EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF INCITING TO MURDER.
A most extraordinary charge of inciting to commit murder has been heard at Hertford. A Catholic priest named Stansfield has a select academy there for youths, and one of the pupils was a young Frenchman named Paul Boyart. Also residing there was aMr Arthur William Dickens, who states that he was offered £SOO by Boyart if he would go over to France and shoot his father with an air gun, and his mother, who' reside at Roubaix. Boyart was anxious to enter into his patrimony. Dickens was subjected to a rigorous examination, in which he stated that after leaving Marlborough School, at fourteen years of age, he became a midshipman in Money Wigram’s employ, and was for two years on board the Norfolk, which he left at Melbourne through a disagreement with the captain; that he then went to Geelong, and knocked about Australia for some time, very much as a vagabond, hardly getting his living. On hia return home, he entered in “ Tichborne’s Own” Carbineers, whence he got his discharge, after serving four months in Bedford Gaol for insubordination. His evidence was altogether of a very strange character. Boyart has been committed for trial.
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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 730, 21 October 1876, Page 3
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201EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF INCITING TO MURDER. Globe, Volume VII, Issue 730, 21 October 1876, Page 3
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