The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-15 00:00:00

BLA NDFORD.

On Saturday week an accident happened to a man
named Ocorge Collins, who, while teniling a thrash-
ing machine on the farm at Blandford St. Mary, be-
longing to Mr. Nutheane, cut might by the spindle,
and before the horses couril be stopped he was very
severely injured. His clothes were torn completely
off; his arms were much crushed, and the upper part
of his body and face were covered with bruises.
Prompt medical assistance was rendered by Mr. In-
gram, surgeon, under whose care he is now progress-
ing favourably.
On Monday week, &meeting was held at the Town-
hall, to haw the Bishop of Brisbane state the wants
of his diocese. 11. Ker Seyiner, Esq., NI. P., in the
elmir. There was a large and influential audience
which quite filled the ha, and among whom were J.
.1. Farquharson, Esq.. anti Mrs. Farquharson, the
Bev. Hart, the Rev. J. Watts, the secretary, and
many of the neighbouring clergy and gentry with
their ladies. Prayers having been read by the Rev.
J. Watts, the chairman briefly introduced the
Bishop whodelivered a very interesting and humour-
ous.adaress, which was frequently intemipted by
expressions of applause on the part of the audi-
ence.

F. Johns, Esq., is chosen Mayor—a gentleman
whose professional experience will, in conjunction
with his other personal qualification, doubly fit him
to till the office with advantage to tha interests ofthe
borough.

Ek/ROCCH POLICE, Monday, November, 7.—(lle-
fore the Mayor, and J. S. Danielle,
Barnett. who had been in the lock-up since Satur-
day night, wan charged with being drunk and dis-
orderly that evening, and assaulting and obstructing
the police in the execution of their duty. P.C. Pen-
tium and Coward, borough policemen, fully proved
the offence. The Mayor fined the pruoner
14a. Q.

THE ASHCOMBE MURDER

.4 PPREHENSION of the SUPPOSED MURDERER.

Information has been received that the suspected
murderer was apprehended on Thursday evening
last at Hythe, opposite Southampton, by Sergeant
Cook, as he was about to leave by the packet for the
latter place. It appears that intimation was re-
ceived by the constable about four miles distant
from Hythe; that a "curious talking man" was seen
in the neighbourhood. Upon this the constable
made inquines, and found that a man had purchased
a coat ()Flinn, without buttons, for is. The officer
then traced the suspected man about four miles, and
came up with him just as he had paid his fare at
Hytlie for Southampton. He was immediately ap-
prehended and placed in the lock-up where he was
searched, and in his pocket was found a book printed
in the Spanish language. Information was sent to the
Wilts constabulary to attend to identify him. He was
tn be taken before the Hants Magistrates at the Union
House, near Lyndhurst Road Railway Station, on
Monday (yesterday) at 12 o'clock. It appears the
! route taken by the culprit after committing the
horrid deed was over the downs to the river Stour,
which he must have crossed, then over the Blandford
or Crawford bridges, then again following the down
across the country to Dole's Ash, near Piddletren-
thide, where he was seen by a labourer named
Green at 12 o'clock on Friday, the day after the
murder. To this man the prisoner disposed of a
pocket handkerchief. To another man, named Saint,
he sold a fustian waistcoat, when it was remarked
to him that the things offered for srde were wet,
which he accounted for by saying that he slept
under a stack during the rain. The prisoner was
then traced by the police into Purbeck, where at the
clay pits at Church Knowle, on Monday afternoon,
he divosed of another waistcoat and a neck scarfe to
a man named lotteries, who gave him 2s. for them.
Ile then, it appears, slept in a stable near the engine.
house, and left early on Tuesday morning, after
which all trace of him seems to have been host.
On Thursday Smits. Itaynton and Harris brought
down I:eorge Trowbridge. the husband of the mur-
dered woman, to the Warehain Police Station, where
he sins shown the waistcoat in possession of Supt.
Eeles, which he at once identified as belonging to
him. The apprehension of this man will he a great
relief to the officers and men of the county police,
who have been unremitting in their exertions to
trace the villian ; but it was not till Wednesday that
any description of his person could be given, as he
was not sum by why person near the scene of the
murder.