The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-06 00:00:00

Nampobirt.

WINCHESTER. EXICOTION.-00 Tuesday
morning the execution of Ferdinand° Perrino, an
Austrian reaseen, convicted at the last Winchester
Assizes of the murder of a man called Jones, on the
4th of October last, on board the Winthrop, a
British ship sailing from San Francisco to Monte •
Video, took place at Winchester. It will be remem-
bered that the convict at the same time murdered
the captain and mate of the ship as well as the cap.
tain's wife, although be was only tried oa the one
charge. He made an attempt to intimidate the
crow and obtain poaseedon of the ship, but they
rose upon him, and, steering for Rio Grande, gave
him up to the British Consul there, by whom he was
sent to Southampton, where he arrived shortly
before the last Wincbester Assizes, at which be was
tried. Since his condemnation he has entertained
no hope of escapiag punishment, as the plea put
forward of his b,,ing an Austrian subject was held
untenable by M.r. Justice Ryles. On Monday the
Rev. Father Paraficoe, who has been in daily atten-
dance upon Ides, visited him at the usual hour, and,
at the culprit's request, remained with him through-
out the which was passed in prayer. The
culprit ass folly admitted his guilt, but attributes
the •-oramission of his crime to the woman, who
drr.ired to cohabit with him, and oonritantly impor-
t Jana him. Her desires, however, he rejezted, and
en account of that she was always setting the Captain
sod first mate against him, causing him constant
annoyance and ill-treatment. At a quarter before
eicht o'clock in the morning the Under-Sheriff, Mr.
`W. Brooks, the Governor, Mr. Henry Barer, the
surgeon, Dr. Lyford, with the other prison official*,
formed the procession to the scaffold, on the way to
which Father Pacilicoe repeated the prescribed
prayers of the church, in which the prisoner joined
with apparently deep repentance. Arrived at the
scaffold, where an immense crowd had gathered, the
culprit continued in prayer, in the midst of which
she drop fell; but the confessor, kneeling by the
tide of the pendant body, continued in prayer
for some time after. The body was cut down at
lialf.past eight, when the crowd quietly dispersed.
ANDOVER. SINGULAR Occuaesxca —Mr. F.
Ellen, auctioneer and Mayor of Andover. was engaged
a day or two ago at a sale of furniture, which took place
at Harewood Cottage, in that town. In the coarse of
the day • lot of old waste paper and old books were put
up fir sale, and half-a-crown was bid for them. In
order to obtain • higher bidding some little time was
occupied:in the course of which the auctioneer happened
to take up one of the hooks, when to his surprise, Mr.
Ellen found something which bad an unusual appear-
ance between the leaves. He examined the paper some-
what closely, and then ascertained that the book con-
tained two £5 Hank of England notes of the data of
INN, which are supposed to have been placed in the
book as long ago as the year lan, and remained there
for 35 years without being disturbed. Mr. Ellen at
once bid 34. Gil. for the lot, bought it himself, and re-
tarned the notes to their rightful owners.