The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-10-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

COACHMAILERR' HALL, CITY.—On Monday, Mr. Sergeant Payne held an inquest at Coachmakers' Hall. Noblestreet, on the body of Charlotte Anna Addington, • fine young woman, aged 29, who committed suicide by precipitating herself into the street from the top of the above-named ball. John Phillips said on Saturday monsing he was in Oat-lane, Noble-street, unloading some timber, when on looking to the top of Coach. makers' half be saw something coming down which proved to be a woman. She had no bonnet, shawl, or tools on. He saw her deliberately throw herself tress the top of the parapet iota the street. Mr. John Smith Wilcox said the deceased vu his sister, and abe was married to Louis Abdy, I traveller. liar father died rather suddenly in June last, and since then she bad been troubled with the milk fever. Mr. WaUord, • surgeon, attended her, and was of opinion that her mind waa affected. He saw her on Saturday when she vu silent and low-spirited She got up at seven o'clock to light a fire, but instead of doing so she ran up-stairs to the top of the old hall, and threw herself from the top into Oat-lane. She had often said that she should never go out again. Her husband and herself were on the best of terms, and he vu in bed when this happened. Mr. Williajo Welton!, of Aldersgatestreet, said lie had attended the decesrned for three months professionally. She was confined in July. Her milk troulded her, and there were alight symptoms of irregularity of mind at that time. He recollected the circumstance of her father's death, and it appeared to have shocked her very much: On Wednesday he saw her, when she was very dull, and sho was limier an impression that she had been doing something that was very wrong: There had been symptoms of insanity ever once her father's death. On Saturday mondag he new her in the hall quite dead. There was a fracture of the frontal bone, which waii driven into the brain, and there was altos fracture at the base of the skull. Thou injuries were the came of death. He bad given orders that she should never be left alone. TIND Nary returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."  At the Bishop's Castle CounthCourt, Balop, a boy, 11 years of age, brought • ?barge against Henry Coward, the master of the National firliool of that town for beating him while At eehooL Tha boy had /pekoe( to another while Prams yin Was mad. The My *Aided Siednallia  The MAS • COS", who was Mimosa with haring murdered his wife ia a street mar Eleibora, was laded at the Central Criminal Camel ea flunky. The case was ooe of purely eiremastaatial evidence, the question being, as the judge remarked, Mot y whether the woman ootnnsitted :amide or was The jury, after deliberating for half-an-boar, roamed a verdict of guilty, and Xr. Justice Bylee matefteed the prisoner to death in the usual form. David Griffiths Jones, who plrned.d rsfity es the previous day to a charge of perjur7, was brought up for judgment on Thursday. The primmer, it will he remembered, had sworn in tbeCourt of Probate that he was • graduate in medicine of Aberdeen Uaivereity, a statement which, in his moss-elanainaties, he admitted to be false. The learned judge sentenced him to twelve months' hard labour.  In she ;se— S lleecl, the Italian artist, Mr. Justice Keating decided that the prisooer's legal advisers should have access to all the correspondence wide& bad passed between hint and Mies Johnston.. Further, be acceded to the application that the trial ebeeld he postponed till the next sersion. Ward, the elect Is the employ of Mews. Csster and Co., who was charged with embezzlement to a large amount, was tried on Thursday. The jury returned a verdict ot guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Al there were other count' against the primmer, sestinas was deterred. Fextrot Caen or lerairrictrix.—One of the aunt shooting eases of infanticide on record has been lately committed at Solihull, betweea Harwich end Hinder ham, by an old MOMIIIi, aged 83, and her arsednedbler, a yowls women of two-and-twenty, the mother or Um Poor victim. An inquest was held on Thursday, before Mr. Hunt, coroner for the district, on the body et • male infant, the child of Louisa itiobtina. The ire* witness called was inspeotor Smith, of tha SollbeU police, who said that, in consequence of information be had received, he visited the house in which Louisa Holding lived alone with her grandmother, at Rhoden, on Sunday morning. In answer to his gustier the young woman said she bad been delivered eta child on the Friday night, that it had been hors alive, sad that it had died, and the body WM upstairs. B. maul her to fetch it down, that be might on it, upon whisk she went up stairs. He stood at the hettem, whence he could sce her take the body of a child out of a box. She showed it to him, sad he noticed that it was burnt from head to foot. Os hie asking for an explanation, the old woman iota hies that cinder had fallen on the child. She said that whim the child was born she took it down stairs and laid it sown on the hearth before the fire, and than. as she felt very tired, she went to her bed, leaving the peer little Woo on the hearth. She knew it was alive oe she took it down stairs. He took both Sarah and Louisa into custody, taking the former to the work. house and the latter to the police *Wien. He bed since searched the house, and bad found • piece of tape, one end of which was covered with , on the stairs. Another officer was Galled, and gave 'videos, at a corroborative character. Mr. Lowe, surgeon to the Solihull Union, said he had made a poet stortem soul. nation of the deceased child on the previous_ day. He found that the skin of the left side of the Uad, fete, and neck was severely burned, as well as the left arm, from the shoulder to the lacers. The front and outside of the left leg and thigh were also much burnt. From the appearance of the wounds I• felt Atisfied that they had been inflicted during the hie of the child. The bead, face, sad part of the neck presented a livid appearance. The child was a perfectly mature and well-grown child, and the lungs were well filled. The only noticeable thing that be found is making the internal examination was that the brain was very much congested. In his opinion the muse of death was strangulation, iinmediately following the infliction of the burns. The burns were ii, themlelves sufficient to cause death, but not to cause that death to be instantaneous. Tl3O coroner then summit up againstbriefiyand , tliethjeurytwborowulbent i.nboatbreolietwhefo.".W.T. committed "Wilful murder '1 the ensuing Warwick Assizes for trial.