The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-19 00:00:00

Lain ant grime.

TEI LASH. —At the Stafford assizes a man named
Josses was sentenced to tWelve innushs, i.prissimest
and twenty lashes with the "se," for bishsey robbery.
Jones and another man waylai,l John Pekes on the 11th
Janne, at Brownhille, and after severely besting hiss,
stole all the stoney be poesesied—Tid.

ML ETRL—The —AlancAtater Frautiner says it has
at length been Aced that the ease of Mr. Eyre is to
some units special meeeting of the Market Drayton
bench on Monday the 28th instant. If a committal
should take place the case cannot come on at the Shri..p.
store spring maize, as they are hold the previous week,

DISOOFIRT OF • DEAD CHILD IX • RAILWAY
C•RXl•Ol.—The dead body of • newly-born child MIS
discovered in a third-clue carriage of • Victoria-train,
at the London Bridge railway station, on Wednesday
night. It was done up in • brown paper parcel, and in
the opinion of • medical man who examined the body,
the child was born alive, and bed recently died.
MAMBLAUOIITZIL —The inquiry touching the death of
the unfortunate young man Edward Eiger. who was
shot died by his fellow-shopman, named John Hamel
Holmes, at Graveatiod, on sundae weir, teas resumed
on Thursday by Kr. Itildir, the borough coroner.
After hearing evidetioe, the coroner gave it as his
opinioa that the case bad assumed • very serious aspeet,
and the iry brought in • vectict of manslaughter
against Holmes, who was aceordingly emainiU•d for
trial.

TRIAL /MR PODIONING.—On Thursday, at the Stafford
cinelie., Jesse* Machin. • blacksmith, teas tried before
Mr. Baron Piggott, on a charge ef administering poison
to Henry Ittiorferri, at Ns weutle.undepLy com on theist
and 2nd of February Issh It appeared that the prisoner
WWI neat p teitioo to the proaeutor, who was foreman of
the forge of Mr. Llewellyn, awl when lie fetched boor
for this prossentor the latter was Inver' tbly attacked with
illness. but not no when other persons fetched beer for
hi. ; at last the pro...rotor had recourse to gin, which
be provided for himself, and found that it bad • • Molt har
effect. However, in February last, prosecutor caught
prisoner tampering with his gin bottle, and accordingly
sent it rind the contents to be analyied, upon which it
was found strongly impregnated with chloride of zinc.
Prisoner was found guilty, and sentenoed to firc years'
panel servitude.
MURDER IT A TATRA—On Thureday, at the Sal.
ford Amines, • man named Henry Parker was charged
with the wilful murder of his child Samuel, aged paves,
years, on the 7th of January. The prisoner, a lurry•
man, wee the fathee of seven children, and had recently
suffered • good deal from want of work, which preyed
greatly upon his mind, and easard considerable alarm
to those who knew him. In the middle of Use night of
the 6th of January he arose end cut the throat of the
deceased with a rasor. At the the time of the occur-
Tones the prisoner was not out of work, and the family
was pretty well provided for, hut the delusion eppsered
to rest on his mind that his children were starving, and
that the sothoritire could take them away from him.
The evidence was clear as to the d yeAitre mental con.
tilt:loner the prisoner, and the jury returned • verdict
of Hot Chanty, on the ground of insanity. His hnd.ain
ordered him to be kept in custody until her MajestyCs
pleasure be known.
ItIORDIR AND 511CI01.—On Tuesday afternoon the
mystonoos dis•ppeirance from their home at Devon-
Pert of a reap. clot.'" young widow, ...ad Eli...bed,
wow., sad her child, was cleared op. It appears that
on ig,,ggy night, shout half -past 10 o'clock, Mn.. Venton
and her child were left in • sitting-room at the mother'.
rewidene• by a deter for something like 93 minuteS, and
on thereto., of the latter ohs ton d no;Orson in the
room, bet • note written with a pencil, and nddreeeed
to hiraelf. It as the.:—" My dear sister.—This is my
lest will moo neen•ct, that 'ow take everything I have
cey pollOPlMlcit far yeerself, sad by the time you Gal
thy I mod sr poor Imby will be se Nora I dare say

prima to take anything from you. SAW all soy
accounts and bury so. decent. Oleo my lova ta bather
end mother. From your poor affectionate sieges, flog
will reward you for yoor kindnews to IS.. Ovod-by for
ever. As to my busineva, everything is for you, as I
am tired and weary of everything on tfis stink Good-
by, God Weiss you, my dear sitter.— El s•beth Venton."
Tllenote was at on.. hendwi to eh. paha.' Malharivi,.n
and a vigorous search oommenced, On the following
morning tie body of the child wee found In the water
near to shell. called the coniefs Head-bridge, end
afterward. woe discovered, embedded in mud, the body
of the unfortnnote mother, who bad evidently jainpe4
from the bridge daring low water, an I walked 60 or 60
lords before she got to sufficient water to drown her.
ielf. The po r women had eshihited great dep,vosion
of spirits Imo' ths death of her husbcod ail months
affo.