The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-03-03 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A Win No • Win—A curious case earn. before
the COOS Of ibeen's Bench on Tuesday. A surgeon
named Elope stied t Toon named fla
cif ns for the re-
covery d ofll , lot attending* upon
Yrs. Morris, illiftbdatt s reputed silk rot the defence
it tree urged that defendant was not liable. Inasmuch as
plaintirs patient was not legally married to the defen-
dant. It yes true there bad been a form of marriage,
but it was not valid, for at that time she had s busbend
living. from whom elm bad been divorced, hotpot a
riitcalo teafrisnocli. ebe lived with the defendant for
some years as him wife. Afterwards there wee a Nevus-
him,, and detetedopt Allowed bet • separate maintenance.
The Lord Chief Jail* iish,d that there was no case to
go to the lot,- "1111. KOTA" bid foft bete judicially
&voiced from her hasheesh end wise hying with the de-
fendant at the time that Pr. Epps attended her,

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An EITIAORDINAST lemma= —Three weeks ago
our readers may recollect reading that a woman bed
been found in an aseenseions state es the arrival of •
train at Wood at night from London Bridge. Re-
Morstivas were appliedi but so motion of the heart
was discovered, did Dr. Brown, pronouncing the
woman I noires, reeommended het removal to the
darl-hotim. Too edygeons ,(MJ, Steele and Mr.
Langstotte) ietire sest for, sad ellien+latter had
continued his aorta to holds in I& two
hours returning coasciortemes was perm red, and the
woman was ultimately removed to the Stood work-
house, when Ms said that her name was Bell. that
she had opine from the United Stated to visit ber
father in Glasgow, end was proceeding thence to
Chatham to visit her brother, who was a soldier, when
is therregilC Gait a respeotably-dremed woman
gma Mir I robbed beret Ids., her muff
mad aw aridrittil la diteZ7st Stroma
station. the " reamery"
mincledee by Mating that "every effort it being
used by the polies to Mace the woman who per-
=ted the rohlmr7." The station-master OA
gave her a free pass beak to London sad RE.
On Wednesday the sequel of the story was told to the
magistratee at Wolverhampton helots whom the woman
was denotinord as al Impostor. Prom Lando* hippos:l
she made ha way le, Iknoinghasis, *bete she feigned
she sWaa itirotintreettkLas
retained In *boo dri Mid Ha
WU driven round the tity daring au lb • vain
attempt to Ind those friends, rued area retairOad to Sir-
ed/um. (IQ's evianing insensible esof the I
the sOth of
a February
carriage M ry she
airWolverhamptor, and was removed to the
llentiumptVimOtaliglitithitoredwa. Dere skew.. re-
aordsoll by Imbe zit:ma; demand from
Ibteerabarry mama to , as, a woman
whom be bad supped and la *drat, some
months ego, she baring arrived-them also Is a date of
amosseionmess, and on recovering bevies slated that
she had been even poises is the train. The boom our
Epallasesedulas4eyslitaleighe polies of the siammiter of
eht, Froall mile it would moos that
ernside filmes Matte last
feigned " "attalratiirt at New-
tons, sad *at bad bees
(mad fa Me daft kesenablo—M the tier same mak-
ing afls4 damp waked three yonag men who had
atltnysred her. They ware takes bate melody, bat
animal* diethlltt 80=2 Islia° answer-
ing to Mg demerits *ad a Psy bridge
sear Geometry, with marks of vioisam dl bid Arent,
and a man, in whom company she had hem semi,
was talus into euMody for alliseapting to dram&
her, but the dolmas proved them to bam been self-
Winged. In stew days sherwards she was (mind in
the trala at Shrewsbury, ma already stated, where it
sweats alm also red soasuaikm, spitting blood,
whiotaahe obtained gem her arm biting sad pricking
it. Os Ms lith of Juana', al 611 cze iota and
her 1004011 Wads( of Sea On
that night foiled Li, • potter, on the arrival
of dada st oil a Male of immobility."
It was that had taker. , mid she
eras removed to Elt. Mary's The
usal remedies for poison Alight& On
she pretended that she could speak liaglida,
oalyirreleb. A. Welsh porter Was sea for, to wends
what shit had taken. Bite said she was on her way from
Glasgow to Chatham, to her who were
sokhers ; that whilst in the Irak a mut, lay alamo dint
of sepetior strewth, overcame her pad omamhtted as
offeme upon her moos. if. then Pie her email wipe
or spirits, and while Mamas nbil
£1 10s, sad a "Stasis wit-hiter." Robes eke
released site sada speak Ro11ekl• Their came her
last gppearsaos at Stood, Rinsiagliam and, Wm,-
hampton, on whisk she was sow shared as a vagrant.
The Maglukates aratiancod hen to throe months' Wiwi-
mmemet. and whilst she was being taken from the
court she said that when she tame out she would get
I the °batman six mouths herself.

Homo= TILLIIIIIIIT OF • CHILD.-41 the Liver-
pool PoliOe COSA Oil Wed 0•141•1 • •••• Plaabliting
U.. ewit drawled timidity *a U.S pert el • wade to I
• eliild af timid piers WY hreoght lidos, tko saes- I
add for tawistiptioa The hiet that het
_woad
stood by sad saw U. prams! U..slindi /2 lb.
way demand lasso& without tathg say woso.to
prevail it waders the as. Idadilgsd
=id • poor, illeipateddsoleide MO111•11, dad
dadagald, who keep. abs.. d Memo to
rillorotrost. It apposed dist baldllY t1T10016.1 a
lish itel ridded is U.. prided% hod*. Imp was !eat,
li •• la 'godly dlpsto imildo Ilekleace to allooker
of it. towa they Trim as , brisk of the
Wu 1I aided Mid do shad wog wow dead
cid, sad it lad listo 4.111. MIN* ft tie

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prisms* ever Atm wu three welts eld. 0.
the aterioes *cid Mao wits half drink, and
*dokUd beim to she (writes.) took it up,
but temitirlseese leek it front ber,pet It oe the sofa,
covered it with a blanket. and made a pillow of it.
The child cried and atriaggled, but the prisoner held it
beneath the blanket for several minutes. After this,
however, she took it up by the Irv., and dashed its
head against the state floor. The child, after being
struck. still matinee' to cry, and the prisoner again
streak it in a similar rummer eeriest the floor, lied as
it eat cried she struck it a third ti ne Is • Illatillar
manger. She then pet the Mild upon the sofa ..is,
vine Medd rib free its fowl, noes, altd eyes. This
evidence was corroborated by abetter young minim
residing in the bottle. The surgeon who essiainid the
child said there were emitutions on the hoe, forehead,
and mouth, and • wound on the left eye. The child
was in • very dangerous state, and he did not think it
would live. The cam we remodel for evert days;
Mr. Ranks remarking that if the child died the woman
would stand • very fer chance of getting hanged.

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