The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-02 00:00:00

LOCAL BOARD MEETING.

At the last meeting of the Board, present—Mr. J. C.
Lano (chairman). Mears. B. Collins, G. E. Andrews,
Stone, J. P. Scriven, & Pearce, R. Lano, B. Scriven,len
C. Mitchell, E. Comben, W. Attwooll, R. Pearce, H. 0.
Mahey, T. Chbbs, and William White.

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The CHAIRMAN reed the te, showing the number
of votes Oven for each candidate at the late election. and
declared Messrs. R. 0. Mabey. R. Lano, C. Mitchell, H.
Pearce, W. White, and B. &riven, jun., duly elected.
These members then made the tura! declarations.

PROGRESS WITH SANITARY WORKS
A letter was read from the Local Government Board,
asking to be furnished with • reoort as to the progress
which has been made by this Board in carrying out the
necessary sanitary works.
It was proposed by Mr. & PILARCS, seconded by Mr. B.
ficitivr.v, that the Clerk be requested to inform the Local
Government Board that since the letter from the Board
of the 28th November last, the sewer referred to in the
letter a the 10th August last, via, from Albion Terrace
to join on the main drain in Chesil, is completed. and
that at the present time, the contractor is building •
brick sewer in Chesil, and &Leo the clarifying tank as
a with the Admiralty to be carried out at the outlet
orcptil i drain into the Mere, and that this part of the
drainage will be completed in the course of a month.
Delay was caused in getting the consent of the Admiralty
to such plans, or more progress would have been made.
Carried.

Thegtlrveyor was instructed to go on at once with the
curbing on the seat aide of Wakeharn.
The Inspector's report was declared satisfactory, and he
was instructed at once to take proceedings against them
persons who neglect to remedy the nuisances complained
of in his report
The Medical Officer's report was also a satisfactory

The following bills were ordered to be paid.
BILLS.

s. d.
James Bowen, public lamps... 71 0 0
Dr. Parsons, medical officer. . . . . . 717 6
Inspector of Nuisances . . . . . 501
John Stone .. . . 1 2 0
86 19 6
It wu by Mr. J. P. Scums, and seconded by
ANDlilra, thnt the electson bills be got in by
the Clerk previous to any being signed for payment.
An amendment was proposed by Mr. X Paula', and
seconded by Mr. B. sroliz, that the bills be signed at
once.

Five voted for the amendment, and six for the resolu-
tion, which was therefore carried.

1111CTION OF CHAIRMAN.
Mr. G. E. Asmizirs
_proposed. and Yr. B. ficatlim•
jun., seconded, that Mr. W. AttwooU, be appointed chair-
man of this meeting.
Mr. B. fkroaa proposed, cut Mr. R. Puma seconded,
that Mr. Richard 1,,an0 be chairman.
. . .

A ballot was -taken; When One voted for the amend-
ment, and six for the resolution; Mr. R.. Lano therefore
Dreaded.
Mr. E. Puma than proposed, and Mr. R. Puna'
seconded, that Mr. J. C. Lano be re-appointed chairman
of the Board during the ensuing year.
Mr. W. ArrwooLL proposed, and Mr. G. X ANDREW!
seconded, that Mr. J. P. Semen be chairman for the
ensuing year.
After a long discussion, a ballot Was again taken, and
eight voted for Mr. J. C. Lano, but five for Mr. J. P.
&riven. .

C. Lane was therefore declared duly elected.
oss ON THE HILL.

A letter was read from the proprietor of the Gasworks
relative to the pipes being laid down in the Grove and
Reforne. .

It was proposed that Mews. J. P. &riven, Rickard
Lano, Benjamin Collins, and Edward Pearce he appointed
as i committee for the purpose of arranging for the Posi-
tion of the public lights, and as to the laying down of
pipes in Wakeham.

TERRIBLE DEATH OF A SOLDIER
WHILE DRUNK.

A wretched "accident" occurred on Monday right,
through soldiers' drunkenness. It appears that John
Gamblin and George Comberton, pnvates of the 37th
regiment, had been drinking at the Canteen, but
answered to their names at the roll-cell After this,
according to the subsequent statement of Comberton,
they endeavoured to "break out of barracks," by
getting over the ramparts close to the Grind Gateway.
This gateway is over 60 feet high, and the place where
they tried to get out carioot be much leek There is a
sheer descent here, cut out of the living rock to the
ditch below, and down this Gamblin and Comberton,
in their drunken state, fell, to the rock-hewn bottom
of the ditch. C i omberton, n some unexplained way,
managed to get back, and wee admitted into hospital,
the back of his head badly cut. Next morning, se the
corporal of the outlying pickets was posting the
sentries, previous to the convicts coming to work, he
found Garnblin lying in the fortress ditch, and the
stones stained with his blood. The poor fellow was
taken up, and found to be a corpse. The remains
were conveyed to the mortuary.
The inquest was held in the surgery at two o'clock,
before Mr. R. N. Howard, coroner, Mr. W.
Andrews, foreman, and 14 other jiireymen—lieeera
John Kew W. Lean Henry Smith, W. Read,
Edward COmben, R. White H. blasted. Charles
Hancock. William Young, Annus Warren, Henry
Gibbs, Richard Fall, William Comben, and George
Mant. -

jury first viewed the body, which was lying in
the dead.bonse, and was shockingly battered, the
injuries being most severe on the head. They next
proceeded to the place where the body was found. It
was on the ground a few yards in front and to the
east of the main entrance, and there was a patch of
blood about half a yard in diameter. A yard or two
nearer the entrance wee a small spot of blood an ineh
or so in diameter, which was thought to have come
from Comberton, the companion of dimmed. The
entrance-gateway is 50ft. een. high; but to the east-
ward there is first a lowering of the stone-work, and
then, a little farther, the rampart is still lower, so that
the height from there to the ground was only ?ft feet.
A water•pipe was supported on iron fastangs down
the face of the descent into the ditch, which, though
almost perpendicular, did not look impracticable to •
good climber, for the flint rock jutted out very
roughly, and the stones of the upper courses aftordea
projections on which the feet might possibly
But it would be a terrible risk in the daytime, and
none but drunken men w mid have attempted it at
night. The ground on which it is
believed, the other man fell, was very and in
fact, was almost all composed of stone, thoug • few
flowers grew close by.
Dr. H. Burford, surgeon in the army, and in charge
of the troops at the Verne, saw deceased Ma quarter.
past seven, when be was called to go to see him.
Witness went at once, and from what he was told
caused a stretcher and appliances to be taken. De-
mewed wm lying his face, with his hands doubled
sucks him, dy *Ur and cold, and he
had boss Bimini or sight boats. ez.

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comPcia - po of
undbil"f ractnrelying of dtheer
lower jaw, and the base of the skull was apparently
driven in; there was a wmod on the right temple
hone, over the ear, from which blood had also
Bowed.

Private George romberton, who appeared with his
head lxiiind up, said deceased was a companion of his,
and slept in the next bed. On Monday night, about
half past five, witness warn going to the Canteen,
having been teetotal for eight dart, when deceased
asked if there was any chance of going up for a pint,
and witness said yes, if he liked. Witness bad ifs.
saved al his pay, and deceased had none. They went
to the Canteen, and 'topped from half-past six till
half-past eight, when the Cantos" wasolosed. Witness
treated him ad the time; they had poster, and about
Re. was spent in drink, at 31. • quart on deoeaaed,
himself, and comrades who were there. Six of them
agreed to break out of barracks after tattoo. They
looked about for some place to get out, but witness
remembered nothing clearly till next morning, when
he was in hospital, and was told deosased warn found.
He warn good friends with deceased. Deceased was
about 24 years old.
Al the jury wanted to examine the other sentries,
also some of the four men who got out by passing
themselves a as a picket, and as these could not be
immediately obtained,
The Coroner adjourned the inquest till eleven next
day.
The jury subsequently returned a verdict "That
deceased, being intoxicated, fell accidentally from the
ramparts, and fractured his skull."

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