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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1868-08-11 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

CRAZY THROUGH DERR. -- Beoj4MiE Ley, of Milton Abbe., was brought up in custody charg• d with being drunk on the previous night, and threatening his mother's lA.—Prisoner's sister appeared, and stated that on the previous Tuesday 'he threatened to murder hi. mother. The prisoner, who appeared to thiek lightly of the mstter,and repeatedly said he was "crazy" through drink, saiit also thot be had be. n a teetotaller for some time, but broke out. If the bench would look or. r the offence, he would sign again and not taste drink. --He was bound OVI rin his own recognizance" of g 5 to keep the peace for 12 calendar =int!". A FATHER PROSECUTING 1118 OWN CHlLD.—Frederick Fitzpatrick, aged 11 years, appeared at the bar, charged ou theanfortr.ation and complaint of his father, drill. instructor to the Bth Dorset corps of Volunteers, with felony. —Prosecutor ,toted that the Monday he went to the camp the boy took away a quantity of things from hi, home and divined of them, and on the following If. nday he went off, taking with him a poll- of boy's trowsers, and • little girl'. skirt. Ile heard that the boy was on his way to Winiborne, and took him there. The clothing be had disposed off at Keenstone. The boy admitt":l he took the things.—Eliztheth Belbin, of Keynotes", said the tiw offi red the things to her for isle. She gave him la. 6d, for them.—The Chairman: Don't you think you did • foolish eel to buy things of • boy like that —Witness : The boy maid his father and sister were dead. and his mother wan in great distress and had nothing to eat. He cried very bitterly and I bought the things entirely out of oonspaesion.— His lordehip asked the f.ther if be bad properly °Drawled ! the boy. He replied that he had /frequently beaten him but to no purpose. fie had been to Mr. Orifhtlia. school.—His Lordship: The boy will, if you press this case, go to trio.,,. first and then to a reformatory—Prosecutor: I wish him to go there, is it may do him good. I would rather he was sent through me, than for some one else to send Lordship then asked the boy what he thought of himself, but the lad did not answer, and he was committed for 14 day,' imprisonment, and at the expiration to five years in Milborne Reformatory.  BLANDFOItD ST. _MARY.  Smoot Friday afternoon the children attending Blandford SL Mary School were liberally entertained by their friends and supporters of the school to • bountiful supply of tea and eake. The children met in their school-room, and carrying Isanners and flags, and nosegays, marched in procession to the front of the rector's house, when • large party of ladies and gectlemen gladly waisted in waiting at the Sealable.. Mr. King's Quadrille band added greatly to the afternoon'a enjoyment.. After tea various sports were participated in by the javeeilee, and dancing by those who preferred that amusement, and • very happy evening was spent.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1884-04-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A NURSERY.  MAN.  At the County Poll as C nal, on Monday, before 8. W. Whotham, an I Reginald D. Toornt in, Ups , James 0 aok, nurseryman, Bra Ipole, was charged in custody with an assault on his wife, Elisabeth, on the previous eveoing.—Prleoner pleaded not .Cui Ity . —Mr. R. Tooker defended —Mrs, Cook at st-ci she had been married to prisoner 34 years, and he I six children. lii company with her husband she &owe on Sunday ti groadwindoor, and on r 'turning, when near their borne, he wiehe I her to go indoors, but elle went with him to the King's Head. She left him there, and on retiring son after found him there with David Barrett, who was " chaffior " about a Id try Ann Legg. She followed her husband out, when he struck her twice, and catching her by the hair pulled a quantity of it out. (Witness here produced a paper package containing a quantity of 'sumac hair.) He -truck her again in the Inc., breast, and elbow. She then went with a Mr. Parsons to her house, but prisoner had been there to put out the lights, and gone away. She came back to the hones again in oompany with Par. gons,wben prisoner, who was in the dark, ought bold of her round the nook, and hold her. Her gouda-law, Philter Pommy, OMMO and took pliMMbef away. TM marks on her body and face were caused by prisoner's violence. She was afraid of him, and did not wish to live with him any longer. —Prisoner hen denied any intention to infore his wife. —Thome. Parsons, sho,maker, Bredpole, said Mrs. Cook came to him on the previous evening with her face bleeding and bet halt torn. He had heard prisoner threaten to" Do for his wife that night." He pulled prisoner's bands away from his wife's throat—Walter Foray, net braider, Bradpolo, said be heard " Murder " called, and went to the how, where he saw prisoner with his arms round hie wife's neck struggling with her. When he remonstrated with prisoner the latter threat .ned to kick him out of house. Prisoner put both his hands to his wife's throat. as If trying to stop her breath. Wham managed to got prisoner away, and on his hick on th, loor, where be held him for nearly half an hour until the police oeme.—P.C. Custard said he apprehended prisoner last evening, and on the way to the station he said "I 'oppose I shall get LI months for it ; " and also said he ehould isdl off all his things an I go off with a woman. Tole he reps ited at the OJAI in.— Alter short consultation the Bench committed prisoner to hard labour for two months, and granted the wife a Judicial separation— her husband to allow her ss. per week.—Mr. Alexander lif. Broadley, the senior counsel for Arabi Pachs, was in Court daring the hearing.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1867-04-09 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

DERSUOT.—Joeeph Coleman, • rrivate of the tat Ixottalion 18th Royal Irish Regiment, was idiot by a comrade on Wednesday while at target practice at the rifle ranges, Aldershot. Edward Halpin, the man who shot Coleman, was seen to load his piece aril deliberately fire at the poor fellow. The ball took effect in the right arm, which had to be amputated at he shoulder. Halpin is in confinenient, although it is believed that Le did not design to injure Coleman, but that the shocking occurrence was the result of a foolish jest. RZSPOARIDILITIES OF LOCAL BoAHDA.—At the Leeds Awns, Mr. Dyson, a partner in the Hepworth Pon Company, brought all action against Mr. Booth, the clerk to the IVooldele Board of Health, to recover compensation for injuries he had sustained from the negligence of the yor to the Bawd in leaving • heap of rough stones on the Greenfidd and Shepleylane-roe-I. The plaintiff, returning home in his trap late at night, drove over the heap in question, and was tt rown out and much inj 'red. The defenee wan that the trap was nput, not by driving over the heap of stones, but by driving on to the raised causeway. This leas not, however, made good, and the jury found for the plairitiff damages 1:50. FATAL S Row. At the Bristol finites Henry Ware was indicted for the manslaughter of Samuel Kinnott, on the 22nd of January. It appeared that the deceased carried on the business of a hawker, and had apartments at the Balmoral Coale, in Bristol. A woman named Lucy Trim roused no his wife and lived with him. On the 22nd of January the deceased and I Trim were out very late, and on their return they found the Balmoral Castle shut or. They knocked at the door very loudly, and disturbed the neighbour.. The poisoner canto up and nothing upon the deceased knocked him down by repeated blows on the head with • gun, and aft. rwards Incited him on the bead while down. Ile died while be lig removed to the hoepital. A verdict of guilty wee returned, awl the prisoner was sentenced to seven yews' penal unitade. THE MURDER OF LORD TRIO/GAB'S KZETEIL —At the Monmouth Arises Abraham Brimble and Charles 801 l were indicted for the murder of George Kelly, at Bassaleg, on the 20th of November last. The deceased was one of Lord Tredegar's gamekeepers. The two plisoners were colliers working in the neighbouring mines. A dying statement had been made by the deceased, in which he said that one of the two poachers whom he encountered in the woods of Coed Mawr on the night in question fired at him and gave him his death wound. He e,uld not identify the men who fired at him, and as the two keepers who accompanied him ran away when the shot was fired, they also were unable positively to say who the men were. Various little ciecumnanees seemed to render it highly probable that the prisoners were the two poachers in question, but the evidence was so weak that the jury returned • verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoners were discharged. I
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1863-12-29 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

INFANT.— On Thursday last It. M. Wilson, Esq., county coroner, held an inquest at the Ram Inn, in the perish of North Ted worth, on the body of a newly-born male infant, the offspring of Ann Druitt, who was • servant in the employ of Mr. George Moore, landlord of the Rain Inn. Charlotte Pennell stated that on Tuesday she eras *ash. ing at Mr. Moore's, when Ann Druitt brought in two sheets much stained. Frames Cooper was present, and they both accused her of haring bad • child. After • short tint she admitted baring had • baby, but stated that it was dead born, and that it was In the closet— Charles Mande', police constable, proved finding the body of the child in the closet. He handed it over to Mr. Pyle surgeon.—Elisabeth Pennell said she was housemaid to Mr. George Moore, and Ann Draitt was her fellow-servant. They slept in the same bed, but Druitt never informed her she was in the familyway. Druitt went up-stairs between twelve and one o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and remained there until five o'clock. About four o'clock witness wait up-stain and found the door locked.—Mr. Frederick Pike, surgeon of Weyhill, Mated that on Tuesday last be went to the Idam Inn, Tedworth. He went Into • bedroom with Frames Cooper, and saw on Ann Dniitt's bed stains of blood, and also on the blanket and pillow. He masked the policeman in getting up the body, which was that of a wellformed full-grown child, witb a few marks, as of braises. There WY nothing externally that would lead him to the belief that the child had cease to a violent death. Ann Druitt subsequently informed him that the child was born on Sunday. She said she had gone her full time, and had neither made any provision for it nor told any one about it. She said that if it had been born alive she should have called somebody. He could not account, for the uppearances on the skull, except from some external violence; and from the appearance presented by the body and by the lungs he was of opinion that the child fully respired. There was nothing to lead him to sums@ that the child died from external haemorrhage. Mr. Charles John Pyle. surgeon, of Amesbury, mild be assi-ted Mr. Pike in making • pareitortest examination of the body of a male infant The body was that of a healthy fully-developed child. He observed no external marks of serious injury, but there were bruises on the male. He corroborated Mr. Pike's statement as to the floating of the lungs. and he thought the child had fully respired. He examined the scalp, and in his opinion the fractures were quite sufficient to cause death. He could not think if the mother had been delivered In bed the skull could have been so extensively fractured. He did not believe that the fractures of the skull could have occurred from any accidental circumstances during partarition.—The evidence haring been summed up by the coroner the jury returned • verdict of 'wilful murder" against Ann Drtett, and the coroner made out his warrant for her oommittal for trial at the next Wilts arises.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1863-10-20 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

COWARDLY AND MALICIOUS ACT.— Some 1114. cresol has deliberately poisoned a black cart horse, the property of Mr. Hawkins, farmer, of Haydon, near this town. A reward of £2O bas been offered for the discovery of the offender.  A SIMPIICTID MORDIRED GIRL TURNI3O A romantic case formed a subject for investigation by the magistrates at the polio' omit on Wednesday. About two months since an invalid girl, named Mary Ana Barber, suddenly disappeared, and the fact of its being believed that she had been unable to leave her bed for months, connected with her sudden disappearance, led to suspicion that she had been dealt unfairly with, and grave hints were thrown out that she had been murdered. The rumours were brought under the notice of Mr. Superintendent Goldsmith, who investigated into the matter, but with no result Suspicion fell on the woman with whom she lodged, who than told the following remarkable story, which now turns out to be true, but was not believed at the time. During the summer the girl Barber lodged at her hone in Trinity dinriot, keeping her bad entirely, during • portion of which time she was visited by the Rev. Sir. Donato', or other charitable persona, who daily looked for her decease, lo ill did she appear, apparently taking no food to sustain life. In the bourne were other girls, who went out to daily labour, and who invariably complained on their return that some of their victuals had mysteriously disappeared. One day, • little girl, on the return of the mistress, told her that Mary Ann, the invalid, had been down stairs in her night-dress, and had been to the cupboard and taken more victuals. When Mary Ann was told of this she stoutly denied it, and asserted that the girl must have seen her ghost and doubtless it was& token that she ahouid speedily die and be with Jesus. One day in August, the food in the cupboard continuing to disappear, the mistress resorted to stratagem to discover the thief, and told Mary Inn that she was going out, and should not be home for several hours. She looked the front door, and apparently left the house, but at once got in again by the book way, and secreted herself in the cupboard. In the °ours* of half an hour the heard footsteps coming down. stairs, and then the door of the cupboard was opened, discovering to the mistreat the ghost of Mary Ann, and to Mary Ann the ghost of her mistress. Both were too much frightened to speak at first, but the affair ended in the mistress ordering Mary Ann to leave the house the next day. Early in the morning Mary Ann and the ghost had vanished, taking with her some of the apparel belonging to her fellow lodgers. A day or two since she returned to the town, and was at once given into custody, on a charge of vagrancy. During the time she lodged in Taunton she was in the receipt of parochial relief. These facts having been deposed to, the idea of her murder WM dissipated, and Mary Ann was nut to gaol for 14 days' hard labour.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1860-11-06 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE ROAD MURDER.  We (Bath Journal) are in a position to state, from a source of :he highest authority, that the investigation into this terrible and mysterious murder is not to be allowed to l•pile but that some course, which shall at once be constitutional and searching, will shortly be issued for continuing the inquiry, which hitherto has so unfortunately failed in discovering the perpetrator of the crime. The efforta of Mr. Slack did not terminate with the late inquiry, resulting m the discharge of the nursemaid ; and we believe we are right in saying. that neither the magistrates nor the public have abated one jot of their anxiety and zeal for the discovery of the murderer. The Attorney-General, too, has brought his comprehensive and penetrating mind to bear upon the case; and although we have al ways regarded the bungling end incomplete investigation of the Coroner, as beitig fatal to the chances of discovery by subquent inquirers, we are willing to hope that with W. much legal acumen and seal brought into the case. the 'ache* of the original inquirer', may he remedied, awl the mystety at present enslinmding this frightful crime be cleared up. We cannot at present say what precise form the future inquiry will take; but that another public investigation will be instituted, we believe, is certain. Letters and articles upon the case continue to be published in the newspapers, but though the theories propounded satisfy the appetite of the public, excitaxl, as it has been, by the want ofany positive evidence, they receive but little attention from thoae who have been really convenient with the case, and the inquiries concerning it. All the suggestions hive been attended to, the theories acted upon. and every possible mean', taken to worm out the hidden mystery. At preent all have failed. It as hope that further investigations may, by eliciting some slight clue, still letul to the elucidation of the mystery ; although we confess, we are more inclined to believe that if the murderer be ever discovered. it will be by some word incwitiously spoken, or hy some deed performed, which will afford an index to the at present undiscovered track ot the asses-sin. The only circumstances announced during the mat week having any reference to the case, is that Mr. Kent has decided to remove to his former residence. Idaytiton House, sear Corshain, which is his own property, and will probably do so at Christmas. His anxiety to leave is not to be wondered at, when it is remembered how inveterately his house is haunted. On Sunday scores of persons found their way to the spot, and one large party of youths entered the premises and began exploring the grounds. (hi Mr. Kent challenging them as to what business they had there, they answered that • government reward was offered for the night dress. slit bow could he expect them to filet it, if they were not allowed to come in ? It was only in the police being sent for that they took their departure.
The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-07-29 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE RESERVE FORCES. Sir W. HARCOURT said that it WM not usual to persons bardment of the Alexandrian forts was an act of self- right, and dote,, riatisfs.etory settlement, he hopeu; . the De traere , exercise the Royal prerogative in the case of 'hat had they On the order for the consideration of the Qleen's mead f •t• the authority of the imprisoned or reels ing e court he was not willing bleetaa4li° ' met with sage relative to the Reserve forces, who still continued to do so. Personally, he was as defence, and in reply to those who argued that a Sir J. PEASE pointed out that there was a grave his own reeponstbility. ~,DvIS. -that the Earl GRANVILLE moved an address thanking her . sufficient force ought to have been sent to prevent the line to be drawn between the policy of intervention THE PleftENIX PARK Al" „ stiOn '''' At i° t°116111.1 W' h bhRvMrG Majesty for her message communicating to the House her anxious as the hon. fmem member that bt e ..e . ' Jean disorder that followed, he held that a sufficient force and that of non•interventton, and on a full review of respects, and . ... to let lands ofSir W. HA.RCOURT, in :TOY to 1' 'ter etsterteete 51 3,25914 PC intention to cause the Reserve force, or such part of It should be delivered horn. prison, t his prison taken u- 7-- ..""ra must have been a force adequate not to meet in the all the cironmstances of the case he did not approve field, but to drive from streets and lanes an army of M. Coen, declined to make any rah' ° _tie of elle. the eteo 1 t veeezee nt nu e Ras tsent as might be thought necessary, to be forthwith called out were locked trom the inside, and Mr. Green coma open of the proposed intervention in Egypt. reference to the reported arrest a , aee In ' talirte i for permanent service. them when he ever chose to declare his desire to con- 10,000 or 15,000 men, and that the landing of such a Mr. NORTHCOTE contended that there Was no the murderers of Lord F. Cavendisn lee The Earl of CARNARVON did not wish to criticise form to the law. Nothing was more difficult than to tor nOlPej force could not be made decently to cohere with the • .'fieation for the attempt that had been made tohear i lase. (Hear. ~ , eat, „it eet es ; e I adversely the proposal of the Government, but could not get a man out of prison who insisted on being kept - •13141 is 0s Oøo 1 leraarnail statement that the fleet was in Alexandrian waters throw the respontibility for recent events in Egypt on PAUPER CHILDREN AND PU ?get, of 0 I regard it as altogether satisfactory that at the very out- there. (Laughter.) to rah et, o ,et of operations such as those which were about to be
The Commonwealth. — 1867-02-23 (London, England)

QUEEN'S ESNCII PRISOIV.  William Seawood, a rrivate fa the fkenadier Griezds, dressed in a -military convict Bei% whoce head was ranch swollen and diaagured, was placed at he bar, at the Southwark Police-court, on Saturday, before Mr. Woolrych, charged with escaping from the Qc.een's Bench Prison, where he was undrgoing a sentcnce of six month& imprisonment for desertion. it ap2sexcd from the evidence of -William Wooley that about two in the morn:ng he found the prisoner lying in some DOW building in the course of erection in the Dry:almondroad, Bermondsey. He :Doused him up, and found him to be bleeding 'rem to ears and noss, and he was partially insensible. On convo3ing him to the fitationhouse, and perceiving ha was attirea in a military conviot suit, he questioned him, when ho said he had come from the oar3p at Aldershot. He aleo said that the injuries he had received were by falling from tho building where he was found. The surgeen of tha police wan sent for, and while h 3 was attending to. him a noto came that tho prison= had made his escape from the Qlean's military prizon in the 13ron3hroad.  Joseph Graham, chief warder of the hatter place, said that the prisoner belengzel to the Ist Battalioa of Grenadier Guards, and was SPnt to them at the end of last month, haviag been tried by court-martial and sentenced to six monthe' impri2ontrent. Ho had latterly been under medical treatment, and on that account and his good behaviour Ni aa allowed to attend the E ohool in the evezing. At eight o'clock he left the school, and must have secreted himself in the rear of the buildings, and when all was cadet he managed by EOMO means to climb on the top of tho cooking establishment, and from thence to the top of the wall. He had provided himself with drip of linen from the infirmary, which he had tied together and fastened to the iron work, and then lowered himself to the outside. The linen appeared to have broken about three yards from the top, so that he must have fallen some 20 feet. Fortunately for him, the spot where he fell was unpaved, or he must have been killed. The governor of the prison (Captain Clarke) claimed the prisoner, so that he miaht be triad again for escaping from the prison. Prior to that he would, however, be taken into the infirmary and medically examined. Mr. Woolryoh accordingly remitted the prizoner to Captain Clarke's custody.  Infanticide. Fanny Jane Small was charged Infer° the Devonport magiutraten on Monday with the wilful murder of her infant. Suspicions had tem raked that the prisoner, who TV afi i domeEtic in the (stablishmeut of Bin Miller, of Keybam Docl:yard, had been very reer:ntly confined. The police made a szch for the child, whih they fonud in an aFlpit, a piece of red tape tied tightly round its reek. The .nedical man could not sw,lar that the child had been horn alive, but the bench committed bor for wiliv.l tLiurder,