The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-03 00:00:00

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Taz PloszoorTox or EI•GOVIRMOR Brim—An ap-
plication was made to Sir Thomas Henry at Bow-street
police-court on Thursday for • warrant against ex-
Governor Eyre for the murder of Br. Gordon in Jamaica
after the outbreak of 1865. Sir Thomas Henry declined
to grant a.warrant, but told the prosecutors that bin
decision would not preclude them from preferring • DOW
bill before another grand jury if they thought At.

PUNISHMENT FOR INTC(DING MUNDZII. —MT. BRION
Bramwell bas passed a severe sentence on the an
Claim, who did his best to murder two policemen near
Bedford-square, London. Clancy was tried for shooting
with intent to murder, and altbought he jury found him
guilty of a leiwer offence—shooting with intent to do
grievous bodily harm—the judge decided that the
prisoner should be kept in penal servitude for life.

A YOUSG GENTLILNI AS'S " NECISSOLISS." - The
Court of Exchequer hie just been called noon to decide
• question which is of KHOO interest to 'lad" young men,
and which should operate aa • caution to tradesmen.
An action was brought by • jeweller against a young
cornet of Lancers, whose 'elder brother married into
an English nobleman's family,' for jewellery, and the
question for the jury to dedde was whether the articles
the young man pommeled himself of were necessaries or
luxuries. The jury was of opinion that • plain gold
hunting watch, £4O ; • strong gold guard. £2O ; and an
oak dresaingcase, with silver fittings, £3O, were strict
necessaries for •young gentleman holding such • position
In society, although his whole inoome did not exceed
£340; but that "a gold and blue enamelled cabinet
locket (for holding • miniature or hair), £l4 Hs.,"
was • luxury which the jeweller had no right to supply.

CORIOO/1 ACTION TO OLT RID or A P . very
singular case came before the Master of the Rolls on
Monday for judgment. Three partners in • firm of
bankers at Exeter instituted • suit to remove another
partner, Mr. Alfred Milford, from the firm, on the ground
that be had committed adultery, and bed thereby in•
fringed one of the arthlee of partnership, which pro-
vided that a partner "should not do any act to the
discredit or injury of such co-partnership." Mr. John
Milford, the father of Mr. Alfred Milford, end also •
Partner, having refused to join in the suit, was made •
se-defendant. Tb. oasis was argued some weeks ego,
but his lordship ordered it to stand ore, for a time to
enable the parties to mate an arrangement, which they
failed in doing. Judgment was therefore Mem% on
Monday. Lord Romilfy held that. however reprehen-
sible the conduct of a man was who had committed
adultery, that was not a ground for removing him from
• partnership. The bill was dismissed, and the plaintiffs
ordered to pay Mr. John Milford's octets.

DAMAGE TOR • RAILWAY GUARD'S ACCIDINT.—
Last year a Mr. Baker, travelhng on the South
Western Railway Comnany's line, sustained an
injury—a zealous guard, in hurriedly &lamming
a carriage door. having crushed one of Mr. Baker's
fingers. The wound heeled, but the shook to the
nervous system brought on tetanus and death. After
the worst symptoms had shown themselves, and
when the officers of the company knew that the °embed
become serious, Mr. Case, a clerk employed on such
errands, visited the sufferer, induced him to &event L'7s
and obtained his signature to a 'stereotyped" form of
receipt, declaring that the payment was "in full of all
demands." When death ensued the poor man's widow,
on behalf of herself and nine children, was obliged to
bring an action for some compensation less inadequate
than that given by Mr. Caw. The company made a
desperate fight against the claimant, but, under the
warship( questions of the Lord Chief Justice and Mr.
Hawkins, the evidence tendered in defence turned to
the profit of the aggrieved party. Mr. Sergeant Ballan-
tine was forced to admit, on the second day of the trial,
that there had been "negligence;' that the injury had
led to the death of Mr. Baker: and that the clerk who
negotiated the settlemaat had shown a seal beyond his
instructions. A fine of n. 330-2500 for Mrs. Baker,
and L'2oo each for nine children—the terms demanded
by the plaintiff, then formed the substance of the
settlantat

A Dia/M.OMT= DAYMIL.—On Thureday. at the
Manchester County Court. an action was tried between
Mary Dewy& and Joseph Hamden, the claim being
£8 18.. for money lent and for board and lodging. The
plaintiff, who is a lady of somewhat mature age, wearing
an elaborate muff and conspiimoul spectacles, keepe a
lodging home and provision shop in Rochdale-road, and
the defendant, who is & working barber, had for lame
time been her lodger. During the time of his reeiding
in the plaintiff's bons. there had been several accounts
rendered, including charges for pee rent, which the
plaintiff explained by saying that she had taken two ,
sittings in the Albert Memorial Church in the hope of '
reclaiming the defendant from wicked ways. The de-
fendant left his lodgings, and was presented with a bill
to a small amount, which he paid. He subsequently
got married, and the plaintiff then sent in her claire for
the amount for which she at present sued. illus said
she had deetroyed the memoranda oa which she originally
entered the items of the amount, but she produced a
book in which were entered several sums against the
defendant, which she said had been respectively recorded
at the time (several mouths apart) the debts were in-
curred. The judge molted her specifically as to earth
item, and the positively adhered to the statement that
she bad made the entries at the time mentioned. The
' defence urged on behalf of the defendant was that the
action wee brought in pare spite because the defendant
had got married and diaappointei the expectations of
the plaintiff.—The Judge, after comparing tbe entries
in the book, said that he did not believe a word the
plaintiff bad stated, and should give • verdict for the
defendant.—Tbe Plaintiff said that she should take the
awe to • higher smirk —The Judge ordered her to be
removed, and said she sight think herself fortunate
that she was not committed for perjury.—MascAester
Oeurier.

CHAIM OF BOWING • CHlLD.—Marprat Brownley,
24, needlewcnian, of ninon-street, Lisson-grove, was
charged at kLarylebone Police Court on Friday, with
uniurfully disposing of the dead body of her illegitimate
child, coca to omelet the birth of the rms.—Mrs. Mason
stated that she knew the prisoner, who had had three
ehildren. She went to the prisoners house to see her,
as she knew she was ill, and the stench was so fearful
the wee obliged to leave the place immediately. The
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Previous to that she said she bad had two children, and
burnt theca—Mr. D'Syntiourt : Did she ear whether
i were born alive 1— Witness : Mo. Mr.
ll;elynootui Yoa do not recollect ?—Witriese :.No, I
do not.—Mr. Eillynoourt (to prisooer): Any question
to ask this witness ?—Prisoner : No.—Mr. D'Eyn-
wart : Did sis• tell you what she had done
with the remains o/ the former children?—Witnees :
She said she burnt them.— inspector Sims, I) division,
said: I went to 42, Prinoes-street, Limos-grove,
saw the prisoner, and saked her if her name was
Brownley. She said it was. I asked her if anything
had happened to her recently. She wanted to know
what I meant. I told her that I had been informed
that she had been delivered of • child, and she mustoome to the police-station with me. On the way to the
court she said she had had two children, d
they were buried in the regular way. What
she meant I cannot say. I asked her to give an
account as to who was the father of the ohikhen,
but she refused.—Yrs. Larkin : She told one her
uncle was the father.—llr. D'Syneurt : What is he?
—Km Larkin •• Something to do with the park.
—lnspector Calks said a mutilated body of a child,
partially burnt, had been taken from the canal, and
they had every reason to believe it was the prisoner's.
The prisoner wee remanded.
Tws Cutagrwsrau fleoornra Case—Jews Needell
was indicted at the Central Criminal Court on Thursday
for nlawfully, malicionaly, and feloniously Sheetifht at
°°. Tbouiam umit6snort, with intent to kill sad rameter
him. To this the prisoner guilty, bet Isle
counsel, Mr. Biabgt in with the sistsment that
he was not in • condi to plead. Uedcw thaw
demunstenem the Jury were sworn to inquire into the
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evidence to the *feet that be was deektedly of unseund
mind. He was labourieg under the delusion that he
eras followed everywhere by persons who drugged his
fool and drink with some deleterious estratanoe that
elected both his head and stomach. Tbe young man
that was wounded by him he thought waa one of the
persons so treating him, and be stated that on
the morning when he committed the act St. Andrew's
bell rang to wake him up because wer was on. In-
spector Potter proved that the prisoner had been
labouring under the delusion that he was being
followed by eight men twelvemonths since, an applies.
Coe having been made to witness for protection against
these men. When arrested he said he had got one of
the fellow. that had plotted against him. Michael
Canovan, 273 City police, said in August last the pri.
soner chimed a gentleman with pouring a bottle of
poison down his throat When token to the station he
described the mode in which the act was conituitted,
by saying that the gentleman opened a hole In the skirt
of his ooat and let the steam down his throat. John
Needell, prisoner's brother, deposed to the fact that for
two years he had been labouring under the delusion
that persona ware poisoning him. A verdict of
Insanity was returned. and the primmer was ordered to
be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. Baron
Bramwell mid he was very sorry for the prisoner, who,
in his capacity of solicitor's clerk, had often been before
him in chambers, whore his conduct bad been very
creditable.