The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

SHOCKING ACCIDEXT ON Till WAELTIELD •ND
BASINNI.EY RAILWAT.—On Tuesday morning • fatal
neciihmtnectirred out the Lencan,dreastd Yorkshire branch
between Wakefield and Barnsley. A man named
Sutcliffe, livin • on Prinirose-bill, Wahaliehl, wuc In
charge of • eindArain, his son, aged nineteen, acting LS
milker. They were shunting at Marton, when another
Inggsge train ran into the coal wagons, and the engine,
which was 1114011 damaged, was knock-410ff the line.
The driver was killed on the spot. The son attempted
to jump over a legh wall, but faded, and was &lees-aught
by the engine, Leah his feet being very seri unity crashed
: broken. The son, it is bdieved, will recover.
A 1.1111. D Ditiorssan ix WANOINO-T1.13.—0n Wed•
nesday forenoon Mr. John lluinplireys„ the coroner,
bahl an inquest at the Green Gate putilichouse, City-
tail, as to the d.wth of James Parry, aged three years.
The evidence went to prove that the deceased was left
hi the yard by the mother, who was engaged in the bed-
room, and when slue returned sho discovered the de.
CC.. 4 lying head downwards in • wmhing-tub half
wit h dirty wets r. He was estticated, and promptly
seen by Mr. (*smelly, the surgeon, but life was quite
extinct. The jury returned • verdict of "Accidental
death."

lITUDER Of A CIAWEEZITER NEAR OTLET.—William.
Smith, alias Davie., the head eatuckeeperof Me. Timothy
IforafaU, of Hawksworth Hall, midway between Brad-
ford and Otley, was shot about erten o'clock on Tuesday
morning. The dyisie statement of Danes was that he
met • poacher, named James Walter, ranging in Hawks-
worth Spring Wood, with a double-barrelled gun. Oa
seeing Davies, Waller immediately turned round and
ran off. Device pursued him in the direction of his
dwelling. amid gained tome him. When Waller had got
within lOU yards of his house, he suddenly tnrned round
and levelled his gun at his pursuer, discharging the
contents of the first barrel in his breast, and of the
seeon 1 in his abdomen. He then ran off, and after
depositing his gnu in his houw„ he returned to the place
wharrelsehadleli Davies in mortal agony , He was leaning
over a well, :ilia several persons who bad come up were,
it is sail, standing near him. %Waller affected surprise
at nein Davies bleeding, and inquired, "Who hu
done it ?" Device tot.lieil, "Oh, Join, thou lust done
it ; thou hut shot me." Waller replied, "Why, I have
never been out of the house this morning till now."
Thiv conversation was heard by the bystanders. Waller,
however, immediately disappeared, and the police
scoured the country in vain for him all day on Tuesday.
Davie, died about half-past ten o'clock on Tuesday fore-
moon. Waller is a men about 11.irsr .four Y 5,. es, els
ammo nu Due ti equentty convicted Of poaching by
niagistrates at Otter mod Haughty. A short time ago he
was committed at Bingley for shooting at a neighbour.
About the 11th ult., after paying a fine imposed for an
offence at they, be toll Police-sergeut Inman, of
Manaton, that before he would ever again submit to be
taken by Davies, he would shoot him. Weller has not
yet turned up. He talked with several persons very
family in referencia to the tour-her before he finally dis-
appeared. He referred to the allegation that he had
shut Smith alias Devey, and denied it. It is supposed
that he returned to the plate where the murdered man
was, expecting to find lam deed, after be had fired, sod
that finding him still alive, and hearing himself pro-
clairr.ed the murderer by the dying man, in the presence
of several persons, he was filled with tremor, and took
to flight. He was such • terror in the locality that DO
one iseemed to have pluck sufficient to arrest the mur-
derer in the inhume of the police.
Seueenco MCIDIII IN MTAffOIDSRIRE.—Within
short distance ef the scene of the late atrocious murder
at Bilidon, another murder was perpetrated on Sunday
morning. A man named William Lewis, who is •
widower, lodging with hie brother at Hal Green, near
to liilaton, was found on that morning lying dead on
the road, with such marks of ill-usage about hire as to
indicate that he bail been fearfully maltreated. He was
discovered by a woman named lienh Cooper, wife of
Thomas Cooper, a garnet-mien of the same place, about
six in the morning. She had got up earlier than usual,
and was on her way to • well to fetch some water.
Recogniaing Irnwis,she raa to his brother's,and screamed
out for assistence. Having been conveyed home, his
! body was examined, and a large wound was found on
the lack, with bruises on the arins and legs. There was
also the appearance of a heavy blow having been given
on the left temple, as well as on the forehead and other
parts of the face. About three o'clock in the morning
a Mrs. Waller states that she heard some one cry
" Murder" several times, with such additions as" Do
have mercy upon me," and "Don't kill me.' She did
nut get up to make any alarm, as she was very much
shocked, and afraid to leave her husband, as lie fre-
quently had fits. She thought there must be two or
thorn 'nen. Another woman, whose name is Widow
Solloway, heard 'ler cries, and got to the window,
and observed an individual with • large stick, whom she
took to be • person a hose name for the present we sup-
prem., and called to hint by name. She beard groans
and some one say, " Help, help, I am William Lewis."
The person jagt alluded to is a watchmen, employed by
• mutilate of tradesmen to guard their property, and re-
waved from Gd. to eh'. from each one of them. On being
confronted by Widow Solloway, he unhealed to having
threatened to lay a stick about Lewis's back, but did
not. The poekete of the deceased were turned inside
out, and lits mpoey abstracted. Being an iron roll
turner, at Deepfielde iron works, he was consequently
in receipt of good wages, and is therefore supposed to
bare had • little money. Tbe deceased had been in the
same yard as the watchman for some months, yet the
watchman declares he did not know him when he
threatened to beat him with his stick. When discovered
in the road his coat was turned over his face. The
watchman lied been out of employ for some time before
his recent appointinent.—dianotester Eranniser.
Cita ROE OP MORDSR.—An the Royal Court, Jersey, en
Saturday, llamas atake, of Lefton, in the county of
Devon was arraigned on a charge of having, on the 23rd
of October, 1861, or thereabout, by himself or with
other his aooompli. or ...mph.n on the Longy-road,
iii the island of Alderney, not having the fear of God
before his eyes, wilfully and feloniously killed, slain,and
niurdered Mary Ann Davey. the wile of the said Geake,
the said (leaks having feloniously, maliciously,and with
malice prepense, fired a gun at the said Davey, the said
gun being then loaded with powder and small shot, and
the said Osaka having, with the said small shot dis-
charged from the said gun by the force of the said
powder, struck, wounded, and pierced the left side and
the back of the said Davey, causing to the said Davey,
with the small shot thins discharged from the said gun,
one or several wounds, whereof she died on the said 2alrd
of October, 1861, or thereabout. The prisoner pleaded
"not guilty," saying, "I did not mean to kill her," and
chose Advocate Fella for his counsel.—Mr. Falls there-
upon said that, by the prisoner's desire, lie requested
that Advocate McCulloch might be joined to him for
the defence.—The Queeti's Proureur said that he had
no objection, and the Court acceded to the request.
THE Ill:IDS ADD ATTEMPTED BMWS •T MTTMOLM-
ROTD.—On Tuesday forenoon, at the Dusty Miller Inn,
Mytholtnroyd, an inquest was held by Mr. Ingram,
coroner for the district, and • respectable jury, on the
body of Grace Greenwood, of Hill House, Ifytholum
royd, who was murdered by her mother on the previous
Friday. Several witnesses were examined, and • ver-
dict of "Wilful murder against Fanny Greenwood,
while in a fit of insanity," was returned. The woman
is act dead, although but little hope can be entertained
of LOS recovery.
KLEPTOMANIA AND ITS RISDLTS.—Th• tiro "young
ladies," charged WMO tint, since with stealing books
from the shop of a bookseller in the Strand, were sen-
tenced on Wednesday to nine months' imprisonment,
with hard labour. Their counsel, it will be remem-
. bored, at the time the charge was made, argued that
they laboured under • form of disease called nen-
toniania—" an inexplicable desire to possess themselves
! of something which did not belong to them." The
disease is unfortunately too common and it is to be
hoped that the rettinien which hail been prescribed for
thus "young lady" patients will cure them.
DIATHIS ON Ran.weirt.—A very painful feeling has
been caused in commercial eirorns in NOWSSAIS by •
melancholy and fatal accident which occurred to Mr.
John A rundsle, gushier to Messrs, Lanibton and Co.'s
Beck, on Sunday night. Mr. Arandale, whose wife
was staying at Tyneusouth, in precarious health, was
waiting at the Manors Station, Newcastle' on Sunday
for the six o'clock train down to that plare. As the
the train approached the station and was about to corn*
to a stud, the unfortunate gentleman was observed to
nibs his hands above his body, es if seised with • fit.
Alined immediately afterwards he staggered forward,
sad fell from the platform between tws (anima. The
result was that the head of the poor gentleman was all
but severed from his body, and in this condition he
was removed to the goods elation, life being extinct.
The deceased gentleman was only thirty-three years of
age. On Saturday evening • men named Henry Wild,
belonging to Sunderland, was picked up on the North
Eastern Railway, at Gateshead Fall Station, having
staggered on the line while drunk. He Lad been run
over by • train, and NY dreadfully mutilated. He died
on Monday morning.
A YOUNG LADY BURNT TO DIATX.—A shocking
accident occurred at Earbidon, near Coventry, on &tar-
iley night, at the houe of Mr. Hawkins, late an officer
of Ranee, but now superannuated. Mr. and Mrs.
Hawkins had retired to rest about ten o'clock, leaving
their daughter, a young lady about twenty-five years of
age, sitting up She shortly afterwards went to her bed•
room, and having undressed herself, accidentally caught
the sleeve of her nightdress is the candle. It ignited,
and by some means the fire emuiziunioated with the
bed clothes. The young lady rushed terror-stricken
into her parents' bed-room, where her father succeeded
in extinguishing the flames, by which she had bee mine
enveloped. though not until she was most seriously
buret. By the aid of the neighbours, the fire in the
bedroom was ;speedily put out, and Dr. Knott. of
Coventry was sent for without delay, but medical skill
availed nothing and the young lady died on the follow-
ing (Sunday) morning. In petting out the fire, the
hands and arms of Mr. Hawkins were badly burnt.
CAB OUTRAGIS MIAS ROCHDALit.—The Dublin cab-
man has found an imitator in Lancashire. as appears
from • report of proceedinvi at the "Rochdale Police.
court on Monday. Michael Riley being placed in the
duck, Emma, Sharp, the complainant, was called for, but
did not answer. Superinlendeat Pickens' then
stated that complainant was the wife of a person living
at Heywood, andfrisour wu the driver of • cab for Mr.
Fitton, of the havigation ion, in the satne town. On
Friday evening Mr. Sharp engaged • cab at the Nail-
Lion lan and priuser drove them to Rochdale, where
Mr. Sharp mid • friend alighted, and the former in.
stencil prisoner to drive Mrs. Sharp to their home in
Heywood. After passing Manua, which is about
equi-distant from Heywood and Rochdale, prisoner
atteinpted to enter the cab, but Mr.. Sharp resisted,
and on his making a second attempt she began scream-
ing, and people cause out of the cottages at MulaTed,
whereupon prisoner drove towards Bury. where be was
apprehended. The Knauer was brought before the
magistrates, and remanded.—On Tuesday, Michael
Riley, who had been remanded on bail from Monday,
eurrendered to answer • charge of having aseanlted
Mrs. Emma Sharp. of Heywood, on the previous Friday
th eeviefrein.ot vi—Millre.iamithshar.rp dpe,pcieedpumeea fllo
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Beek o'th' Mo., Heywood. On Thursday night I
aeemnpanie.l my husband an 4 a friend from Heywood
to Roolidel• in • cab, which we from Mr.
Fitton, of the Navigation lan, Hiry=7l We Mut"
ia okit
r.inse ohst...t,lookin, anil.whdaie Ms, tomytiiheotto .b.bdmiZi Ltd-
then left use, without saying anythine to the cabman,
except Haulm wished him to bring me Rafe back We
got to the Sadden public house, and the defendant
wuted me to have either • esse of gin or whiskery, but
I refused, and be them galled for &glass dram, which.
he then brought to the door, bat I would not touch it
He then drove off, bat we had not pii• far before he

i again, and same and opened the cab door. He
siirrrwas cold, and naked ine if I had any objection to
allow him to ride insid . I sai II had, and he attenaptel
to come inside, where' n I screamed out. He stopped
past some houses, an got off the box, but did not
snake any further attei 1 onto thy cab, though lie
came to the door. Seine ow were going by, and he
gut on the box again, and drove off very f..at. I erstited
to get out, and kept making a noise for aasistrince.
Ho pulled up again when near Mr. Ilartley's factory,
and got off the box. He asked me to make no bother
about it, and said I would be very sorry to do no, as
lie was pain: man. He caid lie would drive me home
If I would tell him where I hoed, but 1 refused to do so.
The policeman came up, and he let me out. I a,a
then very much exhansteil, and I went to the police
office and remained there until the defendant was
brought in. I was not able to walk I wail that fright-
ened. After some sonic oonanltation the presiding
magistrate told the defendant that as he had expreneed
his contritioo for the offence lie would be discharged.
Sktocaigo Tid•GIEDT AT ALIMISHOT.—LAiIi on Wed-
nesday night • terrible affair occurred in E. lines, South
Camp, Aldershot, a sergeant-major of the 3rd blttalion
Military Train, named Leslie Kennedy, being shot by a
man 4 as... battalion, named. John Michela'. It

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appears that on Wednesday night there war an amateur
performance at the camp theatre by the non-commis-
atoned officers and men of the 3rd battalion Military
Train, at which performance Kennedy was acting siege
manager, and his attempted murderer one of the perfor-
mers. The playbills of the evening announced WAitebaii
ag erreaarieh, the part of Benjamin Bowed by John
Nish°les. Stilmequently it was discovered that another
man Wan more suitable for that part, and Sergeant-
Major Kennedy wee one of the committee who decided
that Nicholas should not play the part, and it was -iven
to Sergeant Ward. The perfornoune coinmen:d at
half-past eight, and Nicholas was at the theatre as one
of the audience. During the performance lie attempted
to pick a quarrel with • corporal named Donney, and
Sergeant-Major Kennedy tieing • witness of the affair,
ordered him to he removed from the theatre, which was
accordingly done. It is supposed he returned to his
quarters, and loaded his carbine, put his regimental coat
over his shoulden, and awaited his vicitim,who returned
to his hut at about 12.30 a.m., in company with Sergte.
Ward and Salter, and Corporal Pierce: kenneoir, bay-
ing lit, candle, sat down, and began talking with his
comrades about the evening's performance, when sud-
denly the door was opened, and Nicholas, advancing
into the lint, said to Kennedy, "What accusation have
you *gaunt an. ?" and immediately 'shied his carbine
and shot him. The ball wentanto the unfertsmate man's
not bataal, assei, Imaaniug of 1.6 6..6,
the table, making • deep indentation of at least two
inches, and cutting • copy of the "Musketry Instruc-
tions," wlikb lay on the table, to pieces. The wounded
man threw out his arms, and, in doing so, knocked the
candle oat ; but his three comrades immediately secured
Nicholas, who was marched off to the police-station
under a strong emort. Poor Kennedy called out, " I
am shot," and ran the whole length of the hut to •
comrade, named Sergeant Frame, who was in bed.
Fraser jumped out of bed, but not in time to catch
Kennedy before he fell to the ground. Dr. Reynolds,
of the battalion, was in immediate attendance, under
whose charge lie was renioved to the military hospital,
where he now lies without the faintest hope of recovery. !
Nicholas, who has only been in the battalion twelve-
months, was in one of the regiments in India which was
disbanded at the time of the mutiny.
A Max AND TWO HONNIDI DROWN= IN TDB RIVIR
NIDD.-011 Tuesday night a young man named Abraham
Walker, servant of Mr. ThOUISIS LaySeld, farmer. Hart-
: with, was drowned„in the river Nidd, and also two
horses belonging to bin master. He was retuning from
Dorley corn mills, and his nearest way home was to
cross the river at • wath. It being dark he was net aware
that the river had swollen with the heavy rains that had
fallen during the day, and it is supposed that when he
was crossing the wath the cart wheels stuck fast against
some stone steps. Calling for help, and being clue to
Mr. Laylleld's house, another servant went to assist
him ; but after yoking his horse lie found they were all
going down the river, and he therefore jumped off Ids
horse into the water and caught hold of the bough of a
tree. The other man ( Walker) and the two horses were
carried down the stream. The body of Walker had not
been found on Wednesday afternoon.
Among the cases tried at the Middlesex tensions on
Thursday was that of a beggar boy, seven years old,
tried for stealing a watch. The jury, in accordance with
the evidence perhaps, but much to the poor little fellow's
own lam, acquitted him, and allowed him to go at large
among his evil associates. Another case was • novel
mode of robbery in a church, where a woman, haying
the offertory plate handed to her, instead of putting any
money in took two sixpences out, looking in the sides-
man's face while she did it. The prisoner, however, did
sot escape as the child did. She wan found guilty, and
received the due reward of her miedeeds.

HOANTING • WOMAN ON TUN FIRI.—A rough un-
couth looking fellow, named George Waters, was placed
at the bar of the Marylebone Polioe Court, on remand,
charged with brutally assaulting his wife, and placing
her on the fire. It appears that between 'even and
eight on Thuraday, the prisoner came home the worse
for liquor, and atter having had bin supper they got
into conversation about the newspapers and the trial of
Miss Jolly,when he said he thought it was a very.brzij
th sentence for e man to have. They then di
about what won in the Sunday paper, when the husband
said she should not have his paper again, but to get a
paper of her own, She said as she worked she could do
no, on which he gave her a blow on her head with his
clenched fiat. After doieg this he thrust her on the
fire. She managed to get off from it, and as she was
either going out of the room or being pushed out he
struck her on the head with, an she thought, a hot Mon
which she bad only just placed on the table. Mr. Mans-
field sentenced the prisoner to six month.' hard labour,
and at the end of that period to find two sureties in
the sum of £9O each to be of good behaviour for • fur-
ther term of six months.

HORRIBILIS AND FATAL Accinuxr. —On Wednesday
afternoon, • boy named Eli Dunkerly, aged about 12 or
13 years, residing at Cow-lane. Oldham, met • fearful
death. He was employed by Hr. James klayall, waste
dealer, Union Hill, and about two o'clock in the after.
noon, whilst the men were engaged in fetching more
waste to be willowed, ths decesued was playing with
some other boys, and amused himself by sliding down
the top of the willow. A ledge caught his feet three
times, and prevented any harm reuniting ; but the
fourth time he missed the ledge, fell into the machine,
and was instantly killed, his body being most horribly
mangled.

SITOCIING DrATIII Or • FEMALE AT Lime—On
Wednesday, Mr. Hordell, deputy coroner, held ail
ingoest at the Leeds Townhall, upon Maria Dixon,
widow, aged forty-four years, • charwoman. It ap-
peared that on Sunday morning the deceased was em-
ployed tharing at the Rockingham Anna, Wadelane,
and whilst scrubbing the door of the her, eke induced
Jane Gledhill, the servant, to give her • cup into which
she poured • quantity of spirits, which Gledhiill stated
smelt like gia but which was coloured as if there was
more then one kind of liquor. This deceased drank,
and thinking she would Alms be out of temptation,
Gledhill instructed her to go upstairs to clean another
room. The deceased went up, and soon after, being in
a state of intoxication, she fell down stairs and expired.
A verdict in accordance with the evidence was returned.
The City of Agra, one of the vessels which arrived
with • cargo of cotton from Bombay. was burnt in the
Albert Docks on Friday, at Liverpool. The third mate
was suffocated. The fire was extinguished, but it was
not known to what extent the cargo has been injured.
The Sovereign of the See, • Liverpool vessel, was
destroyed by fire at Sydney, in the month of Septem-
ber last. She was burnt to the water-edge, scuttled,
and sank in twenty feet of water. The hull has been
raised, and the cargo, which was injured by the fire,
landed.