The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-11 00:00:00

BOIJRNEMOUTH.

PM Duce. —" Justice" writes to OA complaining
of the treatment the public received at Bournemouth
Pier on Coronation-day. On being admitted, he
says, each person paid a penny, and received •
ticket " to be delivered up on leaving the pier."
After a trip in the steamer round the bay, the
passengers, before ascending the steps to the pier,
were compelled to give up their tickets. When
they objected they were told they would not have
to pay again. On reaching the gate, however,
another penny was demanded from them and pay-
ment enforced. Justice says " this is a most
disgraceful imposition," and adds, "the behaviour
of those who demanded the tickets at one end of the
pier and the money at the other was shamefully
rough and unmanly, very unbecoming in public
servants, and discreditable to Bournemouth."
Perhaps the authorities will render an explanation.

PErrY Simmons, Friday.—Before C. J. Parke, Esq.,
Major Portman Rev. J. C. Glyn, Willett Adye, Esq.,.
and Major-General Michel. Frederick Lane was
charged with assaulting Mary Ann Best, at Corfe
on the 6th June.—Mr. Turner appeared for the defeat.
dant.—The complainant stated that on the day in quer.
tion she was at work with some other women, hay-
making, for Mr. Collins. After dinner she and the others
got the hay up ready for carrying, and towards the
evening the men came into the field with the wagon to
load it. There were the defendant, Luke Best, and George
Best in the field. Shortly after this Bill Best came down
from the stack-yard, and he had not been there long
before be and Lane fought. Bill was knocked down
several times; she did not know how many, and as Lana
struck him down, ,he said, "Don't be foolish and kill
the chap, if you do fight, Lane, fight fair." Bill was
then on the ground and Lane was going to strike him.
She was nearly close to them, and standing in • triangu-
lar position with them. Upon her making these remarks,
lane turned upon her, and struck her one blow on *her
shoulder and another under her left breast. She wali
knocked down by the blow and rendered inesesiist
Her consciousness returned as they were taking her
home in a cart: the jolting of the vehicle hurt her eel
that she was scarcely able to breathe. She was put to
bed, and a doctor attended her. One or two of her ribs
were broken; there was very great inward hemorrhage,
and for several days she expected to die. A magistrate
came to her house and took her evidence as it was sup-
posed she would not recover. She was confined to her
bed nearly a month. She had no idea that defendant
intended to strike her. She gave him no provocation,
and he used no threats towards her. Indeed, he said
nothing to her before he struck the blow. The men had
' all had a good deal of cider, and the defendantwu drunk,
or, she was sure, he would not have struck her.—Mr,
Turner said his client had been in custody • week, and
he asked the complainant if she still wished to press the
charge, as she said she knew that if the man had not
been drunk he would never have struck her? Com-
plainant replied that she did not wish to hurt the
defendant.—Mr. Turner thought that if complainant
did not wish to Press the charge the case might be dis-
missed—The Bench said that an assault, which had
well-nigh proved fatal, was too serious . one to allow
' the complainant to withdraw from it. They must insist
upon its going on.—ln cross-examination, complainant
said that Bill But was her nephew. The other women,
when the fight began, went away up to the hedge. She
remained at the wagon where she was working. She
did not touch either of the men, nor did she step between
them as they were fighting and thus receive the blow
accidentally. Best was lying on the ground at the time,
and she was quite rare she did not go to him to lift him
up.—Patienoe Jenkins said she was working with the
complainant and was present at the time. While Lane

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was !Aching the hay, Bill Beat csine down the field from
the etack-yaid MO " WI o's the man for ise
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rep Led " Ye,," and they then net too sglitibg• a.
they were thus fighting, complainant get betwe,.n the
several times to pm them. Defendant had hue
Bill down, and he was just gettng itp 'again _
wiinging hi. fists -at defendant when the latter went
us tori nice hiss, and oomplainaet rushed in and
rceive I the blow. dlie did jot ace him strike her but
once. : Anybody present could SOO that th, blow given
to complaivant Was purely accidents'. Sae should say
that at the time Bill Best we about half up. Tim two
men fought several rounds after that while complainant
lay on the ground. This witness greatly pre varioited
in her statements as to where she WAS at the time win-
pladuant was knocked down. At on, time she said'slie
was standing so close to h. r that their rakes touched,
at another that she WAS behind the waggon, then that
she was at the opposite side of the waggon, and lastly,
that she was iganding up near the g te, a considerable
distance off, with the other woman, The Bench thought
that this witness' evidenee was very itweetisfactary.
Superintendent Baynton said • great deal of pressure
had been employed in this affair. In short, it had been
so great that Mrs. Best herself was very loath t come
forward to prosecute, and her orttnetes had to be sum- ,
ruoned.—Mr. Turner, for the defmce, held that there
was no mem. The blow was accidentally given, and
had the Wornall died any jury would have returned a
verdict of death by misadventure. The Ruch were of
opinion that no such verdict would have been found.
The men were engaged in an unlawful act, and even
supposing the witness was correct, that the blows
she received were intended for her nephew,
Ihow would that justify the defendant's conduct?
George Best, on being called for the defence, said that
the men had had two or three rounds, that they were in
the act of fighting again after Bill Best had got up, and
that complainant ran in between them and received the
blows from defendant that were intended for his
antagonist. Complainant's husband afterwards came
into the field, aud witness knocked him down. The
Bench thought the case a very bad one. The defendant
had been there once before on a vary similar charge.
It was • mistake then, (111 lie wanted to say it was now.
He would therefore be fined £2 including costs. The
oomplainant would be allowed 10a, and the witnesses
would be paid costs. They recouimended Mr. Corbin,
also, who was in court, net to give his men quite so
much cider in future.—Williarn Hart, of Sturnainater
Marshall, was charged by W lliam Rabbits with nein
threatening language towards him on the 24th June.
He was also charged by the sergeant of police with
drunkenness, on Sunday evening, the rfith June. A.
witness named Henry Blake, who skid he was an inde-
pendent gentleman, was called to prove that Hart was
not drunk, but he behaved himself so outrageously in
court that the Bench did not believe him. Defendant
was fined ss. and costs for drunkenness, and ordered to
enter into his own recognizances in £2O to keep the
peace 12 months.—Frederick White, of Kinnon, •
carter in the employ of Mr. Elliott, charged with
riding in a wagon, drawn by two home, without reins.
was lined 108., including costs.—Levi Christopher WAS
charged by Joseph Barnes, bailiff to Sir R.. C. Glyn,
with cutting withiee, or binders, in Ashton wood.—The
defendant pleaded guilty, and said, he simply did as he
was bid by his uut-ter, although he had his smpicions
that he was doing wreng.— Übe Bench thought that if
it were possible, Mr. liaminit, who sent the defendant
to cut the bands should b • punished, but there did not
seem to be any way of gctt;ng at him. The very least
thing he could do, and he would do it if he poseessed
the slightest degree ef honour or honesty, was to pay
any fine they might inflict on the defendant. The de-
fendant said the only work he ever did for Mr. Hainrnit
was the two days' faggoting.—The Bench fined the
defendant 31. daina.;es, cud costs, making in all 10s.,
and expressed a hope that our reporter would give
publicity to their eritiinate of Mr. Hammit's conduct in
this case.—Frederick Meaden, of Lytchett Matravers,
was fined Is. and costs, for allowing cattle to stray on
the highway.—J.,cob Msidinent was summoned by
Mr. Sirneou Ru 'die, of Woodlands, with refusing to
obey his orders as a servant in husbandry.—Fined 55.,
including costs, to be paid out of his wages.--John
Jenkins and James Hawkins, two briek.makers, re-
siding at Lytchett Miesrer, were summoned by Jasper
Mullins, the Ir,eper at the Holm-bush beer shop, for
assault. A number of persons were, on Monday last,
playing all day at skittles at complainant's house, and
one of the witnesses with great bravado told the Bench
that he got drunk twice that day, but at night,
when a row took place as to who was to pay the
piper for a disputed quart of beer, he was as
"fresh as a lark." The complainant gave his own
evidence in a remarkably high tone of voice, and
examined and cross-examined witnesses apparently in a
towering passion. The Bench not being able to keep
him quiet in any other way, ordered him to stand back
and directed • policeman to be placed_bvfore him. The
evidence showed that on the night in *eaten be had
been treated in a very ruffianly marmot, The Bench
sentenced Jenkine, who appeared to have been the wortt
of the two to one month's hard labour, and fined
Hawkins 20s, including costs.--George Ricketts and
Joseph Barbage, of Lytehett Matravers, brickrnakers,
pleaded guilty of assaulting John Knapp. They most
shamefully mal-treated both the complainant and Mr.
Whittle, at whose house they were drinking, without
assigning any reason whatever for their conduct.
—They were fined £1 each, including costa—Joseph
Dabinet, a shoemaker, residing in the parish of Hinton
Martel, was summoned for refusing to maintain his
wife, although living in the same house with her. He
promised to behave better for the time to come if forgiven,
but as it was not his first act of cruelty towards his
better half, the Bench committed him for a month's
hard labour.—Mary Ann Bickford, the wife of a
labourer residing at Wimborne, was charged by
William Pitt, relieving offimr' with embezzling the
turn of 355, as bailee for an old man, aged 73, named
Thomas Brown, who is a labourer. He bad lodged at
the house of the prisoner for the past twelve
months, and in January last, being unwell and not
able to work, he applied to the relieving officer
or some assistance. Mr. Pitt reported his case
to the guardians, who, considering his age, placed
hint on the permanent ielief fund. Brown received
the half-crown allowed him for two weeks, after
which the prisoner, who was receiving medical
relief for her sick child, was authorised to take it.
He received it of her four weeks; when feeling better
he went to work again three or four days a week. He
remained at her house five or six weeks longer, and paid
her Is. for her longings, not knowing that she was re-
ceiving the half-crown a week from the Union on his
account. She took his money for 13 weeks without
giving it him,, when he felt unable to work again, and
again applied for relief, when the transaction of
the prisoner was found out. She had kept in
all 31a W., which she ought to have handed
over to the old man. Mr. Pitt, on ascertaining
the facts, reported the ease to the guardians, who
ordered a warrant to be taken out for the woman's
apprehension. She was committed for trial, but ad'
misted to bail in the sum of £lO.

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