Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1865-06-08 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

MAN AND WOMAN COMMITTED FOR THE WILFUL MURDER OF A CHILD.—An inquest was held at Fordingbridge, Hants, on Friday, on the body of a newly. born female child, the Hl,gitimate offspring of a servant girl named Pope, 17 years of ave. Pope had been in the service of a man named White, a widower, about 60 years of age, and it appeared from her own and his confesiion, that after her confinement he had taken the child away and placed it in an ob,cure corner in a wheat field, where he subsequently pointed it out to the police. Evi lence of violent death having been distinctly found on the body, the prisoners were fully committed for trial on the charge of wilful murder. DR. PRITCHARD, at Edinburgh, on the 3rd of July, will be arraigned on two charges, viz.: first, the murder of his mother-in-law, and secondly, of his wife. There are eighty witnesses against him, and upwards of 150 articles to be produced as tending to incriminate him. The counsel who defended Mrs. McLachlan is understood to be amongst these retained for Dr. Pritchard.-.—The Glasgow Daily Mail says :—The trial, it is stated, must conclude on the 10th of July, or according to the provisions of the law the prisoner goes free. The Crown authorities are, of course, aware of this; and should the defence evince a determination to drag out the proceedings the court will sit all night, as well as all day, in order to finish it."  EXTRAORDINARY DECATH THROUGH WITNESSING VIOLENCE TO A WlFE.—Jane Collins, aged 65 years, a spinster, living in Bartholomew-close iis a state of great filth, although she was possessed of ample property. On. Friday one of her lodgers, a man named Milton, commenced beating his wife, and this so agitated deceased that she became ill, and died from effusion of serum on the brain. The jury found that death had resultel from serious apoplexy, caused by the fright from witnessing the attack upon Mrs. Milton, as well as by her own miserable habits. Milton was, morally, accountable for her death. Milton said that he wished to remark that no gent'eman would strike a woman if be was not "gorged" on to it, and the jury must be aware of that fact. 1-le did not agree with their verdict. The coroner informed him that his recognition was not —I. trjiad carpenter,rig le es o n Barnard, nn havingdaard, necessary. n oagedii DISTURBING , i e,wwhaosc describedh arg eCONGREGATION. ef himselfore Mr.as Partridge, at therkenwell, with disorderly conduct, arid disturbing the congregation at St. Mark's Church, Myddeltonaose:oohbi round saw commenced, . sot apeewrnel :dicr, minutes the proceeding jderiai pun: Irtgee:assfsrordnot oema: Charlestltje2iul terrific i jffituCis 1 anet s jumping seats, shriek and , aaa ntnanddned merchant,endeavouring noisent Litany Ii turningi3:in ht ande to get over the pew in which were some ladies. The wild conduct of the prisoner quite alarmed the congregation. Prisoner was quite sober. Mr. E. H. May, a surgeon, said prisoner told him that whenever he went to church the congregation conspired together to murder him. Mr. Partridge: Should you ii,y he was out of his wind? Witness : At times he spoke rationally enough. He should not l'ke to give a.decided opinion as to his state of mind The prisoner :It is all right what the witnesses have stated. Mr. Partridge What have you to say t.) making a noise in the church? The prisoner: I was worshipping God, and it was the FlolySpiritba wov.,(i rue. My shirt w,s torn by the witnesses, and t if I had kicked them it woul I have served them right. Detention for further inquiry. .. has been Mr. P. rtridge remanded the prisoner to the House of