The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-11-10 00:00:00

CALENDAR OF CRIME.

ATTEMPTED NORDIN •ND lICITTLATION.-011 Wed-
nesday afternoon • polio, constable on duty near at
Katherine's docks, Eut Smithfield, perceived a man of
foreign appearance, running after a watchman employed
In the service of the Dock Company, having in his
band • large Spanish knife. He was about to strike the
watchman, when the latter caught up a piece of wood
and felled hies to the ground at a blow. At the same
time the countable came up, and was enabled to prevent
• repetition of the attack by using his truncheon on the
would-be assassin. The foreigner then rushed towards
the water, and jumped into a 'hargefrom • height of ten
feet. There be stabbed himself twice in the abdomens
and inflicted a wound on his throat, dividing the wind-
pipe and minor arteries. Th, pollee officers and dock
constable, none to his miiiatmoe, and raised him to the
wharf by means of a rope and crane. He was taken
to a medical man, where his wounds were dressed, and
thence conveyed to the London Hospital. He lies in •
dangerous condition. It appears that his name is Flame
Alleray, but nothing further is keown respecting Mai
According to a London contemporary the preparationg
for the court martial to be held at Addershott upon
Colonel Crawley are nearly complete, as far as the
chamber Is concerned in which the military tribunal
will hold its sittings. In one of the huger TOo4lllgr title e
Ableralind club-house the inluiry will take ,
Across the lower end a barrier has been im d
sufficiently stout proportions to rail olf the curious, whet
in the earlier stages at least of the inquiry, will DO
doubt muster in considerable force. The table round
which the officers composing the mart martial will sit
occupies as nearly as possible the centre of the apart.
meat, and at sitter side are smaller tablea, intended for
the use of the official prosecutor and the defendant
respectively. The remaining spice, corresponding to
to that in the possession of the audience at the other
end of the room, will be allocated to the reporters.
THE " EXTRAORDINARY CLIIRGYNAN.—IL Will be re.
membered that two or three weeks ago a man named
Richardson obtained • summons against the Rev. R.
Henniker, incumbent of Cauldon, Stafford, for ea
assault; that the rev, gentleman failed to appear; and
that consequently the leek magistrates Issuesl a warrant
for his apprehension. About the time of the issue of
the warrant Mr. Henniker went out of the way, and
the police were unable to find him. However on
Friday night he came to Leek, and, through' IMO
solicitor, intimated that he would surrender on the
following morning. The police were not satisfied with
this assurance, and accordingly Mr. Henniker wee
taken into custody the same night, at the Red Lion
hotel. On Saturday he was brought before the Bev. J.
Sneyd and Mr. J. Russell, charged with the assault od
Richardson. The prisoner, through his solicitor, pleaded
guilty. Evidence was given of the assault, from which
it ammrd, that on the afternoon of Sunday, the 4th
Oct. before service commenced, the complainant
was in dasuldon churchyard, when Mr. Henniker ordered
him to go out, and immediately afterwards kicked him
OD the legs and shins It was urged for the defence
that Mr. Henniker was labouring under excitement at
the time. The magistrates inflicted the full penalty of
£5, which was immediately paid, and Mr. Henniker
then left the Court, followed hy a considerable crowd.
SHOCKING MUSDIR AT I,IOLBIACH.—Tbe town of
Holbeach has been the men, of • terrible affray
which a man of the name of Thomas Bloom e
such fatal injuries that he died on Sunday afternoon at
four o'clock. Bloom, who was by trade • shoemaker.
and also reported to be a night poacher, met an as.
quaintarne named John Franks at a low beerhoess,
called the Brewers' Arms, on Thursday evening, and a
dispute arising over a game of dominoes, they went into
the yard for the purpose of fighting it out. After the
fight Franks expressed a desire to have another en al
Bloom, and then made a most murderous senault upon
his victim, inflicting several wounds upon the arm and
breast, as well es gashing open the docuach in two or
three place*, and also nearly severing the intestines,
some of which protruded from one of the wounds The
fatal injury was inflicted so suddenly that Bloom was
not aware he was hurt until he vie the blood 0011DISsitt
of his clothe*. Franks was immedistely followed, and
apprehended aa he was entering his father's premien,
some distance from the town, and on Sunday bested the
depositions reed over to him in the presence of Bloom,
who, during the mme afternoon, died from exhaustion,
Franks Is P labouring man of dissolute habits, the eon
of very respectable parents, his father being a mall
occupier in the parish, upon whom the mos has mostly
been living. The prisoner since his apprehension hee
resolutely refused to receive food. In inquest was held
before Mr. W. Edwards, on Monday, and adjourned to
Wednesday, when • verdict of " tßillal Murder" was
returned. Tee magistrates have also committed Freddie
for the "Wilful murder of Thorns. Bloom."
EHBRZILILIIIENT Or £2,000 AT GLASGOW. —On Mon-
day a young man, named William Robertson, esaider
with Messrs. J. Muir, Wood, and Co., music publishers,
was oommitted to prison on • charge of embesslernent,
the sums amounting, it II said, to about £2,000.
Robertson's employers had the utmost oonlidenee in
him, and he alleges that nearly the whole of the mousy
embersled was expended for religious and chesrita
purposes—each as mission schemes, charitable concerts,
hiring Ammer' for pleasure tripe for Sandal scholars.
Ac,
A DISIIRTHR SHOT IN us Brairr—Twenty-foor
dmierMes from the Federal army were beinjwpmarelsed
through New York one day last month in of •
t and three men, when one of the deserters, an
=ran, named Killough, broke from the ranks and
attempted to serape The sergeant, after ceiling OH
him to halt, ordered one of his men to fire, and
Killough was shot through the heart and died instantly.
The street was full of people, bat no one else was in-
jured. The coroner's jury have found that the soldier
who fired "having acted under positive military
orders." was Juatifi in shooting the deserter.
A conous SWINDLL —A man WY arrested in Paris
'two days back for attempting to leave • small restaurant,
where he had dined, without paying. On his b'
taken before the commissary of police, it was dieoovered
that be had already been condemned for a rather
singular fraud. He had formerly belonged to • company
of strolling tumblers, and had bought of • tradesman,
for a trifling sum, an old white horse for drawing a art
containing the properties of the company. The miller,
parting with his animal, had remarked to the stroller.
" You, who travel about the country a good deal,
might hear of a good brown horse at a reasonable pries ;
if so, I would purchase it wil ingly." "I have just
what you want," replied the other, after • moment's
reduction. "I will bring it to you in two or three
days." The first thing the tumbler then did was to dye
the white horse brown, and having fed it bountifully on
mita for a couple of days to render it lively, be tow' it
hack to its old master, who not reoognising the animals
re-purchased it for treble the sum he had received. The
factitious n,ettle soon disappeared, and in • few days
the secret of it. new colour was revealed. The victim
of the cheat then lodged a complaint against the droller,
who was arrested and condemned to a term of lam-

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REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE,
AND LATEST STATE OF THE
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