The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-07-01 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

TIVIRIBLZ ENCOUNTER.-06 Tuesday worming a
fearful fight took pleoe le-teeen a bull and a audition,
at Lynn, both being the property of Mr. James Corken.
It appears that the animals were grazieg in a IL Id mar
the Chime, mid early in the morning they engaged is
deadly c enbat, from which they could nut be
parted. The sight ic described by an eye-witness
as most appalling, both animals tearing up the earth
and making the air reverberate with their hideous
noble.. It was soon found that the struggle would he
fatal to one if not both of the einnhatauts. At length
the bull beca.s.e the w.ctor, the borne, which WAS WSlth
£6O, dropping down dead. The horse was frightfudy
injured, the bu:l's horns having made several large holes
in his body.
STRANOK CAB6.—A a the Mansion House, On Tuesday.
George Almon, • well-dressed Men, shout 40 :mars of
age, was brought before Alderman Nose, charged
with burglary and rubbery. The owe was en' •
matkable, cud the court was crowded while the cir-
curnstanwes were being stated in evidenee. 'Shortly
after eleven o'clock on Monday evening the prisoner
went to the Vine Maki, in Biehopagate-street
kept by Mr. William Attivelle, to whom he was •
atranger, and engaged a hed for the night. The Vine,
it slimild be stated, is one of those old-fashioned
hostelries which are still to be found here and there in
the city of London, with a balcony running round an
open courtyard, and leediugsto • Sendai? of bedrooms
all round on two floors or termites. Before going to bed
she primmer had some refreelememt, fcr which he paid
it once, and adse for Abe ancommodation •during the
night, alleging that he • wished to start early in the
morning. After he hari,eugaze-1 • had the bona° was
quite fell, but it happened that one old noun, newbered
7, on the bal,onv, remained unoccupied during the
night, in consequence of • gentleman who had engaged
it not having r...toroel to sleep there. Tee priaener
wen shewn to 'nix bedroom, No. 6, about midnight.
Helf-an-hour afterwards the landlerd and iii, wife
retired for the nigh; occupying the room numbered 9.
and locking the door Male, as was their custom,
leaving the key in the lock: About two o'clock in the
morning, while the landlord was asleep, his wife,
hearing • noise os if seineune was tampering with the
,boor on the outdile, lintened for a few minutes.
Presently the door Woe opened, mid Pile CAW 11011.13 one
ester, but whom she did not know in the darknem,
though she knew the person to be a men from olmerving
I.in bear. The primmer, it maw be stated, has
whiskers, but no beard. She noticed that the man wore
• white shirt. She awoke her husband, and se she did
so the mai, whoever he wee, withdrew from the room,
closing the door gently alter him. rice lan third and
eli wife get out uf hal and each looked out .4 a die:"
rent window in the room commanding a view of the
balcony. There they saw a man, wearing a red shirt,
pass the window along the balcony. l'he landlord
rushed out of the room and demanded to know what he
wanted. The man, without replying, passel quickly
oft of sight up a fight of stairs leading to the next
floor ef t ie beloony, and in a direction away from the
✓oom No. 6, Suspecting him to be the ocenuant of No.
6, and knowing that, if that were so, he would have to
leturn that wey before he could get to his room, the
landlord and his wits kept watch for about 20 miuutes
from the windows of their apartments. The landlord
then saw a man wearing a red shirt pass along the
balcony, and go in the direction of the room No. 6. It
Was then just about rlsyhreak. The landlord opened
his door and asked him whir he was prowling about at
that hour. The wan, making no answer, ran into No,
7 (the va ant room,) and presently afterwards came out
and went to No. 6. The land loch sent the •• bootie' for a
polimmas. keeping guard ontedde the r on No 6 until
, the edifier came. On entering the room the constable
,coil he found the prisoner in bed, feigning to be melees,.
The landlord desired to know why he had been
*am-Wring shout the house at that time of the night.
He assun.d them he had never left hie MOM. leaving
! the as artineist for a few minutes the landlord went
vound the house, and thiding the door of No. 11, on the
I second floor of the balcony, in whidli a lady was
1 sleeping, a little ajar, he tapped at the deer and asked if
I she had been disturbed by any one. Sum said some
pinion had pat his bead into her room, and she was
, iery much sl'r,nel. The landlord asked if shim had
' mimed anything. film got up and went to a dressing
t .ble on which she said she had planed I er soli watch
b -fore going to bed, and there 1143 foetid it covered
over with her 'IMRE hatrikerchief, a, she had left it
hut she mimed her purse, n on which the 188 derd rt.
turned to the prisoner's room and gave into
ettatody. Police-Constable Oboe said, after thing the
fcisoner to • police-station he returned to the hotel,
and on searching the house he found, in the presence
of the landlord, in the unoccupied be Iroom of Be. 7,
between the mattress and bed, a pnrse containing
£4 1.. 6.1. with other things, and a pair of pliers
ingeniously made, and snob at wield be USIA in opening
a locked doer from the outside., in which the key bad
been left in the lock inside. gm Bennett identi4ed
the pdrse as hers, adding that er now contithed the
exact inl,ll whieh was in it when she went to hod. In
answer to questions by the witness. the prisoner nil
he resided at Norwich, ane we a commercial traveller.
On being milked for whom lie tieveleed he said he would
tell hiui (the eincer) another time. Prisoner was com-
mitted for

BARBAROUS MORDI:I4-011 Saturday morning a
totr.ble warder was committed in the village of
Waterloo, which lies about seven unite to the north of
Portsmouth. The murderer is a young man named
Lee, aged twenty-sit years, and the victim wee his
wife, a young woman, a4ed twenty.four. Lee travell,d
in a COIIOIOII ginsies' van, which had been stopping in a
yerd at the rear of the Wellington Tavern, Waterloo.
On Friday night the prisoner asked Mrs. Si'rester to
take Ilia wife some wine and water, stating that she
would not take anything from him, and they appeared
to be on unfriendly tens.. Lee having charged his wile
with immoral conduct while at Ascot Bikers. The wife
strongly denied the hmintation. ftlie was expecting to
be confined shor.ly. Lee and bin wife left Mr.
Silvester's, and called at the Wattaloo Inn, win re his
conduct is described as being very strange. They left
for Odihain on Saturday inorninx about nine o'clock,
being accompanied by a little boy name Wyat, the
deoessars nephew, and they had !warmly left the villege
half ap hour when • rumour won cimulated that l-e
bad murdered his wife in the most savage manner. A
policeman of the Hants' County Constabnlary home.
di aely went after the van, and to his horror dismovered
that a murder of the moat brntel character MO been
annulated. About MO yards from the van, and lying
on the grass, he saw Lee, who exclaimed "I am glad
you have come, for I have out my wife's throat." lie
afterwards said, "She slept with my nephew at Ascot."
Tim leilioemoniitable went towards the van, and
perceive,' a deep track of blood for about fifteen yards,
and on coming to the cart he perceived the body of
deceased lying in the road, directly under the horses'
heel.. flier throat was cut from ear to ear, so that
death must have been almost instantaneous. Prisoner,
then add, " Have you found the razor that I did it
with ?" to which question the constable replied, "Yes'
I found it four or live yards from the %an, in the road.'
' Prisoner then said, "I did it to die." The body was
placed in a tart, and on being conveyed hack to Water.
100 was pieced in &store at the rear of the principal
tavern, where it now remains awaiting • cloroner's
inquest. Lee vas brought before one of the county
justices at Havant ma 8 tnittay aft.-rnoon, when the
above facts were deposed to by witnesses. On the
murderer being asked if he wished to put any questions,
lie reidied, "No, I confess it," at the same time putting
up his hawk prayerfollv, and miring. "I wilfnllr
mnrdeted her." He was remanded to Winchester Gaol
until Thine lay. Lee belong% to a tribe of gipsiea whn
encamp at Connor. near Portanionth, and attend fairs
held within • considerable circuit Arnaud.

A young woman named Ann Wykl, a domestic ser-
vant at °Whelp, attempted to commit suicide by drown-
ing on Thursday night. A man And promised that be
would t..lre her for better osi worse but the promise had
been ny.de in jest or he hail Omitted. his mind, as he in-
fortned.her thst be dmnll root fulfil Smliromise. Aftrer
he get into the yrkter she Seems to have thought better
of it, end cried nutter help. A rope *as thrown to her.
which she caught, umlauting at the sane time that she
did not went to be rescued. She permitted herself to
be dragged out from hos b.ith, however, sod before the
iusghtrstes on esturdaysbe proinife-d to be • good girl
for the future. and not use the bydropathic system to
cure lore.

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A VEITSRASIX LGTHAR/o.—The pretty village of
Radford was lately thrown into oats% of commotion by
the mysterious disappearance of • gardener. The cir-
cumatance caoned the greatest anxiety to his wife and
friends, who had the lanais, 'rondo, and sormtinding
woods earched for his body, hitt to no purpose. One
night last week, however, one of his friends was passing
• homiest Pau%too, and looking in at • window was
surpriaed to aee the miming gardener yowling a news.
paper to a certain damsel who was by his ewe. His
wife was made acquainted with his whereabouts, sod
soon Manned him to heat a retreat towards ishowe.
The truant who has caused Co much anxiety and alarm
has opals Sixty summer,.
A WISOLFSALS BIGAMIST —A t the Oxford City Court?
on Friday, John Arihford, slut George Smith and John
11;its, was charged with marrying Eliza Salt, his former
wife, Ellis . beth Perrier, being Mill alive. Thepartienlare
of this case, pa eliown in evidence, were of a erre extra-
ordinary nature. The prisoner, who is a tailor by
trade, appears to have been traveling shout the country
for some years entrapping young girls, and in one
inatance a widow, into marriage, and suddenly laving
t,.ein after possessing himself id all the money and
proierty he could ...btain. In 1853 the prisoner
obtained employment aa a tailor In Bath, and took
lodgings at the house of Mrs. Perrier, who kept a green-
grocer'4 shop in that city. After being there a few
weeks he matte the lmillathr an offer of marriage. which
she socepted, and the riereoinny win soletnniaed st
Trinity Church on ths 7th of Anquat, 1853. Th.
Parties continued to live together shout • month or
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ins week*, when Mn Pemer WAN taken ill, and the
prisonrr then pretended flat lie had !waived a letter.
which there a on doubt was a forgery, to the effect titst
he and his two brothers had become entitled to a legacy
of MOO each in conrequence of the death of a- rsla,ive,
and requesting his presence iti London. To order to
raise money foe his journey he (Browsed of all the
furniture and Miter nroperty which he Inwl inspired by
his wife, and then left Baths and nothing more was
heard of hid whenwhoutai until five years ago, wham he
appears to have settled down for a time in the mall
town of Wantage. While I,stlog at Wan4ago he be, sine
aa quainter! with respertahle 'errant giil named Belt.
to whom he oabi hitt aidteows.algi vettioi ha aVulla
married in the 1110110 or Qoarao SMS9.
with this tooroat about, alovoif
period he spent what little Money she tad mana,pri to
save by her industry, he anfldooly docospod. After
the lafoo of a oonsidorabk time tits rtillaller Wag sat

tetrd of lit St. Helen's, Lancashire, where, on the 18th
January last, under the &sauteed name of John William
Scott, he triaried *young woman named Maria laabella
Dunn, Mho brought him as her marriage portion CM
in bard cub. On the amend of May last he suddenly
quitted the place, taking with lons • gold watch,
furniture, all the mousy he could obtain, and even the
ring off the finger at the poor girl whom be had so
r. cently duped.. He next took up his quarters in
Oxford, having obtained work as a talor, and imme-
diately isommenced the nefarious practice which be had
so successfully adopted in other towns. He xpeedlly
inainuated himself into the good graces of • instil-
servant residing in St. Johmstreet, to whom, hr
pminitted marriage, and who ass about to leave he, '1
plima to marry hint, when his career was brought toe '
sudden tertdnation in a somewhat carious manner.
On Sunday afternoon the 25tn of May, Eli= Salt, nue
of hi tt unfortunate dupes, win hapoened to he residing
in Oxford, in the service of Mr. Booth, St. Gil s's, itik•
prment at the assembling of the Oxford militia in Broad-
street. when she lecident,lly ob•terved the prisoner
among th. crowd. He managed, however, to eyed
her on this occasion, hnt on Vie following t3tinday *he
again saw him, in compaey with the young woimm to
whom he was paying his eAdreases. After watching them
fur some time they separated, the girl returning to her
home, and the prisoner walking up St. Odell's, whither
he was followed by Salt, who seised him and kept firm
hold until tbe"arrival of Sergesit MM., when she gave
him into custody. The primmer, being cautioned in
the usual manner by the M.yor, replied, " I have
nothing to ear—only ion guilty." Re wan then 0011102
witted for tri4 at tre saltine. _ _ _

A BLACK DOCTOR Or DIVINITY.—On Wednesday
the Rev. Jutted Pennington, D.D., a coloured miniatei
ounnseted with the Presbyterian (Thumb in Hew'rorle.
was brought up on remand, at tits L verpool ?elm-
court, charged with stealing a copy sit POPO'. Efouser's
04p5ag from the shop of Mr. Stephens, bookseller.
Dale-street. The chief .wituess against Ills- exhume,
wee, a youth in Mr. Stephena's employment, who d.,
lioctly swore ti seeing the prisoner in the ship with the
book in his possession, and afterwanls following the
prisoner into the street, %ben the gtolen property was
found in his breast. He denied the theft, sad in proof
of his innocence referred to his intimate acquaintance
with the Rev. Dr. Baba, the Rev. Dr. Crichton, and
severe! ether eminent divine', in this country, with
the view of showing that be was incapable of the erime
imputed to him. At the re-bearing of the case, Mr
Deighton, barrister, appeared for the prienner„ and
Mr. Wilding, the Aueerican Consul, was alito teeesat
Tho main facts of the.e.harge age:met die primmer-
having been heard,' Mr. Deighton; irtn his behalf, said
that his client wee a genilemen of high character, and
had no intention of steeling the hook. A great deal ot
what Mr. Suphene'e buy had ~aid could have been
contreiicted, lisA the prisoiler ha I the opportunity oh
doing so. Mr. Melly, the presiding magistrate, said
that three 1-there had heen received by the Bench, ell
of them innegesting that if the hook had been taken to
the prisoner it must have been in a At of abstraeti'm ;
that autio thing. had occurred, and asking the Beech to
deal leniently with the prisoner, if they really believe"
he had taken the prop-rty. But, if the prisoner diii
take the book hi a fit of abstraction, why on earth did
be not give it ep immediately on Kr. Stephens's
assistant seeostmer him is the street? At the prisoner's
request., Mr. Willing, the Ainereati Consul, was
called, and, in answer to Mr. Deighton, said that no
passports were granted to any persons by the Uuiteo
States' Goverument unless there was,evidenee that the
parties applying were respectahle. In giving their de-
Melon on the case, the Bench said It was a very painful
thing to have -o pass Neaten.* on a pawn who had
evidently for a long period necepleil such a high poet•
tion, but they had no alternative hut to commit tie
Prisoner for one month with hag -I labour. It appeared
that hitherto the mieen,r has held a very distinguished
position. both in the United States an 4 this country,
ag a minister in connexinn . with the Presbyterian
Church.

An inquest was held on Thursday at Two Mile MD on
another coalmine victim. Samuel English, who was kille..
while at work in the Deep Pit on the morning of samvay.
The anfortnnate man hu left is widow and nine
children, with is tenth in prospect, and we tinderytan,b
the family are in great 'destitution. The jury generousl3
awarded their fees to the poor woman, whose rasa we
take this opportnn ty of recommending to the benevo-
lent.

Isaac Howard. charged with ditintorring dead bodies
at the St. Philip's (Jemetery, POW ShetS.l.l, like the
rev. incimbent of the Nunn pariah, has been committed
for trial at the next York Ai Howard declared
that he acted entirely under Ye. L'veeey's (the incum-
bent) directions, and never otherwise. He hsd orders
from that rev. gentleman, who tesserted his innocence
the other day in a letter to his bishop in such an
emphatic manner. to disinter the bodies which had
been buried in 1857 and 1858. awl to remove them jut-
the catacomb, in plitin English to shovel them into
that obscene pit which was described in our c.ltounst a.
we-k or two moue. This annonnowurnt canoed a grist
sensation its the smut, RN well it mitbt.
DESTRUCTION OF A STEAM BAW MILL ET FLEE. —A
fire of A very NSF OM character I coke out at a steam New-
mill. &lamer, Derbyshire, on Wednesday moron%
On the previous evening the building was left sate
about 11 o'clock, and on the following morning it was
observed in GROWS. Assistance Was speedily obtained.
hut the destructive element could not be subdued until
the will was gutted. It is supposed that the washiner)
got over-heated, and set fire to the premixes. The
mill ems in the occupation of Newry. Smith; it was no,
insoral. The a mount of damage, as yet, cannot be
correctly stated.