The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-02-11 00:00:00

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IParoffrm Cuff Banday the Scotch pollee
apprehended, in Carlisle, Robert Sinith, whitewasher,
aged 70, for an awful crime.
.0u Saturday evening,
sear Cuminertress, Dumfriesshire, be took • girl,
14, into • wood, where he robbed her of 71. 64„,
hung
her to a tree, and when dead out her body don.,
Afts roma' beentered a cottage at Issuit'ad• end stabled
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Iday morning, at Birmingham polka-mart, three men
land • woman were charged with the murder of idis•
Melbourne, in Himesgentreet, on the 21at nlt, They
were Joae_ph , 21 years old, Lawley-street, shoe-
maker; y, 77 years old, Lork-etTest,
entermonger ; Charles Clreyton, 95 years old. Allison'
stout, hawker; and Elisabeth, his wife, 98 years old.
They were arrested at half-peat two o'clock a.m., at
their residences, by seven detectives. Beasley,n:s:
Lawley-stret, offered deeperate :lantana.
prisoners were remanded till to-day (Tualda7)-
1311100141 CLAM iron Contssfurfolf. —AI the Aber-
We", County Coact, Joseph Holmes sued Marla
Morgan for lose alleged to have been sustained by the
slaughter of two oda The plaintiff is 05,h dealer and
the defendant • botcher, and the nature of the mos
appears from the following particulars annexed in legal
form to the summons :—" To damage and injury done
to a cat belonging to the plaintiff, *aught in • trap set
in your slater-house, in or nearLionntreet, when
the left fore- eg of the said cat was broken, and to corn'
penastion in respect of the same, El. To value of one
cat belonging to the plaintiff aught and killed in the
trap in tbe said slaughter-house, £2." The cats were
named respectively "Spot," and "Jet," and wording
to the testimony of the plaintirs wife, who gave hee
evidence with atoning emphasis, their value, and more
especially that of the deceased "Spot," was not to be
estimated by "golden sovineigns." Legal gentlemen
appeared on either side, and after • lengthy legman,
and the submission of • one by the plaintiff's solisiter,
the judge ruled that the cats were trospasoers, wail had
room to their deaths by mismiventare. The plaintiff
was accordiosly nonsuited.
ODD STOUT LOOP! • DILD PHIMIANT.-11 the
following story whieh is going the round of our con-
temporaries is not true, it ought to he contradicted; if
It is true, the liaoreaary for the Home Departmeol
ought to see to it. A labourer is stated to have been
charged the other day at the Morley petty modolls
with " stealing • dead pheasant, the 5, of the
Fart of Derby." There bad been aph party at
Rainford ; the beaters had overlooked the and the
prisoner, peeling by tome time afterwards, bad picked
it up, without, as he declared, " any felonious linea-
tion." The polka met him with the pheasant in his
hood, but there was nothing ho show that he was not
earning it to the keeper's lodge or to the neared police-
station. The bean took a favourable view of the nee
for the prisoner. The chairman said that the magis-
trates intended to be very lenient, as it was the
prisoner's ant offence; and that they ',Aid merely
give him • month'. imprisonment with hard labour,
hoping that it would be & warning to him. The Derby.
shire Advertiser says that the man has actually
been sent to prison. Will not ;gr. Hardy see to this
ease?

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BOOT IT • Ilfanmaw.--Shortly before nine o'clock,
on Wednesday morning, • man, named Cbatterton,
was passing near the Olerkenwell House of Detention,
•lien, without warning, he was fired at, the bullet
entering his neck. Four shots were fired before the
bystanders maid reach the wounded man, or secure his
asseasin.. A man nomad Hese seised the assailant, and
retained him until the arrival of the police. The assassin,
whose name is James Needell, • solicitor's clerk, was
subsequently brought op at Clerkenwell police-mart
Inspector Potter said that as long ago as leas summer
the accused celled no him to complain that be was being
followed about wherever he went by eigLt men. The
I officer satisfied himself at the time that it was a delusion, '
bet the unhappy man was impressed with a belief that
▪ tell fellow, sic and a half feet high, and sewn others,
all of them abort men, were continually dogging his
footsteps, and against them he sought the protection of
the police. There is little doubt that it was this delusion
which preyed on the spirits of Needell, and led him to
the commission of the crime; for on his seeing the
Inspector after he WY in custody, he asked him if he
had seen the revolver, told him when and where he had
purchased it, said, "I am better now." and added,
"This Is ODO of the men who have been haunting me
as long." He was remanded, in order that an Inquiry
may be made u to his sanity.