The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1859-08-02 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE AT DEWLISH.—On Thursday a woman named Jane Vincent, aged 45, committed suicide by hanging herself. The poor woman had been sutlering from great dejection for some days and was last seen alive by her neighbours about 12 o'clock on Thursday. At seven in the evening her body WAS found suspended by a cord from an iron bar crossing the kitchen chimney. IA sack was so disposed in front of the deceased as to prevent passers by seeing the body hang in the chimney corner. The body was cut down by Mr. Barnett, but life was extinct. An inquest was held on the following afternoon at the Royal Oak Inn, before the coroner, Mr. G. Symonds, and a verdict of "Temporary Insanity" was returned by the jury. EXETER DISTRICT BANKRUPTCY COURT, Wednesday.—Before Mr. Commissioner Andrews.—/n re .1. Redwood, of Charminster, Dorset. In this ease Mr. Pitts applied to have a portion of the fees paid by an apprentice to the bankrupt to be returned. Mr. Stogden opposed the application. The Commissioner said that consideration must be given to the period the apprentice had been with bankrupt, since in the first period of his apprenticeship be would be only an expense to his master with remuneration. Ultimately, it was determined that as a petition in the ease was pending, which was fixed for the 27th ult., and in which a person claimed to be a partner to the bankrupt, and had claims on the joint estate, the present application should also be adjourned till the 27th ult.  COUNTY MAGIBTHATES' OFFICK, Shireliall, Saturday, July 30.—(Before Herbert Williams, Esq.)—Mary JeNkiras alias Brows, was brought up in custody charged with obtaining money under false pretences. Rachael Owen said that on Thursday the prisoner called upon her at Piddletown, stating that she was in great distress,  offering prosecutris a ring for 3s. Mrs. Owen told her that she did not want the ring and did not think of buying it. Prisoner urged that she had not is pettily. Proseentrix offered her conic bread and cheese and three halfpence to got some beer with, telling prisoner she never bought anything at the door, upon which the prisoner said she would +ell the ring to Mrs. Owen for 2s. in preference to anybody eke because Mrs. Owen had been no kind to her. Prisoner added that to convince Mrs. Owen the ring was gold she would scrape it with scissors, and dhl so, saying " You see that this is gold." Prosecutrix supposing the ring was at all events " jewellers' gold," hauled 2s. to the woman for it. Prosematrix subsequently gave the ring to P.C. Softly, and identified that produced by the officer. P.C. Softly stated that after receiving information from Mrs. Owen he searched for prisoner and found her on Friday, in company with several others, sollle dressed and some partly clothed, in a stable connected with the Boyd Oak at Melcowbe. Softly gut the company to dress themselves, and then apprehended the prisoner whose husband told her not to go, and she accordingly laid down in the road for four hours, and was at length removed in a cart. Ifer linsbuul agreed that she should go by the name of "Jenkins" as before. Mr. Saunders, silversmith, of High East-st-eet. stated that the ring in question was brass, and worth 7d. or %I. per dozen. In reply to his Worship, the prisoner admitted being guilty of selling the ring. Committed to the October Sessions. By the Assize news which appears in another page, it will be seen that the prisoner was only acquitted of a similar charge on Tuesday.