The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-16 00:00:00

IsfSlte intelligence.

ATTRMPT TO POISON A SHIP'S CAAIIP.-•-•At the
Liverpool assizes on Tuesday, William Peck, rcoloured
seaman, formerly of the ship Palatine, was sentenced
to three year,' penal servitude for mixing vitriol and
Wee etene with some tea which the steward of the
Palatine had prepared for the captain. The prisoner
had become insubordinate, and had formed • spite
against the captain in consequenee of his being com-
pelled to do • proper abase of work.
FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN TWO SCHOOLSOTS.—Patriak
Howard, 10, was arraigned at Manchester on Monday,
on an indictment charging hiuu with killing John
Welsh, a schoolfellow of his, and of nearly the same
age, It appeared that the prisoner and the deceased
had been quarrelling in the school in October. and the
former said that he would make the latter feel when
they got out of Wiwi Accordingly, when the school
wag dismissed, and the boye had gained the street, the
prhioner took up a stone and threw it at Welsh, who
*as struck on the temples, the blow producing a frac-
ture of the skull, which; in the course of time, induced
an abscess on the brain, from which be died. The
stone was throne in October, and death ensued in
November. The principal witness for the prosecution
was a schoolfellow, not more than nine or ten years of
age, who had to give his evidence from the judge's
platform. —His lordship summed up, and the jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty. The learned judge, in ad-
dinning the prisoner, warned him against the evil
Vedic* of throwing st9nes. He was then sentenced to
fiv.e days' imptisonment from the commencement of
the amine. That time haring
.elapsed, the bey was at
once given up to his mother,
A Pitrfit*CONSTANLN SENTENH/CD TO PENAL SKIM-
TtlfsH.-“-An ex-police ofemr, named Joseph Scott, was
sentenced to three Years' penal servitude, by Mr. Com-
missioner Gurney, et the &Oh Lancashire, Assixes on
Wednesday, for forgery. in tontreetion with the police
force, of which the prisoner was a member, • sick and
burial society had been established, and having been
appointed its secretary, he broke his trust, and forged
various certificates of death, in order to obtain sums of
money belonging to the proprietary.
CHILD MURDER.—SENTINCR Or DRATII.—At the
ireetsbney Ageism, on Monday, Elizabeth Boughey, a
married ildirtstf, aged afi, wag charged with the murder
of Clement Boughey, on the 13th of August, at Dray-
ton-in-Halls. It appeared that the prisoner, while a
pauper in the Drayton Union, .as delivered of a male
child. On the 13th of August she left the union, taking
the child with her. Previously she had remarked to a
witness named Ettubbe concerning the child, that "it
would not take much to kill • little buffer like that."
Thin observation was supposed at thy time to be uttered
in jest. 'When she was about half-a-mile from the union
she WU seed tn. beat something in • bundle against
several gates. The hendle was opened and the child
was found dead within it. Dr. Saxton examined the
body shortly after it was discovered. He found many
bruises on the head, and one very severe one behind
the right ear, from which blood was oozing. He suede
a postmortem examination the next day. He found
that there IMO a fracture of the skull, and gave it as
his opinion hat the death was caused by violence such
as might be inflicted by striking it on a gate. On cross-
examination Dr. Sexton geld that the total suppression
of milk (a sign observed in the prisoner) was a bed
sign. This would indicate fever, Puerperal mania
might be referred to hereditary muses. Li,. Saston,
*he knew the prisoner's family, said that the mother
was weidt in title/leek and the sister an idiot; that in
puerperal mania • person might be under an irresistible
impulse to commit an act Which she knows to be wrong.
In his opinion the woman was allowed to leave the'
workhouse too soon. From what he heard, ha thought
the grisoner very likely to have been subject to puer-
peral mania: The jury returned a verdict of e,uilty,sad
sentence of death give pronounced.
A MAN AND HIS witt SENTENCED TO DRAM—
At the Durham aseizes, on Monday, John Cox, pitnian,
and his wife, were charged with the wilful murder of
Ann Halliday, an old woman, at Brosdteires, near
Cherber•le-Street, on the 10th August. The okt, woman
relided by , herself in • email cottage, separated from
that ocouftied by the prisoners by a thin party wall,
which enabled the tenants of either home to hear dis-
tinctly the slightest noise Meth by each other. The
cottages were situated at a little distanee from any other
house. The old woman had a small weekly allowance
to live open. A little before four o'clock onlianslay
morning, the 10th August, the female prisoner knocked
the lemate.s of the nearest house and told them that
"Old Naticy's was dying. Two women in the house at
once hurried off te the old woman's cottage. They found
her lying on the floor, the male prisoner supporting her
head. Her appearance was ehoelltitg, her body being
drenched in blood from numerous Wounds about her
head and person. The [female prisoner said the old
roman had had a "dizzy" fit, and had fallen out of
bed and injured herself. She was not, however, subject
to such flte, and the medical evidence showed that she
could not have Minted herself in that way by, a fall out
of bed. The old woman, however, was sensihle when
found, and told those about het that she had been 'bar-
barously murdered, exclaiming shortly afterwards, and
giving her head an inclination towards the house of the
prisoners, "Oh ! them Irish." She further raid they
dragged her out of bed, and that she had first seen a
a man in !I white sheet standing at the foot of her bed.
The old womati died soon afterwards, and the prisoners
were taken into custody. The case occupied the whole
of Monday, and was resumed on Tuesday. Cox end his
wife were found guilty, and sentenced to death. The
woman has been respited, as ehe is aseekte.

HOLLOWAY'S PlLlA.—Detennination of blood to the head
and diseases of the heart —The public is Constantly shocked
by the inereesed Member of sudden deaths, These eataistro-
phes originete from some irregularity .if circulation, which
generates disturbance in the head. Holloway's Pills are
widely used and everywhere esteemed for
_purifying this fluid,
and regulating the flow of the blood. They prevent palpita-
tion, oppression at the chest, and determination of blood to
the heed; and they effectually remove congestion of the lungs,
liver, kidneys, and brain, by proportionally distributing the
blood to each organ. Holloway's Pills should be taken without
delay when feelings of faintness, giddiness, drowsinees,er other
serious derangements warn us of some disturbance of the
digestion, circulation, or respiration, as each is of vital impor-
Lange.