The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-19 00:00:00

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ElTltellaDlNAltif WINN DI•LING. —Some curious
disabieures have jest he.. made in the Bri.tol Bank-
ruptcy Coen, by • Liverpool wine merchant, eeewl
Howard. The bankrupt's debts, inourrod is twelve
months, amount re) about £12,000, while the meets are
sit. ft am. at that he had never kept any bookt, and
wh. n he bought wines Ile dioposed of them principally
at soles by aucti,n, gonerally under getitinus
and at • leas, it is alleged or from 40 to 50 per eent.,
taking care, however. never to sell them in the same
lebees where they were bought.
Ainonan Coming or ATTEMPTLD
Shrewsbury, on Wednesday, Thom.. Yale., a reopect.
able looking man, deenbod as a olerk, was charged
with cutting the thron of lira Emma Ellertou.
Prosemitnx moo a worried woman living with her
hushend, and the prisoner had lodged with her for some
mouths, but on the day preoeding that of the olleged
outrage he had gone to live with his mother. For the
defence it was stated that the wound upon the throat
of the prosecutor had been indicted by her own hand;
sod this view was supported by the evidence of the
=dirti man oallod in at the time of the occurrence.
'the mogi..tratos adjourned the Cabe. The pm itoner and
the prueeontria appear to have been on terme of great
familiarity, for it was stated in evidence that when she
was first discovered with her throat cut, she alternated
her sosumtion against the prisoner with passionate
protestations that .he 'loved him more than her life."

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Twit MY1512/1001 MOSDICI IN STarroaossiza.—
Mr. Woodward's men, imitated by the polite, have com-
pleted their explorations of the old pit shalt in the
coppice at Upper Arley, In which shaft the remains of
three children were found ender circumstances whialt
have given rise to so much crave suspicion. They have
drained off the water, and they mine upon • large
quantity of soil, lying beneath what is evidently putrid
minsal matter and bones. The bones, however, are
chiefly those of quadrupeds. But amongst them were
found two leg Lanes, a hip bone, and the feet bone, of
a boy or girl. Them are supposed to he • portion of the
remains of one of the elder children. The inference.
derived from the march is that there are no other
human remains in the pit, and it was onrreetly stated to
the police that some years ago it was the practice of
person wishing to destroy worn-out horses to back them
into this pit. Subsequent to the time of this habit it is
clam- that she children were thrown ln ; and that at
least one of them we. murdered there is unfortunately
very little room to doubt, the cord still attached to the
wrist and ankle hones &Harding some proof of the crime
that bee been cow:nine'. No clue to the perpetrators
has, however, yet been discovered.

CONCLUSION or Tug FINI•N CONNIMIOIL—
The speoial eommissinn at Manehester closed on
Tuesday evening, when Brennan. Featherstone. Cu roll,
Sully, Murphy, Moorhoose, and Redden, who have
been convicted of the minor charges preferred were
celled up for sentence. Mr. Justice Blackburn re-
minded the prisoners of the more serious position they
would have been placed in if the prolieentioo had pursued
another course, and sentenced them to the maximum
punishment prescribed by mw—vu,, for the smash on
the polies, with violence, five years' penal servitude,
and two years' imprisonment each for misdemeanour.
Murphy said he was convicted, not for an attack in
Hyde-road, but of treason-felony, because the trishaw*
nevropaper was found at his lodgings. The °triers tried
to •ddress the court, but were removed. -Of the twenty-
six prisoners who stood for trial five have been con-
victed on the capital charge of murdering Sergeant
Br.U, and seven more of the mincr offences of assault-
ing the police in the execution of their duty, and for
taking nut in a riotous assemblage for unlawful pu-
pae*. The rest have escaped, either by verdicts of
acquittal or by the lenity of the Crown, which entered,
*al k proaq *A in every care where the eeidense did not
appear to the prosecuting manna sufficerntly strong to
warrant them in asking the jury to find eves-diet of
guilty. The result is that thirteen prisoners out of the
twentyuiz are ones more free men. The fourteenth,
Nugent, well discharged with the rest, but was at once
taken into mistody on a warrant isined agaieet him for
trenson.felosy in Ireland, and has been lodged in an
Irish prison, to await his trial at the next Dueled&
gaol delivery.
Fulas Armen TO Couturr Yee Bangs Poxicg.—
The ocaraional meeting of about a Repro Irishmen at the
Duke's Head Inn, Reeding. has lately excited suspicion.
On Saturday afternoon P.C. Haut, of the Berko 00=-
04606 r/, who has Lind several years in Irelsiad, and
speaks the brogue, wee met by a stranger, who began
conversing with him, and made inquiries respecting the
militia depot, ultimately inviting him to go and have
some beer at the inn. Hunt went and while there the
stranger asked him Übe would join the Fenian brother-
hood, and take the oath. Hunt made some eacuse, got
away and gave information In the course of the night
the stranger was apprehended, with a young man who
attempted to rescue him. The man first taken gave hie
name as James Queen, hawker, of St. Andrew's,
Plymouth; and the other his son-in-law, as Peter
Griffin, of Vauahall-street, Plymouth. On Queen was
found a sum of upwards of L'2o, and nearly £3 oa Griffin.
Later their room was searched at the Duke's Head, and
soupetbart was discovered containing part of • military
unifoeno. These men were examined before the Merie-
tildes on Monday. Queen was remanded, and Griffin
discharged. Queen was brought up again on Wednes-
day. He was discharged, but the Mayor, in sending,
him about his business, gave him a reprimand and •
caution. He told him that the town had been thrown.
into • state of excitement by his drunken frolic, and b•
had better be careful so to his conduct in future, for ho
would most certainly be watched. Two detectivea, sent
down by the Home Office, have been in Reading since.
Monday. The chief constable of the borough on Wed,.
neaday morning received from the Government two oases
of Colt's revolvers.
A Lorena' Qtilittat LID Annear= BorCIDII —At
Sfarylebone police-court, a well-dressed female, named
Mary Anne Newby, aged 19, residing at No. 19.,
Burlington-read, Paddington, servant, was charged
with attempting to commit suicide. A Young man
named Frederick May, residing ats6, Blenheim-crescent,
Notting-hill, carpenter, sold: I wee with the prisoner
last night in the Harrow-road. We had 6 few words,
aft, r which we commenced abetting, and made it tip.
We walked on till we got to Bishopsrtad-bridge, when
'be ran down to the pathway of the canal. I followed
down, and saw she was standing on the edge, and
took hold of her jacket to pull her hack. A piece came
off in my hand, but whether she fell or jumped in I
cannot tell. —Mr. d'Eyneourt : Are you courting her? -
Witness :I am not now. -Mr. d'Eyncourt : Have you
been 1--Witaess : Yes. She asked me last evening it
Masi seen her other young man.—Edwin Johns said :
I was passing over the bridge and saw the prisoner
lying on the pavement and the Iset witnem beside her.
He said he bad been in the water and be got her out.
We took her to the police-station, and I remained with
the doctor till half-put three o'clock in the morning,
In endeavouring to recover her. Even after recovering
her she had strong convulsive filet—Mr. d'Eynoourt
re-called the first witness and said, you told me nothing
of title in your evidence. Why not?—Wituese : I was
not caked—Mr. d'Eyncourt Did yen assist in any
way to get her to the station-house '—Witness: I took
bold of her and held an umbrella behind her. —Mr.
d'Eyncourt Who got her from the water I—Witness:
I jumped in and fetched herout—Mr. d'Eyneourt :How
long was she in the water —Witness : About two
minutes and • half.—Mr. d'Eynoourt : Cu you swim?
—Witness: No. Where I jumped in I could just
manage to stand, and she was out of her depth, but
her fuse was not under all the time. She kid on the
ground for about five minutes alter I got her out,
shivering with cold before any one came up.—Mr,
d'Eyncourt (to prisoner): What have you to nay?
--Prisoner: It is quite OCUTeet. I don't know whether
I fell in or jumped in. I vas sober. May had not
been behaving ill to me or done anything else. Ido
not know what is the matter with me.—Prisoner's
mother said : I don't know what to say about the affair.
This is her 'former lover, and itheY have been
acquainted ever since ten yeses of age.—Mr. d'Eyncourt
remanded her for a week. She wets Wren out of oourt
In hysterics.

LIBILLING • JUDO L —Ai Worshipetreel poke.oonrt, Mr. John Variant,, described as an oil and
coloormen residing at 17, Great Gankinetrest,
Whiteeltaiel, attended in entree to a summons which
charged him with having unlawfully and maliciously
written and published • libel on and sent to Mr. T.
Chambers, Q.C., the Common-Serjeant of the City of
London. The defendant was without an advocate. In
the month of August, 1864, the defendant was convicted
of libel at the Central Criminal Court, eenteeeed by the
Common-Serjeant to he irsprieoced and kept to hard
labour for eix months, and at the expiration of that
time ordered to be bound over in two mantles for the
preservation of the pane. The defendant considered
that he had been very unjustly dealt with, and in that
opinion arose • series of libels, in coosequenee of which
the present preening' bad been taken. Defendant
had several planed, oaten his shop and some in the
windows, all relating to Mr. Ctembers. One of them
ran as folio..:—" Thomas Chambers, Common-4*min
for the City of London, sold himself for a bribe to essist
an old Jew to commit perfery at the Old Bailey, and it
has nand the death of four young and innocent
children." The other, ware in equally throe( language.- -
Mr. Thome Chamblee examined : On 245 rd September
last I received the following letter :—" T. Chambers
is a bribe-receiving robber and mordent, and • vile
coward—base in the extreme after effecting the death of
four innoeset thildree, even to eioncealmeat behind
the law that be has nested • Jew to outrage, ye., cot
only to trample under foot human, but God's, which Is
divine law. From your victim, sad the father of the
children, John Verinder." In a seheneent letter he
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Ibe the City jade, and a member of etritheent. The
deaths of the four children who are gone have been
avenged on the country by pestilence. bet there are
three others whose wrongs mast be redressed or
revenge_d, as he is in life for that very purpose.—
John verinder, 17, Great Gardenstreet, lirhhochepei.
Nov. 7, 1867.-1..8. Mr. Chambers release hitherto to
- to the eeeee„tieg, thereby proving it to be God's
t4-4.e.D,,,k,,,u5it, on being &skid whether be wished
to croes-examins Mr. Chambers, replied "yen, sir." -
Mr. Newton Then do so 00w. net le
not the gentleman who hated ma.- Mt. Chamber,: Ask
ma—Defendant appeared incredulous, and Mr. Newton
I remarked I will foricsa—The learned Judge answered
In the allirmative.— Defendant- The loaned gentlemen
must clause me; be appears so much thinner now than
the., —(lsughter). I wookl ask him, is it right to
refuse • prisoner the opportunity of defending himself
when put oti his trial 1-1112. Chamber.: I am here to
V" evidence, not an opinion of the law.—Defendant
tented that • reply was important to his interest, but
Mr. Newton held that the question was irrelevant,
and ultimately took the responsibility, NI be said, of
overruling it. - Kr. Inspector Osborne here asked for •
inuand.—Mr. Newton remarked that the threats made
use of in defendant's letter of the 7th int, almost
inclined him to refuse bail ; but, however, he would
allow him to go at large on ending two sureties in 00
each, and entering on hi, own for 1100.—Dnesidant
said be had done all Mile to prone' • full bearing of
his case, and would gladly enter ino his own in a
thousand, if required. —The two in £5O it was under-
stood he could not And and be wee removed lithe van.

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