The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-06-06 00:00:00

POriLE.

BICTCLI MATOL —A —hi—cy-c; -Tnatch rattle on in Mita
town on Thursday evening, and excited a great deal of
Internal, the counietitir. isi:ll being rider.. The
parties were Mr. V. J. Street, i Poole. winner of the late
Yeomanry rare at IVermoitli, awl Mr. IL Burt, of
Witchampton. The road selected was f the old
turnpike at Longtieet, through the Fleets, Irmo thinner to
Lytchett gate, finishing at ilasuworthy, near the bridge.
The wee about six miles, WY performed by
Yr. Burt in minutes, Mr. Street tieing some four
wooed& behind him. We should state that the winner
rode a 110 inch ntaritine, whilst his opponent's wan only
Cat inches in height, and this, no doubt, had a great deal
too with the result.

-171 WIT -B.l6lllo.NVThursday—Before the Mayor, Mr. F.
Styring) and Mesas. C. J. Stone, W. I). Dugdale, and
J. B. DurelL
A lad named Samuel Spariino was brought up charged
with being a deserter from H.M.S. Boscawen. —Prisoner
deserted from his ship at Portland on the previous Thurs-
day, and was apprehended by the Poole police on the
previous day—The lad admitted being a deserter, and
the Bench ordered him to be taken back to his ship.
The young woman who gave her name as An n Roper,
a dressmaker of Weymouth, but who we believe has
since been recognised as a girl named bareeisise, of
Ringwood, was brought up on remand charged with
obtaining by false pretences four pairs of boots. value
£l7, from Mr. J. C. Hawke', boot-maker, of High-street,
and three skirts, value Itts 95., from Mr. A. K. Harris,
draper, the Parade on the previous Thursday afternoon.
—The evidence MIS given in our last issue. The only
additional witness was Mary King, general 'errant to
Mrs. Houliaton, who said she gave the Wilmer no
authority to obtain the boots. She did not know the
prisoner. There was no other servant at Mrs. Houliston*s.
—Prisoner pleaded guilty, said she was sorry for what the
had done, and hoped the Bench would have mercy upon
her. The magistrates had no power to deal with the
cases, and prisoner was committed to take her trial on
both charges at the next quarter sessions.

lIIIIICHANT SHIPPING ACT.
Williams Smirk master of the John Louis, a vessel now
In Poole Harbour, was summoned fee refusing to Pal
10s. wages to a seaman named Charles Roemer. whose
engagement had expired. —Hr. Travers defended, and
teoh-a preliminary objection to the jurisdiction of the
Bench. The summons was taken out under the third
part of the Merchant Act, which provided that ships
must be registered either in Great Britain or in one of Her
Majesty's dominioni abroad to enable such cases to be
brought under Familial laws. The defendant's ship was
registered at the port of Anvers., in the kingdom of
Belgium, and the Bench could not, therefore, deal with
the present case. The ship was a foreign one, and had
foreign articles, signed by the Belgian Consul at Bordeaux.
Mr. Travers said he had a good defence to the cam on its
merits, but be could not pass over the objection he had
made—The Bench, having examined the documents put
in by the defiance. , held the letsl objection to be a fatal
one, and dismissed the case. The com_plainant, wit: is a
as German, w advised to consult the Belgian V ul at
Poole, who was bound to protect him.

IMPUDIX? SHOP ROBISMUffa.
WiiiHNIS Oak, • diminutive lad, aged about 11 years,
living in Dearhay-lank Poole, was charged on remand
with dealing a cake, value sd, from the shop of
Mr. Ephraim Dominy, baker, of Longffeet, on the
previous Tuesday evening—Prisoner was also summoned
for stealing a tin of biscuits, value 2a 6d., from the shop
of Kr. William Bristowe, grocer, flab-street, Poole, on
the previous Monday evening.-14. Hominy said he had
misaed cakes from his shop on various occasions, and
suspected the prisoner. On Tuesday evening, the 30th of
Kay, about 7 o'clock, be was in his shop watching and
eee the prisoner come just inside On SitOp and take up
the cake produced and run off with it. He gave P 5...,
and the boy threw down the cake and ran away. He
aught bins and brought him back to the shop, and 'after-
wards gave him into the custody of the police—P.C.
Hallett proved that the prosecutor gave the boy into his
charge in High-street between seven and eight o'clock on
Tuesday evening.—In support of the second charge tfr.
Bristowe said he saw the of biscuits produced safe in
his shop at half-psat eight o'clock on the evening of
Monday, May Nth. He afterwards went to a meefing,
from which be was fetched at half-peat nine, and found
the tin of biscuits on the counter of his shop, and another
boy, who denied taking the biscuits, in charge. He was
certain the biscuits produced were his property. A little
boy, aged eight years, named Herbert William Tho=l
said he met prieoner on Monday evening and he
him to go with him. He went, and he saw prisoner go
into Mr. Bristowe's shop and take the tin of biecuits,
nay ran up the lane opposite, and on meeting some
women folks prisoner threw down the tin of biscuits and
ran away. The women caught him (witness) and took him
to the shop—Witness's father informed the Bench that
from remarks be had heard between his boy • A others he
knew that many robberies were going on from shops, and
told the police of it ten days ago. He had no reason to
think that his boy had taken anything, but in order to
prevent him from getting as bed as others he kept him in.
On the night of the robbery of the biscuit. he ran out as
the band was passing, and had no hat or jacket on.—
Ellen Penney said she was serving in Mr. Bristowe s shop
on Monday evening, and from what some one told her she
went into the lane opposite and saw the two boys.
Prisoner had a tin of biscuits under his arm, and on see-
ing her he threw it down and an away. She picked up
the biscuits and took the tin back to the shop. This warn
just after nine o'clock—Supt. Hunt said the prisoner was
a most incorrigble boy. He had received complaint, from
various tradesmen of robberies from their shops, and the
prisoner answered io the description given of the thief.—
In answer to a question from the Bench, Mr. Allen said
great difficulty was experienced in getting boys into
reformatories and training ship* especially for short
Dugdale remarked that this showed it to be
a most desirable thing for the neighbourhood that • train-
ing ship should be established in that post—The other
magistrates were of the same opinion. —The prisoner was
sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment for each offence, and
afterwards, if poulble, to be sent to • reformatory for five
years, the Mayor remarking that petty thefts of this kind
must be put a st3p toss it was a serious thing in the
town.