The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-09-09 00:00:00

MURDER' OF 11111. S. D:MMER.

On Monday we mentioned the el..ath of lbs. Dormer,
aged about 50, the wife of a SealO•rlable fanner, residing at
the Dialdsowee, Ashow. The foSiewing particistera of thin
sieleiseran affair have since trawspered :—Dee Sunday even.
tog. dognst 20, about half. pant tier, Mr. and Mrs. Dormer,
and faintly, end two or three friend., drank tea together;
some after tea the son, three el metiers, and a young man
named Minsk, went to walk ; and between six and seven
o'clock :Dr. Dierniei and his visitor• also went ont. 31111 left
Mr. 1). and the nervant (Ann Iley trey) at home. About seeress
••'er.erk the POII and danelet.ea returned, when they as the
servant standing by the door leading to the kitchen. ap.
parent!, very much agitated, and in a violent pernpiration.
1:1:r 'brill Dormer, the eldest daughter, observing some
'loud upon tin• fluor of the passage, bade the girl dean it
wp„ which she did. Mary, another daughter, then asked the
• U Wiser..' any mother. Nancy ?" to whirls she replied,
she is just gone a walk." Itat rod, the obi& daughter, in
11* few ustruies afterwards asked where her then WAS: die
then said, " About tell 1101111,144 ago She u eat into the garden
so get some reicomehers." rdirelecili and Mary went up
aims together. and the f heard the latter (alio went
into her mother's room) give a dreadful serenest: she itnme-
e'intely ran to see what was list mailer, when, elreaeltiel to
relate. the lifeless body of their ttttt relived osother lay drench-
ed
in gene before them, with the throat cell (ruin ear to ear.
El z Angle called " Mother" several times, but received no
answer: she then attempted tee cline the hotly sire heel meld
vi•t. The sun, Joseph Dormer. 4111 hearing the sereem **lbis
• le,. ran up stairs, and was (11110Ktil by Ann Hil.trey : he'
i.•, rrdialrly aceliecel the girl with the Moller, a 14AI she
410,.;.J; and anon being risked if any one had been at the
she replied " No." The girl was, however, taken in-
t. custody oie suspicion, an 4 on Monday afternemit, we are
4:::..rmed, she confessed tee the constable of Kenilworth, that
onnenisiell the mural. r. She stated that she wrest into
th• pant' y. and began to cut some cucumbers and 01140119 for
✓unner : while she was 11 thin. it caner into tier bead 10
'sunnier her mistress. She immediately kft the cucumbers,
need went out at the hack.eloor to the wood-pile, and then ID to
the lane. She retierned ag sin into the house, went into the
hest kitelien,.where leer mistress was sitting. and knocked her
not of her chair with her fist. As her mistress fell else gave
SI 1111, 301 V she lay for about a railings., and she stood looking
sit he r. ller niesireas throe got sip, rats out of the kitchen,
al nog the 1.31411,4 e, and up Slake. S'oe fellawe.l her mit of
the I.:ichrie. vent into the palmy and took a knife. and then
followed her mistress eip stairs, whom she found lying down.
She ntoop.sl down awl cut her mistress once or twice, when
le..r mister:_: eatehed at the knife with her handle, and 111:111e
N 444,111 noise. She then laid the knife upon her mistrens's
fr.som, silk list handle Innards leer hand, in larder that it
t.: id he .00tio,e41 she r tttttt lotted suicide.
O.• the In, being ex:wiles. el by a surgeon, we understand
he lytteel tile throat cut violently, Siv as tie divide all the
pert,: of the :pine ; there were two deep cells on the left jaw,
one of Ouch extended into the 111•411111; acre, at tonal
ore atche ens the left side of the fare ; a violent braise en the
t: 4.. e ; tear front tooth knocked old from the sipper jaw, and
wee opposite tm it kl1(1114•11 out of the loner jaw ; several
t•eises ou various parts of the body ; the middle finger of the
e!„.Ft Karol rut steeply .ersom in two or three places; with
view, coin es the fingers of boil. hands.
An inquisition was betel on the hotly on Tuesday, when a
err.!,,t of Wittnl Murder sic re-turned against Anu .Hey-
ieei., who War accord-iegly comesiitted 111 %' irk gaol. The
re-ignore se about t 3 yearsof age, noel is a Ivey stout middle
sited per-on.—, Coventry %creamy )