The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-30 00:00:00

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EXTRAOHDTKARY STOEL—Recently in a certain
parish in the Isle of Man, a case of cruelty was brought
to our notice more inhuman than anything we have
eter heard of. The victim of it was intelligerk and
beautiful in her early youth. but unfortunatell' was
endowed with too strong passions to pus through the
vicissitudes of the world unscathed. Excitable as she

was, the restraining influence of religion and the pious
lessons of a widowed mother kept her for many years
in the path of virtue. But when that mother was laid
beside her father's grave in the "old kirk-yard," the
daughter was left a lone orphan in • tempting and
heard-as world, exposed to the wiles of wicked and
deiigning men. A deceiver soon turned up. paid his
addressee to her, and, in the sacred name of love, won
her affections and the unreserved devotion of her warm
heart. This treacherous wretch robbed her not only of
her virtue, but of every farthing of her money
bequeathed by her saintly mother. She bore up
heroically under these accumulated wrongs; but a
worse shock to her feelings was reserved for her. Her
betrayer and robber was urged by some one to refund
the money of which he had plundered her. He swore
be would not, and blasphemously invoked God'a
crushing wrath upon his head if ever he should pay her.
The Almighty took hirn at his word, and the man was
crushed to death by a mass of earth and stone in a mine.
• The violeet death of her seducer was a blow not Co be
- borne—reason reeled from its throne, and the women
I became a menlito. It devolved upon her brother, as •
legal obligation, to support this crushed and linart•
broken sister, he having ample means to do the same.
liar madness was not of the violent and dangerous kind
-'-hence omtentment was necessary, and no doubt by
the power of kindness, had it been bestowed, she mi3iit
have been res'ored to • state of senity. But this
brother chained up his sister in a dark and filthy stable,
half starving, or feeding her with the offal which shine
would loathe; whilst her shivering limbs were but half
covered with filthy rags, and the rottenness and filth
in which she was buried made her an °bleat
of disgust and loathing, bad she not been an obrot
of pitiable sympathy. Here, covered with them rags
and vermin, and wallowing in this filth, the miserable
female has clanked her chains for more than twenty,
years. During that peric .wo vicars ira succession
have preached about the charities of the cross almost
within hearing of this foul prison—a magistrate and
certain of the parish has resided hard by; and yet not
a finger has been raised to arrest this brutal cruelty, or
to knock off the chains from the lacerated limbo of this
suffering woman. An English philanthropist who was
recently over here accidentally, hearing of the matter,
visited the poor maniac, to satisfy himself respecting the
facts of which he had heard. He found the case a more
deplorable one than it had been represented to him, and
we understand that at his request the Assistant-
Attorney-General took the matter in hand, and that
the unfortunate woman has been released from her
"durance vile."—Mona', Herald.
A SWINDLIN4 GENtRAL.- -The New Hanover
Gazette announces the arrest of General de Hedemann,
es-Hershel of the Royal Household at Filmikensee, near
Hamburg, on a charge of swindling and embezzlement.
The sum which he is said to here appropriated is
inoiooo tinder. (375,000 f. the property of the Bing.
What adds to the gravity of the case is, that the general
had been only placed under arrest on parole not to
attempt to escape, and yet broke his parole, leaving a
letter behind him in which, he declared he would rather
appear before the Supreme Judge than before • human
tribunal. The prisoner is by law amenable to the
military trilwinals, but as the latter have the power of
referring the ease to the civil ones, lite probable that
it will be tried before • Court of Amine.

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INGENIOUS EOBSEST.—Two men, father and son,
have just been arrested for the following ingenious but
by no means novel system of robbery. The son,
elegantly dressed, goes tea first.rate restament, and
orders a breakfast, taking care to select dishes which
will require additional spoons and forks, and then
having, unobeerved, is:dotted with some glutinous
substance one or two of the articles of plate underneath
the table, pays his score and leaves. if by oluixoe the
articles are missed and the thief insed,'
professea great indignation and demands to be
searched; of moans nothing is found on him. A few
minutes after the father arrives and places himself at
the table j 11,03 occupied by his son, and ordering some
trifling refreshment, pockets the articles attached
beneath the table by his confederate. Suspicion of these
Individuals having been at length excited, they were
watehed, and the father was two daysago detooted while
completing an operation commenced by his son in a
restaurant. The latter has since been arrested, and
both are now secured at- the prefecture of police. We
should have seamanly thought the scheme worth being
acted on, as most restaurants now use only Ruolz goods
for the tall,.
MI7BDILIL —A ahrp eip 'kb% named Richard Sprague,
has been murdered at North Shield*, It appears that
his vessel arrived in the Tyne • short time minas and was
taking in a serge of coals. On Saturday night week
he had come down to Shields to the Sussex Arms, a
house of call for west country captains. After stay-
ing there some time he had gone to an eating-house
and bad sapper, and after supper had strolled out and
got into the company of a woman. She had taken him
to a lonely part of the road, where • fellow and this
woman attacked the captain to rob him. He was a
powerful man, and successfully resisted them, but the
ruffian who attacked him picked up 11 brick, and felled
him to the ground. But before they could succeed in
robbing him two men were seen coining up the road,
and they fled. Mr. Sprague had nearly kl./ von him
and a gold watch and guard, but his murderers got
neither. The poor fellow was taken to the Sussex
Arms by some persons who came up the road. Medical
men were sent for, and it was found that his skull was
extensively fractured, and daring the time that he
lived he was never sufficiently conscious to give *clear
statement of the attack made upon him, except stating
that the man who struck him wore fustian clothes.
An inquest was held on Saturday, but was adjourned
till the let of October, to give the police time to trace
mit the murderers.

ATTZSISTED ESCAPE Thom Senn COUNTY GAOL
DitnoHard Francois, • Frenchman, 32 years of age,
committed on the charge of stealing some sever spoons
end wearing apparel at HailshaM, made a daring but
unattocessful attempt to escape from Sussex County
gaol on Wednesday. At the termination of the veinal
airing to the prisoners, about 3 o'clock in the after-
noon, From Cols and 12 others were marched again
into the prison to be replaced in their cells. Fran9ois,
however, stopped back for the purpose, it was thought
at the time, of proceeding to the governor to get a
letter written. At half-past 4 o'clock, after an boor
and a half had elapsed, the turnkey in whose ward
Francois was placed, finding the man had not returned,
inquired for him, and suspicions were at once aroused
that be had effected his escape. Wednesday is a day
on which prisoners are allowed to see their friends in
prison, and the inference was that the prisoner, who
was in plain clothes, and not in the prison garb, this
being the rule With those awaiting their trial, had
passed through the gate with other persons. The
gatekeeper, who has a register of all persons admitted,
was positive that no such man as the prisoner was
described had gone out, so that the first conclusion
seemed to be unfounded. The building was then
rearehed over and over again, every nook and
corner that could be thought of where a man
might be concealed being examined, but no Fran-
finis was found, Patrols, however, were stationed
about the premises on Thursday night to prevent
Franeole from escaping, should he, after all, have been
secreted; but Thursday morning twine, and, as no
attempt had been made, the conclusion was that he
was off. About a qnarter-pasel in the afternoon, how-
ever, Mr. William Saunders (son of the governor, Mr.
John Saunders), who had but shortly before returned
from London, saw a man run from the direction of the
coal-bole to the enter well, taking with him • short
ladder which was being used by men engaged in
painting the building. He immediately gave chase,
and rushing up the ladder after him, caught the run-
away as he was in the act of attempting to scale the
wall. This man was the missing prisoner Francois.
He made no resistance, and was speedily marched of
to his celL Upon examination it was found that be had
secreted himself in • small place near the engine-house
filled with coke. The coke had been piled nearly up to
tle ceiling, and Francois, during the time elapsed
between his leaving the other prisoners and the
alarm being given, had crawled up to the top of the
heap and completely buried himself under the coke.
Upon this hard bed he lay, and fasted for 24 hours.
The prisoner showed himself well acquainted with the
way of the prison, as at the time he bolted out with
the ladder thwprisoners Weiss at dinner and the turn-
keys were all engaged in the building. Had not Mr.
Saunders, jun., accidentally beet, in that particular
part of the premises, the probability is he would have
got over the wall, if not dean away.

EXTRAORDINARY AOCIDENT.—A student, says the
Cologne Gmeette, travelling a few days back on the
railway to this place, to light a cigar took a phosphoric
match from • box which he had just before purchased
at lberfeld. The matebee being tightly packed, the
young men introduced his finger-nail between them to
extract one, when a small portion of phosphorus passed
under the nail and ignited. Although the flame was
immediately extinguished, the hand had swelled so
much on arriving at Dusseldorf that a surgeon advised
its amputation. The student would not consent and
proceeded to Cologne; but, on arriving there, the
swelling had so muck extended as to render the ampu-
tation of both hand sod arm necessary.
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