Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-06-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPT TO MUEDER BY A LOVER.  A. most determined attempt upon the life of a young woman was made in Chapel.street, Stroud, late on Saturday night. The name of the victim is A linie Weaver, a young wortian, aged 20. a girl of most exec. plary chai -toter, whose exertions have supported herself and an imbecile mother. She was assistant at the shop of Mr Brain clothes dealer, and for the last two years had received the addresses of a young man named Edward Partridge, of exactly her own age. He was a currier, and till lately worked at Stroud, but had recently removed to Cheltenham. The Oil disc ruled him last Good Friday on account of his being then partly intoxicated. Ott the following Wednesday he went to her place of busim so, and produced a pistol, with which he threatened to shoot her, and would have done so, but was prevented at some risk by Mr and Mrs Brain. Several times since he has come over from Cheltenham ind dogged her steps, and she was in great fear of him. On Thursday week he saw her, and made what be called a "last appeal,'' and was finally rejected. On Saturday night she left work at about a quarter to 11 o'clock, and had about 100 yards to go to her home. Partridge was waiting at her entrance gate, and when she got up he first struck her in the face with his hand, and then tired a pistol at her. As the shot apparently took no effect, he threw down the pistol and fired a second, and then immediately ran off  over some garden?. The girl just reached and opened her door and then sank exhausted. The pistols had each been loaded with two swan shot, and all four s.-mts entered her side, their force having been greatly broken by her stays. The intended murderer ran a circuitous way into the Cheltenham road, throwing away his second nistol into a hedge, and had got well on his way to Cheltenham. 'Suddenly he retraced his steps, and as he neared Stroud net Mr Superintendent Haabidge and a police officer going along that road. He made himself known, gave himself up, admitted his guilt, and said his intention was to have shot himself with the second pistol if the fi,st. had killed his victim. On Sunday night it was feared that Weaver was sinking, and at ten o'clo,lt Mr Winterhotham, magistrate, attended at her bedside and took her deposition, but in the course of the night she became much better. The prisoner was brought before the magistrates on Monday and remanded.  On Friday last, a donkey, grazing., in a meadow occupied by Mr Allan Sneed, of Edgeware, fiercely attacked a child about tea years old, naiad Arthur Wells, and frightfully lacerated its arm, tearing Off a considerable portion of the flesh. A new invader of our wine cellar, against which grated windows add locked doors are of no avail, has been discovered by Mr J. Weir. This is the larvae of the tenehrio, which bores its way through corks of bottles, and has, in several instances, caused the loss of large quantities of fine old port by leakage. Gladiateur has finished his unrivalled career on the turf, and will shortly go to the stud. The borne has been suffering from inflammation of the near foreleg, which has resulted in a permanent enlargement on the inside of the fetlock, and it is scarcely possible that lie can stand another preparation. He was struck out of the Alexandra Nate at Ascot at 1'44 on Friday, the day of the race.