The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-02-27 00:00:00

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Williams and Caroline Riddle, of Weyruouth, on bail, were
indicted for keeping • disorderly home, at Melcombe
Regis.—Mr. St Aubyn prosecuted.—The cave wax an
extremely bad one. The prisoner kept a hum of the
lowest deveription, into which they enticed girls of tender
age, levying black mails upon their iliirepteahle carnage.
A girl.whe was unable to pay her rent ruts turned out of
the beastly don, and her statements 1.1 t the present
prosecution.— The Judge said it was a very bad case. The
traffic was of a most infamous character, and defendants
had probahly done as much mischief ai any who had ever
carried on so infamous a trade. Very recently a girl, 19
years of age, was beguiled to go into their miserable house,

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The annual report of the National Rifle Association et iilenee was very clear. Etch defendant most be
has just been published. A few facts therefrom will imprisoned with hart labour for twelve months.
interest our volunteer reader.. It appears that fine as ACCIDENTAL INJURIES.
was the weather during the last meeting at Wimbledon, , The Grand dory threw out the bill against a boy named
the public disl not visit the camp as freely as had been A I bra SyStit,c charged with maliciously inlaying at Wey-
mouth, so dinuary 4th, a silver plate looking-glass, the
expected • but this is no don't accounted for, as far as
property of Henry Selfe, the damage done being estimated
the finishing day is concerned, by the fact that there at .eB. Sir Wayne.' Nearan, in presenting the return,
was no review. The visitme paying at the gates only etpressed on behalf of the inn- the opinion the case should
produced 4:1,552. an amount less by £49-S than that in never have been brought befae the C4urt—The Judge: I
1874, and Only 4.199 more than that in 1675, when rain entirely ',neer with you, ant will direct the costs of the
fell almost continuously during the whole fortnight. prosecuti in be not allowed. On application being
There is evidently something wrong so far as regards subsequently made for costs on the ground the defendant
the public. But as to the volunteers the annual
prize a ?ery had boy, and that he might have killed some-
meeting retains its popularity, fsr the entries last year woe
1.,7 his act, his Lorchhip said he should not allow
them, and if all boys who were bad were to be brought
exceed those in any previous year. A Colonial team before the t' nirt many more ought to be there. (Laughter.)
from South Africa is expected to attend the meeting —lt will he remembered the lad had a stone thrown at
in July next. The Council of the Association are him by another. He picked it up and threw it again;
well satisfied with the results; of the various experi- instead of, however hitting the boy he threw it at. it
ments male last year, but they complain, and very went into use shop oi the prosecutor, and broke a looking-
justly, of the small attendance of volunteers who, glass,
having won prizes, muster at the preaentations of hii:4, old
fellownamed Cheats 61 years of age, a farm
d the father of seven i 'L'children, wasanteneed
Prizes, This to an evil which has been growing during
hi cigt. an
months imprisonment with hard labour for
the last few years, and the consequence is that a core- attempting an unmentionable offence at brarlford Abbas,
minty which should be one of the most interesting
ineidents of the meeting, scarcely attracte any public 1:6181 PHIL'S COURT, THURSDAY.
attention. Prwsitively in one year, when the Irish (Before Lord Chief JUSTICE Cocttuts.)
Eight had won the Etch. Shliel. they not only did The Court opened at 11, and the only civil cause on the
not turn up to receive it from the Princess who WAS list was
delivering the his-lie., but they left, it in the hands of Adams v. l',ryard.—This was an action of ejectment
the Association for SOMA 1110IIthA before claiming it It was tried without a jury by consent —Kr. Collins, Q.c.,
according to the custom, and lb. Werri appeared for the plaintiff, and /dr. Cole,