The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-10-28 00:00:00

THE WAY OF DEATH

DRAM EROS Dnnixinu RUM—An inquest was held
at Poplar, on the body of Frederick Towers, aged 30,
who was found dead ou board the Caroline Woodyear,
in the West India Docks, on Saturday morning. He
was watchman on the Sabine, an American ship, and
went on board it sober at six o'clock on Friday night,
but was not noticed till found dead next morning.
The Caroline Woodyear had just arrived from India
with n cargo of run', and there was no doubt he had
gone on board and drunk the rum till he poisoned
himself. Verdict accordingly.
BARBAROUS MURDER.—A murder, perpetrated tinder
circumstances of singular barbarity, took place on Mon-
day, in Leeds. About nine o'clock in the morning a
man named Henry Stansfield, a dyer, proceeded to the
Richmond Tavern, Richmond-road, and remained
drinking for some time with two men named Michael
Ward and James Wainman. They afterwards left him,
and about one o'clock Richard Dunnerty, labourer,
Bank, entered the house. He called for a pint of al.,
which was supplied, and he then ordered a second pint
of ale ; but as he either could not or would not pay for
it, the landlady declined to serve him. Almost imme-
diately after she had left the room, the landlady heard
a noise as if the men were quarrelling, and on return-
ing sow Dunnerty kick Stansfield upon the abdomen.
Tim poor fellow fell to the ground, when Dunnerty

sgain kicked him in a brutal manner. The landlord
was then called in. and seeing Stanafichl laid on the
ground, lie said, " Why that man's dead l" Dunnerty
and two men who wire with him at once left the
house. A surgeon was called in, but his serviees were
of no &mil, life being extinct. The attack si on the
unfortunate deceased Peeing to have 'seen wholly unpro-
voked. James Kennard, a man who was in the house
and now the assault committed, states that at the thno
Strinsliehl "as struck ho was pitting on a stool asleep.
with his head upon his hands. Dunnerty in stated to
Lie a notorious blackguard, and a terror to the neigh-
hourhood in which he resides.
The body of a female has boon found in a ditch near
Thorne, and from the appearance which the body pre-
sented, and from other circumstances that have tran-
spired, it is supposed thot tho women had met her
death by foul means. Both arms have hem' coin-
pletely cut off, and were nowhere to be found. An in,
quest was opened, but was adjourned till the 4th
proximo. Meantime the police are busy snaking iu-
quirks as to the identity of the woman, and the where-
, nimbi of the supposed murderer.
FRIGIITFUL TRAGEDY AT Boma. —The following
(says the Liverpool Mercury) is an extract (coin a letter
received by a gentleman in Liverpool from Captain
John Finlay, of the ship Faith, which at the time of
the horrible occurrence below detailed was lying in
Bonny River :—" We had a fearful tragedy here last
week ; one of tho natives killed what they call a ' creek-
man' (that is, a man who lives some eight or ten miles
(roin Bonny, and who was at Bonny selling yams, as
the creekmen are farmers in a way.) The Bonny mom
wanted to kill this native, and at a meeting it was
agreed they should kill him. But 'first catch your
bare' is an old maxim. When that man heard that
sentence of death was passed upon him, he shut himself
up in his house with all his cloves, wives, and children,
loaded all his guns, large and small, then dug a trench
round and about, and filled it with small keg.; of gun-
powder, and net the chiefs at defiance. Things remained
in this state for two or three days, nobody daring to
venture near the house with hostile intentions. At
last the chiefs offered two puncheons of oil to any one who
would fire his house. A slave took the offer, fired the
house to windward; and the sparks falling upon the
house of the besieged, soon sot it on fire. When the
murderer of the creekman saw thin he gathered all his
slaves, wives, and bairns within the trench, applied the
match, and in a second more nothing WM to be wen but
mangled bodies amid the ruins of their former home.
There were thirty-five iu number altogether. They lay
exposed for three days, then were put into sacks, and
thrown into the river."

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HORRIBLE DOUBLE MURDER. —A dreadful orime has
just been committed at Landebaeron (Obtos-du-Nord)—
namely, the murder of two bays—onc, aged fifteen, and
the other five, who had been left in charge of a farm-
house while their parents wore absent at church. The
murder had been effected by striking them on the heads
with a heavy clock weight found under the table. From
the torn state of the clothes of the elder boy and the
quantity of blood found in different parts of the apart-
ment, it was evident that he had struggled with the
energy of despair. The disappearanee of a sum of 240 f.
showed that robbery was the motive for the crime.