The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-14 00:00:00

lain ant Ening.

Till Rochdale magistrates' order for the deatrnetion
of,, reuniter of c tines of one of Murphy's sliaguattfig
b vats wu on Wedncaday confirmed, on •ppesl, by the
Itutolred motion. Thee dirt di cline! to state a
caw for the Canto of Quen'e &nub.
ATTLMPT iii 111111DFR A M•NA,ZER. - A labourer,
named W.scelmatet, basing received • fancied affront
from Mr. Gibson, ruansger of the nem° irenworks,
I/actin:ton, went home for • tittle knife, salon return.
Intr. stabbed him weer.' times shout tho foes and
breast, but, owing to the bluntness of the instrunient,
but ninth damage 11,(1.1 done. On being ppprehendal,
be remarked to the officer, "It is queer how • thought
(tomes acrosa a man. I just thought I would go down
and cot his throat. Psrh•pa at would hare been u
yell for both him and me if I bad." Prisoner was eons-
ruined for trial.

RAILW AY PLACARDA.—A Mr. Gwynne, who lives At
rilllnstva I, was recently fitted in bondon la. and costa,
for tinning tranulkd on the South•Rastern railway to
Coition-street, when he only had • ticket for London-
bridge, without haring previously paid the difference of
fart—a peni.y. The company At 01308 placarded their
e.ationa with the foot of Mr. Gnrynne's conviction,
without mentioning the amount of fine, and added that
In default be was condemned to three IlAys' imprison-
'tient with hard I.bour. For this be brought an antion
In the Court of Queen's Bench, and aueeeettml in re-
covering 11:10 damages, the Chief Justice holding that
r elven). companies had no more right to inane those
doeumenta than private individual..
l'Ettift DAIIIROPTCT. —Sir Morton Pato and his
vartnets bane pawed their last examination in the
Bankruptcy Court unopposed, and have received
an, orders of dissliarge. In the course of the pro-
e.ntlinge it WAA ptAted that, although the Lindon,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company ion ended the
prosecution of their claim of £6,000,000, they did not
abandon their right to prove for that amount. Thu
commiedoner, in granting the orders of &wham, ex.
e.sed no opinion on the matters In dispute between
the tailway company and the bankrupt.. The only
oh erratum In, would make was that, although many
long inveatigationa had taken place, the bank.upts had
Lad no opportunity of stating their version of the MAO
In the slightest degree.
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Tut "Lott: Fing."— At the Central Criminal
Come on Thurulay, on tha application of Mr. %slay
and Mr. F. 11. Lewis, the tnel of William Barnes,
Samuel Isrseh 1/ssid Morgan, and J.mea Carter, fir
obtsining i isrgo quantity of valuable property by
false pretences, was postponed until the August
sessions.

1111611 BRZACII OF PROMS/ CASL—An action by
Miss Sarah Perim., of Galway, aganut Captain Rupert
Brady, of the 2nd Bailment, for breach of promise of
marri.sge, wos settled on Ft iday in the Court of Queen's
Bench on the following terms:—That the alefe,almat shall
pay over a suns of I.lblo to each of two charities to be
selected by the lady; that he shall pay all the costs ate
b,tween you itur nod clivnt, including the expense of
the special jury sworn ; and that all the defenms sug-
gesting a conditional promise shall be absolutely with-
drawn.

CHARGE Or SWINDLING WITH A ROULETTE TAB!.,.
—At the Portsmouth Borough Police•court, on Wed-
nesday, John Chambers, faunae! Sanders, and Wm.
Blake, were charred with oonspiring to defraud Lieut.
Burton, of the 61at Regiment, and Lieut. Stewart, of
the fiGth Regiment, of £3llO by gambling with • loaded
rouleVe table. Mr. Field appeared for the prosecution;
Mr. klontaeue Williams for Bloke; Mr. Cousins on
, behalf of the other two prisoners.—Mr. Field, in open-
ing the case, stated that on the night in question Lieut.
Burton vu seco4ed in the High-street by the prisoner
Sander., who showed him • card and said there we. a
rouLtte going on in • house chase by ; that Lieut.
Burton followed til.ndera, ace,mpanied by his friend
Lieut. Stewart, to the Cartridge Tavern, White Horse.
street, where they found Blake sitting at table with the
roulette wheel before bin.; that be said, "Good even-
ing, gentlemen, I sin glad to see you," and that they
commenced to play ; that they lost in ready money
Li, iii. Burton about £l2. and the other gentleman
about LIU ; that they then played with marked
eountens, representing money, and that eveutully in
about twenty minutes Limit. Barton had lost upwards
of £3OO, for which he gave a cheque on Cox for £lOO,
and bills on the same firm for upwards of MU more,
Mr. Field also stated that Blake suggested that Mr.
Stewart should go out and bring in some " pigeons,"
meaning his brother officers, and that Lieut. Stewart
seeming to agree to this, went nut, but in reality went
in search of the polioe. Mr. Fidel called a man from
London to prove that six years ago Disko applied to
him to make fraudulent wheels, ant that be had gut plied
them up to two years ago. Mr. Williams objected that
unless the wheels made two years ago could be
identified by the maker as the wheel used In Ports-
mouth there was an end to the ease. Tbe wheel bed
been traced. The magistrate admitted the
validity of the objection, and the prisoners were there,
fore discharged.

SlALlciorm INJURY TO CATTLL—At the Criminal
A.lees of Jersey, on Tuesday. Maria Josephine
lt unbliw, a Frenchwomen, was ebargsei with having,
on Ore 2,1i1i larch bet, maliciouely isipireel three cows
and five toilets, the property of Mr. Charles Space,
reeding in the parish of St. Owen. It appeared from
the evidence that Use prisoner bad formerly beeu in the
meeker of the prosecutor. who bed seduced her. She
bail be. n beard to say that she would be revenged on
hire after her confinement. On her returnfrorn Franco,
whittler shr. went to be confined, she entered the service Trig American letters continue to give excellent
of Mr. deesines Spina a cocain of the proucutor's, accounts of the prospects of the grain crop. With
arid while living with him she committed the offence regard to those of tobecao mod cotton the greatest
complained of. In addition to this she pulled up a uneerteinty seems to prevail owing to the labour
large quantity of potato. vine., in • field belonging to question.
prosecutor, and thus destroyed tbe growth of nearly an COUNT PLATSR lIALLERMOND, Foreign Minister of
acre of potetoce. On Ming taken into custody she said the ex-King of Hanover. has been condemned for high
she basl been urged to the cominis..iori of the acia by Mrs. treason, by the High Court of Justice of Berlin, to
Jaequea Serat, her !Matra*, who had eupplied her fifteen year: imprisonment, and ten year.' subsequent
vitro knife and pair of boots for the purpose. The surveillance. The sentence was pseud upon him in his
tails of the animals were set off to such in extent absence.
that the cattle could not be sent to the English ~
LAMM Setredleo IN FRANCI.—A woman VAN tried
nuke% for (which they were inteniled.—Tbe prisoner at the Paris Assize Court on Tuesday for stealing a
was feline guilty and sentenced to three months child under very extrunlinary circumstances. This is
imprisonment. • crime of not frequent occurrence. The last cue of
It BANK WASAGRa MINT TO PROAL SERVITDDIS DT the kind occurred seven years ago, when a judge's little
Iliseeer..---Mr. !lola of it, Pancras-lane, Bucklersbary, boy was stolen from the Tuileries gardens by a girl
lon ban. has forwarded to the Deify News the copy of who thought she could persuade her lover to marry
a lett r which he on Wrestles, eddrossiel to the Home her if she weld make him believe she bad • child of
Peeneary, in behalf of Mr. James Feeding Wilkinson, his. The motive in the present cue wee ton certain
late manager of the Joint Stock Discount Company. It intent analogous ; but thee, as now, an indulgent jury
will be metre 111beeei that on January lie lea, Mr. prom to pardon feminine vaearies pronounced • verdict
Wilkiroon was maw's:dell at the Canaan.] Criminal Court of acquitted The prisoner placed at the her airs. a
of having fraudulently appropriated to hie own use two well-looking married woman, 24 years old. named Marie
rumens:meeting to 1:4,8110, the property of the company, Emingeard, who, before her arrest, lived with her
and senbaced to five years' penal servitude. Mr. Holt husband, a man of 34, at Cool, in the department of
now virtee to the Secretary of State to show that the the ("orreze. The SpOiliell carried on the business of
criminal IF cc dings institute,' against Mr. Wilkinson rualehottomed chair makers, and were in very good
by the official liquidator were founded on • mistake, circumstanceo for their station in life. They were
and that the aupposea fraudulent appropriation wee m•rried in 1863, and though they had frequent quarrels,
omen imagintry. The offer has been admitted by n -ver (teased to live together except daring some
Mr. Lawson, whose firm has submitted to repay the months in 1866, when the wife had • situation
balance claimed for them by paying the company in Parts. They had no child, and the wife fancied
Interest on the 1:4,010 lent them on August 16, 18.6.1, that her sterility was the reason why she and
and the principal soul of 1:860, also with interest. both her husband did not get on well together. Ira-
of which mune Mr. Wilkinson boil been convicted of p end with this idea she one day said to him
having mule azfe I. These circumstances, it was urged, th.t while she wail in lierniee in Paris she had been
placed li, innonence beyond all doubt, and Mr. Hardy *mined of a little girl ;that she had been afraid to tell
was ade sl to retire Mr. Wilkinson to liberty. Ilis h m lost he might fancy that he was not the father,
I -.bate release tat been or-lard. and that she had left the chile with an aunt in Paris.
The husband, no far from bring angry, said he would like
CDARGX Or etfialuLT AGAINST A LADT.—On Wednes. to have the child brought home at once, and sent his
day, at Leamington, Mr.. Geortinia Milligan Aplin, wife to Paris' with plenty of money in her pocket, to
tie widow of • deceued captain, was charged with e gob it. ller Idea was ti go to the 'Foundling
neaulting Miss Cberliette Sarah Hackett, a young Hospital, and ark to adopt a child; but when she found
lady redding at Lounineton. Miss Ilackett, who was 1 she could not do this without showing her" Felten,"
c irroessrated by Mee. Campbell Bedford, deemed that which would have led to inquiry and discovery, she
the J. fend ant struck her with her elorwhip, whilst reaulved to steal ono. She emaponaded with her con.
they ws ro walking on tee Parole, on Saturday last, and 1 science by the theory that if rho took away the child if
when they eubeequently met her about a quarter of RA I a very poor person with the thorough determination to
hour afterward., Mrs. Aplin said to Miss Hackett, " It I being it Op „ea'. eeo would in the main be doing a
goes!is well you dist not get it on the lie, for the lies you actiou. The day after ahe arrived in Paris she saw
have t dd." Mrs. Aplin, in defence., said she was chastie- three children at play on the Boulevard de Is Gen near
leg h r doge, ono of which wan a thorough-broil terrier, the Orleaus Itailway-station. The eldest (in Charge
which needel sheep eorrection, when her whip WA, of the two) WM • boy of 9 ; the second • boy of 31;
elentelly struck Mire Racketeer dress. She turned round and the third, who she thought would suit her purpose,
to apologire, as ono laay alould do to another, when • little gel twenty mouths oil. She made friends with
alive Hackett laughed in her face. When she met her the children, treated them at a cake shop, and then, to
again, she mid to Miss Hackett that a great many lies draw them further away from their home, went to
b• 1 been utter. el respecting her, and that shelf" ben . a reataurant. where they had mine and "a ha'porth of
shernet,ssly ealtod marl be aau of ignorant persons who i eode www.e.e Afterwards, goieg still further off, ehe
knew no b. Mtn Were ob. • man stie would hoe-4.bn bought a frock for the little girl. Finally, she gave the
the first person who otteredsuch a thing respecting her. j two boys the slip, and took the c' ild to her lodgings,
—The bench told thi defendant that her strange conduct ; wiper. alms slept with la The next morning she wason
bast been the subject of remark in the two for IMMO lair way to the Orleans railway station with the stilea '
time; weenel her that if sh r was not more circumspect c ill in her arms, when, by an almost mirecubus whi-
n her satinet they would have teeeend her elsewhere, , oidouce, the child's eldest deter, 14 years old, who was
and Seed her ss. awl 121. expenses. . f ring to a shop where she worked, recognised the
• SOT eIIISIINAIR.--The two brothers, awned Smith, . nfant, and with great firmness told the woman that .
wbe, brut .fly atterked an elderly woman name! Nuns.. unless she brought her home homed ably she would
ot some efface iii the city of London, pleaded guilty at i call the police and have her arreatesi. The woman
the ecoge.,l criihmel Court to them coeose of the ledget.l Emingenol offered the girl • bribe of • watch and 40
Koenig which imputed to them the inteetien to disable . francs to let her go, but the girl refund to part with .
the rresemutric. and to ' t their lawful apprehension. ler prisoner. The parents, who had been in the greeted .
lila Coiling, who defended the edemas, said he was decrees at the lease( their infant, were Germans, named
antenna that they were in the hind of reading such . Reelinger, living on the Boulevard de elleepital. They
works as " The Voting Aprrentice," "The Detective," I detained the woman Emingeard, and a cammiwary
ond "The City leet. calve," all of which treated of , of police committed her for trial. Tho public prosecutor
omelette committed by boys, end the numb, r of highway ' and the presiding Judge pressed for • conviction, and
robberies and other crime, that they were enahled to urged upon the jury that a poor couple had as great an
eourinit before they were detecteiL Thee weeks also affection for their ofleprine as a rich one. But the
detailed at great length the luxuries and pleasures that prisoner's comsat, without pleading insanity, succeeded
were enjoyed by then parties during their career of in inoculating the jury with his theory that the
erinam—The prosecutrix call that she would rather Women'. oiled was so far blond by hysteria and fancies .
recommend the priseners to in. ley, "Ming that sh.. dist that IMO MU not miminally 'reeponeible for the act she
not like to be "too hard" amen them.—Lord Chief had committed ; and • verdict of "not guilty" was
Justly Bevil' said they bail been convicted by Uric . returned.
own oonfession, and with the wham of their very ebbs I EXTRAORDINARY JZWEL fisetemee.— The melancholy
menace He hoped that the ease would hen anoint to ire:Lade of an officer and • gentleman, and • man
other boys. Ile cull not hell. e -tiring R. the roneln,ion wurieg the decoration of the Legion of Honour, ap-
that they had studied the 'eatery of crime with the peering iu the dock of • court of justice. guarded by
deliberate intention of following a COMM of the same two gendernies, to answer • charge of swindlim, was
description. and that in pursuance of this intention they seen in the Paris Correctional Tribunal on Tuesday.
had gone to the borne of the prosecutrie on the nieht in Captain Negroni, • Corsican of noble family, who
question. They not only committed • robbery on this entered the army as • private soldier at the age of
plain, but there was too much reason for believing that fifteen, rose to the run of coptain, saw a great deal of
they had possessed themselves of money in • remitter service in variom parts of the world, hal an irreprosele
manner on some previous occasion, and there was every able military character, and was able to call as witnesses.
✓eamo to believe that they huller some time engem,'" in • not only brother officers but colonels and generals, to
career of crime, It was to be lamented that boys should speak in his favour, was accused of having raised large
be enabled to obtain aeons to &eel works as had been IMllli of money be pledging jewels and curiosities which
referred to by the learned weasel, hut he hoped the he knew to be of scarcely any value. Captain Negroni
fate of the prisoners would be a wanting to other boys was in the French army, during the seek of the
who indulged in reading huh noisehi, noun publications. Emperor of China's Summer Palace. Like most
'The least sentence he could pass even the prisoner of the officers and soldiers angelica in that affair,
Arthur, who was the elder of the ter., and who bail led he laid his hand upon a good deal of plunder.
his brother into the nommiseion of • crime for which, if Some "demon" appears to have whispered to
death had resulted, both their lives might have bun him, "Negroni, have a tun," and, having formed an
forfeited, was that he be kept in penal servitude for ex eggented notion of the value of the nen-maks which
woven years. Hector was sentenced to be imprisoned fell to his share, he added to his collection by purchases
tend kept to hara labour for eighteen months, from officers awl soldiers, in which he invested not only
EAST FARMiNo. —A woman, named Poorer, of all his own money, but a great deal that he borrowed
Betemallerreen, London, has been committed for trial from comrades. Returning to France after 73 years'
serene, he retired in the full persuasion that his eollec-
tor the manalanahter, by neglect and starvation, of an
Illegitimate chid nine month, old, entrusted to her by lion wu worth • very large fortune. He opened an
exhibition in the Rue }Liven which was Vialtna by the
a k, nomad Pocock, in service In Kent. The child
wan
born tut November, and given to Mrs. Poorer to Prince., Msdhilde, Count de Niewerkerque, 1L Tillers, .
nurse when only • few weeks ohl, that the mother might and money distinguished personages. Afterwards he
took his collection to Baden Baden and other places in
return to service. She was to pay 3i. Gl. a week for
the child's support, bet subsequently said she could Germany, ani finally to England, but the enormous
only pay 21. 6d. a week, which was
v.imvalue_which he set upon his curiosities prevented
Me 'Med to. How.
him finding • market or them. U i-
The child was well taken care of until Foster. About lt' f
ever, altogether she only paid Cl and Si. for clothes.
nudely he came back to Paris, and bong in
great want of money seconded in raising as much
the 15tk of June the mother of one of the work girls
part of the
wrote to the child's mother to say that the baby was as 130,000 fr. upon the deposit cf
dying from neglect and starvation. It died on the 15th jewels. He had for along time before pub ledged various
eempecteses setting forth that his collection was worth
of June, and lit-. Burgess, who made the podniortem
examination, "toted that there was no dimness whatever. '6(l. millions. a f"n°‘ lie lied • quantity of "Jade'
m
and that death erode from starvation. The mother er in larger oAnne than had ever before been soon in
Lad every piece of which represented, he said,
the child said she was 37 years of age. She did not harope,
the labour of a man's whole life,eand the wearing out o!
affiliate the child because the father, when be was
and great many diamonds employed to cut it. The thing
turned away by his master loft the neighbourhood,
awhieh moat got him tat,, trouble was • diamond which
elisappeared, and she dad not know whaebecame of him.
healthy. he pledgied as worth £lO,OOO, and which two valuers
The chill was always rather thin, but at was
w, of swore wag a Rhine pebble not worth twopence. The
The witneu was *lowly questioned as to the thi—„„,
parties who indituted the prosecution were paid their
the child, becauee the doctor stated alter death it weighed
money, and desisted ; but the public prosecutor thought
only Alba. instead of 181ba, the proper weight of a child
It his duty to go on with it. Ile admitted that Captain
'due menthe old—Rachel Booth, moss-examined, said
Negroni was at one time Lena fide under a delusion as to
that hi cc, Poorer and she had • q uarrel about the child on
the value of his collection, but contended that the
Whigaeouday. Mrs. 1110 Mer said the money di] not keep
reports of
.beeetpe,rte whom he had consulted, and
alm ebillould witness told her she ought t o give the child to
ill which he had found of raising
the mother, or te the perish, and not to starve it to death. the
any money upon his trinkets in Germany and
Witnesa dm had words about Mrs. Moorer not paying her on kiwi, must hey ea lo' d that
o open is eyes, MI
daugeter Is. due to her for work. Witness took the —di
esa he was a fool, which he did not appear to be,
child from Mr.. Moore, just before it died.—Rebeeme
haeni tut have known that the curiosities on which he
Booth, a little girl, adhered to her statement, that tbe eeife
child was on one occasion ppoken to also by her mother) '.. a
v e *lf Alien, very lan um of money were worth warmly
locked in a room from ten in the morning till six at ,anything.P. the eoforanier, defended Captain
Negroni. BeH called as witnessed to character. General
night while Mrs. Poorer was out, and that duress that o_enegimee„.• ,
Wine it was crying feieUy from want of food. She also '"miin''"' Commandant of the Paris garrison, Brigadier.
said that Mrs. Poorer habitually beat the child, and General Grenier, the Colonel of the Ist Grenadier
d
once gave it a bluk eye.—um, men g Ne...... Guards, and several other officer., who deposed that
osN
i
examined by Pr. Vane for the defence, said that the they had been well acquainted
ted with Captain
The egron..
"
Mita used to be left in a room by Mrs. Meurer, but the and gave him the highest character. 7 seed
door was not looked, for there was no lock to the door, they bad seen his collection, and were struck with
Mrs. Poorer had to go about to her week, end she left the many curio" cnd beautiful things •
her work girls to look after the child.—"terah Kethhono It contained, though they thought the captain
deposed that sbe worked for lha. Poorer until three e
was labouring under • mistake as to th
weeks betn re the child's death. The child was never enormous value which he
.4.,: ePee it.
There
locked in ; teere vu no lock. Willow used to be left
to feed the child when Mrs. Poorer 'neat out. The was also evidence that when Pain Negroni was
coming home from China, a Jew merchant in th
child need to be slapped, but only on its 'rim ; Mediterranean pestered him with an offer of 500,000(r.
the black eye was got by falling out of bed, Mr‘ for his collection, which he refused, believing it to be
Poorer gave the child weigh mixture when ill, and she worth • meat 'cal more. P. Allou argued that his
treated it kindly. —Mrs. Feiss Roberts sail that Ilia client. whose oolleetion was really worth a sum of
Poorer (her sister) treated the child kindly, and fad money 'memento to measure, bemuse it contained things
It on broad and milk. The child was always "an not in the European market, boil Good fide worked
I himself into • belief that he bad all Aladdin's treasures,
object," it was so thin. Mrs. Poorer bought • cradle
end that he most boned!), thought the experts who
for it out of her own money. The child could not
have been looked in the bedroom. Mrs. Mary dem tole Lim his great diamond wens worth nothing
Poorer, stop-mother of the mensed's husband, said were ignorant people. It was yet to his
that the child sees thin and delicate from the birth, Od. Alloted mind quite In open question
whether the diamond was not very valuable.
At any rate it had not been contradicted
and it was fully tended, but suffered from teething.
that the hole was unparalleled and inestlena-
bits. Poorer, the nurse, was then cautioned, and &teethe!
If lille had any statement to make. She said that
Isle. The
d taa
lay
out
at lout. la. a
woo, on mile for the chile,
The child suffered six or hail fraudulently raised money by misnpreeentieg
the v.alsoeotof the
_articles given in pledge, and sentence,
and used to get it corn-flour.
seven weeks froin diarrLies. She always acted a
mother's pert towards the child, and her husband was eemorivalfNemaraohnaitnihgoematoinTewrizioilairnenhitn.t,toen:thnillin•lgfiw.nue 0f.p.k3,0001t7,gr:
vi ryl
fond
1. The neighbours had • spite against her es'
but was ut
bemused she owed one or two of them • shilling each,
against own y wave of the hind of the presiding judge.
The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter age d.- tahmada dm u
tad
'flitted to Newgate. The I" eas y e when he heard his sentence, but
Mt-u. Poorer, and she Was coni--- • said nothing. M. Allots in the co of his speech
produced • yellow book, when ha said was the Lives
pisoner, who was quite overcome, wells. eat:
taoutaLtoint:
d'Or of the Contemn uthility, and in which the Rams of
echiele surrounded by polies, who ran after
hoer from the mob of woman acid boys who "shod Nevoid boteed.
yelling In its wake, until it got Into hibertiditeh.