The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-03-13 00:00:00

Henry Holloway mid : I mu • fanner living at Ring-
wood, and me also • land surveyor. In December last I
went to look at the reuse between Ow railway and
plaintiff's Aoki Two helm were pointed out to me
where tho %h..p were said to have got throngli—it was
the very best part of the quiek-set hedge. It was • very
good ordinary Lisa far 14d purposes. If *WU, pat
Into • Aoki for ordinary pu I should say they
would not get through. Tina rr= will also apply to
sheep. For what is called • field ream. a better one is
required than for ordinary purposes. lam in th• habit
of placing hurdles along by the side of an ordinary knee
when Hold. That is according to my lam, lam bound
to do it.

By Mr. Stock: I consider that 3 roods and 18 perches
el land is room enough for 112 sheep, but they would be
mere likely to get through a fence than through the
fold were it three tunas the sin. At the time I sew the
fens the ditch had been cleared out, the rails had been
put in, and the bank had been raised. I cannot speak of
the sten of the fence previous to the time I saw it, but
the bank would not make the quick-set hedge better.
Harry Hales said; I eni a farmer and land agent at
Ringwood. I went to the plan of the snidest on the
27th or the 28th Deeeselwa. 'llse two holes in the
hedge where the sheep were said to ban got out were
painted out. They wen than stopped by posts and
rails and the ditch had been cleared oat. At the time I
saw it the fence was a very good one for ordinary ma-
il the sheep had the whole range of the field.
When sheep are fulded,a quickest hedge is not sufficient
for a fold-fence. .

By Mr. : I did not is. the fence previous to
the accidost, sad I outwit theruloro toll whether pre-
vious to the 164 Noromber Amp could got through the
fouco.

Hnry Baas said : I am a farmer and agent nor
Ringwood. now the tenet is quagga en the 14th of
Febrivay last. I esamind the quickast hedge par-
inanely when the sheep got throve'. It waa • good
*ninny 111110111, the gains bad bees planted reganflt,
and were three or four lost high. Ido not insider this
quichmit fine would be a sato team as • bold tenon.
Whore 'beep are kept is a mall space, and moire par-
Similarly where the land is wet, whin!" ale aeon to be,
Na Senn is not wallicient, and a fanner air ordinary die-
oretiat rigid sat think of making it a fold-lene.
. . .

By Mr. Stock: For mice land as this is, I sender
that thorn-quarters of as ere is a conned spas* for
112 sheep. I am aware there is a bank, and if there
we plenty of straw and rough manure for them to
in it would make • greet difference.
Fleury Colinas, the district superintendent of the
flouth-Western Railway said: 'The first time I saw the
lens in question was on the 22nd December; hew the
boles again on the 28th February, and between those
two dales I *Mired that two of the quick-sees had been
removed. By Yr. lingem : I measured the boles on
both ,as&,n. I amen my how maay inhale or feet
the holes were lupe the last time I was then than
the int. humoured them on both ocessicias by the eye.
flergeent Kinglake sad Mr. Stock having ree=tly
adelreseed the jury ea the evideem, his
summed ap, and awning the law of the ease to the
jury. The an seder wink this anion was brought
was the Ito Via., sap. SD, see. 88, lllllRaionly maned the
Railway amass AM. This Ad stated the ell railway
nauseam shall make sad keep is elleint repair proper
foams en ..to side of their lee of railway, so as to
effeenally prevent ell settle on the adjoining land from
Men fr et end eenesis on sash er railway, sad
ibtre=l thenfote be Ise the foxy to say whether they
believed the foam in gelatin was such a tense as was
required by the Am. The evideece was econlisting, but
they moat take a sommemosese view el the subject.
The plantiff, his an, and his servant all mid that the
fence was • very bad one, and that the plaintiff had
spoken to one of the servants of the company
' respecting
It. That servant had been celled, but thi:l=l
manse for the &Nan had act thought prop., to put
the question to hiae, and they might therefur, Mier that
the stasemeet was tree. Then was also mother wine's,
Ur. Paean, whom endows was very importeat, as he
spoke of the state of the fence just previous to the
accident, and they would remember that he had stated
that be remarked at the time the bedness of the fence.
On the other band the only wigwams called to speak of
the state of the fence previous to the accident were
servants of the oompany. It was tree that they had
said the fens was • geed one, and that there was no
need of repair, but thee then VAS the fast that the
sheep did gel through it. One of the serene said that
the plaintiff bad said, when be fint beard of the mei.
p, that he would not believe it, as the fence was so
, but he (the learned Judge), thought there must
Nome mistake here, se they had it in evidence, on
both side., the immediately the evident was made
known to the eon, the first who was seen in reference to
the meter, that he refused to take the dead sheep,
and said the company must take them as their fens
was so bad. It was evideat therefore from the brat,
that the plena intended to ell upon the compel:by to
make good his lass; butt. Info the the fence was ve
good on woesid tell very much against him in making
Mt his claim. Gentlemen, who undoubtedly were
kocograble end napeetable men, had been celled for the
defence to speak of the state of the fens, but none of
theta had seen it previous to its being repaired, but they
must recollect that they bad not to inquire what the
stale of the fens now was, but what it was at the time the
accident ookeved. This none of them could tell, but
they emoidered that it was • very good fame for general
1.14 purposes. They all agreed- that it was not •
proper fence for • fold fesse, lest that hurdles ought to
have been placed against it; but if such were the cam,
ought not the railway soranny to have placed the
bindles there? The Act of Parliament made no dis-
tinction between geseral bald tenses aad fad fences,
but said that the fences should be of such • nature as
should provost cattle breaking through and straying
upon the railway. It had been suggested that the
sheep broke through the knee benne they were too
confined and they were in want el food, and • dry plain
to lie on, and one of tic, railway witnesses said they
were three days without food, and another that the
plaintiff had himself acknowledged not having feed
them on that night. But the sleep had been in the
fold for only 5 clays, during which time they had eaten
upwards of three quarters of as acre of an average
loop al turnips, and if they were indeed in want of
food, his own opinion was that if they were hungry
they would be more likely to go where the turnips were
than spelt She railway. The twe men who damn the
sheep said they wore fuR of feed, seed three quarters el
an en anon to be large spas, enough for 112 sheep
without nanselortable :weeding; med although It was
wet, there was • large quantity of dang sod straw for
them to lie on upon the mond in the west pert of the
fold. The. with regard to dainages—the company
bad paid £2O into court. If the Puy were of omen
that the fence was not such as was required by the
Act, they would say whether any, in Wigan to the
1910, wield be • mains, compensation for the lam U
they fee erne* believed that the sheep were worth
the fall 11111)0111111i claimed they would give damages of
CIO, whisk would be in addition to the 13110 paid. The
jun almost immediately rennin a verdict for the
plaintiff, damages £3O.

CROWN COURT.—WwaszemaY.
Clarke Cracks laboarer, wee dumped with'pearidag
ea some leads Wor•Oeir le Amodio Foster, Req., et
Wesley,U, oa the eight of the 141 h January bra. Re
wee shoe armed witii earialtiria Huber Betio" a game
teepee, who emdiawesomit be tahs hire into oweiedy.
Mr. Moth Immolated, pod lb. Edwards deleaded tie
lawsww• sslssi.4 to 6 writhe' hard labour.
1. Eh Awe, ehatied with eleehai • bey the property
et Law Prim, at Cbardeleich, cm tire MU Draeraber,
wlll reatmeW to one .oaths imprisonment, with
hard Lamm . .

diarged witit burr!, ww brnria
Ishooviag under sous* lareifilat La
No evidences was prodased aphid kiss, soil be was
dimicerged.
Wm. Jeekeen, seed lb, Seeded guilty of setting
lire to • stable and atoreboos• it the Whom
Reformatory on the llith December leat. The primmer
had been sentineled to Woe mouths in the Reformatory
for Weeny Seatelosii tit tbyears' peal servitude.
fremenfiLtehiaod Nary Oraill pleaded, guilty, the
farmer of the birdi of her &lid, and the
latter of aiding sot abetting in the same.
one months imprieowinent with bard labour.
A,. ~Arouse Leckper pleated guilty to 8=
a . Two months' iasprimminens with bard leboor.
rsetel4 Haag was *barged with receiving too
Goodie% the property of the Rev. C. Whittle, of Stoke
Abbot, knowing the same to have been stolen. Kr.
Cooke prosecuted, the prisoner was undefended.
Verdict—" Not Gailty."
William Premley pleaded guilty tea charge of stasling
dead rabbits at East Lnlworth, the property of Henry
Peery. Two months' bud labour.
&rah Chow pleaded guilty to obtaining hose Mr.'
Job, L.', a Do/chaster, • quaatity of p..sey goods
wider Was pretenses. Two months' basal
Jobs Oelebred, whom Tar,i
eszipswed colvadas
Solownsithasi Regis, as the 170:artlary
trat
did not WM. having made his soaps from the
pollens". Wore they arrived .4th. gaol, amd had sot
do.. bees 'captured.
No Dills were retuned in 1b....., of Robert Clark
wad Aaron Tuner, charged with stealng • sheens,
the property of Christopher Adams, as Netherbury,
oil the 1101 h Nalweary.

171131 PRIM COURT.-WIDNISDAY.
/MUM; lUT:

George Grows was charged with stealing lfilb•
weight of hay, value Id., the property of Jasper Riles,
at nddlibialloa, on the Mei January lase. Hr. Portman
prosecuted, aad Mr. Pfooka defended. The prosecutor,
• blacksmith, and the pri.oasr each keep a bone, sod
constantly weepy • stable, whin' is only partially sepa-
rated by • partition. The peu.,cutor had on several
amigos lost hay, and he det.rmla.d to mark it by
paling passe of weed, marked with his initials, among
lris hey. On the 30th Jimmy the prosecutor went into
his stable and put hie band through the rails and took a
haadful of hay, white prisoner's kale was eating, from
the rack. Ha saw it was like his own hay, and be went
for the constable. He found one of the marks in the
lamer of prosautor's stables, and the condone found
another mark in the bay which the horse was eating.
Tim question was whether the prisoner or his eon, 13
years of ace, bad stolen it. When the °actuate:los of
the hay being found first beans known to the prisoner,
li. would have thrashed his boy bad not the constable
prevented. The Judge thought there was no ease to go
Micro • jury. Verdi* "Not Guilty."
&moms HAT.—EIN4I•II•I Steel, and George Steel,
hie father, were indicted with Malin 600ths. inUtit of
hay, the property of Hr. Edwin RartVliott, at Klein.._
on the Kb et January lat. Thomas Sather wit: That
ise the morning in question be observed that some hay
had been taken trona his master's hay rick, and he
tracked the footstep. leading to Red Hill, ia the '
diredien of the Wears' hoses, at Meriden, about
brill a mile distant. On enteral( upon the highroad the
footmarks were lust.- Benjamin Park, a police constable
at Einem went to the Louse of the SOD the
evening of rise sums du, in oempial. with P.C. Dowdal,
and asked Emanuel Steel to be permitted to search hi.
praises. He ESNS his ocessent, and in • hay hat they
found about 500 the of bag. Emanuel Steel mid that ha
archaised the hay of Ir. Cartes Ricks, of Bourne-
mouth, and that his man, Troop, delivered it. It. took
• sample of the hay, and • day or two afterwards be
west and took • emend marple. He weal Into the
prisoners' bones and bad some mead to drink. It was
nee ye., Mee, Efierth Hart Elliott, the promeater,
• •••140 of bay taken from his risk, end ussa.
pusd it with sae tiro sample* fin•lusd by the
81111. They MED all minium, ao ut them won