The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-23 00:00:00

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Confirm TO 1112 Doss"? Couirr Patios.
Sessions: James Hanger, nailing three bottles of wins
at Weymouth- —Hard Labour : William Homy. etas,
lag • fowl at Borraindas, 1 calendar month, and Bye
yean in • ref wheal; William Ricketta,
assault at Okeford tamable, and Henry Collins,
stealing • fowl at Bradpole, 1 calendar month each;
George Griffiths, vagrancy at Weymouth, 21 day.;_
=Trot, voiCrancy at Chardstock, Thomas
at Wyke Regis, Martha Allen, steslini
elms, bacon, lc ,at Loden, and Caleb Bowden, shading
• fowl at Bradpole, 14 days sack; Gimp Garrstt,
drankennees at Bberboroe, 7 days. —/Nsessoassnst
John Richardeou, vagrancy at Blandiord, 14 day.;
Owens Baker, non-payment al poor rates at Core-
combs, 7 days.
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An Althimea is armeemosd by advertisement iii
another column to be lalivered to the members and
friends of the Young
May
Christian Association, on
Thursday evening, Mat 29, by the Rev. T. Near*.
All young men are invited, and as there is no
for admission, and no collection, and is Mr. NetTZ
a well-known and talented lecturer, there should be •
lame attendance.
Bortouott PITT! 91111110/11, Monday. —Before Dr. J. P.
Aldridge, and Kr. 0.1. G. Gregory.
Robert Pore, landlord of the - Railway Tavern, was
charged with permitting gambling in his house on the
9Dth of April—Lot Coombe, at quarter to twelve on the
above day, went to the Railway Tavern with Lest and
Norria, and Legg called for • quart of ale. A man who
lodges at Force's,. and is known by the cognomen
" Melts= Young,' inked them to play • game of cards.
Young, Lep, witness, and an old man there Mated for •
quart of ale. The old ram then left and Force took his
place, and they Mend for another quart of ale. In all
they had four pans. Witness said he should not then
play any more, and Legg and Young then played for
another quart of Ma, and Force kept the score for them.
But these two disagreed about the game, and gave up,
when witness and two for two quarts
of ale.—Crose-erangned Veit. Weston, who mewed
for defendant; Was summated here het lIMI for
quarrelling at Force's the sante day, about four o'clock.
We leave work on Saturday at 4. and are allowed one
hour to dinner, from 12 to 1. Our s name is
=eJanne, and he was working wPitgerhem at the
Western station. Foree's wife cams in and supplied
some ale, and another man came in as well They had
six or seven quirts of ale amongst this. in the middle of
the day, but witness was not drunk.—William Legg, who
was working with Coombs at the South Western station,
corroborated the last witness as to going to the inn. the
calling for the ale, and the playing of the carts. Force
wu taking the pep, but did not do so fairly, and witness
declared' had keep his eye open for the future.' After
the four had done playing Loombe and Fong played
together—Cross-examined by Mr. Weston: Went in •
little before 111 and left a little before 1, to return to our
work. Was sure it will not after one when they left.
Had had enough to drink, but his roeraory was not vm,
bad. Was quite sober when he went in. His ganpais
name he did not know, but he was called " joakey."—
Witness fenced other questionsjand the counsel gave it
up.—James Norris was the next witness. He went to the
house, had somas ale, remained a quarter-of-an-hour, and
left, retui nine meth in about half-an-hour, and had some
wore—John L•wia went to Paris's in the afternoon,
about five minutes to our. When he went is the
he met Mrs. Pone, and asked for • pint of He
remarked that she had • great row in the front room, and
she told him to go into the back kitchen, width he did,
George James, the ganger on the railway, came in, and
they had • quart instead of • pint, Lem came into the
kitchen, and there was a flight between him and
"Brigham Young.' This was all that witness knew, as
he left as soon as the row cenunenool. —Elia Wallace
went to the Railway Tavern with Mrs. Lagg, and saw
Force, " Brigham Young, • porter at the station, sad
another man playing ear& in the front room. This was
at half-post two.—Ellsabeth Legg corroborated the last
witness. —Mr. Weston said with regard to the evidence of
Lewis. lg, and Wallace, they ad not said tka:h=
were playing for 1110001 or money's worth, and he
dismiss r evidence from his mind. He cited cases to
show that it was not unlawful to play certain rump if it
was not done for money or money's worth. He showed
the animus which had led Coombs and Legg to prosecute,
and armed that there had been such • quantity of hquor
druak that the memories of the men were very defecnve,
he would not say they had sworn falsely. He pointed out
the discrepancies in the evidence, as to the time and to
the number of games played, under all the circum-
stances he asked the m to give the defendant the
benefit of the doubt and braise the case. The
retired and on their return the Chairmen said thr;Listreastr:
fully and seriously considered themes. and had come to the
conclusion that there had been card *Ting, and they had
no alternative but to convict He would he fined 90a and
cons, in all £2 is. ed. but the conviction would not be in-
dorsed.—Forn was told that if he came again his license
would be endorsed, and was warned to conduct his house
better.

Charism Lea. Charles Critahell, Ado 4e and George
Elliott, alias Hall" labourers, were &lilted with unlaw-
fully attempting to take trout, on the 4th inst Mr.
Weston appeered for Axe and Elliott P.C. Gould, on
Sunday, the 14th met, about quarter-oast 111, woo on duty
near Friary Mill, and saw the tire defendants at the weir.
Critchell had a stick (produced) in his hand with a line
on it, but this he managed to pull off before he got to
him. Lock was standing a little distance away, and Axe
and Hallett were stooping down besiee the stream below
the weir. Just before witness got to them Critchell threw
away the stick, and Lock and him walked away towards
the bottom of the town, Witness followed and overtook
them, and 'eked Lock what he had in the basket, and he
replied" ifis no business of yours. Witness opened it
and found two trout, which had been just caught. Lock
said "Let's have the basket, which is my own." and
witness did, at the game time telling them be should
report them for fishing, which they denied. He returned
to the weir and Elliott was sitting down about 10 or 11
yards away :Axe had gone towards Grove Buildings They
bed no fish and they had nothing in their hands. Asked
Elliott his name and he told him. —Dan Shepard, occupier
of the Friary Mills, said the stream belonged to the mill.
.me right of fishing belonged to witness and Mr. Henning.
The Town Clerk said then there wee no cams and the
defendants were dismissed. The information had been
wrongly laid, but the defendants were warned that they
might be summoned again, and they must not take it for
granted that because the present case was dismissed they
had a right to go there.
C,ouvry Perri' Sessions, Saturday —Before Mr. Herbert
Williams. There were only two !summonses for hearing.
William Bitch and Henry Sundry, lebourem. of Ita.otPfo•
ham, were charged with having been drunk at Eversnot
P.C. Moore found them lying under • hedge drunk, but
quiet. —Fined 10s. and mete, or 14 days.
Seised Coleman, of Broadmayne, on the information of
P.C. 413, for allowing two horses to stray, was fined 10a.
and meta _

—flie—lic'ense of the Verne Canteen. Portland, was
transferred from Suomi Sharp to Austin.
An application was made by the landlord of the Acorn
Inn, Evershot, for an extension of time on the Snit
Tuesday in June, when a village feast is to he held- The
Friendly Society hare their annual outing on that day.
They commence proceedings at two, and the Bench
thought eight hours quite long to get through a dinner.—
Application refused.