The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-28 00:00:00

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SNUGGLING MATCHSS ON BOARD A HSI/, S
Flenry H•llington, a quiorternaxter on board the
African mail imar Calabar, has been eenrenced to
four month.' imprisonment be the Liverpool stipendary
niagistrate for haying smagcled a criantity of matches
on hoard the vcseel on which he gess employed. Ihe
match.. was di.covered stowed in the forecastle aloe to
• magesine containing about 40,0001 h. of gonpowder,
which ths mussel is sp-opally fitted to carry, The hiji
Price for which lueder matehe, con he sold on the
African coaet is .opposed to have induced the prisoner
to commit the off nee.
A LADY SWINDLREL .The police of °Wry St. Mary
have apprehended a young lady windier who hos done
some buainesa in several parts of Devon. In the ea-le
part of last week this young lain fini•bet a month's
i.nprisonment in the meaty gaol for tronolline on the
South Western line from fidiehury to Exeter without
• ticket, having previnuely cheated a cabman of his
fare, and, according to • telegram received by the
Exeter station.mmter, obtained good by false nretec,ies
at B.sin,stoloe. loimedistely on her eel-”e from gem
she recommenced her pretties.. Her named habit irate,
live in fashionable lodging., visit shop. in • nab, orde.r
expensi.• articles, and then 'Amend. From tlie
Misses Hook.r, of Exeter. she on!ered 4"3 worth of
lance articles, including • cigar ease value Sn. 81. Her
career at Ott re has been rut short.
Tog PeorPOSION Or Doll SYS...LING.—Two men
named Atherton and Barrett were tried at the Middlesex
seesiona, for "corruptly receiving EV to recover a dog
stolen from the M•rquis of Greham, in Duke street, Se.
Jamel's. The noble brd employed • detective, whn
went to Atherton and offered 1:5 from the =fulfil. to
get back the log. Atherton was somewhat afraid Of
"getting into trouble." as "two poor ion-oent doves
were nent away last week." lie won wanted it was "all
right," and he took the detective to Barrett, who
handed over the dog and received the money. The
jury found both the priwoner. nuilty, ttuteher, the
officer, said that Barrett had suffered imprisonment for
three yeart for dog at. alio/. and Mr. Unekver, sessions
officer, said be had known him ever since 1840 as being
a dog stealer. Atherton had conly reeently come int it..
The judge sentenced Barrett to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for 18 months, and Atherton for 12
month,.
Arrarrr Po BMW up ro my STORRS.— A t
Old Burford, nest. Nottingham on Wedonday evening,
an attempt was mad, with gunpowder to blow up tho
storey of the cooperative wociety of that place. About
eight o'clock Mr. Bt-ton, the manager, was earning
parcels of loaf sugar in the shop adjoining the store.
room, and wn in the set of pi 'king upon. which he
bad let fall, when a violent explosion t ok .I.ee
beneeth him. His fee. and heard were singed,
and his coat ani shirt..leeee set on fire. He ram
stunned. It apt...heel that some miscreaht had thrown
• minister of gionpowder through the window, Pine-.
of gloms were found on the II .or from the easement t
the oppoote side of the room. sad fragments of • tin
case were afterwards found. The &mete done was in'
comiderable. The houses in the vicinity were much
shaken, and • girl named Chnrner who was pawing
was ti.rown down int,, the rod. The perpetrators of
Mire do.tar ly sc.t are yet at large.

A Yourniut latintOoltnita. - In the Divorce Court,
on Ti nal iy, there wog a Gait, Hill Ilia and J ihnson.
if-lely called Iljll,fov nullity of mut-rise on the ground
wrong public ition.4 Q.C.. pod

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Dr. Swahey appeared for the per Iti mei.; the resiendent
appeared in person. It appeared that V • petitioner, :
.1 Menne. De Were HIP, w., tie son of • Mr Imre.
Hill, of St. Eutticiaa, in tkr Witte In lie.. H we
pleord with Dr. S innionia, of St. Jew s-street. rr
pool, fa, the larpewe of beiiig e 'nested in the swirliest
profewiiin. The respondent wog • servant in the:ern-
/dement of fir Soirmondr, and an intimacy antet.ce't
to have sprung up between them, and they were msrrierl
at Holy I rinity Chetah, Liverpool, in April. 1866, the
petitioner beint then 19 year,. of age. The banns of
the parties were published as "John Hill" and "Char-
lotte Johnston," the rrthondent's surname Wog
"Johnson." Vairlence as to the pabbration of the
banns in thet form hoeing been given and of the peti-
t etp,,te name being Johannes De Vera BR the
lientiondant denied that at the time of their marriege
ehe knew the petitioner. arm. no De Vere. she
never heard him coiled anything bet Hill or Mr. Fill,
and he told nor I imself that his manse was Jo' n. 8' •
also produced a numter of Wt.-re eddreesed to her by
, the citrons r, in witch he signed "John,"—The leasurd
I jooce snot .1.110 to coneider neer-ion,
MURDER OF A LADY DT BURGILAII6.—On Turtedae
evening, between flee and sic o'clock, an unmarrted
woman, between 50 and fio years of age, nulled Nary
Hilhourn, residing at NI. Henragerstreet, Bi- minchani,
was murdered in her o•n house, and the perportratnia
escaped Mies lfillbriurn. sine. the death of her brother.
about a year Ago, lan resided alone in • small wattage
st.orfing luck • fist feet front the street, and •
report got circulated that she was wealthy, and he; t
'irr money etowed away in some part of the cottage.
This, together with the fact that the poor woman lived
by berrelf, no riouht attracted to bee the attentions of
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souse of tbe rule ins living in a distils'. •It eh has now
become notorious for murd,re of one kind or mother;

and on Tumidity evening, ab,iut half-Pest the
pitions of deeesaed's neighbours were aroused Vs'
" something had Lappened." (Inc of these, Mrs. Selina
Mika, ii•ppening to be in a chalet in the yard adjoin
jog to the dottased, was star led at Peeing three teen

cl.toTer apon the lien, and, on observing her, obe crie,i
out "There's women ;we shall be caught yet."
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Fh-eT -in-Wn-tiv jumped from the wall into ; passage
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leading out into Heneege-etreet, and ran off. A woman
who had been seen loitering about the entry mouth for
some time previously al.o ran away, and Mrs. Bullock,
fearing that " come thing very bed had heppeneet" at
ones went in search of the decemed. She found the
back door of the house open, and on looking in she new
• clothes-hone by the fin-, and • kettle cleft by boilni.
and ell apparently right, bit she could not end Mos
Malbeurn. A boy was at once sent to Duke-street
Stituon with the menus. that "• woman had been
murdered in Heneage-atrret " The police offiners found
almost every article in the rooms turned topay.torvv.
On going towards the cellar they found the body of the
deseaced stretched on the daps and quite deed, although
(as &woe sail) 'se worst as myself." Mr. Hopkins,
surgeon, found that deceased I ad been strangled. there
being plain evidence of the fact in the anger and nail
mule on the neck. It was sear at on., that the
object of the murderers was robbery; sad it would
appear that after era/tieing the unfortunate woman,
they at once went to the upper rooms, where, in the
drawers, Of in her bedroom, they expected to end
money. Happily, they were—at leaat. partially—dis
appointed, for so far back en th• 18th of January, 1867,
the deceased bad deposited £615 with Lloyd's Ranking
Company. The femele, who it le suppeeed was acting in
concert with the three men. made herself noticeable by
making inquiries in the neighbourhood, and she can be
easily identified. The receipt for the £615 was found
by Superintendent Nullivan, in • email reticule bag o
the table in the sitting room. No clue has yet bee
found to the murderers. Three men were apprehended
on suspicion on Wednesday, but there was no evidence
against them, and they were disci's:gee!. An inqueet
we opened on Friday afternoon. Three witnesses were
aamitod, who deposed to fact, as previously stat-A.
Mr. Samuel Lloyd, • surgeon, deposed to the condition
of the body, which chewed signs of debility. There
wee • purple disoolouralion of the neck and ahouller,
the nose we elightly turned ; there were al.o three
smell bruise., two of them on the shoulder and ore on
the thigh. The came of death wee •itilence applied to
the throat An adjournment took place in order that a
post aseriewt examination may be made.

AN Ad/yawls K alit ID Ur—in the Divorce Court,
on Thursday, was heard the °owe of Crahb v. Crabb.
Tble was a petition by the wite for a diegolution of her
marriage on the ground id her husband's desertion and
adultery. The r apondent answered, end denied the
ehargee in the pelition. The petitioner is the well
known and popular *etre.. Alias Kate Herbert, of the
St. James's Theatre. London. fibs married the
reepondent, who was a margeon, in June, 1855. After
the nierriage they re.; 'eel at Oto•low-terrare and Han,
place, Chelsea. In 18.17 a child was born of the t i a ge,
and about that time disagreement+ appeared t have
arieen between the petitioner and her husband in
respect of the conduct of the latter towards aervant
in the house of the name of "Jane." After the birth of
the child the petitioner was very ill, and circumstance.
came to her knowledge which iudoeed her to refuse t
allow her husband to sleep with her. At tbii refusal
the respondent got in a rage, and soon after left the
petitioner, and had never ainoe cohabited with her.
Afterwards an arrangement was made whereby the
spondrnt was to allow her • hundred pounds • reer•
Two instalments of that amount were paid, but on
applying at the banker's for the third instalment an
answer was given that there were no fonds, and she had
never since received anything from him, and Bhe had
tines supported herself and child by the proceeds of her
theatrical angagemente. Some tinse altar the respondent
left her the petitioner learned that he had cone to
India, and was resident at Calcatta. He returned from
India sonse years ago, and was now a stockbroker in
Fineh-l•na. The adultery was chanted as having been
o imitated with a Miss Julia Prescott, at Stanley
Wise, Chelsea, in 1866. The Petitioner was herself
celled, and stated the circumstancee under which
tile respondent had left her. She ownplained
ef his conduct with the servant girl Jane. He was
*lsola the habit of remaining out all night until five or
six o'clock in the morning, and sometimes he did not
return until next day at dinner. She had also
reasons for refusing to allow him the same
bed with her, and it was soon alter that
be left. The adultery was proved by a
servant girl who was in the oervice of the !idly
with whom it was sonamitted. The learned judge said
there was no doubt about the adultery, as it had been
dearly proved. As regarded the desertion, it appeared
that • deol of separation had been entered into
between the pet tanner and the reapoodent, whereby he
was to allow his wife £lOO per annum. That being
so it was quesiionab e whether the desertion had been
nilde oat. He would, theridore, postpone giving his
decision on that point in crier that the petitioner's
eouasel might have an opportunity of oonsulsiag the
eutborliios Os 11to point.

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