The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-11-25 00:00:00

POOLI.

Wr ,LITAN iUNDAT SCH,W3l.l7llllf.—Tbp fint annual
distril,ation of prizes to the succuatul oanciidates (who
comp ted at the competitive examination held at
Portsmouth about a month since) took place on Tues-
day. 13th instant, in the Green-mw School-room. The
proue lingo commenced with a t which a large
nom). r sat down, each of the winners receiving a
ticket. The chair at the meeting war taken by the
super; itendent minister of the circuit (the Rev. Levi
Wide house) who presented the prizes—six in number
and 6. teen certificates of proficiency. The Chairman,
the ker. J. Cooper (3upt. of Portsmouth), the
general secretary of Portsies school, and Mr. Liutern
(the sectretary of the Union) gave addressee, wit eh
were characterised by the sound practical advice each
gave. No doubt larger number, will compete next
year. The soccer of this year's oompetiti in was
contributed mainly through the energy and exert! ,ne
of Mr. Lintern. _ _

—Tux Hoe. liaatcrixt Biagi:Llß AND Hut Gans—
juen Gilbert, gardener to the Hon. Grantly F. I
Berkeley, .4 Alderney Manor, glutton, appeared
before O. J. Parka, gwi., the Rev. C. J. Glyn, and
Lient..General Sir B. ft. Greethed. Bart., Cd., at
the Wimborne Petty Sessions, on Friday, charged
with unlawfully and maliciously killing a tl.g value
rti, the property of Joseph Goatee Keynes, by about.
the sawe at ginson, on the previous Monday.
Ih:fend...at was further ch .rged with threatening
Kevnee's life, and also with wantonly Ming off a gum .
within 50 feet of the oent.o of a carriage or cart=
—Mr. H. T. Trevanion, who appeared for the d
ant, applied for an adjournment to usable Kr.

Be,
kAg, wh W.L.I bat r.
wh o ea. for ths c nn:o!ainatat,
opp red the &optic Ann, sin-1 the Be .oh dee led to
pr -e-si with the CUL At the wig pinion of the
Cu 'man Mr. Dickons to withdrew the two lost
outrun nisei sal went on wth the eh ire of alto ding
the ciog .only.—C omplalnant sal Ihe WAe driving hie
horse and trap from 111 ctown to Po iii on Monday
afthrooon. —Thomas Applin we with him aol his
gre.hound bitch was following the cart. Between
thr e and four he WWI near Kr. Berkeley'.
Lou,., and the dog was then cl roe to the cart. The dog
left the road, and got on the bank of Mr. Beek-dcy's
pre-nisee, but did not enter the fiald, He saw defen.
dant in the field with a gun, with which he shot the
dog almost immediately it wot on the bank. The dog
fell off the bank dead on Mr. Berkeley's land. The
rep 'it of the gun frightened hit horse, which began
kicl.ing. and Applin was thrown out over the tail-
board. He did not see any game of any kind, •id he
would swear that the dog di I not leave the bank
Croes-examlneol by Mr. Trevaai in: The dog did not
go into Mr. B wkeley's estate before it got to this
spot. He was quite sore it did not run in the cover
for more than 100 yards before it WAS shot. There
was not • width 464 feet from bank to bank at this
spot—he should think It was only about 25 feet. The
dog was on the bank immediately abutting the road;
II was not shot in a piece of arable land at learnt 75 feet
front the road. He had ha.l the dog five or six years.
17hoirchhouse, of Lytchett, bred and sold it to his late
father. It was a pure-bred greyhound, and he had
been offered 1:5 for it repeatedly, but he would not
hare taken £lO for it, as it was a favourite.—Thomas
Applin corroborated the greater part of complain.
anti evidence, but said the dog was shot
OD the mound bail and not On the first.
D aniel Bennett, staler, of Constitution - hill,
said he picked up the dog jut over the finst bank.—
Charles Ch nrch house, who described hi inset f as a wheel.
wrizht and carpenter, of I,ylchett Minster, said he
sold the greyls -1 bitch to aomplainalt, au.l he had
mew, ru iiinv, off-del to buy it back for VS, the la.t
titnt about six weeks •ru. Ile sh .uld have bought to
sell again, sad he ensnared it w te-r J. more than
£5. die had bred and • old A g psi many
Trevanion cross- x insisted wituses ow to wheticw hue
was poem:wed of £5, lint the only AMMOr he cull, get
was that y oun.; Mr. Yeardey, of Wareham, would
hove given him that am mut for the d
Trevanion, in addressing the B--inch for the defence,
regretted the absence of Mr. Berkeley, whom he
described as a preserver of g IMO a id an ardent I .rer of '
all field sports. He said the road was very wide at
the spot in rosettes, the dietthet from bank to bank
being 69 or 61 feet. Between the road and the field
there was a bank, • fir fringe, and then • second bank,
upon which he contended that the dog wan shot, at a
dist mce .of at least 75 yards from the centre of the
road. The dog entered not le s thin 101 yards further
up, a•di was f-ollowing cl .4) on a ',shoat, to s ice the
life of which the dog was no doubt shot
by someone, tut there were three shota fired.
Whoever shot the dog he submitted we. entitled
to do so, as Mr. Berkeley heft a deputation
from the Clerk of the Peace, which &ire him the rii-ht
to to Ice dogs.— Mr Trevanien said tie case was In ought
undo r the Malicious lnj tries Act, and he contended
that as defendant acted !end lidt and not malitionsly,
the jurisdiction if the Bench was oust* l, and the
charde must be dismissed.—P.C. Iticc..cic stated t at
on the previous day he saw • pool of tol nod insi.le the
fir trees, over the second bank, in the field, at a
distance of 60 feet from the centre of the mad.
Defendant pointed it out to him as the spot where the
doe was shot. There was no blood on the first bank.
—lf-. Dickinson submitted that tne defendant's act
mu.t be t iken as shoeing ..alice, and the Bench
decided that the dog was improperly killed, and
ordered defendant to par £5 forth, do:. 1:1 Os. 64.
costs, and 4i, 61. fine, tot tl £6 5-., or two month's
imprisonm nt in .lefa tit of paymen•.—Mr. Trey...A.lG
said he ha I no instructions to pay the money and
defendant 'aid he would go to prison.—lie was
removed in custody.