The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-08-23 00:00:00

BREACH OP PROMISE.

An action for breach of promise of marriage came
before the Sheriff's Court at Leeds for amusement of
damasres. The plaintiff was Mee. Crosby, • widow aged
54, and the lefendant, Mr. Stephenson, a retirri miller.
About • year after his wife's death defendant presented
Mrs. Crosby with her dresses. Raying im one had •
better right to them. Mrs. Crosby afterwards went to
Bath and London, and on her return to Stcckton in
1868 she called one day at the house of a friend, and
there found Mr. Stephenson, who rushed up to her
with great enthutium and delight," clasped her in
his arms, and iiiseel her. An affectionate oor region.
dence afterwards took plasm Li April lit, however,
he suddenly broke off the engagement, after the day
for the marriage had been filed, the bridecake ordered,
:nil friends invited to the wedding. The defendant
paid 1.• into court, and hie oounsel contended that
the plaintiff had not suffered much loss in missing a
marriage with "a wheezy old miller." The jury
awarded her 1:500 d.images.

HORRIBLE MURDER IN LONDON.
Walter Lee, a cripple, aged 3g, potinan at the Dray-
ton Arm, public.hous^, South Klensin4ton, was in the
hakit of lending small sums of money to workmen em-
ployed on unfinish“l buildings in the neighbourhood.
On Saturday lest he made his usual weekly collection,
and would have a considerable sum about hln3. He aid
not return to th, Anna, and on Monday
afternoon wes foam: dead in an unfinished house, No.
3, Glennow.ganlens. On the deceased's forehead there
was a large wound, appal .ntly inflicted with a ham.
mer, and on the bark of the head was an open wound.
Lee was lying on hi, face on the floor of tha dining.
room, and had evidently t?en dead over two days.
Lee's particular Saturday basiness 'oohs not have taken
him thee, and the supposition is that be was induced
on some pretense to enter it and then murdered.
Whvn found be had not a farthing in his pockets. re
murderer, it is surmised, is one of the workmen eel-
ployftl at the buitlinnt
Two men, said to be a plasterer and labourer
respectively, have &en arrested on suspicion. On
Saturday hal he cella:tea all his account., he would
have had frpm flO to 1:15. The inqueat sr: opened on
Wednesday and adjourned.

A SAD STORY.
Mary Wood was °barged at Bow-street, on Thursday
on remand, with wounding William
Defendant is a servant with his father, the keeper of
livery stables, and he alleged that she persisted in coming
into his MOIR againit his wish. On the 3rd instant he
wa., awoke by the defendant. Re asked her to leave,
and fell asleep. About feur o'clock felt that his head
had been cut, and the bed was ...iterated with blood.
Prisoner was then in the room. She admitted that she
had inflicted the injuries, and entreated him not to
expose her. He called his sisters, and they found her
in his room. In aross.examination he admitted that he
might have asked prisoner to come into his room.
Complainant'4 mother and two sisters fermi a hatchet
in •he room vritL vhich the wounds seemed to have been
nip '5.
It appeared there had tkien an Intimacy between the
parties, and prisoner had made the 'sank hearing
complainant was engaged to La married to some one
else.
For her defence she said: He knows I liked him. I
told him so times out of number. He knows he dis-
graced me, and I would give anything for him or do
anything for him, and be can't deny it. On the night
I said, "What shall Ido to myself?" and be said,
"Don't do anything; I forgive you." I washed his
face twice.
Complainant (re-called) said that be did not remember
making the former observation, but did say he would
forgive her.
'lto prisoner: He never let me rest until he had
seduced use. He always asked me to go in.o his room.
Sir Thom Hen./ committed defetylan, to take her
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