The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-24 00:00:00

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THE APUROACRISO Custrfin Snow AT FROMM—The fifth
annual show of cheese and butter, in conneetion with the
Fronie Agricultiwal S siety, has been fixed for Wailed-
day, September elth-
FATAL ACCIDIINT AT llitainatour. —A fetal accident
happened to a iimn named Walter Pei tr.l, on the Somerset
awl Dorset Railway, on Friday rooming, between two and
three dclock. As • g.**ls train Came within a mile all.l a
half of II ighbt bleu statimi, the driver felt • sudden shaking
of the engine. and at once shut off steam. Bringing his
engine to • standstill, he ran hack to the spot, when he
found Board, who was a fireman in the company's employ,
with his body fearfully mangled. Ile was at once taken
to the Bridgwater Infirmary, where he died shortly af
wards. It It is not known what brought the unfortunate
man out at that hour, as he had been off duty since Thurs-
day mid-day.
CURIOCS CASE OF SELS•POISONING AT YZOTIL —An
inquest was held at Yeovil, on Thursday evening, before
Mr. Wybrants, on the body of Mr. Henry Turberville, of
Barnstaple, a gentleman of Independent means.
Deceased, who about fifty years of stge, has been paying
his addresses to • young lady living in Yeovil, and has fro-
quently visited the town recently, staying at the Choughs
hotel. On Tuesday he WM very ill, awl Dr. Aldridge was
called in. As deceased was suffering intense pain, chloro-
form was font for. While the doctor steppol outside the
bedroom door to speak to the messenger, deceased took
About a drarlun awl a half of cyanide of potassium. ;Odell ,
he had hidden under his pillow, lie told Dr. Aldridge,
on his return, what he had done, and a powerful emetic !
was at once adniinstered, but before it could take effect
sufficent poison had been absorbed, to cause speedy death.
The inquiry was adjourned for a post-mortem. It is said
that the deceased has left several thousand pounds to the
young lady referred to and a considerable sum to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
AN ELOPES/0T AND ITS ItIVICLTS.—At the county petty
sessions held at Yeovil, on Friday, James Field, formerly
a blacksmith at Tintinhull. WA!. brought up on remand,
charged with stealing • pair of drawer* and other articles
of dress, the property of George Groves, a labourer of
Tintiuhull. Some time last June, Field, who was a
married man, sold his stock-in-trade, and eloped with
Groves', wife. Before they left he entrusted to her keep-
ing .C 7 104., but in the excitement of leaving home the
woman left it on the bed, where it was found by her
husband. After the departure of the faithless couple
prosecutor missed several articles of clothing belonging to
his wife and daughter, awl at once took out a warrant
against prisoner. The police having lately had reason to
suspect that Field occasionally returned to see his wife,
who lives at Ilchester, a watch was kept, and on Monday
morning he was apprehended there as be lay in bed. The
aggrieved husband (Groves) having received information
that his wife would probably be at Dorchester on Tuesday,
awaiting Field's return by a certain train, went to Dor-
chester by that train himself. Sure enough there was his
wife at the station, looking out for somebody, with a box
duly addressed to some other town; hut seeing her
husband Alight from the train, she tore off the label and
destroyed it. The result ,if the interview between this
interesting couple was that Groves and his wife returned
to Tletiuhull reunited and happy, the loving husband,
full of charity and forgiveness, believing that "'teas all
the fault of that Field." Mr. S. Watts, who appeared for
prisoner, contended that there was no felonious intention.
Mr. llarbiu took this view of the ease, and discharged
prisoner.