The Bassett Trial
The Courier having been asked to comment upon the recent trial of Fred Bassett for shooting William Higgins gives its readers the main facts in the matter.
On the evening of October 10th a number of students returning from the athletic field crossed a corner of Judge Bassett's property by a clear path. When near the sides walk they were called upon by Fred Bassett who was seated in a phaeton to get off the lot. He was unheard by most of the party. The boys soon reached the sidewalk and were unaware that young Bassett had gone for his gun when he suddenly shot at Higgins and Cracraft who were in advance of the party and had not heard his warning. After the firing Bassett threw the brake of the gun apparently making ready to shoot again.
Higgins was seriously wounded, Cracraft escaped with slight wounds. In the trial it was clearly proven that he had before announced his intention to shoot if the students came upon his father's premises. The defense consisted in a flimsy didn't know it was loaded story which few believed.
One of the counsel for the defense made desperate apparently by the weakness of his case, endeavored to save his client by a harrangue after the bombastic manner of a stump speaker in which the students who testified for the prosecution were characterized as liars and perjurers who had gotten together and concocted a series of falsehoods to send an innocent boy to prison. Such an accusation is utterly absurd and could have been employed only by a beaten attorney. The students who were present in the court room were severely sentenced for being present and taking too much interest in the case when in fact they were witnesses, or law students who attended the trial as they attend any trial for the profit they may derive from the proceedings.
It is the opinion of all familiar with the case that the sentence, which is six months in the county jail, is lighter than could reasons ably have been expected.
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Two Ways of Taming Horses.
Two VIEWS of Taming Horses.
What is announced as being a trial of the relative merits as horse tamers of Leon, of Australia, and Sample, of America, was commenced in the theater adjoining the Westminster aquarium the other evening. A committee of between forty and fifty gentlemen, including military men, veterinary surgeons and others has been formed to supervise the affair and it is intended to award the winner a prize of £100. A number of intractable and vicious horses, or horses suffering from other defects of temper, will be submitted to the rival tamers, and the committee will decide as to which, in the words of Professor Atkinson, most nearly conforms to the requirements of simplicity, humanity and practicability. Owing to various causes last night's demonstration was of a rather restricted character.
Each man "handled," as the term is, two horses, and with, from his own point of view, success. Leon's system of "faming," as is perhaps generally known, consists in the subjection of the animal to be operated on by an ingenious and most effective arrangement of bits, gags and cords, while Sample, after securely boxing up his patient, brings him into close proximity with a steam engine, and having familiarized him with its noises while under rastraint, afterward drives him right up to it. Both men gave demonstrations of their respective methods with a fair amount of success, and it is understood the committee will award points nightly and give their decision at the end of the fortnight—London Telegraph.
Slavery Still Exists.
A slave dhow, captured recently by H. M. S. Blanche, has just been condemned. She was on her way to Pemba when the attention of the officer of the watch was attracted by the unusual number of Arabs in a show standing in toward the land. On boarding her the dhow was found to contain thirty-three slaves and to have come from Pangani. Three of the slaves were selected by chance to be examined in the prize court.
Of these two came from the neighborhood of Mombasa. One, a male, said that he had been sold by his brother on account of famine prevailing in the district; the other, a young woman, said that a year ago she had been sold by an Arab of Mombasa, and had eventually been sold to the captain of the dhow; the third slave was a little boy, and when examined he said he came from Unyamwezi with a caravan. The captain of the dhow said it was the business of the people on the coast to sell slaves, and that he had paid for every one of the thirty-three slaves and had not stolen or kidnapped any. The slaves were turned over to the missionaries, and the captain and Arab crew have been dealt with by the sultan of Zanzibar.—London Army and Navy Gazette.
Good Moese Hunting in the North.
Mr. Colin Rankin, Hudson Bay factor at Mattawa, a in town. In conversation he stated that considerable moose hunting is taking place near Mattawa, on the Quebec side of the river. Hunters from the United States and England visit the locality where the moose are very plentiful, and kill the animals for their heads, the Indian guides getting the meat and hide, besides $2.20 per day as their recompense. No cows or young animals are killed, only the old bulls with the big horns.
The Indians can so closely imitate the moose call that there is no difficulty whatever in getting a shot, as the moose bull when he hears this peculiar call at once goes to see what it means, when the hunter, if he is an accurate shot, kills the noble beast. —Toronto Empire.
A mustache is not regarded as a marketable commodity, but a man disposed of his upper lip ornament the other day to a beardless youth who envied him its possession. The two men were sitting in a cafe, when the youth, in a moment of guileless desire, said, "I will give you fifty shillings for your mustache." "Done," replied the other with dramatic promptitude, and calling for a pair of scissors he laid the mustache on the table. The young fellow protested that he was only joking, but his companion issued a county court summons for the amount agreed upon and received it without much trouble.—London Million.
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