The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-16 00:00:00

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At the Rants JumeTsee. 17iiii;re Mr. justice Grove, llika
Beaplay, 17. mrvant, in whom ewe when tried on Saturday
the jury after being locked up three hour. could not &erns
and were discharged, was again put on her trial for
feloniously aid msliciously sending at Alton certain
letters to William Bicknell &dialer, demanding from him
with menaces and without reasonable cause divers Mai
of money.
Mr. Sullen and Mr. Kingsdale were Instructed for the
prosecution, and Mr. Mathews, with whom was Mr.
Raerlinmn, for the defence.
Mr. Velar warn • chemist living with his wife in the
High-street, Peterstleld. On the 14th June. 18:17, his
wife enraged prisoner as maidservant. A fortnight after,
on the Bich of June, Mrs. Moder left her home for one
night, and returned on the following day, and prisoner
made no complaint. and continued in her service
till the 11th December, when, from a confession as
to her rendition mode a day or two before, and the advice
of Dr. L-achman, who was called in to examine her, she
was discharged. In previous conversations with her
mistress she had told her that she wished she had come
to her place before, and then she would not have got into ,
the state she was, and when Mrs. Edgeler expressed a
hope that her young man would marry her, prisoner said
she should never him, he wee net smart enough. After
she had left on the let of January of this year, there came
various letters in pnitoner's handwriting, one of which
seld—" Mr. Ruder—You have out sent to me according
to your promise. (bless you send me some money by
Tuesday, I shall be "NUM to say you are the fattier of my
child, es I have not a farthing of money. If I don't
receive it, !shall come down. Buie BaAOLEY." On the
7th Fehrusry his shop boy, Sidney Bartley, known as
"Arthur' brought him a letter which had been given to
him by prisoner. In this she said "I send you this letter
by Arthur to let you know I am in the town, and if you
don't wish the report lobe sprout about that you are the
, father of the child, you had better pay me mom money
• to-day by Arthur, and I will meet hint when he comes to
tea. If you don't mad it, it will be the worst day's work
you have ever done, as I shall circulate the report all over
, the place that you are the father, and you won't like that
&Me BUOLIT.' He sent no money, but receiving
another of like character, he consulted his solicitor, Mr.
18-Aimee Afterwards be received another communication
which was the subject of the present charge. It was
posted at Alton, and ran thus—" Mr. Peigeler,-1 now
write to let you know that I am at the Altnn Union, sitd
they are going to make Inc go before the Board god tell
the father of my child, and of course I shall tell them who
it is, so that you will have a letter from them this week
if you don't send to own it, and soon as I an, well enough
they will have me up, and make in. swam it, and I shall
tell everything, after telling such hes as you bare told me,
that you would keep me and the child too, and nice you
hey. done it. Bat plesse goodness you shall keep what
belongs to you. If you don't keep what you promised of
course! shall say the truth. Youought to be ashamed fie IS
to come to late. Y a tell me it is no ged to make a fart
about it, hut if you Aria% send to me you shall be shows"
spatter such lies. The poorest chap out would have acted
better than you have done to me. hut of c more, they eriil
ask y u what you gave um the sovereign for. Look at the
lies you will have to tell, hut! shall say all with • clear
conscience, and that is more than you can if you deny
I know exactly when it is, and shall sty why it ass given.
If you are not ashamed to go to law I ma sure I shall not
be. You can hays the chance of .ending to ins, and that
is more than you ought to base, when you warned to
blame it on mmehody else ; but Go I will iodise. And even
It you get out of it, father says be will hang for you, but
his life is worth a million of yours. If you only act as you
ought to, it would le • great deal better on both sides, as
n i more—BLUM FILM/LIT" On the Bilth, he was served
with a 111102W011.• in bastardy, but no order was made upon
hint. as ttisre erat.so ceroborauve

lllra kdgeoler, Mr. Waiter, aud.faat Sidney Birder,
Mn. Ann Page, Dr. Leachinan. and P. Sant Walter were
examined, and couneel on both sides addressed the jun
with a seal and warmth which drew an obeerration iron
his Lordship that though he had perhaps when younger
offended in like manner himself, he rather preferred to see
• trial conducted now in • judicial than en advocate's way:
en I having himself gone through and commented upon
the evidence very carefully, he laid it down aa a dic: urn
that such • mode of attempting to get redrew, even where
the allegation were true, except upon reasonable end
proper cause of which he, and not the jar,, would hare
to decide, was a contravention of the law. Re should ask
the jury to say, first, was prisoner the writer of them
lett...? And then, if she wsr. did they believe that
Mr. Raga r was the father of her child?
Counsel for Use prosecution said be thought somebody
else ought to have been In the dock with her. A young
girl of 17 or 18 could hardly have been the concoctor of
the letters, though she wrote thorn.
The Jury found her guilty —thst the wee the Miter, add
that Kr. Ed aler wee not the father of her child.
His Lordehip said that she 6.1 been convicted of • very
serious accusation against • married man of good reputa-
tion. Robbery or murder though serious crimes, were
scamely worm than this, where tha promo( whole tamilies
mar be destroyed, and their reputation lost for aver. He
sentenced to firs years' penal servitude.

Cnvral f:tnus.
It is sal 4 that the number of troops to be Mai to Cypre
ill be 10,000.
Two Bo AO polio' superintendents were present at the
rial of Hoedel.
Toe personal estate of the late Earl Russell has been
rroru under £OO.OOO.
The departure of the Queen for Osborne has been
derma till the clots of this 5r...4.
Thirteen vessels were lois and SO damaged in a hurricane
I K nte Foie,s on the 6th of Jon,.
The enthroairition of toe Bishop rif L;chfield in the
Athednl of the diooese tiv.k piece on Thursday.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer resumed his plate in
the Hou-e of Commons on Thursday nicht, and eft
warmly crested.
The expenditure of the Cape Government on aryount
of the Gan war op to the 30th of last month wag
05003
Dr. Tyreti, Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales, bee
announced that he bee by his will given £OOO,OOO to the
various ecclesiastical funds in his diocane
The Japanese Minister for Home Affairs has been
assassisuited by gig Sansound, who afterwards spon-
taneously surrendered theme-law, at the Imperial Palace.
Adelina Patti an I Sitoor Nicolini have been en need to
sing for two nights at KrolTs Theatre in Berlin, LW being
prim of their perform sure every night.
The fleet six days' side at Fiefs of the diamonds belong.
leg to Quell Isabella of Spain eroduled 1,501.= (nearly
2011.0001
K. Alfred Prangnell, of Elmiworth brickyard. mar
Newtown, recently achieved the feat of making Len hue
white bricks in twelve and a half hours.
The number of persons who sailed from the Mersey for
foreien porta in the half .year just ended was 00,177. being
LOSS more than in the same period last year.
An enormous skate, recently caught near the Faroe
Islands, weighed 5 rens. 3 qrs. 12114 and the thiciceet
part of it measured 14 inciies: the liver weighint
Already a number of men well known in thee insinercial
world have resolved at once to proceed to Cyprus, in
order to establish there seencies and businesses without
delay.
The stamp on the eon aaaaa es of the Stockton and
Middlinhorough Waterworlta from a private root comy to
the Corporations of the two towns will cost JAM
Vire editors of newspapers published at Madrid have
been liray proceeded against for publishing false
intelligence respecting the cause of the late Q teen's death.
The St. Petersburg papers report an explovion on board
the steamer Johann, on the Volga. near Nljni.Norgerod,
on the 5,12, which resulted in the lies of 50 lives
Lord Beaconsfield has declined to attend • banquet
which it was oroposed to five to him by the Middlesex
Conservative Itigistration Association on his return, his
lordship explaining that In is obliged to abstain from
attending public dinners.
The unemployed colliers who migrated from the
Forest of Dean to the North of England a kw months
&me in ....eh of employment are returning to their native
plww, because the pits in the north are too fiery to suit

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In Southern Austria, there was • few days ago g
hailstorm, which has done a great deal of damage to
the crops. The hailstone, were of such • siva that they
broke the tiles on the roofs and severely iejured
WV:at
A few days since • party of friends sopped at Bignos.s
new traff at Ruda The party consisted of 9D, and th,, bin
was aOOO franca On their remonstrating, 3.000 francs
were taken al T. and they had the pleasure of paying 10,040
francs 1ff416 1.3.. ii.) for their supper.
In several parishes in Surrey the parochial officials have
allowed the inmates of the workhouse to go out and week
In the hayfields, and retain the Proceeds of their labour;
and in some parishes the weekly allowances to the pool'
have not been stopped daring the haymaking NUM as
hitherto.
A memorandum presented to the Berlin Congress by
the Poles recapitulates the chief inateances of the political
and religious persecution of the Pole. in Rau* which, it
says, "show that during the last 14 years the object at
Hassan government in Piland has been nothinxless than
to exterminate and annihilate the entire nation."
A shocking murder is reported from Sheffield. A
farmer named Waterhouse, brine at • village nuns@
Worrell, went to Sheffield on Thursday night to get •
cheque cashed. On his way home at night he stopped it
a wayside inn, where be incautiously showed his money.
He was not afterwards seen alive. Friday morning his
dead body was found in a secluded spot, with shocking
traces of the violent treatment he had received.
Mrs. Bradbury, a lady Suing at Bovril:Leon, was
accidentally killed when driving to Birmingham on Wed.
nesday morning. Her horse shied at some bicycles, and
threw her on to the road.
Sir Capel Fitzgerald, the young Iriah baronet who is
charged with stealing jewels, value £450. the property of
• woman with whom he had been on a trip to Farb, was
on Wednesday commitbsi for trial.
A eiri named Emma Wall. 13 years of age, is in custody
at Hereford for attempting to murder her mistress, an
elderly spinster, by mixing chloride of lime with her
medicine. The girl was beard to siiy that her mistress
would scold her once to often, and she asked wlr their
there would be an inquest if she died suddenly.
Following shortly upon the destruction of the whole of
the pack of harriers belonging to the Marquis of H ottnr.
ton, from rabies, the same complaint ha. broken out ha
the pack of beagles belonging to Mr. Myles Kennedy,
g m .r., of Stone-Cross, Uiver.tone. The peek numbered
about 50, and on Tuesday ID of the dogs were destroyed.
The outhresit of diphtheria in Hampetead. St. Meryl'.
bone, and Kilburn appear. barely to have at length come
to an end. The Sanitary Atoned understands that not far
from three hundred ca.,, of the disease and of throat
affection, which must he chpaed with diphtheria, have
occurred, and that probably more than 60 of these maw
have ended fatally.
The driver of • Dublin jaunting car has been final
2. 6L for not being dressed in a her main( manner. Hie
clothes are described a, having exhibited • most remark.
tihle capacity for retaining dirt, while his at, face, sad
linen harmonised with them most completely in colour
and dirtiness. The magistrate said be bad never seen as
iirte • "juvey," and that such • carman would not be
tolerated in any other city in the world.
1.04.4 8-battlefield on Wednesday was .uffering from
sore throat, and was unable to attend the C .ngres.. It is
now expected that his lordship will return from Berlin on
Tiede. next. However, it i. not t e it. ,ntion of the
Mete bolitan Conservative Au coati di to organise a
popular demon.tration In his favour. hut they hop- that
a spontaneous gathering will welt not him home. Never-
theless, an whirsso wilt loe presented to the noble earl on
his arrival at Charing Cross Station.

The three phvaciths who a-e artend ince on the
Emperor of Germenr tie, publaamd an gher long com-
munication supol-theatag the b letins mead by them.
They Ittl'eNt t raid. edv slow proem. temerge
recovery to great low if him& the 'hock to the system.
mental demeanor- Om or' appetma, the nans`er of painful
wounds, and the crew Slew let pa:met Auth. wounds.
it is woe, ape beale,.. Out the arms aid hands me sun
lempeNie g rev-iemang the t a 9.1,10 respired of
' them. His Ilawirre ms 10.4 take nourishment with the
ego snare -0 .404411.
RlOPiedirie TO RCEMrthaeo —me barque "Scottish
B. ••• as. t.o.ea.. L.hb, siled from Graemend
, Sit ,z.iatti. Vat t n.l bier of emigre:vs
Roctimeopans. Queensland, sir X married men, sr
awned woims. 11.5 singe men, 10 single women. 10
chi! sod 13 intuits, noak•ng a total of XS souls. Mud
t• RS statute Malta The single women are no let the
core of lira Tour. Dr. Lightoller acting as surgeon.
anpirrintewiect
OunrWesenoe Pox Ratimay Lis.mems.—Tb• mei of
Letheriand • L hdon and o 'rib-Western Railway
Company was tried at Northampton Aeries 012 Thunder.
the plaintiff is the widow of the Mte proprietor and editor
of the Welliagbermash News who died from injuries
receired in a collier st near N orthampton loot Ditober.
She claimed £l.OOO damages for herself and two children.
The defend ante had offered £1,300. and had paid a shilling
into court in admission of Liability. TM deceased had
been a reporter on several provincial journal and bad
purchased the Iffelfiewboromai Sew., which he had greedy
peoved. and it 'bitted. it was said. a profit of eaka
year. T'he jury awarded LUSO. being £lOO for the widow,
£403 for lam daughter, and lASI for her sea.
A remarkable trial for murder took place • few days
ago. before Mr. Justice Grove, at the Hampshire Summar
Assizes. The circumstances connected with the charge
were peculiar, and were most perplexing The accused
was • labourer named Jahn Werrinzton, aged 08. livrsg
at Esetney, and for twenty-one years in the Royal Karla*
Artillery, in which carps be bore an excellent character.
He was charged with the murder of his wife Jana at
Portage. on the Ind of June. The deceased was evident',
a most disreputable character, (morally, sea witness at
the trial stated, threeparts drunk, end had not alms
frequently threatened to commit suicide, bat had on two
or three occasions actually attenuated to destroy herself.
On Sunday, the itnd of Jane, Warrington and his wife
were at a public-house, the Highland House, at Rastime.
kept by on* Thome. Simpson. A little squabble—not at
all unusual with the deceased --occurred them betimes
Warrington and the murdered woman, but they subs".
quently left for their home. A abort time afterwards
Warrington was seen rushing out IT his cottage, coned
with blood, and canine for help. &were] persons at
the trial deposed that the decemed .111/1 found seated as
• chair in the cottage, with her throat completely cut
'cross and quite dead. On. witness stated that Wearing.
ton told him his wife lual cut her throat, and, after dabs!
so, had said to bin., "Now I have don. it." blei
experts were called in to examine the wound, with • view
to movrtain whether it was of such • nature as to tidied*
suicide or homicide. The force used in inflicting this most
have boob very crest, for all the larger arteries and masa
were cut, and the knife was proved to have notched the
verbalism to the depth of a quarter of an inch. The mate-
meat of the prisoner that deceased had spoken after
cutting her throat is not credible, kw, the muscles of Om
neck and chest being severed. such • thing is (172
impassible. The evidence was, however, cirri:lnman
In view of the good character of the accused and the
declaration often made by the deceased that she would
"do for herself some day," the public will approve of the
verdict of not guilty which the jury, after a =eta hem"
lag, brought in.