The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-03-30 00:00:00

CH Aloll Or NANSLAUCINTEII.

June jalol4lll h • young wontise, was indicted
for the mareisaghter of Elisabeth Jane 'ioniser.
at Pill, near BristoL Mr. ittonehouse Vigor
proesected ; Mr. Warry defended the prisoner. The
°held, whose, death was the cause of the inquiry, was
the illegitimate claurbter of a domestic servant named
Jane Hooper. Deceased was born in the month of
October, 186 d, cad leas at the time of its birth •
healthy child. About • fortnight after its birth the
mother gave it to the prisoner, with whom she entered
into an arrangement to nape it, and it was then still
• healthy ebild. The mother agreed to pay the ptisoner
ls. 64. • week in oonsideratioo of her maintaining sod
feediof IS; cad the mother also undertook to eupply
the ehild with • pint of milk daily. For two or three
weeks the mother called twioe or thrice a week to see
the shild, and the complained to the prisoner that the
child was not properly nourished. Romney said she fed
the child, but that it threw up its food. On two
occasions, however, the mother fed the child, and it
then took its food very well, sod ate it gresdily.— A
neighbour of the pawner, who bad temporary charge
of the child, said she fed it several times, that it always
ate it eagerly, and never threw it up —A post-mortem
examination showed that the child had died from
starvation. Mr. Witty contended that death had
resulted from eatural mums, and speakiog of the large
amount of time which was occupied in law courts in
dealing with oases &tieing eel of the birth of illegitimate
children, esteemed • hope that he might live to see the
dey when the State would take &ergo of seas ebildr.n.
end that they might be brought op to be good and
respectable eitisens.—The jury &quitted the prisoner.

11 &NEILit'OHTIZAT -T
ZOTIL.
J.lat Slack, a respeoeably-dreesed middle-and man.
wise indicted for the manslaughter of John William.,
at Yeovil. Mr. Worry was Gonna& for the prosecution;
Mr. Collins defended the prisoner. Deceased woo
butcher, and lived at Lapland, six miles from
Yeovil, and on tile 2ad of October be went with amen
earned Hicks to Yeovil market. They went about
their business in the market, agreeing to meet at this
Market Ins at dinner. They wen at that is. at three
o'clock in the afternoon, and amongst other persons
who wore present wee the prisoner; sad soma *bad
occurred abcvt differeat meteors. Deseand said be
had 'a million of nuts, whereupon prisoner asid be
could not know bow many • million was, and the
whole of Kineslatid could not produce that number.
On this • qearrel marled. The decreased put a half-
crown upon the table, and prisoner picked it up. After
some words the money Ina returns& sad subsequently
the prisoner held up his list and hit the deceased moo
• very severe blow in the cheek. The deceaaed wads
iaseasibto from the ante of the blow, and several
witnesses stated that his bead dropped forward, and it
was with difficulty that he could raise it. Deceased
subsequently left the ins,, and at half•pset six o'clock
next morning his body was found in a closet which
wee accessible from the public. street. It worn then
cold and stiff, and be had evidently been dead moon
hours. Mr. Tonskins, surgeon, who made • poet- mos tem
examination of the body, stated that the face end neck
upon the left side bad a livid and magasted appearance,
and the skull upon the right side had a fracture of ea
Inch and • bail in Wards. If tars bead had oome in
violent <menet with the well it would seeount for
the appearance on the right side of the head. The
skull when fractured was remarkably this—oda thicker
than a wafer. In reply to Mr. .Collins, the witness
elated that if the deceased had had • lit in the alone
and fallen upon the doer it might have aoseanted for
the fraerture. Dr. Ourisad gave eisilar evidence, bet
In aruse-examination staled that the deseered had the
appearance of being predisposed to apoplexy. Mr.
Collins made an able 'web to the jury is defines of
the prisoner, contending that as deemed wore • bat
with • stiff brim to it, and whisk he had on
when the blow was dna, his bead could not
have come into tooted with tho wall an as to have
freetand the skull in the meaner doserited. His
theory was that the demeaed bad beta eased with a
It of apoplexy whilst is the closet, and that, falling
forward, the inuri.e Wilk& necelted i• the fraonrea
skull were thus infliebed. This jury found the pneonisr
guilty, but reoommended him to teeny. His lordship
sentenced him to three =oaths' hard labour.

•LLIOID'GAULT ST • BLIND 111• N.
George Bait, a blind man, we. 'edified for • criminal
basalt upon Fumy Forward, jaa., it Weston -vapor-
Mere, on the Ist of Jane last Mr. St. Althea (for Mr.
Salley) proiwieuted ; Mr. Sdtin defeeded the prieotier.
The witnesses, at the request of the priesaer's cionesel,
wise ordered oat of court until called upon to glee
erbium& The priseeer was tried at abs lent summer
beim at Wells, bat the jury bobs weal& to agree
were discharged without giving • sadist He was
oonseqeeetly Won 6110 ODRA sow to again answer trtm,
chars.. It appeared from Ihe evidessos for the prose-
cution that the peneoestrlzi.irying girl 18 years of
age, and is the danghtor of • ter at Wastoesuaroa-
Mare. The prisoner k • man, sad at the time
of the alleged °obligation of the offense kept • small
shop, in which the proeseetris we. a assistant, m.
prisoner resided at No. 5, Meadow.street, sad the shop
was situated in Regent-street, • distanes of about tee
minutes' walk from the shop. The premostria slept at
the prise:awes house, and had her meals
them. Os the Let of Jose lare--V/ boadey— bra.
8011, the wife of the peLoner, bad twoyoung men oboe
to see hot on that day. At Are °Walk t pluerinetriz
went to Meadow-street to have bar tepellitirtng her
mistime in the shop. The primmer her.
fleeing taken tea, the prootentrix mum to
return to the shop when the Prlooolo 60 be,,
" Belem you go book to the shop you mast change
your dress and do yoer hair." Her master and mistress
bad separate bedroolaa67l she went into her mistresses
bedroom to do as be rermested her. tribe she
was standing before the glees, ambles her heir, she
beard some one sowing towards her. On bruin resod
elm saw the prisoner approsehlag towards he,, with his
shoes off. She asked him what be wasted. and be
replied, "You know what 1 Waal." itlie rushed towards
the door, upon which he mid, "It's no nes trying to
get oat, for I am determined to do it to pee." She
struggled to get out of the door, het feud that it was
looked and the key takes out. She then rushed towards
the window, and cried out "mitt.," three times. He
taught hold of her and said. "It's no use intoping ad
this fame," and, according!** the 'Admires el VA -prose-
cubit, he threw her down and emandttedllbs armee
oharged "plait him.' She faintedlrl, en sesoveriag,
found the prisoner standing by with a bisabbor
of water; but she did not take any et the water. The
prboner asked her if she was goimg to taillike Wife any-
thing about what had °seamed Mid, she mid she should
do so. He said" If you dos% tell her here is half-a-
rrows." aid he put the Gobi on the table bolero her.
She would not take it. Then he pot down • sovereign,
hat she refused it, saybe. "No money will Mem' mg
from talllog /oar •og It eh. afterwards went to
the shop. Her Wien= spoke eras to her, and asked
bee where she bad been so loag. She tab bar mistress
that she had only bees to Si., and eb• told her oothieg
shoot what had seearred brews the two yams men
were peewit In the evesiag, however. when the
proeseutriz, prisoeer, sad Mrs. hull wearied to their
rwidente, the preeesetrix told bra Ben what bad
oesorred. Mrs. Hall the. called the primmer halo her
bedroom GM asked him about it, awl he "
If Fumy says I did, I did." The promise': said
nothing to her mother that night Imam* she was so
" %ambled mid upset." The next day sbo told her
mother all about it. In cross-exantisatiett the prose.
cattle stated that the *video's that she pee at 'Wells
last manner wee read over to her by atm Smith's alert,
about a week or • fortnight silthe meld sot my
paelevely that the prisoner wee it wergild
be against her site stid SbMlllreserthkee days
in the primmer's merles vim Gm eflignee geair_.Plege•
She dotted that she bed.,e me epee the
lap,., ow a sofa with hies, eelt Ibis *et User=
that the primes, Melt &Mir midi Wes Um NOM
rh; Pito het mislitees WM ' Mg WA

and comb. Rho left the door open when she entered,
and she did not bear the prisoner lock the door or
take the key out t.fora she heard him approach
her. Ws. Bull had spoken to her about a diverse,
bet these. proceedings had not been instituted to assist
her in obtaining • divorce. The proseeutriz's mother,
In her evidence, stated that she stoke to the prisoner
shoot the occurrence on the day after it took plaoe and
asked him if ever her daughter bad given him any im-
proper eoomarem meat. Tbe prisoner then said, "No, I
took her by force, 'ad tberef .re I Like the whole of the
Name on myself." Mrs. Batten, who lived next door tolls*
pri•oner. staled that she heard what appeared to be the
cry of a woman in the prisoner's house, and the sound
resembled a cry of distress. The prisoner was
apprebmided at Bristol on the Bth July by P.C. Hard-
week. Tbe prisoner then said, on being charged, that
the proosenti az had cotseated. This was the nature of
the defence now •dopted by his learned eounerL The
lacy having been locked up about au hour returned into
court, and said they could pot agree upon their verdict.
His lordship told them that be should be in the town
motif ten o'eloelt the it morning. (Laughter.) The
jury again retired, and were live hours and • half in
deliberatioo. At nine o'clock at night they returned
'into wort, and being unable to agree. his lordship dis-
abetted this, Prisoner was diseharged on his own reoog.
.nisanoes of £IOO to appear at the next usis• if called upon.

&USG= CRUELTY To • inevarr.
Aura Seherry (on bail) was indicted for endangering the
life of Mary Ann Perkins, her servant, by wilfully and
without lawful muse neglecting to provide heir with
noweeory food and lodging, at /Liberia, on the 24th of
Noverober.—Mr. Saunders proseseuted ; Mr, FAB.
&tweed the prisoner. The keened counsel for the
Com_ in opening the owe, introduced the girl
Lra7;a: no Perkins as • persog whose veracity was not
altogether to be relied upoo. The girl had been an
Inmate of the Shepton Mallet Workhoom, and when
Mimi &slew. the primmer—who yeas sehoolmiatrese at
•abwick —applied to the workhouse for a girl she was
told that Porkies eras milky, not strictly honest, awl
untruthful. The girl hod been for some yearo with her
mother in the Sheptou Mallet Workhouse, end bad
been brow time to time out on service, but on each
ocamion wan deehorged for some envious fault of her
nun. Miss Solway, eoteithstwiling the metered A.
character given of the girl, engaged her. The girl went
to live at her howe as a maid of all week. Matters
went on apparently well between mistress and maid for
about • month, when they altered. The girl staled
that her mistrew oompelled her to write letters, and
some of these letters were read in court. The letter.
were signed by "Polly Perkins,' and were fall of
expressions condemnatory of the girl's conduct. Phe
spoke of hung in them as idle and deolsedient, end in
one said, " for a week I have done nothing at elle:beet
to get up, and go to bed, and feteh my food, and clean
the Owe for, whatever I had." The girl sald that her
mistress insisted upon her writing three letter, and
thet when she refused to write any more of them,
her mistress began to Mikes" bee. The nature
of the ill.oeuage against the prisoner will
be best described by Mary Ann Porkies, a sharp,
intelligent girl, who spoke floently, and who in bet
evidcace said When I would not write any more
&Mere she kept me locked up in the washbowls without
deed or bed. I was there a week and three daye This
werwreenoel on a Soturday. One door of the eraahhouse
iopens into the garden, and the other Into the kitchen.
Both doors were looked so thatl could not get out.
'There were no °heirs in the waahhonie. There was •
table and long Wool there—no lire, no place for we to
sleep upon. I scold not get out except when
she let me out. I stopped in the wsohi
bonus ten days. I only went Into the garden
when 1 'meted to go out, and then I hall to r back
again. I went out about coos in two days. I was
kept in the 'rubberise an entire week without nnything
to eat. I slept on Wm floor. Os the Puede, after I
bad been there • week Mies Solway went to her
mother's. and I went with her, and we had some food '
Uwe. I had some cake end breed and choose. I thiok
41 wane distance of a mile from our bowie. I walked
there and beak. When I come back I bad to go into
the waahorme wan, and I remained there tall the
following Wrificeedor, when my mother MIDI and took
sate away. mistress would some to the "mahoute
and ask me iii was going to write the papers, and I
would pot answer her. I bed some bread and butter
and tea when my mother CAMP I did not make any
complaint to her as to how I bad been used. blv
mother brought a female friend with her, an I they took
we away. 'I hey assisted me to the workhouse by web
taking owlet Loy arma.
Cries-ezemined : I had water in the washbouge. My
anistrem put a can of water in the washisortse, and I
drank ii. I made no complaint to WM Belersy on the
ilinildsy. The tea and supper which I had There did
not make me Pick. I have had two situations before this.
My test mistress sent me limey for keeping the children
dirty, and the second for being mosey. I stopped in ray
bedroom for four days, and did no work in that time,
became. I could not write the papers. I stole some
at pies and sugar once. The applre were in the stable
and the urger in the cupboard. I took these things
because I was starving.
Edlio Had you been discharged from any of
your previous elm,es for dialiiinesty
Witness : No, air. She further said, in reply to the
learned counsel, that on the way to the workhouse she
stopped silt or seven tirnee—twice at pebliehowes—and
'upon each occasion she ate heartily, and her food did
her good.
Dr. Hudson said that he saw the girl on her return to
'the workhouse. She woe cerWinly weak, but her
health had not been injured, nor wan it likely to be
Injured. If she had been kept without food for a week
she would not have been able to walk the niobium she
walked, and if she had eaten so heartily after such
deprivatiou she would hive h-en sick.
He Lordship said that this was the medical man
called on the port of the prosecution, and the statute
!required that the health must have been injured. or
likely to be labored. Thew wants most therefore,
fai , and the only question was se to the imprisonment.
The Superintendent of Police (Mr. Deegan) was
wiled, and slated, le reply to his I irdstrip, that the
girl orielst have got out of the waohhuuseinti. the garden
or
the kitchen The bolts were on the outside, but
oniebthe moved by the insertion of the lingers.
His Lordship asked the jury whether they thought
'that the girl was no abet up in the washhouse that she
could not get out.
The jury were of opinion that the girl WU not
Imprisoned, and • veriliot of not geilty returped.
Nis Lordship said that the parties who inetitnted
Sham procceiings had done right is inquiring into such
charges oo behalf of children who could not help
thameolees.
Mr. &lin said that if the ease had been prooeedei
with be should have produced affirmaiive evidence of
the most cogent sod isonolosive character to disprove
these clews, and he was armed with the highest
testimonials to Miss Selway's excellent character.
(Belem Mr. Juane* MorrAfaus Etmini.)
LIAM= Isnienos Or • FLOCK OF 1111112 AT

&a'Mennen.
Chamber, Brietwortt (13 J.)--Mr. &lin and Mr. ,
Fiorito ...IV coined for the plaintiff; Mr. Cols. Q
ant Mr. Bonen for sise defendant. The plaintiff mesa
and farmer, owning end occupying an estate at
Bethampton, and defendant wee a framer, renting !
lied of Mr. Vivian and Major Allen, M.P., and era of ,
them bad the right to deputises sheep upon Batbempton
Down. In !September, 1867, the defendant purobseed
In the Bristol mullet 77 Irish lambs, mid the plaintiff !
alleged that them lambs were infected with " shake' or
" scab." These lambs were depsatured upon the Down,
and shortly after they were 60 planed they were !
men to be rubbing themselves, is sheep meetly did
when affected with that disease. Charles Wide, the
defendant's shepherd, observing this, same to the eon-
elusion that they were affected with the scab, sod upon ,
bearing that they were Irish sheep. said that they
would either have the sesb or would die before Christ. !
mas. The defendant had the lambs dipped, but they
cootinued to lose flesh and abed their wool, and !
defendant's ehepherd called attrition to the condition
of his gosh; and the defendaat sent for a "dresser,"
vice on seeing them said it was no use to dross the !
sheen, which were suffering from the seals They were
met dressed, but In March defendant and his lion were
men aetively mimed in anti:sting their sheep and rising
OilniD•Ot eicuilar to that which was g 11, need for
curing the sbab. The plaintiff, in the mercies of his
right of depesturage, planed • somber of sheep upon
Bathempton Down. la the month of May the plaintiff
mot the delendeat in Beth market, end geld him that
he had been iniersed bis Owen had the "shah."
Wender' denied that they bad ; bet the dressing was
obierved to be continued. The man who sheered
defendant's sheep would Mats that they had the
...hell." and plaintiff's 'bowels would state that at that
lime plaintiff's sheep were free from the disease. On
the linh of Nevasatwe plaintiff's sheep showed symptom,
I Mine effected with the shah, and plaintiff tbmi
reminded him of the caution he had given him in the
previous May in Bath market, and defendant denied
that my such coneersation had akes place. By the
consent of the partied, • veterinary surgeon was
instrested to merest the sheep at defendant, end he
reported that they were affected with the shah. A
eorrespoodenee emoted between the parties. sash
Margins the other with baring fast introdeeed
"shabby" sheep upon the down. Mr. !Harding, a farmer
Itathamptoo who had also the right of depateerage,
bad also suffsnd Inas by reason of his dock being
infested, and he had likewise brought an action against
the defendant, whilst the defendant had brought a
arra mann spinet the plaintiff, Mr. Cinnabar?.
The question of damage wee agreed to be referred, and
the action resolved itself into a qesetion of liability for
tke introduction of the disease oc the Down.
The defendant's ems, which wee evened isle In the
aftertoos was to to the offal that so for from defendant
basing Infected plaintiff's dock, his sheep had been lOW
Unlined by those of the plaintiff. The defendant, In
his evidence, stated that the Irish sheep from whieh the
pisietifi alleged tbii infection sante had never been
neon Bathampeon Down, but bed been &matured In •
meadow in Wideornite-willey Dearly two miles distant.
Hs had never obarved anythisiar wish In the Irish
chimp, bat In their lases were and lies, for which
he treated thee aad not for shah. A large Number of
wittier*" were called; amono them wa• a eon of !
defendant, who said he ranessiered him father baying I
the Irish lambs in tbs Bristol market. Sooe after they
Were hroVabt home they were found to be mffering from
tiek and lies ; sad b. bit* IS IF shier ist•shed to snob
ea extent as they were. 'l%ii sheep were treated for
tisk and the; but the same remedy wal applied as
would have beem, applied had they been effeeted with
Ai& the son elating that &wording to the Partners
Bateipt Boob all other reusediee bad bees imperseded
the applieation of mercurial eintsseet. Mr. limner
4;4b...hcr, purebased • lot of, fie ebeel:hieb had bees;
mining with the Irish lumps, ...I
were in good
(medium &ad perfeetly free from dimes. In the month
of September Mr. J began to Pereitase the Irish
sheep, ind ow:tamed purchasing them seta the 94th
pebra,..7 ; and they were also free from infection.
wee Mot WesLobbas Wald' who bad been In the
employ d as shspbord, and WY sailed as a
leitmotif*, MN Plitlatiffi bad baaa dirbtrird trees his
(defeeditnt's) servies. West, the stalphwe
who a-j
=meow him. said tio sheep did not suffer from eh.h.
Whilst one of the IMMO. was "der egaadmallish the
foremast of the jury Interposed sad sold Mil WWI of
opinion that defeadeet emir &rehired 'hobby"
Doe& His lordship If
e( *Om it was • venlig* for tile
that fru the
She defendant. ?Wimp retersid• verdict for Iste•deat
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