The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-03 00:00:00

LEGAL.

Two men bare been fined NX each by the Portsmouth
Bench for aninegliss • Inme quantity or cigars.
Two boy., seed about 14 years. have bees senteeced at
liessow to penal sivitude for five yews for ipost-office
robberies at Paisley. It was • portion of the lade duty to
own the letter box., and convey the the contents to the
local sortinvoont, the thefts being effected in transit.
Lord Deis told it was extraordinery that the authorities
eboem employ "comparative children " for such duties.
but the Poet.oflice Acta 1.12,ch were sbe most severe In
the kiagdom, left him no alternative as to the sentence to
be named.

CONVICTION FOB BETTING.
At Salford, a publican DAOIII4 J Rushton wat fined
.C5O for allowing betting to take place on his premium. A
man awned Stony weillaid for bettiag is Baslikes
hoose.

TRAGEDY AT MANCHESTER.
On Monday • Awful tragedy was discovered to have
been peipetrated all house In ffaititip-street, kliDeibeS-
tee, the b..d:e. being found of a girt known as "Polly"
Hsrcourt, aid of a man who went by the name of
l'E.trange. The deceased girl, who wee only 19 years of
age, had been Use tount of the boom la gondola for abut
six weeks where eke had bees living daring that time
with the roan Iffstrange, whoo until recently, lad been •
traveller for tb• well-known arm of distillers. Mama.
Doinvill• and G.., of Belfast. Both the deceased are
believed to have I ved under fictitious names Neither of
them had hi en ii. by any of the neighbours to aster or
leave the hour for over a fortnight, and the agent of ale
pioperty, lobes wood. dates to the ;mike that he hag not
been able to obtain scow to the home for some weeks
past. On Thunder morning, however, Mr. Isherwood
again wept to the home and tried to get admission, but
found It in theism. coedit ion it had been when he viatted
It several time. previously. The dew was locked, and be
failed alter repeated rfforta to make acme beer. Ile
then decided to make • folcible softy, sad got through
tbe back window. He searched the lower rooms of the
hoses but found nothing out of the ordinary course. Oa
proceedine upsiairs, however. • *huh sight was Per
seated. The girl Iltrcoun wee fund lying on tbe hod is
the front bedroom, quite dead. Her face We. black
through decoropmition, and the whole body pretested a
fearful op. ctscle. On the floor, near the bed, the body of
the mats Marengo was lying in a belfeittlag posture,
also quite dead, and in a state of deconspodtion.
The women, judging from the stage to which decay had
une.would seem to have bun dead some time keen tbas
the man. The police do not !online to the view that ose
of the deceased was murdered. but are Is favour of the
conclusion that it is a cue of two pee= arranglag
mutual *elf-destruction. In different parts of the house
several bottles were found which had contained outsider-
able quantities of Hooter's solution of cidoral, tee empty
bottle, which had contained the solution, bring feud la
the bedroom where tbe bodies Wire discovered. Hastlnge.
street, mouth in one of the most respectable portions of
the city, is of ill repute, the IVACO having ocessioully
cleared out the tenute by • damn at a time; but the
booms became reunanted by the INDS ChM Of WA
who stem to gravitate again to their old haunt..
tbe deceased were dressed In their night clothes .ad the
man was wearing hie slippers self be had
_got out of bed
and died before he could get is subs It is rammed
that he is a married man, is about M Teen of Ideresid I.
dessibed as a very strregly•built fellow. The people
appear to bay, been living outbid for some time, as,
previous to occupying tits bonus in Hastiness-street, they
lived to Ashover•eireet, Hydeoosid, some little dietetics
away. Tory lave been lista' together in HastinpUrept
for about eight months, and about eix months ate both
dissppsared, statiog it to be their intention to go to
It bast. Teamed es dotes so they went to London, and
throne to P.ria. After an absence of about six weeks tha
man n turned, leaving toe comas la Loudon. He than
wrote same her to come to Manchester, stating that be
weld not live without bar, and that be wield do foe her
what, he had proosified. Bite Mused to him, but had
frequent quarrel., the former landladybequeath, settag
ae Mediator. L'ffursuge was lasts.., on the 19th inst.,
and in the Otte. vat &postman bad several tenses attempted
to deliver letters, but had failed. Oa xaminine
Inter or of the boom signs of at leset one violeat quarrel
wale fund, the panel of to. of the doors had been broken
I. such a manner as might bare been cussedly the beck
of • Lead I one driven vielestry against it, while mother
was cracked. A number of Preach novels ems strewn
about the room.