The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-08-26 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

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Tee LOCAL BOARD AID ?RR POAT BAIDTART
Airruoarrr. —The Portland Lena Board are stoutly
resisting the attempt of the Local Governaseet Board
to mats them tb• Pert Sanitary authority Um the dhole
of the Reeds from the Nellie I. the Breakwater.

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li.tasoils FAn.o22.—Tb• creditom of Mr.
Thomas fiensona, of the Breakwater Hotel, had •
special meeting on Monday. A rotation of Mr. Wan.
soot's hat °Bored • oompoottioa of 2.. 81. la tits C. and
the mostaag hold to anthoriso tho tomatoes to
nooopt lb. composition. This titer sgrood to do, Um
debtor recoicod him diseltarge, &ad ins tension was

A Convict. ECIUAD. —On fieterday last Alfred
111,0Mafttla, • flOwoo peon' eonviet, 22 years of ago, well
killed at the Term. lie was workbag in • party of 23,
I. Marge of ambient. warder White, emoting • new
building steer the main entrance, acid was engaged In
loading Moos on the trolly on the railroetd, standing at
the time between it. was and the road. The stoles
wee about • too weight, and wee hanglag on the jib,
bariai a folds in It, sod the bottom of the Keefe we.
%WWI ifig Wes iaohes off the ground. The kiwis tiles
broke out, and te• stone dropped from the Istria to UN
grOaDd, sod In so doles stria& the side of the deeesserrs
leg below the knee, sod grazed it, het did net name die
deoOased to fall. Us had bids rope polling the Mime
to it. plow where the trolly wee to °0.., sod kr.
White called out to him that be wee polling the stoma
too far ler the trolly, and bad to sell out noire,. The
dimmed had been going tideway', sad he tamed sad
pot hie knee and his two bands sgainet it to put it
Wok, and that caus:ll the kiwis Iron to give
way, nod yr stone to _ fall aeries
_kim. B.

afigierards (al. and celled out Oh I Kr. White,
my leg is broke,' and the warder sent for the
stretcher and had him cionveyed to the Inlirmary.
There Hr. Mahout attended him sad found him enlisting
from a simple estamiasted treaters of the left leg below
the knee, and la more than coo pleat. Ho somplateed
of no other Injury, net mould the deetor diaeover tbe
mute of any other. The leg was put in enlists la the
usual way, aad the darter saw him several times, arid
be appeard to be going ao favourably. Next day he
oomplaited of great pain In the Mc which was only
natural; bat about two o'sloek the infirmary weeder
saw 6 euddmn change le him. Tbe doctor woe sent for
and found him partly laminable, his lune were affeeted
judging to. the rattling in his breathing, and he died
at • quarter-past Mae o'clock. Preen • poei wriest
exesitaatioe the doctor foetid the imeneellete
OSUMI of death to be timbre a serum into
the pericardium and the obeet.—Aa inquest WM4
held on Tuesday, before Mr. R. N. How ..rd, (armlet,
oboe the above facts were depated to. It appeared that
one of the prisoner' named Petriek liseCarty, had
made the kiwis bole in the stone; b. had made several
before, and the warder did not eteasalat the hole. His
isstraeticait stated "B. careful that lewisee are tight
sad metre, at the bottom of howls holes so that they
•441201 draw." lisoCArthy s.id he belived the lewie
hole wee 3iie., and be made It as secure es he could;
but he had pot put in more thee eight, be believed,
elm* he bad bees in the prism ; the ainviet who
genertily made the boles haring left the platy. When
he Milked op the deoemied, b. sew a small pieos of
stone st the lewis bolo had flashed away. The deeemed
66d • r.ipe for pulling the same where it hal to go,
and I. had no ciemaion to go to the Inoue. The kale
woes to the hone, of the bole, sad It bad carried the
stone six yards and upwards ; bet the checking of it by
deceased threw it off Its balaces sad maned it to drop.
If dawated bad only used the rope he would not have
ham lejured.—Verdiet, " Died from • !matured leg."—
The j wished the eoroner to represeat to the proper
authority thee they felt on. 011410/ wall not MUMIOIIMM4 14
have the chug. of 23 met, and that more ease should
be tekeo in making the " leek" 12016h-31r. Howerd
promised to make known their opinions to the proper
quarter.