The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-19 00:00:00

RSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1870.

its peculiar population of Jews, Turks, Greeks,
Mahommedans. Yarsta, and Protestants, and a,so
Spain. Al the okas of Ur. Peon's address e in.lleetion
cos wade amounting to 124 is.. and the Doxology hav-
ing been song, and the Wising having bees pronounced
the meeting, the bast ever held in Charadester,
separated.

THE BANKRUPTCY OF SIR ROGER C. D. i
TICHBORNE. 1
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In the London Court el liankiutdcy, on Wednesday;
before Ilr. Reantrar ilcslitt, at • first nieetiog under
the failure of Sir Roger Ch.rles nighty Tichborne,
described as of Hsrley-lodge, Bromptoo, of no business
or profession, an intimation was given that an arrange-
went was in progress for dischsrging the claims of those
creditors who were prancing the bankrupt The bank-
rupt is well known as the clsimant of the Tichborue
estates in Hampshire. He wee adjudicated bankrupt
on the petition of Mr. James Went, of Itishripind•hill,
a creditor for £307. At present no statement of affairs
himbeen prrsented. but the liabilities may be runchly
estimated at £4OOOO, The proceedings resulted in an
inljournmen, without any trustee being appointed.

A DEAD BABY FOUND NEAR SPRING-WELL.
On Friday afternoon several children were amusing
th-iuselsea in Spring.well Field when they saw a woman
go up to the railway brnlge sad deposit a bundle in the
water, and then hastily leave the field and go up Stets...
lane. A man pissing shortly alter one of the children
informed him of the circumstance, anl he upon looking
under the bridge found the parcel *entraining • dead
child newly-born, and fully deaeleped. On Saturday at
It o'clock an inquest was hell before George B. Ald-
ridge, Eq., the borough coroner. The follcwing persons
were on the jury :—Meters. Reeve (foreman), Squibb,
Holloway, Down, West, Barnes, Higgins, W. Curtis.
Wadham. Bloomfield, Sharpham, Parsons, and Russell.
After viewing the remains of the child whieh smelt
very ofiensivoll, thefollowing evidence was adduced :
I•rael Joyce 11P011 being sworn said : I am employed
on the railway as horse keeper by Mr. Tnf lor Shortly
after two o'clock on Friday afternoon. I wan on Spring-
well Field. I heard morns children call to me. They
said t..ere wa• aoinethir g under the railway bridge in
'he field. I knelt down and drew &parcel from the ester.
It was tied and sewn up—tied outside with • cord ;
between the cord and wrapper there woe • stone chock
in. The insi le wrapper was sewn up very tight. When I
open the sewn up wrapper I row d • piece of flannel
folded over a child ; I left it in charge of • man and
went to the station toreteh the pollee. When I opened
it I observed a black mark on the face and another on
the chest ; when I found the body it was floating no
the water, it ii ii not smell in the least. The body which
the jury have seen is the same as I Dialled up.
Elisabeth Turner, • little girl about nine years nt age,
lull: I lass playing in Spring•well Field at about two
o'clock with some more children when I saw a woman
come into the field with a bundle, and out it into the
, what thrown
into the water when the woman said to us, " You have
no call to look, it leanly a Dag of sand which I have put
there to get wet until I come back." I ran home and
told my mother that • woman had thrown something
and told hioi what libel seen and he polled it out, and
into the w.ter. I then called the last witness (Joyce)
I then saw it was • baby. After the woo.an threw the
parcel into the water she ran out of the fi Id and went
np Stertelane wry fast. I should know her again if I
saw her.

The jury warn bound over to appear on Friday nest
at 11 o'clock, aid in the meantime Dr. Cribb will make
a post ',wriest examination.

PARKSTOWE.

WATIR. —We learn that savaral infia•ntill natio-
men of the sillage us In communication with the lord of the
manor it Califon with reference to the late pro, eedings id the
Pc O it water wons company, who have it Is conjectund COM•
natal an illegal ict liy divert,. g the water which flowed from
Bir Ivor °newt's land from its original course, thereby depriving
the poor villagers and others of the stream which h. for so
long a period fliwed put their respective homes and, as •
natural coeisequmce, mbJected them to great inconvenience.
It is believed that 81r Ivor was not till very recently acquainted
with the true suite of ail., otherwise he would not in all
probability have sanctioned auch as act.