The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-06-02 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

Coavicx ESCAPADE.—Ou Friday morning a convict pre-
tended that he was trying to escape. He had been on the
‘'ortie, and started off at full speed down the road, awl
got nearly as far as the police station. He was, however,
followed by the warders and recaptured.
rams Gossie.—Ww, is DIASTICR IN THU 110•I'ITAI.
The last bit of prison gossip is about the following :—A
short time ago, • convict who was in the Infirmary gut
into one of the moms and shut himself in. Hr. Aakhatu
thereon ordered some warders to break down the door,
and Mr. Lasffirett and others complied. When the door
was forced, the convict was standing with a utensil in his
hand. in a threatening attitude. On this Mr. Lambert
immediately knocked him down. Subsioquently Messrs.
Lambert and Pewter were suspended for some weeks, and
it is Baia that Lambert was to enter another prison so •
junior officer. Lambert is a most deserving warier, who
has had mach experience in the service, and it is said
that since the suspension representations have been made
on hit behalf to Parliament-street, and that he either has
been, or will be, restored. They now repeat what rumour
told of • former medical officer—ling he used to say " lii
the Infirmary I am governor myself.

SAILOR KILLED BY FALLING FROM THE
MASTHEAD.

On Saturday last an inquest was hell before Mr. It. N.
Howard, coroner, on the body of John Ilacquoil a seaman
17 years oil, who foU frotu the topmast of the schooner
Weasel, of Jersey, in midslannek on the previous day,
and whose corpse Wla, brought into Portland. The body
was laid out in a slwdl near the Breakwater Hotel, Ca,tle-
tewn, where the inquest was held. The jury's 111411ICS
were: Mr. Samuel Kendall, foreman, Messrs. Charles
Hancock, Witham Andrews, Jolla Bray, John Barnes
John Wunter, William Lawrence, Abel Attwooll, Joseph
Elliott, “Jo. Board, Hubert Johnsen, and Samuel llobau-

John Langlois, inaiderof the schooner Weasel, of Jersey,
said he took charge of her Friday week in London, and
di:causal was an ordinary Stalll2.o on board. He shipped
as a runner to go to Jersey, where his parents belonged,
but he was • native of London. A little after four yester-
day morning, he was in the channel about mid-channel,
weather tine. The demised went aloft to loose the gaff-
lie did it, and must lime been coming down,
whet. witness heard a noise coming down the rigging and
saw deceased on the deck. He fell on the rail on the lee
side of the mainsail, andstruck a wooden belaying pin and
broke it. Witness was at the wheel, and the maw went
to deceased with another num and boy. Put decemed on
the hatch, he was not sensible; they tried to stop the
blood ; hut he died in about five minutes afterwards. Wit-
ness afterwards examined the rigging, nothing had given
way, and he must have slipped accidentally. Ile was
about 17 years of age. The wind woo S.W., and witness,
bore up for Portland, lint he might have to bury him at

--asides Wheeler, the cookboy, said lie shipped but
Friday week. There were five on board, all told. had
&lAA with prisoner two voyages, one to North America,
and to the Wed Indies, before this one, aml deceased said
he wad 17 lift birthday. Ilia parents were dead, and he
had no house; but be WWI a "lively chap.- Witnois WWI
chopping wood,when he heard sonicthiu4 knocking 'mit
the inaiuisail, and ran out. They lifted up deceased, and
found his temple was rut, and the blood running out. Ile
was not sensible, and died in a very few gni tttt tam. .bout
half-an-hour idler, he went up, and pulled the tackle, hut
could not tlud that anything bad given way. The vessel
was 75 tons register.
'The coroner summed up the evidence remarking that
masters of vessels were too apt to take on board any one
on • foreign voyage, and then when they got to dea, if the,
were sent aloft, something happened. lii such a case lie
thought fault ought to be found with somebody ; but in
this Case, there was eu such fault; thU Mall had been a
wider before, evizything was in proper order, and it must
have happened accidentally, he thought. There was not
the slightest evidence of the man has big caused his own
death, for lie was of a cheerful disposition, and not at all
likely to 41411

A verdict of Accidental Death" was returned.
The Coroner had before the inquest ruccivixl intelligence
of another fatal accident, and that happening this morn-
ing. The following contains the circumstances.

MAN KILLED IS WIDE STREET.
Another inquest was held in the aftenciun, a the Delhi
Ann, Easton.straits, on the body of Richard Attwoull, a
quarryman killed that morning. Thu jury consisted of
—Meurs. Benjamin Collins. F. Marwnodkß.rdPaarcvf. W.
Pearce, A. reairce, Simon NOM. Joseph , It. l'earce,
R. Sansom, John Bales, H. Flow, W. Stone.
Richard AttwoolL father of the deceased, and a quarry-
man, said his son WMA 1214 birthday, and a single man.
Witness works with ham, and this morning went with to the Trade quarry. Witness and three more always;
worked there. A little before tO, diseeswil was working
on a bank, to shift some louse caps and roaches, and WO,
waking s hole topiatinMl iron called "dog, •ao 44 to
4.iaki,i.foundwhihientilhyningiutiet have struck his
haul a largo piece of roach nearer the crane. Ducewsed
earth and stones halm
and de ,- looked tu, sow thnnspitonen
was highest of the fedi', and *linen heanwiththisthehreadattloena.
falling, ceased behind t, Wite
issa ran to him ; but
when
is al under denswears head, and lifted
beau! on.
him up: very littJe, if any, and must have
rough ceigmuitto,fitinht:teihb 4
been dead in a minute. Could not account for the
Accident unless deceased had knocked wit a "burr," or
wedge of stone, in making • hole for the dog- to go in.
Deceased had been a quarryman ever since he was a boy
of 10 or 12 ; he went to work in this quarry tint in Via
He nowt have fallen Is or 20 ft. They were buJy clearing
off this rubbish to get at the base-bed.
fieorge Junes Chadwick, medical practitioner staid'
This morning, about half 'pant 10, 1 was called ta the west
side of the island lay a boy who told 040 thit u. bad
hoer, killed in the quarry. (went La the direction named,
and met them coming with the dead body on a stretcher.
I asked them to stop, examined him on the road, anal
found him quite dead. He had sustained injuries on his
head, which must have been immediately fatal. Ile
might have fallen on a done, anal another stone fallen on
lain,, or he might have fallen between two stones, anal
heuente jammed as he fell. Has right thigh waa fractured
in two idnow‘. The injuries were such that death must
have been instantaneous. I saw nothing could be done,
anal I told them to bring him home, to has house. I only
knew him by sight.
Mr. B. Collins said he had seen the !nen, "'mut ever)
day, and he was a very quiet, n4l'4s:flow.
one of the jurymen remarked t Dien, was still a
great quantity of asp to teuve, an the men
woulal be very careful.
mehaed peterg ',dui; in the same quarry, and
Was about six at seven tans, from Attwooll, when he mot
hi, ,hath, Ile OSA putting a "dog' into a rough pie,x
a stone, when witnessheard a none, anal saw deceaseal
fall with some pieces of rough stune. Coadal not account
for his falling. Ile must have fallen quite 20 feet, and the
Place was almost perpendicular.
A jatriman sail lie did nut think the hank+ were suffi-
ciently well magi% and indeed in some plants they al
.'4.1 nut
deserve to be called "mosaic" at all.
A verdict was returned of "Accidentally killed."
Several of the jury spoke iV441411 the unsafe anal careless
way in which the cid, anal reach are piled.
Tl.t deceased was unmarried,. he vu a very stcady
young luau, anal very careful in Ina work.

110 W SICK I.X.K4VICTS ARE INSPECTED,
tizoirsz OF THE ASSISTANT Merlin.
. .

(on WWI aliClll4.l LAM, Mr.- It. N. Inman', coroner.
Iseld an hannst at the rriaun, on the la.ly us a ums.k.t
Jusevh Brum., of ScoMand, vrhu had died un the Tuelday
In at mu. .

• -i,...-0„.....nuc1a,v 44 the aboard rule, %tint+ utak.' thole
.quiria, I.‘ately hold in the Prisons, and od the extraordinary
rcyclatiuiw which wen, wade, vic are eoutitelnal to tare u.,,,,,,,w iii„,.,,,, f., gjoh, the rulkotance of what transpirtal.
The body was touch eletatiateol ; • Jurytttatt .94.4 ohogadjully
1,...
Mr. Clifton, the t;otternor, raid the it,.u, 1,..,1 ho,„, ~0,,,...,
1., area, years' penal servitude. Ile gate thy man a good 1A.k14.:11..1..himi:r,itt2iii.1.111.:‘,....i.hem1....1114:1111:y11...wax.......11:1.i.7iy.ditl iii:b.lt,..3o:ipthillr.l..
iii:ibatunrin.rd,..r.,was:
en the 1,,,,, „,,4 diod on the hub slay. in the absence or Dr.
assistant. nicakw.l "nicer.
Dr. Ituntard said the oirecalwil leas among the complaining sick on the 9th, 111th, 11th, 12th, amid 13th, and was admitted
0,. th,,,,st day. Ile had never been atuung the eoutplahling
sick loo,fore, tel "duo,' ,liol lint know him by eight at all. -
Witneii was asked how nutty he had usually to e ~.,dlierai.l.,„,,,t leo within all hour, iiii the average : on the 131,11
May it was Ili. Lisvewied taruplained of pains It, the Ilona ;
hut tho oli• • 44., 11.• '11:1.1 au, ..
Z ...Z.,,,,, .4 th, 1511.24.'
This dire... was I cry ionpere.optilk, at first, hut rapiolly in
alreilphel. The mot hal warted a 0.4 deal after he was In the
inannary.
1,,,,,,,,,,ry Warder Mendel-sort WM tVAlTillel. and
said the deceased h.I a eough, and a pain in the ride when he
amaohnittood, and that ,nt ilk i iti, lit. bur., had 1.15
siniisid and ermined tit the hlspensary, and then sent Inm
cult., work agent
.._ .. .

—......
' Mr. Iletulerson aaked Whether the 11.11 wan atakly
wtem I.e WM witnitkd : Ile replied is , 11. W., able t., sale
t•.• flights 4 stair&
It ;Blain 11.4115,11 es, et-41101.1, to shoe that deceased had
had etery attention while in the lidirmary. hut it apiewrcal
that 'Lomeli "ill) ...inside.' him frutu the •Jaid ti his end, when Ise IVY Ili the Amoriation Ward.
It Anwar., that whin the ...Inlet& an: Ivry dt and likely Is
die. Ili') .re tort Mt, a room twiled the Assomatml or Ammonia-
tnnt Ward.
A nurs,,mierly V.Oll, Ilained Brook*, said thM tI.W
luau aim alinitt.,l he was nothing hut a hug 4
tibet, he
that he expowal ittiswell to the tlatfoliun oil the lith.
Was sellintk4 he was brought In from the work.
-ailed and said he
The 'implant. Iles Arthar 11111, •a& t•-• • IR. the twisotter on the lith, when he trm •kia •,,,
""k.ti
boner The Conti. had intliameel to hi.
let into the Infirmary before ; hut he did nut do it for tile
Inuit..., of ekttiii,; i'stra heat
In. dungen' wm re'calle.l, and ra
relirentberet that lie hat eta ggg ill grotto nit_t,ti
tur
considered the minpwana
b. did
&Mandan..., that the man was state to
.11. woir‘iciln
uaii it
not remember thot he was brought Mal Wa

ni itTIIS.
May Lk at North Firtuare. I lorgthaiter,tbe wife of bkni.
Dorset Militia ;4.4. of a t'"'
may it. at thc ite of Mr. Henry Tutus, .4 a
at Plymouth, the wife of Mr. Makeford,
uaughter
May 10, at (mnbe, the, lion. Mrs. Marker, of
daughter.
A. ay i, at Fordngrton. Illimbeth, wife of Anna' Hulthiro.
I)oreet Militia, 01 a dattuhter•
May di, at I, ta-sige Itulhingt... Weymouth, the wife .4 Mr.
(Mark* F. Jittery, .4 a
May ':11, at Keynesum, the who of Mr Job Nowlain, .4. ow
taay V-, at Maiden.street, Weynsmth, the wile .4 34r. H. d.
Hayman, of a son.
May tt, at Kingtton Iliew:11 Home, Dorset, Mr.. Algernon
Motley Sheridan, ot A .08,,
May i, at St. Mary-street, We.) mouth, the wife of Mr. S. J
rowkr, 44 a son.

MaY 2bi nt Ebenenur rimy, Weytinnith, the wil. wiiii,uF. Uonp
, Engitiver of the it eau, .1 a dninttbkr•
MAltiti.tUES.
Itiott SL Ankinrits church. Kinrisi, by the Key. r.
Jf
time I, Mr Samuel Minty, of Itinormil, to Mary Oke,
ilawitter of Richard Spencer, of the Bournemouth tthe aat
Water Woad.

nctoreote, Pori Ivo the Itcv. J.
t. licazor, Ur. John Conan*, to Ms..* J. stomv. A l'ortlan.l.
Nay 21. a 1114:1.11..rd thumb, by the Itr, bototy,
Mr. Il.ifip t.fiarloi Corbin, ot Itauzstvo.l. to Mrs Harr
libutters, ulltlastafrnL
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Ma) 7.47.1 lioklenlount Marsh, Mr S. Whitios.it, to Ai
Anne Itarria, tlononertinl.rond, Bournensuoth.
May %. at the 1:44.14 Chapel M'enswoth. hy Use nes. J.
Willt Rowlion! 01111..1., mtlbury theasontl. k.
Eii..bkh Walton, second daughter of Mr. Thomas Milk,. of

MAS 6, 111 the of tension, leit.aio, Gomm
Lnl,oion,ro. lb "fai k'uT%:4:l:76la."ts".7!:ear ilittbehh
:
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fo
His elb•
il was pram
house of his Parentr. Guernsey, the Rev. J.
T. Utley, Primitive miniater of (hr
• .7 ula,4od by 11 larze circle id friends. He riga • faith.
044 P
„,„..„pmble nnatetter of the G‘upd.
Ray it. at Dorset Place, Weymouth, Id rooratiott km
lun.io li'.wife of Mr. Mader Mariner, aged ZS year".
may r!, at smitiNbury, suddenly, kilt iOil) dauhhter kir-
thilitr.,rhant, ‘chrinar) ItUrgeta,.
Ma. 23. 01 HoUrniltioUlh, aviary itenoke, son of Mi. T. K.
TuinCli, Fan., :Nod
spettestsury, smidual), Eliza, only daughter •A
Mr. .1. 6.liiiikol4ll6, y
.• 241. Stunuiwiter Marshall, Ur Thornc, agod SU NN at, at llope.struct, Weymouth, Martha, daughter uf 111-
J. J. Ts•lsd, agoi ri yaws.
bUy,;, N'est.hell, ilouratumouth, I.ouirit, daughter of Mr. F. IlanusieU, must I r.
Ilay 27,5& Pmde, Joieult darter,* ilnitor, agoil itti years
The tlcireased was an Alderman of the larough, and had tow
tilbal the uthis• 44 Mayor.
Ha) 27, at the Roam! flatter, Montag. suddenly, ILr. bore
gamekeeper, aged id years.
Hay 21, at Houruessiouth. Caroline Elizabeth parkai, lata
St. Albans, Herta, apal 03.

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TWTIda.T. AUTO 1874.