The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-06-10 00:00:00

TRINITY ORDINATIONS.

The Trinity ordlusti In of the Siahop of Salisbury
was bold on linaday, in Um Sall.bary Cathedra Tb•
sernson arm pre ,olto I by the Roy. B. Whitford.
priatdpa of lb* Theological 0 .llegs. The follow*,
reatleteen ware admitted into holy orders :

DIAOOIIII.

Robert McClellan Lewiston Lee, of &Moles
Canoe liosissed to the Carmy of For-
dingtoo. awset.
Arthur Bnokusil Stevens Hi, 8.A.. of Blehon's
College, in the Univendty of Lennozrille, in the
Dominion of Canada, licensed to the Curs, y of
Ivershot with Fromm St. Quinton and Stookwood.
Dorset.

Sulliviin, of the London College of Divinity,
Unwed to the Coznoy of 800/gland Ntiwtoti-ovion
rim* Docent
111111111.

Ths Her. Naar Barnes, student of the Salisbory
Masao Th*40,60410.)11•10, and Corot* of Rampi•
shun sad Wroaall, Dorset.
Ths Haw. Hugh Aldarsay Tudor, 8.A., of Kahl*
OoSaga, Orford, and ()units cf Dona.

BOROUGH PETTY BEBBIONB.
MoyDaT.—beibre the Mayor (Ff. Dards°, EEO,
*Merman Gregory. and F. L ck, ICeq
EIEHIOUS OHARQ.F. AGAINAT A WEYMOUTH

joseph Wobb, jos., amuse store dealor of Way.
mouth, was snounotssl miler the 33:h motion of the
Railway Act for giving • false account of the weight
a certain iron on the 214 Februnry to the Great
Western Railway—Mr. F. W. 1101., of Paddington,
solicitor to the oWlipsay, •ppamed for the proseco-
tios. From hie ops, log sterneut it •pponrei on
inbrunry 21s1 defendant mon to th• Dorohse•Air
statloa mid sated for two trucks in which to oeud
erase wrap iron to Br..ttla-lone, Birmingham. Defen-
dant declared the weight to bet too 5 cwt. whereas
Ilse actual weight win 5 toe 16 cwt.
Junes a,dwin said be warn a ports, in the servloe
of the Groat Weetero Railway Company at Donates-
ter. Oa 21.1 Februery last ,lefecidant cams to him In
lb, yard at the Dorchester station. He said " I snail
requirs two trucks for old ir .n." Witossa provided
two for him. 'Mondani went to the weigh-hrides
Aim, and afterwards handed him the consignment
DM* (produced). The sots which was sigoed "S
Webb, Weymouth." set out the iron to bio 000 signed
m 4 tons 5 cwt., and the *barges paid wore £3 71. 31.
It was to be sent to Brettle-lane. Birmingham.
By Hr. Howard: H. had been In the employ of
ths oompany V years and six months, aod for 13 years
at the Dorchester Station. 'lb. weigh-bridge was a
very good one, and would weigh op to 90 tone. It
was in good order. About an hour @tapas(' betwoen
the time defendant asked for On trucks and when he
brought the iron. Woes the iron waa loaded witness
showed dednidsut to the weigh-bridge olßoe. The
trucks did not leave ths station till the next
morals,.
Waiter Grimm a lad clerk .1 the Great Western
Station at Dorchastm, sail on February 21st last be
was on duty at the .tatioe. and defoodaat come the,,.
a. mad be masa to pay fa sea iron to WI an-
deaed to Bootsto.litoo. Mow adislat4d

carringe, and it came to ES le. Li Thera WM 111/10
some °metes' on sap.ther consignment, and the two
ohne to £7 141. 43. Defendant bad • blank obecpte
with him, sad he filial it in J....that amount. Wailers
gave him • receipt in the usual way.
lward Clayton Downias, clerk in the employ of
the firm of Niemen. Samael Newton anl olve, iron
-
masters at Brierlyhill, Stafford, said on February 7th
he received • letter from S. Webb ..flerink eome scrap
for eels. On the 25th they receivei another le.ter,
, 'tannic that the deleudeat had conelened 6toos hut.
of wrap Doh. but that he had oonsigued it as 41011 e
63wt.. to save carries*, adding the cheaper he could
said it be might be able to do busineei with him. He
weighed the Iron, and fount hto be stone Mist. On
February 27th be 'waived a iavoioe with • further
letter, to the same handwriting as the other. Toe
invoice elated the iron tv be 1t,... 16iwt. On 96th
March he sent • cheque for £l6 8.. in payment of the
iron.

-drom-exarolued : This was et the rsts of 3s. a cwt.
To. first letter to them dated It to be 6.00 s tArt.. but
they only paid for stous 16wt.. aco maims I. i0V410411.
Tho quantity of iron was 13wt. short of what was
fantod is the first litter. fie hal no doubt the firm
wrote to th• dafondisol in reference to the defieimioy.
Tboy paid for ail the iron thoy recoirod. tio saw
the Iron weighed et their orro woilthbridifir si the
works, _ _

Mill.: lo c ineequenee of defendant's letter
that he sant li.. atm& Scot. to save ciernage, he wee
particularly_ careful about the weighlog.
Blob ard Butler, inspector in toe eerr.ce of the Great
Western Reliway Company at Birmingham. Pro laced
a p nt.oard,.igned "S. Webb," addreeesd to the goods
agent at Braude-lane, requiting the truck of iron to
be passed to Messrs. Newton.
Mr. Y. L mik asked if it sae customary for the o no-
pan, to take goods without 'weighing.
Mr. Mills said It wee the first bonuses they had had
with Mr. Webb, and they took his word. If their
suspicion' were aroused they checked the weight.
TM. cenisigner wee bound to sedan the weight, and
If he declared wrongly Me mum rioted with bun.
Jamie Godwin (. e-callod) said toe, were unable to
weigh it that lays. Vie yard wee wropletely blocked
with a large quantity of timber. If they had had to
sigh it they would haw* been bound to keep it bent
till the next day.
Welter Green (re-called) mid the differenos in the
O&5. wee Cl ti.

Then gee another and a similes charge against the
defendsnt. The cizonatetanom were exactly similar,
Um defendant conaignufg 6ame nowt. Vire. 710 e. t 3
Thomas Attoood aad dun. at Lye station. nem Bkm:-
bridge, he only paying for stuns 10,mm.
June. Godwin gave evidence es fa the lest Gam
He tics:land the consignment Dote, stating the Mon
to ba Sawa 10:wt... . . . . .

—itr—aiFiTl-1-ra;°-...a1d defendant paid for :Ram 10Jert.
14.—end he received a cheque for the
am-
ount If the weight had been iltone nowt. 2qrs.
7lbs. it would have been td 44. 14.
Major Louis Attwood, =meter toThomasAttwood,
anvil, hammer, and via. manufacturer, of Lye
Siourtwidge, produced • letter with them words :—' I
here seat you the truck of wrought *crisp iron, weigh-
ing ?tons 2cwt. Tbsiriircin it up for stons bowl.
Toe °aeriese is very and the cheaper it oso be
seat I may be able to o buainess with you." He
weighed it and it same to titone llowt. 2qra 7lba. On
the 29th be wrote to the defendant, eomplaislass of
the short weight, and defendant replied It wise owing
to • mistake of the weigh-bridge men In weighrl
the waggon. Witness sent a cheque on the Ist s
for £l9 lie. 81., for which be produced • receipt.
Craw-examined : The goo& were carted to the
works from the station in the firm's own carts, and
they were weighed at their machine.
Mr. Howard addressed the Bench for the defence,
and swag', animadverted on the ' simple sawny"
conduot of the company in not weighing the iron when
they had every capability of doing so. He
sibmeolerieed it as • rieliou ous tee. The County
Court was the proper place to try the lesue in title
we. He called attention to the section. of the Act
of Parliament under which the Court pr 'coeds& He
asked them to °onetime the Act strictly ssainst the
complainanta and most liberally in favour of the
defendant. There were two necessary things in
the motion the wring' most be paid "on
demand," and, moondly, " by the eollector."
No 'widest* had been brought ti show that
the carriage bad been demanded, or that it bad been
demanded by the collector, as 98th section required.
He reminded the Bench the defendant had really been
I low, es by some means, according to the letter pro-
' duoed by the prosecution, they had lost 9owt from one
truck and 13iwt. from the other. It defendant had
been paid for the full weight he would have had
El 7e. more paid him by the merchants, whereas the
carriage In dispute was only 17a, so he was really 10s.
the loser. It was one of the most overbearing trans.
actions he had ever had to deal with. Hs asked the
Bench to say to this great company, " We neither
encourage Ignorance, simplicity, or laxity of any kind
or deecription ; and you deverve to suffer for the lax
way is which you have carried 011 your business"
Tho Repots retired, and on their return, the Mayor
sail tie magistrates had had no difficulty at arriving
ate doondon. They were of opinion both owe had
been clearly proved, and they decided to indict •
penalty ~1 SI per t iu b,th oisee-Iton llowt. in
the first cam and 9.lert, in the wood—with costa.
The Mayor added the were of opinion the
evidence brought before them that day eh 'wed the
very lax manner of conducting business at the Great
Weetern Railway Station was rather an incentive to
acts of this kind.