The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-08 00:00:00

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TIAInLICAL OUTRAGL UPON A LADT.—The Irish
'wipers are filled with detads of an extraordissary and
inhumes outrage which was perpetrates! un the Mil town-
road, Dublin, a few days ago. The Again Preemie's
Journal save :—" The young lady, who iN about nine-
teen years Of ago, is a governs-ft in • respectable family
in the neighbourhood of Bailor, and has but recently
come up from the country. On the evening of the 271.1.
nit. she and her brother seem spending the evening in a
friend's home in the city, and shortly after ten o'clock
1..1u. they left, and he escorted her as far es Lower
Sackviilii-street, and there placed her in a cab, having
missed the 'bus which proceeds to liatlmar. He told
the driver the place he was to leave her, and then pro-
m:tided to his own residence, which is in town. Instead
.if proceeding as directed, the cabman drove to sonic
distance beyond Classon's-bridge, in the constabulary
district, on tile road leading to Dundruni, pulled up,
and ordered the lady out of his vehicle. A fearful cud
continuous struggle ensued, during which the lady fell,
and the ruffian mule another attempt, but fortunately
failed in effecting his villainous purpose. In the
struggle the lady's clothes were literally torn intoribbons.
By the most courageous and desperate effort she ulti-
inately succeeded in freeing herself from the grasp of the
monster, who in his vindictive ferocity, bad beaten her
most unmercifully, blacking both her oyes. and inflict-
ing several injuries on her head and face! She implored
mercy, bet he was deaf to her entreatise. It may be
right to state that the place where the desperate struggle
occurred was on the road, about half a mile tom
Classon's bridge. At either side of the thoroughfare
there was no sign of • human dwelling, and no help for
the poor outraged girl. When she succeeded in getting
loosed from his gripe, and saw no hope of succour, she
fearlessly slashed into the ditch and scrambled through
the hedge into the field. At the other side of the ditch
there was a deep dyke nearly filled with mud and water.
Into this she fell, and here the ruffian followed her, and,
seising her by both hands, sought to force her back on
the road. He groped her by the throat, and all but
strangled her in the struggle which he made to poil her
by main force back to the roadway. Failing in this
effort, he Artie attempted force, but just at this moment
the horse began to move off, and the ruffian re-crossed
the ditch and ran after his horse, which by this time had
moved several perishes away. Finding her assailant
gone, the poor girl, fearing to go towards the road where
he was, moved into the field, end on hearing him return
with the cab, sod stop nearly opposite the place where
she first crossed the ditch, lay down in the open field,
hoping thereby to escape detection should he coins to
look for her. As she anticipated, the ruffian did come;
and, after a long search, heard her breathing, and thus
discovered where she was. Again he renewed his
violence;and again the heroic girl struggled with success.
At one moment she felt her strength failing ; and, by
on almost superhuman effort, while prostrate on the
ground,alie gave him a kick, which, fortunatelystriking
him on the stomach, amused him to reel backwards. He
seemed stunned for an instant, and, though weakened
by her unequal contest, her presence of mind never
forsook her, and she resolved to avail herself of the
momentary disability of her brutal foe to make another
effort to escape by flight. In the darkness of the night
she rushed through the field, and had just scrambled
over another ditch when she heard her assailant in
permit, uttering the most fearful imprecations. She
gained the other side. but before she could get out
of the dyke he again seised her. This dyke, too,
contained much water, owing to the late heavy
rains, and, contrary to her fears, lie was less violent,
and endeavoured to persuade her to get into the field,
promising, if she did so, to drive her in safety home,
and not to attempt again to molest her. The instincts
of a woman here mine miraculously to her aid. She
appealed to his manhood, and, reaching him some
money, said, "There is your fare, go leave me." Ile
took the money, pretending that ho would desist, but
continued to press her to leave the dyke and go with
him to the cab. Her instincts told her that the monster
felt that standing in the ditch as she then was. parleying
with him, and more than knee-deep in water and sludge,
she waa comparatively safe—an instinct in which her
judgment joined when she saw the anxiety he mani-
fested to get her to leave that position. She was,
however, immoveable, and at length said, "Well, if
you go before me I will follow." He did go, and she at
once left the dyke, but instead of going in the direction
of her enemy, she fled with all her force across the
field in the opposite direction. At this critical moment
the horse again became restive, for she heard the noise
of the cab in motion, and to this she attributed the
fact that her assailant no longer pursued her. The
poor lady then wandered listlessly for • time in the
fields, not well knowing what she was doing or where
she was going, owing to the darkness and her own
exhaustion. Attracted by the lights she moved towards
the railway, and in this way arrived at the quarry, and
fell, fortunately at a sloping part, though
not far from the centre preCpice. We may here
explain that the second field into which she escaped Is
the field • part of which was " quarried " for the
purpose of procuring stone to build the railway viaduct.
A slight barrier protects the edge of this quarry—she
got over this barrier, and not knowing the danger which
was before her she ran onward, and was, as a conse-
quence, precipitated with great force down • depth of
twenty-five feet, Fortunately • portion of the fall was
broken by the gradual slope of tome earth, which had
been thrown into the excavation. On partially re-
covering herself she toiled up the embankment to the
railway, over which a train had actually past while she
was lying maimed and bruised in the bottom of the
quarry. tilie went along the line of rails towards the
station, when she inch Mr. Healy, the station-master of
Miltown, to whom she said in th.., most piteous manner,
For God's sake send seine female to me." The wife of
the station-master was in prompt attendance on the
injured lady, who was reduced to the most lamentable
condition. The appearance she exhibited was truly
melancholy. Her eyes were black and swollen, and her
face, limbs, and body were all bruised and cut. The
remnants of the lady's clothes, which hung upon her in
wet muddy raps' were taken off, and she was provided
with • bed at the station for the night." The detective
police of the G division are still nicking the most
strenuous efforts to bring the perpetrator to justice.—
The DeLlie Meriting News of Thursday says :—Not-
withstanding the most strenuous efforts of the detective
°Moen, the cabman who stands charged with the out-
rage on the young lady at Milltown, on Friday night,
has eluded their vigilance up to the present. The poor
sufferer continues in • wretched state, It is found im-
possible even to change her position in bed, so 'veers
are the injuries which she has received. We have
much pleasure in stating that the carmen of Westland-
row, &wet-Crest, and Sackville-street stands have
spiritedly subscribed amongst themselves the sum of
CLS, which they offer as • reward for the prosecution of
the miscreant who perpetrated the outrage. Amongst
the entire body the greatest anxiety prevails 17 trace up
the villain who committed this gross and unmanly act.
An aggregate meeting of all the city stands was held
on Friday evening, when measures were taken to obtain
some clue to the matter. The Government, we have
been hiformed,have offered • reward of tlOO for histappre-
hotelier, and the Irish Volunteer Society LIO for the
seine purpose.

Bayous am 110 Cong.—On Monday the bong».
gation of St. Nicholas Church, while assembled at
Divine service, were disturbed by • great noise of
shouting and rioting going on in Evergreen-street.
Constable Hoof ord and =oiler policeman, who were in
the church, hastened to the scene of the disturbance,
and there they found a large crowd assembled opposite
two housee, which some men were actively engaged in
demolishing. and from which the inhabitants had been
obliged to fly. It appeared the not hail commenced at
eleven o'clock on Saturday night, and was the result of
a quarrel between the inhabitants of the houses and
their assailants. At the time the policemen came up,
the latter had broken • hundred and twenty panes of
ghee, six pairs and • half of sashes, and three-and-a-half
pair of shutters, besides other damage done by them.
Two of the parties engaged were arrested and taken
before the magistrates at the polioe-oflice, when they
were remanded, while stops were being taken to render
the others amenable.—Cork Examinee.
FLoonixo or Morrie IN COUNTY ANTalle.—From
the immense quantity of rain which fell on Friday
night, several of the rivers in county Antrim have
overflowed their banks, and covered a great deal of the
country in the neighbourhood. The river Main, over
which the Northern Counties Railway paases near Bel-
lathy, rose very high on Friday night from the great
ram, and overflowed its banks, the strong current
carrying with it corn, hay, or any other crop which
had been cut, and was lying in the fields near, On
Saturday and Sunday men and women were busily
engaged in trying to save, by means of large nets, as
much as possible of their crop, which had in this
manner, become almost totally lost. Potatoes and
turnips were altogether buried by the water. In some
eases, where the flood cause near to a dwelling-house,
the inhabitants had to resort to boats. tle Friday
night the River Dann was also flooded by the heavy
rains, and the river near Coleraine was reported to
have risen higher than it had done for eleven years
previously. A great deal of grain was likewise lost in
that neightionrhoud. One farmer is said to bare bad
upwards of 100 stooks°, earn swept away. The loos to
the fanners at both places will no doubt be very heavy.
—Norther4 Daily Whig.
" FAMINR IN TIIR LAND."—Such is the alarming
heading under which the Ccak E.caininer directs public
attention to the defective harvest of the present year, I
and the ravages of the potato blight; and it appoers to I
be admitted by all persons qualified to pronounce an
opinion on the subject that we h ire not had such •
"hi.ul year" since '47. as there is now before us. After
referring to the adversities of former seasons, the ,
.ff.rominer says :—" Why do we allude now to what
hal-lew-1 so many years since? We answer—as a
warning. So long as it was possible for us to be '
sanguine, we were sanguine—so lung as we could hope,
we did liolmo ; but, alas we are neithor sanguine nor
hopeful now. In every rain-hid:it blast that howls over
our hills, and rushes through our streets, we hear •
TM,* crying out—' Prepare I—Prepare in tune!' We
know that the harvest already gathered in le • abort
harvest; and we know, too, that the scanty crop which
bard, patient induatry raises on tint inuuntaiu side, and
off our ' cold' lands, is now being drenched by the
' rain and tossed by the storm, as vain attempts are ivado
to secure it. And, woe for our poor country ! we see
how desperately its people cling to • fragile amid treadle-
' roue root, in spite of the raining. which Providence
has vouchsafed in annual blight. In some few instances,
or even districts, the potato is thie year of as good
quality and as abundant as it ever was in 'the good
old times.' But the rule is the opposite. Generally,
the crop is seriouvly injured."
ANUTUES VicrlN OW A FACTION.—The Mantel
Chronicle %ay, that two or three days kiln* a fair was
held at Emly, and a men named Callihan° attended,
with wine friends, to do SUMO trifling business. He
remained until a late hour, when, on returning to his
boom, some miles diatom° from this village, which has,
unhappily, a turbulent character. he had to Yuri
through seine fields; and in onumany with a person
named Conners, lie was making his usual "short cat"
to his residence, white he was savagely way-laid by •
party of three or four men, who, it would appear, belong
to the Three-year-olds, and lay in waiting thus to
murder Callthane and his oompsnions, who were asso-
ciated with the opposite faction. The former tried to
maps and ran across several fields, but be was followed
and beaten about the head with • heavy loaded whip.
His head was extensively fractured, and when seine
neighbours who happened to be pining about the time
of this brutal asseult came up they haunt hies lying
senseless in hisi gore. He was removed to • farmer's
hoods lima by, add thus hs died go the following day.

lie wu brought home, an inquest held, and • verdict of
wilful murder was returned against sonic pcnoiss
unknown. We trust the murderer may soon be aimm-
heuded.