The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-30 00:00:00

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THN man Haiti., who is 'append to haw, murdered
a commercial trAveller at Stricklay, in Shropshire.. last
November, bas been coo:omitted to take his trial on this
cayit...l charge.

AR Hngg,or TIMICE.T LTTIIIL• TOSE. —A large ri UAW tit]
of indeoent plates and books, amounting to about fire
tons in weight, bag been seised by the police in • house
in Ohlatreet, S. Lake's, London. It is understood that
the vile articles were the property of Dugdale, who is
in'nustAy, and bad pleaded guilty to their possession at
the Middlesex fieseious.

Find You CugnstO • Eciloot.dor's BAIL—Mrs.
Melbuish, • saboolmistresi of Exeter, warisharged before
the city magistrates on Tuesday with witting off the
hair of one of her pupils. The pupil, a boy, had • flne
curly head when be went to the defendant's echool, in
the morning; in the evening, when he returned h.me,
bin curls had been out off. Hi. mother neat to the
school, and dehndant explained that she had cut off his
hair from kindness, as ohs thought the child looked
better without the earls than with them. The mother
was of a differed t opinion ;it wee • great "piece of
impudence," she said. The defence was that the boys
heel was dirty, and therefore the defendant was
justified in what she did. The Mayor told Mrs.
' Melhuith that in cutting off Ito child's hair she had
done an illegal act; but as there did not appear to be any
malicious purpose the fine would be only dd. and costs.

Ail 111FUDNIIT AID LAZY VAGABOSM.—On Thursday,
at HudderaSeld,i Dyson Roberts, tripe dealer, was
brought up on a charge of baring &moulted Sarah, hi.
site—Mr. Leyooek : Are you guilty or not guilty?—
Prisoner : You can have it any way you like. That's
the answer I shall glina —Kr. Armitage: It's a very
impudent reply. You bey done yourself no good by
it. -Prisoner I care noWog about the goods. —Supt.
Withers : Be quiet.—Primmer: Yon cannot make me
be quiet.—Mr. Armitage: We shall order you out of
court if you an not quiet —Prisoner : You get on with
your writing, and give me some time. it, give IDS
ersough.—Complainant then began to state her case.—
Prisoner, interrupting, and addressing Mr. Armitage:
Get on with your writing and girt me enough. The
prisoner bed at length to be removed.—Complainant
then said the prisoner stood over me with an iron clog,
aad swore if I 'poke of work again he would split me
down the middle. He goes out selling tripe. When-
ever I rat him up he always drinks tbe money. Last
Monday night I borrowed 9a. for him. H. maid nobody
would set him up, and asked me if! would net him up
again, and I borrowed the money, and he went and
spent it all that day.—Mr. Armitage : He is committed
to prison for six months, and after that he must Ind
sureties himself in £2O, sod two sureties in Meath, or
one in L'lo to keep the peaces for 12 months.
BABY Loakester held two inquests
in London, on Wednesday, on the bodies of infants
that had died from the want of the natural rapport. In
the Irate..., the inquest was on the body of Willie's
Macey, aged 13 months, an illegitimate child, whose ,
mother is now an inmets of the St. Names workhouse.
Deceased bad been taken from the mother, and pat out
to purse at aa Id. a weed; but it became so ill that it
was taken to the workhouse, where it died of inflamma-
tion of the lungs. The medical evidence showed that
the child bad beware very much emaciated, and that
Its death waa aooslerated by the absence of the proper
nourishment from Its mother. In the second case, the
Inquest wail on the body of Frederick William Court,
aged 15 months. The hatarits of this case was almost
' the same as thorn in the other. The &owed was an
, illegitimate child, and the mother Is now in the work.
house. It was, before being admitted into the boo^
' put out to nurse at 4s. 6d. per week. When admitted
into the house the mother complained that it bad been
' nineh neglected and it was found to be in • very
' emaciated and dirty coodition. It died on the 23rd
June, within a short time of its admission to the house,
and its death had, as in the previous we, been
arnernrated tbroogb the want of natural nourishment.
The verdict in both cases was "death from natural
mums ;" and the jury expreseed their opinion that
death bad been accelerated by the want ol proper food
and attention.
TBB ABOOIIa OF LORD RAIIILAOR.—At the Ilari•
borough-street polices-court, London, on Wednesday
morning. Louisa Gould, an unfortunate, wee charged
before Mr. Knox with assaulting Lord Ranalagh.—Lord
Resselagh said: On Tuesday night I was walking along
Pkeadilly, when this Cowin mecosted me, and asked me
to give her some money. She said she was • milliner,
and that she had two little milliners, If I would like to
go and see them. I walked away, and she followed ms,
and again asked in. for money, aod on my telling her
to go away she knocked my hat off and my oigar out of
my month. The reason why I charged her was because
I thought that the next time else met ms she might
knock my teeth out. The woman is well-known at the
police-strnion.—Mr. Knox: Dose your lordship know
the prisoner?—Lord Ranrnagh : I have known bar for
about seven porno—The Prisoner: We have been on
the best of terms. I eon aware your worship. I have
been a good friend to you, Lord Itanelegh, when you
have been short of mosey. Although you are a lord,
you know you are poor. I met you lad night In
Piccadilly, and told you that you had forgot to remit
me some money you promised me. When I met you
before, you told me that yaw had been in Kent with
your ride oorpa, and you thee gave me all the money
loie had about you, half-a-crown. I have peen you
often, and been to your bolas repeatedly, and I am
surprised you speak to me in am way you do.—Mr.
Knox Prisoner, why did you knock lord Romanies
hat od I—The Prisoner: I was annoyed. I admit doing
it.—Lord Raaolagh : They say st the station she is
, well known.—Mr Knox : Is she known I—Barns (the
rioter) She has been several time, •bLz. wlth
drunkenness and disorderly conduct'. but eh*.
—Mr. Knox (to the prisoner): Whatever your previous
cease of complaint against Lord Ramilagh may be, if
you really have any at all,
you have no right to assault
him. I presume, Lord Ranrnagh, that all you rewrite
is not to be molested in future f—Lord Hanelsgh : That
I. ay object.—The Prisoner: Why do you not pay me
Lb.le. 61- you owe. It is not math, and you know
you owe it to Ulo.—Mr. Knox shall order Misprisions"
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