The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-11 00:00:00

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SUICIOR WITH PIICSKIC ACM. On Friday evening
week an inquest WMI held at the Bush Hotel, l'ortse.,
before Mr. J. Cover, respecting the death of I /r.
Engledue, a well.kuown usedical practitioner there. The
evidence proved that the deeea :ea had poisoned hinisel
with Prussic acid, and the jury returned a verdict that
he had .lone so while in a state of unsound wind.
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CitihmtEN's Tors.--It Ia curious to remark the
changes which take plan: from one year to another even
in the toys made for children. Thus it appeani that at
present the pneumatic pistols, which were the it, light
of our juveniles last year, and were manufactured in
such vast numbers as to raise the price of zuuc, hive lost
all their vogue. The sale of drums, too has greatly
Peace SeClllll in the ascendant now with
children as well AS their papas. Scientific plaything%
are all the rage at present.

I;UrIcTKAI;VT Ix INDIA.—We regret to learn
from Kurracliee that a horrible tragedy took place there
on the 27th of November, in which a moodier of the
press 1... s I.een a pro. ll ill ent actor. A correspondent writes
under date. 2.4 th of November :--" About 2 o'clock on
the morning of the 27th., Mr. !lease, the j • t proprietor
of the Sinolietie Prrox, was arrested by the police in the
town of Kurrachee. on a charge of murder. It would
appear from what 1 he heard of the voe that, a few
minutes before the time mentioned, Mr. Mane was
iisrakeited by the cry f his infant, and was surprised to
see that his wife was Hot in bell lie imuiuiiemliatcly
aught for her, and saw that ale was walking with Mr.
' Foster, the vakcel. Mr. Iteaso returned to his below..
an.l procuring a double-barrelled gun, deliberately shod
both of the delinquents. Mrs. Mews° died from the
effects of the wound. Mr. Foster is iu a precarious
sta.e, but hopes are entertained of his recovery."—
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Sion:ioril, Dec. G.
THE PoLICEMAN'S " The vast
superiority, as a 'mans of alarm, of the whistle intro-
duced by the chief (xi:citable for use by the police in
c.thes of suildui emergency over the old rattle, which it
has supemiled, was proved in the case of the attempted
entry into the shop of Mr. Stainton. Directly constable
Mitchell had seized Foster he blew the whistle, .which in
piercing shrillness surpa. sea the legendary horn of Robin
as the bold outlaw %widens' through the green
glades of Sherwood Forest iumking " the wash; ring."
The sound of the whistle iaam distinctly heard by the
two °Ricers on the two beats, and they at once,
at full speed, ran towards the spot indicated by the
I, and arrived in an aluioot incredibly short space
of tinie. Of course the stillness of blight, when the
confusion of sounds which mark the hour of business
Activity lois cesseil, would favour the distinctness of the
wound of the whistle ; but that it will largely contribute
to police efficiency there can be no question.
CoNVETANCE or RAILWAY TRAIN:4 lirrwEEN
[OWEN AND CUAIE. M. Fruinage, of Darnetal
(Seine Inferieure). propose; to complete the communi-
cation between the railways of England and France by
'swans of very large steamers capable of conveying •
railway train across the Channel. On the arrival of a
train at Calais he propiises that it should he run on to
Limo deck of the steamer. secured, and conveyed acro.s

the Channel to a basin in Dover, where lie pnbpoges to
run the Fren,la train on to the EuAlish railway. and
send it on to London. The return train, on its arrival
at Dover from London, he proposes should he run on to
the deck of one of those large steminis. secure.l i.e its
position, and nenveyed across the Channel to Calais,
where, by
111C41111 of certain apparatus, it could he
landed on the French railway, and conveyed by 10c.,.
motive power to Paris. He considers this uncle of
railway co tnication practicahle, easily ace 01,6.1
at a moderate cost, and far superior to any scheme

having for its object the construction of • tunnel under
the sea, or a tubular bridge over the Channel.
MELANy .1' DEATH or A Yisess:
melancholy accidentoccurred at the Norwich Dispensary
on Saturday evening. resulting in the death of Mr. ,
Alfred Dowson, a gentleman 22 years of age, who had I
been officiating during the last few slays for his brother.
Mr. Arthur Ihswiesn, surgeon at that institution. It
seems that the deceased t‘esic what lie fancied was manse
tincture of orange peel, hut which really proved to he
tincture of aconite. The unfortunate young man min- '
read the labels on the bottles, one being marked" Tinct.
Aurant.." and the other "Titict. -Aconite." After
making the fatal mistake he ate sonic supper, conversed
cheerfully, awl retired to rest, but he hal not been bug
in bed when lie human self in such pain that he dis-
turbed the eststilisliment. Professional assistance MAO
promptly at 1.1141, Ma was rendered in vain, death Won
ter 11l ill ating the suffering* of the slece/ised. At an
inquest held by Mr. W. Wilde, city coroner. the jury
after hearing several witnesses. returned the following
verdict:—" That the deceased took some tincture of
aconite accidentally and by mistake, intending to take
sonic tincture of orange-peel."
Deetiesse 1/Y En liti.tTiU I a 18514. —The &pmts.
of every branch of trade, which formes! the 1110ilt gloomy
COlllinercint feature of the past year, is too widely known,
and its effects have been to generally experienced, to
render it necessary that we should make any reference
to them here. The shipping trade especially has been
in a state of semi-stagnation, which has brought a large
number of vessels on the market and into disuse. In
looking for the causes which have created these to,.
fortunate results the attention is naturally directed to
the emigration statistics fur the twelve isiontlis just
ended, which oli inspection. reveal the startling fact that
in this important branch of the Liverpool trade there
has been a fulling off in the ti 1111 l ber of emigrants to the
cattail of one-half, as compared with the numbers of the
preceding year ; awl the numbers of that ye ar were
small compared with the returns some five or six year.
Ago. We tilAt the number of emigrants who left
:Tool during the past year in vessels which Mlle
I Wider the Provisions of the Paiusevers Emigration Act
I W. 711,40 i. against 141,0*, 2in IS:is. being •-deerease of
71.-aes as ....pared with that year.
Itollitlac Pat Pee niost heartless case
of rol...erj, atieoded, it would stein, with the most
disastrous reaulta to the health and even lives of a
cf those poor unfortunate,, pauper lunatics,
value before the Bath Winter Sessions, just held. dolin
Cave, the attendant in the male lunatics' ward at the
Math 11* Workhouse, was indicted for stealing had,
mutton, butter, and cheese, the !property of the guar-
dians of the Bath Union ; awl Ikon:main Skeates. of
Coombe Ihswil, was indicted for fels•niously receiving
the %Mlle hlloWing it to laser been stolen. The [prisoner
Cave, as the principal attendant of the lunatics, had
/lady to serve out to them their rations, but, instead of
faithfully perfor 11l il ig that duty, lie appears to have
stint...al them of their food for a considerable period, and
t•s a great extent. The master of the workl 1111 l se, Mr.
Eaton, suspecting something of the kiud the
altered appearance of the unfortunate lunatics, set a
watch 111.11 the prisoner Cave, and on the :Ala and lith
of December be was observed to secrete meat, which
ought to have been distributasl to the lunatics, in a
drawer in his room. The rations"( the inmate*, by the ,
prisoner's heartless conduct, were reduce,' to less than
half the workhouse diet. Skeates, it was proved, was
in the habit of baying the west mei other pruvidons
from the prisoner Cave. Roth were fu,mun,t guilty. l'ave
was sentenced to DI ii,ontlus. and likeates to 12 mouths'
imprisonment, with hard labour in both cases.
Mvarekiors CAM:. Considerable excitement has
been created in the neighbourhood of Melton, in the
East Riding of Yorkshire, by the disappearance, since
the 21st nit., of Mr. Thollllol Jel ttt i t igs, a wealthy farmer
residing at a village called Marythorpe. On the eve • g
of the day just nem Mr. was at the Crown
awl Anchor Inn, Mahon, but he left there early. in
order to proceed to Norton, where his horse had been
left. It appears, however, that he never arrived there,
and as he was seen after leaving the Crown and Anchor
in a yard which le.uls down to the river Derwent, whichi
lie would have to cross to get to Norton, it was for some
time supposed that he hail been drowned. The river
was carefully dragged on five successive days without
any trace of the missing gentleman being found ; but on
the 27th tilt. the Ace ascertained that he had been
seen at a beerbouse at 10 o'clock on the evening of lais
disappearance, but what became of I afterwards is not
yet known. It is alipposeil that he hint A large 01111 of
money upon him, and suspicion daily gains gr I that
,hue hu,, suet with foul play. A hsely of 50 111111 half..
been daily exploring the country for miles round, Itlld
every ditch, lane, %rose!, stream. pond, well, soul sluice
' in the neighbourhood of Malton hate been searched. but
in vain. The river Derwent is regularly watched (is see
if the body rises. The poles) are on the alert, anal a
reward has been offered for the discovery of the body.
til,A24lioW THKATRIt. -A very melancholy occurrence
took place 1111 Saturday within the theatre at the green,
occupied by Mr. Parry. It Appeal-A that on that
occasi tttt , throughout the the whole day, performance
'succeeded pierfoimance in rapid succession, anil that
crow& were waiting to go in so .0011 as those in were
ready to go out. From the lit there are two doors
leading into a sausage .if considerable length, and three
feet and adialf wide, which an tuna leads into Oreenhead-
street. These doors are kept by a person who directs his
attention solely to the duties of that office. Shortly
after 1 o'clock, and on the conclusion of 011 e of the per-
formances, the keeper unlocked ono of the &sirs, and SO
great was the heedless rush out that Ile was jammad
between it and the wall, and could not get freed.
Meanwhile • girl namml Rebecca Montgomery, 13 years
of age, and daughter of a shoemaker, residing at 2, Hall.
close, South Pettigrew-street, being among the first in
the passage, somehow fell, within two yards of the door.
and was run over by the crowd that madly followed
and was only rescued after having been knocked invest-
sensible, by the doorkeeper, Charles Simpson, and other
niembeni of Mr. Parry's company. She was immediately
conveyed to the shop of Dr. DPI 'arson, Saltmerket, but
I all attempt* to restore life failed, and the unfortmaste
girl efaa handed over to her parents in the Central
Police Chambers, a curvet. Mr. Parry lass taken the
meatus to inter the body with becoming decency, to pay
all expenses connected with, the sad event, anal done
sverything in Isis power to lessen the grief thus suddenly
• brought on a mourning family.
A TII:ER AT SITA.—IiANGAunaK, Nov. 24.—A very
extraordinary occurrence has taken place in this I
neighbourhood. Toll may Helfer have heard of a
tiger being killed at sea, but the present will furnodi
you with an instance. tisane flabermien of a village called
" Ifejamandy," 110111 e nineteen miles to Use nortla of this,
put out to sea, long before daylight ono morning, for the
purpose of following their usual avocation. When they
were 101110 hUllareat yards from laud they evict' sunlit-
thing like a hugh fish a short distance from them.
They naturally rowed up to it. anti one of the men mule'
a blow at it with his harpoon. At this the annual
rushed at the boat, laid hold of the nearest num with her
paws, and in dragging him overboard upset the boat.
It was then that the men found out that it was a tiger,
and not me of the finny tribe, and of course swain tutus
shore for their lives. Tlie poor man who was in the
clutches of the beast vainly struggled for sonic tiine, and
then sank under the warts, • corpse. The beast neat
got on the boat, which was floating bottom upwards, and
took formal possession of it. In the meantime the men,
who hail gut to the :shore, raised a hue and cry, and, cel-
I leeting same more hands, put off in two or three boats to
' give the beast battle. Nut having any firearms with
them, this was a work of some danger, but one fellow
more dexterous than the others at length struck his har-
poon into the eeck of the beast and settled him The
body of the unfortunate Oman was recovered from the sea
on the following morning. 1 hear that the full reward
of 35 rupees was divided ainong the relatives of the 1111-
, limionate 1111111 aho lost his life and the man who put
an end to the tiger. It is very probable that the :west
I had come down during the night to the seashore to feed
I on crabs or some carrion, and that, overstepping him-
self, lae might have been washed into the sea by the
waves, and once in could not manage to wake sit exit
through the surt.—Bungulore Herald.

THE BURIAL PITS or TUE SLAIN AT MARSTOS Moos.
—The fallowMg are extracts of a letter which appeared
in the Aterm.kr :—" %Vithout another word of pre-
hum, let ice, in these day,' of sanitorial progresaion,
state ' facts, which are atublains things '—namely : Wet
the malodorous debris of animal 'natter, and especially
of human bodies, may be subterratiemilylaittle.l up, and
hermetically (waled fer ini,rr than a COUlllClif centuries in
• clay soil and afterwards let Imme upon the world. In
ninfirination whereof. I turn at once to the burial-pits
for the slain at Marston Moor. A year ago, with a view
to relieve a large waterlogged district, it became pre-
eminently mesas:try to drive a large leading drain at
considerable depth through Marston Moor. Instructions
were given to avoid, not only the titmili as indicated in
the irld maps of the district, but also the legendary
localities of sepulture. However, long before the com-
pletion of the work, the navvies came upon the Golgotha
of the battle field. There was tiothing for it but to go
ahead. To make a detour in the drainage either to the
right or left would certainly have been to go further, and
probably 'to fare worse.' I quote from the statement
(continued by numerous witnesses) of the intelligent
foreman of the work :--' We cut twelve yards lung and
about eight feet wide, through the grave, and found heed
bodies almut four feet from the surface ; but I cohsider
that wept to the bottom of it. as we took two 'draw*.
(diggings) through it after,and the ground below seemed
untouched. At one piece, bodies, about twenty or
twenty-tive of them, were laid one over the other in all
directions and postures—the forms of many were left in
the clay. At this place there 00114 lUUCII 14 a sort of de-
posit that looked like soot, hut damp ; the smell at first
was intolerable, and could be felt at some distance ;ii
was so bad the men could only work short spells."l'lie
skulls hail preserved their shape, but crumbled away
when expumal to the air. One poor fellow's passport to
eternity was picked up by the foreman. He says '—
There was a bullet in one skull which dropped out when
the skull fell to Mecca ; the bonsai, especially the large
ones, did not crumble away, but were very brittle when
touched with the spade. The teeth were quite perfect,
and many of theni taken away by the drainers.' "
CAPITAL PPNISHMICNT.—On Friday morning week
there were in Kirkdale gaol two convicts sentenced to
death—one. Henry Kehl, convicted of strangling his
wife ; the other, Augusta Wilhelm, convicted of murder
in an attempt to procure abortion. Both were recom-
mended to mercy by the jury—henry !tied, because lie
WM drunk ; and Wilhelm, because Cie jury thought
munkr, under certain circumstances, was only man-
slaughter. Ou Saturday the drunken husband was
hanged on the north front of Kirkilale Gaul, altl eh
the jury had recommended I to mercy. Wilhelm,
however, is spared. The public will like to know the
reason why. This man was nut drunk. Ile Wail in the
possession of his full faculties. He was a man of some
education. Ile knew what lie was about, an.l he knew
more ; lie knew the conaequences of the crime lie wile
about to co 1. We are told that on the Ifith of July.
1653, he was trier! at York, before Mt. Justice End, for
endeavouring to procure the abortion of Mary Fielding.
In defence, the prisoner said that lie hail 11110ther object
in using the meant imputed to I . The jury then
gave hint the benefit of the doubt, and he was acquitted.
In the preaent case. the jury being properly ignorant of
his antecedents, &11{0 gave him the benefit of the ilmild.
not of the facts kit ut the law, an.l. in briuging hins in
guilty of the fact, expressed their opinion that the
punishment was greater than the offence demanded. It
must be apparent to every one that this recommend-
ation of the jury could only have been founded on the
belief that the :nen was performing an °pet-dim' the
C inse luenees of which lie was ignorant of. Would the
jury have Wine to this conclusion hal they known that
the man had alr•ady been tried for the same offence!
How often mit/ not this min have co Bed this same
c , between 1653 and 1556! It is to be hoped. for
the sake of the safety of society. that the House
Secretary, who, of course, knew all hist antecedents,
tivele politic in the hoc II Keel of Saturday. will explain
to the world the reasons why Her Majesty's pardon hail
bean extended to this abandonco miscreant. The value
of punishment consist. in the certainty uf its infliction.
Any departure from this rule induces persons of sanguine
temperament to the Clll ttttt ilOOOll of crime. Can there
be a snore danger. ius doctrine than that the
'lament of a cr I is a depend on the lit nionr
the Secretary for the Home Department ? Anil what
must we think of the man who regards the offence of
Wilhelm as one deserving of to "seration crime'
more subversive of good morals copilot be well suggested.
It ix a subject on which we cannot enlarge, but we
trust that some excuse will be offered by the Home
Secretary, so that the pardon of Wilhehn inay not
operate as an inducement to other reckless practitioners
to repeat an offence so repulsive to humanity in a
Chtiatian country.— Lireepoof Albion.
Exuezzieurcr.—(M Friday, at the public office, lx'-
fore Mr. T. C. S. Kynnersley, detective Serjeant Dot-
,
ton, in connection with a charge of embezzlement. nar-
rated one of the strangest incidents we have ever beet.
called upon to record. Two young men, natimal John
Hubert Hands, of Willis-street. and Edward Lawson.
of Ravenhurat-street. both clerks in the employ of Mr.
David ('ope, of Perry-bar, who carries on the business
of • spoon and fork manufacturer. in New liartholie
mew-street. were charged with embezzling •ys, the
property I.f their tomato.. ('p to the present time it
has been imp...slide Xi ascertain the extent of t he dela.
cations, but it is feared they will amount to a very
large 1•1011. Mr. Elers and Mr. Walters (the counsel and
lii,, solicitor to the Birmingham :kssociation for the Pro-
aecution of Felons), appeared in support if tile prosecu-
tion, and applied fir a rent mil until Tuesday next, 011
the ground that, to prove the charge. it will be neces•
tiary to bring persons front different parts of the
country. Tiie application was of entrae granted. Han Is
was appn•lienilial by detective Inspector Tandy, and
partly confeased the crime. Serjeant Dutton then stated
Mann middle-day on Thurs.] ty, he was proceeding along
Itaveithurst-street, towarila 1.16W21011./i house for the pur.
taking him itt,, cuatiely. He caught sight of the
prisoner ii, the street, walking abeig quickly, with his
hands in the outer pockets of his jacket. Lawson
CC.,•••411 the street, Anil in 11141Ig lIIVICCIVCd Dutton
following him. As if divining the purpose of the &tee.
tire, Lawson took a pistol from his left-liand pocket.
mid wit' t hiaitation hilacel the ul •to Ilia ear :mil
pulled the trigger. The cap explislial. but the powder
d fire. Lawson then endeavoured to draw another
pistol from his right-haitil pocket, hut before he could do
so Duttou rushed upon him and threw his arum around
I ,at the Kanto time calling for assistance. This pri•
:miser was then securial, and conveyed in a cab to the
police-star . He seemed miaerably dejected. On be-
ing searched a packet of coloured arsenic was found
upon hint, which he purchased imine weeks ago, at the
shop of Mr. Horton, chyinist, Bradford-street. on pre-
tence that he wanks' it to kill some dogs. There could
be 110 doubt that IOaINSOII 1104 fully MIMIC up his mied to
commit self-dnitruction, for in his pocket was also found
a letter, of which the following are extracts :—" 1 have
gone some distance to perpetrate Baia malt act, as it will
be kept quieter than if done nearer home. Tell father
to pay my debts with the money he has of mine, that I
received of Peytons. I do not thiiik I owe many imuiiils.
only to one for whoin I have AIWA hundreds till lately."
After giving the 1101111,1 of certain creditor*, the letter
proceeded : " Abu, tell father to keep the affairs ILA quiet
as imasible. 1 must now conclude what must be to you
an extraordinary epistle. but I 1011 .0 excited as to
hardly know whether I an, writing or not. I send my
best wishes tsi all my relations awl frienita. "I am
sorry to leave them." When in the dock Lawson
seemed utterly prostrate bath mentally and physically.
anil Hands also seemed to suffer acutely-- Sientiughuin
Jowls/if.