The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-26 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCIS.

A 0111 L SNOT It/ PLAT.—Botween three and foot
o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, • boy. about twelve years
of age, theses of Joshua Sykes, a Osman, in lieaton•
rood, Huddersfield, was playing in the yard at the rear
.4 the premises with • cop pistol, when a girl, named
Einnia Thornton, daughter of Joseph Thornton. •
weaver, passed before him, upon which he said to her,
"Get out of the way, or I will shoot you." The girl
di.l not hear this, and tho pistol went off—it is said
secidentally—and the contents bit her on Use cheek
about half art inch below the eye. The report of the
pistol was heard, rod the girl taken home close by.
Hellasrell, surgeon, wiu culled in, and extracted
from the wound, which is about the size of • halforuwn
piece, a portion of Lard paper Riede up somewhat similar
to the cod of a cigar, and which had taken • downward
tendency toward., the check bone. No shot, however,
was found. Ti,. usual appliances in such cases were re-
sorted to, and the poor girl, on inquiry, was found (eke
going on as well as could he expected. The boy Sykes
lii. been apprehended, and awaits the result of the
effects of his foolish act.

ARRTITT ST • LONDON DRTICTIVI AT MAI.TA.—A
robbery to A large extent was lately committed In Eng-
land. The articles stolen consisted of optical instru•
nests and jewellery, the whole being the property of a
Mr. Weil, of London. SIPpiCIOD falling on two French-
men, who had left England for Malta, a telegram WAS a
few weeks ago sent from London to the local authorities,
1 directing them to arrest the two suspected persons on
their arrival; and as a warrant of arrest was necessary,
Sergeant Tanner, of the London detective police, arrived
' at Malta last week, provided a ith the warrant of the
, Colonial Secretary of State for their arrest. On arrival
they were immediately arrested, but on examination
one of them was liberated, and the other detained, and
omit allortly be meat to England for trial. The mune of
the person detained is Charles Mohranp. Optical in-
strument, and money were found in his possession, the
whole momunting to about £3OO.
DRAIN THROUGH CRINOLINIL—OR Wednesday even•
log, Mr. Langhoun, the deputy-coroner for Westminster,
held an inquest at the Westoniuster Hospital, upon the
body of Mary Anne Winterbotham, aged twenty-two,
servant in the employ of Dr. Allen, Great Dertford•
street, who died from the effect.' of frightful injuries
occasioned by her clothes catching fire on the previous
Friday. Tlie jury returned a verdict that deceasecldied
from the effects of being accidentally burned, and tiny
added, they could not separate without expressing their
loon-or and disgust at persons whose household duties
required them to do with lire, persiating in the use of ,
crinoline, and they expressed • hope that the present
case might act as a warning.
ACCIDINT WITH • PISTOL—A short COW Sinai OA
accident of a serious kind happened at Eccleshall, to H.
Clewlow, • boy aged about eleven years, by the acci-
dental discharge of • pistol. The youth and several
°impatiens had been amusing themselves by letting off
the pistol during the day, and afterwards, thinking it
was not loaded, ii. putiit into his trouser's pocket with •
cap on, half cocked, and the bermb upwards, when
shortly afterwards lie somehow snapped it in his pocket,
and the pistol went off, lodging the contents in his left
side. As Won RS the accident had occurred the little
sufferer rank° the house of Mr. O.J. Greatrex, surgeon,
distant about WO yards from the scene of the occur-
rence, when he was immediately conveyed home, and
every assistance rendered. The wounds are of a most
serious character, and, although every possible attention
is being rendered to the boy, it is feared the case may
terminate fatally.
Waller, the murderer oof the gamekeeper near otley,
WAS amorehended on Sunday morning, about four o'clock,
on a farm near Eldwick, a abort distancl from Rum-
bolds Moor. He was concealed in the barn of a farmer,
and had to be dragged from his biding place. He is
described as having been very pale, and touch shrunken
in body. He has since been committed for trial for
wilful murder.

The coroner's inquest on the body a Mery Anne
Reeve, who wee murdered by her half-brother, in
l)rury-court, Strand, on Friday week, was held on
Tuesday. Thu evidence disclosed the existence of a
very unhappy state of things in the family. which in-
duced the jury to couple with their verdict of wilful
murder against the prisoner the expression of their
opinion that "he had been hardly treated by his parents
and the deceased."

Mary Newell, the servant girl who, after robbing her
master, assumed a male disguise, and appeared in the
character of • lost young man at Great Yarmouth. waa
re-examined at the Westminster police court, on Tues.
day. Two other charges were preferred against her •
but as the evidence was not ofa character likely to lead
to a conviction, they were not proceeded with. Mr.
Bury Hutchinson, who appeared tor the prisoner, slaked
that she might Le admitted to bail. and argued that bar
conduct showed her to be • person of une•und mind;
but the magistrate would not eotertain the application,
and she was accordingly committed to prison, there to
await her trial.

At Bristol, on Saturday. T. Sheckell, formerly a
woollen merchant in that city. waa coiumitted for trial
on the charge of obtaining goods by falai pretences from
several Yorkshire firms, within Circe mouths of his
bankruptcy.
lutelligenoe has arrived at Liverpool of the loss of the
Alin. Msritana, for Boston, on the Sall Rock, shout a
mile coat of the Boston Light. Twenty•seven lives were
lost.

ATTEMPT TO POISON • WOMAN.—AA the Liverpool
Police Court, on Mourlay,a charge was made of attempt-
ing to commit murder, by adroaniatering a quantity of
French or Spiiniali flies, preferred against a man uanied
Quinn, described as. ship's carpenter'. apprentice. The
prosecntrix was a married woman, mooed Catherine
but whose husband had deserted her for eleven
years. She atated that Quinn some time ago made pro-
posals of marriage to her, but was rejected, though he
continued to visit up to Saturday. On Saturday he
brought her atone Eccles cakes, but fancying one tasted
Tel), " queer," she would not eat it, and the prisoner
tl.en endeavoured to get it from her, but she managed
to secrete a portion of it in a jug, and upon submitting
it to an analytical chemist, it was found to contain
sufficient antliarides to destroy life. Mn,. Culling
became very ill after eating a portion of the cake ; and
Ur. Jones, surgeon, who attended her, deposed that
the syuiptoms under which she was labouring were
thou producable by taking cantharides. The case was
remanded.
SUNDAE EVENING ROBBERY AT BRADFORD—On
evening, while the family were at a place of
worship, the hon.e of Mr. Joseph Illingworth, of No.
12, Landsdowne Place, Little Horton Lane, Bradford,
was entered by thieves, and rubbed of two gold watches,
two silver lever watches, • gold brooch, and 10., in
silver. 'The value of the property stolen is estimated at
more than £lO. The family had apparently been
watched out of the house. A gaslight, left burning
within, had evidently created seine doubt upon the
point, and, in order to test it, • atone had been first
hurled through one of the windows. An entrance had
been effected through the staircase window at the rear
of the house, which had been reached outside by ascend
Mg an outhouse. A pave of glass had been broken to
reach tilt fastening inside.
ANOTHEII MILITAST MURLIKR.—A shocking murder
was committed at Corfu, on the 26th of last mouth. A
soldier of the Ist battalion 9th Regiment, Private Chad.
wick, allot Corporal Donollan, of the male regiment. It
was a case very similar to that which occurred some
time back at Aldershot, when • private soldier, who
bad a grudge against a non-commissioned officer, loaded
his rifle and shot him as lie was sitting at a table read.
lug. In this instance the unfortunate corporal was in
his lurrack-roodi. stsinling up on his bed, arranging
some of the thing.; in the rack which is fixed above it,
when Private Chadwick entered, and without even rais-
ing his rifle to his shoulder, discharged the contents into
his side. The munlerer was immediately secured, but
the unfortunate victim, of whom at first hopes of re.
envery were entertained, expired in the greatest agony
after lingering for two days in the hospital. The imam.
diate cause of this horrid crime was the award of six
days' confinement to barracks, to which (711adwick bad
been sentenced by the officer commanding his regiment,
for insubordinate conduct to the corporal. Corporal
Donollan died on the morning of Monday, the 28th.
The same day an inquest and court of inquiry were
held, and the general court-martial, which sat en the
39th, aentenced the munlerer to be hanged. This
sentence was carried into effect on Friday, the Bth inst.,
ou the South Parade, in the citadel of Corfu.
SHOCKING 1)15•TH Of A SIIMINGH•M GENTLEMAN.—
A few evening.' since a frightful accident happened to
Mr. Dowell, chemist and druggist, Digbeth. It seems
that the unfortunate gentleman, who bad just arrived
at the Hatton Railway elation by the s.fid train from
Stratford, wu stepping out of the carriage while the
train was in motion, when his foot slipped and he fell.
I He by soine means or other got beneath the train, and
the wheels musing over him, severed his band and foot
I from his body, and otherwise mutilated him in • feerfu
manner. He was examined by Dr. Melson, at Bor-
desley, and afterwards sent on to Birmingham, but he
expired on the way. On his arrival at Birmingham lie
was conveyed in a cab to the General Hospital, where
his remains now lie.—Birianvkain Poe.

THI POST-OFFICE STAFF.—FrOIn the reeently.pub-
liaised official repoit of the Postinaster.General we fiod
that the number of persons employed in the General
Post•olfice on the 314 December, 1960, was as follows :
—Postinaster-Geoeral, 1; secretaries, 5; other superior
officers, 19 ; surveyors, 14; postmasters, 11,4 V ; clerks,
1.1.14; n.ml guard. and porters, 195; letter-earriere,
messengers, kc., 11,899 ; marine mail officers, 7; total,
23,192. Besides these, 22 persons were employed in the
colonies, under the direction of the Postmaster-General,
and 69 in foreign countries, making in all 25,292 officials.
THZ CoVINU WINTIR.—AN Eisorie TO NOBLI•
MTN.— At the annual meeting of the Meeks and
Walker's Institution, Slaithwaire, held on Wednesday,
under the presidency of the Earl of Dartmouth. the
noble chairman in the Donnie of his remarks said he
wanted to speak more particularly to those with whom
be was connected on his estate in that district. He
feared that in all probability • season of distress, he
hoped it would neither be sharp nor long, was in prospect
for the canning winter. All he could say wan this, that
be should be ready when called upon to listen to any
appeals that might be made to him to enable the
I winking.men of Slaithwaite to thle over that penst of
distress, by doing as, by tlis advice of his agent. Mr. F.
Tliynue, he had dune before, viz., by instituting inch
I works as might be a benefit to the niece, if listen ad-
vantage to himself. (Loud e) He did not
pledge himself to any particular work ; he formation,
or reconstruction r repair of any particular road. All
he said was that he 'should be reedy to listen to any
appeal for asaislance that might come before bus, ; and
: be trusted that be should he enabled by a due eon.
sidereliou of that app, al to give some relief to the
distress with which it might please God to 'tat that
oolong other maoufacturiog districts: He was anxious
to do that, no as to preserve comfort and happiness
among the families of his tenants, for he knew the
ble.sinp of the English family system, and the great
evils resulting Irma it. interruption in any way. He
did not utter these words with any political significance
whatever, for he should introduce no political subject on
: that occasion; but he would venture to say this inue.b,
that those happy families, which in all claret were tke
comfort and happiness of Englishosen were • very groat
guarantee for our national stability as;d national happi-
ness. (Cheers.)

A municipal joke 6 related to as which took plies in
• locality doe north. The hero 6an upholaterer, and a
...try luminary. He vu defeated by • majority of six
chner vestry luininariee, whereupon he bad their soaks
suds and sabibitad in his shop-window cia wook.

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EITSAOSDISAIT Mitevoitamor Or firtacm.—MrAllllll
UnJerwood, sou of Mr William Underwood. cif the Feu
Inn, Baiter Gate, Loashboirmigh, joined tie Marie*
Artillery shoot Nineties years ens, sod In Fels=eisek
went abroad. H.,.5 selsed witk an MUM of
'loch took away hie speeds, mid every Alert 111,hliC41 Nk ill could devise was tried to meters him, but without success. Ile returned Ismise &beet OM ULNAS
since, quite dumb. On Monday last, Weaver, feed
of sport, he went out Asides in the mighbenthessi
Lonhborongli, and hod not been at Um watersidit...amez
ISIOUtra before he caught two small babes. finF
otter this he succeeded in booking a large pi,,d'y
after a long time trying to get it ashore, it
made a bolt, breaking away hie line, and ha, of omen,
loot his fish. He felt so mush enraged at this that he
aetually in a stuttering manner uttered aa ezellaneerise.
Believing it to have been some ens behind bins wise bed
spoken, he suddenly turned mad bet Gould see assess
and therefore came to the pleasured)", onselesion Mei
it must have been himself. He put up his rod at ass,
fell down on hi. knees, thanking God for Use haw
release he bed ex perimsoed, and then made the bast el fie
limy home. Feeling is delighted at the thought oLuti
able to talk be used his tours* very freely to
all the way. On mining at home be fell into Liu
mother'. arms, and cried out he a bent of sicstalie
orj; " Thank God, I can talk."—Notrissgem
S.rpryst.
THI °SLAT EASTIII.--This roost I. sow
safely moored at Milford Have., where she hes
torily ridden out the recent barite gales. Me is die-
charging bet coals into vessels almeside, to imisten the
eonit letion of which, relays of mess are at work day cad
night, on that she may be placed on her gristliest of
Neyland (prepared for ber porposely when eh* ember
there) with all possible dispatch. Every imarsory pre-
paretion is being made for speedily effecting her repaint,
to expedite which, even the resources of the royal desk.
yard are readily afforded. The (swanning bin. sew
mender pays to Milford Hamm are of Gm most 'Mister
tory description. Ile is delighted with its capacity, ite
security, and it. remarkable facilities el egress sad
ingress.