The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-09-01 00:00:00

Someroctsbire.

ILAILWAT ACICIDUT AT TIIIIPLICOMEL —The South.
Wtstern traffic was considerably delayed on Friday in
consequence of a portion of • goods train having got off
the line daring the morning. The immediate oanse of
the accident was the breaking of an axle while the
train was in motion, which caused • lot of trucks to be
piled one on another, and several to be turned over •
high embankment. Considerable dare gi wad done,
"d n lugs staff of men well. had frow YOOVii
satisbury to clear the line.
ISUICIDS AT UPIIILL.-00 Monday morning n mu,
named Silas Godhy, living at Uphill, near Weston-super-
mare, committed suicide by hanging himself. The
deceased, who was • married man and the (milord fear
children, acted in the capacity of postman for the
district, which appointment he had held fore period of
nearly 40 yearc. Some few days since it appmrs that a
sum of £lO was misted by the Post-office authorities, and
the:money having to pass through deceased's hands,
beyond which it could not be traced, suspicion naturally
, , • ,n Friday last
.onday morning
• r new his hone,
. him, when, to
Ate suspended to •
,

. • MUTILATION Or THE
Wednesday, at Taunton
polio, court, Lydia Reed, • young woman, 18 years of
age, kitchen maid in the service of Mr. Anderson. of
Henlade-house, Taunton, was charged with concealing
the birth of her illegitimate child. On Sunday morning
• labourer, whilst passing through Mr. Anderson's
grounds, saw • bundle in a pond, and on beginning to
ripen it be saw • baby's hand. Ile flung it beck again,
and went for a policeman. Shortly efterwards Mr.
Anderson's gamekeeper saw the bundle and sent in a
dog after It. On opening it he saw the body of a child,
and Hung it In again. When again taken out, the head
was falling off, and the arms were unlacing. Suspicion
fell upon the prisoner, and she confessed as follows :
The child came before its time; I did not expect it
soon; it was born dead. I was KO Very ill that I did
not know what I was doing. I tionfessed becanms I
would cot for all the world lot any suspicion rest upon
any other female. My mistress had baby linen in the
house." She was committed for trial at the Musts
assize, 1869, but was released on bail.
A MILANCHOLT Occuituzzee took clue at Vevey.
lake Gencia,on Saturday. The Rev. T. N. Irwin,rector of
Chas-lynch, Somerset, weet out, accompanied by his who
and children on • boating excursion t Byron 'a Island,
the day being fine and the lake calm. On their return
the find suddenly gut tip and the waves became high.
Tho boat, springing • leak, soon filled and capsizod.
I Mr. Irwin kept his wife afloat till be became exhanetisd
and insensible, when ,he dropped from hie grasp and
was drowned. Two little boys, aged ten and eleven,
save] themselves by swimming and laying bold of the
oars, while the eldest son' Mr. De Vera Irwin, who is a
good swimmer, got hold of both his sisters; but the
lel teat, her dress being caught in the wreck, was drawn
under Cm boat, and be, in diving to extricate her, was
obliged to relinquish his hold of the younger child, aged
five when sheaank. The survivors, coil and perishing
in the darkness, had quite given up hope of escape,
when they saw a light in a bout bearing down on them.
They were rescued, and received into the house of •
I resident, where they were treated with the utmost CAM
rand tenderness.

FATAL ACCIDYNT ix WESIOII•SUM-MARII BAT.—
About one o'cloek, on Thursday, a pilot boat WA I dis-
cerned off Birnbeck with a colour flying. The boatmen
' pr.-sumed that she wanted a boat, and Stephen Lower.
1 with a companion boatman, John Hookey, put off
towards her. When about La'l way the pilot signa/led
to them to go beck, which they immediately attempted
to do. Unfortunately, however, in wanceuvering the
, boat she WAS taken by A heavy see and eapeised, both
men tl.rown out. liecikey struggled for some time with
the as, which was running very high at thn time, an
ancceeded in catching an oar which was floating past.
With this he reached the boat, which had again righted,
but which was nearly gunwale-deep in water. With
one hand be endeavoured to keep the water from rising
in the boat, whilst he kept her head right with the oar
in the other hand. He thee saw Stephen Lower Kens
six yards away endeavouring to reach him, and heard
him exclaim " For Cora sake, save toe." It need
scarcely be said that in a water-logged boat, and with
but one oar, Hookey could do but little to roach hie
siukiny c iturade ; before, therefore, he ootild approach
the spot, Lower had entirely disappeared. Subsequently
his dead body WAS found.