The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-03-25 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Snocettcci Dite'rn.—A brewer, named !Night, met
with a fearful death on Tuesday at Hereford. It
appeared from the evidence taken at the inquest that,
on Monday night, the unfortunate man was engaged to
brew at the Hop-pole Inn. When the family retired
for the night, deceased was left alone following his
occupation, and was on Tuesday morning missed when
the servants cams down. The man being missed, some
one looked into the vat, when, horrible to relate, there
were seen the remains of the unfortunate man floating
on the boiling liquor, the flesh having absolutely parted
from the bones. How the poor fellow met this horrible
fate there is no evidence to show, but it was supposed
he got upon the ladder to see how the brewing was
going on, and, his foot slipping, he was precipitated bead-
foremast into the boilink liquor.
ett/NOLINI ACCIDENT.— We have to report another
serious crinoline accident, which occurred on Sunday
morning to Mary Ann Everidge, a nurse in the service
of Mr. Featherstone, innkeeper, Brough. Everidge, it
appears, was busily engaged in the kitchen, when her
crinoline came in contact with the fire, and before the
flames could be extinguished she was severely burnt. It
is feared that she will not recover from the effects of
this sad accident.

COMMITTAL FOB FORGICRT.—On Wednesday Horatio
Lester Fletcher, the eldest son of the Rev. Horatio S.
Pletcher, of Bilaton Savings Bank notoriety,was brought
up on remand at the Wolverhampton Petty Sessions,
charged with forging a bill of exaliange for £7B lls,
and also with uttering the bill, both with intent to de-
fraud: Ii appeared that the prisoner was in part-
nership with a Mr. Isaac Pitt, as iron merchants, at
Willenhall, but that on the first of August • deed of
dissolution of partnership was signed between them,
but it Wee not gssetted. The conditions of dissolution
were that for bills amounting to £750, of which bills the
Rev. Mr. Fletcher was endorsee, Pitt was to go out of
the concern, but was to remain for a time as clerk.
Early in January Pitt brought to him the bill in ques-
tion, which had been drawn at the end of the previous
September by the prisoner upon one Jacob Groves, •
lockmaker, of Willenhall, who was a customer of the
firm. The bill had been dishonoured by Groves after it
had been discounted by a bill broker, to whom it was
presented by the prisoner, Groves maintaining that the
signature was a forgery. When Pitt spoke to Fletcher
upon the matter he denied that he had forged Grove's
name, but admitted that he had used it. After calling
upon two of the prisoner's uncles upon the subject, Pitt
paid the amount on the bill out of moneys that had
been received en the firm's ILOCOuni subsequent to the
dissolution. When the Rev. Mr. Pleteher's defalca-
tions were discovered, the prisoner was made a bank-
rupt. and, because the dissolution had not been
gasotteil, Pitt also. The trade assignees under the
b,nicraptey plitained possession of the bill and brought
these proceedings. Groves now swore that the signa-
ture was not his. Pitt deposed that he believed it was
the prisoner's and spoke to the prisoner's admission ;
and the son of the discounter swore to the prisoner
uttering the bill. The Bench committed the prisoner
for Wel at the wises, and declined to tali* bail.