The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-08-27 00:00:00

SWIMMING SEVEN MILES.

The promies of J. B. Johnstet, of Leo& to swim
soros@ the Comical from Dover to CatMM. hes not been
performed. Hs started from Dons at 10.40 on Battu-
day morning. a steamer sad • boat being to attesdanes
&Wilting out to sos, hi swimmer soon made headway,
talcs wine most powerful strokes, which appeared to
send 01.. 1.44 • distasoe of 6 It. *soh time. John-
son continued to swim in spleudid form, sad aooom-
plished two miles in twenty minutes lie kept his psoe,
end at 11.20 took his first refreshment, and at 1L 30 he
again padto...k of stimulants. The tide had now token
him nearly off Foikaatoes, and be then pot on molt •
spurt thst he ovilitatiled the steeper, which was emus
dismiss. ahead of him. Oa rang her he said that
he should be. something to eat ; said, though he we.
asithsr szbauded nor tared, the surgeon saw that circu-
lation was felling, and &delved him to wine out. Thu
wee at 11.45 s.na., and, taking to.. advice, he got into
the steamer, taring •vrtun over stern mile. to an hour
and dm minutes. He did not appear La too las. tired,
but his lags wen numbed.

fiXTILAOR.DINABY TRAGEDY •T CHELiRit.
Two young Berliners, named May sad Nagle recently
same over to England to 'mod it, etoortpiioo, hum,/
with them about 2,000 tattlers (ChM. Tbey were at
Unworn* gardens on Monday, the 12th inst., "aiming
hi." with the promie uslstanoe of an interpreter,
neither of them being able to speak a word 1 Reglish.
There thy made Me arqualutanee of a German girl
named Burgas and an if.avish girl ruimed Gordon,
living in • disreputeble boom in Lugton•street, Chelsea.
Nagle and May were at this period staying at
Hotel, Finsbury-square, but they promised to visit tie
girls at their lodgings in Langtonstrut. On the fol.
lowing lay they arrived, still adoomprinied by the
interpreter, and all three took up their residue* in the
house, the interpreter staying for two days. They
appeared to be rolling in wealth, and spent their money
with • lavish hand, going the round of all the amuse-
meats within the aoquelatanos, and suitable to the
tastes' of their female oompanione. On 'Thursday they
left Leagton.etreet about noon, saying they were going,
to Liverpool, but would return admit In the afternoon
of the nut day they re-appeared. They Ain hal plenty
of money, sod recklessly dashed into all the amusements
suggested to them. On Monday, however, their purses
began to show signs of ()ellen**. On Tuesday they went I
out, suing they were going into town to raise some
money, but they came home without any. On Tuesday
evening Bargees, being in an adjoining room, hoard
them laurelling, bat it did not strike her as being •
very serious business, and when she U. t,em together
on the next morning, they seemed to be on their usual
friendly terms. On Wednesday they again went into
town 'to get some money," but were not more
successful than on Toesday, and in the eveuiug they
shut thembelves up in Nagle's room. At hall-past seven
o'clock the servant saw them there, Nagle sitting at the
table writing, and May standing careless., by. Abut
eight o'clock Elisabeth Curiae, sitting in the room
beneath Nagle's bedroom, heard the report of firearms,
followed almost immediately by the fall of a body. She
ran down stain, calling to Rhea Gordon and the servant,
and the three went fearfully upstairs. They Mond
Nagle's bedroom door looked, bat the servant broke it
open, and upon entering they saw "them,' as (butts
mid with a shudder. Nagle was not then dead, and he
mast have lived • few minutes longer, tor when the
person who keeps the buss arrived, attracted by the
girls' screams he tamed partly towards her, and in the
tired died.

Immediately the tragedy wee diseovered, Paul May
WU lifted off the door were he lay and placed upon the
bed which stood in the room. Narks died on the
couch upon which he reolined when the shot warn fired
at his breast, and there he remained all Wediseaday
night, all Thereday, and all Thursday night, May,
meanwhile lying on the bed within • lea fees of him.
The wound which proved almost instantly fatal in
the case of Nagle wane pistol shot, directef •ith un-
erring aim right over the wean of the hears," the
doctor says. Deliberate preparatiotia for the deed had
been made, Nagle having taken off hie collar aod cravat
sod placed t 0... on the table beside him. Ilia &sin
frost was shoo open, and it would appear that the
mouth of the weapon had been pat inside the
for though there were mark' of the burnt powder upon
his flesh near the small wound made by the shot, his
linen wag not burnt. Paul May had alao made pre
gentians for death, having sash of his neat and
waistcoat, sad thrown back the bosom of his shirt,
The bell in his case had entered " half an inch abov•
the heart." and lodged la his lungs.
May explsined that he and his roman having spent
all their money and diagnosed themselves, resolved to
commit sukdde together. As they bad only one weapon
Niggle find at May, and thought he had billed him and
then himaelf. .

Ls to where the two thousand thaws can have gone,
the girls Bargees and Gordon profess ignoranoe.
Gadoe nye she never received a penny from either of
the t.an, and site mammals for tale by having beim unable
to talk to them. They *gold hardly speak a
uord of Roglish, and Burgese—who, by the way, has
derived that English name from a miming husband—
wan the only one in the holm with whom they became
very intimate. . . .

fetter -1-r-as found upon the table addressed to
Barren It wee written in Garman, sad was the joint
oompooa of Nagle ..ad May. Its purport is that
Nagle yarn* frees Osrmaay to England a short dam
deco with 2,000 Shalom to his pocket, but had spent it
all, aad was now notated to penury; that he (Nagla)
distinetly said he was about to commit suicide. and told
Burgess she oould have Ma gold watob and Main. At
Ma bottom et the letter Paul May, tbs wounded man,
wrote Mat ha had pawned a great number of &dialer
(aiming tbam), and told the woman to appropriate
them lob, own use should silo wish to dual. I has
since been amertained where his watedi and chain were
pawned.
At first May reflood to give any addresr, but ulti-
mately be told Bargees where his friends would be
found, and they were communicated with by telegraph,
and subsequently letter. "Bat," May says, "they will
not come."

• telegraphic communication from the mother of
Keels, dew] mit Berlin, has been riioeived by the police
authorise at Oheisse, to the effect that Dom Paul May
sad Revision Nagle lift Berlin in difilmilties.
The Landlord of the loam when they lodgiii Mites
that I. generally provided breakfast for them, but that
they osier dined at home except onto. Should •
ptr-street bill of fare possess any Interest for the
they may be informed that it emulated of oalmoo
• qoartor of Imp, and Orti)Cre memo Toe Moroi
supplied with them edibles did sot suit the Wile of the
two sounokmen, and was retuned. • chugs of •
guinea was mad* for the whale eater talamset, and that
has base instanced •• • fair speeemea of their style of
Bring daring the tee de prior to the tragedy.
A post-mortem ex of Nagle's body shows
that the ballot, with* was semplately flattened by the
form of the blow' had lodged Os the eighth rib, withie
two Molise of the splik 'The dopositimm of Paul May,
the servivot, have bean takmi before • mogaotrst
though he Le mid to be programing favours y, and
hopes are held out of his rmovery. Kay mays that he
stood up In the room, fronting tho fol., sad that Nage
Arid at him from the saloon whieh he wee lying. When
he fell Ise retained sulkiest eicasoiousciem to °born
Nagle place the revolver to his own breast, and firs
the mooed shot. On ommpleting his deposition be
oddest, "1 leer I shall die, bet I sell hope I shall sot."

The ships el the Reserve squadron ore to-day In the
Downs.

—Of 1-11thre Lew, the Blvd= murderer, wssi hang at
Taunton on Monday morning, for killing as wife,
April Zird.
At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday,
Lamar, s girl of 15, on trial for perjury in dating that
three young men sommitted a rape upon her, for 'haft
they wore seahood to 20 years' penal servitude, was
Telfeestkid.ie sow quiet. The damage done amounts to
1050,000 es a 4.. rote. In Drogheda order Is inaintathed.
The somata* of reasten sod operative builder. In
Lodes are to-day arrenalag terms for the anteroom'
wash it is believed will Aida the atrike. The dividend
paid to-lay by the oupeetere wu It.. per man.
Twa CAME PLUMY& latest news received by
her Majesty's Goverameat treat Hamburg is to the
drat Two ears and one or di,l In • geld near
Hamburg and were buret and buried on the 'pot with
11 others killed, having shown symptoms of cattle
Plelges"
Prefereor Aadenca, "lb. Wii srd of the
bee none forward Ulla whom for " the Clielmaat,..be
h5,146.4..b5, protest et the trial of Coto
God as Australia, for haree-stealleg.
Ta. be was Ounce, and not Outs..
A psaajey moio 61= was 1110111T14 by
Mum Ibborman wbo bod t 50,000 berriag, to
Uworpool sod solbwod tbwo to go had before sathiNg
Itteas. Tbo wagbdrolos Wore whom the sass *to
Idol ow Wodsooday gostostod tagooslon wish im-
p*, a be si SW al sod&