The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-04 00:00:00

711 E 211U.RDER AT DOVER.

DOVER, Saturday Morning.
This morning the prisoner was brought up for
examination before the magistrates charged with
the murder of Mr. Edward Alfred Walsh. From
the evidence it appeared that Wells has been
employed at the Priory station for about 18 months,
but his conduct had not given satisfaction, and Mr.
Walsh found it necessary on several occasions to re-
primand him. His particular misconduct—which
led to such a murderous act of revenge—was prac-
tising with a firearm on the station premises. Ho
denied thathe had done so in a very barefaced manner,
and was cautioned by the deceased as to the public con -
sequences of his persisting in a foolish denial, which
only aggravated the original offence. This was on
Tursday, and on Friday he was again called into
the office, but as he exhibited no signs of a desire to
admit his misconduct and express regret, Mr. Walsh
threatened to report him. On Thursday Wells
had been heard to threaten to "do for
the —" (meaning the station master), and
after the interview on Friday he appears to have
gone and fetched his gun from the place where
he bad been practising, and then returned to the
station master's office. He 16oked in at the window,
saw that Mr. Walsh was in the office, then went to
the half-opened door, raised the gun to his shoulder,
and fired at Mr. Walsh. That unfortunate gentle-
man, at this moment, was standing with his back to
the fireplace, dictating to Mr. H. Cox, the company's
customs and goods agent, who sat at the office table,
a letter to Mr. Martin, the superintendent of the
Eastern Division of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway line, reporting the misconduct of
the porter in question. The office is a very small
room, and at the time it was fired the muzzle of
the gun could not .have been more than a
couple of yards from the person at whom it was
directed. Its aim was only too sure. The bullet,
of what is called the Minis shape, struck Mr.
Walsh in the face, a little to the left of the bridge
of the nose, and passed through the head striking
tbo wall beyond,
taking with portion of the
skull of the deceased, and then rebounding ou to the
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the face. Thepri-
soner was found iu an
empty second-class coach in
the carriage-shed, outside the station. He had the
gun between
his knees when he was discovered
and, on the door being opened, he quietly handed
out the weapon.
The examination was adjourned.

The aggregate number of ipatients relieved at the
Metropolitan Free Hospital, Devonshire-square, City,
during the ..veek ending May 2, was —Medical, 914; sur-
gical, 717—total, 1,631, of which 741 were new cases.
PLYMOUTH, Saturday.—The hired ship Daven-
port, Captain Kennedy, ailed this morning, with a large
number of Emigrants, for Sydney. They have been de-
tained here some time while the Davenport Was repairing.
Tno screw steamship Somertetshire, Captain Atwood, be-
longing to mossrs Money, Wigram, and Co., sailed in the
evening, with first-class steerage passengers, for Mel-
bourne. The bark Minerva, Captain Inkster, from Shields
for Palermo, was off the Eddystone yesterday. grid
easterly.