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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-06-18 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

HUSBAND SHOOTING HTB WIFE.-DREAI)FUL MURDER.  A dreadful tragedy took place on Monday night, the 10th inst, at the Hawkeliffe to/lbar, near Btuton, about two miles from Keighley, on the Kendal and Heighley road. At the tollhouse there resided a person mimed John Heldsworth, about 37 yeses of age, his wife, Plisabeth Holdsworth, about 40, and his daughter, Philiu, about 16 years of age. On Monday, • brother of Mrs. Holdsworth, a man named Joseph Sisowden, keeper of the toner at Foulridge, near Coln*, visited Holdsworth for the purpose of endeavouring to remove his sister to his own house. There have been some differences for maim Use, pest, and Mn. Holds. worth has suffered bad treatment MMus bands of bar husband. Bowe say that he has exhibited symptoms of aberration of inind. Snowden had, about • quarter before 6 o'clock on Monday evening, tsnmeded in fnwel=l sister Mr.. Holdswortla from the house, _y after there bad been some difference lilnvisa ileldswarth sad his wits with Mud 40 the  Payment of 10014 toll by a passing drover or farmer. ile observed hie wife and brother go off, and went to the door sad called her to come beck. She refused; she and her brother went on their way; and If oldsworth went into the thamber and deliberately find a loaded gun at his *ifs through the glass, shouting her dead on the spot. She wail taken upquite dead, sonic of the contents of the gun having been lodged in her heart. livr brother, Snowden, was also wounded by genie portion of the contents entering various parts of his body, including his face, head, end breast, and lie bled profusely. Two persons, a man named Thomas Shires, sr.,l a youth named Charles Garforth, were fishing at the moment of the dreadful act, heard the rtport, of the and sow the poor wom..n instently fall dead. Holden-14-th had nu sooner done the dreadful deed than he left the bar home. A policeman (Miles Lister) had mitred a few minutes before, and on his attention being called to the dreadful murder, lie started in pursuit of Holdsworth. He found that he had gone in the directions of the hill behind the bar house. He pursued him Ave miles over the bills and moor to Hoyden, and there found him at his father's house. lie charged liiin with the minder of his wife, and took lino into custody. The prisoner replied, "Well, I have shot her, and you may hang me where I am." Sergeant Macdonald took charge of the tollhouse, and found there a double-barrelled gun, one barrel being loaded end the other haying been apparently recently discharged. The prisoner was brought before JO. Sugden. Esq., and remanded till Friday. Au inquest was opened on Wednesday morning st 10 o'clock, at the Old Star Inn, Steeton, before Mr T. Brows, of Bkipton, coroner, end after an adjournment till evening, a verdict of " Wilful murder" was returned against Huldsworth. The dreadful circumstance has created a great sensation in the district, but the prevalent opinion is that the prisoner is insane. He leeks well, and manifests the greatest indifference.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-07-12 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY TRAGEDY.  TIIE ARREST LEFROy.  The arrest of Lefroy (or Maoletontifi.h.rt.thienzuct Jarvisoinfthi re I.6l;iunodltd..3;lYolle'ffni3Oecilel'trt,illnPari:n.".r.lic.ivitYtlinte,4- itinritntireen iest, St-puey. At the hum. numbasel 32 in that street— & privste lodrin 4-house—they thecoveral Lefroy, who had been lodging in the bents since Let l'hureday week, three days after the murder wae emrseid,t,g,i and since bit stay there he had reeted in the mosi reserved manner. He ha I never alluded to the murder of Mr. Gold when conversing with 00,0 abut him. Whoa the two in tpectort entered the place they bawl Lefroy seated in • chair. He had a most debrted appearance, and as *non as the police-officers eat-red the 10In he sue I 'I expected you." SW•04.111 replied " Yea ; I am a p and Lamy thou answered "Yes, I tepee'. s'.' Swanson then informed him that he was charged with the murder of Mr. G. Id in • railway carriat-, aad Lefroy then tuned runnel and said not compelled t give an answer, am ' and then added "law not guilty." His demeanour was very calm and cdlleeted, and he male no attempt whatever at resistence. On being searched, nothia; of importance was found upon him, and he denied ' knowing anything of the gull watch or revolver. It is positively added the: Lefroy had newt been from . his room Binae he first entered lot, o =petiole, and the people who own the house had little idea that they had such a notdrioue criminal under their ro A cab was at UDC* procured, and Lefroy was at once conveyed to Scotland Yar I. Lefroy has male a full confession of the committal of the murder, When ' arrested he was in g yid spirits, but on his being en. fined in the cell at Kingdstreet he became depretad, He asked for refreshment, and was allowed dy the authorities at the station coffee and santiseLbes, but orders were given that no knife or fdrk ahoull be supplied with his to 4. The prisoner said that he hsd hat no meals during the day, and thu: he was parti. cularly deeir ms of obtaining 1100:16 refreshment, litl being searched n tt &farthing was fouls i upon hie pert m. From inquiry at the house in which the arrest wee made, it appears that on Thursday week a yOLUK MAD, describing himself as an engraver, preseue, himself at the house of Mrs. Bickers, who lives et Smith-street, Stetmey, and asked the price of a room, which she happened to have to let. He said the: he came from Liverpool, but hal left his luorage behind him. Mrs. Bickers, who appears to have been taken with the young man's plausible manner, received him without further question, arid, on his taking potsession of the riom allotted to biro, he promised to psy th, rent, which amounted to 61. in advance. This pro. wise, however, he failed to redeem in its entirety, se. he only pail 31. 61. At the time of Lis entrence int, the lodging, he did not stipulate for any food td he provided for him, and seemed to imply that he eheill get his own meals.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-03-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE MURDER OF AN OFFIOER AT CHATHAM.  The investigation.' and inquires which have been Instituted by the police engaged in endeavouring to solve the mystery connected with the extraordinary death of Lieutenant R0e..., who is htlieved to have been murdered at his qualerr, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, have been so far attended with some slight amount of emcee in • clue Leine obt tined to the person who is believed to have purchased the cartridges with which the revolver diecharged at the deceased was loaded. On th revolver being picked up on the stairs leading to deceased's room It was identified as hiving been taken from Lieutenant Stotherd's quarters, in the same block of buildings, while the cartri Irel in the chamiera of the revolver and those picked up on the stairs worn at the time believed to have heen taken from another officer's quarters in the barrack,. This latter supposition way, however, subsequently found to be incorrect, as the ofßcer in question ascertained that he had his full number of cartridges, and, in foot, rather more that he had believed be po-sesaed. Tbe police then directed their inquiries among the gunuiskers and sellers of ammunition in Chatham and Rochester, resulting In the discovery • few days since that the cartridge with which tha revolver was loaded, Si well as those found on the stairs. were perchased either on the day the murder was committed, or on the day pracerlinm. at the shop of • gunsmith, carrying on business in High-street, It whetter. The shopkeep ir has • distinct recollection of Aupplying the cartridges, hut the paean to whom he eel t them w.ui a etr o hiiu, and he is unable to give a minute description of him, his general appearance being that of a f inner. All attempts, however, to trace the purchiusir of the cartridge' hare failed, while no person answering to the description of the Individual, as given by the gunsmith, was seen in or about Brotepton Barracks either before or at the time of the occurrence. The attickest match among the property of the deceased has failed to discover that anything belong. tog to him Is refining, although his watch, purse, and merited article, of c!othes f 'unit immediately after the murder on the stairs and landing outside his room would point to the thief or thieves being baffled in the attempt at robbery. The whole of the money obtained for the cheque for .£l9, cashed for Lieutenant Roper a few day. before his death has been accounted for, the balance, after the psyteents known to have been made by the deceased, being found iu the box in his room spoken of by his servant at the adjourned inquest. The police engaged in the investigation of what is undoubtedly a most mysterious occurrence aro firm in their belief that the murder was perp,tretqd by some person who, if not iwatiledietsile connected with the barracks, was well acquainted with the deceased's habitg, and rusweased_ a thorough acquaints:see with both Lieutenant Aopael had LieuSataat Stotheetri now.  mat
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1882-12-19 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

EXECUTION AT WANDS WORTH.  SHOCKING SCENE.  Charles Taylor, 39, a carpenter, was executed on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock within Wandsworth Prison, pursuant to his montane' The prisoner warn tried at the November Sessions of the Central Criminal Court for the murder of his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Taylor, a woman about his own age, by cutting her throat almost from ear to ear. They real led in Tustinstreet. Old Kent-road, and the act warn committal on the 18th of August. The reason why so long an interval elapsed between the murder and the trial was that the prisoner immediately after cutting his wife's throat made a desperate attempt to destroy himself by cutting his own throat, and fr some time his life wag despaired of. Eventually, however, he recovered sufficiently to be put upon his trial. The defence set up for him was that he was insane at the time he committed the act. Witnesses were called for the purpose of establishing that plea, but the evidence was not by any nuts conclusive. All the facts tended to prove that the dreadful act was prompted by a feeling of jealousy, and a belief that the unhappy woman had been uufaithful to him. The jury. tarter • very brief deliberation, found the prisoner cnilty of wilful murder. The prisoner seems to have b •bassi very well since his conviction, and to have been all along prepared for his fate. He repeatedly expensed hi.. wrow for the act he had eommitted. Ile passed a restlees night on Monday, and on the executioner, Marwood, being introduced into his cell, he rubon.ted to the operation of pinioning without saying a word. and walked without sasietancs to the scaff .Id, but lv ked very pale, lie had a dr it of over eight le.t, and appeared to die without a snuggle. The long drop given had the idled .4 opening the wound in the throat self-inflicted by the criminal directly at; er the murder, and the consequence we, that the hes I was nesrly torn from the body. Thera were very few per. ems waiting outside the gaol when the black tiag was hoisted and the usual n dies affixed to the state—The necessary inquest was held in the prison in the af tern ion by Mr. Rornieu, the deputy-ooroner.—Dr. Wi. ter, the prison surge in, deposed to the death of the cruninal, and, in answer to questions by jurymen, said the woun I in the throat had healed, with th • exoel. tion of a listulus opening In the windpipe. The pram was tender. 'rhe result of the long molt in no oIY severing the head from the body was no more thsn he expected. I/eath was the result f fr..cture of the ve-tebrie ant raprure of tiin ef the neck, which ha-I caused the hann mrharre suit by the jury on int the body.—Tbe jury returned the u u•I verdict While at the gaol Marwood received an a-to yna no letter threatening him with death if • e vi tel Ireland to hang any one there. Marwood left the tteol two hour, earlier than had been intended, and wee &room. partied by an ofli:er.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1877-08-21 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

PRISON FOR REFURTNO TO FIGHT.  In the east of Europe there are communities of persons called Nazarenes, who may be regarded as Quakers, holding many of their views, especially their conscientious objections to engage in war. Dr. Ziemann lately met with some of these people in Servia, awl be write n as follows concerning them : There are here about nine families marked by the public as "peculiar," and very pionn. From all I have been able to learn they belong to a sect in doctrine and practice very similar to the worthy Friends in England. To-day I visited them in the fortress. I found the governor most favourably disposed towards them. He told me that two had just completed five years' servitude for refusing to carry arms. A few days' after their discharge the late • war broke out, theywere rolled out again, and of course they offered to do anything in their power by way of serving the Government, except to carry anns, The Govenaor ace-emended me into the prison yard They were out, and the Governor explained to ins that ,they were sentenced to " labour," but he used them mostly for field or garden work. They were sent for. 'they came—bang, bang, heavy chains on their feet, clothed in ominous grey prison garb, tel by an armed gnarl. Only two .me;Il one is patient in the Lazaretto. These two looked not ill, neither downcast, just the reverse; their faces hail a calm peaceful look. They did not complain, neither did they burst out with a show of their martyrdom. Reserved, and exceedingly meek, they answered simply my questions, confirming to me what I hail heart already, that they would rather die than carry , " becalm Gal had forbidden to murder." The chains awl the prison they could endure, but to ilisthey 4 444 they wonlil not, amt dare not. I liii they feel unhappy? asked. Ths•re were tears in their eyes ; hint, wad the one." lend .Tesin Christ had told hi, beforehand that they would have to suffer, awl then eternal life !" I asked if I eould do anything for them ; they lisdcisl long awl steadily at each other, and then timidly begged, " 'ouldl I obtain for them this permission to read the Bible in their cells ?" I cannot tell you what I felt as I stsiml before theme martyrn if thal. I think if the Friends in England nimbi move in the matter and semi a petition, or perinpo a leputmi. m, to the Cover 11111111 l here, it w.:41 have weight and restore them to liberty. Pray consider what is bent to be done." Dr. liemmln, writing last week on his way back to the vicinity of the seat of the war, adds the following: " Hoiden the pennisnion for the prinonern to read their Bibles, I also nucceesleil in getting their chains taken off; and the Society of Friends in London have sent, through Lord Derby, a petition to Prince Milan, of which I take a copy to the Princess, asking for their deliver
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-04-22 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

FRIGHTFUL BRUTALITT.—On Tuesday forenoon, Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, opened a painful inquiry at the King's Arms Tavern, Camberwell, on the body of Jane Louisa °hymen. Eliza Jones, wife of a labourer, said that on Saturday afternoon she was at home, when n Mrs. Goodenough came to her, and from what she said induced her to go to No. lj in the same street, and elle there found the deceased reclining on a sofa in the kitchen, her head being supported by one hum!. She appeared either dead or dying. She called her by name, hut only her eyelashes moved. She, with her son's wife, Merl her head and rested it on her shoulder. She cried out for smile one to go and fetch a doctor, and upon his arrival he pronotinced life to be extinct. Both her eyes were blackened, her nose had bled, and there were bruises on her body, and her arms appeared displaced. The Coroner : Did you see how the injuries were inflicted? Witness: I saw some of them inflicted on the previous night. I saw three blows given with the fist by Richard Samuel Tare, a man with whom she lived as his wife. I found in her pocket two papers labelled "Poison." The Coroner: What is your opinion as to the Cans, of death? Witness : I believe that she poisoned herself, as two o'clock the seine afternoon she said, "So liela me God. I will make away with myself in consepence of my husband's illtreatment." I Advised her not to do no. When she came into my house she seemed very ill. I told her that I would have gone into her house when she was beaten no, only I was afraid lie would have served me the same. She replied that as her husband lied beaten her so, he should bury her next week, as she was loading • most unhappy life. The Coroner: How long has this sort of treatment lasted? Witness: I have seen her twice before bruised, end her eyes blackened onee, a fortnight before her last conflocumet. A. daughter of the deceased, an intelligent little girl only six years of age, said she saw her mother take two paper packages out of her pocket, put them into some warm water in a wine glass, and, after stirring the content, with a cane, aho drank the same. She asked what she drank, and she said belts sad poison. Mr. Chabot, a surgeon, of Camberwell, said it was his opinion that she had died from the effects of oxalic acid. Mrs. Goodenough, the landlady of the house, said : She asked me in the afternoon to lend 21 which I did, and she said, "If this was poison I would take it." I heard her say, when he was ill-treating her the previous night, "Dick, you have almost murdered me, but you shall not do so any more ;" when he gave her three inure blows on the head. (Sanitation.) The jury returned • verdict to the effect that the deceased died from poison, but there were causes affecting her mind. The learned Coroner then addressed Tare, and told him that lie ought to feel exceedingly thankful that the deceased had not died from the effects of his brutal treatment ; if she haul, he would have sent him to Neavgate for murder.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1868-04-28 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

COUNTY YNITY SESSIONS.  PRlDLY.—Before Sower Meade, Beg., (chairman), and R. L Eliot, Esq. SERIOUS Cliklin 07 A 1111AULT. —George While and Alexander Shadook, two young men reidding at Portland, wife suunnooed for unlawfully and violently assaulting John Dampier and big wife, on Saturday, the 4th lust, Mr. Howard appeared to prosecute, and Mr. AL C. Weston defendect—Jobn Dampier said he had resided at Portland for the past 22 years. On Saturday, the 4th lust, he was in company with his wife, proeeedlog to the shop of Hr. Wallis, when the defendants said, " here comes the old —'let us do for him." Shamir followed up his remarks by striking him • violent blow, and whilst on the ground be kicked him three limes. Allen and White were also present, with about 12 other men, and they shouted out "kill the His wife ran to his astistance and she was knocked down. Shadoek assaulted him on the previous Tuesday, when he ( witness) knocked him down, lie wore • smock frock, but did not pull it off to fight Shadook is be had no lime to do anything before he was knocked down. --Hy Mr. Weston : He would swear that Sit/Week, White, and Allen kicked him. A number of salon acne up shortly after.—Exemination continued. He stood in bodily fear of his life through Bbadook striking him. Mrs. Dampier corroborated her husband's evidence, and Informed the Beata that Allen struck her a violent blow below her ear, which felled her to the ground. Shadook tore her shawl from of her back, White gave her the shawl, sad she wail In search of the pollee, and shouted  out "Murder." The polies tionstable was not at home, and a man named Clay came to their assistance. They followed the defendauts up as far as the Prises of Wales trehlie.house to ascertain who they were. The defend. ante aseanited her hatband on three previous oecasions. Rho only saw Situlock strike her husband. ilo wee pre. vented from following his orientation through the Injuries he received at the hands of the defondanta.—lly Mr. Weston: She did not eee White pick her husband up. White was very abusive. Sbe spent the evening at her own publi.houach_onte and winii deildaynowt go ucatleledthe and dfilhepprobved proved hiar,ng Shade.* lay be would do for the old For the defenee, Joseph Sherlock, the defendant's brother, was called, and stated that Mrs. Dampier had used bad language before the assault was committed, and complainant offered to fight any one of them, at the fame time pulling off his Aria. Complainant strurk his Urethrae, and he returned the blow. Mrs. Dampier then came up, and they all fell down together. Two policemen who arrived said to Dampier "I thought you would get your receipt for what you did last Saturday." one kicked Wry Dampier when she was on the ground. Other witnesees were called for the defendants, and some of them wanted la make out that it oat a " free fight ;" and one even went Fo far as to say that Dampier struck the first blow.—The magistrates were of opinion that no corroborative evidence had been brought for ward by complainant, The Om would therefore be dismissed.