The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1877-10-05 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

COMIT. Throughout the whole day mayoral hundreds of people thronged the narrow thoroughfare of the Old Bailey, an.l clustered thickly around the principal entrance to the Court House. About nine o'almeg, when the uproar was at the height, two or three of the superior officers of the Sheriffs staff made their appearance in the crowd and Presumably gays directions to the police to keep down the turmoil as far es possible. Wore this time it bad become necessary to shut the great doors ordinarily open during the sessions, and to post two or more of the I most massive of the polies to resist all attempts to gain admission. A aide door leading into Newest* yard was at the service of privileged people, amonas.agyen up 11 to o'clock at night, ladies were MC a through the throng to snake their way into the though the great majority of thole assembled were regular unrest lounger'', or runners engaged it might he to carry the intoffigenee of the verdict to various parts of London, there was not wanting a considerable admixture of more respectable people, anxious to learn at once the result of this all-engioarlog case. Soon after ten it was known that the jury had retired to consider their verdict, and it was rather surprising that in the interval of more than an hour before their return no erroneous rumours were started to mislead the crowd. People returning in cabs from places of amusement to their homes in the east found their vehicles jammed in the crowd. Omnibus drivers, despairing of loathing their time, did not scruple to declare that there would be another Pangs murder, meaning, it is to be presumed, the crushing as by the car of Juggernaut of bystanders who blocked their neosege. Pressure on the big and rude doors of entrance and exit to  and from the interior now amounted to something very serious, and threatened to lead to • collision between the truncheons of the police and the heads most prominutly and temptingly available lee operations. Good temper on both Bides averted actuelhostilitles. Meseenitere OMOr from the Court-home were surrounded end mobbed.gll could scarce make their way through the crush, as yetthey had nought to tell. When at the door. were thrown open, and the who been in court could be seen through the windows pouring down the staircase and emerging into the street, the crowd round the doorway grew denser and the excitement became augmented to an extraordinary extent. As WOO 1M the arse POMO appeared from the court he was besieged by dosses Of eager inquirers ea to the nature of the verdict and sentence, and the brief narratives delivered by the &thud spectator, of the NOW hi the court were speedily retailed from mouth to month be thus outside. Universal meisfealon was expreesed at I the sentence, and it manifested itself in clapping of hand/ and cheering as soca as it wee made known. It wee a matter of a few minute., however, to diminish the numbers of the crowd who had been hi/ulnas up the street during the time the verdict wee awaited; and by dint of the exertions of the large body of police who were en the ironed the unrest was clewed in about half 4a-loour after the Court clued. A League correspondent says :—I am not exiweselugnu own minim. but the opinion Of three in court, when a., that the verdict created great surprise. Up till the last memeat the prevailing impressioe was that manslaughter sad nee saran wand have been the medic; &greasily lath. mine at the worms. The anaouncement of the verdict created pest exeltemeet in the city. At midefela the eusing upon brought out an edit's& &hag the malt, • pmesseling emits unprecedented. The papers had an 'aortae= side, and there was great commotion in lleetellreee and the Strand. Long after midnight crowdemeenthied in the theraighferee digressing the verdict, and seldom les such a stir been Seen in the metropolis at so late an hour. RE•