The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-12 00:00:00

HANTS SPRING ASSIZES.

CROWN COURT, Patu/day.—(&-fore Yr, Judie* BTU/

•111 orincnt OOKVICI72 OP TIM,

James Allen William Stewart, aged 3), described
in the mlendar us geollunan, but who was generally
Meow.. Captain Stewart, lade a lieutenant in the
82nd It. (blunt, ftom which h• endues/41 and after-
wards Peeved in the Hut bodies and Ife. Zealand, we.
indicted Inr stealing see.n VS Bank of Holland notes
and • trocket-boult from the parson of Henry Williun
Henley, at Hurstlx.urne Tarrant, no thel4th Macomb r.
It appeared that the prosecutor is a farmer renting •
harp fans in conjunction with hit brother, and on the
day shove n•m.d he eras attending Aodover market,
where Ite met .he prisoner, whom he had pr viouely
known, and who we g nerally recognised in the neigh-
bourhood as "Captain" Stewart. As prosecutor but
to p•c• prisoner's ruidence at Huntbaurne on hie wny
home, the I Mar salmi hit, to drive him thither, which
he consented to do, and they left Andover about nine
o'clock in the evening, grounder then having the notes
and pocketbook In hi. pus seine. When they
got a abort distance from edentate's residence,
prosecutor got down to leave some goods at a
nei,libour's, and directed priewter'• servant to drive his
...meter on to the Conners' Arms, which wag only ab..at
200 yard, from his borne. He did an, and prosecutor
biontelf followed to the inn, where he fell as'eep. He
er•• awoke in shout half an hour, and then went home,
when he found that the pocket-book and notes oon•
tainted therein were gone. At the meeting of the
Tedvo.rth hound. hest day, he met prisoner, who tohl
limb. was sorry to hear he had lost his pock.tabo It,
oiling tint he tinned there wan nothing in it. Portlier
evidence went to show that on the 181 h of Ikea/tuber pri-
soner took two letters to the Hsr.thon.n. Tansat
prga.ofil., talus registered ; and Mrs. Kennedy, living at
Stockwell-coramon, Claphawrosd, pawner's si teniu•
1.., proved that on the following day she received a
regiatered letter from him, stating that he iocloud
h.lve...f CE notes to her and her eider to the amount of
CEO and naked theta to take them to any bank and
obtain arti anal him one 11OLP for 1120 and another for
CIO as he wale. d to remit to the colony, where a dia.
odent of 5.. in the pound would he charged. It further
transpired that these £5 note. corre-p o.ded in nombor
and native with thou which prosecutor had lost, and
another pri-oner had changed in the village. Mr.
&Oka, for the prisoner, made • powerful def.nee, sad
several eitrsews were called to weak to character, but
the jury found a verdict of guilty of having the money
In his pnesewion, knowing it to have been stn en
goatee's waa postponed, and on Monday, the learned
Jodie mid he had anxioualy con.idered whet
e.entenne hta rhoold he pa.a. He so,l.rstood that the
prismer.e father wee. General in the army, and that b.
hinaulf. wen •n ofewr in the mme Line. He wan well
aware of the effect of this conviction, bet the law lessen
respeeter of persona, and the priaconer meet be dealt wit
In the name manner u a More hatuhla person. Ti.. jury
had con•idered that he lied not .tolen the pocket.h.wk,
hut bad reedited the money kno•ing it to bare been
Unica, and he believed their 'wait ems • cornet one.
He must have known thet the pocket-book belonged to
the pro.ecator, because it contained many papers on
which was the prosecutor's name. The 551241200 en.
tat the prisoner ahould be imprisoned nod It., t to
herd labour for 12 calendar months, to corn....nos from
the dste of his committal (the Ileh of Jsaass7).