The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1884-02-02 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF SHOOTING.  In London, on Saturday, at the Hammersmith Police-coart, Albert Joseph Evans, a hackney carriage driver, living in North-row, Park-street, Grosvenorsquare, was charged with firing a loaded pistol at Lucy Bpiller, a musician, with the intention to murder her. —The complainant, a young woman, said: I live at 80, Oxford-road, Hammersmith. On Friday afternoon I beard the smashing of glass and heard my mother seleaming. I ran upstairs from the kitchen, and saw the prisoner standing on the mat in the passage, and my mother in front trying to prevent him from getting farther into the house. He said, "I have got something for you now," and took a pistol From his pocket. I ran upstairs, followed by a dog. I heard the report of .a pistol, but the dog received the bullet in his back. I don't know whether be intended it for me or the dog. He ran sway after he had fired the pistol.—Mr. Paget: He has been courting you ?—No; he is my sister's 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. Clay don: My sister left him nine or ten months ago. The prisoner has repeatedly asked his wife to return to him. He has said if she did not he would put an end to her, and she should not live with any other person. In answer to further questions, the witness said the dog was a Mount St. Bernard, and she said "After him." when the prisoner came on a previous occasion. Mr. Claydon : It is a large dog, and you set it upon him ?—Yes, certainly, when he uses threats, Mr. Paget: Did you set the dog upon him this time ?—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 had not been close to my back. On the previous occasion he said, "The next time I will come prepared." Esther Spiller said : I am the mother of the last witness. My son-in-law came to the door while his wife was sweeping 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 up, and, seeing the pistol, ran upstairs, He fired the pistol, and ran away.— Sergeant Greet proved apprehending the prisoner at his lodgings, when he made the following statement: "I did not fire at her ; they set the dog upon me, and I shot the dog, She was behind me when I fired, I went there 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 on to me." Tild prisoner also stated that he threw the pistol into the roi as he was running away. He (the witness) saw the wound on the dog's back probed, and it went in the direction of tha tail.—Mr. Paget remanded the pesoner for the attendance of the veterinary surgeon who was attending to ,the dog, and refused to grant bail.  Of 459 stodents whn have this winter matriculsitg4 it the University of Zurich 51 were women.  MR.