The Wolverhampton and Midland Counties Advertiser. — 1876-08-12 (Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England)

FEDY  TO. ;RDER MUR  NEAR WELLING.  AND SUICIDE OF )ERER. se lent was caused in Wel. by the report that a r, near Wellington, had wed Ann Parton, aged , reside in Wellington, he shocking oeeurrence o'clock in the morning. The young man is named James Winnall. and lived with his /Aber, a well-to-do fanner, at Rushmoor. morning.tid re tu shootingrntsi to bthireds h with 111 alldeobaubdleb.:nnellouedt in the a , to: breakfast mid spoke to his sister, and presently f,,be pßort 01A gp, A Inas heard, and OR M 49 Wlna,4l going into the kitchen she was horrified at behOldini the girl lying dead near the breakfast table, and liar brother lying dead near the door, each with '5 gide a the face blows away. It is conjectured Qat rldasagAll,W ip;iitig ,into the kitchen with a load 4 double-barrelled gun, first shot the girl, who eel sitting at breakfast, and then shot himself lky placing the muzzle o 4 the gun against the side a hisi face, and reaching down' and then palling the trigger with kis hand, blew hie face partly away. It is singular that both received their wounds on the same side of the face, and death must have been instantaneous in both cares. The torpses pmsentid a shocking spectacle, the kitchea being deluged with blood. There were no other persons in the house at the gine, the sister being outside, and the father at some distance in the fields.  It her  took  excitement  ;u.shmoor,  mimed  The  place soon after eight o •  On the evening of the same day an inquest was held upon the bodies, and the following evidence was given : Mary Winnall, sister of the deceased James Win.. nail, said Parton had lived with her father for about five months and her brother had always lived at home. She (the witness) got up shortly before six o'clock, on Tuesday morning, and her brother came down soon after. He went out to milk the tows, and then returned and took his breakfast. Parton afterwards came down, and her (witness's) brothee went out to shoot birds. Immediately after his re. .turn, between eight and nine o'clock, the report of a gun was heard, and she (the witness) went into the house. She there saw her brother and Parton m the floor dead. A portion of head of each was blows away, the brains were scattered upon the walls and ceiling, and the floor was covered with blood. She (witness) had gone out of the kitchen to fetch coal, and was only absent it few minutes. She only heard one report. Iler brother was on good terms with all the house, and she never saw him take liberties or act improperly in any way with Parton. Noah Churm said he lived at Rushmore with Mr Winnall, the father of the deceased, JamesWinnall On Tuesday morning he was called up by the deceased about six o'clock, and he went to work in a field a short distance from the house. Re heard Miss Winnall shouting, and he went to the house. He found the two deceased persons lying on the floor in the kitchen. The gun was pointing towards the window. The day before Winnall was at work in a field weeding turnips. He talked sensibly enough, but he could never speak very plain. John Jones, wagoner at Reshmoor, said he was at work, on the morning in question, in the orchard cutting grass. The deceased came to him and took some of the great away. Some Lure after he heard Miss Winnall give an alarm, and he ran to the house, when he saw what had occurred. Winnall, the deceased, was hard of hearing, and it was difficult for those who were not used to him to understand him when he spoke. He was very passiormte, and would throw anything he had in his hand at anyone who vexed him. Police-constable Langford, Wrockwardine, saM he received information of what had occurred, and at once went to the house. The girl was lying near the fireplace, and the man at the other end of the kitchen. The gun was by the deceased man's feet. There was half a cup of tea on the table' and the girl appeared to have been getting her breakfast. There were shot marks and blood in the tire-place near the girl, and blood and brains on the ceiling near where the man lay, so that there must have been two distinct shots from the gun. Dr. Ryder said he was sent for to Rushmoor, but when he arrived the bodies had been removed from the kitchen. He found in the man a gunshot wound which went upwards, under the left ear. The woman was shot in the mine part of the head. He attended Winnall some eighteen months ago, when he (Winnall) was in a low state of mind in consequence of the death of his mother. He partially recovered, and had not been under him Ithe witness) since. The mental capacity of Winnall had always been of a low order, and such that he might at any time commit any act. A verdict was returned to the effect that Winnall committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity, and that the girl was shot by him while he was in that state.