The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-12-26 00:00:00

Lab, anb erim.

A than named Patrick Welch has been sentenced to
, death at the Leeds !lasi& for the murder of John Ronane
in a drunken quarrel.
! FaNTA.ISM.—At Cork, Jeremiah Donovan has heel
senteneed to five, Thomas Duggan to ten, and O'Connell
to ten years' penal servitude. After the sentence the
latter conducted himself towards the bench after the
pattern of O'Donavon (Rosen), and expressed a hope
that there would "soon be an exchange of prisoners.'
afen•ii Rscrixt Was attrnmoned at Marlborough-
street for obtaining by false pretencert the sum of £33
and a diamond ring worth £2O, from a lady named
Knight, under the promise to remove from her face
soon smallpox marks by which she was disfigured. The
complainant did not appear, and Madame Rachel's soli
citor laid the whole story wan a fiction, and that the per
soh Who called herself Mrs. lnight was the agent of a
man who was seeking to hie alien*. The summons
was of course dismissed.
TH6 ASSAULT ON DR. HUNTER. —The assailante of
Dr. Hunter were tried at the Central Criminal Court on
Monday. Samuel Merrick, the husband of the woman
who had made an unsuccessful charge of rape easing
the doctor, and Frederick Jones, were the prisoners.
It appears that they attacked the complainant in his
study, and Jones &tin to have beep the moat violent of
the two, he having struck Dr. Minter on (be head
with a thick stick, and bitten his ear till it bled pro-
fusely. The prisoners were found guilty, Fentence
being deferred. Jones WAS on Thursday sentenced to
two months' imprisonment, and Merrick to a fine of
five pounds.
EXTRAORDINARY stories of London life eometimrs
leak out in our law cootie, and one of the most curious
WAS one which was ellated in the Court of Exchequer
ri ,Wedilead,ity. Messrs. Pearce and Coontse, ooach-
Kidders; of bong Aere; aired a woman named Brook, for
a kith of Othney on aceotint 6? • brotigharn, which they
said they had sold to her. The diffenee teas that the
brougham had been hired, and, further, that ititaillent
by the plaintiffs, as they well knew, to enable the de-
fendant to carry on her vocation as a prostitute. The
evidence Wan conflicting, and the jury returned a ver.
diet for the defendant, on the ground that the plaintiff
supplied the vehicle to her with • perfect knowledge of
tier charatter, and the uses to which the brougham
wduld be OM

Bigaim OF Fardiaa-,. Mies Selina Satinciere, of 134
ninnton, Nit ningiveti years old, applied to Mr. Thomas
Short, Who it fffil year.; old, and Who advertiaes to lend
money in n.ery tempting Manner, for it little deem:bum-
dation. Whether Mr. Short oh iged his fair client at
60 per cen,.. we are not informed, but at all events he
made an offer of marriage, and was accepted. After a
long courtship he cruelly broke his engagement, and
married Miss Benson, of Greenwich, who is a cook by
profession. The forlorn Miss Saunders went to bed for
six woeks. brought an action for breach of promise, and
a jury of British fathers has awarded her £lOO damages.
Miss Saunders is • fortunate damsel. For a young lady
inst out of her teens not to marry a man rather over
fifty and b gat £2OO into the bargain, is unheard of

A Its* Cniits—A hainirenser in the gnartier
Montmatte has been charged before the police-court
w;th a series of singular assaults. With the assistance
of an accomplice, who appears to be known by hie sego-
oiates as "the assassin," he has been in the habit of
enticing into his shop poor ign.mant girls with fine heads
of hair, and then depriving them by violence of their
locks, not unfrequently adding insult to injury. The
police discovered in his shop numerous letters from hia
victims, upbraiding him with his cruelty. A young girl
of 16 had the courage to denounce the ruffian to the
police, undeterred by his threats of having her im-
prisoned as a vagabond, and there is abundont ev denoe
to insure his conviction. The only defence was that he
dealt largely in false tresses and chignons, and was
obliged to find materials the best way he could. —Pall
Mall Gazette.

THE INSURRECTION IN JAMAICA

A committee has been formed in London to watch the
progress of the official inquiry, and bring about a search
mg Parliamentary inquiry into the past and present -
sondition if Jimmies; sae to rrovide Mrs. Gordon and
ethers who way have unjustly suffered from the
proceedings of the civil and military authorities in
Jamaica with oempetent legal assistanoe to conduct their
*evert' cases before the commission. The chairman of
eommittee is Mr. Charles B ' utton RCP, and
sarong Cho members are Mr. J. Stuart Mill, Kt':
Lord Alfred Churchill, Mr. Bright; W.P..; OFtWoMits
Suntos, Professors Cairnes sad Got win
Smith, hre.