The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-09-01 00:00:00

lan nub time.

A SHAMING TRAGIDY took plaso the other after-
noon in Plymouth market. A hutches who kept •stall
had toren drinking all day, and on going to the till for
ni 'nu for that purpose his wife, it is said, stabbed him
to the he rt. She, on the contrary. Says that although
in the quarrel she threatened to eat) him, he caught up
the knife, in the excitement of passion, and stabbed
himself. Elia death was Instantaneous, and the woman
il in custody en suspicion.

A DRZADYCL OUTIAGZ hall been perpetrated at
Leiceator by • madman, named Scampton, lie managed
to elude his keeper, and presented himself at the house
of his father•iii-law, whir, his wife and child were
living. Upon the door being opened he fired ve
chambers of o revolver at his father-in-law, breaking an
arm, and sending • bullet through the skull of his own
little d•aghter, whe, with her mother, bed been
attracted to the passage by hearing the shots. The
child is in • dangerous state.
harAwricios—An inquest ha' been held In Kings.
land.rosA, London, on the body i 4 a child found in the
box of Eliza °Bey, 18 years of •ge, at her lodgings in
Dove-row, Haggerstone. The body was diiteuvered in
consequence of the bad smell from the girl's room, and
she then confessed that she had been ocer•tly confined
on Tuesday week. Tb. medical evidence showed that
the child wee full-timed, and the umbilical cord had
been torn rut by the roots, leaving the internal vessels
exposed. Desalt ranked front lode cf blood, and from
exposure. The jury retuined • verdict, "That the
child was found deed in a oertuin box, but whether it
liad separate existence before claath, the evidence fails
to prove."

A CURIOUS CHARGE AO•INST • WIFE.—At Worsblrr
street, polies-court, on Wednesday, Antra Spleer, 40,
was charged with felony.—John Emmen, • labomer. of
• Cornerwood-strswt, Bethnal-green, said : On the 10th
I went out, leaving prisoner in my plate. and when I
camo back found that she bad gone out and taken with
her all my goods, and found out that another man had
helped her to remove there. Yesterday I gave her into
custody at Poplar.-11r. Ellison : Does she live with
you.—Witnere : She in my wife, sir.—Mr. Ellison :
Then you cannot cl.drge !.er with hiving stolen your
goods ; you shonhl have given the man that belied her
Into rustmly. She roust be disebarged.—Witess• :
But I bed her by bigamy and I charged her here with
it, and she was sent to prison, but when she came out
she begged of me to take her bank, saying she would be
• good mother to my son. I did take her back, and
this Is how she has treated roe—Mr. Ellison : You say
she is your wife I—Witness I was married to her.—
Mr. Ellison: Then alio is ilisehargest.

Tng LAnT or Mn. FINLEN AND HI LAIS9I.OIII).
' Noeckelly. one of the warrant officer' of Marlboriergh•
street, police.court, on Thursday tuoming infermed Mr.
Knox that in accordance with the ejectment warrant
placed in his 'tends, be went on Monday to No. 9,
Print, u-row, where he found Finlen and his three
children lying on an old mattress almemt in • state of
nudity. Its left word that if Fink n did not get out by
n o'clock the next morning he should ejeet him.
dcoordingly, the next morning he went to the plate and
found Pinion and a man lodger, end three children
huddled up together on the midterms. One of the
children had on • vcry old and ragged coat, but no
tiousers; the second, part of • pair of trousers ; and
the third leol not a vestigeof clothing on, lie found in
11,,' room, besides the old mattri W, a frying.pan and •
dbl. which had been converted into chamber Wend's.
Fink's ordered the children to leave, and they did so,
and went to a neighbour's house, but not being taken
in, they were anbatouently t 'ken to St. James's Work.
houso and left there, but on Wednesday night they
wire taken away by some person.- • Mr. Knox said that
there we% no actual desertion of the children ; and
he hid no doubt the parochial anthoritier would not
have given tho children up to eny peraon unless they
were folly mtisfied as to their right to do so. Thore
was now an end of th Matter.

_ -
Dogreite THAUEDT.—On Monday night a d mblo
murder was attempted at Stoutbridge, A tradesman
named Kitley and • Mts. Poyser were the attacked
and the attack was made by the husband of
the latter, whole • jeerer yinan saddler. lie bad been
at work away from Stourbrelge, and his wife meanwhile
had been lodging with Kit.ey, who is an unmarried
man. Unpleasant rumours appear to have reached
Puysor, and he came over to Stourbridge to induce his
wife to tray. Kitley's house. She refused, and Poyser,
without any warning, drew a double-b 0-relied pistol from
Lig pocket and discharged it full in Kitleyhi face. The
man etaggeted from the rosin into the street. The
light was blown out, and the room was at the time
filled with smoke. This prevented Poyser ebservi‘g
that his wife hail also quitted the place, but he fired oft
the second barrel I the pistol directly at the spot where
she bed been sitting a few seconds before. The wall
was perforated with slugs and shots. l'oyser went
quietly with the tolice, and Kitley, was taken to a
tom ry, bleeding profusely fr im a wound on the right
side of the face. ?epees wife followed, apparently more
anxious about Kitley's fate than her initiated's. Kith y
nceeived upwards oi 20 'hot, in the right cheek and
about the rixiit eye and eyebrow. On Wednesday
Poyaer wail committed (initial at Worcester anises, ball
being refused.

.^
ILLAINOUR AS/OULT IN A RAILWAY CASSIA Gi. A
day or two since an outrage of a ine-t brutal character
vu committed upon a young lady in a first-class
carriage of the Ulster Railway Cmpany, between the I
towns of Purttdown and Lisburn, in consequence of
which tl.o young lady lies at Lisburn under medical
treatment in • 'cry critical state. On the deputure of
the Iklfast train the only other occupant of the corn.
pertinent In which the lady happen"' to be was •
gentleman whose description has only been partially
teamed. This person having observed the rneUnehely
up et of his follow-traveller, who wan much depressed
at t,,e count death of • relative, cot re 1 into eanversa..
lion with lier. Sometime after thi. I c brutally assaulted
her. With • heroism which did the lady credit, and •
strength which until that moment she thought she did
sat possess, the resisted aneees•fully the attacks made
in furioasly and repeatedly upon her. Her garmenta
were torn, her hair dishevelled, her watch-chain
broken, and she also sustained ...vend severe personal
Injuries. At one time the lady, in the maddening
despetation of the moment, sought safety from her
tormentor by trying to throw herself out of the carriage
—an act 'Welt happily she did not succeed in aoccom•
as death mut have been the pertain result.
On the train arriving at the Lisburn station the perpir
tutor of the offence speedily left the Carriage, in which
the young lady waa aft,rwards discovered in a fainting
eonditton. She was at once reum•.,l to the hone° of a
friend, where mediae( aid was procured, and where she
au far recovered as to be enabl d t swear Informations
against her assailant. The person suspected was in the
employment of the railway company. Since the night
of the occurrence this official has been missing, and
starch is being diligently made fur Lim.

ENCOUSTUI WITH HIGHWATIIWW.—At
the tit:ire Hall, Nottingha on Wednes lay, three moo
..ensued William mgeoge, m,
Beattie, anal Dennis
Knight, were charged with smelting and robbing John
firegidy, at Ilucknell Forkard, near Nottingham on
Sunday night, Pro:motor stated that shortly after ten
o'clock on the evening named, he, in company with two
friends, e:t out to walk from the village of Bulwell to
II ucknell (a didance of three mile). When they had
gone some dist:mos be lust his friends, owing to the
ilarkwu of the night, and he not knowing the proper
road. After he bail walked about half a mile farther he
leveed the prisoners, who were going the mum way aa
hinmelf. They then went on for &Mint three hundred
yards, when klnclear stepped up to him and commanded
him to "stand and deliver," to which prosecutor
replie I "he should deliver to no nm." Upon this
?dachasr struck laid' a violent blow on the right side of
the head, and Beattie oommeneed to kirk an:l strike
him with great force. Owing to the ill-usage he received
pressentur fell into the hedge bottom, and all three
prison' ri tivo attacked him. Illaistear drew • knife and
proposed to cut his throat. Knight then held his arms
while Meeker thrust the knife into him mouth, saying
"Aml to cut your throat." Yrosecittor resisted to the
utmost in his power, but Ilaele•r " jobbed" his month
several times with the bail-% and inflicted serious
iejuries while Beattie attempted to rifle his pocket&
luPt7m.attenlyggig!rosee
eonutitra,,urei.l.l3eroct
ifnorms:me time, but
king a cry of
" 'warder," upon which his mailants made off. Ile
afterwards loot hi, two friends and vivo information to
the police, and the irisona rs were apprelended during
Lilo night. His oast, waistcoat, lied trousers were
saturated with blood. The Bench committed the
primmer. for trial. Prosecutor bad a oonsidcrablo auto
a money upon him, but he only lord half-amrown, lie
has been uriler medical adrift ever since the outrage
was committed.

GRZAT Ronnie! or .rilesi.LEST.—An retentive
robbery of jewellery from a luggage van attached to the
London end North-Western train darting from the
Victoria Station. Manchester, for Liv, rpool, has created
considerable excitement. ern Saturday night, a arm-
mereial traveller in the empl .vment of Mr sera Schwab.,
jewellers, of London, went to the Victoria Station in a
cab, having with him • considerable quantity of
luggage, including three large tin boxra, each weighing
upwards of a hundred weight, and containing watches
and jewellery. The three boxes were paid for as excises
luggage, but no statement was made u to their contents,.
beyond the cabman desiring a porternamed Greatarex
to le, orreful with them, as they contained watches,.
Thu porter carried the three boxes to the luggage van
attached lathe train for Liverpool, which was announced
to leave at $2O, and saw them carefully deposited in
the van. The traveller took his seat in one of the
carriage.. 'The train from Yorkahire, which joins the
Liverpool train at Victoria Station, was from five to
ten minutes behind its time, and, in consequence of
this, the Liverpool train did not dart until 8.33. Jet
the arrival of the train at Liverpool, one of the boxes,
containing, it Ia alleged, jewellery and watches worth
1:2,000 was found to he missing; and, as the guard who
had charge of the train dates that no luggage we.
rrnoved from Ore van after the train ste from the
N ictoda Station until it arrived at Liverpool, the
suppositioa is that the property must have been re-
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It, nshaw, of Salford, who were found in • cab in Great
A neosta-street, Manchester. Renshaw had 47 silver and
17 gold watches in hie possession, and Ksat had three
watch pocked containing It gold watches. At their
plaoes of residence, which were altered& searched
there were discovered In Keat'a house two Id watches
and ES in cash ; and at Rse enahae, irold d one
silver watch. Elizabeth Kest and Elizabeth Rea:alsw,
wives of the prisoners, and Benjemin Keat, brother of
the first-named prisoner, were al. an...bends& An
aha prisoners wars brought betore aha inastaarams.
ThtleedllTs bid V".. M 4044 till next Thussdky,