The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-19 00:00:00

SH EFL BO RNE.

lwir au Company held their annoal meeting on
Monday. A dividend of 71 per cent. wu ordered
to be paid next week.

SCHOOL nr ART.—An appeal jet* be made to the town
an I negghbourhood for the amount wanted (about 1:100)
to enable the oommittee to t.p,o the achool at once.
Premises have been converted for the school at an
own.. of
. . .

ACCIDINT. -A little boy, named Robert Gray, on
Monday, got upon • hedge to out a stiok, fell over on
the other side, and put his elbow out of joint and
troke hie arm.

_
itußßlsil AT Tlit HOSPITAL.—A boy of 11, named
James Walbridge, wu rharsed on Monday, with steal-
i g money at the Yeatman Itamital. The lai was an
inmate, sod .tole from the clothes of • boy name'
Edwin Sankey, also en inmate, • morocco puree, son.
taming a sow. and it shilling. The I.d we. senteneed
to one month's hard labour, and six lashes from the
birch rod. The month will be done in the infirmary.

INFANTICIDE BY A DOMESTIC SERVANT.
Annie Pearce, a donvt.tic servant, in the employ of
Mr. William Dibben, of Twyford, In ths parish of Compton
Abbaa, was on Mundt), brought before C. W. Gordon, Esq.,
charged with the wilful murder of her infant child, Isaac
Dibben. Abner Burri life proved (hiding the chill in a pit of
water by the roulade at Melbury Abbas, on the 2nd instant.
P.C. Target also saw the child near the pit. Ile took It Into
Dibben's outhouse, locked the door, and kept the key till the
doctor arrived. Esrla Sharp, of litelbusy Abbas, pr ved seeing
the prisoner going to ea.& the pit of water on he reeling of
the let net.. where she remained for some little time, AM] then
returned. John Hardinum, a lad in the employ of Mr. William
Dibben, maw the prisoner washing something rd in a pan at the
pump trough on Wednesday, the tlth ult. Ile &Aced her if she
bad been sashlng coloured pocket handkerchief.. She salt
she had and the colour had washed out. Ile then raid "Poe
Gal's rake wash It away, for if anyone comes they will think
murder has been done." She then three the contents of the
lan down • drain. Superintendent Underwood proved visit-
ng prisoner', bedroom on the 4th Inst.,where he sawblood upon
thefloor, and upon several article. of wearitig anistrel. He
also tawaquantity of blood upon a mat on the floor and a
Meet that had been stained w th blond and hsd been lately
washed He charged the prisoner with the munler of • child
found In the pit the Saturday before, and she said she never
had • child in her life, that she was willing to he examined by
any doctor, and that she sum taken advaotage of, being a
stranger In the place. He then took her Into custody Dr.
Wilkinson, of Shaftesbury , proved going to Dibben's outhouse
where he was ahoisn • full-grown, newly-ho-n female child,
which appeared to have beat dead two or three dam. The
h.. 1 and face w re more de,mposed than the boy ; there
were bruises on (ho heal, and the skull was fractured. The
lung% and heart were quite normal, and the lungs had been
inflated. On the 4th Ind. he examined the prisoner, and had
tit, doubt she hut recently given birth to a chill. The prisoner,
after the usual caution, mid she never did anything to the
baby. and did did not know whether it Iran born deed or alive.
She was committed for trial at the ensuing assizes.