The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1860-06-05 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. The Brig/Aims 1 Gazette coutaans au aecoUDA of a shocking murder and attempted suicide, ef the murder which • ceured at the small pariah of Ws*hangnail, four miles and • half from Stapling, on Monday last. It appears that a lanibandman, named Peter lludeney, who is about 60 years of age, has for some years past occupied a cottage, called Pig Land, at Ashington. in the pariah of Washington. , Ile rented the cottage of Peter Wells, bricklayer. whose ! rittegliter he married, sod by whom he has two children, i about eight and three years of age. His wife, unfortu- I stately, tor the past three years. has shown unmistakeable symptoms of insanity, anti of late a woman has necessarily been employed to retnain with 'ter constantly. lludeney's IT1:,11111 have thus been materially affected, auit this, attended with losses in his fanning pursuit'', led to his bec ~,,, ing einharaased in hiscircutintances, and an arrear with his rent (nearly rhu). The father•in•law ()Weaned • distress warrant, which was not used, but a meeting al the parties VIM determined upon. This took 1 place at Storrington on Monday, when it was that the two cows and the manure should be tlkrt7id that evening in settlement of the claim. Atal possession of the cottage and lam! given, as soon as the wife could be re. inured, the father-in-law promising to take another , cottage for him anti tiny the rent so long as iiim daughter lived. Thia arrangement did not mem to have been satisfactory to Dudeney, or to hare aliayed the unhappy differences awl family 4161,116ra which for souse time had existed. in the evening 11r. Ch.illen, an Kurt' emir, write to take the cows and inewiure the manure, and Wells mine with Samuel lbesland (a painter anti land. lord for about five years of the Satan Inn, Ashingtou), to get the cows away. Some words at the hack of the lionse took place between lludeney and "Lowland, and the foresee haatily went into the kitchen, took down his gun, went again to the rear of the house, deliberately took aim, and shot poor Howland dead on the spot, swam of the charge entering hi, heart. lei the confusion Dudetley got away, and on search being made for him lie was found hanging froin a fir tree near the 11011.4. He was taken indoors, where he remained for a few hours, . awl during which tittle he attempted to cut his throat. ' hut his coning° must have failed hi ~,, fur a slight cut only it visible. lludeuey was then taken to the loek•up at Steyninfr. and on the following afternoon an inquest M.N4 held at the Frankland Arms, Washington. before Mr. IL laagrien, the coroner for West Soicetx. From the evidet.re given. the jury retiorinsl a verdict of .. fol Monier." Itowland INA, A man generally respected. lit was shoot Xi yaws of age. Pie lois left • wife anti two cisildcog, oue about three years of age. bountiess his Ifriendship with Wells, the father-in-law, and his presence on the spot, very much excited lludeney, who until lately had been looked upon as a quiet, inoffensive man, but whom threats against more than the deceased the  day previous. show a wicked dispos;tion. The wife was 1111 l ved on Tuesday morning to a lunatic asylum. and it is believed that tbe children of the prisoner will be provided for by the grandfather. Acetuesni AT