The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-17 00:00:00

lat anti Ctinu.

A NOTOI/3011 sumo Lea, John Osborne, described as
• whipmaker, was eon rioted at the Exeter miles.
Within two months he had committed nine burglaries
in the city and various pate of Devon. He was caught
at Tislgnotooth. A conatable pausing the shop of • Mr.
Haynes observed • light al bk• fanlight, and aroused
the inmates, when the prisoner wag apprehended. He
was well supplied with housebreaking implement..
Th. pri, pleaded guilty to • previoes conviction,
and Mr. Justice Blackburn sentenced him to seven
yam' penal servitude.
OOTIuOe TO • CHILD.—On Wednesday at St Rue.
tboloinew's Minitel, an inquiry wee held relative to
the death of John Hunt, aged four years. It appeared
from the evidence of Bridget Hail that the dammed
awrliehreiroadtiandp, Ndo". I, ItanWmaritesda-eourt,T lest she
wlbefiliehaimhe
went out en business. While out she was informed
that he was frightfully scalded and had been taken to
Ithe hospital. The next morning she saw him in the
hospital, and he told her that Mrs. Newell. tbe land-
lady, had put him in • pot of boiling water and had
scalded him. After bearing corroborative seldom's,
the jury returned • verdiet of Manelengliter 'saint
Mary Newell.

AN OUTRAGED WITL —At the Aylesbury Arises,
Ellen Cousins wee eonvioted of feloniously wound.
log E0101111Ticker• It appeared that the ~,,neeepia
end the hwibiiod of the pneonec were undisguieedly
carrying on an Whit intercourse. The prisoner saw
them one day in the window of • publinhouee kneing
one soother, aid this being more than she eonld bear
she rushed into the place, seined the proaeoutrix by the
hair, struck her with her lists, and, drawing out • knife,
stabbed her in the back so severely that the knife
which was left sticking in the bet& and wee pulled out
by the prisoner, penetrated the upper part of one of
the leap. At the conelusion of 1W ease his lordship
said that in reality the proeecutrix was worse than the
prisoner, and that he only wished there were manna of
punishing her sad the prisoner's husband. Sentence was
deferred.

I Tog irk' of it. Welsh Fenian' took place es
Thezeday at Romonso• wi.s, andlks Proooedinp twisted
• greet deal of interest The prisasers wore charged
with bolding moseidsgs at Merthyr, it whioh Pentaa
songs were stag, am/ diminish's' took picas am to tha
bast comons of siding tits soltalhod Fenian imovenwat ;
they were also Ghosted with acquiring the use of in.
stem by illegally &Mag. The prinaipal witness was
Petrick Coffey. wbol=ttbo widows be gays ea
the comma of the eastssititsl. Only Doran
and Ryan wen, fowl guilty, it. munsinisg eight being
acquitted. Doran was soatenosd to moves years' penal
wrists, and By.. to ire years.

Ideaserux Cass—At the Maidstoe• maims, T. Cam,
• sorjeant of tearless. • man apparently Dearly SO years
of age, was leafleted for that, on the tat of February,
be ualawfully did take, or came to be taken, ooe
Sarah Aldershey, • girl under the age of 16 years, out
of the pomomioe of her father, and against his wilL
The girl bad lived at Chatham with her father, who la
blind and a widower. Tim Primmer them ntadv
acquaintance, and was in the habit of keeping her from
home for several hours of an evening. On the night of
the lat of February abs was with the prisoner until
midnight in • peblio•house, and, on seeing boy father
some in 'web of her, she ran away sad remained out
all night. For the defame it was urged that there was
no "taking away" in tho toms of this status; and,
after • asrefel explanation by the judge of the law of
abduction, the jury acquined the prisoner.

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Tag DM/MIDIS Munnen.—At the Henninger
ail Tlinothy Faherty, a labourer, was charged with
thsenful murder of Mary Reamer. et Droyladeo, ol
Christmas-day. The prisoner was coasting deemed,
both lodging in the Name house. A disierreentent took
place before Christmai, and then Haiimer persisted ia
breaking off the match. This pre the primmer greet
umbrage. On the evening of Christroas-day he SSW the
deceased in the kitchen of the house. Whet took piece
is not known, but the landlady's daughtse wee routed by
hearing • 006 P, and the deceased ran into her bed-room
with her face bleeding. She wet followed by the
prisoner, who struck her on the Lead with i poker until
she fell down dying. The moment the crime woe con.
summated the prisoner pee utterance to the most ex.
trivagent proteetatioas of love, end fondled ai tarps
of the dead woman. He was found guilty, end sea•
tented to death.

Elirmin • Hoots ON Prin.—At the Exeter midair,
William Cain; Wigs Liberty Coins Kingsford, aged 31,
pm indicted for having on the 22nd of December, at
Mdeford, malioiously net fire to • certain dwelling.
house, with intent to defraud the West of England
Firs and Life Possuunee Company. It appenred from
the evidence that on the 22nd of December a house at
Bideford, belonging to the prieoner's father, who, as
well as the prisoner, was deck in the London Poet
Mee, woe discovered to be on fire, and upon an exam-
ination of the premises it was evident they had been
wilfully set on fire. The prisoner bad been men at
Bideford, and • hat and carpet bag be had with him
were found on the premises after the fire had been put
out, the carpet bag being full of shavings saturated
with yArsilln. While in custody of the polio* he eon.
reseed that he bad set the house on are, being
urged by his father to do so. The jury found him
guilty, and he was sentenced to seven years' penal
servitude.

SHOCKING YORDIII or • CHILD.—A yOGNI woman
named Frances Kedder has been sentenced to death
for the wilful murder of her step-daughter, at New
Romney, near Hythe, where the parties lived. The
prisoner had shown symptoms of hailed to the deceased.
who was abont twelve years old, on many occasions;
and on the 17th of August but took her out under the
pretence of going to a [Cr at New Romney, but return- at
home at ten o'clock at night wet through, with a state-
ment that she and the danced Wig bare frightened
into a ditch by some horses, and *at she bad been
unable to get the poor girl out. Tbeloody of deceased was
found in • ditch, where the water was not more than a
foot deep, and there were marks of a struggle on the
bank. It also appeared that the prisoner, although
bent upon so horrible a ponces, bad. like GilPla's wife.
" • frugal mind," and so compelled the poor child to
take off her holiday clothes and put on an old
hock, betides which she changed her own dress rugged
a
like object. The eviilenoe was so strong that the jury
do not appear to have had any difficulty in returning •
verdict of wilful murder; and the hard-hearted culprit
received her doom with perfect composure.

A BROGiII WHO DIDN'T LICH =NG GALVANISM:I.—
Charlie Brown, 31, labourer, teas &tuned before the
Lord Mayor of London with feigning its in order to
obtain slum. On Wednesday the prisoner promoted
hinted( supported by • snitch and dick. Hs skated
that he bad been permanently lamed through • fall
from a building. Bo well did be sot up to the character
be aseumed that relief was ordered, and be wee carried
Into an adjoining room to receive refreshment. But his
esteem at oourt made him reeklue. He ref mut solid
food, and called for brandy and water, which was duly
administered by an attentive policeman. Than he gave
several oonvulsive sighs, and rtretched himself oat in •
way which suggested immediate dissolution. He wee
med iately eon veyed on • stretcher loBt. Bartholomew's
Hospital, and when taken in appeared to be moire rigid
than before. By direction of the doctors he ems taken
into • ward, and laid upon • bed. A very short examina-
tion induced the dootors to believe that he wee an
impostor. He had stated that several ribs were !woken
la consequenoe of his fall, but or removing a piece of
stiekiug•pluter which was no his side it was found that
no ribs had been broken. During the examination the
prisoner pretended to be speeehlma. A very powerful
galvanie battery wee then brought. At the Int shock
the prisoner spniax up in bed, making free me of his
tongue. At the second shook be began **dress himself;
end at the third be walked off without Use aid of crotch
or ed.*. He was then taken into eustody. In reply to
the obe he admitted that he feigned illness, and
upraised him regret. He was umalsueed to 21 days'
linpriecesunt, with hard labour,

IMPORTANT TO norms Thrums Ann FerearDLT
floctrrres.—Williass Dodd. el, woe indicted et the
lianabestor melsea, beton Kr. //RAMPS Lath, for having
feloniously forged, on the 29th of August last, • osriuth
book, purporting to bo • banker's pam-hook, and with
having unlawfully uttered tho rase with intent to de-
fraud. It appeared that the primmer, in lila we. se.
pointed the treasurer al the Manchester Opentiv.
House-painters' Amociation, end held that Meerut
till Doconabor kat. On his appointment be had •
honker's pus-book given to him, temtaising an amount
of the deposit' to Yews. Heywood Brothers' beak to
the credit of the etielety ; but Is about a year or two
otter the appointment ho substituted and prodmeed to
the moiety another book, purporting to be the maisty's
passbook for the deposit, in the beak. Ws false book
showed the deposits were £899 lits. (which were the
forgeries), when really there was 05i4b929 is the beak
to the credit of th• misty. apprehended
and &arm/ the primmer replied, "I bad
the mosey, sad ham spent it, and there la so
law to roach me." H. the. misted to • boats of
laudanum by his bed-aido, and said if he had knows the
constable had berm coming he would hove destrorul
himself. Hia embezzlement" be maid mensieseed with
his lending a pinion 850 01 the moiety's money, and he
maid DOR repay It—Mr. Jones, who nos for the pi-
sonar, took es objeation, teaseled on the ruling in the/
ems .1" Hamby a. Close," ocetouding that In leer the
Operative Houmpeleimire' 80e1e17 had so existence'
beteg a society oxerabring Vowed in restraint of truth.
Sash • moiety NY illegal and, therefore, mum kayo no
lurid" in the bankers' hinds, and snob being dm ease
there could be so forgery.—Th. Joh, Bald the objmtion
was founded on on satire misapprehension of the ruling
in tho in.. quoted In the Court of Qunnei, Bomb. fn
that am the question was, whether nod., oaraidn off,
simonnnoni the megimeates bad summary moven under
the Frtem4Jy famietise Act, and the Court &aided that
se such am= an meaty under the
Friondir Act, the magistrates had no bah
powers. The feet of lb* moiety being a trades' union
woold bare no offset in shuteeg them out from justice,
bat usdombtodly it did shut them out from the benefit
al Moo Friendly 8001•U•S hen— Mr Jame asked if hia
knaskip bold that a porno otabeseina aim finny of anok
e satiety could be promemthil for ORSIMilig %dr nionn,
Tko Jar replied be had no such aii• hem htm but
tio had no doubt of it. Tim oaly thimg onmdgko
that ou ako roombase would ham to loin in the proem-
ik,n. They could mot sue under • muss m.law simply did DOR aids %reties union,4"rorteh spew,
was not indiotabla. It could not be enrolled so into
ham aerials bemodth under the Friendly flosietiee AM,
but its ambers were entitled to the rime protection
under the law as other aitisma The jury found the
prisoner guilty. 0. Woe thksa if be bad anything to
say, the prisoner with emotion said, tad lb. arum,
about leading CM, and for Ow hot 'II TRAM it has boom
the skeleton on the wall; It bee brought ay empe and
obildrao tolls* workhoues and me to a felm's drays." lb.
JottleoLesh, in 'entangling the primmer, said hi, ,„„
net ose of fraud Imply, but he had robbed his fellow
crimson, who had placed him in • position of trust of
:early all their available funds, subscribed bv them
during a number of years. Hs had robbed umin of
poorly £BOO. Now, no greater misehiM amid kappa
than that • notioo should get abroad that hee...,
society like this was a trades unite It could be
pleadored with impunity. The cam which Mr. Jame
had referred to simply
.decided that the societies eould
t slabs the moteMiou of th•bat they Frioodly &astir
wwre imusonnoebtbetor seetabe Pr°44Medillogal thaw" "
They barthey
wort not Any notion to the oammary was not
°Ely • mistaks, but would be a math evil, ma in ardor
to mow me am impression, and to mirk his high
mom" of the edam the prisoner bid commisted to dolibt
sol weB W Ire 71113' pogj Buy**.

EXTRAOIDEIWIT MALMO! CONIPMACT.—M the
&missiles polienemirt On Wednesday Mary kaa
Shaw was brought tin 00 velsead, *halted with having
sonspired to solemnize • marriage with • maa sot la
eastody, In which sa old men, dam demised, with
whom the sensed lived 61 'savant, warn pormited,
the object, damns, being to Obtain a_Perlios of the pro-
perty of the deodeoed. Theßev. W. IL Rill, yfloiabs.,
of St. Andrew's Church, Dord•sloi. BfriliallhaM, pro-
decod the marriage register, ia which wad recorded the
marriage of Mary dam Shaw with • person whom name
was spelt aa James "Briton," 00the 21s1 Feb., 1887. To
rltohtUntoe th.OlSto::l4"hbemotegernari.lasha'iivreg"lniti:thereedelefter..whwitchhomb."l:7"de thmawane
jenlw.tploltaßmawudied:Blotam.ntbsuign"ei7d4raPerian.b..!!itill:l:,:::l;
the corpse of the deemed lying in • wan, and
received • verbal description of him from Mr. Rasesel
Brittain, a nephew which did not at ell correspeed
with
the appearance of the person whom he bad married to
the prisoner. In ciroakesemination be staled that he maw
the feet of the demised when inlaid coffin, and they were
mesh deformed. The sexton of Bt. Andrew's Chun*
said that he was present at the marriage, and oew the
man make his mark. He went last October to Rtaaibra
Mill, and WY shown the eorpse of Mr. Brittain on the ,
bed; one of his feet was crunped up. He could not
remember to have seen such • men as him married in
St. Andrew's Church. The day before be went to
Stambrs Mill the prisoner and her sister oalled nOon
him in Landy.lans. Birmingham, and the frisoner
ordered two quarts of beer, which they drink, slier
which she dipped four sovereigns quietly into hi; band,
and told him that he must speak the truth about the
marriage. She told him she we. now • " widow
woman," that be would be required to give evidence
respecting the merriage, end that he might remember
that her husband had a lump os his forehead. In
cross-examination, however. this willies. prevaricated
Y greatly, excusing himself on the ground that " ha
s:cftt had been fractured." William Shields, who bad
known the demand for fifty years, said that is Dee.,
1866, the prisoner came to him and proposed that he
should go through a ceremony of nterriage with her
under the name of James Britian, bat be datelined the
Proposel The witness resembled the deceased • good
deal in personal appearance sad .111 about the same
I art Oa the morning when, Mr. Brittsin'disd he mat
the prisoner
it fraioner and h
the er h
r eller, tm adeadtbey began
to
upon whist% the prisoner produced • marriage
certificate, and, bolding it up to hint, lambed
significantly. He said to her, "Well, if you could not
get me logo through the marriage, you got somebody
' else" ; and the deter said "Yes, you would not do it,
but somebody else has." Is ,rem-examination this
witness admitted he had Ibsen twigs in gaol for drinking
, boots and Aghting. The prisoner made the proposal to
him to marry her in • liqaoralsop at fitourbridge.
Several other witnesses were called who had worked for
the deceased. They swore that he could only move with
didlaulty ; that it required more than one person to
help him to get into hie conveyance, on account of his
decrepitude; and that on the day of his allepd marriage
he had been seen about his own premise' every boor;
but the testimony of these witnesses. who Gould
" neither reed nor write,* we. much shaken, and an
edmiasion was extaseted from one of these persons that
after the alleged marriage the damaged had, with
assistance, walked • mile from Worcester station.
Samuel British, a nephew of the deceased, saM his
uncle " wrote welL" Ohs hitt billheada and in his hand-
writing the name wee spelt " Brittain," whereas the
entry on the register at the church was spelt " Brltoa,"
that baring been, however, written by the rector, sad
the parson really married making his mark only.
Further evidence was adduced on the part of the premo-
nition the whole showing • very peculiar oast The
prisoner now alleges that she is pregnant by the deemed,
sad alaints a further share of his property accordingly.
She was committed for trial on both charges—felony
and conspiracy.

Tan TorMIOIDZI TnAGlDT.—ltilos Wearer{ll was
rad cm Friday, at the Manama: rasa for the
murder of Jane Smith, at Todmordea PareonAzidn
Monday night, the 2nd instant The primate
not guilty. During the Urns occupied by the tensile.
SIM bited greet 'meaty, and at times there were esen
traces of sr ong emotion in his faoe. This was especially
so when Mr. Campbell Foster, in ensuing the ease for
the prosecution, annonneed that Mr. Plow was dead.
Great curiosity was manifested to catch a glimpse of
the prisoner. The people scanted to have expected
that his countenance would have afforded some indica-
don of the brutality of his disposition, and when he
mitered the spurt • murmur of surprise at his appearance
ma through the court. On every side you might boar
the expression, "H.'. • good-looking lad." Sault
Elisabeth Bell, the girl for whom the prisoner had eon-
°sired so violent en affection uto lead him to the
terrible crime with which he was °barged, was
examined. She appeared to be suffering very much
from dejection of spirits. It will be remembered that
Mile, Weatherill fell in love, as it I. called, with Sarah
Bell: • girl 16 yens of age, in the service of Mr. Plow,
the incumbent of Todmorden. He haunted the house
to an intent which became disagreeable, and forbidding
him not being enough, the servant ate: whom he came
WM sent home to her mother. Writing to Weatherill
from the neighbourhood of York, she put an
end to their engagement, though in affectioaate
terms. The disappointment of his wish'. he
chose to attribute to her master and mistress, and Jane
Smith, one of her fellow servants. Under the sway of
these feelings, and inflamed, u it would appear, with
considerable potation of brandy, he proceeded to Ur
personage, between 10 and II o'clock at night, armed
with a hatchet and four pistola. He knocked violently
' •1 the heck door, and Mr. Plow went to see who was
there. At once Whaberill snapped • pistol it him, but
it missed lire, whereupon the acorn attacked him with
• butcher.. The women **reline+ ran to time spot, and.
terrible tragedy ensued. But while using his deadly
weapons with. furious passion, Weatherill readily dis-
criminated between the intended and the casual victims.
He did his best to kill Mr. Flow and the partimalar
servant whom he regarded ad the enemies of his sweet-
heart, but he did nothing ti the other servant. He
forced his way into the bed-room, thirsting for revenge
on the mother, helpless and innocent as she was; but he
laid no hands of violence on the nurse or the child,
although one swing of his powerful arm might have
crushed them both. Jane Smith was shot dead, and
Mr. and Mrs. Plow would have been murdered on the
spot bad not assistance arrived, and the prisoner been
secured. Bat Mr. Plow died last Tharschiy evening
after the most distressing sufferings, from inflammation
of the brain, and the infant child born about three
weeks Won the outrage, has also died, while Mrs.
Plow remains in a precarious elate, When Erse
captured. Weatherill appeared to gloat upon what he
bad done, but an interview with his poor mother
seemed to 'often his revengeful spirit. He attributed
hia der to Mr. Plow thwarting him with his sweet-
heart, but be said he hoped Mr. and Mrs. Plow would
forgive him, and he hoped God would.—Mr. Ton, on
behalf of prisoner, said the only defense he °add
saagart was that the prisoner eoinniltkini the murder
when he was under the influence of homicidal mania,
and unaccountable for his setions The very atrocity
and magnitude of the horrible oriole was proof that the
prisoner's mind wasdisered when he committed it. The
number of weapons with which he had provided him-
self, the alternatiorui from the wildest passion to the
gentlemen@ of • child, whir he showed daring his pro-
Deeding, in the home, were proof that he had not gone
about the 00111Illialiall of the Grime in that cool and
deliberate manlier in which a MD* man, who had
resolved to commit a murder regardless of coosequenoes,
would have sooducted himself. The Judge gummed up,
and the jury, after two sainates Mfteretlion, found the
prisoner pulty.—Mr. Justice Leah, otter seaming the
bleak sap, addressed the revise as follows It would
have been a dadorsige Wag if the jury bad listened
to the segments whisk were &domed on year behalf,
sad acquitted pat ca the ground of inanity, for Isr
see no tittle of evidence from the beginning to the end
that your mind was ever effected further than any
man's mind end will are affected by cherishing bad
and vindictive passions. You her, been most
righteously found guilty of • minder which,
In lie accompaniment; Is almost uarrallieled in
the history of area It looks llke a murderous
onslaught of a wild savag, rather than of • person
brought up and nurtured in civilised life. How
many will be the victims of your outrage Is not even
yet swertanted. We know that two have died, soda
third, I believe, Is in peril. For that crime you must
die. You have forfeited your life to the laws of your
soantry ; but tbe law will not deal with you as you dealt
with your vietims. You will have time and o
for repetition. and I pray you to nuke aseTirt.4,7i vi
the ails that will be allael you ; and I Prey also that,
by Divine pas; year Merl may, adore you are
launched into otiosity, be whetted to down
repentance. The Jades than pond santowas I. the
statutory form. Wheelie our to the sloes he said,
"And I say it in ell sincerity, may the Lord Isar mercy
upon you r The convict, who had grad steadily at the
judge whilst sentence was bang pronounced, but
appeared ensured, was then tale hem Meal.