The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-12-05 00:00:00

POOLE.

ON Alderru- (ex-Moor), very
ZaVe luncheon to the officers and men ,4 the
bar.,nch police force.
SIN Moultv, at th, TelOisurinee HMI. Me. (f.
tot. of th- Dorset Templar Mioi fl,trlre an 4.1.1npu.
" Mow to I:socii the rAtes.• • Mr. Carter presided. There
Ira* ...Poe singin:: during the evening.
Wssi.gyaX 11141.11-•-A series of etteejan service.; which
LAW ;wen flat at MIL. plaeo of Wor.flip wa. brottJht to a
el it. on TueAsy eveniut, when a teadneeting wig held at
the WlloollrOolo. The Icy. S. Wesley presitletl. and
several were .I,livered.
IkITIST CHAPEL. --A ten-incetinc in connection with
this chsiwl ens held on Motel.ty ovenioc, at the school-
room, gill-street. After tea the Key. J. II th.herne
took the chair, and adslreetai were delivered by "sters
alb! others. _

CONiaILE,UTIONtL (11.1111eL.-11n TilesdAy evening the
annual tea-meeting in ronuection with Mr. J Golfs bible-
cliva took place at tile British schooluxous aijoi,lln4 the
above chapel. After tan the chair sva. OCCllpktl, by the
Bev. J. W. Sampson' and aincopri.de speeches were
delivered, interspersed with music, readings. stc. Hie;
M. Ilathway presided at the piano, and Mr. J. Weeks at
the harmonium. Amongst those who took part in the
entertainment were -Messre. Durham. J. Wdle, A.
Ilswices, B. Wo sl, G. F. Brown, G. Cane, G. A. Mate, W.
Groves, Kerley. A. Eaton. J. Best, W. Freud, T. Orchard,
. . . .

ANDICILik writes :—" Wandering through the town of
some little time ago, ter attention was directed to a
yellow iswer. announcing that an address was to le
delivered at th, Temperance Hall in the evening, entitled
the " Mysterious appearance," by .tn individual who
tcltdees in the cognomen •la the " Longlieet Ghost." I
W 3., thertifurn prompted by a curiosity to he present, in
anticipation that lie would unravel the mystery with
r.•fereiice to the phantom which W.ia di,covered prowling
clout the premises some few nights since :ipparently in
Coe character oft political eaves-dropper by the proprietor
of that establishment. No remark, however, emanated
from Ilan with reference then:to, ui omission which
.tiongthimel the supposition that the lecturer was the
veritable spectre who was thus discovered in the excerrise
of hi, prying propensities. Tl' tomfoolery of his other
observation relative to the appearance of a knot of sugar
in a wine glaastater having been diluted in water, and the
discovery if diamonds on an unmentionadle part of &child's
.Iy, excited to a considerable eatet:t the resibility of the
audience, moue of whom went heard to exclaim " Surely
Saimaa must be labouring under a species of insanity."
But his Other emanations were of &character which justly
excited their indignation hy the scurrility of his language
against several respectable inhabitants of the town, who
had never in any way given him came thus to stigmatise
and villify their characters. The only conclusion, there-
fore, that can be arrived at in ext.nuatien of his conduct
6 that he .3. at the time not uuite me/Wis."
Perri Sessioxe, Wednesday.—Before the Mayor and
Mr. I)ugdade.
Samuel Brown was charged with assaulting and
threatening a woman named Churchill. lie was hound
ovor to keep the peace, aud ordered to pay the costs.

C.tPTURE OF A HOTEL SWINDLER.
Captain Bent, chief of the Exeter city police, has
captured a man named John Sylvester on a charge of
swindling hotel keepers by means of fictitious cheques.
For some con.iile..able time a person of good address
and gentlemanly appearance haa been paying visits to
hotels at Weymouth, Oxford:, Boston, St. Alhan'o,
Plymouth, and other provincial towns, reprimenting
himself as a commercial traveller. At some Islam% be
stated that he was employe.' by the fictitious firm is(
Baines and Co, cement manufacturers, Axminster,
and at other 'slave that he wite the representative of
Mr. Ixard, tobacomist, London. always paying his
hotel bills by cheques, which tnnwil out to be "waste
paper." last week Sylvester appeared at Tiverton, '
putting up at the l'almeniton Hotel, lie paid his
bill, giving a cheque for ten guineas, and receiving in
change a good sum in cash, leaving the town by the
2.10 train. After the fellow hail gone, Mr. Martin PAB.XIITONR,
proprietor of the hotel, mutilated that all was noi
right, recollecting that he had recently heard that a CAPTAIN .IACK AND 1118 ADVENTURES.
In addition to the ineidenta in the life of lily liens,
limn resembling his customer was " wanks!" .in charges Calstain Jack, which mew:trod in your last publication,
of awinilling hotel-keepers. Mr. Martin lost no time, the following eisimale in his eventful career might Prove
therefore, in telegraphing to ('apt. Bent, at Exeter, to interesting. IL•nliaiing the Channel from France in a
watch the train from Tiverton which would any. at s 1111 l ggling galley, deeply laden with In•unly, lie was
St. I)avide Station about a quarterlev.t three o'clock. captunal by a revenue cruiser, and impriainel in one
Accenlingly, Captain Bent, accompanied by !Digester of the martull„ towers on the Sussex coast, atm.:three
Skinner, was, on the plath irm at St. Ita vii Ps Station when erected at the time the great Nepoleon contemplated a
the train from Tivert.m arrived. The i'aiitain, who was descent upon En nd gla, pp rearatory to hie ~,,, lorga
."
previously in immeesulion of a ileacription if the person magisk•rial investigatimi. Whilst thus inimunsi, his
wanted, had but little difficulty in picking out his Mall. wife w,„ a11„,..,„1 f,„ ~,,, I • , and j. „., of her i„itu
Sylvester was at once arrested and taken to the Popar
sit... Lion, end in the curse of the afternoon was taken .
she supplied him with a etning cool which she hail
ccreteil about her poreei, with which tlw intrepid
back to Tiverton. It is sail that Sylvester belongs to Jack lowered himself bruin the tow,r, and finally
Astnimiter, and that the first intimation lif his ravent u pua into the try in a vehicle which liia
nefarious career was that he hail 'given, on this 6th devoted wife had prepared for the enterprise.-O.
Inst.. the landlord of the Roebuck Hotel, Oxford, a KIt3DALL.
fictitious cheque, purporting to be drawn by F. J.
Baines :mil Co., on the Axminster branch if the WIKRODIND.
lainietahire Bank. payalde to F. S. Waller, and I Die firs. O. F. Tarrre.trt gave his second torture on
endorsed by F. Waller. On being searched at the Tuesday, at the Corn Exchange, on the Arctic Expedition,
Exeter Police Station •Di lode, four sovereign., anil an.l, -is; on the 111".1 1111",1,11.111, the hall was crewilisi.
9.. 81. in silver were found on him. All the luggage SOVTII-WESTEKII 1,14::.:v..te.-Mr....torthurtlward Guest,
he term travelling with wise a small imareel done up inn isf ifecil Mimir • i i,l woe. .1.4. wry* ii .l' !t-
-itian hae wen electea to me %wait seat on tne
" commercial " faehion. Ile was brought up at the dine-tomb, of this railway, caused by the ilmith of Mr.
Tiverton Polies Court ers l'hurielay, eharge.l with en,ti,.....
obtaining 1:10 10e. instil Mr. W. W. Martin, id the Pumice Come, Weilnesday.--Ilefore the thin. Evelyn
l'alinereton 11.031 by means of fare pretences. • Ashley, NP.. awl Rev. C. V. Garland
Prisoner, wit.. was remanded until Thurmlay, osorg, li. kee,,iv. a Wisiel..nie, carpenter. apprOmulud
cm a warrant, wail chanael with an assiault sail battery an
appeared in court wearing kid gloves and having a
emelt ..eeecost on his arm Ile asked tlvit a watch, Jl:ehn•Ailinhst.*kiirf. 7" ulerne Plw"...ll.er"rilereniPtr who
'I'M", ring", an'l "ther artirl" which h 34 hren taken ta„til'ied nit guilty.-ComplaililLT:'tated that on Saturday
(nen him, might be given up. Init was told that thews I
nue about 11 o'clock 'Liu., be was going home (row his
thingst were in the poseeseion of Ctiptain Bent, at
, work with his brether. and met defendant and three
Exeter. Itiiriii,•• Ilia stay at the Palmerston he showen other. near Mr. Rartlett's foundry, close to the station,
himself extietnely liberal in treating company.-Mr. The defendant ame c across between himself
and his
Alartin, id the l'alineniton Hotel, ,tated that ' brother %nil knocked 1 • lows. Then he 04 on the top
of him. and his brother teethed him id. The defendant
when the primoner isresseited the cheque he
then ot hold of his (complainant's) broth and rem-
told him that it mint Ise endonsel. Prisoner replied
magid nem and pushed him away, whener ilefentlanee
" I Lime endonseil it, which witness found to he idiu
Fiat (ell I,lf, :ma he ('b,feitdant) ran after complainant and
the ea.; the name being " .1. Moore." -Mr. John
this his
him in the hack knocking him delve, when he fell on
Jefford, cashier at the Axminster branch 14 the his (ace causing revere injuriee to his mmth and 11.140.-
I)orsetAllire Rink (Ninon% Williams and (l.'s), stated Complainant's brother. Albert Re:Ohs:id, corroliwated his
that there was no ac.,ount at the bank with Messrs. : brother's statement, and Mr. 'fanner for the ilefenee
Charles Forward and San,
l hh . Gillingham. who went with defendant on the evening in
liv.a in the neighbourh.sal. He received
and that no such persami I called Cherie. Dacombe, Charles iblierrett, and Henry
nestion, awl they stated that they bad been to P.ole with
(u'lt
', r'''''N' D 'uld"r'hin't II." KNIk• Ti ties, eque
sert"l• and '• ‘:lie defendant, and came loth by the mail train m and et
returned it inarkel " Not kipswii at Ax ~, ill itec." Ile , the complainant and hie brother who called nut " Who
kiii•w primmer a... J.lllll SyllrAer. Primmer cent- ' poisoned the &sr." referring to auto' une in the neighbour.
mime"' a ileieedt account sit the hank in 1371, whiell hoed, and the defendant .iinl " Wliet's the PIW." and
he contimie.l until May of the present year. whets he c plainant came acneui and kin wked off defendant's hat,
tnstisferrel the amount to " curreut Ikell 1111 l t," at the awl be street; at bile knocking him ilewn and falling on
ai f he defeat.° corroborated each
mune time Mating that his aunt was g_idng to Put ilim ho4::;rull,,t7np.,:,tuniut:cra' aorthte airatatntes, after fully
In business, and that more money would be paid hi to
conaidering the eeitlenec, filled defendant Xl. anil Pia. 6d.
hill credit. Upon this unilerstheiling Sylvester wei
, costa which was paid.
supplied with a cheque hook, but the molleY Place.' t" Ali,v Sara' was charged by Deputy Chief Candela°
Ilia credit was soon pail out. lie believed that the Ifni I with acting as a p.nar without a nuttifinstc.
writing on the cheque produced was Sylveater'a. 110 1111111 was fined N. 61. and costa N.
should certainly 'all the cheque a lictiti•"" 11l '. m'i'l
15 similar to it hail been pre...Jilted at the bank from . 00711,11 XifLLIAN.
various quarters. Caistarn Bent, who. apprehended FOITKRTI/INMFIT..-..- Another tintertainsuent was given
AIM 1111%1%1 cllarif!! (H. 51.14114:4
a great success, as the singing and readino are very maid.
isriminer, ii.aiil that lie charged libli with toeing John last Thursday in aid of the organist's fund. de. They are
Sylvester. Prisoner asked, "What ilo you charge me
The mom WAY nearly tilled. The following war the pm.
the rheir ; deett, " Zuleilm Balsam" (Wu.
gramme :-Part I. : Part Song, "All
o ith r and witness replied," Warrants; are out agaiwit
you from many towns in England. • the Harley.*
you with uttering 11, fietltl.,ll3 1.111,111 e at Tiverton. . shissolud, . r. awl Mrs. W. Wyke•Smith ; reading, from
Primmer hesitated. hut milmequently sail " You sir.. " Nichelai Nickleby," vol. 2, ch. 17' (Dickens), the Rev.
right. 1 am the 111,,11." Wither. 1.011/1.111.11 Il i 11l 1111.1 .1. 1.. Willi.eu.; duet (encored). "Onward through the
(mind a cheque book ill Ili* possession. Soine of the Waters." (Kiteken), the Rhine., Tekington; song (enc0r,...4).
counterfoils were filled in, *isnot were not, awl there " potty." (Molloy), Mr. J. P. A. Bower ; duet (encored).
"111ov-eft Italia," Miss Keats awl Mit4l S. Keats : reading were some blank cheques remaining. Pria' oner sahl
: "Alfred the (treat," the Rev. It. W. Plumptre ; song.
that Mr. Martin hailca•w ep heil a chie for him for ten lowered). " Woodman spare that Tree," (11. Russell). Mr.
guineas, and that the money found on him wee the 1
.. 11. P. Feet : glee, "Hark the Lark." (Dr. Cooke), the
balaniv of change given after il iying hi • bill. Pri- eheir. -Part 2. I Glee. .. The prier of I Soiree r;tr,v,- ([sr
goner salted that lie might be remanded for a week. 'sit ('alcott), Miea Keats, bliss B. Poet, awl Mr. J. 11. P. yo,,t •
that all the charges against him might be heard at reading, the Rev. J. 1.. Williams; duct (encoral). "As it
one and the same time, hut the !tench Raid that this fell lapin • day." (Bishop), the Misses Torkington : reading,
' English ArrhetY in the olden time.' it_ .1V Watt), the
could not be done, and committal him to take his . - ... es .__ .
Rev. is. w• rcatanwe, sou ( Miss 8. Heat. •
trial at the next quarter session., for the borough. wins (encored), Mr. J. F. A. Bowls ; glee (imemedx "Thi;