The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-24 00:00:00

I MIMI JILIN/TX&

EXTRAORDINARY ArTBMPT TO DROWN A
WOMAN BY A MILITIAMAN.
A ~,a• aarird George uniter, arl Shaftesbury, belengiag
to to. Dorset Militia, was charged, wore n
ii,rwrahire brads of magistrates, with highway robbery.
On the remand,
satettestrary, should ask the tnagtatretei
pneemer hr trial at the Aetna. Having bristly
re,rree to We facts, Mr. Robins called
6mily lfro.,linY CM • smertly•lremed young woman,
who stated teat she first tee the prisoner on Monday
aiaaranna ;not, when ate was journeying from 'torero*
L.., (rb,. her paresis lire) to Shilliogstooe station.
She pared him on the road, and • fee minutes alter.
wards, homiest footsteps behind her, she looked round and
one that be was following her. Iter suspicious were
wawa no she roickenel her pace, and presently turned
and entered a get* that lead. across • field to Strut-on.
?maser tottered through the gam. sad came newsy and
roans. She in.. left the lootpstb and walked on the ,
Mill hurry at along as teat as •be could. The.. is •
• • leer suds to ill, right of :he footpath, nod she
onlhefalong between lice path and the strewn. There is
Loud in lite otroant, Snit when oho got opposite it, per-
won ran up, took her by the arm, ad, Granting her it
Sire 4th. stream, threw her into the water.
nianadt. atod, taking 6.4 d of her Lead, forced
I wear the water, and kept it there for room consider.
a..le us. -the ii ict time abe c wit say, for she
irOnic se-oturrioua She warn carrying an umbrella and
• pima coataining linen at the nese, and in her pocket
he a parr containiot • kall.aorereign, • hall.crown,
fisra, two shilling., two ferthings, three half-penny
Amp, and • portion of • packet needles. When she
norremd coneciousnem, prisoner had left her ; she could
not ow hies anywhere She got out as boot aloe could, and
directly eiterward• unwed her purse and her parcel. tioe
we
her umbrella in the enter S. managed to continue
be ;wag as far aa Shwa where she informed several
price. al whet had occurred, among others Mr. Tiffin,
Ms flimsy, erui Mr. Crouch Prisoner waa afterward.
*mkt down to Urotoctio, sad the identified him till.
likildiat•ty as ih• man who had clacked her. She had no
neht whatever stoat it ; sloe took particular ni,t es of
ha, beauee be was very neatly about his neck, having
an aeckti•or collie on.

111 Me Bench : Prisoner wee not drunk. but evidently
ir kiA tam drinking. She had been under medical
twelaseat net suits the occurrence owing to his violence
to het . . . .

Thews Harm slant for a butter dealer, and living at
Meson, said tist on Monday afternoon last, about
warier tout, be Ins rtanning by the Cross at Bnroton,
eel at It. pmernitra pass by. lf• noticed her clothes
wen very wee god dirty, and that she was carrying bar
hat a oar haat bet hair being very diehevelled. Bbe
mat no Mr. tabu's shop and he followed her to me
*bat as. It. matter. io consequence of what she mid
be ant to Us held ,alted Slaroton Mead. and ot the spot
Missed, seer tie bend in the gtreurn, there were
enemas of • struggle having taken ;Woe He now a
Pinto and as umbrella in tin water, and a portion of •
veil, which one entangled in a briar.
Milligan Tulin, labourer, of lihroton, corroborated He
leek W perm out of the water, and went se far as the
gale leediag into the filsadford.road and there saw Mr.
B.penateadeat Grant, to whom barn,, the puree and It.
Nation.
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iii.
Thiibt saw the prosecutrix about half-past four
la the a/taproom, on the Blandlord-road, going towards
Strome. She now dm primmer al.. minutes afterwards,
✓aliant blood in the same direction. She dui not know
hon pirionilly.
Charles Pake vent to 'worn* with bin visitor's horst
sad Vall on Holiday, the Atli of June, and about to.
mantis or dilartir.phit five &Clock saw the prienium
Mimes Hama 100 yarde on the lows* aide of the gate
whirl Ised. to Shroton Mead. He noticed that his boots
arm ',my not and muddy. Prisoner 'lactated oat to him,
rad &Mel for a ode, but he denied him. He stopped at
Mt. 11,w.a at the Talbot Inn, and whilst that. the
earner'. tart (Parr, Shaftesbury) came op sad he now the.
Prteoter not oat frois it, and go into the publichouse. He
railed tor two bottles of giogerbesr and Maimed a shilling
jeyesist
ilk:aim Dewey, barmaid st tho Talbot inn, was called,
sad stated that prisoner ppent id. at the bottle on the day
referred to

Seiperta—qudest Grant, of the Sturminster division, on
the previa:. Monday, about hall-peat dye in the after-
Imes, woe driving through glarotm, and, Bearing of the
mibery, he drove on me aa Compton Abbas, when he
overtook Fur, the corner. He saw the prisoner in the
ma. sad toll him to come out, as he must go back with
him Primmer came out, and the curler banded St to !
burn, luau that be had given biro la to ride to
Simimbedl, hut u he had roly ridden hall the way
that ma •61 bock. He (the euperinundent) took the
al 4 soon ma primmer wee emoted in his trap he
;logged huh with the robbery, but be made no reply.
de tank law on Stiroton, awl aa be was poising net
Mr Tenni' atop the progemitrix shouted out, 'nut's
the man.- He took the prisoner down to Crouch's hone;
sad Prneecutria afterwards came down, and, although
thee sere several young men there, painters and others,
ideotiged lum immediately as the man echo threw
her law the stream. She pointed to his women, and
exetanned, "Look, they're wet hoer." He searched
Primer and loud an empty leather PQM. In kb s Pocket,
au tame were • half.crown. • g inn, arid Si. in coriPers
he aftue sr& took him to Sturminster. H. told him to !
the of his boom, and be did so. Ilia stocking Ow had
"011 one) waa aatureted with water, as was also the
iuttom part ot the leu of his trousers, but not the top.
He remarked to him that his trousers were very wet, sad
he replied that it had eon raining hard all the day. Ur.
Coast produced • weft of a veil, • crumpled and nPnilt
hit, which, at we, alleged, prooecutrix wore on the day
aliened to, and her puree.
Fir. Rubins believed be elionld be able to prove at the
&mum that just before the robbery took Plane nr6endr
had u money whatever in hi. posesseion.
Th. Pri."" did not say anything, and the Bench com-
mitted Um for trial at the amiss. lie was removed from
td• Court mailing.

itzczoiurs ST—. ANDREW.
EXHUMATION OF TWO CHILDREN.
An inquest wee opened at the R.iyal Oak Inn, on s ktor.
day afteruoon. Wore the District Coroner 4Mr. W. 11.
Atkinson). and • jury f whom Mx. .1. L. Fowler was
chosen foremafl. tniching th. death 01 two child"'
earned Withom Stickland and Elvin& Stick:and, eon awl
IL:frter of James Stlckland, • labourer, of St.
i!.. Teo children died .use weeks since. after a
'hetand were buriel. bat certain representations
heetee licft mule to ths Home Secretary .111 order to
cilium. the bodies reached the exposer on Friday. The
exhumation took place on Saturday, in the Present'. 4
Mr. U. W. Daniels. surgeon, of Blandford, and Mr. y
14.• ftrteon, of Sere Regis, who afterwards mad, • P.a-
nwrfene szuninzti in of the remains. The inquest was
subsequently opened, and this e•idence of the chlldrea's
trtMetelhee taken. She mid her name wee Sleiha
„,”tette. and she VI the •ife ,f William
'mile. 5 latentrec, of Milton Abbe.. William Stickland
hee modem., and he was five years of aita She }het
iaw him alive the day before hie dealk, which
"41 Aim Oa Wednesday the nd of May. He
11%455i1l the Sunday before, sad died on Thunder.
He wm Wien in a fit shoat throe o'clock on &today, and
was imensilil, for an hour. and wham he CAM, to himself
eittiPlained of pain in his howela, and suffered a great
goal fno&,c)i.n.b„... up to the tios• of his death. Ile tried te, be sick. but could not throw up anything. Mr.
`tit the anion medical °Meer, saw deceased on the Moo.
Aar. ant gave hitn sows medicine, which he tnok reg.,
hPly wo to the tans .4 his death. both,. n.f noel In 1f,,,,,
',4,lun" he was lint taken until be died. She saw the
rihal when day& and there was nothing pecolor or un-
'Waal in the •ppearsoce of the body. The child was
twf healthy from hirtki.—At this state the . nquiry
'seiner's& till Friday week, to enable Dr. Siert neon. of
hors Hospitai. to analyse the riggers.

Element's to this pretty village have oosninenond,
although, from the extreme lateness of the smens,
they are apt to be rather premature. At me et the
picnics, on Tuesday last, he young men and women
from Hope Sunday School, Weymouth, who visitedi
the Wishing Well f the fifth y eery traltorousl_y
;consented • handscm: ail vir-mounted inkstand to their
Leader, on the occasion of hie awing Sunday school
work at Weymouth. About 30 were in the party, who
had • pleasant afternoon, and tea in • cottage war the
Wishing WelL After tea the rain came down
violently ; but by the great hindmost of the authorities
the schoolroom was liberally thrown open to them ;
and the singing of hymns (mostly Sankey is) wiled away
the time till the storm was over, when the party
regret: ally left the flowery village. The afternoon
was • very interesting one, and they found they had
apent • much larger number of rainier hours than
were expected when the start was made.