The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-07-02 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.  A moat determined attempt wu made on t,aturclay week by a convict named Burkett, who his undergoing • long period of penal servitude at the Chatham convict establishment, to murder one of the warders, named Cooper, by striking him with • spade. The injuries were of so serious a nature that it was for a long time feared he could not survive.  _ At the time the awful conflagration was raging in Tooley-strimt, London, on Sun, lay morning, • fire broke out at the Spread Eagle and Hod Lion Tavern, Whitechapel. The premises were entirely consumed, and the potmen, who was sleeping at the top of the house, RAS burnt to • cinder.  The inquest oil the bodies of the three men who lost their lives by the terrible accid-nt which happened last week near Tethers. on the North Staffordshire line, was opened on Monday week. During the inquiry some rear important disclosures were made, which, if subetantiated, will serimudy affect the manageeent of the company. Three witnesses, who examined the line after the accident, affirnied that many of the deeper* were dragged several inches from their places, that the material of them wu rotten, and that the pep , which are wedged in the chairs to keep them to the mils were many of them out and scattered about the line. Under these cireunutanoes the inqueut was adjourned for the purpose of obtaining the attendance ol the Government inspector. Mr. Philip Homer, a surgeon, residing at Brierly Birmingham, has been charged before the Birmingham magistrates with fraud. Ile was in the ha it of piing to Benson's dining and refreshment rooms. Ou Monday he was there, and consumed refreshments to the value of 2s. 10d., for which the waitress gave him • check. He went down stairs to the waitress appointed to receive payment, and to .whoin he ought to have given the cheek for 2s, 103. with the money ; but, instead of doing so, he gave her • cheek for W., and left the house. The Bench committed the prisoner for trial, but accepted bail, hmiummecif in £4O, and two sureties in f:2O each. . . _ . _ .  ...... On Thum:lay morning Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for East Middlesex, held an inquest at the Two Brewers public-house, Spite' street, liethnal-green. on the body of Philip Waterlow, aged 53 who, committed .elf.destruction. The deceased was a weaver, and like some thonsanils of other Spitalfields weavers, had been nut of work for aeveral months, sod be and his family were starving for want of the coninton neoessaries of life. The wife bad partyd with all they poeticised to get food as long as they could. On Wednesday elr ening she went out to sell a looking glass., and daring her absence the deceased suspended himself by • cord from a hook in the ceiling.— He had been changed in bis manner for the-e d.iys previously. The jury returned a verdict of " teminrary insanity," brought on through want and starvation. A sweep is in custody at Leicester, charged with I kidnapping two children and waking them ascend ' chi inneys. Two teen accused of housebreaking escaped from the lockup at Orvett, Essex. They were pursuit' by an ollieions farmer, who hunted Olson with two 'mends. The animals scented out the men, whose faces and hodie.t.were terribly toru and mangled before they were., taken into custody: The Re,. Llewellyn Powell, a clergyman of the CI urch of England, and who some time ago was curate of Child vial', under the Rev. Augustus l'ainpbell, rector of Liverpool, was placed before the atipendary trate at Liverpool on Thursday on the proprietor of the London Hotel, under false pretences, and also with etolen two silver ladles from the hotel, which har, afterwards effete Ito pawn. The prisoner, who is a , riung nom of about 30 yaan of age, trembled liolently whilst in the dock. Mr. Barrett stated that prisoner slept at the hotel that night, and went away on the following morning. The silver ladles eminced were witnesses. Mr Walter, an aseistant in the employ of Mr. Parley, pawnbroker, stated that on Tuesday last the prisoner brought the two silver ladles produced to oledge. Witness observed that they had the name of "Barrett, the London," upon them. and on drawing the prisoner's attention to this, be said he obtained them from an hotel in London. The witness, however, knowing the London, asked the prisoner to take a seat, it which he instantly left the shop and ran away. The prisoner was committed for trial. There is. further chf47l, against him of havitag stolen a gold watob and chain from the Lamb NOM, Wavarayea. Thom mays • fonyid upon WM.