The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-09 00:00:00

THE STEPNEY MURDER.

instances impeded by the falling and uprooting of trees.
ABERDEEN, Wednesday.
The north-east of Scotland was on Wednesday visited
On Tueulay James Mullens was again placed at the
with a storm of wind and wet more terrific and destruc-
bar of the Thames Police-court, before Mr. &Ire, on the '
tire than has been experienced in the quarter during
charze of Laing r,,,, tented in the murder of Mrs. Mary
the last 20 years ; indeed, some of the older swede say
Eiesley. at 9; Crove-road, Mile End-road, on or about
the gale we never equalled in the north. Wednesday
the lull of August brat. The same degree of excite-
morning broke with the wind blowing • perfect hurl-
mem visilde as on the previous esaminations, hut
cane froin the west, and when daylight atruggled fairly
the arrangements, made by the police prevesited any
in, it revraied the destructii n %nought in a few hour.,
aecidents. The prismier was lininglit froin the House wf
the streets of the city being actually littered in many
Detention in the van. under the charge of Sergeant
placed with chimney cans, patent iron smoke &des.
Walker, and the vehicle heing driven direct into the
tiles, slates, and glass. The gale continued blowing
court-y,ird of the poliee-office, the populace had 111,
fiercely all forenoon. Trees and shrubs planted in
oppiirtunity of wreakiii4 their threatened vengeance.
very ale coil envision when placed
in favourite squares and other spots havebeen ruthleady
p at
broken or torn up by the roots, while a number id the
the bar, and manned the comittninees of the
gardens and nureeriesi about the town have likewise fared
witnesses so they were called up and gave evidence.
very bacl4. The steauier Ben My Chree, which bad
Mr. %Vomiter attend...l as before, under the instruc-
nom of the Home Secretary. to conduct the fe,sceution, arrived late on Tuesday evening from Inverness,
sailed again during the night for Ediliburgli,
and Mr. Hubert 0103!e.uan-street buildings, de.
but had only proem.leil as far south as Borne
fended the insoner. Mr. T. W. Batcliff also attended
when the captain found it necessary, from the
as soleitor to to' trusteta under the will of the lin iband
violence of the gale 111.1 the state of elm sea, to put back
of deceased. Mr. Hiram' was present solicits- to the
to Aberdeen. Happily the steamer was able to make
ased henielf, and Mr. Young. instructed by the
the harbour, but not before some 50 of the sheep on
friends of thions, also appeand. The detective police
were in strong force. board had perblieil. Several of the vessels at the quay
side broke their moorings, and pitching heavily against
Mr. Wontner said he proposed to follow the movements
each other considerable damage wall done to stems and
of the prisoner to such a permit as was just antecedent
bows, notwithstanding the crews being at thei3 posts
so Ow murder. Up to 8 o'clock in the evening of the
13th he was on the way to the Grove-ruad. They did early' A large sled under which the Messrs. Hall build
their celebrated clipper ships was knocked over, and
net hare him besund that until the witness Mitchell
several workmen injured. 1n the course of the after-
met him the next morning at 5 o'clock in a very flurried
noun tidings came from the country districts that the
atate. That eRS the only time between 8 o'clock In the
storm had been quite as severe there as in town. Great
evening and 5 in the morning that lie could not lie
traced, and it will be for the prisoner to explain, if lie trees, 70 and Btl feet in height, and the growth of as
could, where he petit the interval, many years, had snapped under the strength of the
wind, or been uprooted. The farmers, it is feared, will
Several witnesses were then °gamin, d, and after the
be heavy sufferers, the stacks in the cornyarde being
besritig of the evidence. the prisoner was fully coup
inuch injured. while the sheaves that happened to he in
nutted to take his trial for the murder. As the police-
stook were lifted up and sent 'pillion% about the fields
van, known to contain the prisoner, was leaving the
rani adjoining the court, the son yelled and groaned like feathers. The grain still uncut has also hero fear-
fully shaken. The wind and rain continued strong and
heavy till Thursday morning, but towards forenoon the
weather settled down greatly. Both north and south at
Aberdeen the hurricane has been equally severe and
destructive.
SHIELDS, Thursday Night.
There appears to be every reason to fear that William
Young, • Tyne pilot belonging to South Shields, and
William Hutchinson, a lad, son of another well known
Tyne pilot, have perished in the gale of yeaterilay. It
IleenlA that • number of Shields pilot cable* were
runiiing south in aearch of light vessels, when they were
overtaken to the south of a headland called Souter
Point by the storm, which broke upon them with
great violence, scattering them in every direction.
Some of the pilots succeeded in getting on board vessels
that were co 11111 l gto the ports, and we believe that one
or two of their cobble were swamped soil lost. Five
olier boats, after buffetting with the tempest luring 12
hours, succeeded in getting into the sea outlet of the
Sunderland bock. The two poor fellows who are
missing, and whom it is almost certain are lost, were
seen in their cubic muff Whithurn Town in the morning,
in great peril and distress. No vessels were near thein,and
they hue not been heard of, or seen, since the morning
of the storm. A Tyne steamer fell in with • Dutch
galliot some miles at ilea yesterday morning. The vessel
was in distress, hut for want of • boat time eteamer
could not get the crew off. A sailing vessel hove in
sight, and having a good boat, all the crew were rescued
except the master and owner, who, though he said she
could not live many hours, refused to leave the vessel.
There is every rumen to fear that she hu foundered. A
gi ntleman who has arrived at Tynemoutli to-day from
the west of Northumberland, states that the gale has
proved of great service to the fanners, who bad must of
their crops of corn in the field in stooks, but wet with
the recent heavy rains. It has dried them thoroughly.