The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-06 00:00:00

notices of the observance of Whit Monday, Whit
Tuesday and Wednesday, and Friday as holidays,
and of the three last days of Whitsun week as
Ember days.

DIVISIONAL Prrrr SICSSIONS, June 3.—Before E.
Saunders, Fail., and K Pearce, Req.—Ambrose Sherrin,
of Verwood, was brought up charged with hawking
earthenware, ko., without a license, at Stratton, on the
24th ult. This was his first offence, and be had taken
out a licence since. Superintendent Underwood re-
marked that prisoner had hawked without a license for
about nine months. The Bench had no alternative but
to inflict a penalty of £2 10s, and costs, or a monthi's
imprieonment, a month being allowed for payment. In
the meantime he Was told he eould petition the Board of
Inland Revenue for a mitigation of the fine.—William
Pulch Pitcher, labourer, was charged with cruelty to a
horse. —P.C. Coates found the prisoner working a horse
in a pug-mill at a brick-yard at Rampisharn, the 121.11
May. On the off side there were three wounds each as
, large as • crown piece on the shoulder, and on the
near side two wounds on the shoulder dreadfully
swollen. In reply to the constable, defendant said the I
wounds were occasioned by the horse being worked in
' the wrong collar; they had omitted to get the right one.
In defence, he said that he was not the man who generally
worked the horse. He. wets using it that day to get
some clay for himself to make bricks. He noticed the I
wounds when he put the collar on, but tLe largest was !
no bigger than a shilling, and there was a piece cut out
of the collar, so that it should not come in contact He
was fined lls, including coke, and allowed a week to
pay in.—Benjamin Randall, a fisherman, of Swyre,
was summoned for trespassing in search of conies, on
land belonging to Mr. Robert Palmer, of Swyre.—Prose-
cuter said that on Wednesday, May 17, he found
prisoner examining a hedge on his property. He accused
him of seeking for a place to set wires, when defendant
replied he was looking for mushrooms. Defendant's dog
drove a rabbit out of the hedge, and he told him he
should summons him. Defendant had asked him for
forgiveness, and promised to hang the dog, a lurcher
terrier, hut he had not done it yesterday—Defendant
said he did not know that the dog was in the hedge till
he ran out. Mr. Palmer could shoot his dog if he liked ;
he did not get his living by a dog. Defendant
Lad not been brought up before for poaching. He was
fined 10s. and 9s. coats. He said he had only got 10s.,
and asked for time to pay the rest, saying that he had
four small children to maintain, and now he could get
money by fishing, The Bench refused, and he was coma-
nutted for a month's hard labonr.---sellenry Hallett and
Edward Minterne, labourers, of Toller, went charied
with unlawfully attempting to take fish, May 14.—Jacob
Cornick, keeper to Lord Sand wich, said that on Sonday he
found several hooks in the stream at Toiler Porcorum. He
laid in wait and soon after defendants came. Minterne
took five of the baited hooks in his hand, and Hallett
moved • sixth from the stream. He asked Minterne
to give up the hooks. Hallett came up to him in a
threatening attitude, and Minterne said it would take a
better man than him (witness) to take them, and
removed theism' from the sticks. Witness produced two
baited hooks he had taken from prisoners. The right of
fishing in the stream belonged to Lord Sandwich and the
Duchess of Cleveland jointly.—Defendants said they
were fishing for eels.—They were each fined £1 including
aosts.--Einmanuel Adams, labourer, of Dewlish, was
summoned for beating his wife, Frances Adams. Com-
plainant said that on the 22nd of May, just before 12
o'clock at night, her husband arrived home drunk, and
came up chits to her swearing, and saying he wanted
some supper. She told hint that there was some bread
and cheese in the cupboard, but anything better she had
not got. He struck her twice, giving her a black eye.
Their son, 17 years of age, got out of bed and took her
part —Defendant said it was as much her fault as it was
his. He had nothing else to say.—ln answer to the
Bench the wife said that she did not know what de-
fendant's wages were, as she never got much from him,
and sometimes nothing at all. Frequently she was
very badly off—Lie was fined £2, including costs,
or a month's hard labour. A fortnight allowed
for payment.--Joseph Pearce, carter, of Pid-
dletown, was summoned for assaulting Joseph Ingram,
labourer, of the same place. Complainant said that
last Monday they were drilling seed with manure at
Ilsington, and the wind being very rough, it blew some
up in defendant's face. Defendant said he threw the
manure in his face, and struck him twice with the whip.
then hit him with his fists, and finally said he had a
good mind to give him a good hiding,—Defendant said
Ingram pereisted ifi thro*ing the manure so that it
went into his fact, deepife his threats: He then
thrashed him.—John Jeorrett corroborated defendant,
and the Bench dismissed the ciatie.—Eliaabeth
Matthews, a girl of ill fame, was brought up charged
with stealing 30s. from the person of George Brini-
combs, a sailor belonging to H. M. S. St. George, at
Portland, May 31st. Prisoner said she was not guilty,
and was committed for trial at the ensuing sessions.—
John Smith, &tramp, was charged with stealing a shirt,
value 2s.' at Broadway, on June Ist, the property of
William Bishop. The prisoner appeared in the dock
with a little boy. The Wife of prosecutor said at 7.30
a.m. on June Ist she hung a shirt up neer her house to
dry, and that when she came home at one p.m. "he"
was gone. It was her shirt. P.C. Gale apprehended
prisoner at Weymouth with the shirt upon him.
Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to a month's
hard labour. The child WU ordered to be taken to the
Dorchester Union for the same period.—Alfred
Edward Pitman was charged with stealing a shirt at
East Chickerell, June Ist, value 45., the property of
Joseph Carter. On Thursday morning the shirt was
out on a hedge, and a few hours after was missed.
Information Was given to the police, and P.C. Tuck
found prisoner wedring the shirt, who told him that he
had purchased it in Dorchester Per 3s. EH. He took
him into cuetody. Prisoner having been oonvieted
twice previously, the Bench committed him for trial at
the ensuine sessions.

COMMITTED TO THE DORSET COUNTY GAOL.—SeSiiO7I,B:
Elizabeth Matthews, stealing from the person at Port-
land ; Alfred Edward Pitman, stealing • shirt at West
Chickerell.—Hard Labour: John Howe, vagrancy at
Dorchester, 1 month ; Jo:hua Leman, assault at Wey-
mouth, 2 months; John Mc Carthy, assault at Port-
land, 2 months; Richard Flann, damaging property at
Portland, 14 days; John Pearce, vagrancy at Chard-
stock, 14 days; Ann Ware, vagrancy at Bridport, 1
month; Louisa Lambert, stealing • dress at Weymouth,
3 months; John gmith, stealing a shirt at Broadway,
1 month. —lmprisonment : Henry Spencer, drunk at
Weymouth, 7 days; Henry Ackerman, breach of the
peace at Bridport, 3 months; Nathaniel Churchill,
breach of the peace at Come Abbas, 3 months.

THZ WZATIIIR.—The reading of the thermometer at
Dorchester for the past week in as follows :