The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

Lab) an Crime.

Tits Gateshead police have not succeeded in getting
. sin' to the misereant who brutally murdered the
little girl Illkin, in Carr's-lone. • fortnight ago.
THE rowan on the body of Mrs. Ilill.n, who was
murdered st the warehouse of Meson. Beringtou, in
Cennonotreet. was concluded on Wednesday. There
was one additional witness. a Mna Bailey, who swore
most distinctly to the man Smith, who is °borstal with
the murder, as being the men she saw go up to the time
of Mears. llevington's worshottal on the night of the
murder, about the time the murder was committed.
The jury found a verdict of wilful murder against
Smith.

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-I.I:AGAD MANILAUGETTI UT A BOY. —An inquest
was held on Wrath, ad.y at New Hendon, DOW %oder-
land, on the body of Blisahatli Oiruston, • girl twelve
years of ego. Jane Ormston, tim mother of deceased,
wild her daughter left home to go to °bun* cm the
night of the Slat December last, and was absent about
ball an hour, when the returned and complained that •
boy named Falconer had hit her on 'he abdomen with •
knotted rope. From that time she cooraplained of
others pain in the part injured, end gradually grew
worn. She wan removed to Sew Hendon, and was at-
tended by tue surgeon to the Children's Hospital up to
the time of her death cm Sunday last Deceased had
admitted before the dud the. she had "called" Fele Met
before he struck her. Some girls who saw the usult
sonunitted stated that Fanner, who is fourteen years
old, was provoked by irritating i.ngu.gs wed by the
duessed to him. The opinion of Kr. Douglas wfiA that
death arose from an absent. probably the result of •
bloc; and the inquest was adjourned to allow him to
make • post-martans summation.
Houtho Tun Dem.—William Soon and Benjamin
Flalliday were charged on Tuesday, at the Walslogham
Petty Sessions, with smelly t animals. It appeared
that on the 7th of last month a sends fennel, called
the "Today Sports," mu celebrated, the &sue being
• Said In-longing to the defendant Soon. Among these
sporta figured that of " holeing the duck r for the
enjoyment of whit& favourite pastime, as it. name
implies, • hole was dug 1,0111.1 Sheen inches deep, and •
drake place! therein. The unhappy bird's feet were
fastened to • board, whether with smile or string did
not very clearly appear, and his bud was exposed above
the soli. To hit this head with sticks, supplied on terms
of mutual advantage by Halliday, was the aim of the
Towlaw sporten, and many seemed to haws taken their
terns, the drake clucking and bobbing his bead in
model terror at every throw, when the attention of tho
police nu called, and that branch of the sports had to
cues. The bird invited little by friendly intervention,
however, being so exhattaied that it was nanseary to
destroy it. The share of Scott and Halliday in the
trannotion was fully proved, sod they were fined. the
ern TS and the other LI 104. ;costa to be divided
between them, and three menthe imprisonment in
default.

Joertaus' Joerion —ln the Court of Queen's Beneh,
oil Weanesday, the ease of Rayner Beene wu beard.
This .rns nu &Stud fr.., a oenwtodon by inagiatratu. at
Minefield. under the Order in Council, for
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illea;rirbrit-4;74 ea-th; Into the town without • been..
roe apt client had broarht nine cattle In the tante tuck
on the same nosed n. Too. wan firct on information
for bangles one of the.., end on net he was convicted
and sentenced to a One of f:2O. Then there were eight
other informations for the remainder, on sash of which
he was coovieted, and fined £lO in each care. Hi.
conowl, Mr. Mellor, in vain urged that, the matter being
all one sod the same, be multi not be punished nine
times Seer for the some act. The turetimiutee, however,
thought that there were nine diminet ofgenom, and arm.
rioted tie man now sprwiri 41404
the sight onnvict'ona subsequent t Ont. We
Mellor, for the appellant. *need that then/00i had all
been brought at the "awe time. and that it wee all one
Winos, foe which a ram could not he ennvieted noon
U,.. once If, im twined. • roan stele nine hoses all
at aue how, could he be indicter' tried, and ewevicted
nine times. sad seat-need to eumuletive periods of lanai
rerritode Barely all the anal...ice f the criminal lam,
showed that it was all one offence, so that after one
oonvitrion the man could plead as refer e sect as to
tb• rest The court, in the result, took that view, and I
reversed the envictions •Ppesied against
Armin TO MUMMA LN Ow TADr.—Ao oat.
meow attempt at warder was mete on Thanday at
Genre Temple Farm, near Hertford, which is in the
ectrupatio• of Er. Georg* Paminghant. secretary to the
Herm Agrieultural Society. At an o'clock in the
morning, Kra Painingham, who in 70 years of Me, was
mien in her bedroom, when she was imaddeely
_aroused.
Shit Nand that meow gee had Mobbed bat. Mood war
mann, from her face and temple. She eareamed out,
and toning round saw one of bee servaate, Emma
Wild, aged 17 yetre,standlag over her with a Garvin,
knife in her bun" no girl, elarreed by the ammo of
her mistress, dropped the carving knife with white the
octends had been imitated, and emaciated hereelf in •
clack end here she was subennently found with a
moond knife in her posereloo, with which she had
inflated some slight wounds on her own bead. Mrs.
Patei,lhasn, it wee found. had been stabbed in the
DMA), and afterwards emended in the face part of her
Dose Doing Oat off. Bite woe much elhenated, hot
medial aid warn soon nueured, and it is hoped that she
will recover from the injuries indicted at her, though
her year. and the ante of her health maks the result
dooWnl. Os the girl Wild bang taken Into "..°dp
she, without keetitation, admitted that she intruded to
kill her mietrwe, smigoieg as her moth, &utak...J.6rd
W *law •11°41,w "04Mo and that kin. Pesainehaen
had refused toil.. her • ebanoter, e also confemed
I. barna ea lire to a wheat rick ou tbe farm, which
wee destroyed last Good Friday, impliesaing In this
latter mime • feloweeneet sewed Sarah Saith, who
bas made a erisdemiew. Beth It. ban ban
saudaid naglainia oral