The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-26 00:00:00

BOROUGH POLICE —YR,TICIDAT.
B4nr• the )I iyor (Dr. Aldridge). Mr. M. bevel:ash. Kr.
G J. G. Cherry.

JOB AND 11111 TIOUBLZIL

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Job Seals of F .in monvonufol for haring
in attendance order mb by the Scholl Con•
ro.ttee, and not liendinig his chill to the elementary
..choola —Oct mdant pleaded be could nit get his boy toe°
to reboot He Intel no wile but three children, and he
wit ..ar an day. lie &nth' not Oar at hem to so,, he
went Tne vs en who licked eter them vice critic).
—Mr. Pearee, the in.p-ctor, said he b-lierori the defen-
dant had done his hit ti send the child to school. —The
Beach said they would me. what could be done between
tlik and next week, nod would try b. yet him into an
Industrial S•tbeil. He had better Win; hi. lad with hint
On the next ..ccs.in.

111L49R1 LY ATTZSDANCI

G•erge Meager. • tail,, who did not appear. P.C. Sims
proving the service o, the summons, was charged with •
situ Par offence. Ile t the police he could nit get any
work to earn money and par for their schooling —Mr.
P.m* &leo wore' thin csse and siid the ilI. a girl, had
sttendiel only sit times sine the first of January. The
Parent well poor, sal as lusg an I h., minister paid the
attendance fees the children went to acnool, hut when
this was otopeed ther ceased to att,nd Thera tea. •
decided ehjection.dt the part ef the fatter to apply to the
Guardian.. Onler made bir attend MM.,.
_ T.HE RED HOT POKER ASSAULT.

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Richard Barter an inoffensive looking aim., was brought
up in custody. int remsdri Chariot with • mu-luaus
issaillt UnOtl J hit fitsyner. —(The previous hear.
inc of the cue will be fount rep orttM in another
The eViletbee take., at the prowl .11.1eanntin.tion um read
over. Toe prisoner, in hi. stab-moot, maid on Fruits',
night last, about quarter to ten he WY In bed at his house
in 1. wilington, sod he beeril cries of Are and murder.
Ile got up and bloke.' out of his window., an I ',sari non..
women who were pre.ent what was the matter, and in
consequence of what they said he got up owl Caine down,
when he got • lon he found Barter condor out of hi•
house, which wo, situate a c•mple of &en, elf. Prison./
Own went up end deliberately struck a Mrs Garrett with
fist. He went to ormeet her and posheil him lit, his
I eliding. Whilst doing so the prisoner kicked hint
severely, rausiD. C gre.st beis of blood. After he had aot
him In the hniee he reilosined with him about twenty
minutes, and then as ho got up and was ann.( home the
psiriner took the poker out of the Are and stench him a
blow across the upper put of his head. P.C. Gould then
came and sent hit,, to the hospital, where his howl was
dressed, and he afterwards returned home. The poker
was rsd.hot f anil the blood after he was struck ran down
his head and clothes. After prisoner hit hint he knocked
him do en. In the previous row he did nut •trike Linn at
all, but be struggled with him to get bilis in-doors.
Prisoner had been dnnking.
The prisoner hail no questions to ask the prosecutor.
Mrs. Elisabeth Derrick said she liire.l at Fordington,
and B trter lodged In her house. Lot Friday she saw him
bike a p her and guilt. the prisoner over the bead. He
ernien bled very much. The poker was
,out hot. When she nine hone thst evening she found
fluter by the Are, and she maple ned to him that he has'
antell fire, as she sat isfrod he would set the place on
Are. Simeon. outside c dleil out Are. She did not know
who, MM. Garrett rapt down, and In coneequence of
what she seid, rob! Burett be bad too much Bre, awl
he then went out and .truck her. Stouter took her put
and struck Banat. They r turned to her house and
remuned talking some little time. and Starner tried t •
persusde bite to go to bal. After about twenty minutes,
when Stainer eras learitu. and had his hand on the
handle of the door, Sprier took the poker and struck him.
there had been no quarreling between them previously.
Called upon Use his defence, the prisoner Barter said he
hal nothing to say.
The Mayor told him it was • must violent assault, and
might have cut the prosecutor bit life The blow itself
was quite sufficient to have c mud serious injury, without
the fact of the poker being red-hot, and consequently
there had been a remand to see if erysipelas set in. tie
could not be let off without • heavy punishment;
drunkenness was no excuse for such a murderous assault.
The punishment the Bench were about to indict would
he severs, but not more severs than he deserved. and they
trusted it would bs a warning to him. He would be
imprisoned In the County Gaol for two months' with hard
labour.
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That appropriately named quarter. Ifill,street, Fording-
ton—for there ere wore fiety-cuff quarrels there It=
.ny ether part of Dorchester of course. had • ease.
Mime A Attie 81.01—it ought to he Bulley—waa summoned
by Mary L ag and Caroline IllttcheU for using obacene
language. The nee bed been settled out of court. [lt is
• pity inagistrat« allow this tort of procedure. We
believe we are not overstating it when we say the
language heard in our streets would disgrace the Seven
Dial. I

AAA Lomb, of Sherborne, was charted before Mr. Y.
new•nlal tod Mr. Greil",7, with helot a deserter from the
I) wen Militia sine* the 8-h of Jose, 1874. He ore him-
self up. The bench discharged hies.