The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

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DIXADFOL OL111•02 IS A RAILWAY CAIRIAGZ.—
The Saha Public, of Lyon*, gives the following account
of an odious crime committed two evenings since on the
Paris and Lyons Railway, between Villefranche and
Anse :—" in a compartment of a second class carriage
of the train, No. 112, were • youhg girl et eighteen and
two print:tat The latter having both alighted at •
ration, the name of whieh is not given, • man about
forty years of age, in a blue blouse, entered Lie SUDO
ootimartmeht. The train hid but just left the station,
when lie greed the poor girl threw her on
the seat; tied bar habit behind her, crammed
sonic paper into her mouth to stop her cries,
and committed on her • criminal assault of the
most shameful nature. He afterwards robbed her of
part of her clothe*, • purse containing about 30f., and
• gold ring ; then, while the train was going rather
slowly, owing to a sharp curve in the line, he opened
the don. and made his escape unperceived by the gu•rd
or any of the passengers, is it was dark at the time. On
stopping at the next /dation, the poor girl wis found in
• most deplorable state. As soon as she was able to
speak, she gave an account of the ill-treatment she bad
received, and telegraphic despatches were instantly pent
off in all directions, giving • description of the offender,
with orders for his apprehension."
CLEIGYNAX CHAIGID WITH DETIAOOIIIO • RAIL-
WAY CoIITAXY.—A clergyman, describing himself as
the vicar of Stone, in Staffordshire, and named Eldred
Woodland, appeared at the Liverpool police-eon:it,
charged with having defrauded the London end North
Western Railway Company by travelling ins first-clses
carriage when be had only • eecond-cleas ticket. The
rev, gentleman was taken to task at the Edgehill
station by the ticket collector, but he indignantly
denied the charge, called the ticket collector • liar, and
ultimately, on refusing to come to any arrangement,
was given into custody. Mr. Woodland asked that •
remand might be ranted, and the investigation of the
Cane wag accordingly postponed Ita a week.
A &XXI IX • POLICZ Court—An extrsordinary
scene was witnessed in the Thames Police-court on
Thuroday. A foreigner, named Joseph Francisco. was
placed in the dock charged with a great number of
burglaries. The prisoner, who appearsto pawns great
strength end activity, has long been a terror to the
inhabitanta of some districts in the Faet of London.
He has found hi* way into innumerable houses, and
where he has not committed robberies, has frightened
the Inhabitants. He was committed for trial on
several charges, end when he was required to move
out of the dock, refused to do so. The gaoler at-
tempted to force him out, but found himself over-
powered, and • number of policeman had to come to
his assistance. The prisoner swore and yelled voci-
ferously. Men were rolled over in the court, and
indescribable confusion prevailed. At length Francisco
was dragrad to the cell. When he had to be removed
to the prison van he behaved still more violently, and
it was with the utmost difficulty that he wax secured
and conveyed to Rewrite.
P•lltret. Somme —On Thursday an event happened
near to Wolverhampton which occasioned mach con-
sternation throughout that town and it, immediate
district. At • little before nine in the morning, Mr.
Charles Clark, who was Mayor of Wolverhampton in
1860, who is • magistrate for Staffordshire and for the
borough of Wolverhampton, and • member of the Ire.
of Messes. T. and C. Clark and Co., enamelled hollow-
ware manufacturers andiron-founders. employtng about
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600 hands, abet himself in his own boriroo.6. De.coesed
arm upwards of fifty years°, age, and leave, a family of
See children. Early in life he suffered from a tempo-
rary derangement of intellect, 000mioised by disappoint-
ment in relation to a projected inat,amonial alliance;
and lately he has been under medical reatment for •
di•ordered stomach. In the past few weeks he has dis-
played little singularities and eecentricities of conduct ;
but this behaviour, as it was construed into evidences
of a little passing vanity, did not at all excite appre-
hensioec as to the soundneis of his intellect, especially
as it was no bar to his performing hi. &Aim as magis-
trate and alderman, and as atm of tbe active principals
of • large manufacturing eoncern. On Wednesday he
was in business op to 5 in the afternoon. The follow-
ing morning be took breaklaat with Mrs. Clark. and
then retired to his bedroom. It. had scarcely left the
breakfast-table before the report of an exploded fire-
arm alarmiltlie household, aria Mrs Clark ran upstairs,
where she found the deceased gentleman lying on the
Boor surrounded with blood, and quite dead. Death
mud have been instimauseene, for the hack of the
head was blown away, apparently with • charge from
• doable-barrelled breech-loading gun that be had
brought • few months before from Paris, and the
ninz•l• of which he would seem to bare plated m
hi. mouth. Thursday was day upon whiobthe deeeated
gentlemap would have ast in petty amnions upon the
borough magistrates' bomb in his two, but in MOW -
games of the very nielasoltrill event the Mayor of the
borough ad3.:mm.4 the gapAasa vShoql hoonal a
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THOUGHTS BY A RIVER SIDE.
Time for none will never slay,
'Tia like the tide that gore gw.7.
'Tim like • vapour In the air.
That bids us all for heaven prepare.
'Ti. like a shooting star, just wen—then gone,
Or like the snow before the rieing eon;
So men's short life is likes Meet, Sower,
Opens, end bloonm, and dies within an hour.
yi.e• peeing all things here decay,
Anti ell on earth must pail uuuY.
We'll loot to f'hrist, the only way,
That leads to everlasting Illy.
F.. HILTS.