The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-10 00:00:00

SUAPECTED MURDER

On Saturday a man named Bernard Stephenson was
found dead on the roadside near Tullamore. Two
men. named Cutler end Grace, last seen in his oom-
pany, bare been arrested on suspicion of having
murdered him, and remanded to the next petty
session. There were martslof violence on the throat;
and it is said deceased was drunk when leaving for
home.

Al Gorey it is rsported that as a number of troops
were rstorning fr.mi supprearing a Land League litmt
the soldiers sang an Irish national song, and cheered
for Parnell, notwithstanding that the officer in charge
remonstrated with his men.
Early on Saturday morning, a. a train tram
Limerick to Waterford was pasang Clonruel stati..n,
Its progress was impeded by a quantity of stones
placed between the rails. The bottom of the engine
was liters/1y torn out, and tamp train brought to a
standstill. . . _

About 100 men. with 100 horses and carts, on Saber.
day, thrembled in Cowbell°, and proceeded to the
farm of Peter J, Kelly, a suspect confined in &Scathe-
ham, and gathered in his turnips and turf. Others
thrashed his porn. Bit policemen ware present, end
took notes of the proceeding.,
A suspect named Meanies°, of Drunscellogher, re-
cently discharged, has been rearrested.
Assistant Land Commissioners at Carrick-on-
Shannon, on Saturday, in one case raised the rent by
one-fourth, and granted costs to the landlord. In
eight other caws the roots were re !used to about two-
third&
At Cork anise, on Saturday, Michael, Ellen. and
Mary Callaghan, charged with assaulting and strip.
ping • process-server named Regan, while serving
writs near Donoughmore, wee. a gentted.
A deputation from the Irish R me Manufacture
Association waited on Saturday on the Lord Mayor of
Dublin, asking him to convene • meeting to dales
means of carrying out the late intended proAteet of an
industrial exhibition. The Lord Mayor expressed
willingness to comply with the request, and suggested
that • joint stock eompany would be the best means of
carrying out the object.

TRH INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL SCANDAL
Tho charge against Mita Wallace, late matron of
an ILl:!nutria School at Glanow, for cruelly ill-treat.
leg one of the inmates, was concluded on Friday:when
the ilnurt condemned the defendant to pay a fine
of CM and wits, remarking that the punishment
Inflicted on the child ea, brutal and degrading, and a
pose infraction of the rules.

THE CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.
The cans against the Rev. Cisorgs Sanger was
resumed at atokesley on Saturday, when he was
charged with setting fire to his church in Oczober last.
Charlotte Mellor was calls I, and atated that she
visited the fire about four o'clock. She beard prisoner
talking t) Miss Kingston in a Leashing meaner.
During a converution which ensued with witness be
expressed no sorrow, beyond saying it was an awful
thing, Croes-examined : Witness you'd not swear
that he did not make any other expreerioo of regret.
Mary Garbutt also testified to seeing prisoner indulging
in undue levity on that morning. Supt. Welmsley
having been cross-examined as to She finding of the
prisoner in [rondo, and his subsequent arrest, Jame.
Pearson, of Crosisr-atreet, Lambeth, was called. He
meted that the prisoner took two rooms of him for
himeelf and two y otos women under the name of
Wilk na,n, describing himself as a mecbani:, and one
of the ladies (Mies Kingston) an hi. wife, and the
other his niece. He did not know them under any
other name until Supt. Walinsley called. When the
priaoner knew that his name wee known to witnees, be
told him the ciicumstances .4 the fire and hi. aus-
picious. He was prea-nt at the marriaos of the
orreiner with Mini Kngston at Trinity Church,
Load .n, on the 8111 of December, after which the
clergyman was asked to witness the signatur him.
self, his wile, and hihre Bush to a letter sent to the
Arehb sh pp. Mr. Dale intimated that he had nix
other witnesses to call for the prosecution, and the
Court adjourned until Monday morning.