The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-08-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING SUICIDE. RAMSOATE, MONDAY.About three o'clock on Monday afternoon, a woman named Palmer, the wife of a painter living at the hamlet of Chilton, Isle of Thanet, threw herself from the west cliff, Ramsgate, on to the rocks below. She was picked up by a passing pleasure boat, and medical aid was procured, but she is so dangerously injured that she is not expected to survive. The cause of the attempt is said to have been jealousy of her husband.  DARING ESCAPE OF A Patsiawm—On Monday% afternoon a daring attempt was made by a prisoner to escape from custody whilst been conveyed by train from Uxbridge to London. At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions in the morninas a ,young man who save the name of Charles Adams, and a false address at Southall, was convicted of a till rob'..ery .it the Post-cffice, Hillingdon, and sentenced to thiee months' imprisonment with hard labour. Hi+ conduct in the court was of so extraordinary a nature that the magistrates thought it right to refer his ease to the medical officer of the prison, and accordingly endorsed the warrant •to that effe t. l'he Uxbridge prisoners are conveyed by train to. and from the court and the House of Detention;. and the pisoner in question was handcuffed at Uxbridge, and sent by train in charge of a constable. When the train had arrived about midway between Hayes and Southall, prisoner, who bad cot shown signs of violence previously, suddenly made a rush at the window of the compartment, which he smashed with the handcuffs on his wrists, and, having unfastened the door, leaped from the carriage whilst the train was in full motion. The constable who had charge of him susceeded in seizing hold of his clothes; but he struggle t so desperately whilst partly suspended outside that the attempt to hold him had to be given up, and he was seen to roll down the embankment torn and bleeding. Immediately the trainavas pulled up at the Southall Station, the constable gave the alarm, and he and several other persons started down the line, expecting to find the prisoner lying dead or I seriously injured. It was found, however, th it although mach cut about the face and legs, the man I had recovered himself, and run a distance of nearly two miles. He WM stopped in a corn-field by I some reapers, and was taken back to Southall. SELLING A DOG FOR Li3ll3.—At Guildhall, on Friday, John Gadsden; journeyman butcher, was brought before Alderman Carter by Richard gel, a aiiy detective officer, on a warrant signed by Mr. W. Jardine, jrurtce of the peace for the borough of Dunstable, on the charge of having obtained 3s. from Edward Elliott, a butcher of Chedffington, in thr county of Buckingham, by false I pretences, with intent to cheat and defraud him of the same. Relf said that about the middle of April last, a butcher residing at Cheddington bad a large and savage retriever dog which worried his pigs, and he determined to get rid of it. He discatted the prisoner, who was his journeyman, to kill it and bring him the skin. The prisoner did 80, but afterwards dressed the carcase as if it had been intended for human food, and went to Mr. Edward Elliott, a butcher at Cheddington, and sold it to hint as a goat for 3s. Mr. Elliott asked to see the s'sia, but the prisoner said that he had sent it to b dressed. He added that he had given the Lead to the dogs to eat. Mr. Elliott bought the carcase as that of a goat, and sold it to another butcher, whose name did not transpire, as a lamb, and ha sold part of it to the public as lamb. Some of it he kept for the use of his own family. His father ate part of it, and thought the flavour very I peculiar, and the customers complained of the ex- I traordinary character of the meat. The rumour spread that a dog had been killed, and that the , inhabitants of Cheddington bad been citing dog's I flesh. Gadsden denied that the carcase was any other than of a goat. Further inquiries, how- I ever, were instituted, when it became apparent , the the prisoner had sold the carcase of the dog as that of a goat. An application was then made to the magistrates at Dunstable for a warrant fer the apprehension of the prisoner, but before it scold be executed he absconded. The warrant 17.1: nibsequently placed in the hands of the city police. and Bell apprehended liim.—Alderumu Carter order ad the prisoner to be handed over to Mr. Denjamit George, head constable or Dunstable, to be taker before the mazistrate there.