The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-03-09 00:00:00

AN IRISH ABDUCTION Cksy.,

At the King's County Amities, after a trial lasting two
&VI. sits,, named Hugh Gramma was sentenced to ten
years penal servitude for the abduction of a young widow,
named Daly. She had returned from Dublin to Tulia-
snore on the gith of September, and while driving front
that town to her house, defendant's three confederates
stopped her car, dragged her off, tied her upon another
car, and drove to a house, several miles away, where
she was detained all night The Oefencti set up was that
N &PI a willing captive, and that the abduction WYK a
1111,e to deceive her father. Mrs. Daly, however, poeltively
aware that this wait untrue. The three assistants in the
outrage, Munroe, Sethi, and Maher, wens sentenced —Neill
to one month's anti the other, to four month's imprison-
ment each.

THE I'UItFLEET MURDER.
CROWN COERT.—(ikfore Ow LORD CHIRY JUSTICI..)
litiebusford, March 11, a, and S.
&don, Coates, 21, a oblier of tho Royal Artillery. Wait
charged on the coroner's inquisition with the murder of
Mice !Meehan, at West burred:, on the 11th of December
last. The prisoner Itml not been examined before the
msgistrates. and this departure from the ordinary practice
gave ruse ti mooe ineonvenience, and was the subject of
unfavourable comment on several occasions in the course I
of the trial, both from the learned Judge and the counsel
for the primner.
Mr. Croonte and Mr. 11. Tindal Atkinson prosecuted ;
Mr. Whitman Wood and Mr. Fulton were retain... 4 by the
Sheriff to defend the prisoner.
It appeared front Ow opening statement that the
prisoner vvss the schoolmaster of the soldiers' children's
whool t Periled, and on the lath of last December there
were six children attending the sehool, of whom the
deceased Alice Itaughan, a little girl under six years tld
was one. Shortly after three o'clock the child, who had
been learning her leonine on the prisoner's knee, asked
leave to go out, and atstut the minutes after die had left
Use prisoner AL. went 011 t, and about twenty minutes past
three a Wrielllll xx. hC.112,1 preeemling from the children's
closet. About half past three the prisoner returned to the
echoolroom and dismissed the children. Ile inquired if
Alice thumbs!' had returned, and all she had not he desired
her brother to take her hat and cloak home. At this time
his appearance was remarked by one of the children and
two of his comrades. Ile looked ware& red in the face,
and as though he hail leen drinking. No search was
made for the missing chill before seven a clock in the
evening, and as the result of inquiries then made the
Lprisoner was put under arrest his trousers and jacket
01. marks of having been sponged or washed, but
there were no marks of blood on either. On
Isis great coat was found one long hair cot
twanojelitig with the hair of the deceased child.
am! there were two or three slight marks of blood nom
and on his bed and on his shirt. On the following morn-
ing the body of the missing child was foond lying close to
the paling of the barrack yard, immediately outside of
which the river flows. The body was inside the yard: the
skull was fractured, and the ace much bruised. while
rev .re injuries on other parts of the body left no doubt
tha.t an outrage of a most revolting nature had been per-
M.-trated. The facts to above detailed were proved by
Me several witnesses, and Dr. Tidy gave evidence as to
hls analysis of the various marks on the clothes of the
piiwner anti ttf the deceased chill. In the opinion of the
aureson who first examined the body.
the death resulted fronj
tha iniuries caused by the violence of outrage which
had undoubtedly been committed. The injuries on the
skull and face were ibly caused by contact with
the
Cund ut the Palings of the barrack-yard in an unsuccess-
attempt to throw the body over into the river.
In view of the impossibility of eon:hiding the case
much before midnight on Satonlay, at the conclusion of
the Cale for the prosecution the Irbil was adjournsol, and
the jury were agent bwited no, with nernibution, On th,ir
Tanieet, to go together to my place or worship they could
altruo upon.

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