The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-07-28 00:00:00

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DORSET MIDSUMMER ASSIZES.

The commission for holding these Amines wasrned
at the Shirehall on Wednesday by Mr. Jutiw Wu'
who arrived from Salisbury by the floath•Westero
Railway shortly before o'clock. His Lordshi
was met at the station by the High Sheriff, G.
Whieldon, Req., accompanied by his the
Rev. Prebendary Damn* it a 1... vtaallir Cant..
ham ; the trod*/ Slierierhomas Oemsbe, F•q., trio
County Clerk, G. J. Andrews, Req., and the nenal
retinue of javeliamen. His Lordship was conveyed
to the Shichall in the beautifal oerriage of the
High Sheriff. drawn by • pair of horse% sad
opened the oommission, after which be retinal to the
private apartments at the Comity Rolm h
the evening His Lordship attinstiod Diyim 551
view at the Church of St Trein.,
bt tha Mat"' and CngwraLion in their robs; of
moos, when tbe Rev. r;obaidim.7 Deane
the anise sermon. 'Lord mist jumbos =td
io
had been detail!vlA at &weary, did not arrive until
late in the ever
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CROWN COURT—TIMINDAY.
(Before Mr. Jodi%) Wn.s.n.)

His Lordship took his mat at eleven o'olook,
and business 'bowl after oantaenced. Than
was a large attooS of magistrates. Th•
following gentlemen were sworn on the Grand
Jury :

gly j. wad, Kt., R. 0. Stained, Esq.,
C.B. formean.) M. B. Yeatman,
H N. Ml.hdleton. Lehi W. a leolhort.
J. Fellewes, Eaq., H. C. Ondden, Esq.,
H. H. swaffield, keg., 10. Cartwright, Esq.,
J. Oundry, , Esq., J. I'. Haiku. Eaq
H. Frampton. Esq., H. Williams, Ihrq
J. C. Hansel, Fa, 13. S. Heads, Esq.,
C. A. Manning. Esq., R. Eliot, in.„
H. Williams, Esq., J. H. Calash, Seq.,
C. W. Digby, Seq., I and
E. Weld, Faq., 1 B. P. Gaadre, Esq.
The CLERK or Anemone having read the umbel
proclamatine against vice and immorality,
Mr. Justice WiLtan delivered his charge to the
Grand Jury. He said the calendar which they
would ban to go through in their roam was not a
large one in point of numbers, but there were some
offences of a serious character. With rimed be AA
which appeared to him the most Period% he tumid
not help hoping that some impiemakion might be
offered in the evidence which Mould be laid before
the petty jury in case they should find a bill which
ze:have the efface of attributing the act of ties
in taking away the life of his chili, to some-
thing lees melaneholy than mhos. He alluded to
the case of a men named Henry Doesmetk Whn
charged with having murdered his child at field'
port. They would have to deal only with the facto
willies would be brought before than, and which
would tend to show that the murderous act was
t"..,Minitted ; and be thought they would not have
any hesitation in bringing in a bill for the murder
against the penon charged. It was only necessary
for him to tell them, that they would act wisely in
not going into any evidence that would be brought
forward with respect to the Mate of the man • mind.
That evidence would be offered before the
C met; therefore, if they found a bill, they
must send it down for trial. There was
another case, in which a perste by the name of
Cornish was charged with the murder of another
woman's child. Tie did not desire to repeat the
circumstances in detail, as they would come before
them in their room, but he desired to my that the
child appeared to have been born shied one or two
in the morning, and lived until twelve o'clock the
next night. Apparently very little attention had
been paid to it, and little food given during
that time. The mother was not in a position to he
able to take care of the child herself, as she had
suffered much from labour ; and the persons who
were with her were the grandmother of Um child,
the doctor who attended, the woman Cornish, and
one or two members of the family. Cornish appeared
to have received the child to take are of, whim she
used some expeessirms which would tell very much
against her. They would have to consider her posi-
tion in life, and especially to consider the conduct
of the grandmother in giving her the child to take
care of. She appeared to have become violent and
to have been sent away ; and many hours afterwards
it was observed that some injuries—he should
suppose from the evidence. in external appearance—
under the jaws of the child, anrarently inflicted by
nails or some such means. This child, which he
thought they would find upon the evidence, was
horn some two or three months before its time, and
died on the evening following its birth. The doctors
said that the child did not die from natural
causes. He (the indael must repeat that he thought '
they would do well to inquire whether the eirennistanoss
were such, ma it was impoesible to attribute to soy other
oan‘e than that mesterious devilry of killing the ohild
with her nails. They would do well to cemeider the
length of time which elapsed between her having any-
thing to In avith the child mod the time of the injuries
beine Mao-mem', and deo to remember that the child
sm, horn beton. it. time, and that there wa. • want of
food lv.fore de.th. The caw anon the Iste of the
4.l,ovitine, did not lament to hi, mind any 1111111,1010•11
iii co,,sequet'eo or the Innate which the woman made
we or on the previnti. evening: hut if they thought it
.on,Wed to .noh they must Ind shill, if not the.
mw. sequit her. He asa sorry that a ease h.I come in
that morning. which wo• of an onconifortship intim
sea apparently on, of the most meinwi in the ennc
wh;eh ti.ey would have to dell with, He need not
deta;n thrm he making any oliserratintia none it. He
eci,ll,l not Maedan them to the performance ni their
anti., without ennentolating the rowdy end himself

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',non the prefteere of so trrext • nomher n 1 the irr.n4
inrv. It •res dote nf the hiehest imnnetenhe, snit in
ereinnten n.i,.n., tntbe hme, and th.
rtn...4.1e r.uttonrt to the imulee who haA to r1e..1 with the
loottnetol of A•the. flu innithip then dismissed the
'rand jury to their ohamher