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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1876-09-05 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

DOUBLE EXECUTION AT CORK.  The double execution of Thomas Crowe, for the murder of Patrick Hyland, and Christos Bamboo, the Greek, for participating in the mutiny and murder on board the Caswell, when the captain and three officers were massacred, took place on Friday morning at Cork. The morning was very fine, and the sun shone brilliantly as the unfortunate men proceeded to the gallows. They both slept during the night, Crowe soundly, but Bamboo was rather uneasy. They were attended by their respective chaplains, who engaged with them in prayer. Crowe spent the last two hours of his life in the Roman Catholic chapel, where he heard mass and received communion. Bambos was for that time also occupied in devotion attended by Archimandrite Stratule, of the Greek Church, Liverpool. It was anticipated that mass according to the Greek ritual would have been said, but it appeared there was no power to celebrate it outside the Greek Church. The service called "holy Communion preconseerated" was offered instead, and Bamboo received communion at the hands of the Archimandrite. At ten minutes to eight the unhappy men were summoned to the gallows, a call which they obeyed without hesitation, and without any faltering in their steps. Outside the gate loading into the execution yard llarwood pinioned both prisoners after which the procession resumed. They then for the first time had a view of the scaffold. Crowe was still unmoved, and walked with extraordinary firmness. Bamboo, how. ever, betrayed some weakness in his gait, but as he reached the steps leading to the scaffold he became again firm, and walked steadily on the drop. Immediately after both men joined most audibly in prayer with their chaplains, who stood by them. With marvellous rapidity Idarwood made the final arrangements, and in less than • minute from the time they first laid ryes on the gibbet both men were hurled into eternity. Crowe',, death was instatitaneoua, but liani'em struggled Ilan( for half • minute, and several minutes after his body moved quite pemptibly. llis neck was short and very muscular. Ile was a young man of only twenty-live years. Ifis companion in death has reached his sixty-fifth year, and be was a small man of weak frame. To the last Bamboo; declared his innocence. Ile did not blame the judge or jury, but his prosecutors; and he said he would give them up to God. It was at first decided that the reporters should not witness the execution, but it seems that flambee made • special request that they they should be present, and his desire was acceded to.  WArlas' Qi•ININE WINE for Sixteen Years has been universally admitted to he the best Tonic known, and a useful and agreeable accompaniment to Cod Liver Oil. "W! can bear personal testimony to its value ass Tonic. '--Sto riL Agents for Weymonth . D. PIOGRON and SON, Grocer.; ShaftesburybO 11' KIRIBLIT, Wine and Sidrit Merchant; Sher roe Civil?, BURL, Grocer., L, Cheap-AMC ; Wholesale, WATERS and Boa, 31, Eastcheap, London ; and LEwis and Co., Worcester.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1879-04-15 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

INTERLSTING TRAVELLER.  A correspondent writes—We rub oar shoulders against strange people in railway carriages, and last Saturday I met • curious customer in my Journey from Bridport ,to London. At Maiden Newton I found myself seated ' next to • decently-dressed man, whom I should hays taken for a sailor bound for home. after • long vorage How often we are deceived by appearances I " Excuse me making free, sir," said my fellow traveller, "but this is the happiest day I've bad for many 'roam" I am glad to bear you my you are happy; but what makes you unusually so to-&y I' I replied "Because lam • gentleman," he added, " I shall have better dinner to-morrow than I've had for five long years an a half. It is not many can tell what they'•e had for dinner every Surciay form h a Ume as that, but I can; I never had anything else on Sundays but brand and cheese it never altered for • single Sunda c, always the same," My traveller told me a long story how he was sentenced to seven years at Portland and be had suffered hr demise. mars. Ha informed me that he was fond of • " little drop," and that he weal smith and lived at Laeda. A man had stolen some iron and they arrested him, and found him guilty. But he protested his innocence, his conscience he said I was clear. and he was galas back to his friends at Leeds, who knew him to he innocent. During the time ha had been at Portland his conduct had been good, and he had one year and seven months of his sentence remitted. The authorities had given him ES instead of El the usual amount, and they had given him a suit of clothes of the best material they used for prisoners who had conducted themselves well There were many villains yonder, this man said, but there were one or two who he Amply believed were suffering for others. When we think of Hebron, who would never have been lammed had it not been for the arrest of the villainous murderer Peace, how do we know that the words of this traveller may not be too true He was greatly surprised at the change which had aken place in the iron Ueda. He knew comparatively nicker, og- mime had gone on Aoririg am time of his impriecauxisnt, and the little knowledge be had of things which ham recently taken place was very embus to those who heard him. He seemed very crest-Wien when he heard of the depression in the iron trade, with which he had been connected He spoke of the time when he earned high wages, and had a splendid dog weighing 19 lb., who would tackle any badger, and which was altogether as good a creature as ever" ran before his UM" This strange companion assured me he should never indulge in badger-hunting. pigeon-flying. or the like Maim Allegh he had suffered for snobsr arse, his imprisonment bad taught him to lead • different life to that of former yeam—Shoirberne JarraaL
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1879-05-13 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

TIIE CHARD MURDER.  The Daily New says—" Murder does not. seem to le regarded as of much consequence in the neighbourhood of Chard. It seems that at • place called Knowle St.. Cites, in that locality, was • cottage containing up to tho 4th of March lest three inmates. The master of the house was Samuel Churchill aged eighty-two. With him his wife Catherine, and fifty, and her mother, who was about ninety," deaf, and blind." A woman named Elba Whatley had °Manion to pass this cottage on the morning of the 4th of March in order to take her husband his breakfast As she passed she heard • voice ' scresming " Murder!" and anoth, voice shouting "You brute" Undisturbed by thee., slight interruptions, Mrs. Whatley, like • well.minducted person, went on carrying broad and butter to Mr. Whatley, and the inhabitant., of Use cottage were left to continue their harmonious intercourse. A quarter of an hour afterwards she , returned the mine way, and "heard the key turned in the , lock of the front door, but, for reasons which will readily , suggest themselves, no more cries of inurler. People have of course • right to lock their own front doors, and Mrs. Whatley would certainly be the not person to interfere with them. So she proceeded on her way, and the next event in this pleasing chain of circumstances is that a (ow minutes afterwards Mrs. Churchill started on a wale to Chard. About half-past nine a little girl passed the cottage and noticed • strong wnell of something burning. Then at ten Mni. Churchill returned, and at dilf.past ten she cause out of the cottage and "called to Whatley to come in, became Samuel had fallen ?orrg tire." Whatley went in, but it is unnecessary to describe what he saw. That poor old Churchill was horribly burnt was immediately obvious. Ilow he came to le burnt, and whether burning was the sole cause of his death, were the main questons for the jury which on Tuesday at Taunton convicted Mrs. Churchill of wilful murder. A billhook was found in the house, and marks of blood on the prisoner's dress, and probably the Jury came to the right conclusion The motive for the crime seems to have been pecuniary, for the old man had some property, which he had left to his wife's son, who was also his, though horn before their marring. Mrs. Churchill is supposed to have been afraid that he would alter he will, and leave what he had to his slaughter by his first wife, and to have taken time by the forelock- As she does not personally benefit by the will, the interesting question whether you gan better your testamentary position in point of law by committing murder, which has been raised in De Tourvilie's case, does not arise out of this crime. What does arise is • mild astonishment at the calm indifference, of which there have been numberleis examples lately. characteristic of some of the English people to the affairs of their neighbours. A man may wallop his own nigger, and • wife may murder her own husband, without much risk of OthCiOUlintrusion.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1869-04-20 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

CONFESSION OF SHRWARD.— Up to Saturday no reprieve had been received for the convict sheward, now lying under sentence of death at Norwich, for the murder of hi, first wife, Martha Shewarel. Mors has been an impreesion in some quarters that this reprieve might possibly be granted in consequence of the state of the convict's health. He is not looking IA well as whoi he was first brought down to Norwich, after his first confeuion early in January. He is suffering so much from rheumatism in the anales as to render walking a matter of difficulty to him. His general health is, howeeer, tolerably good; he eats and ale-pa pretty well. Under these circumstances the prison surgeon (Hr. Day) has not deemed it necessary, It is understood, to make any special official report upon the cue. Since his conviction Slumlord has been attentive to the religious instruction which he has received from the chaplain, and his general conduct in the prison hos been quiet and orderly. It is stated that in his second confession Steward say. that he quarrelled with hie wife about some Money that he w.shed to be left in the care of • friend. The wife objected to this, and in the heat of passion he seized a knife and stabbed her in the throat, and that she almost buten ly fell dead. He dared not sleep at home that night. He went to some plum near Yarmouth; but fearing that the murder might be found out by any one en'eting the house, and discovering the victim' body, he returned to Norwich, and commenced to cut the body up lie severed the head, arms, legs, hands and feet from the trunk, end stowed them away in some part of the honse up stairs, and for • night or two he slept down stairs on the sofa. When decomposition eet in, and the smell became bad, he ant portions of the remains into bits, and strewed them about the streets and fields after dark. When the smell became worse he lit fires in various parts of the boom to Sonuteract it, and at hat he tried to boil the remains away. The head, bands, and feet were placed in a pot upon the fire, and he was disappointed to find that they would not readily drop to pious. He, therefore, took them out of the pot, broke the skull into powder, and threw it away at diff irent times with the heads and feet. It is s ,pposed that this parboiling of the bands and feet in sled the medical men in their opinion as to ric age of the murdered woman. He it said to have precool that the hair boiled off the skull, and that he ultimately burned it in the fire. Portions of the intestines were carried in a basket to one of the church. yards, where he threw them over the walL The cutting up and boiling of the body was done during the daytime, and after dark be disposed of the remains in the decree, and fields, and churchyards, as already described. It is said to be the opinion of the authorities at Norwich gaol that, should the man's life be spared, bin remorse is so greet that he will most probably become insane. Should no reprieve arrive, the execution rill take place this (Taeaday) morning.  ROYAL BATHS, aft
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-01-06 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

NIL N. S. Maakelyne, who examined crystals from Glasgow, and says they were silicates (glass) and not carbon, much less diamond. Grant, • prisoner in Leominster lock-up, escaped by ratting op one chimney and down another, so reaching the front door. 3,000(r. were awarded to • French dairyman as damages for an unfounded charge of murder. A youthhi is service disappeared, • neighbour denounced the dairyman, who was arrested, and yen nearly convicted, when the youth returned after four months. The neighbour had to pay for his suspicions. Boyle, the butcher charged with knocking his wife on the head with a paraffin lamp and setting her on firs, showed the greatest indifference at his examination, which resulted in a remand, _  —.013001Z the amount which Mr. Collette is charged with converting to his own use, though he was trustee ot it. Collette was solicitor to the Society for the Suppression of Vice.! . . .  Two Crerman vessels were shipwrecked on Wednesday night, on the Qiamorgan coast of the Ida the captain and eight of the crew. and of the Ernest, five of the crew, were los . . .  —Bristol TOWII Council have a good deal of property in the city so dilapidated that the Town Clerk considers it not worth repair. Cr Garnet Woholey is to leave for England during the present month. Italy, it is said, has broken her agreement with d, France, and Germany, by accrediting • minister to ' beforethe Cabinet of Bucharea t has given satisfaction about the Jews. Figaro (Paris) says the shots of Gonzales grazed the Queen's forehead and the King's neck. Australia is going to send another cricket team to England next season. China and Japan have been snarling about Loochoo ; but have appointed commissioners to discrss the points in dispute. In India the Naas have surrendered twelve guns the KOlllOOlllll are starving in their stockade in the Barran hills. _  —ireasles have broken out at Hill, and the school children have an extra fortnight's holiday. Recruits for the army come in more slowly than for four or five years past. Mr. Bowman, a Bristol solicitor, tried to kill himself with & pocket knife, and out his throat from ear to ear. Mental depression was the cause. An ex•policeman at Cambridge has six weeks hard labour for fowl stealing. A collier threw • basin at • woman at Christmas, and hit her child, who died. l. is to he tried for man' slaughter. WAIMING I Reckirr's PARIS ELUL The marked superiority of this laundry blue over all others, and the quick appreciation ot its merits by the public, have been attended by the usual results, via, a good of imitations; the merit of the latter mainly consists in the ingenuity exerted, not simply in imitating the square shape, but making the gmald appearance of the wrappers resemble that of the genuine article. The manufacturers beg therefore to caution all buyers to see " Reekitt's Paris Blue " on each Docket
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-12-10 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

MOTHIER.—At the St. Helen's police-court, on Friday, a tall, desperate, and ferocious-looking fellow of the name of Charles Lyon, aged 45 years, was charged before Richard Pilkington, Esq., a ith attempting to murder has aged mother, a hard-working and reepectelde old woman, named Mary Lyon, at Prescot. The poor old woman was brought to the court in a cab, and appeared before the bench with her right arm b:.n.laged. She was evidently in • weak rind exhausted etrte. The prisoner was arraigned with both hands handcuffed, and displayed a savage countenance. The mother was accommodated with a seat near the bench, and then narrated the eircurnetauces as follows :—My name is Mary Lyon, and I am 74 years of age. I am lodging with Ann Rose, in Brown'ssquare, iti Prescot. The prisoner, Charles Lyon, who is about 45 years of age, is my son ; he returned from transportation about eight months ego, having been transported 15 years ago to Australia for shooting at one of the Earl of Derby's gamekeepers, named %Vainwright. I sent him money to bring him back, and since his return he has constantly abused me, and often threatened to take my life. Last night, about seven o'clock, he entered my lodgings with. knife open in his hand, and swore he would have my life, brit I ran out and down the street and took refuge in Mr. Atherton'e shop, where I fainted and was carried honie again. About ten o'clock, when I wax sitting by the fire, talking to Elizabeth Rose and Ellen Wooky, he came to the door, which was locked, and burst it open with a kick, and ran at me, using dreadful language. I got up end ran into the pantry. He followed sue and got me down, and I pat my head into a whisket and held my arms up to my neck to prevent his cutting my throat. I felt a knife cut across my ann, and their was a deep gull, which bled much. [Here the prisoner exclaimed to hi, mother, "Oh, you old witch."] Thinking he had killed me, (min what one of the women said, lie went out, and a doctor was sent for. Whilst I was down in the pantry he kicked ins very much about the body, bench • cutting me with the knife. When he fleet began he asked for two watches which he said were his, and which I have not. (The prisoner here said, " Ay, and I'll have akin to.") The witness continued— lie has run inc out with a knife before, and some these ago I took out • sun.moni from the magistrates for him, lust he begged so hard, and cried, that I forgave him. (Here the prisoner said, Oh, you old fornicator, you will go k— as sure an you are born.") I sin afraid of him, and have been a long time. and murder ice lie will. The knife produced with blood on, is his.— Elizabeth Rose, a widow, who lives next door, and Ellen Woosey, both corroborated the old woman as to his attempt to cut her throat; end when they got him sway by crying out he had killed her, she fainted and was very weak after. The prisoner, who refused either to question the witnemos or to make any statement in his defence, was then committed to take his trial at the emitting aasizes for attempting to murder his mother.—Lee.fs Mercury.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-11-26 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ACCIDENTAL POISONING. —An infant fifteen weeks old, named Mary Susan A udley,a child that promised to become in after yearn a blessing to its parent., lately lost its life through the injmlienius alioiiiistration of laudanum, or a commodity known as "Uodfrey's Cordial," which was given to it by its mother. Many women are ia the habit id. using it, an account of its composing qualites, auil sonic for the purpose of quieting their offspring while they go about gossiping with their neighbours, little thinking that they are using a slow hut deadly poison, and even if nu ill effect is apparent at the time, many become idiots as they grow older. We do not blame mothers or purees AO much as we do the venders of this noxious mixture, which destroys annually some hundreds of innocents, entirely through the inexperience of 'eosins who undertake the dispensiug of such dangerous articles, We hope an Act of Parliament will shortly Lw passed that will prohibit dealers in figs, and such tame from retailing such an essential article as medicine. A gentleman really capable to eemputind and dispense drugs is of course the only proper person that should be permitted to sell them; and we cannot help thinking that such a responsible !wore.eionsshould be quite distinct from any trete stall. Let parents who have any regard for their babes avoid quacks and quackery, lest they, as well as the retaller of drugs, be cuumaitbal for a premeditated murder. Bostoren POLICE, Tuesday. November 19th._ Before F. t;reenliam, and J. IL Mayo, Esqrs.-tleorles Hum', and A n uni, his wife, were dinged with purloining a sheet and blanket, the properly of Francis Hine. with whom they had been lodging. The female prisoner hail only recently been confined, and presented a most eiAly appearance. The man, a lazy-looking fellow, hatl beeu employed in various Hi:nations, the last being as ostler at Mr. Laver's, the (dub° and Crown, where he tlid not exert himself to the satisfaction of his employer, and was discharged. The wife of the proet-eutor addressed the magistrates in a most feelitig manlier Oil behalf of the poor woman, and said she had no wish to prosecute as far as she was concerned, but if she del so, it would be with the view of bettering the condition of the female prisoner, as a gaol would be preferable to her starving herself and Maid at home. Mr. Viheent, pawnbroker, proved that be lent 2s. 9d. on the blanket, and Is. tiel on the sheet. It was through the activity of Ssrgeant Keats and P.C. Everley that the property was traced and produced. The magistrates, in consideration of the or woman's oontlition, thought hitst home in' Taunton  poi would benefit her, by being placed under pmper care. She and her bur-hand were then counnitte, for fourteen dAys, Alla it lb much to be regretted that the sentence was not wore severe as regard. the male prisoner. Had midi a Caoll3 been brouh. before a inagb.trate in London, he would Int%.. _ . . .  doubled the amount a punishment. BA rruir Home M.S...: