The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1886-02-05 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS.  for diarrhma pains, but o'n this occasion refused to mnitake it, remarking that she was going to have something better. Pearce followed- his wife in ten Howell, and Mr. C. Edmunds. minutes' time, and got into bed. About ten minutes SHOOTTNG A Doe. past 11 he was aroused by a gurgling noise end the Daniel Samways, of Eype, was summoned for i cries of " Oh, Ted, oh, Ted l" uttered by the deceased. H awfully and miliciously injuring a dog, the propele got up and struck a light, and on looking at his I Mrs. Phippen, of West Ilay.—Defendant plead wife believed she was dead. He called hismother and a neighbour, and ran for Dr. Willcox, who on his mot guilty.—Proseentrix said she had a dog—a wh aid tan terrier —on the 23rd January. She let arrival was of opinion that the deceased had been log out in the evening, and it did not return. I poisoned. He looked round the room, and while inuday morning :die saw the dog at the step mif doing so Pearce said he called his attention to a bottle loom., bleeding. She took it in and washed it. standing in the window, which contained some fluid, text day she took the dog to Mr. Tine bat the doctor stated that when Pearce fetched him Ii.R.C.V.S. The dog was very much injured. he told him he believed his wife was dead, and that .e ily to Mr. Temple, who defended, Mrs. Phiß he had noticed "a glass of something in th 3 window." laid the dog was still very weak. --Henry Tompki In the deceased's pockets the doctor found some of : if West Bay, said he saw defendant come out at Battle's vermin killer. In the glass he found some white powder. He had made a post-mortem examJack of the Geor.f.. Inn. Witnese and another i ination of the body, and found arsenic in the stomach. ()egged defendwr not to discharge his gun, but He believed this caused her death. Mr. Whittock, went towards th.. basin, and with an oath said would Ai mt. Soon after witeess heard a shot, fan apprentice at the shop where Pearce was employed, stated that the bottle of arsenic was placed on a side lowed by the cries of a dog.--Me. Timms, veterin counter on Saturday evening, and between seven and surgeon, said 11,! examined the dog, and found g shot wounds on the chest, side, and hind legs. Ti eight &clock, on going into the cellar, he found Pearce were about 1:4 ibillet marks; the animal was weak at the arsenic cask, refilling the bottle. It was CKlina.libi to walk across the room. Witness kept plained, however, that the bottle had been placed on animal until Saturday, when he gave it up t the counter where all empty bottles were placed for m) l'S Phi ppin.-1 ),eendant was further charged with fit. the purpose of hieing refilled. Pearce, his mother, a gnu withio :0.1 yards of the highway on the sa and a neighbour stated that the deceased had freoccasion. - T, e,i li:cies, who gave evidence in the f quently said- she should not live long. Pearce spoke case, c‘ri.ri,l,,,r., ned the evidence pre v immitdv addu of by him.--The Bench was of opinion that the case Wi Ins wife as having a violent temper, and :Mr. llcox, who spoke of her as a simple minded girl, been proved as to th malicious act, and he would said he should not have been surprised to hear that e finch 21 for manning the dog, and in the latter she had committed suicide. Other witnesses said :is. Gd. and costs, and allowed a month to pay. she was anything but a girl of that kind. The jury cii.kaetl OF