The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-02-07 00:00:00

FOUR CHARGER OF THEFT.

fthroley said seethes media are he senthei
information from Mr. Supt. Beg of these sedan
having bee lost by Kr. Tepper. RA made enquiries
in mon of the publiabousei la the town, adootbs
27th of the present month he " visited" the primer in
hid oell. He said you have sot found the soger basin
or the sugar loop yet, I sold them to Miss
at the Smith's Arms. Cpas that be (the cestiblej
went to her and she handed over lb.thegla. ei
she had bought them of it. prison, some time before
Christmas. He had previously made enquiries of
Miss fluding, but she then denied thawing anythiag
about the g ,oda.
By the bench: When be asked for them be told her
the prisoner sail they wets there, sad tea she wet
st them.
Winless examined by the prinaer : Do you
remember that when you eeme into my oell you said
I should have to cold me feet a good may sem oa
the. stoees.—Yes I cild.
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And ibia-1111 co-t-h-o
saga booin mid tamp you ocodd
trace tbem I—That I did.
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And %qua dui I said well if you know where they
are go and get them T—Y.
Miss Herding vu thou nailed and said she denied
any koowledge of the sager hula and tugs, buswee
the cognisable asked her if the prisoner 114 sold her
atty. The feat wee she let him have 2. on aonditios
that when Ise cams for them he should pay her beak.
She lent him the money to go back to Pool. with.
Asirrosa : A vary potTlsaa skip,
Sept. Batty sad hs
denied -

'fee Chairman : A very isealier thing.
Ids. Supt. &ay sad Mime Hardfztureztea
i knowing anything at the i
—ea no leen thaa six eacganies to be made there.
Mies Harding said he told her he had won them eta
raffle.

caused

- TIM Chairman put it to her—Was it likely be would
have parsed with things of that kind for 21. libe
might depend upon it Mr. Batty in the futare would
look upon her horse with suspicion.
Mr. Bogy said he had almost felt inclined to have
abetted Miss Harding as a receiver, but hitherto be
had always found the bones did what it could to assist
the polio&
lila Harding : I am very sorry it should have
happened.
The fourth charge against the prim aim was that of
stealing an eleotro-plarmi claret jug, the property at
Mr. lapper.
Elizabeth Harris, the Marini, proved missing is on
the llth of January.
Pitt Coated deposed to haring reesived it from a
groom named Buckle.
Mrs. Bessie Tapper valued the jug at We. The
prisnam she said laid been employed In the yard of
the hotel, tie had come there in great waste arYieg,
as her Mena told her, for weal of food, and she gave
him victuals and directed that be should be taken on
to do odd jobs.
Charlcs Buckle said he was • groom to Mr. Charles
Wyndh.m. as wee at the thiokatee's struts • fort-
night ago last Monday, whm the prisms, aimed the
jug for tale, saying ho had won it in a raffle. He
asked him what be would take for it, and he said it
bad cost him 2a., and he would sell it for 3s. 6d.
Wiener thereupon bought it.
The prisouer pleaded guilty to these charges like.
wise.

-The Chairman said it was the duty of the Bench to
mark those masa with severity. He bad taken
advantage of kits. Tapper's kindness to staid property
exposed at the hotel. Th• sentecoe would be one
month's hard labour in ascii of those charge., and in
the other two the sentence would be 14 days' hard
labour each; in all, three months' hard labour.
The father of the prisoner said his eon had been in
the army, and on foreign service. He bad been out
to Ashanthe sad in the Hag ladles, and then be had
had two sun strokes, and he had never been properly
right since. He had beau discharged from the army
with a very goad 01111[50110r, which was put Is.