The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

EIHOOKING DEATH OF A Boy Ilf THE HONTINO
FIELD.—On Monday afternoon an inquest was held be-
fore Mr. W. H. Phillips, deputy-coroner, on the body
of George Harry Thermo, aged 12 years, the son of Mr.
Theme, cab proprietor, of Castle-street, Wolver-
hampton. On 'Saturday week the deceased, who, for a
child, was remarkably clever at horsemanship, was out
riding with the A Ibrighton hounds, at Neachley, when
he was thrown from his horse, and his foot becoming
entangled in the stirrup, he was dragged along the
ground for some distance, receiving severe concussions
oath, head and other parts of the body. Be lingered
till the following Friday afternoon. A verdict in
accordance with the above-mentioned farts was re-
turned. Shortly before the deceased fell the Hon. C.
Wrottesley was thrown whilst patting his horse at a
fence, and he sustained a fracture of one of the bones
of the slioalder.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDINT AT HACINRIL—OR Wednesday
morning a terrible accident, attended with the foes of
five lives and fearful injuries to six other persons, oc-
curred in Amherst-road, Hackney, near the station of
the North London Railway. A row of houses, with
shops, three stories high, have been for some time in
progress of erection. A number of workmen were em-
ployed in completing the interior of the buildings,
when, between ten and eleven o'clock, two of the houses
soddenly fell inwards with a tremendous crash, burying
the men in the ruins. The tremendous weight of the
brickwork and mortar Carried away in their descent the
floors of the different rooms. When the dust had in
some degree cleared away, • pitiable scene presented
itself, and the cries of the poor creatures buried in the
ruins were most distressing. Several of the workmen
in the neighbourhood, regardless of the rick they ran,
continued removing the maze of ruins, and extricating
the sufferers. The scene was a most distressing one.
Many relatives of the poor men were present during the
afternoon, who cried and sobbed most piteously as their
WWI, husbands, or fathers, were being conveyed in carts
to the hospital. At the time of the accident there were
thirty men upon the buildings, all of whom were on
the top, and the escape of some without injury was
miraculous. One cause assigned for the accident is the
breaking of the maws supporting the bressemer, and on
which the entire weight of the building rested, The
neighbourhood was in • most excited state.

Slocairm Dicarki..--o:\jaZesda;'-a.Tinquest was
held at the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of a young
lady, 14 years of age, named Julia Anna Jeffcott. It ap-
peared that the deceased and a younger girl were look-
ing at a portrait over the fireplace, when the skirts of
her dress suddenly ignited. The companion endeavoured
to extinguish the flame, when Mr. Lynch, who was in
another room, on bearing the two females screaming
violently, and one crying out, "Oh, my God, who
will help me I" ran up to the room and finally succeeded
in putting out the flame, but not till he himself was
very seriously burnt. The deceased was dreadfully
burnt all over the body. Verdict, "Accidental
death."
- A WHOLE FAMILY SUFFOCATED.-A most distressing
pi. occurrence took place in Cardi On Monday morning,
resulting in the death of four ns. A man named
Patrick Connel, residing in • hack bowie in Ellen
Street, Newtown, together vOth his wife and two
children, were found dead in their beds. It appears
that as there was no fireplace in the room where they
slept they kindled a quantity of coal in • tin pitcher on
Sunday night, it being exceedingly cold, and the result
was that they were suffocated before the morning by
inhaling the carbonio acid gas. Medical aid was imme-
diately procured, but no sign of life was apparent in
either case. The man was 40 years old, and his wife
25 years, the daughter 21 years, and an infant boy only
10 days old. An inquest was held on Monday evening,
and • verdict of "Died from suffocation, from inhaling
carbonic acid gas," was returned. _
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SERIOUS ACCIDEIET TO A LADY.—On Wednesday, at
noon, as Mrs. Arbuthnot, of Chester-terrace, was in the
act of alighting from her carriage at the King's-cross
terminus of the Great Northern Railway, in order to
take the train to proceed to Hertford, she stepped on
some fragments of orange peel, and fell with great
violence to the ground. On receiving surgical assist-
ance, it was ascertained that the unfortunate lady had
sustained a fractured leg, in addition to severe contu-
sion; from coming in contact with the kerb-stone.
She was conveyed to her residenee in Regent's Park.
A "trades' union" outrage of • violent nature was
committed in Cheetwood, Manchester, on Saturday
night. The object which had offended the union men
wri ft briolanaking machine, of the productive powers
of which • most glowing account is given. The blind
opposition of the briokmakers almost warrants the
4uality of the machine, and for some time past the
brickmakers have been threatening all engaged in the
work. A coffin was actually sent to the home of one
of the men belonging to the place. On Saturday an
attempt was made to blow op the machine, but, fortu-
nately, the attempt was only partially successful.
FATAL ATTEMPT OT A LUNATIC TO ESCAPE FROM
HANWELL MITLUM.,-00 Wednesday an inquest was
held on • man named Henry Todd, aged 37, formerly a
book-duster, in the British Museum. For the last few
weeks he had • notion that the devil was in pursuit
of him, and so bad did he become that it was deemed
advisable to remove him to the Hanwell Asylum. On
Monday morning the deceased, being allowed to go into
the open grounds by the attendant in charge, was
observed to run across the fallow ground, obviously
for the purpose of escaping from the asylum. Three of
the attendants immediately pursued him, but he outran
them, climbed over the boundary fence, plunged into
the River Brent to ford it, and was drowned. An
attendant named Higginbottom was the first to arrive
at the river, and he threw himself/in and made •
desperate attempt to save the naforturlate lunatic's life.
His attempt, however, was fruitless, Cod he only sun-
needed in recovering the body after life had become
extinct.

The charge of attempted murder at Hull, preferred
against William Turner, who had shot at his step-
mother, has failed on a material point. No proof that
the pistol contained shot could be adduced, and the
magistrates, consequently, not being able to commit the
)outh for trial for attempting to shoot, ordered him to
find two sureties for his good behaviour for twelve
months.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Nise persons have 4et
lost thir tires by drowning at Abersoch, near St. ud-
wall's Roads. The deceased (eight men and • boy)
went in a boat to pilot • bark into port, when on their
return they saw a caak fluting on the water, and it is
oonjectured that in attempting to get it into their boat
the latter capsized and all were drowned, the body of
the boy being the only corpse rescued.
DREADFUL MINING ACCIDINT n 4 NORTH WALE& —OR
Tuesday morning the miners engaged in the Bryngweog
lead mines, about four milem from Mold, Flintahire,
while at their work, penetrated the wall dividing work-
ings from the old Rendre mines, which were full of
water. Instantly the water inched through the aperture
and sixteen men were drowned. Seventeen had gone
down that morning, and one managed to reach the
bottom of the shaft, up whioh he was drawn through
the water, and he reached the surface quite exhauted.
The melancholy event he, cut a deep gloom on the
neighbourhood.

A SAVINGS BANK ROBBIR9 Or £4oo—William
Knowles, a schoolmaster, was on Monday charged before
the Chester magistrates with embezzling various sums
of money in connection with the Tattenhall bran.* of
the Chester Savings Bank. It appeared that the
prisoner had resided at Tattenhall, near Chester, for
several years, and held the situations of matter el the
national school, organist at the parish church, and
secretary to the Tattenhall Savings Bank. During the
period he resided at Tattenhall he was much respected
by the inhabitants, and on his leaving the place at
Christmas to go to another situation he had obtained at
Feltham Industrial &Mimi, he was presented with a
purse of money as a testimonial. Soon after hisdeparture
several entries were discovered in the bank books con-
trary to thoee in the depositors' books. Upon thisbeing
found out, the trustees caused an investigation to be
made, and the result of that investigation shows that be
has made false entries and embezzled sums of money to
the amount of upwards of £4OO. He was remanded.
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ANOTHER LADY KILLED BY MAOHINBRY .—About 11
o'clock on Tuesday morning the neighbourhood of Steal-
forth-street, Birmingham, was thrown into a state of
considerable excitement in consequence of the frightful
and melancholy death of Mrs. Sarah Stanley, the pro-
prietress of the Stanley Saw Mills, Stainforth-street,
who met her death, as far as we have been enabled to
ascertain, under the following eircuinstanoes. At the
time above-named the deceased was in the act of step-
ping over a spindle in the mill, when her dress was
caught, and she was dragged into the machinery. Her
son, who was standing close by at the time, inimedi-
'tell, took hold of her, and prevented her from being
carried round by the shaft, and raised an alarm. The
engine was at once stopped,and the unfortunate woman
was extricated from her awful position. It was then
'forked that her body was almost severed in two,thilt her
eldthes ware tarn from-her mesonm and thug- Mein's',"
tines were protruding. Death must have been instan-
taneous.