The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-18 00:00:00

Lain ant, erintt.

REMIT& —On Wednesday the authorities at Stafford
C.ounty Prison recJivoi a communication from the Home
Secretary. respiting the aentenee of death tossed on
Mary Brown. for the murder of her child, at Waiver.
hampten, on the 3rd September hat.

AN IMPODLNT 1310ANIRT.—nbont five weeks egos
journeyman painter at Liverpool, named Thompson,
married 'servant girl, and on Tuesday night be took
home another women, whom he cooly introduced as
fint wife. Thinking that the two women would settle
the affair amicably—so far as he was concerned—
Thompson went to a public house, but on his return he
was astounded at being given in charge of the police by
his victims On Wednesday he was brourht up ce
police-court, and committed for trial at the anises. •

SHOOTING AT A WITE.—On Thursday, at the South
Lancashire Assume, • collier, named kfolyneaux, was
charged with shooting at his wife. at Lipholland, near
Wipe, on the night of September let last. The
prisoner came home drank, and not getting a satiate°.
tory account a/ some money entrusted to his wife. took
up • gun and discharged it at her. She was not hit,
but he then commenced to beat her with the gun and a
candlestick, wounding her severely. He was acquitted
on the charge of shooting, but found guilty on a second
charge of unlawful wounding, and sentenced to eight;
mouths' imprisonment.

VslisLiVOßTlrli re BIIIIITIORAII.—On Thursday at
Warwick Arises Thomas Oraley and his wife were
charged with the raanslsughter of • man named Sullivan
In Birmingham. in July last. All the parties were
engaged in • drunken row on a Saturday night, and
while Braley was fighting with deceased Mrs. Orals,
came behind the latter and knocked him insensible by •
blow from • brick on the temple. Ile was also struck
on the head with • polker. if. died some weeks after-
wards from infiamation of the brain. There woe some
conflicting evidence as to whcrlber either of the fatal
blows was struck by Oralsy and not by his wife, and the
jury acquitted Mrs. Braley but 'returned • verdict of
guiity against her husband. Ile was sentenced to be
kept in penal servitude for ten years.

MORONI= FOR BRING A Tirrovst.cut.—The oauo
of William Henry Elmworth, who died at the London
Hospital, on the 21st ult., from the effects of injuries
received on the 9th ult., in the Whitechapel-road, in
consequence of his refusal to pay for some liquor, he
being a teetotaller—having been brought under the
notice of the Home Secretary by the National Tempe-
mince League, together with the recommendation of
jury that a reward should be offered for the discovery
of the offenders, against whom they returned • verdict
of manslaughter, the Homo Secretary has consented to
offer a reward of £lOO for information which should
lead to the conviction of the offender or offenders, and
will advise the grant of her Majesty's pardon to any
accomplice, not being the actual offender, who will give
such bilormatioa.

Tenets roe METIWIII. —At the Northern Circuit
Amine, held at Durham on Wednesday, Caroline
Freeman, aged ID, was charged with the wilful murder
of her illegitimate child, Leonard Freeman. The body
was found in the river Skryne, near Darlington. The
evidence, however, of the identification of the child as
Cho prisoner's was very defective, and the jury returned
a verdict of aoquittaL At the Derby A.else. the same
day, William Henry Wilkinson was charged with the
wilful murder of William Mills Itunnacue, at Dronfield.
Prisoner and deceased bad been quarrelling in a
house, when when a fight ensued, and it was alleged that
prisoner stabbed the deceased, as he called out Take
me up, I am stabbed," and died in a minute. The
prisoner was also seen to throw something away.
Several discrepancies were apparent in the evidence, and
after the ease bad been summed uy lengthily by Baron
Channel], the jury found the prisoner "Guilty of
manslaughter." His lordship, observing that the
preient was • sirloin ease, sentenced the prisoner to ten
years' renal servitude.

TIII CARR'S-RILL bIURDIR: EXTRAORDINARY CON-
DUCT IN Till COOL—At the Iturhani melees before
Mr. Justice Lush, Cutbert Redbam Can, 18, described
as • labourer, was charged with having, on the 13th of
April, wilfully murdered Borah Melvin, five yeassof
at Carr's-hill, near Gateshead. The case will -be
remembered as one of special brutality, the little 1141
hiving been dredfully outraged before she was murdered.
Prisoner gave himself np. He prisoner appears to have
been regarded of weak intellect since his infancy. Ile
had never been treated as an insane ponce, however,
and he had been apprenticed to serve his time in a large
glans mtnufactosy in Gateshead. On being asked
whether he pleaded guilty or not guilty, the prisoner
said, In it clear and distinet voice: I sin gnilty—(i'ensa-
tion).—The ju4sre directed counsel to ask him whether
he understood to what he was pleading guilty. Mr.
Blackwell; He says, my lord, thee he will continue to
plead guilty unless his father apologises to him for
having hound him to work in the g:assworks.--(tiensa-
tine). —lf Ids father apologise,* to him he will plead not
guilty. Prisoner I plead quilty still ; I have not
changed my mind. Bet if my condition, are complied
with, I will—The judge (interrupting); Are you aware
that if you persist in that plea! sell sentence you to to
hung? Prisoner: I plead guilty still, and will take all
consequences thereof.—(Bensation.)-11r. Blackwell :
lie would plead not guilty, my lord, if they apologise
to him for having bound as an apprentice. Prisoner
also demanded that he should be allowed to appear in •
snit of fustian at his trisl. The judge ordered the
evidence of two surgeons to be taken, who stated that
prisoner was not in • 61 state of mind to plead to the
Indictment The jury then held • abort consultation
without retiring, and the foreman afterwards ash!: We
Bei. my lord, that the prisoner is not in • condition to
plead, from unsoundness of mind. The judge: Let the
prisoner be kept in strict custody until her Majesty',
pleasure is known. The prisoner was then removed
frees the do* to one of the cells.