Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-08-05 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TILE DOUBLE MURDER AT SKIPTON.  At the Leeds Assizes, before Mr. Justice Cove, Mother Jackson Hunter, late rate collector at Skipton, woe indicted for the wilful murder of his wife and child Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Kershaw prosecuted ; and Mr Lockwood, with Mr. Fenwick, defend° I. The evidence showed that the prisoner had for mine time been strange in his conduct, and threatened to murder lii. wife and commit suicide. In April last he took his wife and elde4 child, aged four, into Sklpton Wood, where he was subsequently din. covered hacking at his own threat with a shoe. maker's knife, and hail cut the throats of his wife anti chi:d, who were lying den Iby his sble. When the police erne prisoner inns lying UW01.601111 across the dead baheo of his wifc and child. For three days he was in imminent danger, but had now recovered. The only question lor the jury was as to the prisoner's state o/ mind. Ile woe said to be passionately attached to hit family. The jury, hiving heard the case for the prose. mition,d d not coll the defence, btit acquitted the prisoner en the ground of insanity, and Ire was ordered to be eon. lined during her Majesty's pleasure.  Tits Harm:tam annual flower show trane on in lovely wearher, and with a decided improvement, both in numbers and quality of exhibits. Mr. W. Knight's display of roses were, as usual, one of the principal featnres of the exhibition. THE APPOINTMENT 01 Mr. Thomas Hughes to a county-court judgeship may, perhaps, do something to weaken the prejudice that literature Is incompatible with law. It was proof against the practical test of a man of letters becoming Lord Chancellor which produced the s imam that Lord Brougham would know a little of everything if he knew a little law. When Samuel Warren brought out his "Tea Thousand a Year," his friends profmsed to be anxious to know who wrote the law in it. Yet Brougham was a good, although not a great, lawyer; and Warren, at least, made an efficient master M lunacy. Probably Sir Walter Scott, who never rose in the law beyond a subordinate post in the Court of Session, suffered through his fame as a writer. The county-court bench has hitherto been free from the suspicion of letters. but the author of " Tom Brown" may find a precedent in the case of the author of "Tom Jones." Fielding was an admirable police magistrate, and his novels gained from his experience in court, while his law was probably not the worse for hie having an imagination—The Law Journal.  ENO'S FROIT SAlS%—ill disorders of the stomach or Impure blood it is invaluable, for not the least of its reconsmendations is its resemblance to fruit in the natural way in which it relieves the system of effete matter, which, if retained, poisons the blood. Its advantage over fruit is that it can be always at hand when required; at the same time, it is in every respect as harmless as the juices of ripe fruit, from which it has been obtained. Caution.—Examine each bottle, and see the capsule is nmrked"Exxon Enka SALT?' Without it you have been imposed on by worthlese imitations. Sold by all chemiats. Price 2s. Pd. and In. 6d. Directions in sixteen languages how to prevent disease. Protection in every. country. Prepared only at