The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-11 00:00:00

Lm anis &hut.

A BROXICnr( NUMMI la reported from Romford, where
the body of • own with hi* throat gut hag been dis-
covered in theriver Rom ; his hat, battered end corned
with blood, aril hie umbrella, having been previously
found on • NM by the railroad at some distance.

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AN ISTAITILE lIIICENDIART.—Ai the Lincoln
Amines, a boy oan.ed Hobson. aged ten years, pleaded
guilty to aettitg nec to tam stocks of atom, worth 1.3.50.
at Swallow. dr. Karon Channell deftnd Dentine* to
see if the In/ weld be got into a reformatory.

New Queitten COUNAZL.—The Lord Chacellor
srPoitiled the Mincing gentlemen, members of the
Chancery hai, to be Queen's counsel :—Bei.jsenin
Hardy. Esq.. Henry Cotton, Esq., J. T. &bombers,
Erg., K K. Keslake, Km., John Pearson, F.eq., Cieorge
LiuhtiSeq., Seorge Druee, q., E. E. Kay, Seq..
Francis liosbu-gli, Seq.
toseanut Ws% a ency —An Wednesday at the
Winchester gainer., John Jsmiceon was indicted for
wounding Chalk. Hoskins at Southampton on the 12th
of October. bile Hoskins was sleeping in • public.
boner, dominos beat him about the head with a stick,
inflicting highk lissigerous injuries. The jury found
the prisoner gulty. and the judge sentenced him to Ave
rim' penal servitude.
Tat ease of Sr. Leonard Edmunds was before the
Court of Chanary on Thursday. He had been called
upon in the acgon brought against him by Attorney -
General, to reeler an account of all the sums received
by biro as "ale tk of patents" daring thirty-one yean.
Hr. Edmonds tad already employed an aoeountant to
make out this return for his own purposes, audit having
been printed, audication was made to allow him to pet
In the larinted rheum/int Instead of a written sebeditle,
which to the cuatomary form. Their lordships jive
penniasion.
ALLEGED Prajigy DT POLICINZW. —An application
ws• made on Teensy to Mr. Justice Shee,'"in Coauthors,'
on behalf of Barr; and Hayes, the two policemen lately
tried for perjury it the Central Criminal Court, for •
writ of certiorari ts remove into the Court of Queen's
Beach • further intinment against them for oonspirieg
together, by committing perjury, to procure the eons- ,
initial of two young men, named Dye and Pearce. No
objection was offered, and the order was issued accord-
ingly. 'be trial, it is expected, will come on in Feb-
ruary neat before the Lord Chid Justine and a 'penal ,
July.

Maxi,. Awn
Amine., Enoch Marta was indicted for wounding Elisa-
beth Corooran. The prisoner had been courting the
'Warn( the prosecutzix, bat had been discarded by her,
very much &plait his wishes. On the morning of the
4th November, while in a state of intoxication, be went
to the house of the promentrir, armed with a hammer
and a reser, and after an altercation with her and her
sister attaeked her with the hammer, knocked her down,
and broke some of her teeth. Fortunately be was pre-
vented tudng the razor. He was found guilty, and
sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.

Tan GONOOOIOII OP COMPOSITION DRIDIL-Bome
startling disclosures were made in the London Court of
Bankruptcy on Thursday as to the way in which eine-
poeition deeds are sometimes concocted. A bankrupt,
tamed William Hopkinson, made • clean breast of it,
and admitted that in the deed which he had attempted
to carry through, many persons weft put down for
amounts which he did not owe to them at all, or which I
were enormously in arson of the actual liabilities he
had incurred. Altogether the list contained creditors
for £1,6.41, although he only owed BOOB—the object.
of course, being to trump up a flatitiotul settlement, and
to sacrifice the interests of the real creditors. lii, to
be hoped that the registrar will give effect to the indig-
nation which be expressed against the authors and
*bettors of this scandal, and male a judicial example
of the most guilty.
ATTIMPT TO moans A SMIGIANT OP MAIMS ON
BOARD THE DONIGAL.—On Wednesday evening, about
nine o'clock, on board her Majesty's ship Donegal (the
coadinardship at Liverpool), a private of Marines,
Thomas Townley, Bred his rile at Sergeant Urquhart,
the senior sergeant of the marines corps attacked to the
ship. The bullet pased.elose to the ear of soothe;
man, and then took off the tip of Urquhart's fore-anger
and, crowing his lip, deprived him of one of his mous-
taches, then passing through the breath of the gun
behind Urquhert, was flattened aphid the iron.
Iminedistely after the report Townley stood forth and
maid, "You need not look ; lam the man who did it."
He was at mat' seised and plead In irons. One of the
men heard Townley say, "I did it for revenge for
stopping my leave this time twelve months ago." A
report of the affair has been forwarded to the Admiralty,
and steps will be taken for the prisoner's trial.
CHILD BORDER IN Worxnumirrox.— At the Staf-
ford aasises on Thursday, Mary Brown, 22, was Indicted
for the wilful murder of her female child. On the 21st
of August tart prisoner was admitted into the Wolver-
hampton union, where she was confined. She remained
until the 3rd of September, when she left, taking with
her her child. On the 25th of September the body of
the child was found. The skull was fractured, and that
injury seems to have been the muse of death. The
prisoner was subsequently charged with murdering the
child, and replied" I did do it; I deal deny ii; the
devil tempted me." She afterwards admitted her
guilt to • fellow prisoner, adding that she did not kill
the child by fracturing its skull, but that she strangled
It whilst it lay on her knee. The jury returned a
verdict of Guilty, but recommended the prisoner to
mercy. Mr. Justice Bytes passed sentence of death in
the usual form. The condemned woman did not main.
feat the least emotion at heariug her doom pronounced,
end left the dock with an unconcerned face.
TR" Phrttn BURDICK AT PORTERA.—On ThaniaL at
at the Winchester Ambles, before Mr. Baron Bramwell,
Caroline Clements U..nt was charged Wltb the wilful
murder of her Infant child. Mr. Beethani. with whew.
wee Mr. Ledirard, were counsel for the prosecution ; and
Mr. Montague Here, with whom was Mr. Bullets,
defended the prisoner. The evidence went to prove
that the ',limner threw Um child into the mill dam,
where it was found dead. She confessed to her deter
that she did it, and asked if she would be hanged. Mr.
Way, !surgeon, was cross-examined at some length, the
object being to proved that the child died before II was
put into water. Mr. Way adhered to his opinion that
death was owned by drowning. Mr. Montague Here.
In an eloquent speech, addressed the Jury on behalf of
the prisoner, who, he raid, was • more child of 16 years.
He urged that the prosecution had failed to prove that
death was caused by drowning, and &mid that the
crime had been brought home to the girL He appealed
to the jury to give the prisoner the benefit of any doubt.
His lordship summed up briefly against the prisoner.
The jur7 retired, and after so absence of fifty minutes
returned into court with a verdict of Not Guilty.

COIVICTION Or • MORMON BIGLIMIT.—At the Win.
cheater Assizes, Paul Harris wee indicted for marrying
Emma Lewis, his first wife being then living. The
prisoner was married at Bury, Lanesehire, in October,
1840, to Mary limber and again in the name of James
Herbert to Emma Lewis, • widow, at Poplar in October
1866. Emma Lewis said *boat eight years since she
was told that the prisoner wee • married man. Bhe
soused him of it, and he told her that the other marriage
was a Mormon one. The prisoner wee a Mormon
preacher. He had used her very brutally. She had
three children by the prisoner. She pretended to be •
Mormaa, but never was one. The first wife had some
to their house in the isle of Wight. When the witness
same back and found the other woman she took her
children and went away, but the prisoner declared it
was a Mormon marriage, and she then went travelling
with the prisoner, Irving the children in the care of
the other woman bemuse she had no mesas of support-
ing them. The prisoner, in his &hook said that he
end this woman had lived together as man and wife,
aDd they west through a mark maniage to please bet
father. The jury found the.priaosur guilty, sad be was
sentenced to one year's Imprisonment with hard labour.
AN Fa/arrow 8n.t...—1e the Court of Exchequer on
Wednesday Lord Itanelagh wee sued for £913 41. by Mr.
E. Letchworth, attorney, of Enfield, for expenses in
connection with his lordship's candidature for Middle-
sex, in the Conservative interest, at the general election
last year. Lord Itanelagh was • candidate for Bodmin,
but left that place at the bidding of the Carlton Club
to contest Middlesex, It being understood at • meeting
of leading Conservatives that the party would find the
money. This, however, they subsequently failed to do,
and this skims was brought.—Mr. Berjessit Ballanthie,
addressing the jury for the defence, said Lord Ranelagb,
whom means bad already been shaken to the centre by
this election, felt it is duty to appear in court In order
to set himself right with the public, because his
character had been seriously affected by actions of this
kind. Lord Renelagh had been left to bear the entire
brunt of the affair. Eli home had been Invaded by
sheriff's officers, and he had been heated from pillar to
poet by those who were in reality the creditors of the
party who put him forward as a candidate and had now
shrunk from their engagement.—Tbe Lord Chief Baron :
Unless you can show that &Minot solids was given to
the plaintiff that he was not to look to Lord i
personally for payment, the plaintiff is entitled to
verdict. Yon have yindieeted the charm/ter of Lord
Itanekigh, and shown that be has not recklessly exposed
those gentlemen to expenses and liabilities. Indeed, all
who know Lord Ranelagh would readily suppose that
he would do nothing of that kind; bat that is
immaterial to the defence. Ido not know whether the
jary teke the same view as I do of the matter. —The
Forams : We have all some to the same somelasica.—
The Lord Chief Baron : Then I must dims* • media
for the plaintiff. I hope that Parties between all the
parties wild& cannot be done her...., be done out of
soork—Verdiet for plaintiff for amount claimed.

Common ova Powassair ii DITiLDI. —On Thurs-
day, the action brought by Dr. Sweeny against • police
Gather named Quinn was brought to a eonolesioa befogs
the eommistioner of Oyer and Terminer in Dahlia.
The hate of the ease may be gathered front the state-
ment of the plaintiff, • respothaldir medical proptitioner
of Dublin, but it should be stated that about the time
the oesurreees took plots the Dublin polies were arrest-
ing every loom woman they Gould lay their hands upon
In the city. Dr. Sweeny; "On the 3rd of
after spend* the evening with • friend, I was return-
ing bowie through Neseenotreet, my wife on my arm,
when Quinn sprang upon us from • place of aniesel.
meat and caught my wife by the right breast, and me
ilvnareldt shoulder. He asked in an imperative kW,
are you walking with that young woman? I
mid huntediately, 'You scoundrel, s my wife; let
her go.' I struck him with my en the left arm,
with which be wee holding my wife. He intutediately
let her go, and jumped past me into the street. I
followed him, and me him two blows with my cane, as
hard as I souk VIVO him. I threek hist on the seek.
Hy wife was trying, sod I returned to her end took her
arm again. I wanted on with her about ten passe.
Prisoner then mute behind me and fought me by the
&thy portion of lb* emu samiag me groat wain. kir
wife homed= sprang into arms, arying and
the traverser that I wee Dr. Sweeny.
and that I lived at No. 1, Lineele-pbtot. Re mid I
should go be Nal stalies4eate—tket I .malted
My wit* idled to me mot to forathe her on the street.
I told him &MI maid go to tie daticerbome as soon
se I new my wile home. He eadesosered to take we at
once, but I raided bin end also four other constables
wits ems to lb eatistemee, end ultimately they allows
um to take my lab Mee& I them went quietly with
them to the dation.* The nest morning Dr. Sweaty
wee bed El by the mejeireto lot earehhei the elm

ad he at ones illSkitUtOd 'llO present wiles. Tim y
found him frailty of a common assault, but tho proeren•
to.r did not mu for poni.hm,nt, and the traverser wu
d im:diarged.

TRAGIWY IN BVIKX1111111.• -For NOMO jean rat an
attractivelne,king young woman, named She., ham Ind
a very diesolute Id, at Newbury, and for a Gond-terrible
period she cohabited with • journeyman butcher,
named Martin. Fte conducted himself very badly, end
and was committed to Reeding gaol for • brutal assault
on her. lie recently returned to the neighbourhood,
end on Tuesday Hells wee seen drieking with Slane at •
publicehrium In the lows, Shaw being in coniprany
with • man 101111104 Fri C, .ho aftenrapti at C 1.1110. it .1
her to her Mime. At an early boar on We Meal.,
luorn:Og Martin Vrell,4 1..11.130 DoiaLbollre of Slilie• a lid :
inquired if they did not hoar • row in the hones led
night, and replying Is the affirmative they caprewied
their belief that he knew something about it. After ;
'hie he walked away, and theesuspicione of the neigh.
boors tieing aroused, the house of Shaw was entered and
the bedroom presented a Mettle' specteele. The un-
fortunate woman was lying greatly di-figure I and quito
dead, and the man who had been seen is her company
the previous night was hmod in • dreadful stele of
suffering. The murderer had evidently used& butcher'.
implement and battered tibew's hied in a merciless
manner, and it wee clear that the poor creature had
done the best to defend herself with her hoods aa
of her fingers were chopped of. Her paramour's bead
had alm been beaten about, and the surgeons who were
called in estracted several pieces of his Ault. He died
on Wednesday night. It appears that the murderer.
;after convening with the neighbours this morning, went
to • public.linum, partook of • 'lase of boar, and then
walked to lineeme, where he took off room of his clothes,
and haying tied his legs, jumped into the Kennet and
I 111,04 Canal, his body being found mon aftereards.
' Priest had letely come to Newbury to conduct a beer-
house for his brother, who had been committed to gaol
for some offence. The worn= Shaw was a very bad
character, and had been in Reading gaol on envied
emotions for robbery. Didurbeness at her house in the
night time had been so frequent that the neighbours
did not notice the cries of "My fled! My God !" and
other seises which were made in the cottage early on
Wednesday morning, when the shocking murder wee
being perpetrated. Os Thursday afternoon, the inquest
on the body of the murderer Martin was held. The jury
returned a verdict of fclo,de se. In the evening, the
inquiry into the deaths of the murdered prostitute
and bee paramour, Elia Shaw and Edward Priest, was
opened, and 'eve& witnesses having been called, the
jury returned ,a verdict of Wilful Murder against
Martin.