The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-07-23 00:00:00

WILTS ASSIZES.

BUILSINGLI I.II7AXT.

Sorsa M0rg.1.4 33, ot ;Swindon, wan indicted before
Mr. Justice Mellor for this offence, on 12. h May.
About tea time the landlady where she lodged
noticed prieoner was ill, ks 4 fimunt a mall bundle in
the mai box in the °eller. She said "G sod Lord, Mr..
Morgan, what's that?" and pnwssier mid 'potato
riada." She staked Mrs. Hill so 'me the women. As
Frederick Trowbridge entered the prisoner's bedroom
with Mrs. Hill (having heard the notes of something
141 front the Ore oo so the feeder), I. saw • boodle
under the grate, bunting. Is was in • large insane
wrapper, and he bound it contained the body of • child.
P.C. John Stephens found the bat arm wee our.; off,
and the whole of the left side and leg was much
'Marred. Mr. G. M. Swinhos, 'surgeon made an
exams.. iou if the body, and in hie opinion it was
bora alive ; the skull was spilt open ; that might have
been awed by • fall after st was born;; it was • full
grown child. Be 'found prisoner had recently been
delivered. The child', body was too much burnt for
him to [MUM whether there were any merke of violence
imospt that on the skull
Pa.:user's statement before the magistra'es was read,
es
trios, —"I did not koow I we... near the tams,
or else I ah•suld have goo. to.tne Union. When I was
taken 01 I was too mush frighteoed so say anything
about it."

Tha priooner (who was maenad during her tii4 and
was in a 'try agitated imago) had nothiag&o may to the
jug. . . .

Sle was found gu,lty.
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abis hod alreody ham ia prison two mootbs, sad
the Judge oonteuoso hor to a lertbor isapetamment,
wltb hard labour, for 10 mout.

visitris BY • WHO lON.

LAM, a surgeon, aged 52 (on bail), wet in-
dicted for (elomonely ravishing Matilda Wheee, eged
30, at Farley, ea the let of May.
The proseutrie lived with her metier, who was
bedriddeo, and the prisoner attended tie family to laa
Oliptaity of perish doctor. On the diey mistimed be
ceded at the house, and, it was alleged, committed
the dreams Merged. The prossontris sad that she
did net cry or SOf WM out, but sle J elude ail the resi,t-
snot in her power, sad thteateced to tell Mr. 11111111011•
ger, the clergymen ; tie said, "No you won't, you'll be
uhemed." lie offered her ball • e egg, which ahe
refuel. dto urieht. Her mother It 61 lying in bed in•
statabe ; steel wizen hr lamer acme home she told him
whit had hippened. On the following Friday be come
took her on hie Sloe and •all NW herd ibe 1.4

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forgiven him. 3he air 4101,54 110..1A41
yokia pre:teed h..z I. take beif-siturorsign. tie
reaulted k.rs. on Wedneeday, sad rid he would
tour tet 'ea but every week. tor iltd not 'mention it to
soy one but bar lot .sr tor four dam le summing up,
hi. Lordship rid be *rudely or sarpnsed that the
eruura did not tun oat sod make tee tamp:rat at
ore and have the wirer app.:elm:dot thell and
there. It or • aiogulat thing MU ehoold have been
00 C.. 1 all through it the -ffeur allAted or rut:pitted.
The first question or. whether the sate alleged mold
b. dope : sad then, or it against her with ohs exhibit-
ing that amount at rreietaLoo •hialt cirrosatahre
enabled her to ..hoer, sod tot .he tailed to errors,
The Jo., af,r ter that, a mutate's deliberation.
returned • :ft:ldiot ol not git liy—e, eery, wbtøb so.
moored in the Court with applause whirs the Judge
Luridly °raked. squid Its.. dititterilul.