The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

Lab) anb erintt.

INrettrrerna still prevails in Liverpool. On Thugs
day the borough coroner held inquests on the bodies of
three children found dead and deserted in public pkoese
A Wstoutems Setitiogn.—A Mr. Stowe eloped from
Burlington, 17t., a short time since, with the wives of
three prominent citizens. The guilty parties crossed
the Canadian border closely pursued by one of the
wronged huabands.—dinericals Paper.

TEM two Glasgow policemen, Sinclair and
Idlituchlan. cLarged with being concerned in the
drowning of a lad, named Broadfoot, In the Forth and
Clyde Canal, • few days ago, have been committed toe
trial on the charge of murder,

A NAN named Richmond, in Bermondsey, came
home from his work, and finding that the woman
with whom be oohabited was drunk and had nothing!
ready for his tee, he knocked her down cad then kicked
her on the head, the result being a fracture in the skull
and the death of the woman.

A 01:1130138 trial haa just been conoladed al
Buffalo, New York. One Colchester, • spiritual
medium, was required by an internal revenue of=
pay the tax imposed upon jugglers. Colchester
to pay, and appealed to a local court to atistania
claim. The court, however, decided against him,
Mr. Colchester will be compelled to pay the ism,
also to take out • juggler's license.

KING, the murderer of Lieutenant Clutterbuek, waif
executed on Wednesday morning at Tullamore. Be
confessed the crime and went to the gallows firmly. •
fellow-priwner sated u hangman, King struggled for
five minutes, and apparently died in great agony. Theft
was no excitement, and only about 150 persops *ere
present.. It appears that the noose slipped behind the
neck, and the murderer died in all the agonies of slow
suffocation.

RiiPlitive.—Franciatio Glardienari, tba Italian
convicted at the last Swansea Assizes for the m=rat
his fellow seaman, Peter Moiteh, was reiniited for a
month. On Wednesday morning • comminneation wen
received from the Home Secretary, to the offset that,
taking all the circurnstanoes of the Case Into oceisiders.
tion, he should advive Her Majesty that the capita(
sentence ought not to be carried into effect.

Fr is stated that the woman List, who was killed by
the man with whom she lived, in Bermondsey, ea
Saturday night, was in the habit of drinking, on an
average, LI worth of gin every week.. She obtained the
money by boiling water for the workmen in the Bet.
mondsey factories for their teas at one penny per head.
Cann lifumenon.—A tailor named Pringle found
the mutilated remains of an infant at Highgate. The
child's bead, arms, and legs had been chopped off with
a hatchet, and the body had been cut open with •
knife, and disembowelled. The coroner's jury returned
a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown," and recommended that a Govern.
meet reward should be offered for the discovery of the
guilty parties.
A WOMAN, named Amelia. Southerwood, confined at
the Charing Cross Hotel, was on Thursday committed
for trial for the murder of her newly-born infant, by
purposely dislocating its neck. The chambermaid asked
her how she did it. She replied, "I put the body in the
drawer with the head hanging over it and *queened it."
The maid asked her if the child had cried, and she mid
ye...*

Faann.—llir. John King Watts, a aohoitor, bee been
committed for trial by the Huntingdon magistrates ea
a charge of fraudulently inducing Mrs. Harr* • WWI
of his, to execute a mortgage on one of her estates, with
Intent to deal with the mortgage as • valuable security.
Bail to the amount 1:1,200 was demanded, but was noll
given.

THE VALENTIN CABE —The extraordinary charge of
forging some documents purporting to Wee from the
Court of Exchequer in the now notorious Valentin ease,
which has been brought against Mr. Hall, • solicitor,
was again before the bench at Guildhall, on Thai-day.
The cause is almost too complicated to he understood,
but it is clear the magistrate (Sir R. Carden) thinks the
charge an unfounded one. The ease was remseded.
Two shoemakers at Bolton, after being "en the
spree" quarrelled, when Kenny bit off Bennett's sole
level with the cheek. On Thursday Kenny was brought
up before the magistrates and oommitted for trial. The
unfortunate prosecutor presented • frightfully disfigure&
appearance, and produced his nose enclosed in • piece of
paper.

krramrrED Dournar KußDss.-0a Thursday • mast
named Oliver, entered the shop of Mr. Underwood,
general dealer, Haseomb, near Godahming, end
demanded some beer, and upon being refund attaeked
Mr. Underwood, and indicted upon bnuelliriess injuries
with a knife. Mr. tradsrend's melolswasha Kn.
Underwood to the ranee. "dm Oa Albin bar
several times in the mak and bead. ainstas Amnia at
so dangerous a character Mine her life Issenallend in
imminent danger. The son was arrested.

A/IMM= BUICIDI.—At the Middlesex esedes on
Thursday, • tailor named Timothy Clousellorlso essued
a sensation some time no by giving himself up math.
murderer of • girl same darinaon, in lies; bet who
was proved to be JOllOOOl4 of the *rime, was brought up,
charged with attempting to commit suieide by drowning
himself in the Thames. It appears that he sabres twice
imprisoned for similar attempts. and 1118 the medical
evidenoe showed that he was quite sane be was senteli•
eed to three months' hard labour.

LYNOIPLAW.—A young woman Of 22, named Odin%
had been seduced under precohie of marriage by a neigh.
booting farmer, who refused to fulfil his promise, on
which the girl took her revenge by shooting him dead.
She was arraigned and tried for murder, and was found
guilty of manslaughter, but recommended to mercy on
the ground of •• strong provocation;" and was, there-
fore, only sentenced to fire months' imprisonment. On
which one of the relatives of the murdered man, enraged
at this leniency, stabbed a brother of the prisoner as he
was leaving court; and snatching a gendarme's sates,
tried to cut down the prisoner herself. He juatilled
himself afterwards by saying that so the law had not
done justice, his family were bound to take law into
their own hands.

ROMAIFFIO CASK OF EfAMMIENT.—The details of
curious ow were brought to light at Wandsworth on
Wednesday. George Smith, aged 18 years, described
U short stature and of very boyish appearance, was
placed in the dock charged with the abduction of • young
lady and with robbery. Smith had induced a young lady,
20 years of age, the daughter of his master. the Rev.
Robert Crosse, sector of Ookham, to whom he aeted as
groom and general servant, to go off with him, taking •
good deal of property belonging to her father; and
the two bad livedgin lodgings together fora short time
as man and wife. The young lady is described as "a
slight-lady like young woman, haring a girlish appeer.
anoe, very simply dressod," and she was not at all
nervous under examination. It appears that she will
COCCIO into possession of £1,300 on coming of age, and
has "great expectations" on the death of her waste.
The fugitivee had endeavoured to obtain a license at
Doctor,s Common, but were of coarse unsuccessful and
the banns were in course of publication when the youth
was apprehended. The 'barge preferred ags'ast Lig
1 is that of stealing a few small articles which bad been
I carried off by his silly partner, but it is doubtful
wether the offence can be proved. She said she had
proposed Smith to leave the house " because these bad
been* great row" and she was unhappy -and that she
left to get married to him. She arl&d that it was her
own act and deed that of leaving her father's boon, and
that the prisoner did not detain her, as she preferred to
have his society. The upshot of the matter was that
hail was taken for the prisoner's appearance to annawis
the abargoe.