The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

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A FICHALS HODSIIIIIZACIL —A woman named Steele,
who was on Toeeday sentenced to six months' imprison.
meet, at the IdanAester polioe-ciourt, Feeinn to lune
carried on • wholesale ayst.m of housebreaking in that
city. The thoroughness of tins dariug thief is not often
surpassed. In one instahoe, it was stated, eke even
stripped • child while it lay asleep in bed, tad narritd
away it. clothes.
CHILD MOZDHIL—On Friday night an inquest era°
held on the body of Allred Charles Holmes, a child. or
rather an infant, fifteen month. old, in London. TV,
evidence diacloeed the shocking fact that the child ha°,
been reduaed to the last stage of emaciatioa, and ha°
literally died of starvation. The jury took a serioua,
view a the matter, nod returned • verdict which WIN
equivalent to one of msnalaugliter against the mother,
who was committed for trial.

THZ extraordinary charges against Charles Mayhew,
who has, A is alleged, by means of perjury, systemati-
cally procured the release of gentlemen in the city of
London from serving as grand jurors, were proceeded
with at the Guildhall on Thursday. One eri.neas stated
that his firm paid him the sum of three guineas • year- -
that ma guinea for each parther. In •nothsr case the
prisoner was charged with impersons,i in and forgery.
According to the evidence, be bad represented himself
as the Mark of a solicitor named Kingsford, sod uscd
the name of the gentleman who had once been a halm-
clerk of his in the adllee of another legal firm. The pri•
weer was again remanded.
ATTEMPT TO MOILDEI • LOVE& A somewhat
Fingerer cave of attempted murder and suicide occuoicd
the attention of the magistrate of the Themes police.
court on We Inesday. James U ddleton, an iron ship-
builder, aged 43, was paying his addresses to Elise
Peterson, a blooming allow of 40. On the 9th
instant, having been together at Poplar church,
they went to the lady's house; and he very shortly
afterwards "proposed" in due form and WY ac
-
*opted. The happiness of the accepted lover must
have dethroned his reason, for on the imAnt he
seized a knife and stabbed his intended bride twice in
the throat. Her 'cream. brought assistance; and the
prisoner then inflicted • SeVOre wound On his own throat.
Although dangerous, the wounds did not prove fatal,
and the prisoner stands committed for trial.

Tilt CHARGE AGAINIT A lINDICAI. 11• If. 011
111111. day moroing the inlulr7 was resumed at Highgate
Into the eircurustances attending the death of Mr.
Richard Golding, whose body was exhumed owing to •
suspicion that he had been poisoned. The proceedings
were instituted on the allegations of Mrs. and Miss
Southgate, who declared that deceased had stated that
he had made a will in their favour, but it turned out
that it wee is favour of Dr. Part, a medical practitioner,
who had been called in to attend deceased. Profemor
Rogers, in hit evidence, said he bad found slight traces
of morphia in the body and of arsenic in the stomcch,
but not in sufficient quantities to destroy life. He
thought tbe ar-euie had been administered in the medi-
cine givers to the deceased, and that there bad been some
error in making it up. The jury found that death arose
from natural causes.
SITTING Pies TO A LITTIII•BOI.—At the Central
Climinal Court, on Firth...day, Frederick Duggan. •
plmterrr, aged 30, was indicted for "unlowfully
attempting feloniouly to set Ore to certain matters and
things in the dwellinghouse of William Cooper." This
was the cam if tie man wbo abated rubbish into the
letter.bos of the post-office at 28, Oxford-street, kept
by Mr. W. Cooper, and then dropped • lighted match
*moon it. Rubbish had been previously found in the
box, and • wilioeman having been set to watah, he took
the priaoner in the it of oominitting the crime with
which he was charred. It was conclusively proved that
the prisoner had been as inmate of a :unatici asylum.
The tln. of insanity set up on his behalf was allowed,
and • verdict of not guilty. on this ground, was
returned. The man will be sent to • lunatic asylum
upon the Judge', order.

A SHARP THIRY —A watehmaker at Leeds was pee.
paring to el, in hie shop • few nights ago, and aa usual
took the watches from the witirlow and put them in •
box kept for the purpose, which he placed on • table in
• back room. Ile then proceeded to put the window.
shutters up, and before finally looking up went to hare
• word in • oeighhoues shop. Whilst he did so, •
stranger went to his daughter, and tried to bargain with
her for a swing-glass which stood on the counter. When
the shwkseper himself ietamed the etranger hid a low
Price for the ease, and bin offer not being accepted he
left the place. Rbortly ate, the shopkeeper found th 4
his box and watches had been stolen. It seems probable
that whilst the stranger was talking to the shopkeeper
and his daughter an accomplice Jumped over • low well
at the back of the premises, entered the room and made
off with the box of watches. No trace of the property
or of the thief has been obtained.

A CCRZ ros • CIIIITTLL —At the Lewes petty session,
• few days ago, Mouthy Walla, • labourer, wee °barged
I with stealing five growing turnips. vales 51., the
pniaertyf llr. R. It. Vomit at Palmer. Prisoner
did not deny taking the turnips, but gave the following
eitraordinary reason for doing so —Fished: a child who
was a cripple, and a pereon told him that if he got five
turnips, not his own, and robbed the child's back with
them, and threw them sway without saying anything to
ani body. it would *ere the child. He bad some turnip.
of bin own, but was told they would not an•wer the
purpose. The noble chairman, the candable, and
others gave the prisoner an excellent character, and in
indicting • fine of 6.., including oreta, the chairman
said prisoner bad clearly been guilty of .dealing the
turnip.% but he had made an elm.' which be had no
doubt was a true one, but the person who gave him the
advice must have been very unprincipled. He asked
the defendant if he had applied the alleged remedy for
the child's infirmity. Defendant replied that he had,
hut cont.] not yet say whetbar it would have any hens
acid elect.

" MoirwucU 111• T CAXI ?ROY I"—A man named
hack Johnston was bronght before Mr. 'Vaughan at
Bow-street police court, London, on Wedne.day, in
company with • WOWASI of the same name. The an
was the father of the woman, and bad been arrested in
an attempt to rescue her from a constable who took her
In custody, not merely for plying Ism odious trade in the
public street, but for doiog so in • fashion the most
offentive and mischievous. The sister of the woman
had also been concerned in the effete, but she wet not
brought up. In the course of the in•estigttion, it came
oat that Johnston Eved upon the profits of his daughters'
prostitution, and habitually followed them about, to
to keep them in the frightful indurtry, and to be ready to
share their gains. The man had been a master tailor,
but the habits of drunkennem bad brought him to penury,
and for years past he bed had no sauce of supply escort
the "black mail" which be levied on his children's bodies
and souls. The enhjoined was a piece of evidence given
by an ollher who had known him for 6fteeo years as •
depraved character "A few days beak witness heard
him molding one of his daughters because she bad lost
some money, and she said, 'Oh, never mind, father;
there's plenty more where that came from !" Took at
it, listen to it ; say the word* gravely over again till the
me+ ning goes from the nnhelieving ear down to the heart,
and lets it know what things are possible in Christian
England, where we are all so respectable and so well-
arranged

HORITBLZ STAl7lll7l:ll.—The report of the Society for
the Rescue of Young Women and Children, just
published, mentions that out of the 5:0 nese of girls
received there were 335 who had gene wrong when
only 16 years or under, and no fewer than 106 were 12
years of age or under, whilst only 33 were over the age
of 90. The statistim of eases under 16 years of age
seem hardly credible, although from personal luireseiga.
tion we ire able to confirm them. Ooe girl, who la
SOW about 13, commenced her nuns at five years of
age; she ham grown to be one of the most deceptive,
one of the most hardened and hopeless creatures
imaginable ; she has led a career of vios so bad that no
language descriptive of it out with propriety be used.
There as soother who commented tbe same miserable
life at seven years of age, and there are five who went
the some road at eight years. Following the list still
further, among the girls admitted last year. we find
seven who were ruined at nine years, 12 at 10, 7 at 11,
73. t 12, 29 at 13, 20 st 14, and 50 st 15 yeah of age.
'Mese statistics of only on, year's experierses tell their
own story, and it is a very piteous Coe, of the prefilter,
existing amongst those for whom on amount of their
extreme youth, no provision has hitherto been mid*.
The history of some of then youthful victims of re.
reveals &wane= absolutely hardened by wrong norms
before rive the time of childhood has pared. One
194 only 14 years of age, when confronted with her
mother, said, " You eel en the example.. One Little
girl of 14 died shortly after she was almitted into the
house. She appears to have bees, when ten pins of
age, deserted Fri law pans* awl was rassived Lk as