The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-04-20 00:00:00

A COUPLE OF YOUNG BURGLARS.

Two boys named Tkowsas end Samstl Beale, the
younger of juvenile and innocent appeareass, were
brought up on Saturday before Captain Frowns
and W. Talbot, Esq., for breaking eat' enter*
Into the dwelling.house of the Her. William Hawking
Howes, on the 10th inst., sod stealing a gold
ring, helesoverign, 45. 3d. in silver, end a purse.
—Mrs. Swum Howes, of Franchise-cottage, said that
last Sunday morning, she left her house a little
before eleven to go to divine service. She looked it up
liDd left everything ewers At one o'sloot she returned
and found tbe back door unhoe.sed, on which she
went upstairs and missed her ring and puree from her
dressing table. A gold niedellion ring produced by the
superintendent she identified as her own, which had
been left on the table, when she went oat in the morning.
In the puree there had been one lialf•sovereign, three
shillings, two sixpence., and a threepenay bit —Mr. W.
H. Howes said he was not at home from Saturday after.
noon, to Monday evening. Having heard of his wife's
loss he reported the circumstances to the polite, sad
gave them a ring similar to the one lost—an loalan
Island ring, with the stamp of one of the islands on
each of the medallions. It cost • guinea in the Islands.
G ergo who lives with his brother as wetatmaker,
and je welter, said that Monday last, Mr. Vickery brought
to LI, shop • ring like the one produeed for him 10 sec
On Friday the eldest prisoner brought another ring
like the first to his shop, and waked him if it was gold.
Witness asked him to leave it for an hour, which be
did, and shortly after the superintendent came end
red ived the ring from them. The boy said his mother
had met him with the ring.—James Travim, keeper of
the Chapelry Tavern, said that on Monday last, the
youngest came to his house, and got change of half's.
sovereign. He had called on Good Friday for change
of a sovereign; but be could not give it. —Soperiaten-
dent Vickery, op Monday last, went to Franchise.
cottage, and examined the place. In the back yard
were footmarks on the ground do.. to the wall, and
dirt on the handle and bolt of the door, bidding from
the rut to Mr. Moore's garden, as if some person had
put their foot there to get over. On • arced:louse which
had been fresh pointed were the inert' of the heel of
a boot, and on the windowdill were the marks
where some one had lifted the window and got
through. They must have silmbed about 13 feet up •
pipe to this window, am, on the inside they must have
dropped about ffft, down on the stairs. It was a small
window, and it mast have been a dillieult job for even
a boy to get through. Mr. Howe reported to him that
• cashbox which had been lying open on the table had
not been robbed, he supposed it to be a petty theft, and
went round with • ring which he had obtained from
Mr. Howes, to all the jew.llere in the town, and
instructed them to stop any similar one which might be
brought to them. H. obtained • nog at Mr. Sime'si,
awl went to Franchise-court, where he told Thomas
Berle he should take him into custody for breeding
into the house of Mr. Howes. Prieoner said "It was
Sam told me to dolt," and witness, asked him who Saul
was, and be said it was his brother. He said" We got
over the wall ; Sam stood in the yard, and I went into
the house. I pulled my brother over the wall." Having
sent Thomas to the station, he went to Mr. Moore's
next door, and arrested the other. When be came
out of the Aortae, he told his brother he had nothing;
but he found out afterwards it was cot true, for he
took him into Mr. Moore's coffee-house, and bought
him some bread end butter. This morning begot some
shoes from their sister, and the heel of one of the shoes
corresponded with the marks left on the paint on the
greenhouse. The priaeners live with their sister, ineir
mother bring dead, and their father away at Cowes.
Since their apprehension be bad obtained • telescope,
which he hail no doubt they got •t the time the life.
boat wars launebeeL He also had a gold pencil-ease
which the younger had sold for a penny, though it was
worth Ills. He had also got possession of some other
propeity iloulelem the fruit of other robberies, and he
naked for • remand to seeable lion to get up theorises. -
The elder boy had been discharged from Mr. Atkins'a,
and also from Mr. Crocker, for stealing. They mu t
have got over more than four walls to get to this house.
The younger bat been living with Mrs. Moore, who had
been acting as mother to him since his mother had died;
but there was no coobt he had been led sway by his
brother to do wrong.—Tbe sister, who was present in
Court, raid that her younger brother brought home
the telescope, saying that he had picked it up on the
sands. —Tbey pleaded guilty, and were remanded tU
Tuesday.

HOW THE BENEVOLENT ARE SWINDLED
Two "turnpike sailors" have just "come to grief" .t
Weymouth, alt.e successful imposing on some of the
charitably-dispose] amongst us. They pretended to be
father and son. George and John Stewart, but while the
elder appeared to be a BrMasher, the young ni.o had a
foreign appearance. They professed to be IFreetuaaons,
and begged with the following getition :