The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

Lam imb trtuu.

Cool? oF Quaint's Itaarai.—Sittitip at Nisi Prins
(before the Lord Chief Justice and • special jury
Wason Walter.—This was an action for liireL The
plaintiff was Mr. Peter Rigby Wseoo, and the defend-
ant Hr. John Walter, one of the registered proprietors
of the Fiesta The publications complained of con-
sisted, first, of a report in that journal on the 13th of
February Iset of the debate in the House of Lords on
the previous day with regard to • petition of the
plaintiff, promoted by Earl Russell, praying for an
Inquiry into certain charges which be made against
Air Fitzroy Belly, the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of
Eseheqtter ; sod, mieondly, of two editorial articles on
the same subjest, one of which appeared eon-
temporancouily with the report, and the other on the
113th of April. The trial lasted three days, and termi-
nated in a verdict for the defendant.
A NoveL EICORR FOR DRONKRINIII/L—William
(hitcher, ostler, was charged at Miarylebone pollee--
court with b tog drunk and in an unfit state to take
ears of hie bona—Constable 127 9 raid on the previous
night the prisoner was seen by him in the middle of the
road quite incapnoitated front controlling his horse.
He had to look him up. Prisoner's answer to the
*him was that he was acend.orned to ebew tobacco.
On this occasion he nad put • "plug" into his mouth,
when the horao rettred, and the " plug' went down his
throat, and the effect of it wee to make hint feel giddy.
It was that which made him appear drunk.-11r.
D'Eyneourt asked the offloer if he VIA sure the prisoner
was drank.—The constable said be was sure of it.—
Prisoner t It was only through the tobaceo, then.—Mr.
D'Eyncourt mid he must upon this occasion, through
the tobacco, pay a fine of one shilling.
MORD= ALT BRIIIToL.-1 very singular clue of
homicide ie reported from BristoL A blind man named
Chit, who bad been separated from his wife for some
limo, on Thursday determined upon visiting her, and
he was led to bee lodgings at a bearhonse in the
Hotweldroed by • young man named Lyons. CIAO
went upstairs to the room occupied by his wife, and •
few minutes afterwards screams were beard. Lyons
hastened to the room whence they iiroomieded, and
found Cliff, assaulting his wife with the leg of • bed-
stead. No one else was in the room, hut be learnt
from what was going on outside that a young man
named Thomas Fermat had either been thrown cut of
the window or had fallen out. Farrant sustained such ,
[Diaries that he died shortly afterwarda Cliff I'. wife
aseerhi that her husband threelelsed Peewit, and Ise I
was therefore taken into custody.

1101IDEZ IT • RUICTID SUITOII. At Aohton•nnder-
Lyne, on Thursday, • young man named Timothy
Faherty, of Droylsden, was brought up on the charge
of having, on the afternoon of Christmas Day, wilfully
murdered Mary Reamer, of the same plasm The
evidence went to show that the prisoner wanted to pay
his addresses to the murdered woman, but WY die-
eo•rsged. On Christmas Day, between three and four
o'clock, he went to the house in Droyledon where the
unfortunate woman lived. A woman, named Bridget
Brodriek, left the deceased and the prisoner alone, and
shortly afterward. heard her singing, but not long after
that she beard her scream On running downstairs she
saw the prionner with • poker in his hand, and saw him
strike the deesamed on the head. The deceased collet
out she was killed. The unf,rtunate woman died soon
afterwards. The witness said she saw the prisoner
strike the dreamed Ire Conon the had. r.• evidence
having proved that the deceased's death was sensed by
wounds on the head, the prisoner was remanded.

SHIPWILICLID IC SELDWCLL.-At Tbs:nes polio.-
court, neannel Crosby, • seaman. was brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting P.C. David
Crutehley, 188 K.—The eomplainant said that on
Saturday night the prisoner met him in the Back-road,
Shads:veil, and represented that he had lost his way,
and wanted to reach the Sailors' Home in Poplar. Ile
directed him which way to go. The prisoner said that
he wished him to act as pilot and show him to the
Home. He told the prisoner he could not leave his
beet, and the prisoner departed. Some time after-
wards the prisoner returned to him on another part of
his beat, and again demanded that he should conduct
him to the Sailors' Home. He again refined, and the
prisoner knocked off his helmet. He picked it up and
took the prisoner into custody.—Mr. Paget: You say
this occurred on Saturday night. Why was not the
prisoner brought before the magistrate sitting bore on
Monday !—Witness : This is Mondas.—Mr. Paget: No.
You ars wrong.—Witness: Yesterday wan Sunday.—
Mr. Paget: No. You are wrong again.—Witneas,
throwing his arms up with • sudden burst of recollec-
tion, 1 beg pardoe. Yesterday was Christmas-day.
On Christina.-.vs the prisoner sweated us,—The
prisoner said he was on • voyage from Piccadilly to
Poplar, and found himself at the Horns at Kennington.
This •as not his latitude or longtitade. He tanked
about, and steered again for Poplar. He found himself
in Shadwell, and spoke to the policie-oonatable who was
drunk, and be could tell him the exact position in
which he stood. The prisoner then went into a long
barbarian. - The magistrate sentenced the prisoner to
seven days' imprisonment.

Erra•MIDINANT PRIIIIIDIT•Tfoir 01 1101 Del.—An
attempt at murder, mod extraordinary In aspect,
was mule st scold ruin celled Red Abbey, near Cork,
on Monday night. The abbey and adjoining property
I. in the ears of an old man named Butler, who lives
at the ruin. A young women named Hannah Harley,
a domestic "help," and William Butler, hie grandson.
16 riftrx ante. resided with the old man. The girl
was in the habit for some time past of giving a few
pence per week to the grandson to put in the bent.
She bad handed him Da. in all, sod recently she
discovered that he bad kept beck 25. of that amount.
Her accusations end threats of disclosure seem to have
determined him to get rid of her by murder, and he
went about his work in a Niagularly determined end
pramodiuted meaner. He had mew to the key of the
rein. and up in • pert when time Sad formed • sort of
soil be dug a grave about six feet in length by one foot
in depth sad width. He then waited for an opportunity
to entrap the girl, and on her continuing to moue him
he on Monday evening announced to her that he had
the money buried in the abbey, and if she uoended
with him she mold get it. She assented to this. and
about five o'clock they entered the building, Boiler
carrying • candle to show the way. On arriving at the
place he led her over to the spot where the grave was
dog, and at his bidding she went into it to take up, as
he ealit, the box that wan there containing her money.
Senrcely bad her feet touched the bottom of the grave
then he dealt her • blow by • small hatchet be had had
concealed about him. It took effect on the right
shoulder, and he followed it up by two or three outs at
her head. The audio went out on the instant, and the
girl screasned for mercy, at the same time suourling in
getting hold of it. imploring him to spare her life,
and he promised to do so if she would never tell whet
had occurred. She made the rosette, and under these
conditions tasty left the spot, groping their •sy to the
staircase. As she descended blood mate in streams from
her wounds, and she was in momentary dread that he
would throw her hoed foremost down. However, he
attempted no further violence, end when they got down
the ran into a house covered •ith goes, and was at once
carried off to the South Infirmary, where her wounds
were dressed. Butler made off. The girl le wounded
on the back of the neck and shoulders, and had the
hatchet not been an old blunt one she would now be a
wpm and buried in ;the grave prepared for her. She
I. rapidly improving.
KNIFING CHlttirrwall Ix LONDON.—At Thames police.
court. Matilda Welker, with s black veil over her face,
described see lady, was brought before Mr. Benson,
charged with being drank and incapable of taking eare
of benalf.—Mr. Benson: You are described ea • married
woman and call yourself a lady, Mrs. Welker. It is not
ladylike to be drunk.—The prisoner: Really, sir, I can
maws you it was quite an occident. Last night, after
I had finished all my domestic emngemente, I went
home with an old lady, and, as it 1.11/1 Christmas time,
I took • glom of the very beet dummies pine-apple run
diluted with cold water • nothing more, upon my
honour, sir. The rum just elevated me.—Mr. /3enson :
And lowered you! You were on the ground, Mrs.
Walker. Don't drink any more Jamaica pine-apple
rum if it has such disastrous effects. You are dieeberged
Mrs. Walkar.—Mary Stevens wan charged with a
similar offense, and asid.—Thie is Christosaa-eve, sir.—
Mr. Benson: That is no reason you should get drunk,
and degrade younelf. Go about your hosiers.—
Margaret Mmedoeild, who previously gave the nuns of
Ana Corredine, on being charged with being helplessly
drunk, grid she had been • teetotaller twelve months
barring three daya—Mr. Benson: Why don't you keep
the teetotal pledge?- The prisoner: For ever will I,
please your honour's worship, leer sines last Boxing.
day I have been fond and sober, but but night I met
with a few friends from the mild counthry, and we
drank bad luck to Fenimisen, until—Mr. Benson:
You were drunk Go away and keep sober in future.—
Another wretched and pale-faced woman, in a state of
exhaustion, who gave the ume of Ann Jones, was
earriedbn • stretcher to the station-house in .deplorable
condition, singing the old refrain " Strapped on •
stretcher wery Sarah and I."—The prisoner : I am very
ill.—Mr. Benson: 11l I I wonder you are not dead.
What • scandal it isle And so many women brought here
for drinking to seems. On away.eso—Juie Fry behaved
so badly in her intoxicated condition that Mr. Benson
sentenced her to one day's impriarounit. The
prisoner: It is Christmas time—Mr. Benson: Look her
up until Ave o'clock this evening.
WIDEN 07 • G•NNEN10111 IN Bricgirefatsiigglag.
On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Wiseman held an inquest
at Wavendos, tear Newport Pagnall, on the death of
John White, • gamekeeper in the employment of
Captain Seeley, of Wavendon House. Whilst the
deceased, in company with an under keeper, 1111111104
Farr, were in Wayendon Wood about six o'clock on
Christmas-eve watching, they were net by James
Inwood, • lath render, sad William Batenerton, brisk.
layer, belonging to Woburn Seeds, who were out on •
poaching expedition. On finding that they were di,.
queered Emmerton ran sway, and be waa pursued by
Parr. When they had got away a distance of 50 yards,
Farr beard sabot fired, and on looking around, he saw
White falling to the gronad. Farr ran bask to render
moisteners, and se be returned the deceased cried out
Farr, Pen a dead man, and it's Junes Inwood that bas
shot me.' Inwood ran away. Fart lifted White up,
but he bOOll afterwards expired in his arms. Assistance
was speedily obtained, and the deceased was taken to
the Swan Inn. Mr. Fry, surgeon, of Woburn, made •
post-mortem ezamination, and found that thirteen
drachma of shot Ind entered the deeemed's aide, naming
through the margin of the lunge and the diaphragm,
and ultimately lodging, with the wadding, on the left
side of the thine. The premises of Inwood, who with
ifeimerbon was taken into eastody on the lame night,
were marched, and • gun was found there, but no ram.
rod. This was found next morning near the spot where
White fell. Emutertou could gine no amount of
where he WU at the time of the occurrence; but on his
way to Fenny Stratford Police Station he made • state-
ment to the following effect:—' I, William Fumes ton,
was in a field adjoining Wavendon Wool on Christmss-
eve, between Ave and six o'clock, with James Inwood,
going in search of g•nm, when we saw two men before
es. We Hen stopped, and stood st.II ; when Inwood
said, 'Shoot 'em; Lod I said I would not. Fie them
said, 'God strike me dead, I wilt' when the men
commenced running towsrds us. I said, 'Run,' and I
eommenced running. Whoa I hed got some distance I
heard the report of a gun. Itb n went home." Tbe
jery returned • verdict of " Wilfal Murder" naiad
Jamie Inwood, bet expressed their opinion that there
well no erideees against Eaunerton. Inwood VIM then
committed on the coroner's warrant for trial at the
Seeks Amigos on a charge of villa! murder. TM
raimeer Inwood trailed the wide quaker with the
emeat
tadiawass.

FLOOGISQ Gmtorms.—Tho osaishonot of the
waa inflicted on Friday morning in the p. 1.1
Newish, upon three prisoners who were convicted al
the resent senaloo of the emirs Criminal Court of
street robberies accompanied by violeoon. Tb• ealprits
ware all young men, and had bad characters. Mu
punishment wan indicted by Calmat t. The culprit@
bellowed lustily.

Itworeze Camp Mumma ix flesorsmium--Another
discovery of • murder barn been made in Shropshire. On
Thureday the deed body of • child wee discovered
limiting to the canal neer the linens', at Stirehlsy, out
far from • spot et latish the nnforteside Barnet Zeeman
was deprived of lde. There was • string tied round the
neck, to which was attashed • large stone, intended no
doubt to keep it from rising to tbe surface of the water.
The stone, however, failed to sumer its purpose, and
the body consequently roes to the top and was thus
found.

BROTAL Wire Manna& -An inquest was held at
Liverpool on Thursday, on the body of Dinah Quigley,
32 years of age, the wife of Thome Quigley, labourer.
The principal evidence was given by the daughter of
the deemed. • child nine years of age, who stated that
about 23 minutes before eight on the evening of
Wednesday, the 18th init., her feller, who was "in
drink," same home and linked where her mother was.
He told told her to go and seal she was at Matthews's,
a neighbour in the seine court The child went there,
and looking through the keyhole saw her mother, but
told her father that she didn't think her mother was
there. She said this barium her father had thiestened
to kill her mother when he got hold of her. After-
wards her father went himself. and sew Ids wife run
toward* the °cal cellar to get out of his way. Her..
In, dragged her out by the hair, pulled her into her own
hoase, and best her with • poker, with • 'tick. and
with • big table, and kicked her es she lajon the floor.
He threw. fender at her, and out her head with it.
Them he jumped upon her three or four timed', taking
"a sweating" (rost) between each jump. Heather'
wards took hold of hie youngest daughter, threw her on
to his wife, tend took her up again, and duhed her
down in the yard. Witness took hold of her father's
band, and begged bine not to do that, but be struck her
on the face, pushed her away from him, and threatened
to run • knife into any one who interfered with him,
A neighbour asked him to have patience with his wife.
He replied, "It is hard for me to have patience. She
erns drinking yesterday with Peter Lawler, and to-day
with Andrew Matthews. She I. worms than •
prostitute. Subsequently the injured 1,00121&11 was
takes to Mu Northam Hospital, where she died on
Monday lut. The house surgeon Imre • torrillo
amount of her Injuries. They were so extensive, and
the system so mach prostrated, that be oonld not
examine her when she was admitted to the hupital,
but he had made a pen Isoprene examination. He found
three severe contused scalp wounds, one above the right
ear, • severe oontudon on the right cheek, another
under the ear. Five ribs were fractured on the left
side end two ribs on the right. The right arm was
bruised all over, and the left forearm broken. Both
legs were shockingly bruised, and the splinter bone of
the left leg broken. She had died from the wound,
and the severe shook to the system. The jury returned
• verdict of Wilful Murder against Thomas Quigley.
Quigley is 'till at barge, having left the neighbourhood
after the oommission of the erime.

DUTZZATZ HIGHWAY ROlll/12T wzi CAMBRIDOI.
—A highway robbery, accompanied with fearful
'talon°,' which, it is feared, will result In the death of
the part, attacked, occurred near Cembridge, on Thurs-
day night. A butcher and hay-tutor named Williams,
of Swayesey, about ten milee from Cambridge, left that
plus for Cambridge on Thunday morning. He bad with
him about • ton of hay, which he Intended to sell, and
eventually did, In Cambridge; for this he received £5,
and very little more than this, if at all, would fall Into
the hands of his aseaiLsot or sauilants, for when he left
Fisravesey be had but just enough money to pay the
expellees of the road, tolls, ha He started for Swore-
eey at 'even a.m. In the evening, about five o'clock,
Mr. Dodson, jun., of the White Horse, fiwavuey, was
driving ea his way to Cambridge, and met what he
knew to be Williams's horse and cart, then being
driven by a man, • stranger, whom he describes
as wearing • short jacket. Mr. Dodson drove to Cam-
bridge and back to Swavesey ; on his return he again
pseud Williams's cart, and • man was then standing
upright in it, driving. Mr. Dodson arrived in Seavesey
about 20 minutes to eight, and about half an hoar after
Williams's horse and cart entered the village untended.
A young man named Thorpe, and a labourer named
Wilderspin, overhauled it, and found its unfortunate
proprietor laying at the bottom on the tarpaulin, be had
taken to cover his hay, frightfully wounded, and per-
fectly insensible. On medical arattnee arriving,
It wan found that he had been brutally assulted,
apparently with a hatchet, or some other sharp in-
atruiusut ; there WM • wound across the forehead
over four inches in length, and the skull is doubtless
fractured. There are three other wounds—one
having severed the left ear frorn the skull.
One of the pockets was found turned inside out,
and the purse he had in his possession in the moaning,
• double C/11•14 one, I. gone. No money ma found.
The only observation Mr. Williams han yet made is,
"Oh dear me," and at this writing his death is
momentarily expected. It is said that • man with
blood won his clothes was seen in Fenstanton (about
two miles from the spot where the Etwanney-road leaves
the Huntingdon-road), the same night, and the police
Sr. in pursuit. Mr. Long, of Seavesey, saw • man
lurking near the spot where the fiwavesey-road leaves
the high-road from Camhridge to Huntingdon at • late
hour on Thursday evening, but did not address him.
Mr. Williams is • native of Elwavecey, and one of the
most respeeted inhabitants It Is to be feared that
his good nature led him to give his villainous assail-
ant " • lift" on the road, and that his life will
fall • sacrifice to his desire to render another • good
aloe.

EXECUTION OF BAKER, THE ALTON
MURDEI3B4SI.
On Tuesday !morning, at eight o'clock, Frederick
Baker. the Alton murderer, Ism hung in front of
Winchester gaol, before • crowd of about 5,000 or
6.000 persona, The circumstance attending this
atrocious crime are so fresh in the recollection of our
readers that it is wines...my to recapitulate them
now. The convict was a slim man about Mt. Sin. in
height, and it is said his bead was very well developed,
steept that he was deficient in Mon His age
is 29, but he certainly die not appear more than 20.
From the time of his conviction to the day of his death
be was extremely attentive to the exhortations of the
, chaplain. His demeanour weal subdued throughout,
, and there was a total absence of anything like bravado
in his eonduct. A few days ago be wrote a letter to
the father of the murdered ribald admitting the crime,
hat seeking to palliate it by saline she did not
suffer much, and ing himself from the lawful
enormity of mime charged to hiss by intimating
that be did not do all imputed to lam. In reply he
received from Mr. Adams a kind oseemge. Baker also
wrote to his former sweetheart, asking her to visit him,
but saying be should sot like to me his father, for "it
would kill the old man." Neither of them came. Sines
his conviction he has been coefined in the condemned
cell, which is ono set apart for criminals under men tease
of death at this gaol, and is larger than the others,
and of pentagon form. On Monday evening he went
to bed about a quarter toll, and he slept until shortly
alter five o *look. He breakfasted at half past six
o'clock, taking the whole of his usual supply of tea,
with bread and butter. The morning broke gloomy
and the air was filled with moisture, but spestators
began to assemble in front of the gaol
as early as three o'clock. But they only
gathered very slowly, end at seven o'clock
scarcely over 1,000 were assembled, and these were
exceedingly orderly. At 8 o'clock the prison bell began
to toll, and the convict was directly after brought from
his cell, and taken to the preessroom, half way up the
staircase leading to the top of the portal to the
prison, where the scaffold !was erected. The
chaplain led Baker by his left arm, conversing
with him, but the convict was exceedingly firm, and
walked briskly. an arriving at the pres.-room Calmat
at once proceeded to pinion bins, binding bia sinus
firmly backward by • strap above each elbow. During
this terrible preparation Baker was unmoved. He walked
with equal Grooms to the dr,p, and though his face .41
pale, it did not exhibit that deadly pallor usually seen.
Gilman speedily pulled over his fame a blank cap,
then tied the rope round his neck, and finally slung it
over the beam and fastened it. Having strapped his
legs he left him. While this was being done the chaplain
read the burial service. This was prolonged for several
minutes after all the preparations were complete, and
Oilman had stepped down to the bolt. The convict
now exhibited signs of nervousness. His knees trembled,
and his bands were convulsively clutched. At ten
minutes past eight the bolt was drawn, and he was
launched into eternity. For • minute there WWI a
slight tremulous agitation of the legs, bet this was
probably but muscular action. He died quickly.
To the Chaplain he had previously confessed
murdering the child, bnt he seserts that he did not
violate her, and aseribee his committal of the deed to his
being intoxicated at the time. The Chaplain believed
Baker did not prevaricate in the mutter. He cut off
her bead, he tam directly after he had killed its r, and
took cut her eyes, which he took away in his hand. He
seys he mid nothing in cutting her up but the small
knife on which a spot of blood was detected. The rest
of the mutilation be did when be returned to the
hop field the second time, after five o'clock.
He afterwards washed the knife carefully at the pump
at Mr. Clemente' office, sad afterwards oiled it. At nine
o'clock the body was cut down, and buried in the yard,
where eight or nine other criminals were interred.
There was no booting from the crowd.