The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-02-14 00:00:00

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MTATERIOUS OCCURRINCit AT CABLIATA.—In the
course of Friday afternoon was brought to light one of
the most mysterious cases of concealment of death, if
not something worse, that was ever brought to the
knowledge et the public. The history of the case, an
far as can at present be gathered, may he briefly stated
as follows :—On the 21st of March 1859, a large 11071
was brought to the Bush Hotel. Carlisle. by • porter in
the service of the Cele.lonian Railway Company. 'The
porter produced his book, from which it appeared that
the box heal been sent from Paisley on the 18th of the
same month. Two shillings were charged for the car-
riage, which was paid hy MIAS Bishop', the barmaid, and
the box was taken into the house. On the lid wea
nailed a piece of paper, on which was written, in a very
indifferent and clumsy manlier, the following address :
—" Thie aide up.—Mrs. Loudon. Bush hottell, Carliele."
The box remained in the hoese fur tome time, but as no
one came to claim it, it was removed to the market-
room in the yard, where it hes since remained unopened.
and 1111ClaiMed till the present time. A short time ago
Mr. CUITI'd father was At a sale which took place near
that city, where he lerzned that there was a lady named
Mrs. Louden living in the neighbourhood. He sent •
buy to Monti her that a box addressed in her name was
lying at the Bush Hotel, and requested her to call and
we if it was intended for her. Men. Loudon's niece,
Miss Margaret Dixon, accordingly called at the Bush on
Friday, and bailee wen it oho told Mr. COMA that she
did not think the box could be for her aunt, hut if he
hail no objection they would open it and sec. The box
was then opened, awl their serprise may be better
imagined than expressed when they found that it con-
tained a coffin. This revelation having been made, it is
needless to add that Miss Dixon felt perfectly satisfied
that the box was not intended for her aunt. Mr. Cowx im-
mediately called in Mr. Bent, who happened to be pas-
sing at the time. Mr. Bent proceeded to open the coffin,
and in doing so he noticed that the head of one of the
screws was very much rusted. Having removed the lid,
lie found that the coffin contained the body of what ap-
peared to have been a very fine child, with a cap on its
head. He did not remove the cap or disturb the ',tidy,
but at once pro:ceded to inform Mr. Carrick, the coro-
ner. The lids were again put on the coffin aud box,
which were removed to the police-office. This is all
that is at present known of this mysterious discos cry,
and very probably all that ever will be known of it. The
bay wed naturally in every advanced state of decom-
position, although not so much As might have been ea•
pected, conahlering the time that has elapsed since it
first readied Carlisle, nearly 12 months ago. This may
be accounted for by the fact that the coffin has been
kept perfectly dry and free from moisture. It was
Ding on time back, but the face was turned round to the
right side. The body was quite dry, and in odour and
other respects closely reds:misled • mummy. Although
the medical man could not state positively whether the
body was that of a male or female, yet when the cap
was removed from the head the hair seemed to be more
like • boy's than a girl's. The box in which the coffin
' was deposited was simile of common firewood, and was
four feet In length, 15 inches des., and 18 inches broad.
The coffin, which is 43 inches in length and tI inches in
depth, is n:amle of deal, painted black, and ornamented
round the lid with an embroidery of zinc or tin. There
is • breastplate in the centre in the form of a shield, but
without any inscription or initiala. Above the breast-
plate is the figure of an angel, and below is a vase of
flowers, all made at the seine metal as the enibroidery.
The handles of the coffin are made of cotton cord, and
altogether would seem to indicate that the parties cow
cerned in this strange and inexplicable transaction were
in • poeitimi to procure a very respectable interment
had their proceedings been suchas wonld allow them to
have done so ; but, as it is, their having prepared the
body for interment awl then sent it away with what is
doubtless a fictitiowt address, suggests the idea that the
death of the el6hl had occurred in a manner which did
not adtnit of the funeral taking place in the usual way.
.t post-mortem examination was anado on Friday night
by Dr. Elliot, Mr. Temperley, and Mr. Bowmen. The
age of the child was supposed to have been about two
year,. There was no fracture found in any of the ex-
tremities. Ten teeth were found in the upper jaw. In
the under jaw were six teeth laterallv, three on each
aide. Tile two centre teeth were wanting, and the fur-
-1 Blest hick teeth ou each side were coming. The body
wax that of a well-formed, well-conditioned, rather fat
child. (hi examining the intestines, the StOllllCll was
found to be empty, and there Wad no indication of either
metallic or other poison. Mr. Bent lest night commu-
nicated with Use superintendent of police at Paisley,
where inquires will doubtless he matte with a view to
iliacoveriug the party who hooked the box to Carlisle.
Mr. Bent a!so intend,' to have the coffin photographed
•ud copies sent to E.liithordi, Paisley, and other police
witaldialiments its Scotland, and as the coffin might be
easily identified by the maker on account of the 61111)C1.
11511111104.4 omi the lid, this step may probably humid' a
clue to the discovery of the parents cur others concerned
in the matter.— Carlisle Joaehal.
1111:111/KR AND SCICIDP: A %%%% RR T.--Not two
month, have elapsed since the extreme penalty of the
low wax executed at Warwick on the wretched man,
John Kington, who, it will he remembered was aen-
tenoeil to death at the last waiter for the brutal mur-
der of his wife. Another crime has been committed
within the precincts of the saute city, of a nature, if
;maniac, even inore revolting than the preceding one.
The crime is that of wife murder. The murderer, who
also put an end to Ilia own existence in • most deter-
mined and fearful manner, was a butcher named Henry
Fawsou. Some 14 ur 15 years ago lie married the
woman whom be lets now in AO horrible way deprived
of life. Shortly after their marriage, it appears they
impended, certain cinanuatencea having come to the hus-
liand'si knowledge whieli caused I to suspect his wife's
cheetity previous to their ußßi** n. The husband went to
Auseries ; the wife, we believe, remained at home.
Certainly she did not accompany him. Thirteen years,
or about that period, elapsed, and the husband returned
to his native country—not • wedthy nan, for on his re-
turn he serums to have set up a small butcher's shop in
a district of the city inhainted principally by the work-
ing clews, called Iblifiehls, in the vicinity of which is
the scene of the recent murder by Nington. About five
months ago his wife came to live with 16m again, and
since then and up to the time of her death she has been
'sheltered under his roof. Fawson is said to have pus'
ceased a very violent and hasty temper, and it is be-
lieve:l by the neigilboura that ever since their reunion
they have not lived on the best terms. On Monday,
from circumstances which MAC under the cognizance of
the neighbours. it is known that lie was not ow good-tem-
pered even as usual towards his wife, though he did not
alarm the neighbours by any violent outburst of passion.
The unfortunate couple appear to have retired to bed
shout their usual hour on Monday night. Nothing
inure was heard of them till between 2 and 3 e'eloa
the following morning, when the people living in the
adjoining house lieerd some alight groans proceed from
FdiVl6oll'd dwelling, and a noise such as would be pro-
, duceil by wine heavy substance falling down. Boon
after 6 Tuesday morning a grocer, waned Wakeman,
also a next-iloor neighbour to Fewaon, heard groans and
cries of " 31iiriler " proceed from the house of the latter.
He informed a shop-keeper opposite, named Swipe, of
the circumstance. Susie, who knew the violent charac-
ter of FAWSOII. advised Wakeman to take no steps in
,I the matter, but to wait awl see what further trans.

pired. Nine o'clock pamed. and Wakeman expressed his
firm conviction that Fawson and his wife were mur-
dered. Hie rinspicione were enlifirined by the fact that
neither of them bad made their appeasance, and the
shutters of the shop were not removed 'mooting to cue.
two at such an hour. Ten o'clock passed, and, the
house still remaining closed, it was resolved to force an
entrance. This was effected by means of a hack win-
dow, linape and a policeman being the first to enter
the house. The bedroom presented a terrible spectacle.
The bedstead and bedding, the ceiling and the floor,
were all besineartel and bespattered with blood. The
wretched man Fawson lay "doubled up" at the foot
of the bed, his throat cut, stabbed in his breast, and his
brains scattered about him. It is evident that in the
heat of his passion he cut and stabbed himself in in-
effectual efforts to destroy life, anal then, being unable
to despatch himself am quickly as be wished with •
knife. he weut down stairs and procured • gun, with
which he returned and shot himself through the head.
Both weapons lay near at hand. On the bed lay the un-
fortunate woman, his wife, weltering in her blood.
Her throat had been cat in a most determined and effec-
tual manner. Both were quite dead arid cold.
DAMAGE TO THE BISHOP ROCK LIGHTHOUSE (ISLES
OF SCILLY). —The Cara ish Telegraph reports that dur-
ing • violent gale on Monday, the 30th ult., 14 or 15
panes of plate-glass (5-8 thick) in tlds lighthouse were
broken, the large brass ladder outside, and the fog-hell
*upended to the gun-metal gallery round the lantern,
froin 130 to 130 feet above the sea, being carried away.
This bell weighed 4 cwt., an I could he heard a mile off
in calm weather. The lighthouse. was flooded, and shook
Sal much that earthenware fell train the cuoboarals. On
Wednesday week boats went from St. Mary's, but to land
wan impracticalile. Letters, however, were passed off by
nip., anal the damage is roughly calculated at £l,OOO.
Tite Sitdesbaces.—On Monday evening week the
boys of the various shoehlack societies of Loudon :amen-
, bled et St. Maitites-hall. The boys took tea together
in the lower room, and afterwards ocenpied the platform
in the great hall. There were 318 boys belonging to the
nine mcieties, nrrauged ner.,r.ling to their different
uniforms, the banners of each society being conspicuous
above all. The ball was densely crowded, and the Earl
of Shaftesbury. who presialml. Mr. Pownall, the Chair-
man of the Middlesex Magistrate*, the Rev. W. Cad-
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man. the Rev. H. Blunt, "Mr. G. 'Oliphant, and other
gentlemen connected with the societies, addressed the
meeting and the boys. There were 1160 present Lord
Radstock, Mr. Robert lislibury, Sir R. Maine,
and Mr. Joseph Pane. Prizes of books were distri-
buted to the boys who had conducted theiusalves best
during the post year. Several musical pieces were sung
by the boys. and the meeting concluded with the Na
teens' Anthem, the boys tusrsdung out of the hall
headed by the hand of the "blues," and followed by Use
bend of the "yellow.." The total earnings of ajlts
boys in the lasi year was £4,548.

Dam ST ItowitEee.—Wsultrt Isolettoose
M EZI iss ert Martin, of St. A Yoga( isd7 who
was so severely injured on the morning of the 19th 11111,
expired on Thundir/ morning week, after greet slags
endured with much patience for a fortnight, Miss Mar-
tin haft returned oaths mornisig of Maeda,. he 19th,
Imo an evening put to the Tsouas of her friends is
Penzance. While ism her dram, which was of
a light material, her sleeve caught fire. Frightened, and
all presence of mind gene, she &upped her arsa, 'ignited
her dress, and rushed out of the room. Ladies from
neighbouring apartments came to her XOl/0118,, and slur.
ing their prompt and be,,... owartioes ens at llsald. was
severely burnt. When the Assess were_ordletr=
Miss Martin's clothes, as far as shims, cheek ma
were concerned, were Need to be easwesesg, sad, as
might be expected, the upper portioo of her body,
especially the hack was frightfully imbued. Alithali
uiedical skill and unremitting sere eoold do ke hwi was
done, and for a thee faint hope was entertained or her
recovery, but on Thursday aseesing week she dbl. Kiss
Martin was only Al, and was endeared to a numerous
circle of relatives and biome by away estimable
qualities.

lir.anonninige Joenct.—The followlag_tstior ap-
pears in the Erpress of Tuesday night :—" While stay.
mg at St. Albaa's early last nen* I strayed into the
Townhall, when the Quarter Seenicas were being held,
on Thursday. the Bth ult. I Ina and Mom • heard a
poor agricultural labourer, out of work, for stealing a
few sticks from • fagot stack during the inclement
weather, sentenced by the Earl of Vend= (chairman),
with the concurrence of the Bench, to three years'
penal seruitude. The poor fellow had a family of four
young children, and his wife (whose distress in court it
ISM heartrending to on) was daily expecting • fifth. It
was stated that the man had been before convicted—for
stealing rabbits, I understood,—and this was the
cause of the ferocity (fur so I must call it) of the sen-
tence."

GOLD (A11111.1LIA).—ln 1858 1,3963 a: of gold, valued
at L'51.999, were exported from New South Wales;
and 2,535,263 oz., valued at £10,221,052, (rote Victoria.
The grow total net quantity and value of gold exported
from both colonies since May, 1851, to December 31,
1638, is 19,60-2,54) oz., and £74,160,0184.

Tin GAM{ LAWB. —2,608 persons were committed to
gaol throughout the United Kingdom for offences
against the genie laws during the year ended the 30th of
J 1859. The amount of duty recovered for 388
double game certificates is £1,981.

Conon sits on &mgt.—We had occasion some months
ago to record • strike of barristers at quarter sessions in
Newcastle, which startled the public DOE a little, and we
have now to record • strike of coroners in the same
neighbourhood. The coroners of Durham appear to be
out on strike against the " tyranny," as they allege, of
the county magistrates. In the Tows of Wednesday we
gave the particulars of a boat accident that had occurred
on the Tyne, by which three men were drowned. The
bodies have been picked up, and two of them, three of •
young man named Cockerill and an artilleryman named
Alexander, have been leaded on the Durham aide of the
Tyne, at South Shields; on them the coroner for North
Durham, Mr. Favell, has positively refused to hold SA
inquest, on the ground that the Durham *aunty miseis-
Mazes, who have the power to do so, will not pay him
his fees for doing so • the body of William Scott r,
the master of the steamer, has been picked up and taken
to North Shields, where the Saudi Northumberlaad
coroner has opened an inquest, which he his adjtruned.
Possibly, the fact that the Northumberland eestmer will
hold an *nest might satisfy the public that a full in-
quiry will be made into the cause of this boat upsetting;
but it seems that before the body of a person who has
met a violent death can be interred it Is neeemary to
have an order from the coroner. This order the Durham
coroner refuses to give for the interment of the 'bodies
landed on the Durham side, and, as the registrar of deaths
refuses to grant an order, the clergyman who bas been
asked to inter the bodies refuses to do so unless an order
can be procured from the magistrates. On Monday the
body, apparently, of some shipwrecked mariner was
picked up on the seaside near South Shields, and on
Tuesday it was taken to St. Stephen's Church, but, as
no order for interment had been given by the coroner,
the clergyman declined to inter it. It was left by the
parochial authorities in the porch of the church, and on
Wednesday evening it still remained uninterred. 'These
circumstances arc causing great indignation on the Tyne,
and the conduct of the Durham magistrates is strongly
condemned.— Tints.
130. LT ACCIDENTS IN THE MLIEHT.—A boat of 10 or
12 tons, belonging to Mr. W. Laird, of Birkenhead, was
crediting the Mersey on Tuesday last, and when about
mid-channel came foul of the cable of the Vocalist. The
sea was rough at the tune, with • strong wind, and the
boat capsized, sank, and the two men in charge of her
were drowned. In the afternoon of the same day
another boat containing three young men was being
towed astern of a Bremen bark, when it capsinsd, sod
the young fellows were precip•ted into the water. Two
were picked up by the New Brighton steamer, bat the
other was drowned.
BAUT•L MUlDER.—Another of those brutal murders
for which this district has latterly become too notorious,
there is every reason to believe, was perpetrated at the
miler of Skegneas, • pleasant little watering-place on
the Lincolnshire coast, a few miles north of Boston. It
appears that OD Saturday nit three farm labourers,
named Lynn, Needy, and Howard, were drinking
together at one of the hotels by the seaside, and were
turned out together when the house was closed at 12
o'clocl. They were all at the time more or lam
excited by drank. Howard bought a bottle of gin to
' take home with Lim, but during their walk together
Lynn and Moody several times drank out of the bottle.
Ni lien they had arrived at a certain point of their
journey Howard left the other two men who were then
apparently on friendly terms, and proceeded on his way
home. Lynn and Moody proceeded in an opposite
direction. The following afternoon • number of boys
playing by the roadside discovered the body of Lynn in
a ditch, within about 150 yards of the spot where the
three min had separated the night previously. There
were mortis of a struggle on the road, and by the ditch
Aide two c.iri were found, one of which belonged to the
deceased and the other to Moody, who was, in conse-
quence, immediately apprehended, as it was known that
lie had for some tinie been at variance with the deceased.
When in custody it was observed that he had sundry
cuts on his face which were not there on the previons
evening. When asked how these marks had been
calved he said that he had cut himself that morning,
, while shaving. His beard, however, showed that no
razor had touched it for several days. The trousers he
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had worn on Saturday night were found to be quite
wet and muddy on the knees, and his boots corresponded
with the marls on the road. He said that he knew
nothing about the murder ; he had seen the deceased
home. This is. however, contradicted by the widow of
the deceased, who says that while sitting up for ber
hurland she heard footsteps near the hones about 3
o'clock in the morning, and on looking out she saw
Moody pass her house without his cap. The post marten
examination proved that the deceased had been stupefied
by a severe blow on the head, and then smothered by
lying in the muddy water at the bottom of the ditch.
The inquest, at which the above facts were elicited, is
adjourned until Tuesday (this day) when it is expected
that further facts rah. brought forward to elucidate
this mysterious affair.
NRWSPAPARS FOR AUSTRALIA AND New Zgat..suri.
—A desire having been expressed on behalf of the Aus-
tralian colonies that the Governments of those colonies
should pay the cost of transit through Egypt of new!.
papers sent to Australia rid Southampton and Suss, in-
stead of such newspapers being subjected to a charge for
this transit, the additional penny levied on these news-
papers since the beginning of the present year will
cease. The postage of newspapers for Australia and
New Zealand, vent rid Southampton and Sues. Will
henceforth, therefore, as formerly, be id. e.á•
, but
the postage of newspapers by this rout* to India.
Ceylon, the Mauritius, China, and all other places east-
war. of Sues will continue as at present—m. :—Upon
a newspaper addressed to the East Indies, 2d. when not
, exceeding 4 ounces in weight; 3.1. when above 4 muses',
and not exceeding 8 ounces in weight, Id. being added
for every additional 4 ounces or fraction of 4 ounces;
upon newspapers addressed to any of the other coun-
tries or plsces referred to, 2d. for each newspaper of
, whatever weight.—By coniauand of the Postmaster.
General, Howland Hill, Secretary, General Vost-ellise.
• Feb. 9.

Iniicxac FLOOD IN tioaTll YOBICBIIII6.—The great
depth of snow which had covered the moorlands in the
North Riding commenced disappearing on Sunday, and
on Monday the whole course uf the rivers Rye, Leven,
Coda, and Dement was flooded. On Tuesday morning
the watery waste which presented itself wu the true
of great consternation. During the night the waters
had risen m rapidly that the whole length of the vales
of Rye, Derwent, and York was inundated for great dis-
tances ou each side of the respective rivers. Many
thousands of acres of wheat, newly sown before the
snow, are under water to a great depth, and the seed
totally lost. The few turnips, too, which bed
the disease and were kept for spring ere also flooàsd
some four feet deep and will be warted. In Rydale, in
a farmer's sheepfold', on turnips, several drowned sheep
were found; and near Nolton some parties have had to
wade breast-high in the water to rescue their cattle.
For miles the hedges have totally disappeared. It is
many years since so high a flood has been witnessed.
On Tuesday night a heavy fall of snow set in, and there
is every probability of the waters rising still higher.
The merchants' yards and premises in Melton are aIL
flooded, and the occupants of some cottages In Norton
are compelled to reside upstairs, the houses being sur-
rounded by water and filled with it in the lower rooms.
The trains between York and Scarborough can only just
travel. The highroads in the low country are in some
places more than • yard deep in water.
PATYRXT or Ilameten ix AIDITUALIA.—An Austra-
lian paper says :—" Mr. Barton's resolutions in favour
of the payment of members, which he brought forward
the other evening, met with as favourable a reception as,
could be espected in a House split up into so many par-
ties, and in which the aristocratic English notions find
favour to so great an extent. The discussion of the ques-
tion will do good, as it will put the public in possession
of all the arguments of the case, and enable the people
, to see on whom they may count when the question manes
to be fairly grappled with, as it must sooner or later be.
We have never yet heard &single argument to convince
us that any evil could happen, in a new oountry like this,
if the representatives of the people were pia for the
time they spend in the people's service, and for the ex-
penses they necessarily incur in doing their duty to the
constituencies who have confided to them the advougy
of their interests." Another paper observes "rt
would boa great thing for the country if it had a consi-
derable population of highly educated and patriotie
men of independent means to undertake the manage-
ment of its affairs; but we mast deal with things as 1140
find them, and there is DO such elate in Viotoria. Of Ito--
employed rich wen we have but few, and of that few
only a very inconsiderable portion hefting at the ucces
time to the intellectual aristocracy of the land; and we• therefore obliged to find our lagialatOTS among the
fully occupied VISO*, and to them time has • mil&
money value. We hope that the natter is now redly
stud,iees:.lod‘el ci,:lr:lnieymrKedbewno:fm::ntwregmtthhofpieeiath;er'ydid,i:wfflCoctl:ltiesWabibiy
watobSsThn: inrievedwoehtlyreithi:essistoma"p:
available for that purpose--naniely, the voting of mau-
-1 neration for their services out of the *dieing., Poo.
bargains to time country at the price,
of payment determined upon; but we
the feet that but for the confident e
seined that members would be paid '
formed areal* would autabaly bays Um
I than it Is.
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