Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-06-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DREADFUL TILAGEDY AT ISLEWORTIL—FUP the past day or two the police have been engaged in the investigation of details c inflected with a &futile crone which was perpetrate! at Isleworth on Wednesday evening week. The murdered woman carried on a thriving laundry business on the banks of the River Cidne, in the picturesque village of Isleworth. Her husband. S onuel Dossett, was formerly a labourer in an adjoining market garden, hut of late assisted in his wife's work by waiting upon the customers. It is stated that during the week and up to the time of the commission of the deed he had been 'on the drink," and on the evening of the murder was trying to obtain some money from his wife. She persisted in refusing to comply with his demands, and while she was in the garden with her hands raised above her head, engaged in reaching something, he cone behind her and nearly severed her head from her body with a raz ir. He then in his frenzy made a severe wound in his own throat, and breaking through the hedge at the bottom of the garden, dished through the Colne, which at that spot is only three or four feet deep. and made for the other side. Here he wits seized by a gentleman named Major, and detained until Sergeant Wilson, of the T who was in the neighbourhood, came up, and by whom he was taken to the Brentford Union. Doseett now lies in a very precarious state, and is watched night and day by the police. Four little children, the eldest six years, and the youngest four months, have been left parentless by this terrible crime, and are now under the care of NIL' Rutland Brown, the governor of the Brentfurd Anion. A NEW INFERNAL MU; LUNE —The ilea 'ger (br Milli publishes the following letter front Toulon, dated the I Int inst., describing a new and very destructive infernal machine :—" The Maritime Powers, who spend fabulous EOM in order to discover a system of iron plating for rendering vessels invulnerable, seek at the. IMMO time the means of destroying them as quickly as possible. It is with the latter object that i decisive experiment was made here this morning of an electrical machine invented by the maritime prefect, a viceadmiral. The result exceeded all expectation, and henceforth, thanks to the new infernal machine, we shall be able to dispense with all dykes, batteries, and other old expedients hitherto employed for the defence of the ports and roads of the empire. If even an enemy's squadron venture to cone before a French port, it will be easily pulverised before having titiv ti fire a single cannon-shot. This was demonstrated to-day by the fact that in old ship, twenty-five yards long by ten broad, was raised from the water, shattered to fragments, and sunk in less than a second at a simple signal of the inventor. The destructive effects of this machine are so terrible that it was a:lowed there was no ironclad vessel solid enough to resist such a shock. What is very remarkable in this new engine of war is that it is not necessary for the enemy's vessel to strike it in order to produce the explosion, as with the Rumian and American submarine torpedoes. The French system is surer, and, above all, more expeditious. The elec. ric spark reaches an enemy's vesbel and destroys it with the rapidity of lightning. FRANCE versus