The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-23 00:00:00

Lain ant Crime.

THil CAMS OF Wl=lll6oll, OF Tell Jourrarocz
DIFOOOPT COWL/T.—A lam number of London mer-
chants, including representatives of aity Irma wboHy
ancommated with stweenlative *pristine% have taken
op Wilkinson'. oast, end bare tried to get him
pardoned. • memorial was sent to the Home OSOD
" for • free pardon on the grated of wroogfal scoria
tion." The Home Office refused to interfere. The
Irma bare thereupon petitioned the Queen for •
pardon, with what retall I. eft yet known.

A GOOD Memos rem Non-ereseherce. —At the
krises the names of several Cirenerster jurymen eke
veiled to try • eke, and amok; the number was that of
Cherie, Cole. The juror did not answer, and the
loused Judge said be would order • nee to be Inflicted
for contempt of mart. One of the other jurymen this
informed his lordship that Mr. Cole, unfortusately, was
"down below," having been emaciated of the shaking
at Cask.! Some knitter followed tbe explanation,
and, of soorse, no more wee said about the line.— Wilk
aktaderri.

llotrroc Tantrum. or • Cowmen Sioux—The
Besorder at the Liverpool Covrt of Pusege has been
neneged with an action brought by a coloured essmen,
mused airistian. againet Captain Gregory, of the ship
Heretioes. on the voyage to Pernanibuo and beck
trom Unread. Aceordieg to plaintiff, use, be woo
. &Innately attained to the desk like • dog, trised up is
Ht. rigging, fed for some Use epos bread and water,
while his natural wants were err disregarded that be wee
not only Ins filthy stete no made very Il On the
othir hand. it was urged that Om plaintiff wee
nintinosel_ and lternatently refaced to work. He
'Limed or Be. owar, and • compensation for the
injuries which be bid seeteteed. Tbe jury awarded £56
in addition to the ware.
Twit Lie, or RITUIX RAILWAY TICKUWL—A rather
baporGiat lament lip= ate law of return tickets via
given in the BritTe Court, Loedoe. es Tuesday. Tbe
obilnalf bed taken • return ticket of the General Steam
)(saiastion Company from Loadoe to Boulogne and
hook, being allowed one manfh. He went to Faris,
sod there lest the return half of bit Nast. When be
te Beehive to take his return }oerney he informed
Ti.. captain of the vessel of his lose, was amtuyed to
London, end then forced to pay for his pewee. H.
thereupon commenced promedinge to mover this
a.nouo. gr. Commissiour Kerr bald that the own.
panybsd no right, this being s personal wenn* to
eoforee lb. resured payment, and he therefore gore a
make In favour of the plaintiff with reels.
Coon or RICHIPI7O. April 17. —llittinp in Banco,
before tbeLord Ch is! Beton and Barone Marlin, Bram wen.
and Mott.— Mandell v. Yeelman : This untie woe
tried denim the lees tilting. after term at Weetenineter,
before Kr. Baron 5.j11, when the Jury fund a
vesiliet far the plaintiff, dusegme exissial• The ael'aikr
dAnwreal. on lb. pars of she dafendeak sow moved for
new Wales the grounds of miedtreetion and INIONISIWIP
Ks alio rude an affidavit setting oat some
Militoest het.. The adieu woe brought by
Mealekl, who was the owner of several newspaper, In
ik"e4 4" B°°""tet. against the ad•Dd.at,
Yunnan, a country raw.. aad maaleirste, and
oleo a pregame, and shush:lL of the Chunk sod
Ceentry Newusper Compaq (Liautod), to recover the
gam is um*, in respect of those jungle which She
eenipeny had nerehseed. The Runnel wee *bother the
delendasit had as a promoter rendered himself liable for
the wisest of the money. The Curtgranted rule
BOrairlarto Baser amuse.— Ttot nimuitsin dietriet
bowies &Or( and Gosasto Ben..,lns Wee em for
gs' yaws pert the mese al sheep robberies to a ow"
ow intent every winter, sad almost each th
depaerreral winters past the farmers livtaa
ad ag low lends aueteiaed cooddanbis ion:*
shopp, bet owing to the Ostensible woo of tho
ossalry sot the nevem, of the thieves, the paw.
bore hitherto ben unable to true the robberies,
Motet several efforts end entrolme we,, lode by
these. Ormeergnest es • resent lees of sheep owned by
▪ woo mood Como. hob Pivot* ltdotostUos
✓se.leed, Ike prsoassa of a will4o'do Woo, stool
Wolosy, vu otorshod. NOttivii & impiewpg netars
cond, however, be kola, and AM Polio woo goat
saving the too, when Oo•Osblo Lay *wood his

"'Pinion* negeolshig a pima of ground ekes to the fans
house, pleated witlerpilsbasse. The polio, went to mat
sad moo uncovered • series of soulderraneaa cavities
stored with mutton •nd wool. No less them most pas
Were discovered altogetbrr, sad in asses were stored •
tans molt of ..01, two tubs of fresh mutton, seientil•
sally out up sad nicely jointed. skins and fresh entrails
of three sheep, and • most minvllaneoas oolleetion of
motto. boom and • I.nre quantity of Ann' bead, he.
Mahosty has boon remanded by the Baatry magistrates.
—Ccrk istuniatr.

BT111•1141 MUM= ST • 8•ILOIL —An English
merchant mood, the Roby Natio, @ilia hist autumn
from the But on her homeward voyage. At Poems
she shipped. in the othisoity of as alsits mamas, • gam&
oamid Hail Abdomen% who, though & carpenter by
lade, bad previously work.d e puma' from Ron
Francisco. and learnt something of • sailor's liminess.
On board ths Rol" Castle was mother able SIIIMSII,
named Jolla iffaroshiso. This man, nears told, was
In fact a 1114•340, but a holief prevailed among the
mow that ha was a Ramis. Vino, sod sailors bays a
superstition thot the Ruseiso Finns are unlucky, and
bring danger to a vessel. Tim notion is & very old on*.
dating from the times when even nsa captainsursr• mad,
to deal with Loplaad witches for favoorthls Made ; nor
need we doubt that Anderson, 111 a Syr'e, woe bettor
monsinted with them fables than others. It was otoved,
too, in evidence, that he was., somewhat weak intellect
and sooentrie habits, so that the thprenion might be
presumed to operate oo his mind with peculiar form.
At all event., he mon gave stems indication' of enmity
or anger towards this supposed Finn, sod openly ex-
pressed hia conviction that if the man woes not put out
of the way the repel would be lost. At last, osio night
when the shin W•S off the Ceps, be took an ass, attacked
the poor Mulatto in his bed, aid killed him. For this
offence he wax Ivought to trial Mime Mr. Baron
Mona footed guilty, sod ssolomod to death.

TIII Cowrie/mu 111:1RDEL —On Monday 'nonstop
Henry Page nreper, who is charged with the murder of
a married woman, named Mary Ann Pettit', at Col.
ehester, on the 23rd of February. was brought no for
ezemination before the Mayor (Kr. P. 0. Papillon) and
• fall bench of rnagistettee. It wee proved that the
deemed woman liscl been in the misty of Draper all
the early part of the evening on which she sem drowned
In the Cohn, and agonising shrieks awl cries were heard
by the eide of the river near a spot known as the 111U-
)ard. In this neighbourhood the body of the deseeml
was °Mersa denting is the rim on the 4th of April.
The cries of the deceseed appear to have bees &ovoid
in the rush and rattle of • heavy goods train whisk
paned on the railway, while there was also
evidence that the shrieks and exclamations had
previously been becoming fainter, ea if the assailant of
the woman sou, in local phraseology. "quackline bet
—that is, throttling her. Strangely enough, no traces
oft distorbatme weld be found afterwards at the spot
' whence the cries proceeded. Both parties—Draper and
the woman—sensor to have been drinking rather freely
on the night in question. Draper seems to have made
oontradvatery statements as to the woman, admitting
at one time that be bad taken improper liberties with
her. and then tether go, while at seother time be denied
that be had meddled with her at all. The inquiry
lasted all day,and at it. aloes the prisoner—who reserved
his defence, although be protested his innoosnoe—wee
committed for tial at the nest EOM/ Sleisel.