The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-10-28 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BARBAROUS MURDER.—A murder, perpetrated tinder circumstances of singular barbarity, took place on Monday, in Leeds. About nine o'clock in the morning a man named Henry Stansfield, a dyer, proceeded to the Richmond Tavern, Richmond-road, and remained drinking for some time with two men named Michael Ward and James Wainman. They afterwards left him, and about one o'clock Richard Dunnerty, labourer, Bank, entered the house. He called for a pint of al., which was supplied, and he then ordered a second pint of ale ; but as he either could not or would not pay for it, the landlady declined to serve him. Almost immediately after she had left the room, the landlady heard a noise as if the men were quarrelling, and on returning sow Dunnerty kick Stansfield upon the abdomen. Tim poor fellow fell to the ground, when Dunnerty  sgain kicked him in a brutal manner. The landlord was then called in. and seeing Stanafichl laid on the ground, lie said, " Why that man's dead l" Dunnerty and two men who wire with him at once left the house. A surgeon was called in, but his serviees were of no &mil, life being extinct. The attack si on the unfortunate deceased Peeing to have 'seen wholly unprovoked. James Kennard, a man who was in the house and now the assault committed, states that at the thno Strinsliehl "as struck ho was pitting on a stool asleep. with his head upon his hands. Dunnerty in stated to Lie a notorious blackguard, and a terror to the neighhourhood in which he resides. The body of a female has boon found in a ditch near Thorne, and from the appearance which the body presented, and from other circumstances that have transpired, it is supposed thot tho women had met her death by foul means. Both arms have hem' coinpletely cut off, and were nowhere to be found. An in, quest was opened, but was adjourned till the 4th proximo. Meantime the police are busy snaking iuquirks as to the identity of the woman, and the where, nimbi of the supposed murderer. FRIGIITFUL TRAGEDY AT Boma. —The following (says the Liverpool Mercury) is an extract (coin a letter received by a gentleman in Liverpool from Captain John Finlay, of the ship Faith, which at the time of the horrible occurrence below detailed was lying in Bonny River :—" We had a fearful tragedy here last week ; one of tho natives killed what they call a ' creekman' (that is, a man who lives some eight or ten miles (roin Bonny, and who was at Bonny selling yams, as the creekmen are farmers in a way.) The Bonny mom wanted to kill this native, and at a meeting it was agreed they should kill him. But 'first catch your bare' is an old maxim. When that man heard that sentence of death was passed upon him, he shut himself up in his house with all his cloves, wives, and children, loaded all his guns, large and small, then dug a trench round and about, and filled it with small keg.; of gunpowder, and net the chiefs at defiance. Things remained in this state for two or three days, nobody daring to venture near the house with hostile intentions. At last the chiefs offered two puncheons of oil to any one who would fire his house. A slave took the offer, fired the house to windward; and the sparks falling upon the house of the besieged, soon sot it on fire. When the murderer of the creekman saw thin he gathered all his slaves, wives, and bairns within the trench, applied the match, and in a second more nothing WM to be wen but mangled bodies amid the ruins of their former home. There were thirty-five iu number altogether. They lay exposed for three days, then were put into sacks, and thrown into the river."  _ ......__