they must know did not belong to the party who raised
money upon them, and if the husband could not raise
the money, they would have to restore the shirts to the
woman Miller without payment. The statement of this
woman's case in the newspapers, induced several
benevolent persons to contiibute to her relief. On the 15th,
the magistrate at the Thames office, on the occasion of
one of these contributions, observed that more than £20
had been already forwarded for the relief of Rosina
Herbert and her children, and that there was really no
occasion for any more contributions, while so much
distress existed among persons who had withstood
temptation and committed no crime. On the 18th, the
woman was again brought before the magistrate, when
it was proved that the prisoner had last year been
convicted of pawning articles the property of her employers.
The magistrate said that this previous conviction had
much altered his view of her case, and sentenced her to
pay 8s. 6d., the value of the goods pawned, together
with a fine of 10s. He also declared that, in future, no
money transmitted for specific purposes should ever be
so applied; that if money was sent to be used at
discretion, it would be received, but not otherwise. Some
person subsequently sent the woman herself money to
pay the fine, and she was discharged.

A Young Woman was Murdered on Saturday, the
12th, near the village of Doddinghurst in Essex, under
circumstances of peculiar atrocity. At this village, a
farm is occupied by Mr. Thomas Drory, a highly respectable
yeoman living at Great Burstead. The farm was
managed by Mr. Drory's son, a quiet, well-looking young
man of three and twenty. Under young Drory was
placed as a farm-bailiff, Thomas Last, a labourer; whose
family consisted of his wife, and her daughter by a
former marriage, Jael Denny, a young woman of twenty,
of commanding stature, handsome figure and face, and
agreeable manners—the acknowledged beauty of the
village. Young Drory and the Lasts, with their daughter,
lived in the same house till a recent period. Drory
used his position to establish a close intimacy with the
daughter; and it was the discovery of this relation, by
Mr. Drory, senior, that had lately caused the removal of
the Lasts from his farm, and their retirement into a
cottage at some little distance from the farm-house. The
young farmer, however, persisted in his intimacy; and
at length Jael found herself pregnant by him. At the
inquest, after the girl's murder, her mother stated that
she had not long since taken poison, which she said young
Drory had given her to kill her infant; and that the
effect of the poison was plain in her swelled lips and
flesh: Jael herself had said she did not take all the
poison, or it would have killed her. Drory lately paid
his addresses to a young lady, and it appears that he
had given instructions to have the bans published for
his marriage. One day when Mrs. Last returned home,
she noticed that her daughter was taken by surprise,
and looked painfully agitated: going up stairs she found
young Drory under her bed; and on her discovery of
him, he tried to get her to sign a paper to which he had
already got the daughter's signature, exculpating him
from any connexion with her cause of trouble. Mrs.
Last refused to sign this paper. On the evening of the
murder, the girl had been walking with Drory, and
returned home in better spirits than usual. She told
her mother that Drory had put her in good spirits, and
that she was going to meet him again at half-past six.
She then put on her bonnet and cloak, went out, and
did not return. Her stepfather, anxious on account of
her absence all night, went out early on Sunday morning
in search of her. About eight o'clock he found her lying
dead a short way from the stile where she had said she
was going to meet Drory. He ran back to his house,
and Mr. Hammond, the landlord, returned with him to
the place where the body lay. She was lying on her
face, and a fur tippet lay about three yards off. A cord
was round the neck; it was twisted round three times,
and one end was in her hand. The face was swollen and
black; there was a stream of blood on the ground, and
blood was oozing from the mouth, nose, and ears. There
was an injury on the chest, as if some one had knelt upon
it; and there were marks of teeth, and scratches on the
hands and arms. She was in the ninth month of
pregnancy. Suspicion fell on young Drory, who was
immediately arrested by the Superintendant of the Essex
Police. This gentleman, at the inquest, gave the
following account of the arrest;—"I asked Drory when he
saw the deceased last. He said, 'At half-past five o'clock
last (Saturday) evening, and that he had not heard of
her this morning.' I took him to the spot, and saw the
deceased lying on her face. The left side of her nose
where she lay was flattened. I removed the cord from
her neck. It was almost imbedded in it. The noose of
the cord had cut the skin of the neck. It was turned
thrice round the neck very tight—so much so that the
neck was swollen above it. I then took the prisoner
into custody. He did not speak. I took him to the
deceased's house, and searched him. He said he had a
letter in his box which would prove the child was not
his. We then went to the house where the prisoner
lived, and on searching his box, found the letter which
has been produced, as well as two pieces of cord. One
end of one piece had been recently cut. The prisoner
said that the deceased and he had been acquainted, but
that he had broken it off more than nine months."
A labourer named Harris, resident in the neighbourhood,
said that he saw the deceased and Drory together
about half past five on Saturday, going across the
meadow from Mr. Drory's farm; they were together
about twenty minutes, when they parted and went
severally homewards. This witness added that, two or
three months before, he had heard Drory say that "he
should like to shove her off, as he was carrying things
on too far and was apprehensive of getting into trouble."
A labourer named Hubbard, employed on Drory's farm,
said that his master went out at half past six or seven
on Saturday night, when he said he was going to Brentwood
with some eggs; and two inhabitants of Brentwood
saw Drory there about eight or a little later.
Professor Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, gave evidence
respecting marks of blood found on the trousers worn
by Drory on the night of the murder. The coroner,
in charging the jury, remarked that Drory's having been
at Brentwood at eight o'clock was not inconsistent with
his having committed the murder at half-past six. The
result of the investigation was a verdict of Wilful
Murder against Thomas Drory, and he was committed
for trial at the Assizes.

A Desperate attempt at Robbery was made during the
night of Sunday the 13th, in the house of Mr. Holford,
in the Regent's Park. Several men broke into the
house; the servants were alarmed, rose, armed
themselves and attacked the robbers, one of whom they
wounded and captured. On the following day the
prisoner was brought before the Marylebone Police Court,
and a number of witnesses were examined. The prisoner
called himself William Dyson. Mr. Holford, it appears,
is in America. James Paul, the butler, had secured the
house on the night in question. About two o'clock in
the morning he heard a noise; he got up, and saw the
shadow of a man on the lawn; Paul dressed and armed
himself, roused the groom and footman and armed
them, and then awoke two coachmen in the stables,
giving one a loaded gun and the other a pitchfork.
These forces were stationed about the house. Three
men were seen to leave the banquetting-room, and one
of these was Dyson; he was knocked down by a coachman
with a pitchfork, and two men grappled him till
the police came. Another of the robbers was seen
running away; the butler snapped one lock of a double-
barrelled pistol, but it missed fire, and as the robber ran
behind a bush, Paul fired the other barrel. The under-
coachman had fired his gun as soon as he saw the three
men descend from a window; one exclaimed, "O God!"
as if he had been struck. Dyson only was caught, the
others having disappeared for a time. When search was
made, blood was found near the bush at which the
butler had fired; and there were traces of blood over
some fences, for a considerable distance. Nothing of note
was found on Dyson. But at the house the officers picked
up some pieces of candle, a crowbar, part of an ormolu
ornament broken from a figure in the banquetting-
room, a sling formed of a large stone tied in a handkerchief,
and a hat; there were shot-holes in the hat, and
marks of blood on the inside. The robbers had entered
by a window, which they had forced open with a crowbar.
The prisoner was remanded.