The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-08-23 00:00:00

MAZEITA KILLED.

At tbo Central Criminal Court before llaron Martin,
WV/Iqm Hardt,ig, :19, do.cribol as an apothecary, was
bellow I for tbo inurilor of Isabella Towson.
I 'mon, r wee allogo.l to hese used an instrument
nrcu the &ceased, sod also to have administered
or %ions drug to procure abortion.

The deceased was a tuarri,el woman, about 24 years
of age, an actres+ at the Shoreilimh Alhambra. where
she was known by the immortal name of "Shill George,"
and %%many played Max-ppa. On the Thuniday even-
ing prior° her death, when she was very ill, she played
In a piece called "The Enchanted Kiss." She ear then
;deviant. She died on the followiug Monday. the 3tteh
of May. It was on element in the ease that in playing
Magnetos she had to fall three time., and that at the
close of the performance she used to complain of bay.
in been hurt by falling in the state she wee. On ono
occasion, a few evenings before she died, she was hurt
lay a fall when upon a trap in the stage with another
mama, which had descended unexpectedly. About a
fortnight or three esioks previonaly she had fallen
thtough a trap door which had been left carelesaly open
and was black in the face for MAWs minute+ afterwards.
She died on the morning of Monday, the 30th of May,
having on the previous night been delivered prematurely
of • child.

Lenience was given at some length In support of the
charge of procuring a miscarriage, and to show the part
the prisoner wu allegsd to have played in it.
At the clue of the case for the prosecution, and
without calling upon the counsel for the defence,
Baron Martin int,umted a strung opinion that there
was not a particle of evidecos to support the charm
and directed an acquittal.
The jury acquitted the prisoner acoorilingly, and he
.vas it onee di•chsrgo.l.

DIZADFUL TIICATIMIT OP AN IDIOT DOT.
Elias Lipman, a cac.t,retoneer, and Mary Ann Lipman,
:iusbaud and wile, sr. re iudicts.l at the Cuuttal Criminal
I_'ourt, for the manslaughter of Jesoph Lipumn.
Mr. Humphreys couducted the preaecutiun ; Mr.
.lloutsgu %b....siestas the defence,
lho prie,„om. A ith four chldren and • little girl aa
li.ml ,n l'..i.it..cl.spel, in A siegle mom, p..orly
:urnirhed, mei the deceased child, who was their
ropl.ew, r.., 13 ; • Ala of ego. wee an 'dia. a cripple,
and deaf awl dumb front birth. Although LI years of
age be had the appearance of being only five. and was
entirely helpless. Accurding to the servant girl, chile
she lived with the prisoners the boy wm put upon
bread aml water, with occasionally bread and hotter.
on WA. occasion the female prisoner threatened to so t
nil of him, in • certain event, lie slept in a cupboard,
mei his skin was peeling off from the hardness of the
weed on which he hail to lie. The servant, trounolier•
&Unit the stele In which he was, begged to be allowed to
p to • cora chandler's and get some straw for hint to
ue elem. The female prieoner would not allow ber,
wol mid he might die using a revolting expression.
lie vro kept in * filthy on' 'Attlee as a rule, his lase only
;'l4. +Med, not washed, ecemaionsily, ant certainly he
.1 !et enough to rat and drink.
reliceconstable William :twilit, on the 211th of July,
00" the duel, who was then ally" lying in • corner
of the remit neon a"Ala" nos H ' thind meal'
1,..
sted, and appess,s4 ~,..7 weal t. 16...w:a . an e •
i • in • very hlthy
condition, verinin of various kinds were crowing over
his b. 17, an.l there were 4Arall on Ma heitd,seatifie,luver.
Hannah Limn... T,...4.ag ia ma,..wa,
wo
she
was
the mot her .4 iie dee,...„4 4,0.
unit 'e,
him into th., chug.. 4 hi, ~'„', 4.6 slay is" gave
paying at the 'AMC tune tt 17.... ' %, w 6:diehl.'ris"^Fri
tenurial. He was thee it, a very wiedt a ni.l' his
rati'''.
perfectly rile di. rihe armee Co tosee: i D..... u!
w•ekly saw tort tvqt to und nom,' ~"*. "
whenever he was
able. The male priaotor 100 l stye,' i5.,5 ,ar
to hins, and treated the &Aid as his own. Tim kind
WI, At times so ill sit,, obll.t, •itn.a, to f,04 hia.ch,i.lid
a fest her. He had been unsble to take feed 10;;;:ror—ol
do), at a time He ratted mach trout diarrbraa;-.;t;"A
was always very thin.
Mr. Pi.iltipr, surgeon to the H divlsi..,,, ~4 police.
wt.
on Senhav evening, to,. 24,h
......the deteseed
tilled ,
of July. lie lay in a twiner of the loom on an ow eud
which wan full of vermin, many of which were running
or. r his body. The whole surface of toe 11047 w..
CUl*Tei with dirt and effete settles of the skin matted
together. The head was icatileA with old 110fa5. and
vermin were relining over the meshes The body itself
,i'''''' in • very emaciated condition, and the chili wsa
eying from ethenstioo. Witness on another occasion
:Lane a fog itiOrklee examioation„ and mu of opioion
that death re.ulted from dime., of the lungs, which
we, chrome, an ill-developed state of the nervon, *ye-
t." noelerated by ii 0 v•crit if I 'liar food, Sail fts fiend
n• Atm; A heglected atatc of the body =Mid pf*"
ths Maly to viumin.

Mr. J. B. Sequire, Burgeon, gave corroborative sal.
doom,. .

For the defence, Mr. Montagu Williams so bmitted
that thy child ilicd fr.iiii naturil closes, having antlered
habitually from clirrnie diacia, of the lunge, ezhaustieu
of the norvous cud almost rpetual characea.
The jury acquitted the male toris,uts, and itturneu
verdict of guilty against the wile.
Baron Martin, in pweing sontenoe, said had he been
quite eati.fiwi with tl e odd,t as of the servant, which
he way got. be wouhi haTO nt used ha to • 'try long
term of pew! servitude—p..4l4y ftv life; for, aolord-
-113.! to the .ess,ne, curt c..... 1.0 Whol leen guilty of •
clinic tniirda 34 ant thing c mid be. The
Ocicul de.
we. I. pe.,t loch° I who could know
nothing, awl cull.' o.tliing hut eubluit to all the
tio:itwent he had re.e.. ed. He souk:wed ter te 18
unnitliz' hard labmr.