The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-03-11 00:00:00

THE VIM AUCKLiND POBOHINGS.

The trial of Mary Ana Clones, who was committed
on four separate sharps of murder by poisoning by the
Bishop Anaklaod magistrate., was bold at Dories,
before Mr. Justin Archibald. Although upper. otir
still under five-and-thirty, this woman be.. outle.d
three husbands, to put the nee In he mildest form,
separated from • fourth, and was meting her sap at •
fifth. Sombrero of her arose from the way in which
her husbands, her children' sod ens her lodgers bat
one—bale,• appeared one by one—ale, healthy, and strong one
day, without • trate of disease or of weaklier,' ' do an "
tb• next, and dead the third, till at last the Secretary
of Bete was eked for as order to surname the Indies,
eery one of them, and to analyse the tentacle with
the most powerful tree now known to science. Arsenio
torn. up en tie Antra of all of them, although ia none
of them Is then tie Wotan traoo of distaste ; aid the
inforienee is irresistible that this woman, trading upon
har experience as • hospital ours*, has ben using
▪ all through her lift to put every one out of her
way who made life Pie pleasant and less ouy for her
than she thought it ought to be.
The Attornoy-Oneral took his end upon • single
..as, the ease of Marley Edward Cotton. the prisoner'.
step-eon, a In, healthy, satire boy, of seven yens ;
but this one is maaffeetly a simple of the ren The
boy we In Mrs. Cotton's way; sad he was pointed.
That is MI It wee not sapiently that she bad any
dislike of the lad. She was in the habit of noun him
now sad than, with a think strap, of beating hes "as
long a. Me weld stead," of tureen hint into the meets
In the morning sod making him shift for himself as
best be Gould flin her return is the eventing; sad nem
It it said, after beating hint with a strap, she looked
him up in the hone non during • thunderstorm.
But life, at beet. in Mere Cotton's sphere, le hard and
iron ; sad, with all her occasional brutality, the was
as a rule kind to the ehUd, spoke alit with affection,
and only hinted now and thee, in • easing, off-hand
way, that it wee hard she should be battlement with one
who was "no child of barn" But for this boy she
said she might make 121. or Ifs, a week eta a nurse or
might perhaps marry again; and the Beard of Onseilans
would only allow her ls. fli. a week fee his malatenson.
Orme she tried to get the allo wanes irterseaed. Oaes
she tried to get him into the workhouse. Bat it was
all to no pupate. At let the guardians dieentinued
the dole of is. Bd., and the old remedy of amens
'suggested Itself afresh. "Is is very bard micro me
to be troubled with the obild," she told the reliev-
ing offeror, "' bet it will sot be for Irreg. Be will
go Ilk, the rest of the Oates family." "What,"
and the tither, "you don't mean to toll me that
this Ilse healthy little fellow is ping to dl.?' "Well,
be .111 not get up," was the answer, that is to
say, will not gro• up 'Phis was es the GA of July.
Oa the 12th of July the boy was dead, and nee the
Aar tailed spin Mrs. Cotton was standing inside the
direit wringing her hands, sad apperantly in very great
The oiler met for the police at one. Tie
been was seszelsed, an inquest was held, and a poet-
ised= exemeation ordered. But all that was found
Is the been was • little arrowroot, red Ind, pills, and
pe=cd the surgeon who held the post-mortem
the body free from poem-
Is was not tilrlileea:d
eb‘ufs' s ten was sued afterwards by the
Profoner of Tealeekny at the Leeds Bolen of sine that that weenie revealed itself, aid thee It was toned
everywhere, in the etnesel, la the liver, in the heed,
In the lugs, in the Weevil Bat this, of none, was
en enough to brie( the guilt home to the boy's step-
mother. It was proved that she bad purchased
amnia, 240 grains of it, to mix with ant soap to kill
vermin Is a bedstead, bat this was Mx wenn' beers
the boy was taken ill, and an. of the WASSONG
admitted that she need nearly the whole of the
mixture twos the ledsbitat The soggestlea of the
prisoner's ewe& was that the boy had lahuhad au the
amnia found in his venni by sleeping upon the bed,
or peahen swallowing two or three grain of it after
the mixture had lercened into a powder, or that it
might possibly have bete administered by Mr. Kilburn
or his einistaat, instead of the prune and which they
tried with bismuth and bicarbonate ef poem to stop
the Meknes. But the jury refused to meant either of
these explaastioes aid returned a verdict of guilty.
Premier preserved het oompatare throughout, neept
at the prep la her 11011110 ill spoon where he alluded
So her len forb., own child. There she it said to
have wept bitterly.
When the jedge 111119114 NailiDell of death, prisoner
we quite overtone, sad had to he led from Ibis dock.
The remit anted great exoitoment.

ILamm on GUIUMIT.-0• Thursday mating last
• scientliki sad highly interest* lecture OLI gunnery,
illwereted by various dlegrasas end models, wee
' delivered it the Mamas of the Royal United larvae
Is Whitelull-yerd. The lecture, which occupied about
two bona, was Reamed to most attestiody by • large
pony of voltam, sad militia °Moors present, and
after various question had been asked by those prwat,
sad iumwerid by the able learner (e. Jana R.N.),
the Meissen—a distinguished amerW, who boy the
' leaked stamp d the gessiemen sad miiiier—bi a few
brief sod artimet weeds us behalf M those t—
readers as well as volanteers—eaveyed their thanks
to captain Josses, who duly expressed his some of the
below. Oa. if the voluateer °Mears proem*, who
bad takes • leading pert in 'skim amnia** an the
asbj•og, Ulm row and begged on Wad of his brother
volunteers presoak to say how grateful he felt to the
Cheirmee himself tor the part be bad taken. The
Georwel said he felt very mush obliged, sad to show
how he valued the volunteers would add, that though
having the hamar to bold • commissias as • general
inner in Her lbjesty's Service, be was also honorary
°Waal of • body of Tolman artillery. This museum
sustains anal of very great isherest, and is mil
worthy of a visit by those who ma get name of
admimke for the purpose, to intelligent civilians as
meek as military men.
Til Royal Albert Hall Amateur Oraestral Society's
Bmosd Private Riming Cowart passed off with
vim greet seams and wor• •••• than usual
eclat On Wilthlteday corm:ask Wt. As most of OW
musical radars are aware, H. H. the Dabs of
burgh is the president of the seeloty, and himself took
a prominent part as a aslant, with about 100 other
insinuseeml performers, as Nearside" evessag. He
was not dissented at Ina maga the ma but imme-
diately after the Galatia Wallts•—• very good piece of
mesa of his own sompesitios—lad beam played by the
whale anthestri, • all gestismenly yosup man, whom
those who knew hint at uses ie.sgulesd as Her
Majesty's mooed sew, skied up sad Is a very. paella,
simple, awl good sabered moaner. hawed Ms silent
aakao•l•diammit• to the may themaride who lined
the amphitheatre seeds mid tars el boom, as wed as
galleries, in return for the Wooded., plaudits with
whisk the perfermenes of this highly creditable plea
of compeonien was =. Tame were many yen
smallest lteliewled eases by them of oote, whisk
webs,. net sow ass eleil spies to dwell ou, ad which no
doubt woman they deemeal well appreciated by Shea
ziereia==tanity ef hewing now The Lk aid
' ed•—by Mr. H. Rintbaen; was ono
of the gems of the emang want( maid armed the
mrearly skill of the peeferear. HO viola seemed
amass • pert a himself, end reminded, no dolt nay present of the eelebrated Peened a old
his US& lastrement Dadag the im &ad seeend
pals of the perbwoones Mama the amphitheatre mai,
or vary many of them, deeciaided into ail areas. The
idea el spoli • sum of puma jo onoo, „gum, of
bath preseelladisg time tha Nide ha was
beembilml arl pea

THu MINIESTSKIAL

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Tel oon pres in She Lembo& Clubs Mat ties
Ministry will be beaten au taws stag* or other et Os
Idea Uoi•sraity Z.astattion asseastre, limb Mr. Glad-
stone will resign, that thas Geneerwatiyee wi'l go in. sad
as appeal t, thy sonotal. in tho fern et a diareelatien,
ludo Wore harm&

xm-cuieu lag ILLOTION.
The polling in lili4-01mber took plum on lrlday.
Tbe e.odklates were C..inuel Leigh (C), nephew at the
lato usotuber, •ild Mr. Latham (14.
Leigh (C) ... 3 608
Lzlttani (14 ... 2.118
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