The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-07-25 00:00:00

LEAPS FROM TRAINs.

I.tieg to
Thomas Wilkins, a labourer. was to have !wen 14,,u,ht
up last week at Tunbridge, on the charge it atko,
murder Jame' Turley at Spelhurst, but afwr
some time the Chairman of the Bench rereir,dl
telegram announcing that the primmer het etlertiq
escape. It appears the prisoner, who h.of
under remand to the Maidatone (;aOl, wa, I,lrf
o,
officer in • third-class carriage of • paseengrr train I
Maidstone to Tunbridge. l:loon after the train the
prisoner micetiMiled in jumping out id the earria,tc The
officer raised an alarm, but the train not le itspp,m
for some minutes and the prisoner got clear away. e
to late he had not been re-captured. /et
noon an escape was made in a similar wry
Richard Williams, a betting man, had nut tern
charged at the Kingston County Bench
an indecent assault on a young lady. Ile wai.tt,„„,,,,,
and, having been handcuffed, was removed hy
charge of two constables. Ile romphniood of
and WWI allowed ti put his head out of the windowbe
the supposed purpose of vomiting. l:liPhienir he .pen
the door and disappeared. The tram at the time was
going at the rate of about 3U tuiles an hour. The mike
alighted at Richmond Station and pr0,,h,,,i d„.O Ihi
line on foot, expecting to find the man it t., ise,
or
seriously injured. Ile was nowhere t,, „
.n 4
ora
: inquiry the officers ascertained that he had crowed the
river in a ferrydioat. The ferryman 41 not notice the
handcuffs, one of which hail krit slipped, until he
received the fare.

BIRTHS.
Courtney,jJuu yy
2.10, aaottr
wRO.
daughter.
itegikr.b.md
J. H. Copleaton, of twin (a daughter and a
July 11, at Village Farm, !)ammer, near It i.m.stoto
'tante, the wife of Mr. D. Taylor (Idle IroldiD"l44"
Dorset), of a NON
Henry ly
neyril:l, actk, 11.0fillf
dri:eughSwt.
r..tn.lrew. the wife of MT.
July 1:1, at Hope-street South, Weymouth, the ',elk id
Mr. Edwin Wake Cooper. of • daughter
July Donbe.ter, the wife
lar. of
July 13, at 20 Philpiit-..treet, Commerciabrial, Londess
thezgifheterof. Mr. T. 1). Penney, formerly of Ihirehmter
a d
I...JjC°uullyyle.2ol9a:aga oljurcfMrhce . Ver.ritilteh.
Of
Julr 21, at Iligh Eastatreet Dorebei.ter, the wife .4
P.C. Gould, Ihirchester Borough Pollee, of a ern.
MAERIAGSS.
J uly 12, at Sturminiater Newton, by the Bev. rreliender
Lowndes, Harry George, meund eoryieing we of WIALISI•
Creech, of Sturminatcr Newton, to Emma Jane ....Lon.'
daughter of the late 'William Jenkins Wilt...lure. .d
Stickland. Dorset
July 15, at Wyke church. Mr. William Stone. of
Guernsey, to Miss Carolins Alice Stone, second daughter
of Mr. C. H. Stone, yeoman, wyke.
July_ 111, at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, by OW
Rev. H. Everett, Mr. John Dyson, to Anna Eliza yid"'
daughter of Mr. T. Carter, Trinity-street, Doeckesetr-
DEATHS.
July 11, at Wimborne, of rheumatic fever, Mr. W. J.
7/chards. grocer.
--July 14, at Portamouth, Arthur William, younrcA
of W. David Crusha, late of London. aged yeni%
Beloved by all who knew him.
July IF, at the residence of her mother. The Poly2oe.
Southampton, after a few days' the Rev. .1
Austen, JP., Rector of Tarrant Keynston, near MAO
fkrd. aged 191 years.
July 19, at St. Thomaiatreet, Weymouth. Fanny. wife
▪ Mr. Thomas Lovell.
Mr. Thomas Ilazlehursk, whose munificence has earned
for 'him the title of the Prince of Methodism, hal died el
Itencern- in his filst year, after a lingering and psidft.
is cow puted that the deceased has gives aby.,Aut
50.000 in chapel building to Weab dl
an ItetindiMt
has laid the foundation stone of about a buned c
In Great Britain and on the Conthient The latter pal
of his life was employed in writing and printing sertnons.
and it is estimated that he has filial away over amilbon
copies.
liriated t:nd. Published at 8, High-street West, Dorchester,
In thehorguifloaty
siTrialty, by G 018760. Pasrigus, of the
Wperis
hit r Dorchertar,' for the proprietor.
duly 115, ,