The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1872-10-08 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF MR. JUSTICE WILLE.I.  On Wedeesday morning Sir James Shaw Wines Irma found dying at his mansion at Otters/mot, Watys,,d, from the snitchi of a pistol 'hot, fired by himself. A man originally of anything but robust oonstitution, with heart clisease of many year.' standing, a mar, es hie pht 'lease petit. who could oely be kept going with the greatest 'marble Carr, Sir J•mes Willes has of late beea w.yked almost to death, like roto-S of the Judges. end the Mod:less of the Northern Circuit in hasn't quite knocked him up. He returned home front Liverpool 1,10111 out, with his spirit broken, his n. ryes all at:shunt' clod iufforn4 from what tOrla Out t have bees sup. prgseed gout, promising himself "two or three weeki sleeit." Sot when his Chief Clerk went down to sae him at Watford • few days ago. he found hint worse in.tesd pf better, "looking eMpreased and miserebe," roomplsintng that be could get no .leep, although tired and sioepy,and reading Cermet: for "a rest and thatage." Ilia memory failed, lie laid down his pen or his papers sod could not find them again. lie s.t or walked about alstoliisall, .ybeital.k•d.Lry lithe, uence.wiislotuhogfih generally ilhy f..oed of and after a few words turned round and walked away or in, ' his hands up to hi. face "as if worried:' The clerk asked htm in the last conversation that he had with the judge, whether "he had had news? "Why ?" *shed "Because," answered the clerk, "you kok so evressed and mi.-arable, worse than I ever sew you irtowinyi T with aho Jt..rudg a n In hi. said ryoethinang to dwlstlokise,dhabt.trudturnedly away. During the eight of Tuesday he swim very re.. lea.. He rose at o'clock on Wedesedey muyni.g, went into hi. dreming-room, and partially drawee himself. At a quo ter-past seven the gardener, who was to the patient, heard the report of a firearm; and at the some limo Mr. Barnes for thirty-two years the Judge's confidential clerk, beard field the wend a a shot, awl then • shrill ecre.m. Ile instantly ran int* his master's room, acid found bite l)iug on the fi our with • revolver at his knoe, lie attempisi to raise him, but Sir J. Wide, died at once, • bad having paaasi through his heart. The Judge bad attests evitmed the greatest horror of strif•ehostruotion, was afraid of limas= and very particular about pistols being brought intl bowl when loaded.  The jury returned as thvir verdict thM "Sir J. S. Willem shot hie:melt with • pivtol, not betas M the time a vound mint".  The Judge who thus unhappily pat an end to his estasenou was Um son of Mr. Jamas Willits, M.D. of Cut. where be woo born in 1814 He was educated at Trinity Colisge, Dublin, where be irademed u Etwaaler of Arm to 1836, obtaining • piths la the honour tisk lie refe,,„,j, bowereg, the Itagliab to the Irish Ber, sad mootdiorrly woo Galled to the Bar at the law Tempi.. In 1840, when he went tits Booth Circuit. la 1850 he wee app4oted • member of the Common Li, Commission, and was reload to te Bench its • Rama* Jege of lb. Court of Common Pb. in 1855, at the early kce 01 41. He never b-d. 'gattOtk• Howse of Commons. It, insrried, in 1858, Haim, daughtes of oho late Mr. Thomas Jasmine, of Cott.  DItiE3TALILISiiMENT