The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-02 00:00:00

MILBOUNE er. ANDREW.

Limit we • chimney caught dre, about six in the
morning, at • thatched ocittuie. The men wbo were ado:
on to work reised an alarm of are, and, after • age
considerable ti .üble, it was put out. A. there yr 141 •
merit deal of thatched property surrounding it was lucky
that it welt discovered in time

WOOL.
An 111•POL,CMICI le Tug Wltgign BOX —Threw
rsispeetab .4... kin ruing men of Wo .1, Ram/
a baker, Wi11... limn. • labourer, an I Jooph Lnitgford
a labourer, were connoted at the Wareh..n Division ii
Petty Sessions on Tue.lay. before Captain Frier and Mr.
N Bond, for assaolting Elwin Manuel, a groom. of Het
...open'', on the 19th instant, at Wool. —The complainant,
who vu formerly • constable. mid his master sent him to
Wool on buaineas on the avenins tbe 19th jestsitt He
arrived there about half-pelt nine and went to the B .ar
Hotel, flare were amend people outside, and be cobol
them if either of the o.tlers vs. shout. Thee replied that
they bad not seen one. He said he wanted 3111 n( the
metiers In hold his horoe, as it W4ll not safe to tie it iip
Baseomhe under- wit to hold the horse, and he went int..
the house for • few minutm When he cams out be
found the home tied on to the rail., and Bee onie, ea.
standing a little distance away. Ho toll Betotom'm he .11.1
00th dd his horse a. he bad prnmissai, ant he replied thou
be seas not to he his servant. 111 • t lii Bae.millie
bie offered to hold the how, and said he wt. • fo.l
to tie It on to the mils, as if it ran hack and broke the
bridle reins he should have gut into a row. B womb.
told him not to call him • fool again, but he believed he
did repeat the words as he was unfastening the rein..
Baacombe then jumped idf the rail, and hit him in the
face He bdd him h• must iv silly to to that as he
an invalid, and recsivine sick pay from the 0 Idtrillows
H. ./..reard. reported &worn.* for being out after
boars, and the lodise flied him 19.. Lhaford pnab,d
him in the chest and }lmre hit him itt the face although
be hail not sp hen to either if them. All th.ree defen-
dants then h t him more/rat times and knocked him down
and stunned him. His eyes wore blackened sal his
cut, and he had enema bruisen shiwi, hi. bogy.
been spitting blood Tier since till ymter.lay, —ls cross
exeminetinn complainant denial striking wars
or
Lnkienrd fiest.-90naplatannt called as • witness William
5t,,,u16 who said he went to the house for some hoer
and beard the di.turhancia. C enplidnant called Basconde
.--I.ml and Bucombe told him not to ear that again.
repeated
.ths wives, and Bsseonibe then
struck him. Laneont Persued-ol complainant ...
strike BaMillelhet ache was an Invalid. and c mplainont
then .truM Langford Brat. H•uire went to part them
and comidaimint alai struck hint Brat—The Bench di—
mimed the Foitimnnees against owl L awl
B ocomlie, who had horn silly enough to plead guilty, was
Baird W. and cote Ms dl.)

itTsitsitOT.
A DI •IIoNEiT PATIENT.

At the Dorchester County Petty Sessions, on
Returday. before Mr. Herbert W Iliams, Mr.
medereley. and Mr. Middleton, Harriet Moderns, of
peiteontb., was charged with stealing • knife and one
shilling and • halfpenny from the house of Dr.
Greenwood, surgeon of livershot. From the evidence
of the doctor it would seem that &out a fortnight
he lost a knife, which was in a coat pocket
which was bd hanging in his pusage. He had his
suwethoesa against the prisoner and when on the 18th
die mine to hie surgery for some medicine he left her
Damage and went into his private room and
muted -a Willing and a half-pennv. Than, hi placed
In his oast pocket and be hung them up in the postage
Dior where the pris nier was 11, then we it out for a
by minutes, telling the prisoner to wait until he
unturned. When he did so he put on Ms c and on
plains e his hand in his pocket he found the marked
money was gone. P.D. Moore wee sent fo,,
upon •he woman being scam.' of having molen the
money, she denied it. When, however, she wee told
she would have to he taken to the Gaol and searched
by the wife of the oonstabln sh• called Dr. Greener....d
on one aide, and, taking out her purse, handed over
the markid coin. Mathews, who II apparently a
woman olt *bung 30, and, to one a Doc at Om.,
tummy to "have got an lace buttons, wag
Ifill;sgsTepsd dr Book to 14 dos hard labour.

DIU REGIS.
TOD EDUCATION ACT —At the Wareham Petty Sessions
on ruesday thowas Assns. of Bens Red; e labourer. wee
summoned for not 'aiding his child. Lydia Jams. *Ned
Audit years. to schooL.—Mr. Sullen, the school atteadanoe
officer. said he had served too notices on defendaat to
send his child to school malady, but they bad not been
obeyed. The number of attendances required daring the
year was 215, but the child only made HD but year. and
had only attented 18 times this year.—The Bench told
defendant to send the child to school regularly I* ICIUrS.
and dismissed the case.