The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-06-24 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

China iN Fitsivet.—A murder slid suicide have just
been committed at Mosnay (India.) A forest keeper
named Poitrinand bad frequently OCINISiOII to complain
of the encroachments of a small fanner named Duris,
%rho frequently drove zattle an o tha property under
the keeper's care. This had given rise to ouch a
feeling of hatred on the past Of Duris that Poitriunud
.1t length became alaruied, and on the morning of the
murder bad exiressed a bar that Doris might do him
sme ham-in. Duns concealed himself, armed with a
gun, behind a hedge by which be knew Poitrinnud must
puss. The latter arrived 'Moray after, and, on liaising
hefore the spot where his enemy ea, concealed, paused
to light his pipe, when Duds fired, and the ball viewed
through his left cheek and brain. Doris then rushed
brward slid battered the head of the fireman body with
t! e barrel of Lis gun until it broke, and alteiwanin
employed his heavy wooden shoe for the earn. purpose.
His rage SSW, not yet exhausted, as he set fire to the
clothes of the murdemd man, which burnt until the
flames reached the keeper's powder-flask, which
exploded. Dumas then picked up Puitrinaud's gun, and
SAM about to fly, when lie heard the voice of • young
man tailing from a neighbouring wood. The murderer
was then adz -d with a panic, and, placing the muzzle
of the gun to his own hcart, prensed the trigger with
his foot, killing himself on the wit. Poitrinaud, who
was • widower, has left two cbildren, both of whom
, Are established in business. Dune had formerly been
a soldier, and was in receipt of a pension of 2001.
a-year.
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PIC or THREE PRISONIRS PROM IIOIIBE-
NON 6611-L ANIC O.IoL. —On S iturday morning three
notorious convicts made their escape from Horse-
monger-lane Gaol. The gaol authorities reinse to give
information as to the mode of serape, and ill that min
be stated is that it was effected with much ingenuity,
sod in en* of shot were considered the most satiafam
tory Preeautions. The' first of the three ennvicts is
George Burrell, aged 24 years, committed from the
Lambeth Police-court, on the 3rd of March, to the
hingston Assizes, for burglary with violence, mid
ntenced to six years' penal servitude. The second
i. Charles Frest (Olio* Alfred Walker), forint rly
lean:ling in Grovmresd. Brixton, committed from Rich-
mond P,lice-court, on the 28t1, March, 1862, convicted
at the Surrey see-ions for housebreaking, ant matitenceit
to atm years' penal servitame. Thethird is George Rayson
(alias Hackman,) aged 29, who fotmerly resided at
V)etoris-place, Poplar, committed from Lambeth
Polies-court on the 2i,1 of April, for larceny, and
sentenced at the Guilford assizes to six years penal
servitud.. No clue has been obtained of the escaped
convicts, althoneli a most diligent search has been
nimie by the police, sod • reward offered for their
•allprehenaion.

'ACCIDENTAL POISO IND WTII POPPT-HEADS —On
W,lnesilay Mr. liuniphreys, coroner, held an inqueat
a the old Vineyard House, elerkenwell, on the body
of a child named, WiWam Watford, areal one month, the
son of an excavator living at 1, Vineyard-gardens,
who died Iron, an over-dose of opium extracted from a
poppy-bead. On Saturday night the deceased child wag
taken pee*, and- the groan west to buy lime pointy

flowers, believing they would do him good; but, being
unable to get the bowers, she bought a poppy head,
vilioh she boiled, and gave several spoonfuls of the
juice to the deceased child, who soon afterwards Mt
'sleep. At one o'clock the following day, the mother,
nutting the Midi did not awake, coiled to a woman
iodgi fig in the same house. They &mod hitu in a bfirle,s
date, put him in • warm bath, and afterwards
bocovered that death hod taken place. The medical
.estiiiiony proved 014 death had been occasioned by an
'vet-dose of opitnn such so would be likely to be
extracted from a boiled poppy-head. A verdict was
:corded of accidental ',Mooning, with a severe
.enoure upon the mother for her corcleut conduct in the
.uatter.

ttuDBIERY OF £285 AT MANCHIFTIOL—At the Not-
ingliam Pollee-mho.: on Titursday morning, the 19thi
ostant, Mr. John Green, a master baker of that than,
vat brungt bel ore the Mayor and sitting magistrates.
,liarged with b-ing in possession of a stol n Batik of
&ugland note for £lOO. Mr. Superintendent Raynor,
.1 Nottingham, said : A few days ago he reueived
formation stating that a gentleman had liven robbed in
Ciarenee-street, Manchester, of Bank of England notes
o the amount of £lB5, and a check for £lOO. He hod
.tscertained that 000 of the notes for RlO9 had been iii
the posses.iou of the prisoner, by whom it was paid
Into Wright's bank at Nottingham. He went to Green's
house that morning, and tideationed him respecting it.
rite accused then told him that he hal given change
for tie note to a man whom be dal rot know. Ile gave
in 99 sovereigns for it, but he did not think he shoull
ktioN him again. Witue.a then took him into custody.
When brought before the magistrates he repeated the
:Wile thing, and, in reply to the Bunch, said that the
only induceuueat he had for giving the change was
because lie thought it WKS au eavy way of t arning a
mv. reign. The prisener was remanded—bail being
refused.

A JUVENILE INCENDIARY. At the Shirehall,
Nottingham, on Wednesday, • boy nainei George
Bollard, aged i,even years, was taken before the sitting
magistratea, charged with setting tire to some stacks at
Widinerpuol (11 milea from Nottingham), the property
of Mr. Bland, farmer. It appeared that on the previous
afternoon the prisoner had some Lucifer matches, one of
which he struck and net tire to a stack. The dames
spread with groat rapidity, and three chicks were
quickly on fire. Great efforts were made to quench the
' games, and in about an hour and a half they were
I subdued. Two stacks and • quantity of valuable
I property were desiroyed. When apprehended the
riemer acknowledged having set fire to the stacks, but
when before the Bench he wept bitterly, and Lad no
I defence to make. He was remanded.
TURNING TIIR SrottY OF JR./MOUSY
AND REVENGE.—Ye,terday, at Leeds Town Hall, a
I ,„iddleliged woman, named tnr, Biswick, can charged
with illegally pawning various articles of wearing ap-
parel, the prmerly of George Harris as, of Henry
Street, New Road End, Leeds. Prosecutor stated that
the prisoner was hums " housekeeper," and had been so
for nearly a year. and that a few days ago she had
taken numerous articles of at acing a 1 psi el from the
house and pledg-cl them with Mr. Hansom, pawn-
brol er. Ann, however, told rather a ddferent story
when she was called upon for the defence. She
ir stud, with much earilestness, that she laad been living
with the prmecutor as bin wife for upwards of three
p.ars ; that Harrison had still her furniture, bequeathed
her by her mother, in his house ; and she then
went on to describe that it bad been almost
her weekly inatruction from Harrison to pledge
the articles in question. She further affirmed that
this charge wool(' never have been preferred against her
had not Harrison been smitten by the charms of
another female, whom be wanted also to adopt as his
housekeeper. She further informed the magiatrates
that Harrison, who is a porter at the yard of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company at Leeds,
Intl been regularly in the habit of robbing his employers;
that every week lie hod brought away aumething from
the trucks, sometimes bacon and eggs, once a piece of
(larding, and at another time a fine blask hen, which
might now be seen hopping about the pa, d in which he
lived. The Bench was moinewhat ataggered when this
railway robbery was brought under their notise in a
way so peculiar, and after discharging the woman from
custody, on the ground that there w..s no evidence of
felony against her, they ordered Harrison stones to be
apprehended, and then remanded film on the charge
of atesling aeveral articles, the property of the railway
company. Manchater Examiner.