The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-07-08 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

EXTRAORDINARY CARR Or ASIMULT.—LIVERPOOL,
mosiday.—Aa extraordinary assault tow, resulting in
the committal of a landlord to the assists on • charge
of assault with intent, &o.,was on Saturday investigated
before the Liverpool magistrates. Mr. Chapman, a
person residing in Ditnkeld-street, summoned one of his
tenants (• widow, named Harding) for hating assaulted
him with ri poker; and Mrs. }larding, on the other
hand, summoned Chapman for the same offence,
alleged to have been ommuittitd in her house against her
son and servant girl. During the iovestiption it at
finit appeared that Mrs. Harding assaulted Chapman
during an altv.roation which took plsoe upon the latter
calling for rent, but afterwards an entirely different
phase was given to the proceedings. Mrs. Harding
stated that, on the 20th, Chapman called at her house
while she was arming, instated upon coming into her
room, mil his hands under her clothes, threw her down
on the floor, and endeavoured to commit • criminal
aseault upon her. This was not the first or ieeond time
be had made Ailnilar ni141,11:44. -On obe occasion he
offered her £l5O to go to London and become his mire
,tress, and oit another occasion £lO to go to Birmingham.
The alleged slew& committed lip her took place ehep
ate was 'fending herself, and the assaults by Chapman
wire committed when he wrenched the poker from her
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. kIOT AT ASEITON•I3IIIIII2.LTSL—The "Union BIM"
agisieyed. ssacielit anal oVbrilkaubltiod.ia.she
Ashton-under-Lyne and Wigan distrioti are doing what
they can ti reader the owe TradeeNsiousa odious

combination of words. We have seen whit they have done,
or, at all eventawhat they are suspected of having done,
at the first-named place—we refer, of dourse, to the
murder of poor Jump, the policeman, as noticed in our
paper last week—and at Wigan certain Union men have
been amusing themselves and advancing the interests of
the order to which they belonged by blowing up a kiln
containing tour or five tons weight of bricks. The
destruction of kilns in the district has not been confined
to the one just mentioned, but fortunately the madmen
engaged in the malicious and vindictive outrages on
Property have not yet interfered with life. On
Tuesday, two date omen engaged in the murder of Jump,
the policeman, were apprehended in Manchester.—
The inquest on the unfortunate police &um named
Jump, murdered near Achton-under-Lyne late Oil the
evening of Friday, was opened on Monday, bet
adjourned till Wednesday fortnight after the evidence of
two witnesses had been taken. There is nothing rew to
be told respecting the tragical story, hat we may notice
the courage displayed by Sergeant flarrop in the dis-
charge of his duty on the occasion. Time sergeant gave
his evidence on Monday, and the simple and straight-
forward narrative he gave of what took place on Fnday
night shows that the English policeman, like the
Engin& soldier end sailor, has the greatest possible con•
tempt for personal risk when it is connected with the
performance of his work. The feet of seven men
walking single file, half-masked. on a public road, at a
late hour in the evening, naturally struck him as being
somewhat strange, mere especially when they seemed
anxious, in passing the sergeant and his companion, to
*incest their faces even more completely than they were
hidden by the masks. Instead of permitting these men
to pass, AS he umight hare done even although he had
suspected them, considering that the odds lay so strongly
on their side, he stepped before one of the parties tad
demanded what the mysterious procession mein,. The
&linnet immediate answer to the question was * pistol
bullet, which cut the larvae right over the eye end
bathed his face with his blood. Notwithstanding this
emphatic warning to "be or' the sergeant stuck to his
msn, and continued to do so until ha had been hit
several times with bludgeons, and nearly hit several
times with bullets.

DRICADFUL MUBDII/L—A quarryman, named Marco,
has Just beau tried at the Court of Assixes of the !Seine,
for attempting to murder his brother Manuel, and for
the murder of a widow named Dufour, with whom the
letter cohabited. All three lived in a bogie on the
Bagnolet-rusd, which had been We by the potent, of
the Marcos to the two eons, and the sons of a deteased
sister named Serve.' The widow Dufour hell a mort-
gage of 300 f. on the house, and the Streets having de-
manded their *hare of the property, the former offered
to buy up their different interests. To that Louis
Marco not only refused to consent, but accused the
widow of wishing to rein him, and uttered the most
violent threats against her and his brother. Two days
after this scene, Louis, arming himself with a heavy
axe, welted for his brother at the bottom of the stair.
case, and, as the I.,tter Tweed, struck him a tremendous
blow on the head, rendering him insensible; be then
proceeded to the room in which was the tromaa, and
struck her to the ground ; then kneeling upon her 116
repeated the blows until he was satisfied that she had
ceased to live. some men employed at the barrier
having beard cries of niurder, hastened to the spot and
secured the murderer. When arrested he did not ex-
press any regret for the crime, declaring that he had
executed it after mature reflection, and offered 701-,
which he had upon him, to any one that wield assure
him that the woman was really dead. The Court found
him guilty without extenuation, and condemned him
to death.

Fgruirrrut DEATIL—On Wednesday morning an
inquiry was held by Mr William Paine, the coroner for
the City of London sod Southwark, touching the death
of Anne ElizAheth Strickland, aged 10 years, who lost
her life on Monday through falling down a staircase-
well. at No. 4, Cullum-street, under the following cir-
eninstanoes : Mr. J. Wilson said that on the premises
in question there was a large well staircase, and the
deceased in the evening was amusing herself by sliding
on the bannisters, While turning a corner she over-
balanced herself, and, though she eaught the stairs in
!Cling, she was unable to retain her hold, and came to
the ground, a distanee of 30ft.' with fearful force,
grating witness in her descent; but he was unable to
break her fall. The unfortunate girl was taken up
insensible, covered with blood; and upon being con•
veyed to the hospital it was found that she had
sustained an extensive fracture of the skull and other
serious injuries, from the effects of which she shortly
afterwards died. The jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental death."

ACCIDENT TO • CLERGTMAI.—OR Friday MorniOr, SS
the Rev. Henry Oliver, who resides at Rickinansworth,
Herts, and who had arrived a short time previously at
the Easton Station by train, was crowing the Totten-
ham-court-road, be was knocked down by an oronibis,
and the fore and hind wheels passed over his right
ancle, crushing the bone in such a dreadful manner
that, on his being conveyed to the hospital, it was
much feared amputation would become necessary.
MURDER AT NEWCASTLE.—A murder baa been per-
petrated by a man named Tysark, • cowkeeper, at
Neweastle-on-Tyne, the victim of his brutality being
his wife. The crime was committed when the husband
was partially intoxicated, and while under the influence
of passion, in consequence of his wife having dragged
him out of a hotel where he had been drinking. When
they got outeide the house a straggle ensued between
the parties, daring which both fell to the ground, and
while in this position Tysack seited hold of his wife's
throat, and dashed the hack pert of her head several
times against the pavement. The interior part of the
poor woman's skull was knocked in, and she died in-
stantaneously. The man Bed as soon as he knew what
he hed done, but Was apprehended the same night.
INOENDIARIBM RIAU FOLKESTONE.— About half-past
12 o'clock on Wednesday night a police-constable at
Sandgate suddenly saw names on the high ground
between him and Folkestone. He ran off towards the
spot. On approaching it he saw a ragged lad of 18,
skulking under a hedge, and asked him what was on
fire? The reply was—" A stack; I set it alight." On
being asked his reason for doing so the young man mid,
"That is my business." The constable took him into
custody, and proceeded with him to the fire. He found
the staeke and loose straw in the yard of the Plain
Farm in flames, and woke up the people living in the
cottages whioh surrounded the yard. After be had
done so he found that the Games had extended to sheds
at both ends of the enclosure. On his return to the
yanl • young man eppeared in the midst of the flames
in front of one of the sheds, who was unable to get
out, and called loudly for assistance. A number of
soldiers and other persons had assembled, but all efforts
to rescue him proved unavailing. Water could only be
obtained from a well, so that nothing could be done to
extinguish the Barnet. When their violence had abated
some persons entered the yard, and found that the unfor-
tunate young man had perished. His body was brought
out and identified, by its red hair and fragments of •
cap, which remained unburnt, as that of • homeless
youth of 15, who, for some time back, had attended the
officers at cricket matches on Sandgate-plain. On
Thursday the prisoner WAS brought beture the borough
magistrates at Folkestone on a charge of arson. He
described himself as John Horsley, shoemaker, of
Marylebone, Liverpool, and did not contradict the
statement he had made to the police-constable. He
was remanded till Monday.
SINGULAR DISOUVERT.--Snme excitement was caused
On Wednesday morning in the neighbourhood of
Gordon-square, St. Pancras, by the circulation of a
rumour that the head of a wen, newly severed from the
body, had been discovered in the piece of enclosed
waste ground attached to the Catholic Apostolic
Church, Gordon-square. It appears that • labourer
named Gates was passing by the chinch at about 10
o'clock, when his attention was attracted to a ghastly
object, which had the appearance of being the head of
a human being, lying in the enclosure. He communi-
cated his impression to several passengers, and, a crowd
soon weembling, a messenger was despatched for •
police-constable, who on his arrival at the spot,
obtained possession Of the relic of linmenity, for such
it proved to be; but by whom and for what purpose it
was deposited where it was found remain,' a subject of
conjecture. The head, which appeared to be scienti-
fically separated from the trunk, wee conveyed to the
London Ueiversity Hospital, where it will remain while
the police are making an investigation into the circum-
stances.