The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-12-18 00:00:00

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WssTISTI CISOCIT.—LIrd Justice Lindley and Mr.
Justice Cave will preside at till winter wises on this
clr.uit, which are expected t commence about
January llth, Both civil and criminal business will
be taken.
Taut—At the County Police-court, on Di miay.
a lab .urer. named George Like, was charged before
Ceptain Manse' with stealing 4. 1.001. from a corn
bin, the prop3rty of Mr. Topp.—iternandsd till
Saturdey,
IST 1301511TAIIIIS Realm llllT.—Captaio Heary
,Iterles Daehwood resigns his 0 =mission ; also is
granted the honorary rank of maj ir, and is permitted
to continue to wear the uniform of the oorps on his
retirement. —L °ado n Gautie.
Egrzataggegr.—lt is announced that anentertain-
ment will take place at the New Barracke to-morrow
(Tuesday) and Wednes lay evenings next, consisting
of vocal and instrumental music, BC., to conclude
with the eoreaming farce, entitled "Dandelion's
Dodges."
A RONAWAT.—A. borne belonging to the King's Arms
Hotel bolted through High Kest and High West-street
on Saturday, causing the utmost alarm in the orowded
thoroughfare. The vehicle came Into collision with a
carrier s cart, abusing considerable damage to the
shafts, and the animal wee brought tea standstill not
• moment too soon before Mr. Rogers' shop, by the
pluoky conduct of • young man Deemed Vine, eon of
Mr. S. Vine, corn merchant, who checked the horses
career at oonaderable risk.
ItALLWAT ThATSLLISO AT CHZISTSILL—We observe
that the Great Western Railway Company with •
view to meeting the oonvenienoe of their passengers,
and to enable them to obtain their tickets before
arriving at the Paddlogton Station, have made
arrangemeuta for the issue of tickets at the Company's
oily end west end offices, an arrangement which will
doubtless be appreciated by the many intending
passengers on that line at Christmu. Ticket offices I
bare been opened by the Company at 03 less than ten
places in the metropolis, viz. i-193, Oxford-street
23, New Oxford-street ; Holborn Circus; 38. Charing
Crow ; 5, Arthar-streek L'odon Bridge 82, Qs' le
Victoriastreet ; 43 and 44, Crotched Friars; 26,
Regent-atrial ; 67, Greehametreet ; and 4, Cheapside ;
at either of which places tickets can be obtained on and
after Tuesday, December 18th. The booking-office at
Paddington titration will also be open for the issue of
tickets the whole of the day, on the Tuesday, Wed-
nesday, Thursday. Friday, Saturday, and Monday
before Christmas Day. Ordinary tickets obtained in
London between December 18th and 24th will be
available for uss on any day between (and Including)
those days. Cheep tickets, at reduced fairs and
available for a week, will be issued from I.64siduci
to
the Yeovil and %Vermouth dist,icte, and to stations in
the West of England; ticket. will also be
Issued to London. By permissi xi of the Postmaater-
General, the limited mail train from Paddingtoo
to
the We.t, of Englsa I and S .uth Wale' on December
24th will carry second-eless passengers; the train will
leave at 9 45 p.m. instead of 9 o'olock, lull be cornea.
pondinglv later at all awes to which it carries the
snails. On December Mad and 24th at 5 p.m. fast
trains from Paddington to Plymouth will run on to
Penzance, and • special fast train to the West of
England going through to Penzance, will leave
Paddington at 12 o'clock Midnight and carry third-
class passengers at reduced fares. The train leaving
Paddlogton at 5.30 a.m. will be run on Ohriatmas Day
as mug as far as Oxford, Bristol, Exeter' Gloucester,
and Swansea, and the usual intermediate stations, so
that newspapers published on Christmas Day, will
reach their destinations within those limits at the
usual time.

Mr. Supt. OJWStd said in oonsequeuce of lilt we
received be called upon &den Mat on Sunday, August
26th. He asked her if she hal • chill in keeping for
aurae, and she reolied "Yes." She showed him the
child, which WM sitting by the side of the fire-place.
He (said he had received • a mplaint that the child
he'd not been properly fed. She replied she gave It all
sloe (mkt ad ori for the money she received-21 61 a
week. lie examined the obilci, and found a rash all
over it and bruises abut the heed and face. She
said It had the measles, and the braises on the face
were pawed by his falling down over the door sten.
He told her the child was in • bad condition
and advieel her to have a medical man to gee it. She
said she would. He also told her he should keep his
eye on tbe child to see be was properly treat 11. The
ehild waa crying ot the time, and craving for some-
thing to drink. Defendant calls I her husband down-
stairs, but he being • little deaf, he di I not seem t s
understand the conversed or. He t old him he w d
be liable for the ill-treatment of the child. Defend-
ant'. son geld the noised which het been oottllAsinsd
of were caused by the row between him and the father,
and not from his mother beating the child. Defend-
ant remarked the neighbours had been ba I enough
to say she ha I boot ill-trotting the chill. Witness
o immunicate I what he had seen to Mr. E. J. Day,
the parish doctor, and asked him to see the child.
On Friday, November 23rd, in oonsequenoe of
another letter, he again went to the house, and told
defendant be had bad another complaint. Be
examined the a .11,1, and saw the hand was badly burnt.
He advised her to take him to the hospital. She said
the burn was owed while she was out. After she
sine from the hospital, witness met her, and took her
to Dr. George's, who examined him, and soil the child
had not bad sufficient food. She said she had given
him a plot of milk • day ; but Dr. George said Viscera/
not enough. In consequence of what he said, witness
got an order, and had the child taken to the Union.
Sarah Newbury said she lived in Grove-buildings.
Mrs. Short.) lived next door to her, between her and
Mrs. Taylor. She knew bin. Shorto had had a child
to nurse. She recollects I Mr. Supt. Coward calling
on • oertgain Sunday afternoon. On the Thursday
before that day witness saw defendant punks' the
child along, holding it up with one arm, and taking
It into the yard. The child was crying very moch.
There was a 'wire tub standing new the back door.
She put the tab under the tap, and tamed the water
Into ft. (Defendant : God Almighty forgive you, Mrs.
Newbury.) She then undressed the child, and rubbed
the foul clothes in its face. She said she would stop
him from messing shout She then put him Into the
tob of water. After washing and rubbing It, she
slapped the child on the back with her hand nineor 10
times. (Defeo lane: You good- for-nothing. liar
8•111111•T.—Bdorg B. Middleton, Esq., Major She then put blm down, but he could ••••, Anna
Sykes, G. 'Moyer, Seq. M..jor E. Is. and she put him in the passage.
Hindereley, Beg., and G.' Parry, Esq. then washed the clothes, and put it on a
bush to dry, leaving the child. She had
Tll•Naritil Or patinas. often heard the defendant beating the child.
This was a ;medal SPAIliqllll for the transfer of end at the following Saturday morning she
licensee, and J. E. Barblige applied foe the transfer was awoke out of her sleep by cursing and swear-
of the license of the New Ins, Wyk' Reds, to J. P. log, and the crying of the child. She had Woo heard
G. Churchill.—Mr. S. Wbettem proved the urinal the child taken away from defendant by het sou.
notiom.—There was no objection.—Granted. She had heard defendant say to Mr.. Taylor." She
The license of the Alexandra Inn, Charlestown, was would kill the young -- dead stiff." She herself
also craneferred from C. Durwan to J. Haynes, bad beard her say she would starve him to death
Chickerell.—Mr. Bishop proved the notices, till he left off ateeeing about.
A temporary authority to moll at the Swan lon, Defendant : She told me she would de a bit for me
Great Tolley, was granted to 3.6. Dibben.
ICU Leuthall, former, of Puldletown, who did not if she could,
appear, was summoned for neglecting to send his so. Witness said she had never said such • thing to her
to elitiool.—P.O. Mardell proved service of someone, We.
—Mr. Atkinson, school attendance off° or, said the Defendant: She is standing there taking a false
Pudrikt own School had been open 98 times from the oath—bad wicked woman, that is what she
let day 01 (lawyer to the 7th of Deoember, and (Mr.. Short° addressed other remarks, the reverse of
defendant's son had not attended once. The chipt was oowpltcoentstl.to the
under 13 yews of ay.—Fined 5.. Frances Taylor said she resided at Grove-buildings,
• DLIIIO3IOOI 1.11•CTIM and was next door neighbour to Mrs. Short°. She
Barnard Cox Waa charge I with making a fire within spoke of the ill-treatment of the child. Then was •
at Upwey. on Deoember sth. rash all Over it, which defendant told hoe was the
50 feet of the hMhway,
—Distendone pleaded guilty. His father was away. , merles • the skin was peeling 4. She had Moll and
and he told him to dew up the guar, which he heard clikeodaat besting the and reel lII* sad she

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