Widnes Examiner. — 1888-09-08 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SHOCKING MURDER NEAR BARNSLEY.  A SERVANT GIRL SHOT WY AN INNKEEPER.  On Monday, Millhouse, a hamlet about eight Miles from I,arnsley, was the scene of a deliberate murder on the. ,)art of Henry Hey, an innkeeper, who shot his domestic servant, a young woman named Maggie Hill, daughter of a working man residing at Bullhouse. Fley is a slater lw trade' and two years ago he entered upon the tenancy of the Blacksmiths' Arms, Millhouse. He of late has taken to drinking, and has led au unhappy life with his wife, who has repeatedly left him. Deceased went to Or master's bedro nn with a letter about nine .o'clock. the prisoner not having come downstairs. A IsA, years of age, son of the prisoner, soon afterwards heard the report of firearms, as did other people outside. Jos. Flardsey, schoolmaster at the Thuristone Board School, and another man, rushed upstairs. The prisoner was secured by the neighbours, who flocked into the house, end attention paid to the dying woman. Information was given to the police, and Pollee-constable Catherall 'alai two other officers arrived, and took the prisoner into custody, and conveyed him to Penistone. He was then taken to Barnsley, in custody of Inspector Caleraft and' Police-constable Catherall.  Joseph Dolor, schoolmaster at the Millhouse Board Fichool, describing what took place after he entered the bedroom, says: When we got inside a horrible spectacle met our eyes. The gun was lying on the bed, and it was picked up to prevent Her from doing any further harm. Hey VAS sitting in a chair, and the girl Hill was sitting on tile floor. Her head was resting on one ot Hey's hands, and with the other the landlOrd was holding one of her hands. Hey was trembling violently. We could st onee see the girl was very badly hurt. She was calling out,." Oh, dear; oh, dear," and "Lord, isave mercy." She was conscious at this time, but I believe she afterwards became unconscious. I could see that Hill had been shot in the arm, but that wound did not appear to be a very bad one. She also had a wound en the side of her abdomen. This was a very bad one. I think I could have got both my fists in the bole. Mira bowels were protruding from this. There was a large pool of blood on the floor, in which Hill was sitting. The girl was fully dressed. She said she did not want moving but we thought she would be easier on the bed, and she was afterwards lifted on the bed. Hill was iii so much main that she once or twice called out. "Will no one give me something to finish me?" Just before Hill was lifted on the bed Hey kissed the girl, and said, "Oh, do forgive me," and Hill replied, "Yes, I will." To me prisoner appeared to be suffering from delirium tremens. He said, "They put a platform on the stairs, and got on it and tried to shoot me, but I wouldn't let them." When he was a little calmer he said, "I know I shall be hung. Such a thing has never happened in Millhouse before, and I know I shall be hung." Apparently getting wilder, he said, "My wife is doomed, and if you go to the window you will see they are punching my children about the streets." We told him that this was not so, and tried to calm him. I never saw the wife at all; she was never in the bedroom. Hill moaned piteously all the time I was in the room, but-she never said anything against Hey. I think it is generally believed that Hay intended to shoot his wife, and that was why she kept out of his way. Hey was brought up before the magistrates at Barnsley a few months ago for assaulting his wife, but I believe the case fell through because the wife would not prosecute him. When his wife went away the last time she said she would come back and live with her husband if tie would send the girl Hill away. He would not do so, and I think she was away from him some few weeks. I am told her parents did not want her to come back, but she came back last Tuesday. It is well known in the village that the wife was jealous of Hill, and she has said that she had good reasons for being so.