The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-09-05 00:00:00

TIIE SUPPOSED ATTEMPT TO RELEASE THE
FENIA N PRISON ERS.

A discovery has jurd been made at Chatham which is
supposed to have some connection with the project which
has been brought to li.Mt for the attempted release of one
or more of the convicts unilentoing penal servitude there.
While a party of non.commissioneil officers and men of
the Royal Engineer,. were engaged in military engineering
on the fieldworks, one of the number found, carefully con-
cealed in one of the mines recently constructed, a complete
set of female attire, with the exception of boots and stock-
ings. The spot where the discovery took place, is not
very far from the prison, and is very near to where a body
of convicts have recently been engaged in throwing up
fortifications. The articles consisted of a hat, jacket (with
collar attached), stuff dress, and underlinen. The whole
of the things were quite new, of good quality, and care-
fully folded. The impression is that they were placed
where they had been found for one of the prisoners after
he had made his escape, at the spot where they were
found was very secluded, and not open to the general
public. A constant watch is still kept at the prison, and
a strong military guard is on duty night and day, but
nothing unusual has occurred, and it is now thought that
whatever project to release prisoner* might have been
intended, it has now dropped through owing to the pre-
cautions which have been adopted by the authorities,

FRAILPTON.
Miss PARKER, the popular evangelist, has pail a visit
to this village accompanied by her brother, who assists by
singing Sankey's and other solos in a very efficient
manner. The meetings have been well attended, in the
open air when tine, or if wet, in a room kindly font for
their use. On Sunday evening hundreds were waiting to
hear the "old old story" near the Gritustone Viaduct.
The close attention paid to the (fusee' preached by kliss
l'arker wu remarkable, and many remained to he
personally spoke with at the close. .1 crowded tea meet-
ing wa held on Friday evening in a room kindly lent ter
the OCCASiOR, followed by Gospel addreues, when it is
believed much geed was done.

CERNE ABBAS.
MMiISTERIAL, Wedlitesolay.—Before Mr. J. B. Bridge.
Colonel Dighy, and C.ipt-iin Glyn.
The whole of the licenses in the division (loi in number)
for keeping alehouses and ',acrimonies were renewed with-
out any complaint. The adjourned mooting was fixed for
the 27th inst.
Ge.,nie Peaty, otherwise known a., "Wier" Prosy, was
eliargeol on remand with having desertawl his wife and
I wo, children, leaving them charwe Ode to the Cerne Union*
—Mr. J. Biles, relieving offiver, proved the relief being
granted, and also the ability of the prisoner to maintain
his wife and children.—Prisoner, who hwi been three
times previously convicted of the same offence, was appre-
hended by Stmt. Ilare at Amesbury, where he was living
with another woman as Mr. and Mrs. Parker. —Mr.
Staynar produced a prev. conviction of the prisoner se
! a rogue end vagabond. —Committed to Dorchester gaol,
with hard labour, until the next Quarter Sessions, as an
incorrigible rogue, and to be then further dealt with.
!lii. 1k0n..., of the New Inn, Wootten, was
, transferred from Thoinet Shepherd to John Walter
! Shepherd.