The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-08-21 00:00:00

BLANDFORD.

Nt%GiFTRATEs' ClEnke' OITICE, gaturd,W.—Rifore Mr.
J. I. Mansellheyilell and Maiordgeneral Parke. 11.11.
Tug IMMIENT Shoe Itognxitties.—Wil/iain Iluqlen. an
old man • from Wareham, who is only possessed of one
arm, was charged on remand with stealing a pair of
trousers, value 7g. la, the property of Mr. Charles
Highman, bootmaker and clothier, Salistiurv-street, on
the Saturday previous.—Mr. Ilighman stated that he had
a pair of moleskin trousers hanging outside his shop door
on Saturday. Prisoner came up and looked at the
trousers, and took them off the peg and walked up the
street with them. He was in the shop at the time, and
he followed the prisoner. He met Supt. Underwond
coming down Salisbury-street and gave prisoner into
custody. The trousers nrydneed were those he lost, and
the value was is. 61.- -Supt. Underwood said ahead four
eel ick on Saturday afternoon he met prisoner coming up
Salisbury-street with the trousers pee:lured on his arm.
Mr. llightuan was following prisoner, and gave him into
custody. Prisoner raid "Yin don't ant lair: you didn't
let me take them out of town to see whether they fit me
or nnt. 1 banked at the other pair, but I thought these
would fit me best."—Prigoner pleaded guilty.
The magistrates then heard a imeonil charge against
him of stealing a coat, value li, 114., the property of Mr.
Thomas Hodges Bennett, clothier and draper, Salisbury-
street, in the borough, on Friday week—Mr. John James
Hicks said he managed Mr. Bennett's really-made clothing
department. On the morning of Friday, the 10th, he
gave instructions to the apprentice to hang a me lllNeca
Mat, outside the door of the shop, and when they afire
token in at night one Rae Iniecing, lie identified the
black alpacea coat produced by the lining and make. The
educe was 9+. 114. The ticket had been torn off. They
did not sell a coat of that description on that day.—
Mr. Thomas RM., a dairyman, of Blandford, said he was
on Blandford-bridge, cutting grass for his cows, about
seven o'clock in the evening of Friday week. The
prisoner name along with a end, on his arm awl asked
kiln to bey it. He told him he did not want such • coat,
and that it was not large eaciugh for him. Re twice asked
the prisoner whose 'oat it .89, and lie said it was his
own, and he wool! sell it to him. Prisoner said the coat
was worth eighteenpenee, hut if he would rive him a
shilling he should have it. He rave him a shilling, and
took the coat home. P.C. Frampton fetched the coat
the next day.—P.C. Frampton, of the Borough Police,
said be gent to the last witness's house in East-street on
Saturday and received the coat produced. He took it to
Mr. Bennett's shop, and the witness Hicks at once
identified it —Prisoner pleaded guilty hi this charge also.
—Nothing further was known against the prisoner, and
the magistrates sentenced hiin to one calendar mouth's
hard labour in each cage.

A HORSE DEALER HEAVILY FINED.
On Saturday, at Salisbury, Aquila Hardy, a horse
dealer, of Blandford, appeared before the city magis-
trates to answer two informations laid by Mr. J. C.
Truckle, veterinary inspector under the Local Sani-
tary Authority, charging him—first, with having in
his possession, on the 15th of August, a horse suffer-
ing from glanders, without giving notice to the police;
and, secmdly, for having removed the same along a
pnblic highway contrary to the provisions of the Con-
tagious Diseases (Anitnals) Act, 1869. It appeared
that the defendant purchased the animal in Ireland
on Thursday week, and that, after passing through
Bristol, he took it, with a large string of other,. to
Britton' Fair on Monday last. There he offered it for
sale to Captain Cave, of the Wiltshire Yeomanry, for
WO. A bargain was eventually struck for tiff, sub-
ject to an examination by a veterinary surgeon. The
animal was taken to Captain Cave's stables, and there
examined by Mr. Truckle, Mr. Aubrey, and Mr.
Coleman, all memlwrs ,J the Royal College, who gave
it as their decided opinion that it was suffering from
glanders, of at least a fortnight's standing. Captain
Cave cautioned the defendant against removing it, but
he took it away on his own responsibility, saying it
was merely suffering from a cold. Mr. Atkinson,
solicitor, of Illandford, who appeared for the defence,
said he was unable to dispute the facts, but pleaded in
mitigation of the penalty that the defendant was
ignorant of the existence of glanders, and was under
the impression that the lt o-se was merely suffering
from a cold caught during a very rough passage from
Ireland. The bench imposed a fine of £lO, with
£2 14s. C.l. coats, and said they would give their deci-
lion in regard to the slaughtering or otherwise of the
horse at the expiration of 14 olays.