Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1884-02-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF SHOOTING.  At Hammersmith Police-court, London, Albert Joseph Evans, a hackney cartiage driver, living in North-row, Parketreet, tiroavenoesquare, was recently charged with firing a loaded pistol at Lucy Spiller, a musician, with the intention to murder her. The complainant, a young woman, said . hive at 30, Osford-road, Hammersmith. On the afternoon of the shooting I heard the smaling of ghtss and htard my mother screaming. I ran upstaira from the kitchen, and saw the primner standing on the mat in the passage and my mother in front trying to prevent him from getting farther into the house. Ile said, " I Nave got something for you now," and took a pistol from his pocket. I ran up stairs, followed by a dog. I heard the report of a pistol, but the dog received the ballet in hie back. I don't know whether he intended it for MO Of the dog. He ran away after he fired the pistol.—Mr. Paget : Has he been courting von l—No ; he is my eider'. husband, but she is not living with him. He wishes her to return to him.  —Was your sister there at the time?--No ; she heard the report and locked herself in the kitchen.—By Mr. Claydon : My sister left Min nine or ten months ago. She is living with a man named Warnock in the house. The prlmner has repeatedly asked his wife to return to him. He has said if she did not he would put at end to her, and she should not live with any other person. In answer to further questions, the witness said the dog was a blount St. Bernard, and she said, " After him," when the prisoner came on a previous occasion. —Mr. Claydon It is a large dog, and you sot it upon him ?—Yes, certainly, when he uses threats. Mr. Paget : Did you set the dog upon him this time P—No It followed me up from the kitchen, and it was not a minute before he fired. I should have received the bullet if the dog Lid not been close to my back. On the previous occasion he said, The nest time I will come prepared."—Esther Spitler raid lam the mother of the last witness. My son-in-law came to the door while his wife was sweepiog the parlour. She said, "Don't open the door, mother." He knocked twice, then broke the window, and let himself in. He drew a pistol, and said, "I have got something for you now." My younger daughter came op, and, tinning the pistol, ran upstairs. He fired the pistol, and ran away.—Crots-examined My daughter and Graystock live together as man and wife. He carries on the business of a woodcutter at Deptford. Gray. stork occupies the house, but he does not keep rue. Serie.int Greet proved apprehending the prisoner at his lodgings, when he made the following statement "I did not fire at her ; they net the dog upon me, and I shot the dog. She was behind me when I fired. I went thire to persuade my wife to leave the life she was leading. I took the pistol for my protection. When I was there last they set the dog Onto me.“ The prisoner also stated that he threw the pistol into the road as he was running away. He the witness) saw the wound on the dog's back probed, and it went in the direction of the tail. Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for the attendance of the veterinary surgeon who was attending to the dog, and refused to grant hail.