The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-08 00:00:00

MURD'ER OP MRS. DORNIIIR.

FURTHRK P4FITICUt,AtiS..—..On Monday we men-
Cloned the death of MI-9::.D6t4ner, aged about 50,
the wife of a. respectable farmer, residing at the
Ltial-hOuse, ASltoti. At the time 'our Vesper went
to press, we bad heard several vague reports,
which we did not feel am-selves. justified to putt-
lishinit. The following pat'ticul Ira of this inhu-
man atfair, ch have since transpired-, we now
pre.eot to our readers Sunday evening,
Aug. 2g, about half-past five,• Me, and Mrs. Dor-
user, and family, and two or three frleods, drank
tea together ; soon after tea, tie son, three
da4ghtera, and a .yoong man named- Hinde, went
a walk; and between six and seven o'clock, Mr.
Donnet and his visitors also went out, and left'
Mrs. Dorn er and the servant (Ann lleytrey) at
home. About 7 o'clock the son and daughters re-
turned, %vitro ti:ey sac, she tervaot standing by the
door leadiok to the kitchen, apparently very much
evitated,and in a violerrt perspirat ion. Eliz.Dormer,
the eldest daughter, observing somehlood upon the
floor of the passage, bade the girl clean it up,
which she did. Marv, anodic; daughter, then asked
be gat I, !‘ Where's my mother, Nancy ?" to which
she replied, She is just gone a walk." Harriet,
the.third (laughter, in a few minutes afterwards,
asked where her mother was : she then said,
!` Aboot ten minutes ago she'went into the gar-
den to get some eucumbers." Elizabeth and Mary
went up stairs together, end the former heat d chic
latter (who went into her mother's room) give a
dreadful scream ; she immediately ran to see what
was the matter, when, dreadful to relate, the life-
less body at their murdered mother lay drenched
in got e before them, with the throat cut from ear
to ear. Elizabeth called " Mother " several
times, but received no answer : she thee attempted
to raise the body up, but could not. The son,
Joseph Dormer, on hearing the scream of his sis•
ter, ;au up stairs, and was followed by Ann Hey-
trey : he irninedia, cly accos-ed the girl with, the
'slimier, which she &Died, and npon being asked
if any oor had hero at the house, she replied
" No." The girl was, however, taken iotts
custody on suspicion ; and on Monday after-
mots, we are informed, she confessed to the
constable . of Kenilworth, that she commit-
ted the murder. She stated that she went into
the pi otry, and began to cut souse cucumbers and
onions for supper while site wit doing this,
it came into her head to murder her mistress.
She immediately kit the cuctmiberr, and 'went
ma at the back door to the wood-pile, and then
into the lane, She ret toned again ,nto the hinter,
went into the best kitchen, where her mistress
was sitting., and knocked her out of her chair with
her fist. As her misttess tell *he gate a scrrama
she lay for about a minute, and she stood looking
at her. Her mistress then got up, ran out of the
kitchen, along the passage, and up stairs. She
fullowed her out of the kitchen, went into the pan-
try and took a knife, and then followed bet mistiest
upstairs, whom site found lying down. She stooped
down and esti her mistress once or twice, when her
mistress candied at the knife with her bands, and
made a slight noise. Site then laid the knife upon
her mistress's bosom, with the handle towards her
band, in to der that it might be supposed she com-
mitted suicide. Ott the body bring examined by
a surgeon, we nutlet stand he found the throat cut
violently, so as to divide all the parts of the spine;
there were two deep cuts on the left jaw, one of
which extended into the mouth ; several small
scratchy. on the left tide of the face ; a violent
bruise on the nose ; one front tooth knocked out
fronf the upper jaw, and one opposite to it knock-
ed out of the lower jaw ;_several bruises on va-
rious parts of the body ; the middle finger of the
right hand cut deeply acres. in two or three
places; with other cuts on the fingers of both
hands. An lutplisi:ion was held on the body on
Tuesday, when a verdict of " Wilful Murder"
was returned against Ann Herrey, who was ac-
cordingly committeil to Warwick• gaol. The
prisoner is about '23 years of age, and is a very
stout middle-sized person.—(Coventry Mercury.)

SINGULARLY AWFUL COINCIDSINCB..—At the
late fair •at Peckham, an' elderly than, the owner
of two swings in: the fair (one of which was su-
perintended by his wife), observing that a part
of the eupport of the one under his own'direction
had givco way a little, he placed his foot against
it till he could get his customers Out, when the
machine corning suddenly against his chest killed
liim
.ou the spot. On the same day, his ti on,
who resided near Irethnal-green, who had a family
of seven children, daring the absence of his wife,
WhO was a laundrest, inspended himself to the
bed•pitst, and although be was cut down by her
in a few minutes, and surgical assistance imme-
niately"afforded, the vital spark bed fled. The
unhappy man was a cooper by trade, and several
Of • the children were amuiing themselves in the
cooperage' below; but two of the eldest having
been lintried up by the alarm given by their
mother's screams tor- assistance, the little 'one,
:amitsed 'themselves with making a hohfire, when
the fire' communicated to the clothes of a 01,
about three'yeirs old, and burned her in so dread-
`Ad a manner, that she expired in the course of
the night foll Owing, notwithstanding every
at-
tention' was paid by the surgeon, who, when the
accident 'occurred, bad not retired from the honse,
its consequence'of the melancholy catastrophe of
the father.- •
'"DREADFUL Acctostsr.—Yesterday morning se-
`vestal firers Were at work repairing a Gentleman',
house in York-street; Mary-le-bone, When one of
"them, !f anjet!. George Stockdale, a carpenter, 30
years'Of She, was sent to the landing•itlace ar the
tojt of the house to repair one • of the doors; he'
got On a ladder, and laid hold of a piece of wood
igainit the wall, which gave way, in consequence
'Ofnotbeing nailed firm, and he was precipitated
,head fOrernlitt to the pavement of the ball leading
from Me street-door. -Several men went to his
'assistance, bat his' head was literally dashed to a
mummy, and his body dreadfully injured. They
carried him to the Middlesex Hospital, bur on ar-
riving there he was found-to be 'quite dead. The
deceased was a Married man.•

RKMARK AIMS CIRCUMSTANCE. On Tuesday
afternpon, the machinery of l'he Morning Star
steam-boat, of Alloa, on her passage to Leith,
was stniiped by a ashppli entering and completely
ohht meting the'cuudeusing vratervivs..—(Bersvick
Ad rertiser.)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THE DANGERS AND CONSEQUENCES OF GOING A

FAIRING!.

GlJlLDHALL.—Smithaeld,the spot oirwhich Bar-
tholomew-fair is held, is within the district of the
Sitting Alderman at thishrstice-room : but the Lord
Mayor,. as grand conservator of the fair and the
peace thereof, has this year telt it his duty to take
cognizance of the offences committed therein,
and directed all such offenders to be brought be-
fore him at the Justice-room In the Mansion-
house. Thii order, it should seem, is confined
wholly to the fair itself, and does not extend to
its purlieus and environs ; from which restriction
it happens, that although we Irwin nothing at
this of ee of the fan of the fair, we have many a
useful lesson exhibited of the danger and conse-
quences of going a fairing.
The first prisoner brought up yesterday before
Alderman 3.. f. SMITH, was a lad about eighteen
years old, of the name Of Joseph Wheeler, a waiter
at-an eating-house in Fore-street, who, instead of
going home to his father's in the Kingsland-
road at )1 o'clock, when his business was done,
most needs go to the fair, and got taken up on a
charge of felony upon which he had been lottg-
ad in the Compter all night.

George Child, a carpenter, in White-street,
Moorfiettla, had been treating his wife to the fair,
and on their return homeward together *topr at
a public-house in Long-lane, for refreshment.
Now long they remained there did not appear,
but on their coming nut, between one and two
o'clock in the morning, they were attacked by a
gang of fellows at the door, who commenced by
kn►cking..the husband's hat off ; this produced
resistance 'on his part, a grand row enticed, poor
Child and his wife got soundly beat„ and lust at
the moment when he felt his watch, %volt!, at least
being taken
.quit at his pocket, the prisoner
pased in front of him, he seized him immediately,
and, in spite of all his resistance, managedto keep
his hold till the arrival of the watchmen, and
then gave him in charge as the robber.
The property not being fosand, the prosecutor
enable to swear that the prisoner•stule his watch,
and his two brothers, one a tradesman in the city,
and the other. ti printer in the Bank, giving hint a
goad character, and confiluning his statement as
to his honest means of getting a I,velihood, he
was discharged with a suitable admonition from
the Alderman.. The loss of aM. Watch, and the
humps and bruises received by the carpenter and
his wife, will, no doubt, act as a suitable admoni—
tion to them as long as they live.
John Loomer, a journeyman printer, in the em-
ploy of Mr. Swinuel, in Gm acethorch-street, who
bad also been to the lan, was charged with being
very active in the above tray, and one of the fore-
most in beating the tattoo on poor Child's hat-
less head.

One Ross, a cobler, in Featherstone-street,
who was escorting his wife from aim fair, swore
positively, to the prisoner, and !grid, he (Ross)
pinioned his two hands behind him when in the
act of striking Child, 1,..r which both he and his
wife got knocked down in the mod directly.
Child, with a shrug which &nixed a painful
recollection, also identified Lonmer as one of-the
persons who struck him.
The prisoner was therefore committed, to find
bail for the assault.

William Walden, a basket-maker, living in a
Court out of Hosier-lane, was brought up by
a constable, on a charge of violent as-
sault,

Mrs. LoNndes, the wife of a respectable gen-
tleman residing in Plitmet's-street, City-road,
said, she and her sister, Mts. Culliforit, who lives
with her, bad been at the fair with a party at
friends, from whom they were unfortunately sepa-
rated in the crowd, and were Making the best art
their way borne, when they turned up this court,.
and the mail at the bar came up directly atter,
abused them in the most iiolent terms, and struck
them both with great violence, but more parti-
cularly her sister, who was so beat about the face
as not to be able to get a wink of sleep, or open
her mouth to eat a bit of any thing since. Seve-
ral Geutlemem who witnessed their ill-treatment
interfered in their behalf, and called the watch to
their assistance.
This statement was corroborated by Mrs. ClO-
foul, and confirmed in part by the watcheik,
who, on coming up, found the Ladies neatly
fainting ; Walden had made his escape into his
own house, front whence he was called, and taken
to the watch house.

The basket-maker, in his defence, attempted to
turn the tables on the ladies, by an attack on their
characters. He said he had got an oyster-stall in
Hosier-lane during the fair ; that he was return-
ing home with his oyster lob at half-past t welve
o'clock, when he fount' the two ladies on his stair.
case and a 111411 with thens ; that the man ran oft
down the,comt, and on his desiring the ladies to
go away. they abused him. His brother was-with
him at the time and knew the same thing.
Luke Walden, the brother, was called, bu.t his
evidence tended tc• confirm the testimony of the
ladies ; he saw not man with them, and by his own
confession, the ladies were at the entrance of the
court, the prisoner's house bring at the upper end.
The ladies were severally sworn to the truth of
their depositions, and declared they had never used
the language attributed to them in the course of
their lives. _ _ .

The prisoner was accordingly ordered to find
bail for the offence.
Richard Frankson and Robert Stephens, journey.
men coopers, Charles Ford, a labourer of the Gas
Light tViitks,' Richard Rose, a printer, and two
or three others, basing antlered a night's impri-
sonment in the. Compeer, were remitted to ex-
piate their frolics occasioned by having been at
the.fair, by satisfying the officers of the night for
the trouble they had Occasioned, and were then
discharged.