The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-03-20 00:00:00

POOLE.

TEVPERANCE. —The usual weekly temperance meeting
wan held at the Temperance-hall on Monday evening,
under the presidenry of Mr. Carter, and there was a large
attendance. An address we. delivered by Mr. Aldridge.
of Southampton, and Mr. Charles Bent, an es•prize
tighter from Manchester, gave an interesting sketch of his
way from poverty, pugilism, Qr.
Moviisr.—Before the Mayor (Mr. A. Balaton) and Mr.
J. B. Duren.
A woman living In Coach and Horses Lane, near the
Quay, named Matilda Ilancoelt, Man brought up in custody
charged with keeping a brothel.—The offence was proved
by four young women.—Emily Luning. Mary libpkins,
Elizabeth Webber, and Jane Frampton—and the magis-
trates committed prisoner for trial at the Quarter
Sessions for the Borough, but admitted her to bail on her
own reeognizanees of Clin.
WAREHAM.

LOCAL Boson. —The following are the retiring
rnemkers for the present year, viz. Stephen
Bennett (chairman of the Bowl), Mr. John B. C.
Best and Nit.. John S. Drew. The latter was elected
by the Board to fill up a vacancy. Nomination of
candidate, must be sent in to the returning officer
(Mr. S. Bennett) on or before the 23rd inst.
DEATH Or Mn. W. C. LACET . —lt in With greet
regret we have to record the almost midden death of
Mr. William Charles Lacey, which melancholy event
oocurred at Hyletone, Bournemouth, on Saturday lest,
alter an illness ot only about two hours' duration. Th•
deceased gentleman was the senior partner in the firm
of Messrs. Lacey and Son, solicitors, of Wareham and
Bournemouth, and he held various public appoint-
ments, and was much and deservedly respected-. Mr.
Lacey was magistrates' clerk for the division of Ware,
ham, honorary secretary to the Wareham and Isle of
Perbeek Labourers' Friend Society, and clerk to the
Wareham Highway Board conjointly with his son a
partner, Mr. Charles Lacey. The deceased also held
the appointment of clerk to the trustees of the Ware-
ham turnpike, until the abolition of the trust a short
time since. Prior to the commencement of the ordinary
besiness at the county petty sessions on Tuesday
Captain Fyler (the chairman) paid a warm tribute of
respect to the memory of Mr. Lacey, and feelingly
alluded to the lose that had been occasioned to the
magistrates and the public by his death.
(mune PETTY Semmes, Tuesday—Before Captain T.
W. T. Fyler and Mr. Miles Itodgett.
There was only one case for bearing at this the fort-
nightly meeting of the Bench.
NON cosmos urn's.
Jae Lake. • labourer of Fordingtoo, Dorchester, weg
brought up charged with stealing a cloth waistcoat, aa
iron boiler, and alinen bag, value 2a. ed., the property of
William Kent, on the 3rd of March, at Bare Regis.—
There was another charge against the prisoner of stealing
at the same time and place, a valuable Dorking fowl mid
• stable prong, the property of Mr. C. J Hadelyffe, jun.,
of the Hyde, but it was not gone into—William Kent, •
keeper living at the Hyde lodge, Bore Regis. proved that
be missed the boiler, waistcoat, and beg, from an outhouse
adjoining his cottage, on the 3rd of March.—P.C. Chinn
said he
_found the prisoner lying by the side of the road at
Wintethourne Kingston about le o'clock on the morning
of Saturday, the 3rd of March. By the prisoner's side was
the boiler, with the waistcoat and bee inside it. He spoke
to prisoner, but could not jot any answer. He asked
prisoner who he was and where he came from, but tips
only answer he could get was • muttering noted. Ile
lifted prisoner on his feet, and found he could not stand.
Prisoner was sober, but he appeared to be paralysed by the
cold and wet. Ile got • conveyance, and took prisoner tit
a doctor at Bore Regis, and from thence to the Warehatir
Police-station, where he was seen by another doctor.—
Mr. Woodruffe Danisi, wit:: Wareham, said he
examined prisoner an week and again that
morning. lie foetid hint from delusions, and
that he was • person M unsound mind, who onght to be
properly taken care at is • lunatic asylum. lie did not
consider that primrose tee• ro•PonnlMs for his ootiaa
The bench discisimod Mit Aim Of a and
with prisoner sa a =l= Azum.
for Ws removal to

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