The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-26 00:00:00

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THE CONVICT WAOCR —MT. Walpole, &MU 001110113111-
Gating with Mr. .1 edit,/ Lash, has commuted the
seatenee of the world Weer, who wee °cortege4 at
the recent assizes at Derby of the murilei of hie wife.

ATTIMPT AT ASAIAMM•TIOW.—AT the Oarnbridge
tinker, on Wednesday, Modes Ellis was wintenosd
to ton years' penal servitude for sending a loaded pistol
to William Kill, his father, so pissed Ins box that on
Ito bang opened It went off.

MMISLAUORTIM IT • DOT—At the Lewes Assihes,
on Toseda). • small boy, named Peter, was Indicted
1., nmeslaeghter. The boy had a light with • oom.
panioa, in the eoerse of which he slabbed him In the
seek with a penknife, the wound altimakelir proving
fetaL The boy pleaded guilty, and Nis je basing
addressed him at some length diseharged lm from
custody.

ATTIMPT TO MOILDiII • Witt—Al the &Amin
Ledges, on Tuesday, Richard Harris was indiethd for
atistopting to murder his wife at Falmouth en Septem-
ber Ist. The prisoner and his wife had separated, and
on the morning in lineation he went to her lodgings,
sad with a largo dasp half. stubbed her several times
in the thigh. and breast. The jury found the prisoner
guilty of intending to do grieving bodily bane, and he
wee sentenced to be kept In penal servitude far ten
years.

SHOCKING Can 07 COMITY TO • CHILD. the Lim
ooln Audios, on Wednesday, Alfred Blow, ID, labourer,
and Sordt Blow, 22, man sod wife, were charged with
the wilful murder of Elisabeth. otherwise Blur Hannah
Glover, at Gainsborougb, on the 14th of January. The
medical seldom's showed that the poor child bad been
virtually starved, and was covered with :narks of tents'
' ill•treatment, which was spoken of by several witnesses.
The prisoners were found guilty, and each sentenced to
15 years' penal servitude.

Mimosa TinOMB Dnric—A smn mimed WOartisp
MN sent for trial from Salford outlander forth. wilful
murder of Henry Willis. The murder (white was
it first epoken of ama Fenian entrap) appears to Imre
been oommitked in drunken wantonness. Tbe prisoner
fint &eked the doomed, who was a stranger to hint,
"Are you • Fenian I" and rewiring a noisily. reply,
mid, "Then I an one" and stabbed him in the nick.
The prisoner, when he became *ober, and spin before
the magistrates on Tuesday, said be moat lave been
I either and re drunk when he emiamitted the outrage.

SIOCZINGI BRINALITT.—On naiads', at the Middle.
ess seseloos, a roan named William Foot WM nentioted
to be Imprisoned and kept to bard labour for 18 months
for sets of breality towards We ion, a niers chug oil
'bander shoat Incredible. It earn proved In svitientat
that the poor eldld was so severely beaten one night
by his father, for not baying the kettle boiled, that he
• sought rays under lb. bedsteed. The ruffianly
a wont 00017 heeled a poker and streak et the elaild under
1 the hod to efeetnally that he eseeseded In burning Ms
little obeek Desk. arm, and mouth. Tbe Assistant-
Judge. naturally swoosh, espiuserd aeloalehment at
sash an sot of brarallty.

&simmer AID Gum LABOUR.-- On Wedareday
at the wises in &afford, Robert Crawford wu o=4
with having stoles Us household funtiture oil ae
asinosr, named Guesser. It appeared that the
pretests hal boon eirest from Ragland in the service
of the Peetaslar sod Oristel Consay for siz years,
hit half•Pa7 Wad /adult* mated to his wife. IMO
had, &maw, sad up hie hoots, had been llvlo with
the prisons for yeas, aad had bad Andrea by Ws
All this time she bad reseivad la a =oath from her
lusehead, as well as into of Rl5O, and s rariaty of
leralsles be had sat bor. Oa his return Is found out
tho otojo of things and pre the prieser tato otutodr.
The jiry found biro guilty, tad be nts sontosed to 15
months' Imprisonment.

Ti. UT Haus Portiontno COW— At th• Caro-
tasarlasa, on Tondo, Dr. POITIKIII, a physician la
prsipak,a at Vy, was indicted tot 'missals( with
stryobsine two valuable borne. tbipty.m,.
0.& Ball, • solielter, living *lose by. was
paeely eircumstantial, sod there was so motiva what-
arer alleged for the arias. The fads were that on the
VA of January last Yr. flail went sway on a skating
inatob, and that his bead clerk went away on business ot
the a 1..; the groom and his assistant had also left the
poondeen The ogee was left hi charge ymmg
=Notherwai, sad about two in tee afternoon Dr.
lase *SSO4 liked some orwatiou, laity
sate where Yr. Hall, the bead sleek um....
vs.; hs Wei west pat down • lane inwards Mr. lia-117.
bsok yad sad dailies. liethenteal bad coassion to go
in Me WM dir"°, shortly Itl•rwards, and met
rumor to the yard, at • very short distance from the
stables. In • short him the °legit yid' wet him in the
yard, when ha seemed oontased. He was met shortly
again onaring oat at tire yard, by a woman '
named Potts. No one else was mien on lb. prowiose

during the absence of Yr. Han and his wean* and on
their returning home at night two out of the three
horses in Um Maisie were found dead, the third. • restive
one, baksi all right, but having near it some brae oon-
tatting crystallised strychnine. Tbe is.. pieiao• wee
fund by Professor Tema, of the Royal Veterinary
Collate, who remarked that the poiecin wan sold only to
medical men in its crystallised state. It was proved that
during the early part of the afternoon Dr. Pump had
procured bran from a shop in the °Ay of Ely, and that
he bed bad id wetted and taken II out. A bottle of
eryetellisad Maychnine, having marks of bran outside it,
was found in the prisoner's poison check In the morning
the horses had been left without anything in their
mangers. The case lasted nine hours, and ended in the
jury convicting the prisoner, on whom Baron Martin
passed • sentence of live years' penal servitude.