The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-11-21 00:00:00

Priscilla Will. and Ilarriet Penfold, two aipsies. wore
»?t on remand charted with obbining by Wickland
4.. 81. trona Charles Roberta, on the 14,11 inst., at
Tolyr.
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Yr. Howmd appeared for the defendants.
Charles Roberts stst,d that on the 11th Mat be had
beta out delivering bread for Mr. John Pitcher, of Maiden
Newton, when in Toller-lana he met the ten prisoners,
Priscilla Wills came up and hiked for a loaf which be
gave her, and then asked for thence of a two-shilling
piece, and he gay. her • Milling and two six pence.; then
she asked for another loaf. and then for change of as. 6d,
when he gave her two shillings and a sixpence. Harriet
Penlold then come up and asked for change of a florin,
he gem her • Milling and to., sixpences He received •
two-shilling piece from Polaroid, and then be asked for
the money for the bread and tb., money he bed changed,
when they said they had paid him. He went on a little
way and stopped, and reckoned up, and found he was two
and a half loaves and 61. short.
Orommgamined by Mr. Howard: He had been at the
hi:einem three years, and had never lost any money. He wag
16 year' of age. After the occurrence with the women he
drove towards Malden Newton ; he went on three or four
yards, and then stopped and reckoned his money.
P.O. Wallace. stationed at Frampton, Mated he went to
Orewkerne in search of Penfold He found her at Mia-
mi-ton, and charged her. She denied baring any dealings
stall with the bey. What bread she bought that day she
bought at the shop. The next morning be epprenended
Priscilla Will, at the same place.
Kr. Howard then Mdmrsed the Bunch on the peas:mere
behalf.
In answer to the Bench, the boy Roberts said the
prisoners were not together when be nrst saw them; they
were about two yards apart, but near enough to hear one
another speak. Priecilla Will. came up first.
The Bench said it was quite clear that they meant to
defraud the boy. Considering th-y bad already been
before them to-Jet, they would be only Stied Lss. each.
•PEILIATION CLSIL

George Farnhons. who did not appear, was summoned
by Eliza *school, of Warmorall, to show emus, sic.
The Benco made an order for 21. 61. a week for the
newel than

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TAB Er. INFIMAIIIT.—A. meeting of the Governom
was held at the Dispensary of the Weymouth and
florist County Royal Eye Infirmary on Thum -lay
last, when there were present—G. E. Eliot, Esq., who
was ogled to the chair, Dr. Fox, Capt. Sparks
(Crewkerne), Rev. D. B. Benham (Broadway), G.
Andrews, Esq., Mr. J. A. Sharron, Mr. Smith, Mr.
Councillor Hounsell, Mr. T. B. Groves, Mr. E. Nooks,
ko. Resolutions had been come to by the committee,
which were now submitted to the mestine for confirm-
Woo :—Thet in future the M.dical Officers of this
Institution shall consist of two surgeons and one
consulting surgeon. "That every clergymen
and minister who shall collect a sum not
being lees then £2 2s. shall be deemed a governor
of the institution for tle year following the annual
meeting in July at which the collection is reported."
Thies resolutions were confirmed. On the motion of
Dr. Fox, Dr. Childs, MA., M.R.C.
B.L , and F.C.S., was elected one surgeon, end R. P.
Simpson, Berk., the other, the two to be joint surgeons,
without priority.--The two surgeons returned thanks,
and wine conversation followed, in which it was stated
that the sea-air is a powerful assistant to medical
skill in restoring patients who suffer from diseases of
the eye.