The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-19 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF SWINDLING
JEWELLERS

Charles Taylor, gliaa Johnson. was remanded at Abing-
don on Tuesday morning. Sr obtaining gold watches and
other priverty. irolu jewellery in Oxford. he false pre-
tencea. The priy oier drove into Oxford 11. few day. !wk.
and called on several jewellers. Ile sail he was a clergy-
man. living lit Itorehisder. and obtained watches and
other v.iluthley wathoit virulent. Prisoner, who hes
vietimised 'Aber tradesmen. WAS traced to Lea-
mingbm, and apprehended in had.

CHILD NII,III/10:11. IN SOMESSETSHIRE.
On Thursday, at Wincantun. a young woman,
Martha Martin. aged 22. dressmaker, waa chsuwed on
remand with the wilful murder of her illegitimate
chill The evidence given by Mr. Sot. Shepherd,
p.('. Pm:4e)% and 11r. Coombe, was to the effect that
on the morning of the 2fith ult, the prisoner started
from Yeovil, where she lived, for Castle Cary by a
tlre4 Wodern train, carrying a brown paper parcel
with her. On alighting at Cary it was obeerved that
she had the parcel with her, which she carried into the
town, to her sister's. In the evening she teok •
ticket f.,r Ye. cii, and got hit oan empty compartment.
She then had the parcel with her. On returning to
her lodging.. at Yeovil it was observed that she had
no parcel with her. On the morning of the 26th a
perm!, similar to that carried by the prisoner—and
which was found to contain the body of • fully
developed male child—was found near Cockle Bridge,
between Sparkford and vary. Slj.,,,igion ee.se4 on
the primmer, who wan apprehended, and made a
statement to the effect that she was confined a fort-
night previously. anti had kept the body wrapped in •
sheet in a lset in her bedroom. She did not know
what to .1,0 with it. The medical evidence tended to
show that the child never hail a separate existence.
The skull was fractured, and there were other bruises
on the body, most ,d which, 1)r. C snubs said, were
&Allele'o caused after death, although one slight
bruise might have been caused during life. Mr. Hues,
of Cantle Cary, who defended the prisoner, said his
client would plead frailty to concealment of birth.
The magiatrates sari if the graver charge were
continued they must adjourn the cane to Yeovil,
where the child was born; lett they could deal with
the lesser offence. It was ultimately decided to
commit the prisoner for trial for concealment of birth,
the magistrate. remarking that the coroner and the
jury could return a verdict on the graver charge if
they thought the evidence warranted them in doing
so. The prisoner appeared to feel her position deeply.
She was stated to be in a very weak state, and the
evidence wee taken at the police-station.

A FARMER'S SON SENTENCED TO DEATH,
Lord Justice Beggsllav was occupied, at Oxford,
last week, with a very sad and, in many respects, very
peculiar mos of murder. The prisoner, Harry Rowles,
was the non of a well-to-do fanner, upon whale death
lie inherited a considerable sum of money, and the
deceased, Mary Hannah Allen, was a young girl to
whom he had been engaged to be married. Some two
or three years ago they fell in love with one another,
sail a mod affectionate correspoolence paned between
them. Toward+ the end of last year, however, they
had a difference edging out of jealously, and the young
man, it appear*. reproac led the girl fir her levity and
indifference. On the evening of the lith of December
he visited her at her grandfather's house, and after he
had left she made certain statements to her grandfather
which led him the next morning to apply to a magis-
state. Before the old gentleman had returned he came
again to the house. He bade revolver with him, and
It is not disputed that he then and there tired at the
unfortunate girl and killed her .in the spot. A matt.
secs ant, who evidently hail expected that something
would happen, Lad run out for help and returned with
the gardener, who found Rowles standing with the
pistol in his hand. He refused to deliver up the
weapon, but he voluntarily accompanied the gardener
to the p lice-station, and there gave himself into
custody. lie never for a moment attempted to deny
what he had I lone, but he behaved in a very strange
and violent manner, and made several most extraordi-
nary statements. Amongst other things, he said that
he hail been mad for a long time; that the devil had
tempted him; that he had loved Mai Allen, and had
spent three hundred pounds upon her, but that she
had been very fate and cruel to him; that he had
fired four shots at her, of which only one had missed;
and that he had prayed with her that the Lord might
have mercy on her souL Almost as soon as he had
made these statements he was seized with a severe
epileptic fit, which lasted several minutes. On recover-
ing from it he WWI more calm; remarked the thing
Wee a horrible affair, and expressed a hope that some
letters which had passed between himself and the
girl could be found by the police, as they would. is
thought help clear up the case. He was found guilty,
with a recommendation to mercy. The Judge
sentenced hiw ti death, but held out no hopes his life
would be npared.

Manaus itarns.is trial has been postponed.
Iv is estimated the present war cost Russia one
hundred millions (1100,600,000).
Asornint sum F £150,000 is asked for the Army,
--an account of the high price of provisions.
AT a tire at Duneille's whiskey distillery, Belfast,
an Wednesday night, £lOO,OOO worth of damage was
done.

A SHAW auctioneer named Was', who got VISO out
of a Brixton gentlemen fora share in his business, has
just got h years penal servitude as his own share in
the business.

A COUPLE of boys aged 14 and 9 respectively, have
been sentenced to one month and five years in a
reformatory by the Frome Bench, for stealing sir
pentiorth of parsnips.
°cream, Sin Tmosaa Smite is to command the
first field Army Corps to be mobilised at Salisbury
this year. The Duke of Connaught will take Dart se
commander of the First Battalion Rifle Brigade.
Att, the bodies of the men who lost their lives in
the Kearsley Colliery explosion--43 in number—were
on Thursday identified. By their deaths 25 widows
rind GO children will be rendered more or less destitute.
A YOUNG London constable, newest Monument,
aged 22, has been sentenced to 15 years penal
servitude for arson. He used to set fire to planes on
his Hammersmith beat, in order to give the alarm and
get the rewards.
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-
- THE election of a representative in Parliament for
Hereford, in the place of Mr. Evan Pateahall (Con-
servative), who had accepted the stewardship of the
Chiltern Hundreds, took place Thursday, and
resulted in the return of Lieutenant-Colonel
Arbuthnot, the Conservative, by a majority of 44.
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IMPUDENCE.
A Bristol paper hints that Genrger Mitchell "on.
from the plough-tail " has cheek enough to &ink of
contesting kW Somerset, using the labourer's union as
S stepping -stone. _
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TEM DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1878.

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