The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-06-10 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

THE LUDGATE HILL TRAGEDT.—The inquest on the
two deemed children of Mr. and Mr.. Vyse, of Ludgate
Hill, was resumed on Feiday afternoon. The coroner
(Mr. Payne) and the jury having taken their seats,
Inspector Howard, of the city police, produced certain
papers, which were found by Miss Sarah Saunders,
idster of Mrs. Vyse, in Mrs. Vyse's pocket.—Dr. Edwin
Payne of Finsbury Square, was then examined- He
was called in, he laid, immediately after the catastrophe.
He saw Mrs. Vyse in her bedroom. She was leaning
over the waabliand-stand, on which there were marks
of blood. Having ascertained that her throat was cut
he manned the wound as far as he could do so with-
out assistance. Mrs. Vyse was in a most excited state,
and it required force to control her. About twenty
minutes afterwards lie dressed the wound, in conjunction
With Mr. Savory. During the dressing of the wound it
was mentioned in Mrs. Vyse's presence that the
o illren were dead in the Adjoining room. He (witness)
said to Mrs. Vyae, supposing the children to have been
poisoned, "What was it the children had?'
Mrs. Vyse replied, as well as idle could speak,
" Battle's Vermin Powder." He had no other
converittion with liar bearing on the ohildren.
Mr. Savory, assistant-surgeon at S. Bartholomew's
Hospital, deposed that on Wednes 'ay, the 28th of
May, he delivered the contents of the cbillren's
stomachs to Mr. Attfield, demonstrator of practical
chemistry at that hospital.—Mr. John Attfield, the
gentleman thos referred to, on being crammed, con-
firmed the statement of Mr. Savory. He had, he said,
since analysed the contents of both stomachs which he
received, separately. By certain chemical operations
he had, he said, obtained frurn the contents of the
stomach of the elder child a substince which he knew
, would be strychnine, more or less pure, if strychnine
had been in the stomach at all. That substance an-
swered to an the testa of strychnine. He, therefore,
said that arryebnine was found in the contents of the
stomach of the eldest child. He could not speak defi-
nitely as to tie quantity; it would be the residue after
sotne strychnine bad been abmrbed in the system. He
aLo examined the contents of • jar labelled, "Liver of
Eldest," and found in them strychnine. He then gave
testimony with regard to the atotnach and liver
of the youngest child. The investigation resulted in a
verdict of wilful mnrder against Mrs. Vyse. She will
be eminnittsd to Newgate for trial,

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Tux Sewing Or -A
Soutign.—An extraordinary
suicide was perpetrated at the Raglan Barrack., on
Tuesday morning, by Thomas Curry, a private soldier
belonging to the 37th Regiment. The deceased, a
native at Ireland, had served with math credit for
several years in India, and had uniformly borne a good
°hamster. Until recently his mother, to whom he was
devotedly attached, lived in Belfast. Whilat on foreign
service he had accumulated a considerable sum of
manisy, which, on his return he sent to his mother.
Sint* his arrival ia England he continued his regular
and careful habits, and had again put together a BUM
of money to send to his mother. All went well until
a few days ago, when he received a letter from Ireland,
which conveyed the s.d intelligence that his mother
had died'ateidenly. The news affected him very ouch;l
he Weems sad, shy, and distant, and refused his food.
Previously he had been a sociable reason, and was
always ready for • quiet juke, and was, by his ready
wit, a cause of amusement to others. After a day or
so in this way he took out the nioney he had saved,
and spent it in drmk, came to barracks drunk and
noisy, and had one stripe removed it consequence.
On Tueaday morning at drill, the sergeant pointed out
some slight defect, whereon deceased muttered some-
thing that was not intelligible. On returning to hill
barrack he obtained his rise, ostensibly to clean it, hut
as the event proved, for the fatal purpose of killing
himself. He went to the honk of Sergeant Belton,
whe was absent, and made a *Mee, as a make-believe
that he was 0414141 g his dee. but he was really
loading it. Presently there was at explosion, and on
going to the place a horrid spectacle was seen. De-
ceased was standing in an upright position the noniste
of the rifle in his mouth, and the toes of his right foot
on the trigger. His head was in • frightful sta'.e, the
I ball, entering the roof of the mouth had passed out
through the top of the head, gone tilrongh the ceiling
above, through the room over, and Into the next
ceiling. He was found to be dead, and was removed
to She Military Hospital. An inquest was held by Mr.
Bone, coroner, in the afternoon when a verdict was
found to the erect that " deceased shot himself whilst
in ato of temporary insanity." The sudden and sad
death of tins poor soldier IMO spread an unusual gloom
and oedema over the company to which he belonged.
FATAL ACCIDCI4I..—Ou Monday morning • frightful
commence took plaoe at .19, Queen-street, Queen-
equate, Westminster. It appears that Mr. Richard
Macdougall Barrett, an enrolled volunteer, residing at
the shore Mauve, had retnrued home from attending the
drill of his corps, and took upon himself to clean the
emond•door windows, and while so engaged slipped_ and
fell to the ground, etriking the area railings in his
descent. He was pinked up Weeding and insensible,and
taken to Westminster Hospital, when it was found that
his skull was, fractured, and he expired shortly after
his admission. The deceased was formerly attached to
the sth Fumblers, add fought with that regiment at
Zucknow, -Cawnpore, and thioughoni tlwo Indjen
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tr-sondon merchant's clerk, named George Hay, nom-
mated suicide on Thursday by placing his head under •
wegon. It is mid that the n ones of the winner and
other horses that ran for the Derby on the previous day
were found in his pockets.
FRIONTFUL OCCUERRNCE NEAR BOLTON. —On Tues-
day an inquest was held before Mr. W. S. Ratter at the
Ainsworth Arms publio-house, Halliwell, on the bodtos
If two girls, who met with& frightlul death on Saturday
night, It appeared- that the deceased's names were
Miry Alice Dischurst, aged 10, and Mary Schofield, siged
12, and shq were cousins. The father of Schofield is
the engine tenter at the old corn mill at Siulthells, cm
Kelliwell read, and a shaft, n Inches in diameter, runs
horizontally outside the 'mil, and only *bout six or eight
inches from the ground. Thr place where it is tixea is
a secluded spot, and at about six or eight yards from a
footpath upon which the neighbours are permitted to go
for the purpose of fetching water from a well. About
half-past eight o'clock on Saturday night s women
neared 'Ann Heaton was going slens this path, when
she saw the two children fast by the clothes to this
shaft, one of them going round with it, and the other's
hese nothing in mutant with it every tiull it rodeed.
illiasidstanee Watt 'obeidnettliVrweie NMI tribe both
dead and dreadfully mutilated, the girl Schofield hexing.
her right arm torn off. The speed et the Asti is yew,

slow, only revolving 22 timea rer minute, and It
appeared that it bad been customary f(r the girlA to Tiny
.ihout the tdialt and sit noon it. S firm was the hold
which the shaft had oi fimeir dollies that in Mewing
them under, a hole hail been node five or niU inehe,
deep in the earth, so as to sllow the body to go under.
A verdict was returned of " Accidental death.

Ex TR AORD IN Y AY F .IIU AT StILtFFILD.On
Tuesday much excitement provoiled aniimg the intabi•
tants of the parish of St. Sheffield-I"r'
especially in the vicinity of the War trend burial-ground
—in consequence of a eitiely circelated report that n
number of tolfine and bodies liArl been improperly re
moved, and that the sexton, Isaac Howard, had been
concerned in this sacrilegious proceoding. So groin
e as the populsr indignation aroused OD this subject that
in the couree of the afternoon a large crowd assembled
in the burial-ground, by whom very violent threats of
vengeance were um& against the alleged delinquent.
As soon as the sexton arrived on the ground, w th a view
of taking part in an interment apeointod for that at -
noon, he was roughly as/wilted, and he was only saved
from more serious bijou by the timely arrival of the
police. In the count of the evening the windows of the
Mow, which stands in the centre of the grt tin& and
also the windows of the place in which the burial
service is read, were smashed, and the premises
were otherwise considerably damaged. During
the afternoon and evening a large number of
persons assembled near to the house occupied
by the sexton on the land allotment near the Hillsbro'
toll-bar. The house was of stone, and had been built by
Howard. It wan two storeys high, end contained fiv,
sr six 'wetly fin-Nisbet! rooms. The crowd appeared to
get more and more excited as the numbers increased.
and threats of violence were loudly made. At night,
stones were thronn at the windows, and when several
of them bat been broken a cry was raised to set fire tie
the house. Extreme and ruffianly an this step is ii,
was actually taken. The furnitore was first smashed,
end then piled in heops on the floors mid set fire to. At
this time only Mrs. Howard, wife of the sexton, wan lii
the house; hut her entreaties to the mob to spare the
pronerty were disregarded, and the pima was soon in
flames. It was with much difficulty Mrs. Howard was
compelled to quit the building. Fire engines from the
Sheffield, Liverpool, and London offices were promptly
rent for, but before their arrival the finites bad taken set
film a hold on the premises that it was impossible
to save any portion of the contents. Toe
Louse, fortunately, was detached, and the fire
was, therefore, confined to it. 80 rapidly did the flee
progress that at midnight nothieg bet the bare svelte
were loft standing. During the progress of the fire
strong expressions were made use of by several people
in the crowd in reference to Howard, and it was broadly
stated that if he had been there lie would have been
thrown on to the fire, or otherwise severely handled.
'The Rev. Mr. Livesey, incumbent of St. Philip's, has
addressed a letter to the local journela in explanstion of
time fects connected with tee alieged desecration of the
burial-ground. From his statement it entwine that the
police had 1i0.7.2 disys previonay resolved informatieu
that the remains t 4 a nsuttlat-d human body were con-
tented in the coach houFe the key of which the sexton,
it was said, on being ap, red to, lead declined to pro
dine. On the cestch-Louse subsequently being mensd
a box containing a /114.9 of decomoosing matter W
di,covered, which the ti,xton accounted Ur by stating
the-fl it had bsen sent from the Medical Hail, and was
pietist there by him for a short time irevions to con-
veying it to a covers' exearation. eriein fly intended
for a catacomb, but afterwat da used a- a receetaele for
the reinoins a at free. the Medical Hall, and foe still-
born children, over which rim buii.l service cannot
legally be read. Mr. Livesey goes on to etate that
mine person, accordin4 to the sextou'a st.tement. unit
pLkerl the lock of the co '.ell-house, and, after obtaining
entrance, had placed titers several small coffins and
coffin-plates, thrown out from the graves of children
buried four or five years ago, as ah wn by the dates of
the plates. Tile infaute graves, five feet deep in the
same section, had all been rink deeper for faintly
graven; and the error committed by the sexton, in Mr.
Livesey's judgment, was in removing the coffins when
the graves were deepened ; and, in so doing, the rev.
gentleman says lie bad grossly offended against decency.
The whole affair, lie states, has been very much exag-
gerated from feelings of malice and revenge. A labour-
ing oman and his wife, it seenis, had been lately ad-
mitted in charge of the lodge, Boon after which omn•
plaints were mode of robberies of plants and flowers
haviug been committed. The man referred to, on being
charged with the thefts, and ordered to quit the place,
violent'y abused the sexton. and threatened to stab him.
A peace-warrant has been issued agaiest this person,
who in a few days will bit required to mower the charge
b fore the magistrates, when no doubt farther die-
closures will be made. The Rev. Mr. Liveney, in &in-
clusion, while admitting the blemeworthy aniduct of
the sexton, says it is the first offence that has come to
his knowledge during a period of twenty-five yearn,
and Is expresses his determination to preserve the
cemetery for the sacred purpose for which it was
consecrated.