The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-22 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

ARREST Or TIIRF.E FollGEßS.—Three fashionably
dreamt men, who arrived in Dublin from Holyhead a
few dsys since, and who stopped at all hotel on the
/Swill Wall, couttived during their stay to I.ass a large
!mintier of forged notes, purporting to he of the National
Bank of Scotlaud, in various ,hops which they honoured
a visit. They perch:vied a considerablo quantity
of jeaellcry and mho. prom sty, with which they
decalitre l, knowing that the police were en their tiack.
Alter s iroot bUcCoiSfUl tour in the south, they were
arrested by the coi.tiMulary on Monday in Cork, from
whence they will be trensulitted to Dublin.
FEARFUL ACCIDENT AT A CATTLE FAIR.— On
Ssterday, after the Palimmu cattle fair, at Malkin, the
usual allow of entire horses was held in the market,
which was densely crowded, probably 2,000 persona
being present. A large number of horses of all classes
were out when a cry of "A horse loose I" climbed a
general I anic, 'several persons being knocked down and
injured in endeavouring to escape from a danger which
few could see, but which several dull-sounding heavy
blewn made generally plain enough. Various reports
are in circulation, but the most reliable accounts state
that a heavy cart horse, "Noble Prince," was very
unmanageable and getting near a blood horse,
"Cariboo," kicked the groom on the head. The man
fell as if dead, and away sprang his horse among the
crowd, hut was quickly recaptured by his owner, Mr.
David Wray, of Scarborough. 'The scene of horses
kicking, rearing, and plunging, and men flying and
rolling one over another, baffles description. Several
persons were down, and more or 1 lus injured, lint the
most senous cases are those struck by lie kol sea, two of
which are expected to terminate fatally. They are—
Mr. John Hodgson, Hovingliani, fracture of the skull
and other injuriss, life despaired of ; Mr. John
Ruston, jun., Melton, ditto; Mr. John Rich-
mond, cattle dealer, Bishop Wiltoo, fearfully cut
about the lead end face; and ".Lin," the groom of
Cariboo, similarly injured. Mr. Hodgson died on
Monday morning. Mr. Ruston, although in a (rbieal
state, will, it is hoped, recover, and the other parties
injured are progres.sing favourably.
GREAT FIRE AT FALMOUTIL —The seaport town of
Faltnouth has just been the scene of a to rible confla-
erotism, which has laid in ruins thirty houses, with the
11rvr hurl ii of their contents, and, as a natnral con-
sequence, entailed great distress on tieveral
The fire broke not in Ludgate-hill, it is supposed in the
store at the back of a grocer's shop, elsitut oile o'clock
on the morning of Saturday. The wind was blowing
strongly from the harbour at the time, and the flames
repidly spread to the lionises on the right and left, and
ultimately to those on the opposite side of the way,
Ludgate-hill being a very narrow street. The tire
quickly assumed such magnitnde, and spread with such
avidity, that it noon became manifest that to extingeish
it was hopeless, and all efforts were therefore concen-
trated to limiting the names to as snd.ll an area as possible.
With this view four houses weie pullsd down, ens on
either side at both ends of the street. These measures
ivere successful in staying the ravages of the fire, and
the loss was limited to twenty•six houses burned and
four pulled down. Prompt steps have been taken to
relieve the immediate wants of SI), houseless
and their pecuniary losses will in some measure be !net
ultimately by the insurance offices.

SHOCKING- DEATH OP A VETERAN MINTSTER.—On
Monday morning a well-known minister of the Gospel,
named Henry Whetter, who bad reached the a tvanced
age of ninety-one 30 re, •irl who resided at Gi een-
street, Bethnal Green, slipped an .I f,ll to the bbt:om
from the landing of the stairs with fearful violence.
When picked up it was found that the unfortunate
gentleman litd fractured the tipper portion of the
vertebras of the neck. A tab was at once procured And
the deceased was removed to the London Hospital,
where every aid that skill could devise was rendered,
but lie expired 'shortly after his admission. The
deceased Was the author of several religious works, and
one publication had reached its thirteenth edition. It
was entitled, " A Confession of the Glorious Truths of
the Gospel." The deceased was universally respected
in the districts of Bethnal Green and Mile End.

FRIGHTFUL BRUTALITT.—On Tuesday forenoon, Mr.
W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, opened a painful
inquiry at the King's Arms Tavern, Camberwell, on the
body of Jane Louisa °hymen. Eliza Jones, wife of a
labourer, said that on Saturday afternoon she was at
home, when n Mrs. Goodenough came to her, and from
what she said induced her to go to No. lj in the same
street, and elle there found the deceased reclining on a
sofa in the kitchen, her head being supported by one
hum!. She appeared either dead or dying. She called
her by name, hut only her eyelashes moved. She,
with her son's wife, Merl her head and rested it on her
shoulder. She cried out for smile one to go and fetch a
doctor, and upon his arrival he pronotinced life to be
extinct. Both her eyes were blackened, her nose had
bled, and there were bruises on her body, and her arms
appeared displaced. The Coroner : Did you see how the
injuries were inflicted? Witness: I saw some of them
inflicted on the previous night. I saw three blows
given with the fist by Richard Samuel Tare, a man with
whom she lived as his wife. I found in her pocket two
papers labelled "Poison." The Coroner: What is
your opinion as to the Cans, of death? Witness : I
believe that she poisoned herself, as two o'clock the
seine afternoon she said, "So liela me God. I will make
away with myself in consepence of my husband's ill-
treatment." I Advised her not to do no. When she
came into my house she seemed very ill. I told her
that I would have gone into her house when she was
beaten no, only I was afraid lie would have served me
the same. She replied that as her husband lied beaten
her so, he should bury her next week, as she was
loading • most unhappy life. The Coroner: How long
has this sort of treatment lasted? Witness: I have
seen her twice before bruised, end her eyes blackened
onee, a fortnight before her last conflocumet. A.
daughter of the deceased, an intelligent little girl only
six years of age, said she saw her mother take two
paper packages out of her pocket, put them into some
warm water in a wine glass, and, after stirring the con-
tent, with a cane, aho drank the same. She asked what
she drank, and she said belts sad poison. Mr. Chabot,
a surgeon, of Camberwell, said it was his opinion that
she had died from the effects of oxalic acid. Mrs.
Goodenough, the landlady of the house, said : She
asked me in the afternoon to lend 21 which I did, and
she said, "If this was poison I would take it." I heard
her say, when he was ill-treating her the previous night,
"Dick, you have almost murdered me, but you shall
not do so any more ;" when he gave her three inure
blows on the head. (Sanitation.) The jury returned •
verdict to the effect that the deceased died from poison,
but there were causes affecting her mind. The learned
Coroner then addressed Tare, and told him that lie
ought to feel exceedingly thankful that the deceased had
not died from the effects of his brutal treatment ; if she
haul, he would have sent him to Neavgate for murder.
TRAFFIC IN YOUNG GIRLS—On Monday MTS.
Gallagher, well known not only in Liverpool, but in
London, Birmingham, and other large towns sad cities
of the country, as a procurms and general dealer in
bowies of ill-fame, Ste., was sentenced by the Recorder
of Liverpool to twslys Imonthe imprimm.ment, with
hard labour, for keeping infamous houses in Houghton
and Tyrer-street, Liverpool. Mrs. Gallagher has lied
in her employ for some yen.' agents in the various con-
tinental cities, whose busies a. it is to supply her houses
with a constant supply of fresh victims.
MANILAUGHTER AT SUNDRRLAND.—On Monday there
was a case brought under the notice of the magistrates
at Sunderland, which affords a striking illustration of
the evils of a passionate temper. On Tuesday • girl
named Mary Ann Williamson, aged 17, quarrelled
with Rosins Rathburn, a girl of 14 years, abort the
doings of some children who had been playing in
Johnson-street, were both girls resider% After 1141 i
words had passed between them Williamson seized the
other girl by the arm, and gave it such a twist Viet
the sinews seemed to have been literally torn in pieces.
Inflammation supervened, the poor girl was insensible
for two days, and on Sunday night died in great
agony. Williamson was on Monday remanded until
a coroner's inquest had been held on the body of the
deceased.
SINGULAR AND SHOCKING DKATH AT BRADFORD.—
About noon on Saturday two men -a Mr. Louis
Bolton, of Great Horton, plasterer, and a man in his
employ—were standing on a plank, engagel white-
washing the ceiling in a room of the works of Mr.
George Hodgson, machine nicker. Thornton Rood,
Bradford. One end of the plank suddenly falline, the
man upon it was thrown upon the floor, while his
master, Mr. Bolton, being thrown slightly upwards
by the concussion at the other end, was caught by the
ends of his neck tie by a revolving shaft, with which
his head came in contact, and he VMS instantly strangled
to death and otherwise mutilated by the violence with
which he was drawn round. The engine WRII stopped
in two minutes, and the body immediately removed,
bat, though the heart was still beating, life was
extinct. A great portion of h a clothing was also torn
from the body, and left wrapped tightly round the
shaft. Mr. Moore, surgeon, was speedily on the spot,
but could render no help. Mr. Bolton was so severely
strangled that the arteries about the neck haul been
buret. He was 42 years of age, and leaves a widow
and two children.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY, WITH VIOLENCE. AT BARNSLEY.
—At the Barnsley Courthouse on Monday, three men,
Donkin, Snowden, and Hewitt, were brought up for
examination. The court and the avenues leading to it
were densely crowded, and the entire proceedings were
listened to with the deepest attention. The evidence
showed that the capture of the men was ably conceived
and carried out. Colonel Cobb°, the chief of the West ,
Riding constabulary, was on the bench. The prosecutor,
Charles Smith, stated that he was seventy-eight years
of age, and for forty years bad been employed on the
Smithy Bridge Colli?ry, near Barnsley, and for the last
ten years had been in the habit of going to Barnsley
every alternate Saturday for change to pay the men.
On the sth of April he got £lO worth of silver, and
after getting some groceries started for home about one
o'clock in the day, and after regains through a field lie
was attacked and knocked down by the prisoners Don kin
and Snowden, who throttled hien and atuffed a raid-
kerchief into leis mouth. Mr. Sykes, inspector of police,
deposed to has jog, in company with other officers, been
secreted near the field, in anticipation of • robbery.
At the time stated by the prosecutor witness was
stationed behind • haystack near to where the robbery
took place, when he saw the men stop the prosecutor,
the prisoner Hewitt being some yards away from the
scene. Found nearly £2O in silver on the ground, and
6s. in copper in a bag on the person of Snowden.
Sergeant Branagan, who, with Constable Lewes, was hid
in a cabin close to whore the robbery took place. deposed
to seeing the whole of the affair, and assisted in taking
Donkin and Snowden after a deeperate resiatanoe. The
prisoners, who evidently felt the evidence was over-
whelming, did not ask a single question, or make any
statement, and were committed for trial at the next
York anises.

CAPTURE OF BURGLARS NRAR BRADFORD.-At the
Bradford borough Court, on Monday, two men, named
Win. Burns and Joseph Holmes, were charged with
breaking into the shop and dwelling-house of Mr. Lister
Sutcliffe, draper and general dealer, in Bowling Old
Lane, near Bradford, and stealing therefrom six pieces
of woollen cloth, value £2O. Mr. Sutcliffe left the
premise, for a short time on Sunday evening, and on Ills
return, about a quarter to ten, he discovered that the
shop attached to his dwelling had been entered and
robbed of iris woollen pieces. The neighbourhood was
in great alarm at Cie time, for some of the neighbours
had observed the prisoner and other men near the
premises, and had also seen Burns carrying off a bundle,
in fast, a hoe and cry had been raised, and several men
were at the time in pursuit of the prisoners MIVIS some
fields, whither they had gone. After a smart chase
Nathinisi Mitt* eaptered Rohm% 144 another, mimed

Thornton, a; preheuded Roma, bringing them back, and
giving tin in into the cuAndy of the police. Thornton
found Burns carrying the bundle of e °ellen ;deers, and,
when closely pui sued, he dropped thorn on a wall, and
ran foreard. Ile had in his pock, t a skeleton key, enot
also a key which opened Mr. elute! &la shop door. He
told Sergeaht Sugden that the looter key sax the key
of hie Own doer, but it wen found net too fit it.. A
neighbour, named Hannah Broad ley, saw If Ames in a
passage mar the shun. at the time another inoll woo
et:tool:141g ri Mr. Sutcliffe' door way. The prisoners were
committed for trial at next Yoeli
TF.11111111.14 BOILER EXCLoSION.-23 BITER ',ONT.—A
terrible be-tier explosion took place on Tueeday at the
Millnehl Iron Works, about two miles from Wolver-
hampton, and belonging to the B.roniughein Banking
Company. The engine which worked the omissive ailing-
lees hats flier and the puddled-bar rolls was of 80-hoise
powerdoigh-pressure, and was supplied with steam from
two cylindrisal boilers with hemispherical ends, eight or
nine feet in diameter, by about twenty feet in length.
The boilers were Mated by the flame from a net of pod.
mhhinrg furnsees, and were seated u:oright on one end.
One was heated by the flues of four furnaces, and the
other by the flues of two furnaces. The other four fur-
naces are unconnected with any boiler. The whole of
the machinery of the forge was in full operation,
and beneath the roof there were about forty men at
work. When everything was supposed to be going on
as usual, and without any previous warning, a noise
was heerd like the sudden outburet of is loud peal of
thunder. and was immediately fullowed by the destruc-
tion of the reef ant walls of the forge, which were
tossed into the air and convoted into is Ilia's of ruins.
The boiler No. I ;had exploded, three-fourths of it,
weighing about eight tons, had bi en tossed into the air
to a height of between 200 and 300 feet, and the vein:tin-
der in three parts, had been driven through the forge
in three different directions, tearing do.n the iron
p liars which supported the roof, and rending the mas-
sive timber beams which rested upon them into splin-
tern. At the 1011110 time the brickwork sod masonry
of the furnaces, with their content., of molten iron and
the burning coals from their fires, completed the appal-
ling cataetrophe. Men fell bleeding and lifeless with
the falling fragments—some into beats lying in the ad-
joining corral, and one at a place 20 yards distant from
the boilers; others were buried beneath the molten iron,
burning ceals, and red-hot brickwork. Within an hour
after tl:e explosion fourteen bed ies had been recovered,
all of them most shockingly mutilated. The trunk of
one holy eas taken up without the head, which has
not yet been recovered. Another had been cut in two,
and the extremities had been burnt aeay. Of fifteen
persons injure-I, nine were taken to the South Stafford-
shire Heseital, about a mile and a half from the Mill-
field Works, and six to their hem -s. Three died on
their way to the hospital, arid one while being taken to
lois own dwelling. Four (Alio ra died the seine night
from the injuries they had received, and on the follow-
ing Ilay the body of a mining man eas found in the
canal adjoining the works. This makes twenty-three
deaths from the explosion, and another man wes not
expected to live at hour. The cause of the explosion
remains a mystery.
DEATOI FROM DRINKING A PINT OF BUM AT A
DRAUGHT.—On Wednesday morning all inriu it was
hell at the London Hemet 1, respecting the sleet!' of
Philip Fitzpatrick, aged 22, who died, it was alleged,
from drinking off at a draeglit a pint of rum, iu
public-house in Glasshouse-street. It appeared that a
young woman, eith whom the deceased had been keep-
ing ceineany, was with the deceased at the public-house,
arid that they appeared to have made up some quarrel,
and were in high spirits. He ,vas then quite sober.
The young woman ordeied a pint of mini to treat the
company ; but when it was brought in the deceased
took it up, and, saying lie would drink to her lecalth as
it hal never been drunk before, diank off the whole
without once toting the measure from his lips. He
changed countenance instantly', staggered backwards,
end sat down. He became totally insensible in less than
live minutes. He only spoke after drinking the ruin to ask
for a pipe, but, of course, it was not given to Ilion. Hr sins
conveyed in a cab to the hospital, where Ile die 110 two
or three home. Deceased etas not a men of drunken
habits. The jury returned the following verdict :--
"That deceased died from the mortal effects caused by
drinking a pint of neat emu at a draught."
SINGULAR CoINCIDENCE.—The inquest oa Mr. John
Hodgson, killed by a kick from a horse in the panic at
Malton Show on Saturday, was held 011 Tuesday. The
evidence acquitted those in charge of the animals of any
blame, end established the fact that the hijudicious
crowding of the public upon the horses was the cense of
their uncontrollsble wildre-s, and the dreadful panic
that ensued. The jury returned a verdict of " Acci-
dentelly killed," adding their opinion that no blame
attached t n any one but the public themselves. Freon
this inquest the corono r proceeded to bold a shill
inquiry at Staintou Dale, in the North Ridirg. The
two inquiries presented three singular points of coinci-
dence—the name of the deceased in cab instauce was
John Hodgson, death was in each rase caused by a horse,
and the two accidents occurred on the same day.