The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-11 00:00:00

eeneral Nebn.

A Rum CAPTURII.—Her Majesty's gunboat Jasper,
uptured • slaver on the ooast of Cuba on the 22nd of
March. The slaver was a full-rigged 'hip, 750 tons
burden, and had £B,OOO in doubloons OD board. She had
a crew of between forty and fifty men, but no slaves. The
Styx wu in company at the time of the capture, and
left in chase of • barque supposed to have slaves on
board.

LONDON AND DOVER.— The onntest for an independent
railway route to Dover liu just been decided by a cont.
mittee of the House of Commons in favour of the East
Kent Company, by an extension of their line from
Strood to St. Mary Cray. The effect is to plus in the
hands of this company, whose total capital is only
£2,000,000, the shortest route by Dover to the oontinent,
avoiding the angle by Reigate. It is stated to save
20 miles to Canterbury, Rammate, and Margate,
nearly 30 to Herne Bay, and eight or nine to Dover,
affording also, by means of another line before T'arli•-
went, • west-end terminus at Pimlico.

PROTECTION OF THI PROPCRTY Or MARRIED WOKEN.
—A notification is made in Tuesday's Gazette that by
direction of the Lords of the Treasury • registry is to be
kept in every County Court of all order' for the pro-
tection of property of deserted married women entered
under the 21st section of the 20th and alit of Victoria,
o. 85, with the Registrar of the Court, where the same
may be inspected by any person desirous of so doing;
and further, that • copy of the entry in the County Court
shall be sent to the office of the Central Registry of
County Court Judgments, at No. 2, New-street Spring-
gardens, London, S. W., to be there registered so as to
enable the future creditors and others to ascertain
whether a married woman has obtained protection of her
property, and to render unnecessary inquiry at the
several County Courts within the districts within which
she may have dwelt since 1857.

COLLIZEY Exmoefoer.—An explosion of fire-damp
occurred at the Wombwell-main colliery, near Barnsley,
on Tuesday morning, and resulted in the injury of
several persons, who were engaged in measuring off the
quantity of coal which had been got on the north side of
the south pit, about 200 yards from the bottom. When
the peculiar noise known to miners on the approach of
fire-damp was heard, and a sheet of flame was seen ap-
proaching, some of the party threw themselves on to the
ground and escaped injury, but the rest were more or
less severely burnt. Great excitement prevailed in the
neighbourhood. Had the men been at work in the pit
much more serious consequences must have resulted.
The party viewing the pit carried the ordinary oil-lamp,
instead of the Davy lights, and to this cause the explo-
lion is attributed.

A PARASOL A FATAL WICAPON.-011 Wednesday
afternoon Mr. Payne held an inquest at St. Thomas's
Hospital on the body of Elise Roffey, aged 30. On
Saturday, as the deceased was hurrying across the road
to the London-bridge Station to catch • train for Maid.
stone, she tripped and fell. When raised by the by-
standers she stated that her parasol had wounded her in
the breast. It was noticed that the parasol handle,
which had been broken, was quite sharp at the end. In
• minute or two blood flowed from her mouth, and she
was taken as quickly as possible to St. Thomas's Hospital,
on reaching which she was found to be dead. The
surgeon found that the parasol handle had pierced
through the right lung. The coroner, in summing up,
alluded to the great length of the dresses now worn by
ladles, and expressed his surprise that there were not
more accidents from that cause, as he frequently ob-
served that many ladies, before they ventured to step,
had to kick the front of their dresses forward. A
verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

Turn EARL OF SRAFTZSBURT ON INDIA.—The annual
meeting of the British end Foreign Bible Society was
held on Wednesday in Eneterheli. The chair was
taken by the President, the Karl of Shaftesbui7, sup-
ported by the Marquis of Cholmondeley, Lord Henry
Cholmondeley, Earl Duals, Lord C. Russell, the Bishop
of London, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Guth's,
the Bishop of Cashel, Canons Stowell, Cairns, and
Miller, and several of the leading Dissenting ministers.
Prayer having been offered by Mr. Bergin, one of the
secretaries, and • passage of Scripture reed, the Chair-
man, in opening the promedinp, referred to the lit.
Indian outbreak, as having afforded in the first instance
a discouraging proopect to the society, but as now pro-
moting an enlarged field for its operations, end urged
upon the sociiety't friends the circulation of the Word of
God in all parts of India. They should be encouraged
in doing this by the feet that the Presidencies in which
the Bible was circulated were those which had been
almost or entirely free from mutiny, while the greatest
Woollies were perpetrated in the petted Brehminical
Presidency of Bengal, where the circulation of the
Scriptures among the native troops was forbidden, and
even the thapleth debarred from giving scriptural in-
struction, and where no much apparent ignorant,' of
Christianity prevailed that a reedy ear was lent to the
assertion that they were to be converted to it by the
diffusion among them of hogs' lard, bears' grease, end
other similar condiments. In sending Bibles and Mis-
sionaries to India the meeting would be helpini, as they
were bound to do, such Christian men as Sir John Law.
nom, Montgomery, and Edward's who were the only
dependenee we had for the prevention of mutiny in the
future, as Sir Henry Lawrence and Havelock had been
the Mani of quelling to a great extent that which had
so moonily °muffed. The report ma then read, from
which it appeared that the receipts of the year had ex-
math tiThe mes of any mooed* year, eaabiNer, *ha
Al* wog,* wee glen addreeeed by Ms Blebope
▪ LOndon and Ripon. Canon Stowell, the Bey. NV,
Cadman, the Hon. B. W. Noel, Dr. Cumming, and the
Ur. Wlllam Brock, who severally enforced the society's
dams.

INGENIOUS ROBBERT.—We gave a few days since,
some particulars of an hnpudent rilbery effected by a
woman of respectable appearance, who, having first suc-
ceeded in inducing Messrs. Hunt and Roakell to send '
several valuable articles of jewelry to a furnished house
in Radnor-place, Hyde Park, for the pretended purpose
of being submitted lo a lady of title, adroitly possessed
herself of a portion of the property, and immediately
left the house, having first locked the door of the
apartment in which the young man in charge of the
jewelry remained. Information of the robbery was
speedily given to the police; and the case having been
entruated to the experienced hands of Inspector
Whicher, of the detective force, that officer used the
best means to track the thief, and happily with so much
mama that her apprehension hss been effected within
the last 48 hours, while sitting in a second class carriage
on the Great Western Railway, with the stolen jewelry
upon her person. The thief proves to be a well-edu-
cated woman named Louisa Moutet, who has lived in
several English families in the capacity of travelling
oo npanion, and since 1834 (le to September last superin-
tended the business of a Parisian Hotel. In September
she returned to England, and Iles since conducted a
boarding-house at Dawliah, in Devonshire, whither it is
supposed she was returning at the moment of her appre-
hension by Whicher. The circumstances of this rob-
bery are so remarkable, and they have hitherto been so
imperfectly detailed, that a brief narrative of the facts
will prove interesting :—On the 18th ult, a fashionably
dressed woman, who gave the name of Miss Constance
Brown, of St. Leonard's-on-Sea, and who stated herself
to be a friend of Sir John and Lady Campbell, who were
about returning to England from a continental tour,
waited upon Mr. Nugent, • house agent, of Berkeley.
street, Edgeware-road, and requested permission to view
a furnished house. No. 14, Radnor-place, which had
been advertised to be let. The permission was granted as
a matter of course, and the house being approved by
" Miss Constance Brown," she took possession on the
10th ult., paying down FAO for the first month, and
referring for her respectability to Mears. Oox and
Bidduph, of Charing-cross, who, in reply to Mr. Nu-
gent's inquiry, stated that "Miss Constance Brown"
kept an account with them and was highly respectable.
Immediately on obtaining possession of the house the soi-
disant "Miss Brown" hired • brougham and engaged a
page, whom she decked out in smart livery. On the
20th silt, she drove to the shop of Mr. Ray, a jeweller,
of Castle-street, Oxford-street, and making use of the
name of Mrs. ActonTindid, of Aylesbury, succeeded in ob-
taining possession of a ring and bracelet, together valued
at £6O. On the following afternoon Messrs. Hunt and
Haskell were favoured with • visit, and requested to
send to Radnor-place, the same evening, a quantity of
valuablejewelry suitable for a marriage trousseau, for the
approval of Lady Campbell. On reaching home "Miss
Brown" sent the page out on a trifling errand, and upon
his return she told him that in his absence Lady Camp-
bell had arrived, and, being fatigued, had gone to bed,
desiring him at the same time to bring up a cup of tea,
which he would find ready in the kitchen. Upon carry-
ing out this mats-notion the page was met at the bedroom
door by "Miss Brown," who took the tea from him,
and, with the art of • practised ventriloquist, held an
apparent conversation with an elderly lady inside the
room, thus impressing the bqy with • belief of some fresh
arrival in the house. Shortly afterwards Messrs. Hunt
and Roskell's assistant arrived, and, on asking if Lady
Campbell was at home, he was answered in the affirma-
tive, and shown into the drawing-room. The page then
went down stairs to call his mistress, who immediately
despatched him on • fictitious errand to the neighbour-
hood of the Strand. "Miss Brown" now entered the
drawing-room in full dress, and, representing that Lady
Campbell was en deshabille, said her ladyship would be
glad to inspect the jewels. The property in charge of
the assistant, amounting in value to £2,500, he demurred
to part with, but, being ultimately induoed by the
specious manner of the lady, he intrusted her with a
bracelet valued at £320, with which she left the room.
After the lapse of a quarter of an hour, as she did not
return, the assistant become alarmed, and on trying the
door of the apartment he found it locked against him.
The shutters were also secured, and it was with great
difficulty that he at length succeeded in effecting his
escape from the house by the aid of the police on duty
in the neighbourhood. For better preoaution against
robbery Messrs. Hunt and Roskell had sent a second
assistant, who remained outaide the house while his
fellow went in to submit the goods. This young man
saw the page and "Miss Brown" successively leave the
house, but neither the one nor the other excited his sus-
picion. The page returned shortly after the police had
forced an entrance, and limn being questioned be per-
sisted that Lady Campbell was up stairs, so thoroughly
had he been deceived by the ventriloquism of his mis-
I treu. The house was of coarse found without an occu-
pant. When arrested Inspector Whieher addressed the
thief as Max Moutot, to which name she readily an-
swered. Almost immediately afterwards, observing her
to be busy with her arms under her cloak, the officer
seized her wring, and in one of her hands found Messrs.
Hunt and Ho'kell'i bracelet, which elm coolly said she
had picked up in Oxford-street on the previous evening.
On being taken to the polite-station and searched there
were found upon her a Bank of England note for £lOO,
a man'. wig, • pair of false whiskers and moustaches,
and a man's travelling cap. Her dress was also fitted
with the pockets usually worn by shoplifter'. The pri-
soner has already been Identified by several persona, and
she will be brought up for examination on Wednesday
at Marylebone Polioe-Court. It appears that she for-
merly resided with Miss Combine. Brown in the capa-
city of travelling companion, and while in that situa-
tion derived some knowledge of Sir John and Lady
Campbell's family '

MURDEL—A dreadful murder occurred at the HWY=
Guardian newspaper-offloe on Wednesday, and threw
the whole town into the utmost ocuuternation. It ap.
pears that the compositors at the daft of the Halifax
Guardian had but lust returned from dinner' a little
after two o'clock. A number of them were In the first
oompositon' room upstairs and two others, one of them
the deceased, James Jacobi, end the other his murderer,
• youth about 20 years of age, named Dawson, an ap.
prentioe, were in the further room, looking into George.
street-yard. The two latter were at work, and just be•
fore the melancholy affair Dawson had gone to one of
the other men for a pinch of snuff for deceased, with
which he had returned to the other room. No quarrel
in words was heard between the two, but it seems the
murderer shut the door and fastened it, and without a
moment', warning commenced an attack on Jaoobs with
Iron "dumb-bells., ' After this, and apparently becom-
ing still inure furious, he seised an iron pressatang,
about two yards and a half long, and beat the deceased
about the head with that. He then seized • hatchet,
and with it out away at the face and head of his viethn.
Meanwhile the two other workmen were alarmed at the
noise going on, and, it is said, ran into the street.
There was a woolaorter named Bates passing up the
street, however, to whom they communicated that there
was something wrong, and he, a strong courageous man,
determined to ascertain what was really the matter. He
and the printers entered the office, and, breaking open
the door found, to their utter dismay, that poor Jacobs
was dead. The sight that presented itself was fearful.
The dead body of the man, who but • few moments be-
fore was vigorous with life and all the strength of man-
hood, was lying on its back in the room. There was •
large pool of blood, the brains being mingled in it. The
wounds were of the most dreadful character, and all
upon the front part of the head. The forehead was laid ,
Tpen, and the face gashed apparently with the hatchet.
he ill-fated man had taken off hie coat, and had com-
menced his work, for his composing stick lay near him.
The murderer was immediately arrested and removed to
the Townhall in the custody of the polioe. He is •
youth still serving his time with Mr. Walker, the pro-
prietor and publisher of the Halifax Guardian, and is
considered a youth of remarkably quiet disposition. He
end his victim were believed to be very friendly, and
frequently worked side by nide with each other. Not
one word of disagreement, that we can bear of, had oc-
curred between the two. Dawson had been engaged up
to the time on some "rule work," which he had exe-
cuted very neatly, and altogether had conducted himself
with the greatest propriety up to the very instant of his
commencing the fatal attack on Jacobs. The man's
trousers were bespattered with blood and brains when
removed to the Townhall. He did not seem much ex-
cited, but had • peculiar wildness about the eyes. He
quietly told Sergeant Thompson all that had happened.
The only explicable statement is that Dawson must have
suddenly lost his reason, and under the influence of
momentary madness done this dreadful deed. Jacobs,
the deceased, was very well known in the town. He
resided at Hall-end, where his wife carried on the busi-
ness of a milliner on a large scale. He was in the vigour
of his days, a strong, active man. He had been at the
Guardian office for a dozen yeare at least. On Thurs-
day an inquest was held at Halifax before Mr. Dyson,
the coroner for the district, on the body of James Jacobs,
aged 30, a compositor in the office of the Halifax
Guardian, who was murdered on the previous day by
William Dawson, aged 19, an apprentice in the office.
The most important evidence was that of Mr. T. A.
Tucker, a surgeon, and it referred to the state of the pri•
loner's mind. In the course of his examination Mr.
Tucker said :—" I have known the prisoner since he was
'child. He has always been shy and diffident, and as
he grew up lie became snore reserved in his manner.
About six months ago he consulted me professionally,
and at this interview it was some time before he was
able to explain himself. His manner was reserved, and
very eccentric. At last, after a while, he began to com-
plain of pains in different parts of his body, and of a dis-
ease which never existed in him. With some reluctance
he expressed a feu that he was imbecile in his genital
organs." No sooner had the witness said this than the
prisoner, who was seated at the bottom of the table be-
tween two constables madden', started up, throw his
arms wildly about, and appeared as if he wanted to get
at the witness. He was immediately seised by the
policemen, but his strength Wee such that at lint it
appeared as if they would be unable to hold him. Dur.
ing this time he uttered the mast horrible howls, and
shouted out, " Why the did he mention that 1" He
was at last held with extreme dculty by a number of
polioeinen and others, and irons were put on him, and he
was held down in • corner of the room, but all the time
be uttered loud screams, and it was found necessary to,
remove him from the room. Ma Tucker than went on
to state that he subsequently bad further conversation
with the prisoner, who answered many of his questions
in a very incoherent manner, and lie should not have
been surprised to hear he had oommitted suicide, but he
thought him too inoffensive to commit murder. He was
now decidedly of opinion that the prisoner was insane,
and that his present attack would be permanent. The
jury, who were told by the coroner that the question of
the prisoner's sanity was not within their province, found
a verdict of "Wilful murder against William Dawson"
(the prisoner), and upon the *owner's warrant he Wee
00MMItted to take him trial at the next sailed at York
Castle.

Oran of festoon's, Covens, CbLIM, holy DR, Lccom's
Pinworm Wsisen—Yrom Mr. &mei Drury, Stone Bow,
Linooln.—" I ant authorised by several ladles and pntlemen—
whom names I can give—to state that Dr. Looook's Wafers
have proved of the highast efficacy to them for oolda coughs,
homelier, wheesing, influema, son throat ; and In almost
every sale I hear of benefit obtained by their use." To singers
end public in:eaten they are imminable for clearing and
strengthening the voice. They hoe a pleasant taste. Price
lx ifd., h. ed., and lb. per box. Bold by all druggists,.
Irroseurr Osorion.,4l hia been discovered that many
Mediaine Vendors, when asked for any of Dr. Loooca's
mita, attempt to par off Instead some oounterfelt, became
they have a greater profit In doing leo than by selling the
pnitine medicine-4M publio la cautioned against such Ms-
iWist praoiloss, which may be damned by observing that
every box of the enemas medicine him the worth "DL
Locom's in wage Ware on a red groused In the
Government stamp, and without which words .41.1, Lii
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