The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-02-25 00:00:00

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Burocrs Ceator.--Joha Quid, &Roman Catholic
prima has been ooramittid for tris/. charged with
haring, on tile 10t1 Februsre, feloniously assaulted
felissbeth Ann Alford, wife of Kr. Jamas Alfoed, Attar,
Hardwisk.lene, Oluipetow.

IN the Jury Coort. EdicbanO, Kr. Gowrgs Slum,
decant farmer. Fifeehire, hu telebed £197 damages
from the trustees sod executors of the late Earl of
Moray, ow the ground of injury to grope from excessive
pescrvation 4 game. The dsmages were Isid by the
garner at £270.

JArts Haulm., who stands seamed with attempting
to murder Thomas Chatterton, by shooting at him with
• revolver, ln Clerksissrell, has been sartninitted for triaL
Chatterten'e wound in the nest was • dangerous one,
and the bullet is still in tha man's neck. Prisoner
merely said in answer to the oharge that be did not
mean to kill Chatterton. His legal adviser said that he
was mad.

T1101•Irr RIGHT IN THI NORTE. —Ao &aka was
brought at the Carlisle Amines, on Wednesday, by Mr.
Union, the outgoing tenant of Gill Farm, to recover
compensation from the incoming tenant, Mr. Ralston,
for • nabr mill, threshing machine, seeds, he.. on the
farm. The defendant denied biz llablity, alleging that
he had not agreed to pay for those thinp, and that
some of the improvements and alterations were of no
on. or benefit to him- The plaintiff, on the contrary,
smarted that the defendant bad agreed to pay on •
valuation, and after mush conflicting and unreliable
evidence, the jury found for the plaintiff for 1.70.

Holmium likrravrTox or • CRILD. —A shocking
ow of mutilation has occurred at Moakley, Worcester-
shire. On Thursday, • labourer, in the employ of Lord
Northwick, was in his lordship's park, when, in a
bundle which hem. floating ea • deep pond, be found
the remains of an infant, dreadfully hacked and out
about. The fiendish perpetrator of this cruel murder
had cut off the poor ehild's heed, severed it. legs front
It. body. and chopped both arms off. The head of the
child only was found in the bundle which the labourer
saw floating on the pool, but subesquenUy the police
disoovered the trunk of the body, though without the
legs and arms.

Amos Fos Llllll.—Mr. George Potter. eznarpenter,
present trade egitator and manager of the &dam DlMS-
p4per, has jest brought an action for libel against the
Herta Chaaraliss for speaking of "the starving wives and
children of the shipwrights whom Mr. Potter and other
trarle-anionists would not let work at 61. &I. a day."
Mr. Potter. in his evidence, denied that he had in any
way, directly or indirectly, interested himself in or
taken any part in anything connected with the ship-
wright.. Pict, considering his antecedents and hi,
prevent position as manager of the &alter, the organ
of tradee.onionlsoe, the jury appeared to think that Mr.
Potter's "Indirectly" most be taken CUM raw, and
that his name might be fairly used aa • symbol of trades-
noinuism. They &wilding', gave • verdict for the
defendant.

Tat OIZAT RAIITZIN. —The action against the pro-
prietors of the Great Eastcrn Wean. ship was decided on
Tuesday, in the Curt of Admiralty. It was the first
libation for repairs and equipment against the
unfortunate Great Eastern, and the question raised
was most Important. It was whether the Steam.
ship Company (Limited) were liable, or Jules
De.pecher, a French gentleman who had chartered
the scowl on account of the French Eshibition. fiir H.
Phi Minors held that the sumpany had not by the
eh•rter parted with possession of the vessel to Dwposeher.
He therefor* found for the plaintiffs for tlBB lls. 21.,
with casts. On the question been sited whether the
Court would order the ship to be sold for CIA% Mr.
Butt protested sgainst such so order. and it was not
used.

THE SALISBURY AD DOIUMIT B.AILWAT COIRANT.—
"Wore Vioe-Clumaellor Malin', .n Tharpri,!72_ Mr.
. .

Townsend moved in the aerie of tie Salisbury airiltarset
Railway Company e. Clio:chill to restrain an actioo
sijottment. The plaitinffs agreed to purchase Wide of
the defendant on three couditions—that they should p•y
him GOO, that • crossing of the tailway on the lands
should be on • wool, and that there should be • station
at Aideiholt The hut of these conditions not having
been complied with, the action wee brought, the sompany
contending that they had not determined 'lately as to
the position of the station. A diecustion then erase as
to an undertthing and giving judgment —Mr. Glasse.
Q.C., and Mr. Eddis, for the defendant, said h• would
Ls a bill, but was stopped by the ease of " Bl•ckett
co. Bates" (1 L. Rep.); hot the plaintiffs by their bill
athremed their titans that the question should be
determined by this wort, therefore, if there was any
undertaking, it most he to abide by the order of this
court. Mr. Towneend refaced to sire any such under-
taking. The ViapChanoellor reread to interfere in the
absence of such an runlartaking.

A CLerna Tonna Tam AND • Cu:moms
KOMI/. —At the Carlisle Adios on Wedaseday Isabella
Hindmost sad leer daughter, Mary Madam, wore
Indicted, the &tighter with stealing and the mother
with receiving, with a guilty knowledge, a velvet
mantle, another mantle, some gold earrings, sad sleeve-
Wats, ebe prorety of Mist Brown, of Pearled. The
daughter, who la only eleven years of ago, got leave
from Miss Brown's servant to pass through the house
from front to beck, and it was alloged that on doing so
she contrived to slip upstairs and wore the articles in
question. The police were put upon her track and found
her ap.worviatlni some shops which did not belong to
her is the pinery of another house. The mother
admitted the poentesion of the articles, but said she
believed that tier daughter had received them from •
Mrs. Forrest in payment for domestic help, mooing on
errands, Ike. A verdict of acquittal was returned, and
she pair were again Indicted in • similar form in eon•
section with the theft 011711 x. of beef and mutton from
• butcher's shop. The girl admitted 'stealing the moat,
sad the mother tied the wee defence 111 before. The
Jury this time fowl the prisoners guilty, and the mother
was esatenoed to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard
labour, sad the girl to Ave years' Imprisonment la a
reformatory.

Ti.. !gismo- aassi Monne& —Three men named
Beesley, with smother named Grapoo, sad the wife of
the last named were brought up on remand at the
Hirmingbasnweseopert on Toenail, aborted with the
murder of Mithounte, in Heneage-atrest, on the
2155 of January. An Iriabmain named Moak, who is
retained convict, sod sonfessee that he was ooricarned
In the murder, gave evidences. He said Joe Beasley
bad a relative, an old wealth, who wee eimuw ern" for
Mho Milboeme, aid who raw • largo quantity of geld
eon in • cheat upstairs. She told Joe, and he told Ina
broth.T WilliamWilliamand Thom.., se wen as Mack
and Ors and • man who is not In custody, and
whom i name s not mentioned. Joe Beasley was ill,
and unable to levo his house. The others mat at the
bourn. of the man sot in ~tidy, in Deritend, and
plotted the robbery. They employed Grayson's wife to
get information beforehand ; and she inquired
Miss Wiliam:n.4 neighbours, aod even went to tre°2
lady's bones said convened with her as enamel of
wanting • home. AU the man, except Joe Beesley.
went by different roads at the appointed time to Mies ,
Mabourne's house. William and Thanes Belsky, and '
the eon who is not In custody, went in. Mask and
Oraraort remained outside to watch. The man who is
sot in custody mixed Mies Wilbourne by the threat_
lot^odins. it seems, merely to garotte her, for Mach
complains of his olumanees in "putting out her Ilene.
—that ia killing her. Further evidence was given, aid
the primness eras remanded till Friday, when the mese
Wia eUnPI.4.4. An GNU was set up on behalf of
Grays, a sod his wile, fit was not alleged that JosePh
Beesley ens peemot st the murder. Thomas and
William Semler WI C 417.1.11 ,
w
at the next Wozwi en committed for trial
sk theses oe the charge of mud*
and all eve primmer+ were enunitted for the robber:.
Floaaisha can. or CRUZ Muman.—Dr. Lankeater
hold an in.' east at the Elephant sad Castle, fit. Fan
on Thunder, on the body of bowie-bon male child,
which bore ample evidence of the dotermiaed nor i
which it had bees dimmed of. Jobe RarMs, • lad
haw at 33, waneeleyotreet, said that ma Im eaa *yin
beside the canal, sear Regeet's Park, he ea a p...j
floating in the water. He pulled it out, cad was was going
to examine it when a playmate kicked it is again: is;
got it out • second time, and opened it, -bee a hajay,a
arm fell oat. Ha picked it rip mid put it is the penal
sad called to a man, who ma. aid
leolued
:rbtiii child, and said, "Oh, thaw sethieg ; ye,
may ea well throw it back. I pulled one out a few
weeks ago, and got twitting for It. Witness did not
do so, but pea it to the pollee. Dr. Gibson,
medical °Moor of the at. Names Workbosee Infirmary,
mid he had examined the body, which was that
of a fall-time child. The body wee very moth burnt.
Rowed the seek • pies* of cord bad been tied tightly,
Inv*, • mask. The right arm bad been off
at the allow, and was found in the pareeL Ire Vann
had been shopped off at the shoulder, and was entirely
miming. The luaus and ai the intents' organs were
thoroughly cooked, as If the child had been put in sa
oven and baked. The body was so mutilated that it wait
impoinible for blot lousy what was the mass of death.
The Coroner said It was highly improbable that &ayes*
would have tied the cord round the child', throat after
It was dead. From the fad that the aced was burst as
yea as the body, it appeared likely that the obild had
both first strangled and then buret ; but upon It. being
routed bow extremely dle.Jt N was to burn Inman
gash, sod what • stemet it made wtilet being
burnt,
the remnant of the body was done nit in • Foreol
thrown into the water. The ivy returned a verdict of
" WiMul nada ogoioot some perms or mum
umknows."