The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-04-08 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT HENDON. —oa Saturday morning about six o'clock • tragedy of a fearful nature took place at Battersea Hill, near Mill Hill, Hendon. Police-constable Savage, whilst on duty, heard the report of fire-arms, and on proceeding in the direction he was informed that a female, named Ann Box, residing with her mother in • cottage at Battersea Hill, hal been shot by her sweetheart, • young labouring man, named James Lawrence, residing in an adjoining cottage. On Savage reaching Mr. Box's cottage he found a young woman lying on the ground in a pool of blood, which was issuing from • wound in the neck. He sent for medical aid, but before its arrival the female expired. On going to the cottage of Lawrence lie band him also presenting • shocking spectacle, he having discharged one of the barrels of his gun at his own head, and the ball having taken a slanting direction, had blown nearly one side of his face away. The same surgeon who had been called to the deceased female at once advised his removal to the Middlesex Hospital in a cart. On reaching the hospital, Lawrence. to the astonishment of all, got out of the cart unassisted. On being taken to the ward he was examined by three surgeons, who found both the man's upper and lower jaws were extensively fractured, the tongue muok lacerated, and all the tissues of the side of the head and face frightfully—cut, injuries, in fact, which led to little doubt but that they will prove fatal. Jealously is reported to be the consent the murder.  - . Strikes, it appears, are at present numerous in various parts of the country. At Brighton the painters have been on strike for some days against the boar system, chi; • g 41. 6d. per day of ten hours. About one-half of the employers in the town have conceded the terms, the others still refusing. About 100 sea are on strike, receiving 12s. each per week. The South Yorkshire colliers in the Gildersome distriet, t• the number of 700, have been on strike for the last scenth against • reduction of 20 per cent, on their wages. The I in,ers of Edinburgh are on strdre for the abolition of night and Sunday stork, and the reduction of the day's work from 12 to JO hours. Moro than enehalf of the masters have conceded the terms. The masons of Dundee have been on strike for the last few weeks for a nine hours' day at nine hours' wages. A majority of the employers refuse the terms. There are 140 on strike, about 50 working for the employers who have given the nine hours, an I about 20 at work on the old terms. The men up to the present time have been well supplied with funds by the Scottish societies. The London masons also still remain on strike, to the number of 300, against the holr system: . .  A young man named Hay, whe has for many years i been a collector of accounts n the goods departmait of the Lane ishire and Yorkshire Hialeah has, it appears, been helping himself to the money of the company. Among the items of cash not amounted for are three sums, amounting respectively to £7 Bs., £3 9a., and El se. On Wednesday he was charged at the Bradford Borough Court with emberzleruent, and committed for trial, the grounds of the charge being those three instances of defalcation ; but these, it is said, by no means represent the extent of his delinquencies. The young man had absconded from his employers, but was traced to Glasgow and apprehended in that city. A carter whose name is Ogden, in the service of Messrs. Falkner. carriers, Manchester, has been apprehended there charged with having stolen a large quantity of cotton. On the 3rd and 14th ult.,-fonrteen and ten bales were given to the prisoner on the respective dates for delivery to Messrs. Cheetliam, Staleybridge, but the cotton was never delivered. It was stated on the part of the prosecution that on the 7th March out of a load of twelve belts ten only reached their destination. Upwards of £490 or £5OO worth of cotton had been stolen, and all in about two months. The value of the fourteen bales was £lOO to £l4O. Henry Davi., a porter in Messrs. Falkner's employ, said he delivered the cotton to the prisoner on the 3rd and 14th of March. This was wholesale plunder with a vengeance  A mysterious occurrence is reported from Nottingham, On Wednesday night two boys were near the tunnel formed between the Derby Road and the Park when their curiosity was aroused by hearing groans issuing from the Derby Road end of the tunnel. They immediately gave information to one of the police in the neighbourhood, and the latter, aecompanied by soother constable, got over the gate of Derby Road, and discovered a dying nun, his body covered with mud, He was iinmediately conveyed to the General Hospital, but died shortly after his arrival there. Now he met with his death, whether by violence, accident, or suicide, is not yet ascertained. If by accident or suicide he must have fallen a distance of 40 yards. The deoessed was respectably dressed, apparently about 20 years old, but nothing was found upon him whereby hs could he identified. A silver watch and a purse were found in his pockets. The police are engaged in investigating the occurrence.