Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in the West Riding of Yorkshire by Vivien Teasdale

Author:Vivien Teasdale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: TRU000000: TRUE CRIME / General
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781783037681
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Published: 2009-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

The evidence of this witness was very long, minute and related entirely to tracing footsteps. The footsteps of two men were marked on the snow up to the place of the murder and to some distance from it but they were not traced nearer to Partridge Hill than half a mile. The footsteps of one of the men were remarkable from the degree in which the toes were turned out and this corresponded with a peculiarity inWilliam Dyon’ s walk.

The magistrate, Edward Beckett Denison, also went to the spot on Sunday morning and looked at the footsteps nearest the place where Dyon shot. These were sixteen feet from the gate. He was able to confirm Jaques’ testimony. He was also questioned regarding White’ s evidence. Denison said that the £100 guineas reward was offered on Tuesday or Wednesday after the murder, but White did not give his account of the transaction till the 10 March. That account was not voluntary, though Denison omitted to say how the account had been obtained.

Rev John Rudd, also one of the committing magistrates, said that William Dyon was examined in the absence of his son and had told them that he had been thrashing in the early part of the afternoon and that he had been warping with his son John in the afternoon. John Dyon was then examined and said he’ d not been warping at all that afternoon.

Williamson Etches, constable, of Doncaster, produced a long gun, used for shooting wild ducks, found in the cellar of William Dyon. When the two men had first been arrested, Etches had taken their boots and shoes, but these had been returned when they were discharged and could not now be found.

The defence was minimal. The Staceys, who lived at Partridge Hill, said they did not remember being disturbed on any night in February but also admitted that they slept at the front of the house, the White’ s at the back, so it was not surprising that they had heard nothing. The two prisoners said nothing in their defence.

All that was lacking was a motive.

John Wilson came forward to say that he had been coming from Lincoln Fair last April. William Dyon overtook him and in the course of the conversation had said his brother John was a damned rogue but he would be as good as him some day. Samuel Kilsey said he was at the Nag’ s Head in Gainsborough with John Jun about three weeks ago. John had said that his grandfather had left his uncle £30,000 and his father very little but ‘he would see how it should be done’ . Kilsey had told him to hold his tongue for the less was said about such matters the better.

Next, John Baines produced a deed by which John Dyon the elder, the father of William and grandfather of the younger prisoner, made over the greater part of the landed property to John Dyon, his second son. The land consisted of about sixty-three acres.

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