The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

HORSIBLE Monnim AT WINDROIL—A cold-blooded
murder' scaroely equalled in the annals of crime, has
just Well nsenetrated in the borough of Windsor, which
has sensed nousual sensation among the inhabitants. A
coroner's inquest was held in the council chamber at the
Townhall. before Mr. Martin and a highly respectable
jury, oa Tuesday afternoon, and at the same time the
prisoner was.brought before W. B. Hoiderness, Esq.,
(Mayor), Robert Blunt, Esq., and William Reason,
Rig, who sat in the Jastioe-room' when the evidence
of several wituesses,examined in both ehambers,were to
the following effect—That the prisoner, John Gould, re-
siding at Clarence-clump, in the borough, the father of
two children, had been in the habit of treating one of
them, • fine little girl of between six and seven years of
age' with great cruelty, and the poor child always went
in fear of her inhuman parent. The mother of the
child, being engaged at the Windsor Infirmary and Dis-
pensary, had left the two children in care of • neigh-
bour, and the father, who had been drinking for •
whole week, returned home to dinner about three
o'clock on the afternoon of Monday. The child had pre-
viously gone into the bonne to light the fire, accom-
panied by some other children. When the prieoner
entered the house he turned all out exeepting the an-
fortueate child. Shortly afterwards tlae prisoner went
to his neighbour's house and said, "Mrs. Clarke, I want
yon." She followed him i home, and when she got into
the room she saw the Boor covered with blood, the
child on its knees, with its hands on the step, and its
throat cut. The prisoner stood with • razor in his
hand, and said. " I've done it, I've done it." He after-
wards threw the child out of doors' when it was picked
up by the neighbours, and conveyed to the dispensary,
and was met by its horrified mother, who, as before
stated, was engaged there, but the child died before it
reached the dispensary. The evidence of Mr. J. Ellison,
surgeon, went to prove that the throat of the child had
been cut about five inches in length, and that the jugu-
lar vein on the right side had been divided by some
sharp instrument. Superintendent Eager said that the
prisoner afterwards told him that he went home to get
some dinner, and the child annoyed him by crying, and
that he had done the deed through drink, and was now
sorry for it. It also appeared that the prisoner, although
drunk, was not so far gone as not to know what he was
about. He was committed to Reading Gaol to take his
trial for wilful murder. He is about thirty-five years of
MURDEROUS ATTACK ON • POLICEMAN lIT BURGLARS.
—A member of the Wolverhampton polio* force is now
lying be • precarious emnlition from a murderous
attack that was made upon hint on Tuesday morning
by two burglars. Between three and four in the
morning, the officer, who lean old member of the corps,
and named Grimley, was on his beat in one of the
rural suburbs of the town known as the Compton-road,
inhabited prineipally by penalize of property, when he
arrested • man whom he found in a passage leading
to the back of a terrace named Victoria-place. The man
struggled with him and attacked him with a "jemmy,"
made out of a large file, and broke it in the attack.
In reply to big call for help another burglar leaped
over a wall from an adjoining house, and commenced
beating the officer ghoul the head with • hammer,
about 21b. in weight. For some time the officer held
bravely on, and only released his man, with whom he
was struggling en the ground, when the violence to
which he was subjected rendered him insensible. In
this state he must have lain for some time. On re-
covering consciousness he blew his whistle, and resi-
dents of the neighbourhood Game to his assistance.
They found Lim bleeding profusely ; and the hammer,
with the stains of blood upon it, and the "jemmy,"
broken through by the violence of the blows, on the
ground. The preliminary examination by the surgeon
induces the hope that the elates skull is not frac-
tured ; bat he lies in • precarious condition—Mans'
chamfer Examiner. _ _

A Hones AND Gm Row Oven ON • RAILWAY.—An
aerident oecurred on Saturday forenoon, on the Forth
and Clyde Railway, between Bucklyvie and Ba
whereby • horse and gig were knocked to pieties. It
appears that • man was sent to Bucklyvie station with a
horse and gig belonging to Mr. Dick, of Lochard, to
await the arrival of a passenger by train. He incauti-
ously took the bridle and the blinders from the animal,
which started off along the line at a tepid rate, and ran
for • distance of three miles in the direction of Ralfron,
when the train horn Balloeh meeting it, a collision en-
sued. which instantly resulted in the death of the
animal, which, along with the gig, were thrown under
the tender and dragged • considerable distance. No
person was injured, although it is obvious the train ran
great risk at being thrown off the line.
Bilston, in Staffordshire, seems doomed to unenviable
notrriety. Scarcely has the excitement caused by the
murder of Mr. Bagott passed away, teen it is renewed
again by the failure of the savings bank of the town, ,
and what is equally painful, the knowledge that is
erased by the defalcation of the Rev. Mr. Fletcher,
the incumbent of the principal parish in the town, who
for many years acted as treasurer and actuary. In that
capacity he has contrived to abstract about one-third
of the depoaits entrusted to his care. These repeated
failures of savings banks will aceelerate their entire
absorption in the new plan of Post-office Savings Banks,
the prime advantage of whied is that the depositor ob-
tains Government security for his money the instant it
Ii deposited.
THREAT:MING TO SHOOT Two OFFICERS AT BRISTOW.
,—A Preston correspondent writes :—A letter was
recently left on the table of the orderly room at
Fnlwood Barracks, Preston, intimating that Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Hardy and Assistant-Staff Surgeon
Clark must beware lest they meet a similar fate to that
of the late Colonel Crofton and Captain }Lanham, who
were shot by Patrick M'Caffersy, whilst they were
walking across the quadrangle of the same barracks in
September last. The reason alleged in the letter, as far
as we have been able to gather, is strict disci-
plinarianism. Of course, the authorities at the garrison
have at once commenced a rigid inquiry. We have
been informed that a slue has been obtained to the
writer of the letter.

SINGULAR ARRENT 0? A MURDIRER.—EhipiIIe, the
man suspected of murdering the postman of Beauvais,
and for whom the police have been some time on the
look-ont, has just been arrested in the hamlet of Trou-
Jewel (Oise). Two carters, in the employment of M.
Tuurly-Oodin, rrsiding in that place, went to a shed op
the afternoon of Friday, and were surprised to find the
the door fastened on the inside. One of them said to
tbe other in a joke—" Perhaps Unpile is in there."
On looking through a crevice they saw a Mons*, several
shirtd, a pillow-ease, and a sack of charenal lying on ,
the pound, and also • six-pound loaf. Suspeeting '
something wrong they sent for their master, who soon
came with hie son and some other men, and, on foreign
open she door and searching the place, found Dupillo
fast asleep under some straw. They did not disturb him,
but left the shed, fastened the door on the outdid*, and
then sent for the gendarmes. In the meantime, Dimino
having awoke, and finding from the noise outside, that
he had been discovered, took • razor from his pocket,
and indicted three wounds on his throat, but nose of •
dangerous character. Os the gendarmes arriving he
was secured, and after undergoing an interrogation
during which he avowed his own guilt and that of his
nooomirdioe, Obanioran, amid, in enatbdr b WM-con-
veyed to the prison at &avail.