The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-09-04 00:00:00

ICMST STOKZ
ELOPING WITH "SART" AND ITS RESULTS.

At the Wareham Divisional Petty Sessions, on Tuesday
last, before Lieotenant.Colonel C. P. !donut Mr. O.
Bond, and Captain .1. W. It. Ilawkesworth, a young MAO
of Bait Stoke, named Grcorg, wee brought up in
custody charge.' with stealing is pair of black trounces, •
white flannel ',WO, two pairs of stockings, a counterpitine,
and moue°,,, other article% of the total value of Al, the
property of Charles John Cobb, of East Stoke, on the 2nd
of August —The Court was crowded during the hearing of
the case, which seemed to excite • deal of internd.—Mr,
R. N. Howard, appeared to proeecute, and, having briefly
stated the facts of the eau, he called Charles John Cobh,
who Kahl he wan a bliek•lnlikar and bunter, and lived at
Kant Stoke. A...meth Cold, wee his wife, and he had been
uarehol to her over five yeare. The prinoner came to his
house to lodge ahmit sixteen month,, ago, and he paid 7s,
a week for hie 1...1.6ng5, keep, and wsnliing. 11,, 41111
nothing between his wile 111111 prisoner to excite his atten-
tion. He lived en very friendly terms with hie wife, so
touch so that when he left her in the morning he was in
the habit of saying to her "Creel morning. baby I" (Bun
of laughter.) 111101 WM his usual expression of minus
ment On the 2u,l of Augest he left home about 'oilfired
five o'clock In the morning VI it.. to bin work, wide') was
alsest three miles away. Ile returned shout aeyrri o'clock
In the evening. His work generally kept him away these
hour., and bis wife and prisoner knew this. Ile found no
one in the houne when he returned on the evening named,
but he took no notice of this at first, as he thought his
wife wan out nhopping. Fiuding his wife did not return
he looked oboist the house, and missed urinals things.
This aroused his suspicions, and he examined his wife's
box and found that all her clothes wee gone. He alio
inhered • pair of trouser, from his box, and the other
sale's,. produced (non the house. Ile found his single
lodger was gone an well as hin wife and ip.is, and COM.
municated with the polio.. Ile did not We hie wife or his
single lodger from that time till they were apprehended.
Hin wife carried away 21 of his money, which, with 13
she paid bill with, was the proceeds of the sale of a row
and five pigs she had induced him to sell the week before.
lie identified the articles produced as his property, and he
did not authorise anyone to take them out of his house.—
Prisoner asked no question.—Ameneth Cohb, • by no means
bad looking young woman, said she had been living with
her husband at Stoke. On the 2nd of August the prisoner
took the bundles produced from her huaband's house to a
donkey-cart in the road. Ile afterwards met her at Weed
Station, by arrangement. and she accompanied him to
Manchester, where they live together se man and wife for
throe week*, until they were apprehended. The prisoner
took charge of the things, and carried them till they met
Constable Evans in klanchuter. She Ind about £2l of
her husband's money when she left., and they spent it
between them. It was at the prieener's instigation that
the thing. and money were taken from the homer. She
and her huslrand lived happily together till the prisoner
came to their house.—ln cross-examination by prisoner
Mrs. Cobh admitted that she did not hand him any of the
money taken away.—John Brown sail he lived within
half onruile of the prosecutor's house. Fie was an invalid,
and en the 2nd of August he borrowed a donkey and cart
to take him into Wareham. When he got to the
house where prisoner lived the prisoner brought two
bundles out of Mr. Coblis howe and placed them
in the donkey-cart, which the owner had given
him permission to do. He drove to Wareham, and
the prisoner followed behind and took the bundles
out of the cart at the cross. Mrs. Cobb was standing at
the gate when the prisoner brought the things out of her
husband's house.—John Evans, • police-const able at
Manchester, said hewas on duty at Piccadilly, Manchester,
on the 3rd of August, when the prisoner and the woman
(Mrs. Cobb) came up to him, the run carry tug two
bendles. Prisoner asked him if he could recommend
them to lodgings, and he finally agreed to take them him-
. self. Ile thought they were roan and wife, and they
went to his house and stayed there from the 4th of August
till the 111th, when, in consequence of information he
received, he apprehended both of them, and also took
Uvieenssrte°ruall be tihvienriglinfoPrZiaution.f—roignuColreonndli
3rd of August that he had bunt both his wife and goods,
I and he mid, every inquiry, and cured a description of
the prisoner and the woman to be circulated in the North
of England. On Thursday, from information he reeeived,
be went to Manchester and found the prisoner in custody
there. He received the goods and also .4:12 14s. LI found
on Mrs. Cobb, and brought the goods, money, the prisoner,
and the woman to Wareham.—Prisoner pleaded guilty to
the charge, but the Bench declined to try the case, and
' committed prisoner to take his trial at the next Quarter
Sessions.