The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

DEATH ON THE GREAT WERTER.N
RAILWAY AT DORCHEETEE.

An Inquest wen opened on Saturday evening, before
Giha ft ',loafs, EN., coroner, touching the death of a
woman of Fordiogton, nomad Mary Hallett,
altout fifty years of age, who's body wee found in
Ponadbury tunnel, early in the altersonn, literally out
In twn.

Willman Via*, ganger of the company employed to
keep in repair the permanent way of that portion al
embraeing the toenail, said he started for his
daily walk over their loniith of the railway from Dor-
chester Motion, about 1.30 p.m. on Saturday. A. few
yards inside the tunnel he friend lying outside the
rails, the lower part of a woman', body, out off
at the abdomen: About 15 yards further ea be saw the
upper portion of the body huddled op to a heap, and
lying on the facie between the metals. He returned to
Lb. station, and gave information to Mr. Prows*,
Lb. station-master. A potioeins.n was called,
and Mr. Prows., witness, and several others
Went on • trolly to the tunnel. In the mean-
time a down train bad come Into Dorchester,
but the body was clear of the Milk and was in the is...
elate when they got there as when he bad kit it. l'hey '
picked up the remains as well as they could, for the
entrails, to, were scattered about, and placed them in
• Sheik Robert &Sett, the wonian's husband, who
work. on the line, was one of the party who went out
te gather up the remains. He wee about assisting a
man Darned Paul to raise the upper Port of tbia body.
when Paul rewired the mantle clovertrg her faro, when
Billott exclaimed, horror atri.ken, "Good God, that's
my wife." It was asked by • juryman whether the
woman was taking her husband's dinner to him, but the
ganger said Billett habitually brought all hie miols with
him, did si that day, and bad ate his dipper. Further,
be was working at the station, and had not been
employed an r the tunnel for three weeks. Moreover,
nothing In the shape of • dinner was found with the
remains.

Alfred &Sett, • lad of 15 or 16, eon of the deceased,
mid be mid three youopr children at home had break-
faat with her. She has buffered for years from heart
diatoms, and eemplained • good deal that morainic,
..ithe felt to had that Me did not know what to do
with benelt At they were having breakfast the said
te him, " I don't know what father (her hualmod) will
do with the ?oar little children when I am dead."
He mid "Don I talk like that, that's no use." He
thought the referred to dying from the heart oomplalot.
Bbe had sever ta'ked like it before, and they never had
any Ulm that she would injure hrreelf. She end his
fattier had not had any worde, but were very good
frieedn He left home about nine, and knew nothing
more ef her.

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Al this stage the inquiry was adjourned till lad
(*today) evening
Another son, Diekltatt, spoke to seeing his
mother standing on the railway, jest inside the
tunnel, lattween 11 mid 12 o'clock. He went down
to her, and asked her what ab• was about. Bbe
"I'm looking foe father." He mid be didn't
know whether his father was at WHO.. Id or in the
yard, and offered to go with her to Whitfield to look
for him. Bh. told him to so on. As he turned away,
Me walked further into the tunnel.
The engine driver of the one o'clock up-train was
eared, sod said thme were no marks on the engine.
But the von neat the tender was all over marks of
Mood, and the theory of the railway nathoritim is, that
the poor woman vu standing in a manhols, 1t.,,. her-
self forward, NI the train was pustag, and was caught
by. the Cm.

nag husband said his wife was quite Oahe on Friday
Friday night, Bbe was rather fond of drink, and, as
be Ind Noe* found she had pawned some of his
eloihee (whieh he bad never known her do before) be
thought might have onm• to look for him to get a
few al Wings more to redeem them.
Tb• O•loose haring pointed out the pcongissities of
the awa.
Tits jury returned a verdict of found dead.

Tire poet Longfellow bee errived in Ragland. Hole
new at eerie* the guest of Captain Ferguson, the son
a a late member of that city.
TAR Jar Ball undentande that the eeeond readier of
fibs Stimetaary Euu will probably be taken on the 26th
instant in the House of Lords, and that the majority
against It will he about 100.
BOINDART (101141•4101. —By • return issued on the
14th inst., It &Ppm, that Lb..... paid to the militant
bouggiary 0003016mm+, at. rate varying (1.061 three
to five amuses per day, mounted to
50,44 14s.
Ti. lota of Ms. ESlttS*2 tor forging and uttering
bins to the aiIIOWSI of £lOl,OOO to defraud lb. Lomb
B.kin cowprz,ziers omptleded ou Saturday. Tbo
It.feand the and hew.. sentenced to
prisoknost will lea lalx." it* was ye., and sine
apostles.

BAXICROPTS. --Charles Rebsort Mawr, Southampton,
provision marohaat. Kli Brooks, Cheddar, &mann-
shin, aurseryman. WWism Gump Blanehartl, Booth.
arapton, animal dealer. William G'itorga ws,so„th.
alaPtioa, tailor - Dividend : WilliAm Lametter,
bull. Scooted viatuallar.—lst dividend la.
17, and auknoquant Wadaseday, at Parkynn, Basing.

TB • arairk Medical Amnia, dates that more persoss
are dying tiod• r lb. .1.1 a chloroform than the public
has an opportunity of knowing. Fatal miabap• take
plac• and are not recorded : imitimts are not held humus*
In the curouer's opinion the wise is very Mew, the drag
has been pv.parly adminiitered, with dim care and
.udgotest, mug death has arisen from pure mimd venture.
Two nob deaths, It is stated, base occurred in London
I. rweatl7, and nothing bac boon publicly said of

Ti. mooed rinwirt ol th• Commistionen on Ititutl.
Ingether with the evidence, waa publiabed in tbe form
of • bitm book oe Thursday. The Commie
dowers
recommend the •Ipedivnay of restraining sal wariatioita
bora Intablisbrid a. g.in reenvet of lighted oarlike mid
of inovnae, and of interim/ the bishops with Dower. on
the parishioners esprueing thar.4-thd with
thew pr.:imam, to summarily Warm their dissew
thiamin. The Cionindationers Mate thet they
pods nee progress is tho reviles et

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