The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-08-27 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE.— On Tuesday morning • young men named Charles Pugh, of respectable appeanutoe, was brought up before the Mayor of Worcester and two other magistrates, at the City Police-olllce, on the double charge of attempt. Mg to murder Dinah Mason, and also attempting his own life. The prisoner had bosoms enamoured of the woman Mason, and they kept company together, but at last Lawn became tired of her eumpanion, and left him to live with another man. Pugh made several attempts to induce her to live with him again, but she refteed, and treated him very badly, setting her new paramour to quarrel and fight with him. On the !etude, wheu they had het met, Pugh, who bad taken to drinking, was intoxicated. He weut to the prisoner's lodgings to ask her to be friends with Lime. She ordered I • to leave the room, and he would not go, when she threatened to send for a policeman. He asked her to speak one word to him, but she only abused him. This was deposed to by a neighbour who was present at the commencement of the final internee, but who thereupon Left the room. Immediately after. wards scream* were heard in the apartment, and several women ran upstairs, when they found the prisoner Pugh in the act of cutting Mason a threat with razor which he had in his heed, and which it appears be mast have brought with him. Then leaving Mason, Pugh drew the razor SIMS his own throat, staggered out of the house, and fell into the street. lint the Man and woman were carried off at ones to the Worcester Infirmary, where the wounds were dressed. The woman Mason had two cuts across the free, and , one round the neck, reached from ear te ear. Happily, however, the vital parts were missed, and she is now out of all danger. The escape of Pugh from death was miraculous. The cut in hls.throst had completely  severed his windpipe, and all hopes of his recovery at one time were given up. By dint a patient attention. however, by the hospital surgeon, In is now out of dosger. The wounds were sewn up, and, though suffering from great weakness, be was able to sit on • chair during the examination, which lasted upwanls of two hours. The prisoner, who 14.1 his face in his handkerchief during the whole of the examination, waa remanded for the present, in order thet the evidence tune be formally completed. Till WILLIAIISor Poeuentge.—At the Liverpool anises, on Monday morning, E I ard Wilhiemeoa, who pleaded guilty' to four itelicunents for forgery and defrauding the Royal Exchange Insurance Company; was brought up before Mr. Baron Martin to receive mentenoe. Before sentence was passed, Mr. Jams, Q.C., pleaded that the prisoner had a wife and eight children, that he had from the first determined to plead guilty, and that he wee suffering the keenest lance ef remorse. The learned judge sit that these considers ationa could not be allowed to interfere with the merge jfistice, or no criminal would be punished. It was onfortunate that, in such e•sea, the innocent were forced to share the tui-ery and disgrace of the but still, in a county like Lancaster, it was particularly important that suet' flagrant crimes should be repressed. Thu lean ad judge then sentenced the prisoner to Mesa Veers' penal eel Vittide.