant
Joe Hesoy, and he we.. omitted for tri-I at the nest
Dorset Aiwa s. Os Thus day Utop limner was brought
before the maghdratees at Bearnitater. and sintibir
tovideleml to that St the Wised having boss giros, be
warn ambled In trisL