Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1885-10-09 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

EXECUTION.  Henry Norman, who was convicted at the last session of the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife at Fulham, was executed on Monday morning in the gaol of Newgate. The Rev. Mr. Duffield, the Chaplain of Clerkenwell Prison, was with the prisoner every day for two or three hours after his conviction, and it appears that for some time the condemned man entertained a strong hope that he should be reprieved, but on the Home Secretary refusing to commute the sentence he became resigned. He was visited on Saturday for the last time by his mother, a very aged woman, and his two children, a boy and a girl - the former aged ten, the latter about twelve years of age, and the interview was, as may well be imagined, of is most . painful character. After his condemnation the prisoner appears to have made but little allusion to his crime, and when he did so, he always declared that he had no recollection of anything that occurred on the night on which the murder was committed, and asserted that, owing to an injury he received to his head by a fall from a ladder while he was engaged in his trade as a painter, he was at times in such a condition that he did not know 'what he was about. Owing to their having been only recently appointed to the office, it became almost the first official act of the Sheriffs to perform the unpleasant duty of superintending this execution. Mr. Alderman Evans and Mr. Clarke, the Sheriffs, accompanied by Mr. Rese.lnnes and Mr. W. E. lßaxter, arrived at the prison a few minutes before eight o'clock. The Rev. 54 r. Duffield was with the prisoner at six o'clock, and he remained with him until the time appointed for the execution. The prisoner slept about four hours. On awaking he partook of breakfast and expressed himself prepared to meet his fate. He did not speak while he was being pinioned, and walked to the scaffold without assistance, the Chaplain walking by his side reading the burial service. The prisoner had a drop of seven feet, and appeared to die almost instantaneously. After hanging an hour the body was cut down, and placed in a shell, and the usual formal inquest was held by the Coroner, the remains being then buried within the precincts of the gaol.  At Pesth on Saturday, a fatal duel took place between two officers. Three shots were fired. At the third shot the officer who had received the provocation, by being struck in the face, was killed. A German student named Lennig, who had fled from Wuixburg on account of having killed a fellow student in a duel, shot himself on Saturday at Zurich, in a fit of remorse. _ _  William Grant, a small farmer living near Newry, died on klonday at the great age of 107. He was working in the fields within the last two months. A sad fatality occurred on Monday at Rainham, Essex. The second foreman to Mr. Russell went into a meadow to look at four fresh horses which had been purchased at a stock sale. Two or three hours later in the day he was found dead in the meadow, and a mark upon his chest leads to the belief that he was kicked by one of the horses. On Saturday evening a gunner named Cunningham, of the third Lancashire A.V., while engaged marking at the rifle range at Eagley, near Bolton, was accidentally shot. He stepped out of the butt too quickly after showing the flag, and was shot in the thigh by another rifleman. He was conveyed to the Infirmary. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have sold an estate of 464 acres in West Berkshire for £3,000, which was valued twelve years ago at £B,