The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

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8211002 CRAIG, AO A I NST • WINCRIIITEII
80LICITOZ. —On Friday lost Mr. Thomas Waters,
solicitor, wu charged before the Winchester Bench,
with obtaining money by false pretences from Mr. F.
J. Holies, solicitor. Mr. Bonen prosecuted, and Mr.
Rumen was for defendent. The chugs wu that on
the 25th April Hr. Waters obtained from the pro-
secutor £l3o, on his (Mr. Watsrs'e) note of hand at a
month. on the representation that he wanted the loan
for a client, 13,000 of whose money would shortly pen
through his hands, when he would retain the Meuse
and repay it. When it fell due the bill wee renewed,
and early in Jane Mt. Waters became bankrupt, when
he offered the prosecutor a charge on his bill of costs
sgaiast a Mr. O'Hare. Tbis bill of costa, prisoner
mid, WUI about £9O, and the rest he would pay after
he got out of his difficulties. Prosecutor said he would
not have lent the money to Mr. Waters on his own
promissory note. lie thought it was fora client Mr.
' Waters was raising the money. For the defeats*, hlr.
' J. F. Adkins, solicitor, of Alresford, was called to
prove that Mr. Waters had been engaged in a negocia-
Urn for the purchase of some property at Wirt-hill,
for Mr. O'Hara, the price of whieh use £3.000, sad
£3OO had been paid as a deposit. A large bill of mete
had been inearred. Mr. O'Hare would have to pay the
money. The bench relied to consider their decision,
and on returning the chairman said the bench concluded
the case did not come within the meaning of the Act,
and dismissed it.

CURIOUS CAU Or PolBorlllo.—A 'insular case of
poisoning took platoon Monday, in East-street, Andover.
It appears that • short time since &veterinary surgeon,
Darned Nerve, lodged at Mr. Judd's, who when he
reword left on • shelf a mortar, containing • thick fluid,
something like treacle. This was found by Mira, Judd,
who turned it into the sink, brushing the reinainder, as
she imagined, into the dung heap. Close by the sink
the bricks had beoome worn, and a crevice appeared, in
which • portion of the contents of the mortar remained.
In the afternoon a little girl went to play in the yard,
and observing something of n bright hue to the crevice
took it out and swallowed it. Shortly afterwards she
was seised with vomiting, which continued until her
death, which happened the same night. The mother of
the child Arst took her to Mr. Liatham. but she wan not
sick in Ms presence, and he, thinking that she bed ...ken
something which deigned with her, gave her something
to quiet the stomach. After returning home, however,
she beams worse, nod about an hour before she died
Mr. Judd fetched Mr. Elliott, who fouad her in a state
of eollaps• and faat sinking. The remedies which he
applied were of no avail, and she shortly afterwards
died. An inquiet was held on Wednesday, Mr. Elliott,
in the interim, having made a post-stortem examination,
when the evidence went to show that the little girl had
been accidentally poisoned, the yellow grannies whit*
had been mixed with treacle, cod which was found in
the crevice, and aorresponded with those found in the
stomach of the deeeriaed, were stated by the medieal men
to be sulphuret of arsenic. The jury returned a
verdict accordingly.

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gOItIAYBOLIaIf. —The &rite ide Saisti•Poits (Fferattlt)
states that • few nights bask • pupil in the training
school for young priests in that town roes from his brA
while all his comrades in the dormitory were asleep, and
in a state of somnambulism made an attack on the
guardian of the apartment The letter wu awakened
by feelings hand on his shoulder and the noise of blows
on the bed. The assailant had made thiee stab, with a
knife, bnt happily only penetrated the mattress and
sheets. H. v, seised and looked up in • room by him-
self, and the next morning was utterly uneonselous of
his what had transpired. Hee:pressed his groat regret and
desire to be mut to him menet This Ivrea the first
time he had ever shown any symptoms alibis strange
propensity,