The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-11-04 00:00:00

THE WAY OF DEATH.

DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN IN THE PULPIT.—At
eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, while the Rev. Mr.
Harman, of Queenstown, who was assisting the Rev.
Mr. Sargint at the morning service, in the new Episcopal
church attached to the parochial school-house, Passa,,oe
West, was in the act of reading the lessons In the
pulpit, he became suddenly faint, and sank down.
When some members of the congregation Went to his
assistance it was found that he was dead.

MURDER WHILE DRUNK.—A farmer of Goole, named
George Smith, bas been committed for trial for shooting
his servant-man, Thomas Duckless. Smith appears to
been suffering from delirium tremens, and while
labouring under an attack of it shot the poor fellow
in the kitchen of the farmhouse.

HYDROPHOBIA.—A melancholy case of hydrophobia
has just occurred at Lyons. Mine. X—, a lady of good
property, was bitten by a favourite dog in May last,
the animal at the time labouring under that dreadful
?lady. Everything was done at the time to prevent
y ill consequences; but a few days since the lady
as seised in her turn, and in forty-eight hours ex.
d. She retained het faculties to the last, and was
latee to dispose of her property and receive the consola-
tions of religion. When she felt the violent paroxysms
of4the disease coming on she would not allow any
one to remain near her, fearing that she might de
them harm.

'IHE ISLE:WORTH MURDER6I3.—At the Central
Criminal Court on Thursday, a man named Cooper, a
grainer, was charged with the murder of a woman at
Isleworth, whom he had married, though it appeared be
had a previous wife living. The murdered woman had
refused to live with him, on which he shot her with a
pistol, and escaped for some days, but was afterwards
apprehended at Cabitt's Town, The murder,
which was clearly proved, appeared to have been com-
mitted through jealousy, as a letter in the prisoner's
handwriting, but without signature or addreFs, vehe-
mently net forth his own love and her faithlessness.
He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Baron
Channell, before whom he was tried, held out not the
slightest hope that the sentence would not be carried
into effect.

• THE WAGES OF A RIIPTRESS.—OS Thursday the
deputy-coroner for East Middlesex, Mr. H. Raffles Wal-
thew, held an inquest at the Lamb Tavern, Dorset-
street, Commercial-road East, llatcliff, touching the
death of Mary Ann Pickering, aged twelve month.,
Ann Pickering, of No. 13, Schoolhouse-lane, liatcliff,
deposed that the deceased was her daughter. She was
a sculptress, and obtained a scanty livelihood by making
flannel shirts fore large City firm,for which she waspaid
3d. each, and lied to find needles, thread, &c. Witness
had five children, and had been deserted by her
husband about two years. He "as a lazy fellow, and
wished her to work and keep him In idleness. She had
suffered great privation, and they all slept in one Bondi
room. On Friday deceased, who had been ailing and
Buffering from the dlarrhcea, had !excruciating pains in
thestornach,and witness sent for the doctor, but he gave
no hopes of her. He thought the deceased had been
starved, and shortly after he left deceased suddenly
fell down and expired. She believed that the child
required better nourishment than she could afford to
give her. Witness, crying, added : " I would rather
suffer anything than trouble the authorities of the
workhouse, If I and my child work all day and great
part of the night, we can earn 9d. for three shirts.
The price is very small for no much labour. I have
them from a woman who gets &trifle profit out of theirs,
and she gets them from Messrs. Moses and Sons. I
have earned more than 63., with any little girl's assist-
ance, which is all the money we have to live upon. I
have paid 2s. out of that for rent," Mary White, the
landlady, was examined, and said that the mother of
the child was an industrious Woman. She believed
that the poor woman and her five children had suffered
great distress. Mr. Hawkins, of Rateliff, raid that he
was railed to see the deceased, who was suffering from
weakness and general debility. There was blood
passing from the body, showing that the deceased was
labouring under ulceration of the bowels. He pre-
scribed for the deceased, who expired in a few hours
afterwards. Several of the other children were
suffering from the small-pox, and no doubt world die
very soon. The room were the family lived was small
and unwholesome. The hotise was badly drained, and
unfit for habitation. The Deputy-Coroner remarked
on the painful nature of the case, and, after giving her
some cash out of his own pocket, advised her to seek
parish assistance, and the guardians would find her
husband, and punish him for his cruel and base con•
duct. He was quite sure that she could not subsist
upon the paltry money she received for making the
shirts, and he hoped that she would at once go to the
relieving officer of the perish, and make known to him
the facts of her ease. The jury at once (*hearted in the
opinion of the learned deputy-coroner, and returned
a verdict to the effect " That the deceased died from
ulceration of the bowels, brought on by want of the
common necessaries of life."