The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-01-29 00:00:00

BURGLARY AT JILANDYGIC!,

Edwin easter (.16). hawker, Wild in Hotel for bar-
gloriously breaking and entsriog Vl* shop of Henry
ll.onaoney, and stealing ten dozen w aodes tobacco
value RS, the nusperty of Henry annsney, at
slanifori, on the nth Dec nnber.
Mr. Willem prosecuted, and the prisoner was unde-
fended. The evidence of the serious witnesese was
fully given In these c sltinone last week. Tne finite of
Cluell are them. Mr. I) 'money, the proercntor,
keeps • shop in Solieburyostrest. Biondi 4,1, awl on
the monolog of the 211:b December be bad in hie shop
among other foods dermal bores cone sinlug ordinary
wooden pipes. About a q mew to throe in the morn-
ing he we. awoke by a creeb of glass. fie lo kid out
of the window and beard footsteps of .ontebcly
running away. He went downstairs into the shop
an I found • plate gime window had b-en smashed,
and from the shop had been taken the pipes in gums
hog. The prleoner WIN connected with the burglary
IQ this way. When apprehended at Andover some
few days afterward. he said he had not bten in Bland-
ford, but it wee proved he was there on thy 28th, and
on the morning of the 29th he was nem on the
highway road from Blandford to Solisbury. Ile there
sold • wooden pipe to a man named Bliondford, and
later on in the day he was seen in a publichouse. and
offers' two wooden pipes for sale to the son of the
landlord. In the prisoner's pomeesinc, when &ppm.
handed at Andover, were found between 20 and 30
golden pipes. Primmer ma le • long, ramblin.; state-
ment, denying he was in Blandford at the time of the
burglary ; he wee given the pipes by another man on
the !Ott to Salisbury.

The jury found toe prleoner guilty on the melind
onint--that of receiving the pip., knowing them to
have been it den. The ',damer pleaded guilty t,) a
former e 'aviation for felJny at D wohestar, in July,
1873, . _

Asked If he had anything to say why judgment
should not be passed, priooner set t, "At; I con say ie
I am not gailtyt geatiemon."
The Judge canoat act upon that area if it were
true; but I can say I dot.% believe it. You have been
Nur times oon Tided, and sect to penal asevitude tsetse,
once for 'evert years and another time tor ten ; you
wars alio seat to the reformatory when you were
youag. You have beim no less than 17 year. in penal
rervitede, an I no sootier are you out than you are
preying upon society again. I shall lead you bank to
penal serving Is again for five year..
Pileoner : I hope you will have mercy upon ma my
lord, and Deed me to prisoo, and no; seu I me book to
penal servitude again.
The Jud_ge I cannot do that; society must be pro-
tected. (The prisooer was then removed.)

XIGHT PJ•0111110.

Eli Mullett (21). 'shower, a powerf ally-built 'ono'
fallow, WA indicted for night poaching at Stemple.
Dane& on land in the .noupstl m of the Bev. N.
Bond.

Mr. Hullers and ilr• Bode* sypisaced for lb. PUN'
altion prieoper was on leteaded.
Henry Selby said be was a keeper In the employ
of tile Rev. Nathaniel Rind, and had been so for 21
years. U. the night of December 19th he went out
fir the purpooe of alerting the watchers. Shortly
before midnight he heard voices. He met the
watchers, and they wont towards lb. spot. Al the
*lgo of the 0-sage Wood they law a net. They
weal toward, the net, and arm, men game oat on
them. Stones were throw,. Witness wee struck
several blew., and was knocked down. He was
drunk by the prisoner. and the watcher. were @lzmir
by the other men. There were no stone. about on the
grass. He still suffersi from the effects of the
violence.

.
Ambrose Taylor, farmer, living at West Oreeob, said
be tind been engaged es a watcher on Mr. Bond's
estate. On the night In guarani he was with the
last witnese and two ..there. When they got to the
Ige ,1 the wood they saw a net and some men.
Stones were thrown, and his eye wee knocked out.
The sight wad clean gone. Ho was also knocked down,
sod attacked by a dog.
Samoel Hurray, another watcher, gall he wee with
the two lest witnesses at the time. When they got
to the wood they were set upon by some men and
he wee struck by the prisoner. He still niffened in
the arm, and he believed the small bone wee broken.
Stores were also thrown.

James Taylor Teneir-er—, oorraborated. When they
got to Grange Wood they were set upon by some
men. Witness was knocked down by a stone. There
was also a dog there.
Charles Domoney' keeper, said be wont to the spot
on the morning alter the assault. He found pools
of bloo I and marks of • scuffle; &leo some storms
Tbe stones were lying on the grass, and bad not the
appearance of having been there long.
P.C. Absalom Wiles said on the day after the
affray he also examined th• edge of Gramm Wood,
and found blood and mark. of • sniffle. He appre-
hended the prisoner, and when charged he said
the keepers, and Mr. Bond se well.' He also wanted
to know who he had taken besides himself. Witness
found a lumber dog in psisoner's house, and the animal
had been identified by some of the witnesses as having
been with the poachers on the night In question. lie
WU shown some stones by the last witness, Domoney ;
there were no such stones within half-a-mile of the
wood.
13, ~f Warobam, sad en Deo•mbor 206 h
Andrew Taylor came to him. He made an examina-
tion and found the eye-ball had been ruptured, and he
had entirely lost the sight of the eye. Be might pos.
sibly have to remove the eye If it injured the sight of
the other. He also elm:deed Samuel Murray, who
was still suffering from the effects of the violates.
He should have to lay him up foe month&
In summing up, the Judge said this night poaching
was always a unions matter, as almost al ways it ended
In dogmata fights. Be then summed up the evidence
to the jury,who, withonttbe slightest hesitation, found
the prianner guilty.
The Judge, in sentencing the prisoner, said he was
sorry to say he had tried a good many people for night
poaching, and he knew what desperate gangs of men
were engaged in this kind of business. They
not like men a ho went shoot the fields and up
rab`dt or something ef that klitd, bat they were men
who Intended to have their night's work,and t fight to
any extent in order t escape. In the present cies
they had half killed one man, to say the least of it,
and destroyed the eye of another. He Gould not look
upon it otherwise than ai a bad cam, and he would be
sentenced to 18 months' impriecurnent with hard
labour. (The prisoner, who appeared decidedly
satisfied with this light seutence, was then removed.)