The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-02 00:00:00

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ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

A moat determined attempt wu made on t,aturclay
week by a convict named Burkett, who his undergoing
• long period of penal servitude at the Chatham convict
establishment, to murder one of the warders, named
Cooper, by striking him with • spade. The injuries
were of so serious a nature that it was for a long time
feared he could not survive.

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At the time the awful conflagration was raging in
Tooley-strimt, London, on Sun, lay morning, • fire broke
out at the Spread Eagle and Hod Lion Tavern, White-
chapel. The premises were entirely consumed, and
the potmen, who was sleeping at the top of the house,
RAS burnt to • cinder.

The inquest oil the bodies of the three men who lost
their lives by the terrible accid-nt which happened last
week near Tethers. on the North Staffordshire line,
was opened on Monday week. During the inquiry
some rear important disclosures were made, which, if
subetantiated, will serimudy affect the manageeent of the
company. Three witnesses, who examined the line
after the accident, affirnied that many of the deeper*
were dragged several inches from their places, that
the material of them wu rotten, and that the pep
, which are wedged in the chairs to keep them to the
mils were many of them out and scattered about the
line. Under these cireunutanoes the inqueut was
adjourned for the purpose of obtaining the attendance
ol the Government inspector.
Mr. Philip Homer, a surgeon, residing at Brierly
Birmingham, has been charged before the Birmingham
magistrates with fraud. Ile was in the ha it of piing
to Benson's dining and refreshment rooms. Ou Monday
he was there, and consumed refreshments to the value
of 2s. 10d., for which the waitress gave him • check.
He went down stairs to the waitress appointed to receive
payment, and to .whoin he ought to have given the
cheek for 2s, 103. with the money ; but, instead of
doing so, he gave her • cheek for W., and left the house.
The Bench committed the prisoner for trial, but accepted
bail, hmiummecif in £4O, and two sureties in f:2O each.
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On Thum:lay morning Mr. John Humphreys, the
coroner for East Middlesex, held an inquest at the Two
Brewers public-house, Spite' street, liethnal-green. on
the body of Philip Waterlow, aged 53 who, committed
.elf.destruction. The deceased was a weaver, and like
some thonsanils of other Spitalfields weavers, had been
nut of work for aeveral months, sod be and his family
were starving for want of the coninton neoessaries of
life. The wife bad partyd with all they poeticised to
get food as long as they could. On Wednesday elr ening
she went out to sell a looking glass., and daring her
absence the deceased suspended himself by • cord from
a hook in the ceiling.— He had been changed in bis
manner for the-e d.iys previously. The jury returned
a verdict of " teminrary insanity," brought on through
want and starvation.
A sweep is in custody at Leicester, charged with
I kidnapping two children and waking them ascend
' chi inneys.
Two teen accused of housebreaking escaped from the
lockup at Orvett, Essex. They were pursuit' by an
ollieions farmer, who hunted Olson with two 'mends.
The animals scented out the men, whose faces and
hodie.t.were terribly toru and mangled before they were.,
taken into custody:
The Re,. Llewellyn Powell, a clergyman of the CI urch
of England, and who some time ago was curate of
Child vial', under the Rev. Augustus l'ainpbell, rector
of Liverpool, was placed before the atipendary
trate at Liverpool on Thursday on the proprietor of the
London Hotel, under false pretences, and also with
etolen two silver ladles from the hotel, which har,
afterwards effete Ito pawn. The prisoner, who is a ,
riung nom of about 30 yaan of age, trembled liolently
whilst in the dock. Mr. Barrett stated that prisoner
slept at the hotel that night, and went away on the
following morning. The silver ladles eminced
were witnesses. Mr Walter, an aseistant in the employ
of Mr. Parley, pawnbroker, stated that on Tuesday last
the prisoner brought the two silver ladles produced to
oledge. Witness observed that they had the name of
"Barrett, the London," upon them. and on drawing the
prisoner's attention to this, be said he obtained them
from an hotel in London. The witness, however,
knowing the London, asked the prisoner to take a seat,
it which he instantly left the shop and ran away. The
prisoner was committed for trial. There is. further
chf47l, against him of havitag stolen a gold watob and
chain from the Lamb NOM, Wavarayea. Thom mays
• fonyid upon WM.