The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-25 00:00:00

WIILBORNB.

extern CLus.—The members and friends of this
club mat in strong numbers at Laing'. Hotel, on
Thursday evening teat; but as the committee hat not
andited.the past year'a amounts, no business could be
transacted. Tide club, with • plow influential and
working committee will, it is hoped, become • very
dr o. The meeting wan, therefore, adjourned to
theVne
st inst., when general business will be discussed.
SIXTH D.R.V.—There was a full•drens parade of
this c ,mpany an Thursday, at the Com Exchange,
when Captain and Adjutant Hamar officially made
his monthly inspection. There were present :—Lieut.
T. D. B. Rawlins, in command, Lieutenant C. J. C.
Rawlins, Bugle-Major Mackenide, Quartermaster.
Sergeant Sudden, 4 sergeants, 1 bugler, and 42 rank
anfie; total, 51. The company wee drilled by the
adjutant for about an hour, sad the various movements
were executed with great precision, after which the
men were dismiseed.

Inituser.—On Wednesday afternoon last an inquest
was held by Mr. Thomas Rawlins, coroner, at the
Smith's Anus Inn, Wiroborne, oaths body of • newly.
born male child, found dead in • box in the footway
in Redo t.te.—Mr. James May RNA thorn foreman.—
Tom Forward :—I live in Wimborne and am a brick-
layer. This morning at six o'clock a.m. I was going to
my work in the West Borough, and when paring
through Redootts I found • Fermi under the wall at
the back of Mr.Laing's garden. It wee In brown
paper tied up with string, I opened it and found it
was the body of • dead add ; I seat to the police.
station, and • man by the mune of Edward Randall
remained with the parcel end the dead child, whilst I
went on to my work. The paper was wet.—Exusined
by the jury: The pared was in the footway and any-
one passing must have wan la—Jesus King (polio*
constable stationed at Wl:sabering), thie morning
about twenty minutes par six went to Rectorate, and
done under the wall, near Mx. Waterman's house, was
a parcel which he opened. liwee a box wrapped up
in brown paper, and on examining it he found the
dead body_ of • child. On the box wee the name
" James KeUler and Son, Lemon Peel, Dundee'
printed; the body wads wrapped up in part of a
chemise; but there was no mark Of writing on it.
Showed the body to Dr. Parkinson, Ur surgeon, and
whilst examining the out of the box at the bottom,
on the brown paper the [Mowing words were found :
—" Mr. E. Long, baker, Whnboras.` Charles Henry
Watts Parkinson, 31.11C.5., (practising at Who-
born.): The last wirer has to-Jay shown
me the body of a well formed male child,
of which I have male an examination. The
box was too small for the body and mach violence
must have been used to peer it in. The umbilical
cord was rolled round tle body, and the remains of
the placenta, which was very decomposed, was in the
box and had rotted off. lhe body were that of a new
born infant, fully developed, and must have been burn
I should think at least six weeks. The head wee
especially decomposed and the face was premed down-
wards in the box. Could aot find any fracture of the
bones. The lungs were expanded and crepitant in
everuoLarft;omandwililiatetgenth as a whole and in small
had been expressed. The
portions
was large and well firmed, but too decomposed
to find anything especisl ion it,. I believe the child
had breathed, but the stat-sof decomposition prevented
my forming any opinion ~f the cause of death.—The
Coroner made • very careful summing up, and the
jury returned an opea verdict.

ST EIDLLND.
Unintnintr flosouan—ln the Ilst of Classical Honours
os oeintenoes. publiMeti ou Thursday, we nation am mist
those to tins First Class I. num al Mr. A. J. !Arnhem,
Scholar of Emmanuel CAW*. son of Mr. Luddism, of
B.udletrid.