TRAGEDY IN WILTSHIRE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2116, 30 January 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

TRAGEDY IN WILTSHIRE.

At the Tillage of Weetwood, near Brad* ford-on- Avon, an inquest was held recently on the body of Edward Horton, aged 72, labourer, who was killed by his son, John Horton, a quarryman. The parties had been drinking and quarrelling together the previous night over a woman named Charlotte Lindsey, who lived with the son, a widower with a large family. An hour and a half after the quarrel the son went to the father's house, some distance from his own, with a mattock, beat the door and window in, smashed the furniture, and so brutally assaulted the old man in bed that he died soon afterwards. Ho then went to the residence of his mistress, Charlotte Lindsey, and alio brutally beat her. The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murJer." Lindsey died of her injuries a few days after.

Men live a grent deal faster than women," Kty-* a writer. Thi< must be true, because 30 1 never sec a woman quito an old as a man born in the same year. A skt of Mies has been published by the Russian Government on the education nnri qualification of dentists. As evidence of a sufficient pieliminary education, they mast have parsed through six out of the eight classes of a classical or real gymnasium. Their professional studies may be carried out either in universities, where arrangements will be made for the foundation of special odontological chairs, laboratot its, and outpatient departments, or in piivate institutions, approved for the purpose by university authorities. At the end of tbe period of studentship, the length of which doe* Dot appear to be defined in tbo present regulations, a practical and theoretical examination must be passed, tod a diploma obtained.