The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-02 00:00:00

THE WAY OF DEATH.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDIOTT.—A. painful accident
happened on Tuesday night on the line of the London and
North-Western Railway Company, at Bushbury, near
Wolverhampton, by which one of the company's ser-
vants has lost his life. The deceased was a waggon-
inspector, named Care, and was last seen alive about
sit o'clock on the evening alluded to, when he was
walking along the line of rails to his home. Early on
the following morning his mutilated body was found
lying in the " fourfoot" spaoe between the rails. It is
conjectured that one of two express trains which
passed that evening mpst ilrst have thrown him at
right angles with this rods, and then passing over have
severed tht head and feet from the body. Deceased
was about thirty years of age, and leaves a wife and
child.

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MURDER IN SUFFOLIL—A policeman has been mur-
dered at Halesworth, in Suffolk. His name is Ebenezer
Tye. He went on duty on Monday night, and did not
report himself at the station-house neat morning.
This ceased a march to be made for him, end the body,
with many braise,' upon lt was found in a shallow
stream. It is supposed that he was murdered while
endeavouring to apprehend a man of bad character.
Two men and a woman are in custody, autpected of
being concerned in the affair.
MURDER IN THE COUNTY LoNofOßti.—bne of the
1 most brutal murders that have been committed in this
county for the last twenty yeti's, was perpetrated in
the village a Bellymehon, near this town, on Friday
evening. The Victim is a young man, the son of a moat
respectable farmer named Belgian, residing in the
barony of Meydon. It appears that &glen and his
son had been at the fair of Ballymahon on Friday with
some stock, which they disposed of in the early part of
the day, and having some other bushiest/1 to transact in
Ballymahon, they were not able to leave it till about four
in the evening, and when about a mile and • half out of
the town, they were met on the toad by lout men,
each having a blackthorn stick in his bend. One of
the ruffians took old &sedan by the shoulder, and he
held him feat, telling hint if he made the least resistance
he might expect the same fate that his son Was about
to receive. The other three men attacked youtt4 Elegise,
and beat him in a most frightenl manner, fracthring
his skull in several phloem', from the effects of which lie
died at an early bout on the following morning.
Richard O'Donnell, Esq., RM. and several of the
magistrates of the district in which the murder was
committed, are investigating the case, and the police
are searching every part of the district for the mur-
derers, but as yet no tram of them can be found.
MURDER. OF AN ENGLISH OFFICER AT MARSEILLES.
—News has reached Portsmouth of a horrible murder
perpetrated on a naval officer named Thomas %Mom%
engineer on board her Mejestey's ship Psythe. An
attempt was also made to murder *nether officer belong-
ing to thy same ship, The circumstance first became
known at the Engineers' Club, Portsmouth, when a
private letter was read to the members to the following
effect Bunions and Mr. Gray were two engineers
belonging to her Majesty's ship Psyche, which vessel
left England a short time since for Marseilles, to bonvey
Lady Elgin, wife of the Governor General of India, to
Alexandria, en route to Calcutta. While the Psyche
was moored at Marseilles the two engineers above
named went on shore and visited several of the calla
and were returning to their ship at night when they
were accosted by six men, by whom they Stereinstilted.
A melee ensued, during which the ruffians cruelly mur-
dered Mr. Bunions by beating his brains out against
the paving stotiee. They also stabbed Mr, Gray in the
thigh, and severely wounded him. The body of Mr.
Millions was conveyed on board the Psyche, as was else
Mr. Gray, who is, we are informed, scarcely expected
to survive. The reading of so important a letter
caused great excitement at the eleb and in the town,
as the murdered officer and his friends resided at Ports-
mouth.

A FATAL QC/MEM. —An inquest was held on Tues-
day, at Nottingham, on the body of Michael Bowen, who
was killed by a blow on the forehead, supposed to have
been inflicted by his wife. It appeared from the
evidence that the deceased came home late on Iflaturday
night, and commenced beating his wife in a very brutal
manner. The woman then, it was supposed, struck
the deceased on the foreheid with something which
caused the blood to flow very rapidly, and he died.
The evidence of the medical man proved that the
wound pi oduced an abscess in the brain, which caused
death. The coroner, after remarking upon the in-
completeness of the evidence, and upon deceased's
brutality, said that the verdict could not be any other
than the following :—" That the deceased died from
an injury to the forehead, but how it was received there
was no evidence to prove." The jury returned a verdict
accordingly.
WIFE IdURDF.IL—A. daring Oise of attempted wife
murder in reported from Leeds, which illustrates once
more the folly of clandestine marriages. A young man
named Wylde married a girl named Carey a few months
ago, without the knowledge of her father, an since
the marriage she has resided with her parents, the
reason given for this arrangement being that her
husband bad not been able to provide a proper home
for her. Wylde appears to have been desirous to put
an end to this arrangement, and on Tuesday he met his
wife, and requested her * accompany him and live
with lain. She refused, however, and he then drew a
pistol and fired it at her head. Her bonnet was blown
to pieces, but beyond the shock she sustained no per-
sonal injury. The husband has since been brought
before the magistrates, and now stands remanded.