The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-05-20 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

TRADE OUTRAGE IN SkIEFFIF.LD.—AnOtIier of those
disgraceful acts which has obtained for the town of
Sheffield an unenviable notoriety, took place on Monday
night. A razor-grinder, natm-d Green, had had a
difference with bollle of his fellow-workmen, and on
going to his place of business on Tuesday morning he
tonsil that during the night his tools had been destroyed
by fire. It is supposed that the diaagreement with
the other grinders was the cause of the outrage, brit
there appears to be but tittle clause of the detection
and punishment of the perpetrators..
THE FIREDGN TRAGEDY—On Tani:lay James taw-
rence, aged 27, • gardener of Elittersea Hill, Hendon,
was placed before Mr. Edward Williatn Cox, And a
bench of magistiates, at the Edgware Petty Sessions,
charged with the wilful murder of Ails Cox, at Mill
Hill, Hendon, on the 29th of March last. The accused,
it will be remembered, after shooting his sweetheart,
attaninted to commit Nuiciiif by shooting himself, and
ip making the attempt friglifully injured the left aide
of his face. He was conveyed to Middlesex I-inspital,
where he had since retnainedi Oh Tuesday morning
he was brought thence in the custody of Inspector
Defter, of the S division of pollee, to undergo examina-
tion. The prisoner presented a frightful 'pelted°.
His head wee enveloped iii surgical bandages aud cotton
wool, one aide of his face only being exposed. The in-
jured side protruded, from swelling to an enormous
extent, and his month was drawn awry. He was
carried into the court in a chair. The accused was in a
very exhausted state, and was supplied with stimulants
during the examination, which lasted five hours. The
mother of the deceased and a nukebtr of other wit-
nesses were examined, but nothing was added to the
facts previously reported. When the evident* had
been completed the prisoner wee asked if he had any
statement to make. In reply lie merely shook his
head, to indicate his intention not to make any remarks.
Flu was then frilly souunittsd for trial, and was con-
voyed away in a cab to Newgate, under the charge of
Inspector Defter and a pollee-officer.

Tue CHILD MUSDIR AT COVENTRY.—The inquest on
the body of the little girl Marston, who was drowned by
her father in • pit at Whituiore Park on Thursday week,
was concluded on Wednesday, the jury retaining a
verdict of "Wilful Murder" against the unnatural
parent. The prisoner voluntarily confessed to having
tied • skein of worsted round the child's neck, and,
attaching • atone to it, threw the little girl into the pit,
Laving first placed some Bowen in her hand. The
prisoner was said to have been passionately fond of the
child, and it is believed that at the time he committed
the wicked act he was labouring under species of
insacity.
THIS MYSTERIOUS MIS IPPEARANCS OP A YOURG
MARRIED LADY.-1t will be recollected that on Tues-
day, the 22nd ult., a young married lidy disappeared
from the neighbourhood of Howden, under very dis-
tressing circumstances. She left Howdeu-dyke Ferry
on the afternoon of the above day, stating that she
had business at Skelton, a village about • mile further
down tile river, and proceeded in that direction. She
wee never afterwards seen alive. The following morn-
ing a package, carefully tied up in a shawl, containing
her fur, bonnet, mantle, and umbrella, with a parcel of
lima, was found in a garden at the front of • house at
Ski lton, near the river. Every exertion was for a long
time made, by dragging the river, to discover the body.
On Tuesday evening, however. a body was seen fleeting
up the water, by • sailor on booed a lighter -inchored
near Kilpin Pyke, who, with the assimance of • inan
fr m a ueighbouring vessel, secured it, end afterw
took it *share, where- it wseedeneified a* the corpse uf
the missing lady. The features were much di-figured
by lengthened immersion in the water, but the clothes,
and a pencil-cue, and some ether articles, found le
her pocket, were sufacient to establish beg identity.

An inquest was held on Wednesday afternoon, but the
evidence adduced brought to light no facts of import-
ance beyond thous mentioned ',Wye. The jury re-
turned a vet d iet of "Found dead, floating on the waters
of the RIP r Ouse."

A blancliester contemporary reports an extraordinary
case of suspected murder which occurred in that city
about midday on Wednesday. The supposed victim
was an old perip,itetio utulir ila maker, known by the
sotchKquct of "Bolton Jack," and the alleged murderess
is a woman named Mary Reynolds. On Wednesday,
while the old man with a small bundle of umbrel'as
WILK passing along a court, the wonirn ran up to him
and charged him with having received an umbrella
from her to mend about twelve months since, which
ho bad not returned. The man denied ever having
seen the article, when the woman took his bundle from
bins and coinmenoed beating him about the head. The
blows were again and again repeated. and were so
severe that lie died almost immediately from their
effects. The woman was apprehended the IMMO
evening.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN ON • RACE-
COMM—The Rev. A. M. Foilden, rector of Sebington,
was seised w.th sudden illness on Wednesday, on
Chester racecourse, and died almost instantly. His
body was removed to the gland jury room at the Castle,
to await An inquest. Detea..ed was upwards of seventy
years of age, and had been rector of Bebington for about
forty rears.

DRSPRRA TR AFFRAY' WITH BURGLARS AT I/IBSEN-
H ICAD.—OR Wednesday afternoon, about linlf-past
three o'clock, Mr. Fdarard Coins, joiner awl builder,
ha.. an encounter with three ruffians who had, in the
abseil a of a family named Arthur, effected an entrance
into dwelling-house, No 6, Sea-bank Villas, Birken-
In ad. and he ea* SO beaten by them that his medical
attendants consider him in a precarious condition.
During the early part of the afternoon three respect-
ably-attired men were observed to be sauntering about,
one of them every now and then making notes, or Ire-
tenting to do no, in a memorandum-book. The "gents"
were dressed in ouch style—black cloth, watch chains,
&c.---as to lead the observers to suppose they were quite
respectable. One lady, however saw two of these men
enter the house of Mr. Arthur by the front door—the
third man having it seems, broken in at the back and
politely opened the triticipal entrance for the other
two—and she sent her servant girl to Mr. Corns to
acquaint him with the auspicious eircutnntanoe, on
hearing which lie walked down to No. 6, the front door
of which was on the jar, and lie mitt red, unarmed and
unsuspecting. On seeing the three parties who were
"in possession," Mr. Corris demanded their businesa.
In answer, one of the burglars slipped from under his
coat-sleeve a life-preserver, and said, "Here's my bind-
:lean then," and stink him • murderous blow on the
left side or the head ; and another of them a blow on
his shoulder and in the left side. He wait quickly
felled to the ground. He cried out "Murder." on
hich the ruffians escaped froin the house. A aervant
girl, hearing Mr. Cords s cries, and seeing him in Mr.
Arthur'. yard, covered with blood, immediately alarmed
the neighbourhood, and ins few minutes several parties
were in pursuit. One of the fellows was captured by a
member of the Cheshire county police. He rave his
name as Thomas James, and had about him t.n skeleton
keys, besides numerous other housebreaking imple-
ments. Another of the fellows ittade towards
Behington, and was, after a considerable chase, cap-
tured. He offered no resistance, although armed with
a life preserver. This was the matt that struck Mr.
Corns on the head. Up to Wednesday evening the
third man had not been arrested. Mr. Cords is being
attended by two medical gentlemen. and is in a critical
eta te, the least excitement causing hi* wounds to bleed
afresh.

FATAL RESCUE.—On Saturday A poor cripple was
croasing the -oad near the Liverpool Exchange when lie
was placed in great danger by the passing of a huge
lorry Isideu with cotton bale.. A labouriog man rushed
to the rescue, and succeeded in removing the cripple
out of the way, but unfortunately he was himself
knocked down before he could clear the horses, and the
whlels passing over him crushed lsim to death imme-
diately. Great sympathy has been expressed among
the raerchants On 'Change, end there is no doubt that a
handsome subscription will he raised for the family of
the poor fellow who bas met with so untimely a fate.
The coroner's inquest on the bodies of the ps.saengens
killed on the London, Dever, and Chatham Railway,
was resumed on Wednesday at Faversham. On the
jury assembling they were re-sworn to inquire into the
cause of the death of Mr. erockford, another of the
passenger.), who, after lingering for several days, died
on Monday. The inquest then proceeded, and etiveral
witnesses; deposed to the circumstances of the accident.
There was a host of leg.l gentlemen present, and a
nuniber of witnesses examined. After which, in accor-
dance with the summing up of the coroiser, the jury
returned a verdict exonerat ng all p srties from blame.
The crime of infanticide appears of late to have been
on the nicrease. A siegular mole occurred on Saturday
night, when the porters at Else London bridge station,
according to custom, searched the carriages of a train
that had just arrived from Woolwich, and in a second-
class carriage found a parcel, which on examination
mined to be the body f a newly born child, whose
death had evidently been caused by foul play. Of course
no clue could be obtained of the parties plating it there.
THE BURSTING OF THE MIDDLE LEVEL SWlM—Lynn
Wednesday.—The dam, in the attempted construction
of which ao much valuable titne has been lost, is now
abandoned, and the tide have swept away almost every
vestige of the 16 or 17 barges which were sunk in the
stream to impede the progress of the water. First of
all, the spot was ill-chosen for an obstructive work ;
and then the barges, being loaded with nothing heavier
than bags of clay, were quiokly emptied alit floated up
by the rolling of the this.. One of the bridges has been
carried away by a lighter being driven against it, and
anotbsr has been damaged. An attempt is now being
made to form a dam at a more prac itetble spot, at a
short diatance below the site of the sluice. Piles are
being driven in to a great depth, and. though there is
yet no perceptible improvement resul-ing from this
work, there is hope th it, when completed, it will. heck
the progress of the inundation. Two I.f the three
breaches in the banks of the drain have been repaired,
but the third remains, and through this orifice, a Mat
is nearly 50feet wide, every tile poura its waters upon
the surrounding country. All efforts to repair this
breach until the completion of the dam are utterly
futile. The amount of land at present under water
hi variously estimated from 1,000 up to 30.000 Retro.
Growing crops, of course, will be spoilt, and in some
instances the produce of whole farms has been des-
troyed and houses tendered uutenahle. Middle Drove
Station, on the Eastern Counties line, is under water,
and the railway traffic between Wiebech and Lynn
has been entirely euspended through a portion of the
line having been uudermiued by the water. A stack of
stiaw wax carried away by the flood and deposited on the
line. This evening, et live o'clock, the tide was coining
up with great violence, and tlse Morning Will probelly
diachnie • considerable addition to the alrearlY too
extensive damage. The cruelty of the injury inflicted
upon occupiers of the flooded farms is increased by the
fact that they are not contributors to, or benefitted by,
the middle level drainage.