The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-24 00:00:00

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THE WAY OF DEATH.

11ANSTAUGHTER ?TRAIL SCARDINOUGII.I6woman
named Mary Holman, residing at Searboroug ,h as been
committed for trial at the Y. rk &wises on charge of
manslaughter, her victim having been her stepwou.
The woman had become the wife of • widower named
John Holnian, • sailor, about *even months since, and
she wenn to have commenced soon after her marriage
to show the poor boy the diflerence between • mother
by nature and • mother by marriage. At tut she suc-
ceeded in beating the life out of the child—at oil events
• coroner's jury has so decided. The charge of murder,
It appears, could not be preferred against the woman,
but bad the populace of Scarborough got hold of her we
suspect no technical consideration would have restrained
them from &receding her the doom of • murderess.
MVIDIR Neat OXPORD.—A dreadful murder has
been committed at Upper Hayford, near Oxford, the
victim being • respectable man named Allen, a miller.
A person named Austin dad been paying hls addressee
to Mr. Allen's daughter, arid on the day of the murder
he was wen on the road near to the spot where the
tour* was committed, in company with Kr. Allen.

Two little boys who were near hard 100111 shots fired.
And directly afterward* saw Au.tin running awsf.
Austin ha* been apprrliended, and remains in custody,
the inquest having been adjourned.
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SCIC:IHE FROM -DISAPPOINTED LOTL —MOM Jane
Herbert, aged nineteen, daughter of • tradesman at
New Shoreham, fell in love with James Jupp, a
labourer. Her family strongly objected to the affair,
and Mr. Herbert stated to June, in presence of his
daughter, that be would never permit the match, and
" that he would prefer following her to her pare to
seeing her married to lout (Jupp)." Jupp in hia evi-
dence stated that deceased in one of her letters said
that her father " had distinctly throatened to murder
her if she held any correspondence with him." All
this trade a profound impression on the unfortunate
deceased, and she became quite deer:ending. She got •
friend to purchaae at • chemista two packages of
" Butler's Vermin Destroyer." On Friday she kissed
her father and went to her room. The next morning
she was found eeed. A letter found in her pocket-
book ran so follows :—"Tell James Jupp I am gone
where he told me to go. He is the cause of this, but I
freely forgive him. Tell him I want him to see my
remains laid in the grain when I shall mat in pe•ce.
The corontr's jury which invested the case returned
a verdict in accordance with the facts.
11ANHLAEGHTER OF A MOTHER BY HER SON.—On
Wednesday uninting, at the Salford Townhall, Benja-
min Longatuff, • diacharged soldier, lately living at
159, Oreenpte, Salford, was brought up, charged with
having clamed the death of his mother, Elms Looptaff,
aged 14. The prisoner snd the decemed had been
drinking together at the Druids' Arms, Greenest.,
returned home intoxicated, •nd quarrelled about SOLIIO
.7. During the right a diAurbarioe was heard in
the house by the neighbours, and nest morning the de-
mooed was found dead, haying two blackened eyes and
other brnieca Death was calmed by estravasation of ,
blood on the brain, resulting from external violence.
The prisoner was sent for trash for manslaughter.
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ISCYANT MOITALITT.-011 Wednesday was issued •
return of the verdicts of coroners' inquests in England
and St ales on children under two years of are during
the year 1861 and the trot Aix months of 1802 The
following are tho numbers in the respective °meta"
England: Metropolis dist Hat, 1,549. Counties—Bedford,
; Berks. 63; Rucks, :17 ; Cainbrhlpe. 53; Cheshire,
134; Cornwall, 121 ; Cumberland, 26; Derby, 114;
Devon, ; Dorset, 2-.1; Durham, '0; Eases, GO
Gloucestershire, 147; Herefordshire, 21; Herta, 16 ;
lluutingdoc 10; Kent. so, Lancashire, 750 Leieeetev.
; Lincoln, 133; Montnouth, 39; Norfolk. 64
Northampton, 49; Northumberland, 37; Notts, 70:
Oxford, 58 ; Rutland. ; Salop, 39; Somerset, 143;
Southampton, 333; Stafford, 2!2; Suffolk, 52 • Surrey,
20 ; Smaies, 02 ; Warwick. 50 ; Westmoreland, 10;
Wilt., 77; Worcester, 62; York, It 7 ; total. England,
4,978. Wales Counties—Anglesey; 6; BreCOn• 6;
Cardig•n, 1; Carmarthen, 10; Carnarvon, 10; Den-
bigh, 17; Flint, 9; Chnuorganshire, 116; Montgomery,
133; Pembroke, 1; Radnor, 2; total, Wales, 135.
Total, England and Wales, 5,113. Out of this total
there are only 600 returned aa above the ago of one
year.
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SAD END To A bra or Ilnutar.—The body of a
poor woman, named Frances Phi,lna, the wife of •
shoemaker, living in Digliswtreet, and the mother of
three little children. was found drowned in the Severn
on Saturday. On Friday, the woman charged her hue.
band before the Worcester magistrates with cruelly
heating and ilhtreating her, and the bench sentenced
the man to six months' imprisonment. It seemed that
the poor creature and her children were turned out of
their lodging afterwards, and her troubles pressed
heavily upon her. On the Monday following she went
to the house of • female friend, and told her that the
people where she and her family lodged had turned her
children out of doors, and had kept their bed. She was
in great distreas. Her friend assisted her in procuring
the bed, and invited her to bring her children to her
house ; and during the afternoon • neighbour visited
them. The poor creature then talked shout making
away with herself. After washing her children, and
putting them to bed, she went out, about nine o'clock,
for the ostensible purpose of buying • packet of needles,
but she never returned. An inquest was held by the
city coroner, and an open verdict of •• bind Drowned"
was returned.

IFIONICIDI ST AN ARCHRISHOP.—Abbot, the second
appointment of James I.' brought a scandal on the
Church by an unhappy inisadventere. As • guest of
Lord Zsuch's, he made one of a party to hunt deer,
which in itself had nothing repugnant to the feelings of
his lay, when an ill-aimed arrow from WS cross-bow
unfortunately killed one of the keeper% Abbot was
much shocked, al were the public generally. Hi, Grit
impulse, and the wises% Wad da retire into private life ;
he did retire for a while to Guildford lloopital, which
he had founded; but the public controversy on the
subject, which occupied not only Engle& divines and
eietlianr, hut the doctors of the Sorbanne, ended in •
full pardon from the king, and • formal dipensation
from a commission of bishop% contrary to the opinion
of the Lord Keeper Williams, who held that sacred
olfioes could not rightly be exereieed by • Mall of blood.
The voice of the excellent Bishop Andrews, on the
other hand, is said to have greatly influenced the other
prelates in their favourable decision. But the scandal
of the unfortunate act remained Calvinistand puritan
thouxh he was, Abbot had • more than monutic aver. ,
siou to the sight of women. When the curiosity of the
ear led them on one occasion to crowd round his coach
at Croydon, the acclibiallop asked impatiently, "What
make these women here!" " Your grace bad best shoot
an arrow at us," wan the indignant rejoinder. Three
bishop. elect, one of whom VIM Laud, dealmed to receive
consecration from Abbot, and their scruple. were
respected ; and it was gloomily remembered afterwards
that the crown had loon planed on the heal of (Intel.
1. by the hand of a homicide, The Church utan's Amalfi/
: opazi ne.

ATTEXPTID MURDER IN THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK.
—The Cori I-rammer of Wednesday antionnaea that
Mr. John Cuaten, a gentleman residing at Itockhill, near
Bruree, county Limerick, wa Bred at through his
parlour window on Tuesday evening, while aitting down
to dinner with his faintly. Four large slugs lodged in
his right shoulder, and one entered the right side of his
mouth, basking one tooth and injuring others. The
wounds are not aimidered fatal. The polioe were
immediately on the alert, but have obtained no clue to
the perpetrator* of the outrage. The motive for the act
is utterly unknown, as Mr. Cuaaen was neither an agent
nor a landlord, and was much respected in the neigh,.
bourliouJ.