The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-16 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

FALSI IMPRIESOMMIDIT...-TWO actions for damages
for false imprisonment were tried in the Court of
Exchequer on Wednesday. Both arose out of the same
affair. Ellen Ricketts, the daughter of a publican In
Clerkenwell, accompanied by a young man pained john
Doughty, went to the Foresters' Fiats% the Crystal
Palace on the 19th of August last. in the evening,
finding great crowding at the station, they *allied to
Anerly, and, while waiting for the train, a Minatone,
the defendant in the present aotions, shared Doughty
with stealing his wateh, and both he and Ricketts
were taken to the poliasetation at Norwood. Next
morning they were brought up at the Lambeth police
court, and Mr. Beene swore that he found Ricketts'
hand in his pocket. Mr. Elliott remanded them both
for a week, and they remained in prison daring that
time, bail not being admitted by Mr. Norton, to whom
application was subeequently made. On the re-hear-
ing of the ease the two were discharged, and new
brought these actions. 'The defendant repeated his
statements as to finding Ricketts' hand in hit pocket,
and also as to Doughty having said ho believed
he knew who herd the watch. The jury, however,
found for the plaintiffs in both actions, giving Mime
Ricketts £26 damages, and Doughty EDS.
EXTRAORINNABY CAbg. Truth, We are often
assured, is stranger than fiction. If proof were wanted
of the assertion it might be found in a case heard at the
Westminster Police Court on Wednesdey. A woman
named Mary Ann Everett, and described as" dirty-
looking,' WAS charged with being drunk and creating a
disturbance about the house of a Mr. Craven of
Michael's-terrace, Pimlico. Mr. Crowell proved the
facts, and mentioned that the woman had been in the
habit of obtaining money by intimidating his wife.
This led to an inquiry as to tire round of the intimida-
tion, when it came oat that the prisoner was the
mother of Mrs. Craven, and that for fourteen years Mr.
Craven had been tglitirant of the fact. More than this
the person who had been acting ss servant in Mr.
Craven's house he had discovered to be his wifee
sister. The mother he had often seen at the huge,
but she bad been described as • charwoman visiting
the servant. The magistrates expressed disbelief in
the story, but Mr. Craven declared that it was true,
and the prisoner confirmed him.
THE LATE MURDER IN THE RHONDDA VALLEY.—
COMMITTAL 01, THE Palsonne.—On Thursday moraine
the prisoner Themes Edmonds, was brought before
Mr. W. Perkins for the !mirth time, at the New Ines
Pontypridd. It will be recollected that, late on the
evening of Sunday, the 2nd ultimo, the body of a young
woman, named Jane Lewis, was found in the Rhondda,
Valley, South Wales—not far distant from the farm
house of Tyntilly, where she was a servant—with threat
wounds in the throat. One of these gashes was imme-
diately under the chin, and extended from mix to ear.
The second was a little lower' and penetrated to the
neek bone, reaching its greatest depth on the right aide
of the neck, and incising in two places the bodies of the
cervical vertebras. The third cut was lower down,
commencing above the left collar-bone, and, slanting
upwards, ended in the second or middle wound. A
bloody rasor, the property of a man named Thomas
&depends, the fellow servant of the young woman, was
found lying behind the body, at the distance of shoat
two feet seven inches, and, on the supposition that
those terrible wounds were suicidal, must have been
thrown to that distance after the wounds had been
inflicted. When the body was found the first impres-
sion of the finders was that the girl had committed self-
destruction, but the nature of the wounds, together
with the fact of the ownership.of the razor, speedily
suggested the greater likelihood of their having been
inlboted by another. 'Edmonds was apprehended, and
although we are bonnl to oonfess that beyond the facts
that the razor was his, that there was blood upon his
Wmpou vac. oekei, •nr • ithmis is face, which he accounted for by saying that a calf had
encash et DR. I.OOOOl'W Penman. WAIPRIS. —From Mr. cut him with his horn, and that lie had apparently
Sergeant, bookseller, Linton. "Ut. Daniel Cornell, Ibinnon- importuned the deceaaed to accept his addressee, there ,
gee, of tide town, had tor many years been suffering from was little direct evidence to connect him with the crime'
asthma, sod be had tried everything within his reach, but _the verdict of the coroner's jury, that deceased laaM
without benefit. Last winter, however, he purchased some of died by her own hands, while temporarily insane ie
Dr. Locock's Wafers of me, and found more benefit after be one of tee most extraordinary we have eeen placed on
had taken two boxes than he had from ail the other medicines
he Wiener taken. J. isiassam. record. The medical evidence showed in the clearest
rm. locom's Totaionta warn* g;ve instant relief end • , possible manner that the wounds found on the perion
t re of asthma, consumetion, coughs, and all dis Orders •of deceased could not have been inflicted IT heraia
red lunge. An throat affections are Inemediate. Beyond the suggestion that her lover and herself bid ly mitered by allowing one occasionally t, dissolve in the been seen by &monde, solo cunt solo in loco sniped&
Mouth. To
for clearing or tenr...gand Ile speakers they are Invaluable
ming she votes They have a to use the language of the Scotch ecclesiastical courta,
pleasant taste Pries la. Tl., gs sd., and 1". per
box. Sold and that she dreaded expoaure, there was literally no-
all medicine vendors. aurios.—Every besot' the genuine thing to show that she had any motive for committing
P'..edielne het the words "Da. Lecoat's Wanes in while suicide, and the testimony of her mistress and several
mere on a red ground in the Government Stunt., without witness** as to the stets of haw mind with. da.l pieced-
which words MA AZI COVNTRUZITII AED IMPOIII7IOA. Mg the evening on which she was found, sa has been i

described, and as to the general tone other spirits,seems
to put the idea of temporary insanity out of the ques-
tion. There is not, we think, a reasonable ground for
believing that such a verdict would have been returned
oil such evidence anywhere save in a Welsh valley.
Had the question before the jury been " Who was the
wunlererr we should not have found fault with them,
although on the evidence before them they had declined
to take the responsibility of fixing the crime on the
accused ; but the evidence az to the perpetration of the
murder was, with all deference to Welsh wisdom, we
think, as clear as any evidence could be. This is also
the opinion of the magistrates before whom the prisoner
has been examined, who have conunitted him for trial
on the capital charge.