The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-08 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

We regret to learn that the paymaster of • regiment
quartered in Ireland has absconded, being a defaulter
to the amount of £l,OOO and upwards. suspicion was
aroused a day or two after he had obtained a week's
leave of absence, by the circumstance of some of his
cheques COMillg back dishowoured. His leave was
immediately cancelled, and be Ifill ordered to join the
head-quarters of the regiment without delay s not
obeying the order his books were examined, when it
was found that he was in arrestr to the above amount
—United States Gazette.

A few days ago, on the mountain road between
Viterbo and Ronoiglione, about 45 miles from Rome,
when the Rev. Mr. Capper, with his wife, daughter,
governess, and two females servants were achieving
the journey under the guidance of a retturino, who
had brought them safely from Nice to that point, six
men, masked and armed with muskets, brought the
equipage to a sudden stop, and, presenting their
weapons at the travellers, demanded their money.
There was of course no attempt at resistance, and Mr.
Capper at once gave up what cash he had about him,
amounting to 20 napoleons, more or less, in various
coins. The robbers then indicated • wish to rummage
the family dressing-canes; but, without rudely breaking
them open, they civilly waited for the keys to be pro-
duced and finally abstracted nothing. Indeed, they
would accept nothing but cash.
Mrs. Gallagher, whose name is well-known in con-
nection with the " Chalkeley frauds," and whose life as
a brothel-keeper is probably without parallel, was
arrested in London on Friday on a warrant from the
Liverpool magistrates, and brought to Liverpool, where
she was committed for trial to the sessions by the magis-
trates. Mrs. Gallagher, when found in London, was
passing under the name of Mercer, and living in the
most luxurious style in a house in Elthain Place, Foxley
Wood, Brixton. It is stated that this woman is the
owner of brothels in nearly all the chief towns in the
kingdom, and that she has agents in some of the prin-
eipal cities on the Continent.
An accident has occurred in the pit shaft at Seaham
Colliery, Durham, similar in character to that which
took place at Hartley, and which, but for the existence
of an independent means of escape for the men, might
have been still more deplorable in its results. On
Saturday, while 300 to 400 men and boys were at work
in the mMe, an ascending cage gut out of the guides,
and came into violent collision with the to-attics work
of the shaft, knocking about ten fathoxis of it away,
which fell down and choked the theft, Fortunately a
connecting road had been formed between this pit and
another belonging to the Marchioness of Londondeiry,
and by this means the whole of the hands get to bank
in a comparatively brief space.
A Sparrow has been caught at Nottingham by a
fortune teller, and victimised to the extent al several
dresses. The Sparrow was a domestic servant, of a
romantic turn of mind, and the gin in which she was
caught was a promise he be shown the face of her future
husband in a glass. The Nottingham magistrates
sentenced the fortune teller to six months' imprison-
ment.

A Sussex contemporary reports :—A shocking and
fatal affair took place at Smart's Hill, near l'onshurst.
A. labouring man named Gibbs, living in a cottage there,
was suffering from typhus fever, which bad, it appears,
affected his brain. Thursday he suddenly sprang
trona the which be was sett*, seised his

and knocked her down, and then attacked his daughter
and laid her prostrate on the floor. In his freasy be
knocked down the table and smashed it. 'entente. Sand
with a broken piece of plate he cut his throat aswarely,
nearly severing the windpipe, and iiijoring the large
arteries in his neck. A doctor was flailed, and althmurb
he tried every means to save the poor fellow's lift, he
gave no hop ss of recovery from the wounds. On
if oneay, the 31st ult., he died. His wife and daughter
were not seriously injured.
Another fatal accident has taken place at the great
Exhildtion building. On Monday • workman named
James Haler, in the emply of Messrs. Belk and Lama,
the contractors, was drawn np, while sitting on soviet! •
slip of timber, to the top of the eastern dome inside,
for the purpose of removing the blocks and tackle used !
to rajas and lower the timbers of the scaffolding, tild I
after being engaged at this work for some time he I
dipped, falling headlong to the mend, • distanessid
upwards of 200 feet. Hews. picked up and conveyed
to St. George's Hospital, but life wee °ethic*.'

Tue SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT BLEW MIHAIL—OD
Tuesday three men named Kimberley, Riley, and
Pinner, were brought before the magistrates, at the
Public Office, Birmingham, charged with causing the
death of Charles Break well, the infant son of so Ire'
bedstead maker, Birchall-street, under painful and pecu-
liar circumstances. Alter hearing the evident*, which
was substantially the same as that given at the inquiet
held the previous day, the prisoners were committed to
take their trial at the assizes. From the evidenes
given at the inquest on Monday, it appeared that the
prisoners were eincagid on Friday last in testing guns
in coins Lila near Bissell-street; that while, the
shooting was going on, the little boy, who was in the ,
care of a nurse, was struck by a bullet, but it wee
not until be bad been taken home and stripped that it
was discovered he was shot. One bullet also ritenpkaa
chimney, and another willed past the head of one of the
witnesses, the wife of a steel toy maker in Bissell-strset.
There had been frequent shooting there before, bet no
such accident had occurred. The wounded child was
shot through the bowels, and the Formulae of
dorsal vertebra) were carried away. The gunshot was_
the cause of death, the internal organs being in other
respects healthy. One witness stated that anyore
shooting at the target, at the spot alluded to, would la
likely to do damage in Bissellatreet. Riley, one of the
prisoners, made a statement to the effect that be went
with the two other prisoners, by the order of his
employers, to the ground used for the last fifteen years
by his manufactory for trying t'leir guns. He was Under
the impreasion that tha gnu he was ordered to try would
not carry more than $OO or 400 yards at farthest. It
NMI • breech-loading gun, on the rifle priegiple. He
was not aware of the strength of the gun. It was
loaded with a cartridge got from London. He fired up
• bill, and there wins a sloping fall behind the target ell
about twenty or thirty feet. Biuell-streel was much
lower than where they stood. They would not have
gone there lied a proper shooting.place been provided
by the firm. He (Riley) was thunderstruck at the
distance the gun carried, and in future, he said, he
would never BillIO• again, finless at a proper range. He
idiot the gull at a distance of 150 yards, ruearired by
steps, which would be about 140 yards. The othet
priaoners, Kimberley and Pinner, declined to say any-
thing. The Coroner then briefly summed up. pointing
out the difference in law between homicide and misadven-
ture, and saying that what the jury had to consider was,
whether the three men had been doing the proper thing,
in the proper place, with proper care. After consid-
ering for an hour and alialf, the jury found a verdict of
"Manslaughter" against Kimberley, Riley and Pinner,
Kiinherley for firing the gun, and the other two for
aiding and abetting him.
SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT HENDON. —oa Saturday
morning about six o'clock • tragedy of a fearful nature
took place at Battersea Hill, near Mill Hill, Hendon.
Police-constable Savage, whilst on duty, heard the
report of fire-arms, and on proceeding in the direction
he was informed that a female, named Ann Box,
residing with her mother in • cottage at Battersea
Hill, hal been shot by her sweetheart, • young
labouring man, named James Lawrence, residing in an
adjoining cottage. On Savage reaching Mr. Box's
cottage he found a young woman lying on the ground
in a pool of blood, which was issuing from • wound
in the neck. He sent for medical aid, but before its
arrival the female expired. On going to the cottage of
Lawrence lie band him also presenting • shocking
spectacle, he having discharged one of the barrels of his
gun at his own head, and the ball having taken a
slanting direction, had blown nearly one side of his face
away. The same surgeon who had been called to the
deceased female at once advised his removal to the
Middlesex Hospital in a cart. On reaching the hospital,
Lawrence. to the astonishment of all, got out of the cart
unassisted. On being taken to the ward he was ex-
amined by three surgeons, who found both the man's
upper and lower jaws were extensively fractured, the
tongue muok lacerated, and all the tissues of the side
of the head and face frightfully—cut, injuries, in fact,
which led to little doubt but that they will prove fatal.
Jealously is reported to be the consent the murder.

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Strikes, it appears, are at present numerous in
various parts of the country. At Brighton the painters
have been on strike for some days against the boar
system, chi; • g 41. 6d. per day of ten hours. About
one-half of the employers in the town have conceded
the terms, the others still refusing. About 100 sea
are on strike, receiving 12s. each per week. The South
Yorkshire colliers in the Gildersome distriet, t• the
number of 700, have been on strike for the last scenth
against • reduction of 20 per cent, on their wages.
The I in,ers of Edinburgh are on strdre for the aboli-
tion of night and Sunday stork, and the reduction of
the day's work from 12 to JO hours. Moro than ene-
half of the masters have conceded the terms. The
masons of Dundee have been on strike for the last few
weeks for a nine hours' day at nine hours' wages. A
majority of the employers refuse the terms. There are
140 on strike, about 50 working for the employers who
have given the nine hours, an I about 20 at work on the
old terms. The men up to the present time have been
well supplied with funds by the Scottish societies.
The London masons also still remain on strike, to the
number of 300, against the holr system:
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A young man named Hay, whe has for many years
i been a collector of accounts n the goods departmait of
the Lane ishire and Yorkshire Hialeah has, it appears,
been helping himself to the money of the company.
Among the items of cash not amounted for are three
sums, amounting respectively to £7 Bs., £3 9a., and
El se. On Wednesday he was charged at the Bradford
Borough Court with emberzleruent, and committed for
trial, the grounds of the charge being those three
instances of defalcation ; but these, it is said, by no
means represent the extent of his delinquencies. The
young man had absconded from his employers, but was
traced to Glasgow and apprehended in that city.
A carter whose name is Ogden, in the service of
Messrs. Falkner. carriers, Manchester, has been appre-
hended there charged with having stolen a large
quantity of cotton. On the 3rd and 14th ult.,-fonrteen
and ten bales were given to the prisoner on the respec-
tive dates for delivery to Messrs. Cheetliam, Staley-
bridge, but the cotton was never delivered. It was
stated on the part of the prosecution that on the 7th
March out of a load of twelve belts ten only reached
their destination. Upwards of £490 or £5OO worth of
cotton had been stolen, and all in about two months.
The value of the fourteen bales was £lOO to £l4O.
Henry Davi., a porter in Messrs. Falkner's employ,
said he delivered the cotton to the prisoner on the 3rd
and 14th of March. This was wholesale plunder with a
vengeance

A mysterious occurrence is reported from Notting-
ham, On Wednesday night two boys were near the
tunnel formed between the Derby Road and the Park
when their curiosity was aroused by hearing groans
issuing from the Derby Road end of the tunnel. They
immediately gave information to one of the police in the
neighbourhood, and the latter, aecompanied by soother
constable, got over the gate of Derby Road, and
discovered a dying nun, his body covered with mud,
He was iinmediately conveyed to the General Hospital,
but died shortly after his arrival there. Now he met
with his death, whether by violence, accident, or
suicide, is not yet ascertained. If by accident or suicide
he must have fallen a distance of 40 yards. The
deoessed was respectably dressed, apparently about
20 years old, but nothing was found upon him whereby
hs could he identified. A silver watch and a purse
were found in his pockets. The police are engaged in
investigating the occurrence.