The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

early on Saturday morning, at the dwelling-house of Mr.
W. Tapper, cabinet maker and house agent, at Dawlish.
It is supposed that the thieves climbed over the large
doors leading to the back of the house, forced back the
faetenings of one of the bark windows, lifted the sash,
and so ptooured aihuission. They went into the
parlour, ransacked the plat*, and took with them a
quantity of silver plate and portable valuables. They
then entered the shop, and opened • secretary, but
found nothing that suited them. From the chiffouniere
in the parlour they took the silver, but left the plated
goods, They also took away two large coats. Thu
Odic's, after they had *elected their booty, appear to
have regaled themselvea, for in the morning decanters
with brandy, gin, and runt, were found on the table,
and the brandy and gin had been diminished since it
had been last used in the family. One of Mr. Tapper's
daughters heard • noise about two o'clock on Saturday
morning, and on looking out saw some one in the
passage, whoin she took to be a niemler of the family,
and therefore did not make any alarm. During the
seine night an attempt was made to enter the house of
Mr. P. J. Margery, the engineer of the South Devon
Railway. The burglary in this case was prevented by
one of the family, who was awake at the time, calling
Mr. Margery. The thieves, hearing the movement,
started off. In the morning it was found that two of
the windows had been tampered with.
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BRIM; WATER. INAL CILAIGH\ AGAINST A
POLIOSMAX —On Fiiday William Mundy', one of the
Somerset County Constabulary, in the Bridgwater
division, vu brought before Mr. T. P. Broadmead and
Mr. J. Browne, at Bridgwater, charged with an assault
with intent on SILAS Eveleigh, a respectably dreamed
young woman, about twenty-one years of age. The
prosecutrix is an assistant at a grocer's shop in Exeter,
and on Thursday night left Exeter to come to Bridg-
water, on her way to North Petherton. The proseeu-
kris walked with the prisoner on the Taunton Road,
which leads to North Petherton, the latter place being
three slile3 from Bridgwater. When about a mile from
the town the primmer attempted the assault. The
young woman proceeded to Bridgwater, and gave infor-
mation to the police, and the prisoner was apprehended
by Superintendent Jeffs, of the county police. The
prisoner was committed for trial on a charge of assault
with intent.
FROME.--dISPRIEre OF THE PEONS MOROI:RIR.—
The respite of the condemned convict, Byard Green-
land, under sentence of death in Taunton Gaol, was re-
ceived on Thursday morning, by the governor of
Taunton Gaol. The convict was sentenced to death, at
the late Somerset Winter Amine, held at Taunton, by
Mr. Justice Williams, for the murder of his nephew.
He was visited on Monday by the clergyman of his
parish, the Rev. Mr. Clutterbuck, of Barton Dinham,
and appeared acutely to feel the awful condition in
which he was placed , Ten years ago the magistrate
who committed him for trial for the murder, Dr, Harri-
son, cautioned him against indulging in intoxicating
liquors, or he would lose his senses, having received a
severe blow on his head. Since his incarceration in goal
his conduct has been most becoming, expressing great
*arrow at the death of his unfortunate victim. A
petition was signed in his behalf by several persons
praying for • commutation of the punishment of death
to that of penal servitude for life, arid this was headed
by the High Sheriff of the county, Mr. L. W. Newton,
and Mr. IPritleaux, and Mr. Saunders, the counsel
engaged for the prosecution. It is soinewhat singular
that when the High Sheriff was on his way to London
to present the petition the respite arrived at Taunton.
The remission of his sentence is doubtless attributable
to the recommendation to mercy by the jury, who found
him guilty on the grounds that there MID DO pre-
meditatioa.

BRISTOL—T, CORONER'S RSTROSPIVOT or 1861.
—On Thursday the Coroner (Mr. J. B. Grindon,) at •
court held in Stoke's Croft, spoke as follows in reference
to the inqnesta held during 1861. He said : This
being the drat opportunity I have had of addressing you
since the beginning of the present year, it may be satis-
factory to you to know the result of our labours during
the past year. You are, perhaps, nut aware that the
Coroner is required early after the termination of an old
year to render an account of his stewardship to Parlia-
ment. The result for the city of Bristol, which I have
rendered to Government, is satidactory. During the
past year 237 inquests have been held, being a reduction
IR the number of the previous year, and of the average
kof the past seven years—that average being 254. I
don't ascribe that reduction to a less number of accidents
er cases requiring investigation, but I ascribe it in some
measure to the removal of about 120 lunatics out of the
jurisdiction of the city of Bristol, because the law
directed that an inquest shenld be held upon the body
of every Invade whe died within the limits of St.
Peter's Hospital. The removal of these lunatics has
probably caused a reduction of five or six of the
number; but still there was a diminution of ten or
twelve from the average of the lest seven years. You
will say, how is that diminution to be accounted for?
For a certain time, after I have endeavoured to diffuse,
as far as I can, a knowledge of the duties of coroner
amongst the inhabitants of the city, I have observed
that • certain amount of zeal is exercised in giving
notice to the coroner; but after • time that seal
becomes dorninat, or altogether dies out, and I have to
treat to reports which reach me in • casual manner, or
through the instrumentality of the police. Everybody
knows that the police are active in the discharge of their
duties; but it-must and will happen that many cues of
sudden death otatir that never reach the ears of the
polies. I have repeatedly had occasion to say that
whenever such a case is suppressed my duty
will be to carry out the law in its rigour,
alt I have done, in order to bring the city
into a wholesome state as regards the administration of
the law. And where I have believed that inquests have
been intentiobally suppressed, or, in consequence of the
ignorance of the parties, or from the determination of
some members of the deseasetes flintily that no inveeti.
/taloa 'ha take Wee, I have made a point of having
.he body disinterred, even though it has been buried
one, two, or six, or even fourteen mouths. I have done
so in all those cases, and in souse of them awful dig-
elosures have been made. In one case fourteen months
had elapsed since the burial of the person, and it was
found that the deemed had been poisoned. In another
It was found that • woman and her two children had
been interred two months, and that they had been
poisoned. The murderer wee the huaband of the woman
and the father of the children, and upon my holding in-
questa upon the bodies he—l suppose either from sours
suspicions that disclosures would be made, or for some
other cause that I will not refer to—poisened himself ;
no that in the course of two days I held inquests upon
tbe father, mother, and two children, Suspicions ex-
tended to other cases, but those suspicions were not
eonfirmed upon investigation And they fell to the
pound. On several ether occasions inquests have been
bold and discoveries have been made, sometimes of
serious nature end sometimes of a satisfactory nature,
but they have been the means of disproving reports
circulated prejudicial to persons supposed to be hnpli-
cated in the deaths. So much for the number of
inquests, and the supposed grounds of the falling off in
the usual average. I will now state that it is highly
creditable to the magistrates of the city and the police
that out of the whole number there hes been only one
awe el murder, end that ease of murder ended in an
acquittal of the accused on the ground of insanity.
I dare say you all recollect the ease.
It is that of a woman charged with the murder of her
own child in John Street, St. Philip's. A great deal of
that criminality which attaches to the aims of murder
Ism got rid of in this ease, owing to the verdict which
U. returned. It was true that at the Inquest held at
Ste Peter's Hospital, and also at the trial at Gionceeter,
ON* mu nothing in the poor woman's demeanour to
illeidnide that she was affected by her situation, or by
theerhoe which she had committed, and the judge who
heard the ease very properly directed that the jury
should try whether she was sane or insane, and •
verdict was returned that she was insane, and not
*mountable for her actions. We considered at the
time that • woman could not murder no interesting •
child—or indeed any child—in the way sh• did if she
had been in her perfect senses at the time of
the murder. lam also happy to say that there has
been only omega ef manslaughter during the year, and
that was of so mild and lenient • kind that I think it
proper to say that I found it expedient immediately
otter the man had been charged with manslaughter to
bail him in • very small amount—that is to say, himself
in £2O, and two recognisance; in £lO each. The cir-
cumstances of that case were of • simple nature. The
man had been employed to construct some culverts in
the neighbourhood of St. Philip's, and in order to do
go an old culvert was partially opened. The man had
given directions to these assisting him to keep the old
culvert chided up when they were not at work, but by
negligence, or some other cause on the part of someone,
the culvert was open on one occasion when the men
were not at work there, and the deceased fell in it, it
is supported at night, and lost his life. The ease, there-
fore, is one of the mildest forms of manslaughter.
These are the only two crimes that have come under
our cognissnoes, and in the cases of accidents or sudden
'deaths the usual routine has been gone through and
Artiflanations given by some parties or other well
Atiquainted with the deceased and the state of his
for some time previously.

It Is well.known that the leaves of plants ans im-
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gathered at that juncture is therefore room valuable as
it yields incomparably more strength than the last or
Antninn crop; bat the Chinese, with the cancurrence
of Merchants, have, to increase the profits, long passed
off inferior Autumn leaves at high rates by covering all
the various growths with the same powdered colour;
as all this operates to the buyer's logs and it an injury
to the &Wale, oonsnmers greatly desire that it should
be discontinued, especially as the mineral powder is
always washed off and consumed when the Teo is in-
haled, Green Tea, not "faced" with the wed bluish
powder is • dart Moe hoe • when this and the Bleak
se• of the Spring growths She flavour ie delicious, as
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