The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

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MIC MOIST ROMANCE. —Richard Clubmen Hill was
ft"; brought
ebegsfomreinatitTonaug. ThbYe semagistreralrgreeglisteoursWofedinialreridaagey
, between the prisoner and his wife and the baptism of
' the child were examined, and the prisoner's hand-
-1 writing sworn to. Brett, the detective officer, and the
I nurse were also examined, but the information obtained
from their evidence has already been before the public.
Hrs. Hill was Introduced into court, merely for the
purpose of identification, and her presence produced, as
might be expected, great excitement. Mr. Philbrkk,
the prisoners solicitor, addressed the Bench at con-
siderable length, commenting on the 01'111411C• with •
view of showing that the child bad been put away with
Mrs. Hill's knievledge and request. but he offered no
explanation of the conduct of his client, who was coin-
mitted for trial at the next assizes, bail being offered,
himself in £5OO and two sureties in 000 each.—A
Leeds paper publishes the following letter from a cor-
respondent at Rugby :—"Mr.. Hill the baby, and the
nursemaid have been residing in Rugby since Saturday
last. Mex. Hill possesses sufficient personal attraction
to justify belief in the report that she bad led captive
many suitors. It is a fact that she was run away with
when at • boardingechool, and that she was brought
back by a well-known persoa, who, in his endeavours
to rescue the lady from her gallant and enterprising
admirer, received a lasting wetlands) on the most ipro-
ininent feature of his countenance. The wealth of the
lady was greatly exaggerated in the first accounts of
the Cage. Lady Burdett, the mother of Mrs. Hill,
resides at Brussels, upon an income of £2,000 per annum,
terminable with her life.. Her estate is managed and the
rents of her property collected by Mr. Maltby, the vies-
consul of Brussels, and this accounts in a great measure
for the intimate knowledge which Mr. Ilaltby appears to
have of Mrs. Hill'sprivateaffairs. Mrs. Hill deriveseon-
siderable perm Mary advantages from the settlements made
upon herby the prisoner, and thatin sonic measure, apart
from the promptings of the maternal instinct, amounts
for the anxiety which has been manifested to have the
child identified. Mr. Hill entered a cases some months
ago in the Divorce C.ourt, and should the issue be that
he obtains a judicial separation from his wife, the
two questions of the paternity and identity of the
child would occupy the attention of the lawyers. It is
stated that there are circumstances which cannot be
shown until the case coulee before the Divorce Court.
That there is some explanation in respect to the long-
lost child, which has not yet come before the public,
semps clear frspn the fact. that the 11. e. 11111
—Lieutenant Colonel Burdett—offered himself as bail
for the prisoner. The stories which have been told of
Mr. Hill. having come into England from Brussels, dis-
guised and in secret, have their origin in the prolific
imagination of one of the keenest ' penny-a-liners' of
the metropolitan press. During the whole of the week
preceding his arrest he was in London, and undisguised
His object in disguising himself with the black tibia
kern and moustache was not to prevent arrest, either '
for debt or perjury; but his friends and himself say
with • far more honourable and praiseworthy object,
that of seeing his wife without her knowing him, in
consequence of the determined and repeated refusals on
her pert to allow him to speak to her. —A letter from
Rugby misted Friday says:— Richard Guinness Hill leis
been committed to Warwick gaol till the assizes in.
December next, unties bail in the meantime is forth-
coming. The writer adds : Thltirave charges against
Mrs. Hill which Hr. PLilbrick shadowed forth In his
address for the defence now form the general theme of
conversation here. There are several points, however,
which cannot as yet be understood. The prisoner's
wife is charged with committing adultery, but it is not ,
sought to be denied that Hr. Hill sooompanial her from
Dublin with a view of allowing the confinement to take
place in London; and that he continued to lire with her
after the child was taken from this place, and after she
recovered her health. This is regarded here as clear and
distinct condonation, and no justification for supplying
false particulars to the registrar concerning the child.
The register too, in point of law, speaks for itself. The
signature, "It. Hill,' is admitted to be that of the
accused; and although the other baptismal names are
omitted (not an uncommon occurrence, as asserted by
Mr. Philbrick), HiU describes himself as "father" in
the column of the register, beaded "Signature, descrip.
tion, and residence of informant," admitting thereby
that he was one of its parents. As to the charge of
adultery, it i.e said Mrs. Hill and her friends give to it
the most unqualified denial; but on the other hand
it is asserted that when the Cilia comes before

ilielivoroe—ooi;i:C-ciert;i; medical testi-in:Li; will be
produced on the part of Mr. Hill in order to satisfy
that tribunal that it was impossible for him to be the
father of the child. If however, Herbert, the district
registrar inserted the particulars as supplied, the legal
responsibility of the accused remains, and the miscon-
duct of his wife, if proved, can only be urged in extenu-
ation of the punishment. With respect to
the child itself, we regret to say that its
general condition is far from satisfactory. The result of
neglect, starvation, and ill-treatment is daily
becoming more and more apparent. The wounds on
its face, neck, and head shows but faint signs of healing,
while a serious matter has just been discovered. It
seems that while living in the filthy dm near Drury-
lane the unfortunate infant was either thrown, fell, or
knocked down, and that one of its ins was broken.
The child was conveyed to Hines College Hospital,
where (owing to its tender age) it was found impossible
to set the fractured limb in the ordinary way—in
"splints"—and recourse was had to plaster of Paris.
The leg was coated by this lubstanee, but it did not
prove very
to
effective. In coarse of time the child was
discharged from the hospital; but being allowed
mewl about in all directions, the setting of the broken
bones was disturbed, and the effects of such neglect now
gives the poor little fellow much pain. His leg is now
property bandaged, and everything that unalical skill
can devise is being called into aetive use to endeavour to
restore his health and strength. Mrs. Hill was born at
Twickenham in the year 1833, and her hnsband stated
at his marriage in Brussels that he belonged to the
parish of Black Bock, in Dublin.

DISPZIATI POACHING A FFFFF AT CAIMITHORINK.—
On Tuesday at the Maocleafield County Police Office,
three notorious poachers named Thomas Ridgway,
Richard Walker, and Abraham Whittaker,were brought
up on a charge of being concerned in a murderous
attack upon a party of gamekeepers at Capesthome.
Mr. Ernest Jones, of Manchester, and Mr. Cooper, of
Coogle,appeared on behalf of the prisoners; Mr. Robla-
eon, of Manchester, watched the ease on behalf of A.
H. Davenport, Req., Capeethorne. The witnesses in the
case bore terrible marks of the violent treatment they
had received. It appeared the five watchers —Thome'
Aidley, Samuel Davies, Peter Worth, rheum Barnes,
and Samuel Daniels—left the howls of the head game-
keeper Claxton, at eleven o'clock on Sunday night, for
the purpose of protecting the game. They passed the
night without meeting with anyone, but at four o'clock
on the following morning, on passing through the plan-
tationatCapeathome,they came upon • net 8 yards long,
set alongside the plantation, in • field belonging to Mr.
Bostock. They heard the noise of a rabbit, and, on
Davis going towards the net, he saw two or three men
standing a short distance off. He then saw ten or •
dozen poachers, and on essaying to go towards them, he
was knocked down with a stone. He got up, but was
knocked down again, and lay insensible on the ground.
Aidley followed one of the men, who was running
away, and on nearing him heard him say, "Now, chaps
there are only three." Ho was then struck twice by
large stones, which the man took from his pocket. He
still pressed on; they laid hold of him, and whilst four
or five held his arms and legs, two or three others eon.
tinned striking him on the head and face with stones.
Worth came to the rescue of Davis and Aidley, but wee
struck from behind with a stone, and set upon by three
or four of the poachers. Eventually the marauders
made a clear escape, but as the keeper was enabled to
give • description of three of them, they were appre-
hended.—The magistrates committed the prisoners for
trial at the Chester amines.

ANOTHER FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.—On Monday
night, about nine o'clock, ea the locomotive engine No.
84, having attached to it • number of laden coal
waggons for South Shields, was standing on the StAn•
hope and Tyne Railway, near to Stella Gill, the boiler
suddenly exploded. The guard of the ooal train. John
Leathern, who at the time of the explosion was sitting
on the fore part of the engine, was killed. John Smith.
the engiuoman, is severely injured About the body, and
he has elm received several cut, about the head and
false. William Hunter, the fireman' ii severely injured
about the head and other parts of his body, and was
inssiudble all Sunday. Smith resides at Mount-terrace
and Hooter in Wilson-street, South Shields. Leathern
was at lodgings at the houae of Mr. John Robson,
George-street. The engine attached to the coal train
was shattered to pieces by the explosion.
SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —On Tuesday
evening a fatal accident happened at the Tarrington
station of the Worcester and Hereford Railway, midway
between Hereford and Lodbury, :to Mr. Wallace, the
manager or bailiff of the home farm of the Lady Emily
Foley 's estates, at Stoke Edith, Herefordshire. The
unfortunate Man jumped out of a carriage at Torrington
station before the train had stopped, and instantly
slipped down between the carriages and the platform.
Two wheels of one carriage passed entirely over him, and
the first wheel of the euceeeding carriage rested on the
body. He was extricated as soon as possibk, but
breathed his last immediately after being placed in a
carriage which had been procured for the purpose of
conveying him to Hereford.
Stumm OF A WOMAN FROM TIE TOP Or COACH-
MAILERR' HALL, CITY.—On Monday, Mr. Sergeant
Payne held an inquest at Coachmakers' Hall. Noble-
street, on the body of Charlotte Anna Addington, • fine
young woman, aged 29, who committed suicide by pre-
cipitating herself into the street from the top of the
above-named ball. John Phillips said on Saturday
monsing he was in Oat-lane, Noble-street, unloading
some timber, when on looking to the top of Coach.
makers' half be saw something coming down which
proved to be a woman. She had no bonnet, shawl, or
tools on. He saw her deliberately throw herself tress
the top of the parapet iota the street. Mr. John Smith
Wilcox said the deceased vu his sister, and abe
was married to Louis Abdy, I traveller. liar father
died rather suddenly in June last, and since then she
bad been troubled with the milk fever. Mr. WaUord,
• surgeon, attended her, and was of opinion that her
mind waa affected. He saw her on Saturday when she
vu silent and low-spirited She got up at seven
o'clock to light a fire, but instead of doing so she ran
up-stairs to the top of the old hall, and threw herself
from the top into Oat-lane. She had often said that she
should never go out again. Her husband and herself
were on the best of terms, and he vu in bed when
this happened. Mr. Williajo Welton!, of Aldersgate-
street, said lie had attended the decesrned for three
months professionally. She was confined in July. Her
milk troulded her, and there were alight symptoms of
irregularity of mind at that time. He recollected the
circumstance of her father's death, and it appeared to
have shocked her very much: On Wednesday he saw
her, when she was very dull, and sho was limier an
impression that she had been doing something that was
very wrong: There had been symptoms of insanity
ever once her father's death. On Saturday mondag he
new her in the hall quite dead. There was a fracture
of the frontal bone, which waii driven into the brain,
and there was altos fracture at the base of the skull.
Thou injuries were the came of death. He bad given
orders that she should never be left alone. TIND Nary
returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."

At the Bishop's Castle CounthCourt, Balop, a boy, 11
years of age, brought • ?barge against Henry Coward,
the master of the National firliool of that town for
beating him while At eehooL Tha boy had /pekoe( to
another while Prams yin Was mad. The My
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The MAS • COS", who was Mimosa with haring murdered his wife ia a street mar Eleibora, was laded at the Central Criminal Camel ea flunky. The case was ooe of purely eiremastaatial evidence, the question being, as the judge remarked, Mot y whether
the woman ootnnsitted :amide or was The
jury, after deliberating for half-an-boar, roamed a
verdict of guilty, and Xr. Justice Bylee matefteed the
prisoner to death in the usual form.
David Griffiths Jones, who plrned.d rsfity es the
previous day to a charge of perjur7, was brought up
for judgment on Thursday. The primmer, it will he
remembered, had sworn in tbeCourt of Probate that he
was • graduate in medicine of Aberdeen Uaivereity, a
statement which, in his moss-elanainaties, he admitted
to be false. The learned judge sentenced him to twelve
months' hard labour.

In she ;se— S lleecl, the Italian artist, Mr. Justice
Keating decided that the prisooer's legal advisers
should have access to all the correspondence wide& bad
passed between hint and Mies Johnston.. Further, be
acceded to the application that the trial ebeeld he
postponed till the next sersion. Ward, the elect Is the
employ of Mews. Csster and Co., who was charged
with embezzlement to a large amount, was tried on
Thursday. The jury returned a verdict ot guilty, but
recommended him to mercy. Al there were other
count' against the primmer, sestinas was deterred.
Fextrot Caen or lerairrictrix.—One of the aunt
shooting eases of infanticide on record has been lately
committed at Solihull, betweea Harwich end Hinder
ham, by an old MOMIIIi, aged 83, and her arsednedbler,
a yowls women of two-and-twenty, the mother or Um
Poor victim. An inquest was held on Thursday, before
Mr. Hunt, coroner for the district, on the body et •
male infant, the child of Louisa itiobtina. The ire*
witness called was inspeotor Smith, of tha SollbeU
police, who said that, in consequence of information be
had received, he visited the house in which Louisa
Holding lived alone with her grandmother, at Rhoden,
on Sunday morning. In answer to his gustier the
young woman said she bad been delivered eta child on
the Friday night, that it had been hors alive, sad that
it had died, and the body WM upstairs. B. maul
her to fetch it down, that be might on it, upon whisk
she went up stairs. He stood at the hettem,
whence he could sce her take the body of a
child out of a box. She showed it to him, sad he
noticed that it was burnt from head to foot. Os hie
asking for an explanation, the old woman iota hies that
cinder had fallen on the child. She said that whim
the child was born she took it down stairs and laid it
sown on the hearth before the fire, and than. as she
felt very tired, she went to her bed, leaving the peer
little Woo on the hearth. She knew it was alive oe
she took it down stairs. He took both Sarah and
Louisa into custody, taking the former to the work.
house and the latter to the police *Wien. He bed
since searched the house, and bad found • piece of
tape, one end of which was covered with , on the
stairs. Another officer was Galled, and gave 'videos, at
a corroborative character. Mr. Lowe, surgeon to the
Solihull Union, said he had made a poet stortem soul.
nation of the deceased child on the previous_ day. He
found that the skin of the left side of the Uad, fete,
and neck was severely burned, as well as the left arm,
from the shoulder to the lacers. The front and
outside of the left leg and thigh were also much
burnt. From the appearance of the wounds I•
felt Atisfied that they had been inflicted during the hie
of the child. The bead, face, sad part of the neck pre-
sented a livid appearance. The child was a perfectly
mature and well-grown child, and the lungs were well
filled. The only noticeable thing that be found is
making the internal examination was that the brain
was very much congested. In his opinion the muse of
death was strangulation, iinmediately following the
infliction of the burns. The burns were ii, themlelves
sufficient to cause death, but not to cause that death to
be instantaneous. Tl3O coroner then summit up
againstbriefiyand ,
tliethjeurytwborowulbent i.nboatbreolietwhefo.".W.T. committed
"Wilful murder
'1
the ensuing Warwick Assizes for trial.

DREADFCL DEATH.—On Monday Mr. Payne held as
inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of George
William Cooper, who came to his death ander very
shocking circumstances. The deceased was in the
employ of Mr. Savage, Millpond Street, Bennoodsey,
oil merchant. On Friday, while standing on a small
cask, and to save himself from falling he caught hold
of • large oorboy of vitriol, which was standing near as
• shelf, and uncorked. The result was that the °whey
was upset, and the contents passed over his head, Dick,
and lower part of his body. He was oceeveyed to the
hospital, and attended to by Mr. Goddard, the Bargees,
but death put an end to his sufferings on
Sunday evening. The unfortunate youth had that
afternoon assisted in conveying to the hospital a child
who was severely injured by telling down and *attires
herself with • broken glass bottle. Anlhour afterwards
he was taken to the lame hospital himself. The jury
returned • verdict of "Accidental Death."
MELANCHOLY STORY. —A general court-martial is
about to sit., or probably is now sitting, at Gibraltar,
upon a case which has excited mach noise in that com-
mand, and is happily of so very unusual • elearaster is
Her Majesty's service, that we consider ourselves jag*.
fled in laying before our readers such particulate as
have reached our ears. It would appear that in the
second battalionolithe 7th Fusilears • series of robberies
had been going on for some months peat, and that
searcely an officer of the regiment bet had more or lees
suffered from this depredation. Watches, ring%
trinkets, purses, plate—in short, all articles of a light
I and valuable 'nature—disappeared in the most extra.
' ordinary manner from the quarters of the officers ;
servants without end were discharged OD suspicios.
but no clue to the thief or thieves could be diecovered.
At length Major Birtwhistle resolved to bring matters as
far as possible to a climax, and assembling the ofeeen la
the ante-room of the mean he pointed out the absolute
, necessity of solving the painful myetery, asd, by wa_ y ISt
example, proposed that • committee of officers thoeld he
named on the spot to search the barracks, commencing
with their own rooms. All preterit willingly amented,
with the exception of one officer, Ensign on
whom, as it happened, some slight sort of swipidsu
had already fallen, from an 0r017141 be had Meows is
discharging his servants, and offering personally a re•
ward a C5O for the discovery of the guilty parties. He
was most righteously indignant at the proposition, as 4
declared that his rooms should not be subjected to meek
an indignity. We need scarcely say that this opposi-
tion at once strengthened any floating idea sound him,
and Major ihrtwbistle, with praiseworthy firmness, at
once declared that the rooms should be at ones searched,
and his the very first. The ooinsiittes was at mice
named, and on persuading to the quarters of Ensign
- --they found In • very few minutes the whole ei
the missing property, to the value of no lees than
1:300, concealed in cushions, chair-seats, sewed up in
the ends of sheets, and in fact most artfully
Painful as were these revelations, they were as nothing
compared to the relief infused throughout the regiment by
the suspicions and unjust stigmas removed trots the
heads of many humble yet innocent people. There Is,
however, a still more distressing feature in the matter.
It oozed out, as things will ooze out when mese the
wedge has been inserted, that another officer had been
for some time past aware of the guilt of the culprit, had
detected him in the act of easing • ecourade of his
sovereigns, and in • weak moment of temptation had
been prevailed upon to take • part, as hush-money, and
keep the secret. He too is to be tried. Perhaps still
more extraordinary is the fact that since thew miser-
able circumstances became known • banker on the
Rock has produced a letter of credit in flavour of
Ensign -- amply supplying him with funds, so that,
should he prove tub, guilty, the temptation to commit
this evil cannot be imputed to the ordinary pressure of
want of means:
OILAT DESTRUCTION Or FARM PRODUCL—For seve-
ral hours on Tuesday—in point of fact, during the
whole day—the greatest excitemeat prevailed through.
out the usually quiet distnct. South Shwbury.in Ere:,
In consequeoce of the raging of • fearful fire in the
farm-yard of the premises belonging to Mr. Nappic, a
farmer, whose premises adjoin the churchyard of the
venerable sacred edifice. nie fire when first wen wee
ragirg in • rick of newly-stacked wheat, and owing to
the brisk wind which prevailed at the time, the flames
were driven into sundry other ricks, so that at last
there were not fewer than eight stacks of valuable farm
produce in a general blaze. Tlie redaction of the Santee
could be seen from all paste of the country, and im.
manse showers of sparks fell upon the church, to the
danger of igniting it. The military were quickly turned
out from the barracks with their engines, as well as the
local firemen, but the only supply of water that weld
be obtained was from a pond, which was found inade-
quate to extinguish such a vast body of flame, and boor
after hour passed away before the least impressiesi
could ho made upon the violence of the firs, except
that the military and local brigade were enabled, by
running great risks, in preventing the flames from com-
municating to two other extensive ricks of corn. B
Tuesday eveningthe fire might be said tobeoxtiaguished„
but the damage will amount to a considerable suns sad
unfortunately, Mr. Nappin was only partially theired.
Fortunately the church received not the least injury,
except from the smoke and heat. The fire it tte=
mimed was caused by some tramps smoking and
shelter from the wet on Monday night under the
stacks.
WHOLESALE LETTER STIALING.—A robbery of letters
on • stupendous scale has just been brought no light in
the General Post-office. Suspicion having been excited
against • letter carrier named Sullen, "the looker'
assigned to him at the &love establishment was
and the enormous number of 1,400 letters dissovered.
These letters extended back for a period of several
months, and many of (liens were on business, and con'
tamed important documents and remittances. It is im-
possible to exaggerate the gravity of an offence like this,
or the amount of inconvenience which it HMI 0001 MOS
YO a commercial community.—The prissier was
examined at Bow-street on Thursday, on a charge ed
stealing a letter addresisl to Messrs. Hankey and Co..
which contained bills and notes to • large ammo
Other charges were also Preferred against him, and tie
prisoner, who had nothing to offer in defence, was
committcd for trial.
FRIGHTTTh Due= BY DitsariKKlT.—On Wsdaullity,
an inquest was bald by Mr. G. S. Brent,deouty coroner
for West Middlesex Hosrpital, touching the death of
child named Sarah Brooker', aged four me", 4,1"
I with her parents at 11, Monster-Kum Itagent's Park.
Mrs. Brookery, the mother of the diseased, deposed
that in Friday afternoon, whilst she wail purling her
baby in her bed-room on the second floor, deceased and
another little daughter were playing together on
the bed. The head of the bed was by the side of the
window, which was wile open at the time. Soddenly
her attention was attracted to the open window, and
she was horror-stricken to see demeaned disappearing
out of the window. Witless *creamed and ran down
stairs into the street. where she discovered hers
child impaled by the sharp spike' of the iron :d •
from which she endeavoured to extricate her but
not. Some neighbours soon arrived upon the mew%
and thy haring soweeeded in extricating her, wiles",
promptly tails her to a doctor's, and from theses in •
cab to th• hospital, where abe shortly afterwards
expired. It occurred to witness that the paddies el
the bed to th• window was rather dangerous, sad abs
had removed the two children from the beggida.beare
the dreadful mishap. Verdict " Aecddental

A few days since, while Sir WiUim Whits, of
Carsgb Lake, was on • short shooting szenrsion on Si*
nsoustain range that derides Cilenheigi from Glesstar,
he feU down and suddenly expired, front disease ed th•
heart, tinder which be had been labouring for nuns Won
past:
One day last week • girl at Csrdevises, war
Carlisle, killed herself by taking phosphorie asst.. used
for destroying rata. Us alisuptid to Maas her
weal to asi as AA bad adat ow NI bp
/* ibe ail sat