The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-21 00:00:00

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ATTINIPT TO LITSZT • TIATIL—A railway 'guard,
named Samuel Jenkins, who bad been suspended for
some offence, resigned his situation, cad devised a
hideous revenge. Determined to overeat • train, be
placed three formidable obaaoles, one hundred yards
apart, on the line near Kidderminster, on Easter
Monday, and coolly took • seat at • window overlook-
ing the railway, ready to exult at the imminent catas-
trophe. Fortunately be had been even at his vile work •
but the obstructions were removed only • few minutes
before a train, conveying a thousand volunteers, passed
over the spot! He has been committed for trial.
SCALDING • WIFE WITH BOILINO TEA. - Edgar
(been was brought up at Liverpool charged with
having assaulted his wife, Lonna Green. It appeared
that the parties had been married three years, and had
two children. A few months •fter marriage the prisoner
began to atop out late at night. Quarrels, in consequeno
of this, became almost of daily occurrence, and on
several occasions the prisoner beat his wife severely. Ou
Sunday, the ISth inst.. the prisoner complained that his
children were not so nieely dressed as his sister's children,
and some words ensued. The next day the prisoner
seemed angry on account of his children's appeeranoe,
and between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, while
his wife was lying in the bed, he poured the scalding
contents of a teapot over her right thigh. Mn. Green
ran downstairs in her night dress. The prisoner that
night also threatened his wife, saying that the scalding
was not half as much as she would get. She became so
frightened at hie conduct that she ran to her mother's
house, where she had remained ever since. Phe had
suffered great pain from the scalds, and the skin had
come off her thigh. The complainant said that prior
to the birth of her find child the prisoner beat her very
much, and after its birth he oontinued his ill-treatment.
He had hail very little employment at his trade, that of
a painter, during the last winter. She (witness) did not
wish to live with her husband mtalo, as she considered
her life in danger when she was with him. The
prisoner, who would fain have settled the matter by
promising not to offend again, was committed to gaol
for two months.

EZTRAORDINART OPERATION or • NORRI.—An
inquiet bas been held at Shrewsbury noon the body of
a child, four weeks old, named John O'Grady, whose
death was alleged to have been the result of an extra-
ordinary operation performed upon it by its nurse. It
appeared from the evidence that shortly alter the birth
of the child • small lamp appeared upon Its back, which
gradually increased to the else of an egg. This excres-
cence was • source of mush wonder and discomfort to
the parents of tbs. child and to their neighbours, who
are all poor people, and live days after the birth of the
deceased a nurse, an old woman named Elisabeth Jones,
who advocated the opinion that the lump was simply an
abeam; took • pair of minors and out it. The child
gradually sank, and on Saturday night it died. Mr.
Withers, house-surgeon to the Salop Infirmary, under
whose cars the deceased had been subsequent to the
operation. stated that the lump was • tumour con-
nected with the spinal cord, and known to the faeulty
by the name of sputa bifida. Persons afflicted with the
disease had been known to live, with careful nursing, to
the age of 20 years, but it often proved fatal at an earlier
stage. The action of the puree had decidedly hastened
the death of the child, but he was not prepared to nay
that it would have lived mush longer bad it been left
alone. After hearing this evidence, the jury refrained
from returning a verdict of manslaughter spinet Eliza-
beth Jones, but severely reprimanded her for her
eonduet.

SINGULAR Cue Or BIGART.—At the Central
Criminal Court, Elizabeth Fox, • well-dressed and
rather good-looking young woman, surrendered to take
ber trial for bigamy. The unfortunate woman was
married at Colchester, in 1835, to a butcher named Foz,
from whom she separated some months later, on the
plea that she had suffered ill-treatment. Nearly seven
yearn afterwards—apparently in the belief that her
husband was dead, or that the marriage bad been invalid
because the ceremony had been performed under a false
name—she became the wife of • serjeant in the Royal
Artillery named Moore. But, strange to say, it was not
until eighteen months after bee second union that she
took any steps to suicertain whether Fox was dead or
not. A visit to Coleheater revealed the unpleasant
fact that the estimable butcher was still in the
flesh, and Mrs. Moore returned to tell her second
husband that she was still Mrs. Fox. The gallant
sergeant easily survival the shock inflicted by the
revelation; but his mode of facing the calamity was
characteristic. In the interval between hi, lint in-
troduction to the woman and the marriage, he had
abandoned Protestantism—which, by • slight confusion
of ideas, be seems to have associated with libertinism—
and had become a Roman Catholic. Inflamed with
pious zeal, he bad then endeavoured to make his wife •
"religious woman," but had met with only partial sub-
case. When the discovery of Fox reclarinis was made
at Colchester, the sergeant formed a resolution which
was nobly in keeping with his apostolic minion. He
determined still to live with the woman—se a brother;
the intimacy was to be of a purely Platonic nature; but
certain admissions in the gallant soldier's evidence show
that the flesh was weaker than the willing spirit, and
that the acquaintance was sometimes • little more
than fraternaL The intimacy went on for three yean,
when, having fixed his roving affections on another
"young person," and having attained the "keeping
company" stage, he left poor Rebecca Fox to meditate
at leisure on all that happens "when lovely woman
stoops to folly." But the abandonment was not anal.
The sergeant wrote to her sundry letters of a highly
Catholic and Apostolic nature, garnished with unctuous
allusions to " grace," to the necessity of "drawing
more near to God," of "going regularly to the con-
fession and WIIIIIIIIL111011." and of getting the heart
detachei from the love of earthly things. With all his
effusive piety, however, Moore had a keen eye to
business. He wanted to marry the other young
woman, and poor Robeee. was • atneobliorblook in his
way. Expressing his wish in • letter, be asked her
assistance to get their ill-starred union annulled.
Probably she showed less willingness than he desired;
so the sergeant determined on a bolder step. Making an
appointment with her one evening, he took a detective
with ham and when the unfortunate woman appeared
he gave her into custody on • charge of bigamy. He
then came forward as her prosecutor, and it was his
cross-examination which elicited most of the facts
which we have stated. We need not too closely analyse
the feelings o( the British jury to whom the story in all
Its details web gradually unfolded; suffice it to say that
they at once aenuitted the unfortunate woman, who
nearly fainted with emotion at her narrow maps from
an ignominious punishment.

ILL-I%II4TM° • 81111VANT.—Mrs. &BMA Stroud, 40,
a widow of independent property, surrendered to
take her tzial at the Surrey soseions, for unlawfully
assaulting Mary Ann Price, while in her employ as a
domestic servant. There are three indictments for
00tntt1011 assaults, to all of which prisoner pleaded not
guilty. The defendant, who WY attired in deep
mourning, was allowed to be seated in the dock during
the trial, which lasted seven hour,. The prosecutris,
a very modest hut sickly•looking young woman, said
she was 21 years of age, and at present 'voided with her
father, a widower. at 5, Salisbury-terrace, Old Kent'
iced. On the 11th of February last she went into the
defendant's services, a general servant. She had been
In two places previously, during the last five years,
whioh she left a short time before with a good character.
When she entered the defendant's service there was no
other servant, and witness had to do all the work of the
holm. On the morning of the 24th of February,
while witness was kneeling down laying the Sr., the
defendant same into the room and disliberatel kinked

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on the lower p•rt of her Ude, sa Lea
—, look at that bearthrug." Witness of her
notto kick her, as it was a cowardly act. The defendant
then called her daughter (Mrs. Doughty), who come In
and ordered her to leave the room, which she did quietly.
The heartbrug was not straight, but there was nothing
more the matter with it. Witness was not the lesse
impertinent to her mistress or her daughter. In con-
sequence of that, and some previous ill-treataient, she
gave her notice to leave her service, On the afternoon
of the Bth of March witness was washing up the dinner
things in the washbonse, when her mistress slapped
her face and struck her soros, the eye with a doubled.
up towel, and called her • wretch, and asked her the
reason she had • knife in the washbonse. Witness told
her she did not bring it there, when she called her •
liar. Witness said she should procure the assistance
of the police, as she wee so frightened. On the
following lay, while cleaning the dining-room at DOM,
the defendant slapped her Inc., and while clearing the
sloth after supper, she snatched the crumb-brush from
her, when her jet chain got entailed with it and was
broken. Mrs. Doughty was in the room, and they both
bundled her out of the room, and defendant kicked her
on the lower put of the stomach, inj ming her so mush
that she was compelled to catch hold of the banisters
to support herself. Witness did not strike her mistress
with the crumb-brash. That sanse night she left, se
her first warning had expired. The sum of His. 114.
Made. to her for wages, which defendant re4nsed to
pay her unless she allowed her to deduct Is. for this
&metre to her shale. Witness declined to do No. sad
left the house. About an hour sad • half after she
returned with her father, who spoke to the defendant
about her cruelty, when Mrs. Stroud said, "She's a
wretch." Her father said she was not • wretoh, when
she abused him, and they left the house. In moss.
arsnibiation by Mr. Lilley, she said that Mrs. Stroud
struck her the first morning, Led had cuissulted her
0.07 day after that. Mr. Stroud died on the 15th of
February, and during his illness Mrs. Doughty wee at
the house every day, but after the death she only came
oceasion•lly. Witness twee complained to her of her
mother's cruelty. The defendant had a son twenty
years of age, who had an impediment in his speech,
but she never mocked him. The injuries she received
from the defendnot's violence were so had thut the Was
compelled to go to St. Thomas's Hospital, mid "pp was up
to the present time an out-patient. Sergeant Aldridge,
19 L, said on the night of the 9th of March the proems-
trix spoke to him at Kensington-crow She was then
leaning on the um of her father, and app./zed to be
eery ill. She had bruises on her forehead and arm,
mid told him they hail been caused by the violence of her
mistress. Mr. Clement Dukes, boom mimeo, St.
Thomas's Hospital, said that on the 12th of March the
prosecutrix come to the hospital, and on examination
IN, found she bad sustained some injury to
bar Wt side. There were no external marks
of violence, but on touching her she complained
of acute pain about the tenth rib. Re should
think it was caused by • blow. There was
bruise over her right eye. On both arm, there were
also extensive bruises, mused by violence, and not by
pinching herself. The deep tissues were braised, and
not the sapericial ones, which would have been had she
pinched herself. On the Sunday following he observed
bruises, and the tissues were so hard that at first he
thought an abscess wasforming. It cue not so, however,
and he thought they were caused by a kick, woe
not canoed by falling on the ground, or on tbo door
stern, Mr. Lilloy then celled several witnesses for the
defence, who tried to make it appear that the „roe.
*emir was dirty in her habits and ieuf in they
per.
form•nee of her work; and Instances were mentioned
of her having streak her mistress with a brash, break-
ill( • chain. Ma W. Waring. surgeon, Walworth.
road, was lulled, and 11. Motel that he believed the
bruised about the girl's body were *maid by faille; and
by pinching herself. The jury returned T. 4,4
of
guilty, and strongly recommended the prisoner to
mercy in consideration of her late troubles sad position.
The Chairmen thought the sods of justice would be
met by inaiWaf • P"•lty of £lO, and to be imprisoned
until mob Ise be Mad. The defendant ha.
malbitely paid the Lae, cad lilt the wort with her
triode.

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