The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-08-13 00:00:00

Lain ant Cum

AT lb. Chester Maier', on Wednesday, the jeu7
acquitted Rawson, tie railway pinum.., triad for
manslaughter in the ease of the Waninglen railway
accident.

CHILD 111:71DEB DT A NUILIZ. —At Halesowen
I girl, aged 13,Bauted Fanny Brown, has been eommitted
to the wises on a charge of wilful murder, she having
drowned the baby she was employed to num, a child
• year and a half old, by throwing it into a sister°,
because it had spoiled her drem when she was going to
the Foresters' fete!
BAD CASII Or 811001110 A Burrs& —AI the Bothnia
A ssise... boy named Wallis,l6 years of PIM Wm indicted
for the manslaughter of bin sis Per, 14 years of sdic
The prisoner was playing with his liter, sod happen.
ins to find a gun in a corner he sportively presented
it at her. The too common result followed—the sister
was shot dead. The affair being clearly the result of
accident the judge, on a plea of guilt, being entered,
fned the prisoner la., and he was discharged.

EITINSIVI R 0113311111 DT • LLDT'S-XLID.—M Suter
Annus Madame Dadio was found guilty of stealing •
11 11,iity of property, principally wearing appaml, value
which belonged to Mr. Kaye, Corytoa Put,
Kilmington, while she eras in Ids service for two years
so elsdy'e-maid to his wife. Prisooer was sentersood
to four months' bard labour. She swooned on the
sentence being pronounced, and mu carried out of wort
In • wretehed stets.

A Caum Slum BY rmEAroza.--Ai the ibm.
cheater anima Robert Morril, 49, wee indicted for
the manslaughter of his child, Altos Ann Morris, at
Manchester, on the 27th of July. The prisoner was
attempting to strike his wife with • brush, when the
blow fell upon the temple of the child, aged six weeks,
who was in the mother's arms. In consequence of
the injuries the child died. The prisoner wag found
guilty, and es It appeared that he had received much
provocation, his lordship only sentenced him to four
months' hard labour.

COMO), OP KILLING • CHILO.-At the Manchester
Assizes, Catherine Fielding and Filer Donnelly, mother
and daughter, two wretehed•looking being', were
charged with having, at Manchester, on the 284 h July,
killed an illegitimate thild of the younger primes'
kg leek's( it • WM* blow upon the bead. Svidthee
was gl von to the effect that the woman Fielding had thrown
the child about while tea state of drunkenness, and It
was shown that death resulted from • severe blow on
the bead or by • fall. There being some doubt as to
whether the injury was intended or merely
accidental, the jury returned a verdict of Doh
P 067.
ALLIGILD KILLING OF • WIFL--At the assizes in
Croydon, Richard Roberts was indicted for feloniously
killing his wife. The cam for the prosecution was that
the prisoner,after an altercation with hissed., threw bar
down and knaltupon her and squeesed her throat violently
for a minute or two, and that be thus caused a
rupture of the gallduct and of the liver, eitli, r of which
injuries the medical man thought was sufficient to cause
her death, which took place within five or six days.
She was burled, but in consequence of rumours her
body was exhumed and examined, and the traces of
eertain injuries were discovered. The chief witness
as to the act of violence was the daughter of the prisoner,
seven or eight yaws of age, bet it also appeared that the
woman had (alien out of bed and off a sofa. The medial
evidence tended to run counter toile idea that the injuries
had been sensed by the falls. The jury, however,
returned a verdict of not guilty.

&minima Witoso Olt BOTH BlDrs.—At the
Bodmin Assists, OD Monday, • girl Domed Bennett,
19 yurs of age, was indicted tor robbing her mother of
4s. 6d., at Truro. The offence was provel, the prisoner
wu found guilty, and the following extraordinary list
of forma- convictions against the prisoner was reed
out:—For wilful damage, 21 days' imprisonment; steal-
ing apples. 14 days; studio( money, 21 days; dis-
obedience in the union, 14 days; wurta damage, 1
month; lodging in an outhouse, 21 day-; lodging in •
waggon. 21 days; lodging in a stable, 3 months; prosti-
tution, 3 mooths; lodging in • bay loft, 91 days; stealing
jewellery? 6 months. She isolated to be • most dis-
orderly girl. These punishment& were within • period
commuting in November, 1861, and Epiphany Sessions,
1801. Ilia lordship ( Mr. Justice Willis) thought the
best way would be to look her up till the spring. Slut
would, therefore, be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for nine months.

Tns Ygi.vgarore CABS. —The lady whom nobody
likes to call Ml,. Longworth, and yet no one has a
right to call Mra Yelverton, has written • letter to
assure the public that they have not heard the hitt of
her caw. She says that another seven years war will
in all probability be the consequence of the late decision
in the House of Lords, the next dap assuming the form
in Scotland of a "reduction of judgment," that course
being advised par preference from four or five others
competent under the circumstances. To my sorrow (*be
says) I have to record the fact of beine compelled to
strive on, for the alternative Is • Charybdis of equally
fearful aspect—namly, rnmaining the wife of a man in
• ring fence only, • wife in Ireland and not in Scotland.
The husband, having cleared the hurdles, finds himself
safe on the other side by the aid of a second marriage
and the discretion of a court who have ref need to
coverdis-
the spot where he had earthed himself."

A POLICEMAN BENT TO PRISON. —At the Bodmin
Assizes, Richard Bone, a policeman, wee indicted
for assaulting William Richardi a farmer, sad
indicting grievous bodily harm on the 10th of May,
at Landrake. Mr. Richards waa leaving a publlo-house
(where the policeman had been drinking) late on tbe
night in quiatioo, perfectly sober, when the Prisoner,
who was dmak, came up to him. amused him of being
intoxicated, knocked him down nameless, handcuffed
him, and on the way to tho lock•up, four miles
beat bins with his truncheon, and dragged him with
great violence. At tho station a surgeon had to be
sent for, who ultimately, in conjunction with another
gentleman, bailed Mr. Riehavis out, but be had been
no badly and that he was confined to his bed for week'.
Thu prisoner alleged that he had been abused and
assaulted by the proieoutor in the first instance, and
that the injuries which the prosecutor had =stained
were entirely due to his own violence and resistants.
The jury rs'umed a verdict of guilty, and the judge,
in coniiteration of the prisoner'. former good character,
and his loss of position, sentenced him to four months'
hard labour.

Till CHM MAGNA COURCHTANDMISBORATION.—Io
the Arches' Court, August 7, before Sir R. Phillimots,
the case of Adlam a Coulthurst was further considered
on an application for contempt against the defendant
one of the churchwardens of Chew Magna, Somerset,
for desecrating the churchyard of the parish, by,
" Improving" • pathway and thereby removing con-
secrated soil and human bones. The office of the judge
was promoted by • gentleman of fortune, Mr. Adthas,
of the pariah, and • magistrate of the county of
Somerset. Dr. Swabey, on the part of the
promoter, moved his lordship to declare the defendant
In contempt for net obeying the order of De. Lush-
ingtou as to the restoration of the soil and bones and
the payment of £lOO law costa. It was alleged that
the defendant could not pay the money because he was
• bankrupt under the jurisdiction of the Bristol Court,
and that the meadow where the bones were deposited
bad passed out of his poression. Mr. Toiler, as
proctor for the defendant, prayed time to answer the
allegation as to the supposed contempt. Ilia lordship
thought tbe application reasonable, and intimated that
the ease would indisposed of before the long vacation.
Order accordingly.

A &roar or Domenic LIVA—A very remarkable
trial, arising out of the will of • widow named Thweites,
was brought to • conelusion on Tuesday in the London
Probate Coast, before Sir J. P. Wilde. The testatrix
had been the housekeeper of • tea-broker, and in 1816
bteame his wife, In 1834 the husband died,and his widow,
who resided at Charmers Dean, near Worthing, same
into possession of something like halls milli°. of mossy,
entirely at her own disposal. At her death • Mr. Simon
Smith was the mediaal man, and he appears to bare
obtained • sonaiderable influence over Mrs. Thwaites,
who was the subject of extravagant delusions an
religious subjoins She considered herself as the third
Person in the Trinity, and Dr. Smith God the Fetter.
and she had expsed • very large sum of money in
furnishing a hoses in Eriesington-gindens, as she
believed she was there to give birth to the Son of God.
Eventually, at her death, besides large sums devised to
! Dr. Smith, his brother, and their families, she left him
residuary legates, involving an amount estimated at
£183,000. fir J. P. Wilde, in an elaborate judgment,
pronounced the will invalid, and this large property, in
consequence, devolves to the children of a Era Tabbed*,
' the stater at lira. Thwaites, whose name was not
mistimed in the will.
BZIACH or Pitorriele—At the Croydon amines
before Mr. Baron Martin, a young woman named Anal.
Anson, about 30 years of age, daughter of persons in a
' respectable position of life, residing in the neighbourhood
' of Mile-end, who obtained her livelihood by teaching
music and as a governess, brought an auction against a
man named Jewell, who was about the same age as
the plaintiff, carrying on business as • rope-maker in
Whiteehapel. The parties appeared to have been
acquainted with each other for souse years, and from
1866 down to 180 letters appeared to have
between them, arid those loft no doubt that EilaCi
d
made an offer of merrier' to the plaintiff, and that,
during their intimacy, he had seduced her, In reference
to this, • letter written by the defendant was put in
evidence, in whioh he told the plaintiff that it was of no
use her making herself unhappy In tionsequanos of what
had taken place between them, and that. "if anything
happened," by which it was supposed that he meant
that if she should be in the family way, "there was only
one thing to be done." The nature of the Intimacy
that enbeiskd between the plaintiff and the defendant
it appeared was quite unknown to the parents of the
former, but it appeared that the plaintiff was attacked
with an illness, during which she became delirious, and
while in that oondition she made some statements
which led to a discovery of what had taken place, and
her father, in consequence of this, turned her out of
doom He had, however, it appeared, slam become
reconciled to her, and alm; was now living in his house,
her mother having died in the interval. The defence
was that the plaintiff had released him from the
promise that be had made. The jury, after • short
deliberation, returned a verdict for the plalatiff—
Damages, 271.

SumoLai BIGANT CAIL —At Rester Ando' John
M'Alister wu indicted for marrying Grua Webb, bia
wife being at the time alive. Mr. Balsa s":"NumWd•
Dundee,
Titers was no doubt the primmer married Draw Webb
In the uunty of Devon on the 95th August, 1864. 11
was then alleged that the primes..., in 1848, had married
&wan Murphy, at nd that they had for some
years lived there togethowas run and wife. The prisoner
a
was • Protestant, and Bowan Murphy was • Roman
Catholic.—A Scotch lawyer (Mr. filranston) was called,
and he stated that by the Soot& law any mut MOTO 14
who consented to bye with a woman as being' married
persons rendered it • valid marriage. It was not
requiaint that there shosid be • cobabiutiou ; the sere
consent yarn tufficiant to render it • marriage, although
• union was not aware of the Latin words that were
used by a parson calling himself a priest. If hod..
liberairsly weripted the other that was sullloient
said be was only it yeses of age Tbs. a Roman
K.= priest prosiouneed souse words in Leila withal
be did not understand ; that be had suer mime
Swan Monday to be his wife, bet bad aelmowljgedktd
is
four ebildren which else had had by itim.-111r. Justice
Keating. in inuniniog up, said tbeee 'odd bo no doubt