The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1859-08-30 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

AFFAIR.---At St. Gall, in Switzer. land, a few days ago, a young workman and workwunien having married, went with their friends to a public , house, to eat the wedding feast. Will% the mirth awl fun were at thvir height, the report of a tire-arm was , heard, awl the young husleuid, to the consternation of ' the party, was struck is the bead by a ball and fell dead. The same lull before hitting him grazed his wife's neck, all,l after passing through his head Imlged in the I shoulder of one of the guests, wounding him rather I Severely. It tunicd init that the fatal shot was fired I by a workman named Boppart, but quite unintentien• ally. He being • friend of the newly-niarried couple and being about to join the wedding party, of which his wife was one, thought fit to fire Ids gun in their liononr, but by mistake he charged it with • ball cartridge ioitead of one with simple powder. Boppart was no oftt.cted at the fatal event and at the comments made on it W., the townspeople that the day after he drowned himself in a pond.  11 lOUS DISCOVILIT OF THI BODY Olt A CHILD IN • RAILWAY CA lIRIAGE.-Beuse excitement Wke created at the Midland Railway station, Leeds, on Wednesday morning, by the discovery of the body of • i new-born male child, under circumstances of grave stue. . picion. It appears that on Monday night, a gentleman , going to Kirkstall got into one of the grist,-clam carriages attached to the 10.40 train for Bradford, and immeili• ately after the train had been put in motion he noticed • large brown paper parcel on one of the *eau. lie looked out of the window and called to the porters that there was • parcel in the carriage, but the train was already out of the station, and it was too late to leave the parcel behind. In the meantime his suapiciona bad been roils d by tbe peculiar form and "feel of the isroel. Subsequently the parcel gave off such an unquestionable odour u to ji.stify the officials in examining it more ' closely, and the polies having been sent for, it was 1, opened in their prvienoe. It waa then found to contain the dead body of a full-grown male child, but there was j nothing externally to indicate whether it had been born alive or not. The coroner, however, MU communicated with and he at once ordered • post mortem examination ! to be made, and opened an inquest Saturday morning. ! The _case .is involved, as is usual iu such instances, in a  good deal of mystery. Tux Coxvier Ettes Iterrint.—The Home Secretary has felt himself justified in advising tbe extension of the royal prerogataie to this miserable woman, convictei at the late Gloucester assixes of the murder of her husband. Her sentence will be commuted to penal servitude for life. This result is owing to numerous applicatione on the prisoner's behalf, based principally on the ground of the gross ill truatuient she suffered from the deceased. It may be remembered that the jury accompanied their verdict with a recommendation to a similar effect.—The Writers Times says:—" Her conduct in gaol has been somewhat remarkable. At first, we hear, she refused to eat, but subsequently she said she was not going to faint or to laughed at on ter trial, and, therefore, the night before her trial she hail bolo° mutton, •to keep up hir strength; which she ate voraciously. She expressed her &termination to ple4l guilty, and on being told the judge would not allow her to do so. asked , ' What's the use of telling a lie,about it?' ldr. Powell, who was to have defended her, sitigzehtect that she should apply to have the trial deferred, and in the meantime her defence might be properly get up. ' No,' she replied, ' l'in sure to I.e found guilty, and I may as well be hanged now as in six niontlue tour.' She also expressed a wish to be hanged in preference to having , penal servitude for life. A great number of philantru• phists have applied at the gaol to see her, une of whom expreased a wish. as he phrased it, 'to hear from her dying lips the confeivilou that lice melancholy talc and that of her husband was attributable to alcohol.' Were the prisoner's life extended fortwo years she could not in that thee read all the religious tracts and ;Jinni phlets which have been forwarded fur her perusal." •