The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-01-09 00:00:00

i'lf RGE AGAINST A
VOI.I.'WTF.ER,
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. At 1tej4,41 Police-014 Friday, a volunteer named
William F.a.tman Bridgeman, was charged with
ing a letter threatening to murder Isabella Laura Hall,
•a former sweetheart. Complainant was engaged to be
married to defendant, but he assaulted her, and the
engagement was broken if. Defendant was placed
nailer nvii.inisances to keep the peace. In Christmas
week complainant received a postcard, believed to he
in defendant's handwriting, on which was written —"I
have said at herel quarter. what will make your name
Abu through Bristol. Never will I rest till your
wet, goes n with the tile, or your brains is hi...WU
out, A ,etonil card was as f. MOWS :---
" 14111 n, lam not jestihg. Your time on earth is
chat. Your- life will be taken WIAn yi, . little think.
lam grand master of the itlack Thula I ha% Oftell
told you about in Beilminstm E:B.' Prisoner,
who denied writing the cards, was remanileiifor a week
on bail.

111:1-TAL ABSAL'LT BY A POLICEMAN

At the Preston Semion on Friday William Walton,
of the Preston police force, was charged with mali-
eioutly womnlina all .4.1 man, named James Allew In
the lilth August last. At midnight. on the 19th,
Walton was call I to a tripe shop in Newton-street to
eapel a disorderly whitamer, awl his brutality in ,loing
• attracted the attention of Allen, who said, "Don't
- if he has done anything wrong take
abuse the • "roper manner." Walton then
bun into custody I% ' awl kicked him.
turned on Allen, knocked Mtn Mr". • awl bnth,
Anther policeman named Smith came • -
it tea. alleged then kieked awl strnek tlkn ae he ea,
oh the ne 1 Allen's leg was broken, awl his cries
brought out some neighbours, who conveyed him to
tha infirmary where be Lty for several weeks. It was
stated that Allen was drunk at the time, and Mary
Ilickerstalf deposed that on Monday, the 21st August,
Walton and Smith sent for her and told her they
would pay her well if she would swear that she saw
Allen fall and break his leg. —Plarksan,night inspector,
stated that AValton was perfectly sober when he came
'lf duty at two o'clock in the morning of the 290.
Policeman Smith, called for the defence, ww, severely
eons-examined IT Mr. Blair, for the prosecution.
The Jury returned a verdict of guilty, awl the prisoner
was sentenced to eiahteen months' imprisonment,
with hard labour. -Prisoner: Well, all I can say is,
that I wish Smith had been in the dock beside me,
and I may never see MI face again.

THE NEW " ORTON" EVIDENCE.
Mr. Guildford Onslow has just issued an appeal on '
behalf of the Claimant, basing it upon the alleet,
new evidenea sail to be forthcoming in Australia.
Mr. Onslow ays, "I have every reason to believe
that the real man, Arthur Orion, son of George
Orton, of Wapping, is at length found alive in the
Paramatta Lunatic Asyl , near Sydney. That
hints that this was the came many months ago from
letters I brul received from my correspondent, Mr.
Robert Shanklin. of Saha, in Gilusdand. . . . I
hate also received letters from those now in England
who are prepared to swear they knew Arthur Orton
as Alfred Smith for some years past in the lunatic
asylum on the Paramatta River, and, judging from
what Sir Roger Tiehborne informed us last week in
Dartmoor, I think we have got the real man safe in
the lunatic asylum." Mr. Onslow then very earnestly
appeals to the public for funds "to enable US to send
out .t sister of Arthur Orton, with a confidential
agent, to identify the lunatic, in which event, with the
sanctlm ,4 the Australian Gotentmcnt. to bring him
at once t. London to I,e identified by the rest of the
Orton family,' He also appeals for funds to enable
the friends of the Claimant "to send out to Spain
two confidential and trustworthy agents, with a view
to bring to England not Only the survivor of the
Bells, Ramon Ortezegni, but also his father, Altana
Ortezegni.'

Fete!. vr TUK AhigeNßßi. - let :Saturday
Maid, `burtlY before nine o'clock, an accident, which
ended tat-illy, 0... erred .ot the stage of liAlliatolont
Theatre. The ...owl act of the opera had c0n.10.1...1 and
the stage war thronged with the actor. and seetie-shiftert
fly seine unegolidued niesns a huge weight dropped I rom
the flies. and fell upon tine lucid of a man named Frank
Thom., aced shout SS. The unfortunate Alin MY at
once conveyed to the Charingcross Hospital, where in was
discovered that he wee deed.