The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

THE WAY OF DEATH.

EINCIFFIONS ix BAVANIA.—Th• Minister of Jurtice
in Bavaria has publielied an ordonnance, in virtue of
which executions in Bavaria will henceforth be made
in places cloud to the public. The mayor of the coin•
mune where an execution is to 'take place will convoke
a• witnesses 24 peewee selected from among the
municipal councillors and the principal citizens of the
commune. At the seat at each court of auizes there
will be a guillotine and • harp bell, which will toll
from the time when the priest should have terminated
the prayers to the moment the head folk The head
and the holy of tie person executed will be placed, is
presence of the antes:us, in a coffin prepared before-
hand, and prayers by the priest will aloes the proceed-
ing..
A BILSWSI IDROWNFD IN A VAT OF Bcza.—Laet
week, Mr. Gresham Wiles of the ann of Gresham,
Wiles, and Brown, brewers of Lewes. Banes, was
found drowned in • tun of beer. It appears that
Wiles was talking for wine few minutes to one of toe
men, and then went into the brewery. This WAS the
last time he was seen alive. Mr. Brown, his partner,
made inquiries for him shortly afterwards, but as he
was not to be wen it was reopened that he had gone
out, altitoaga it was • son..ewhat singular thing for
him to do so, so be generally said where he was going
before he left the pleads°. About • quarter of an
hour after that as George Ellis, one of the brewers was
looking into the ton room be observed Mr. Wit's'
coat hanging on one of the vats. He was then satisfied
that Mr. Wiles was somewhere shoot the premises,
end was about to leave the room, when his eve caught
eight of a hat Muting on the top of a tun of 'beer, and
on making a closer inspection discovered the body of
the unfortunate deceased. He immediately called for
aunatance, which was at once rendered by the other
men, soil Use body was taken out 1 • messenger having
in the meantime been deapatched for Mr. Macrae,
surgeon. On the arrival of that gentleman he W onee
pronounced him dead; indeed, that fact was patent to
every one, as the body was nearly cold and stiff. It
is conjectured that Mr. Wiles, in going to the romt iii
question, perceived that the ton required skimming,
and there being no one near to do it took off his coat
to skim it himeell. While thus engaged, it is believed
that the fumes of the beer overcame him, and that be
then lost his balance and fell in.

Sent:errors Ann Sulesou—An inquest was held at
the Dock Hotel, Upper East Smithfield, by Mr. John
Humphreys, one of the Middlesex coroners, on Tuesday
night, respecting the death of Anne Bush, aged 22,
who lost her life under very painful circumstances. Mr.
W. K. Stephens sail that be was • wine and brandy
merchant in Cannon-street, City, and that the deceased
was his !servant On Monday week she went out fora
holiday, and he never saw her alive afterwards. Mrs.
Julia Angha. Duke-street, llishopagate, said that de-
ceased was her husband's niece. N'ittess had been
informed that deceased had bees keeping company with
• " respectable" young man, an optician, of whom
else was puaionately fond. A short time nines
he succeeded in seducing her. Her position caused her
the greatest distress of nond. On the Monday in
question she went to see him at. public-house where
she heard he was, for the purpose, it was understood,
of coming to some arrangement about a marriage.
It appeared, however, that he denied all
knowledge of her. He looked at her and
said, "1 do not know you." She left the place and
went to a friend's, where she seemed to be frantie
She seised • bottle and daubed it to pieces against •
wall, saying " He bas deceived in.; I sin ruined ; I
will drown myself." She rushed from the home, and
was not seen again live. She was • respectable, well
brought up girl. William Dickson said that on Satur-
day be found the body of deceased floating off the en-
trance of St. Katharine's Docks, and be brought it on
shore. It was dressed, the bonnet being on. That was the
twenty-third young woman whoa, body he had taken
out of the water under similar eireutlistanoes. W. Cann,
Thames police, said that he searched the deceased.
There WY II Ma 1.4 wound 00 her forehead. She was
• good-looking young woman. There were no letters
or money in the pockets. Dr. H. Sequeri• said that he
had made • poet morrow examination of the deceased,
and found that she had been enciente for three months.
The cause of death was suffocation by drowning. The
Coroner said that the case was a most painful one, end
lie should adjourn the proceedings for the production
of further evidence, The court was accordingly ad-
journed.
T STEMMA A ryas rt—On Thursday a considerable
sensation was created in Newcastle-on Tine and neigh-
bourhood by information that the boiy of Captain
W.M. Gales, of the Durham Militia, who had been
missing over two mouths, had heen found in an old
shaft of Oselose Colliery, near Washington. On the
night that Mr. Gales disappeared lie had been dining with
• friend lathe village of Waishington, and it was thought
that he had fallen into the Wear on his way home and
was drowned ; and the Wear bad been dragged almost
every day since Mr. Gales was iniued as • large
reward was offered for the discovery of the body. It
appears that on Tuesday some worlanen connected with
the winery hal bees sent down the old shaft at the Ox'
close Pit to look after work «inflected with pumpiog,
but before they had proceeded far they iliscovered • per-
ties of • goki chain and the ease of a watch in • small
cistern in the shaft. Upon bringing them to batik
they were subsequently identified as belonging to the
missing gentlem.n. The police wens immediately com•
sunnicated with and on Wednesday pitmen were sent
down the shaft to explore it thoreughly, and 70 fathoms
down they found the body of the unfortunate gentle-
man lying across a beam. It was very much decom-
posed, but when brought to bank it was easily identified
as the body of Mr. Gales. The shaft in which the
body was found is wrought out, and it is not now used
In workine the oolliery. It is said to be =II fathoms
deep, and filled to aconsiderable extent with water, the
air being of course, foul. It is surrounded by • riling
six or seven feet high, and the shaft does not lie in the
way Mr. Gales should have taken on his road to the
river.