The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-07-20 00:00:00

Vampobirr.

ACTION VMS SEDrelln..S.—At Hants assizes, before Mr.
Justice Blackburn, in Herineorcy v. Doering, Mr. Collins
was for plaintiff, and Mr. Fr!Marti for defendant. —Mr.
Collins said Thos. Hennessey was the plaintiff, and
Dronysius G. A. Dowling the defendant; and the
declaration charged the latter with having debauched
plaintiff's daughter, whereby he sustained injury ; and to
this defendant pleaded not guilty; secondly, that the girl
was not defendant's servant as alleged—ln this case, Mr.
Hennessey. • tailor, of Bournemouth, sought to obtain
damages against Dowling for having sedumd his daughter.
Defendant Bien in Abchurch.lane, in the city of London,
and is the son of the proprietor of one of the London
newspapers. In Ig7i, for some reason or other, defendant
was sent to Bournemouth, and stayed there !several
months. For sours time he sought, on various o-casions,
to speak to this young woman, who at the time resided
with her fathe.. She bad nothing to say tohint for along
time, but defendant continually followed her about, and
at last made some sort of acquaintance with her. He made
her a ',resent of some ribbons or something of the sort,
and the acquaintance continued for some weeks, during
which time defendant succeeded in reducing her. It was
soon found out she was enceinte. At defendant's request
she left her father's house and went into service, but she
ratne lack to her father's house again, and stayed there.
Defendant made some proposal as to what should be done
with the child, which she refused to accede to, and then
told her father all the circumstanres. She was then sent
to Itriswl, and placed ins home where in September she
was confined, but the child only lived five or six weeks.
As the jury knew the action was brought, not by the girl,
but by her father, to recover the expenses of confinement,
and to recover such damages as they might think tight to
compensate him for the vexation arel trouble he had been
put to.- Witnesses were called to gut etantiato this stater
mentof facts, and Mr. Folkarl, for the defence, contended
that this was simply an attorney's action to extort money
from his client, and that the father had sustained no
damage whatever.—His Lordship having addrested the
jury, they returned a verdict for plaintiff—claniages £lO.

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TERRIBLE DEATH BY LIGHTNING.
While Nicholls Woodman, • young fanner, was riding,
on Sunday afternoon, at Hanlon Bridge, Northumberland,
by the side of a gig, in which were two ladies and a gentle-
man, a severe thunderstorm came on. Mr. Woodman
was slightly In advance of the gig. when he was struck by
the lightning and killed upon the spot. The horse on
which he was riding was also killed, as well as the bore
In the gig. The left side of Mr. Woolman was terribly
burned, and his coat, vest and watch were consumed. The
occ
lipailt4 of the gig were not butt
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IRISH BREACH OF PROMISE.
At the Monaghan assizes an action was tried to recever
LOU damages for breach of promise of marriage. The
plaintiff, Anne Curtis, a saint-looking young woman, stated
that she and the defendant, Luke campbell, lived within
• short distance of each other from their childhood; they
had been courting for some time, and in June, 1571. defen.
dant promised to MY ry her ; in esirriekniacroin in August,
1572, he repeated his promise, and asked her to run away '
with I to his uncle s house, an his father, who was in
better circumstanees than plaintiff, could not otherwise
be brought la consent to the match; she did so, and in his
uncle's house that night he, in the presence( the whole
family, said he would marry her if he Ilia not get •
shilling from his father; next tiny his father came and
kicked up a tremendous row, saying Is! would never allow
plaintiff to get his sins; sin the day after this both parties
went to their several 'mines ; defendant's father died in
Fehruary, 1574 and defendant again said he would stlarrY
her, list he had to wait for a year out of respect to the
memory of his father; she commuted, but when the time
had elapsed he 111410 other exciasen for postys ' g the
wedding, and ultimately went furtively to another parish
and iitarriisl his cousin, who hail been a servant girl in the
house. MI father was • " strong" fanner, and hail left
his son In comfortable cirrunistances when he die.L The
jury found fur the plaintiff, damages SAW.