The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-07-04 00:00:00

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CirCilT.—Dorchtster "Excelsior" v. Morelores.—A.
match was played on Tuesday between the above
clubs on the splendid ground of Moreton Park. The
Excelsior* first went to the wickets and soon rattled
up a score of 119, of which Hazel contributed 51 ha
fine style. The Moreton teem could make bat little
stand against the excellent bowling of Emnterton and
Stevens, and were soon disposed of for 45 (first
Innings) and 47 (*mond), leaving the Dorchester easy
winners by an innings and 27 runs. The batting of
Wallington (19) and Gregory (13) for Moreton was
rosy good.
STOOK SALM —On Tuesday there was a great sale
of Down and horn sheep, in-calf heifers, horses, and
implements, at Wolveton Farm, the property of Mr.
W. Dunning, who is quitting Sydling Farm, removed
to Wolvetou for convenience of sale. The sheep,
numbeeMg 1,040, had been bred solely from the flocks
of Mr. Joke Fooka, of Cerne Abbas, and Mr. Buby,
of Godmanstone. They were well =itched, heavy
wool bearers., and remarkably hardy and healthy.
The sale was preceded by a champagne luncheon,
provided by Mr. Frost, of the King's Arnie Hotel,
Dorchester. The sale was conducted by Mr. T.
Brum. Six lots of full-mouthed Down ewes realised
from 525. to 58e. per head, Mr. Whittle being a large
buyer and taking a lot at the higher figure. Six-tooth
Down ewes made from Ma. to 60e. each, Mr. C.
Mayo purchasing at the latter price. Four.tooth
Down ewes fetched from Nis. to 605., a lot at the
highest price being knocked down to the bidding of
W. Cooper. Two-tooth Down ewes commanded
from 535. to hes., Mr. Wyatt giving the top figure.
Chilver Down lambs sold at 35e. to 42a. per heal. Mr.
Groves taking a lot at the last-named price.
Down wether lambs made 335. to 40s. each. Full-
mouth Down horn ewes changed hands at Mx. to 55a.,
horn wether lambs at 3. to 35e. each, and two-year-
in-calf heifers at £l4 to L'27 per pair. A cart horse
made 35g5., • cart mare 27jgs., and Mr. Whittle gave
51ge. for • mare and colt. The implements were
afterwards sold at very satisfactory prices.

Kr. Symonds': Then we may take it that this offer of
£39 per year is merely made for the purpose of
the building until the land all round had been postponing
Mr. Gregory remarked he would be most nappy to join
in it.
Kr. Hyrum:ids: Its to be a subeeription rent Ulan!
. . . .
Mr. '

ftlift7h-c;:rs what is the feeling
of the town. 3 hey would rather subscribe than allow the
place to be desecrated.
Mr. Cunnington also gave evidence, and based his
objections to the proposed scheme, not so much upon
the cutting down of the trees as the ineligibilty of the
site.
Mr. Symonds : Then you don't go upon the sentimental
part of the business—the trees—" the admiration of
strangers and the glory of the inhabitants." (Laughter).
Mr. Cuunington : I would rather see "the glory of the
inhabitants" in their trees, than their digrace in two-end-
twenty hovels. (Cheers).
Mr. Symonds made • slashing speech upon the caw
He raid it had happened in his experience that
wherever there was a hobby to be ridden some one or
another must be dragged int* the scrape. When any
scheme had to be carried out the powers out of
riortrisetar d to be invoked, and the ratepayers had to be
appealed to, as if the persons whose actions were com-
plained of were not themselves ratepayers, and were not
as anxiously watching their own pockets as those of
others. This was not a question of rating, and an appeal
to the ratepo ers was, therefore, he said, something like
sounding brass. There was nothing in it. There was no
Intention and never had been to levy a rate, and thereby
affect the ratepayers for the purpose of carrying out a plan
which the majority of the Council mom.ed would be
, beneficial for the inhabitants of the town at large. Such
professions of regard for people uninterested in a matter
were generally thrown awe,. but stillit was often the case
that uninterested people were made the stalking horses
Adverting to the fact that proposals far building leases
on adjoining land had emanated from the oMom of
Messrs. Andrews and Pope, he asked how could
Individual matters of finance be very much better than
Corporation matters of finance? Could the proposal ef
the Corporation be bad when their friends on the
lkq:oeite simdeentoprooro opposition
to do
tithe= same thinf;
be very much on the principle that one man could steal •
horse but another might not look over the hedge. What
was the effect of the offer te rent the land but a simple
endeavour to put the land of the Corporation out of the
competition for building purposes for 11l years.
Mr. Pope: It saves the trees.
Well, if the trees were so important now, why were
they not a 12-month ago Nothing was said about
them then when the -Duchy proposed selling them.
If Mr. Clutton could remain in the town • day or two he
would me the hooks on the trees which had been pointed
out to him requisitioned for the use for which they were
Intended, and he would be able to carry borne with him
patterns of under clothing for every member of his
family. Was it to remain • drying yard for washer-
women ? Was it to remain unproductive t Some-
thing had been said about a cricket ground—a
cricket ground 160 feet wide! He was not one
to advise the destroying of trees wantonly, but trees
must give way to improvements. They were not an
absolute necessity, and if it were requisite they alUit go.
A great deal of capital had been made out of doers--
11r. Andrews: Clap-trap.
Yes, he quite agreed it was—out of what was called the
working man. blow, if his friends were so filled with
tender affection for the working man, why let them
win his everlasting gratitude and immortalise themselves
by letting out their own land at the top of the town to
the working CiaBllol.
Mr. Pope: We shan't ask your advice.
He did not suppose they would. If his friends did not
choose to improve their opportunities he could not help
It, although they warted a subject for their monuments.
(Laughter.) After dealing with the financial aspect of
the affair, Mr. Symondscalled
Mr. Alderman Galpin, who gave • history of the pro-
ceedings throughout and earnestly awned that in every-
thing he had done in the matter, he had been actuated
by • simple desire to do the best he could for the tern.
This concluded the enquiry.

THE BEGGARS' KNAP CONTROVERSY.
The Commissioner sent down by the Treasury
authorities in answer to the numerous memorials and
communications sent to their lordships relative to the
proposal to let • portion of Beggars' Knap in building
leases, thereby involving almost of necessity the
destruction of the trees, held his enquiry at the
Town-ball on Tuesday but.
About 100 persons were present ; but one o'clock
showed that more interest was felt in the question of
dinner than that of trees, as about two-thirds left.
The Mayor and amend members of the Corporation
were in attendance, and the proceedings lasted six
hours.

—I
ie- Commissioner. in opening the proceedings, ox-
plated from the instructions given him by the Treasury
the two points to which he should direct his enquiries—
whether the land proposed to be allotted for the fairs and
markets was sufficient for that purpose, irrespective of
that which is proposed to be allotted for building houses
and whether the plan for the building leases Is such as
to be of beneficial results and for the interest of the
Inhabitant,, financially or otherwise.
There was some noise going on at the time, and Mr.
Pope, of the firm of Andrews and Pope, wished the
Commissioner to repast his statement.—)b. G. Symonds
(the Town Clerk), who conducted the case for the Council,
upon this asked how many advocates were gang in the
proossilings.—Mr. Pope contended he was strictly in
order, as a ratepayer, in making the request. He took it
Mr. Glutton had come down to hear what the ratepayers
had to say.—Mr. Clutton could not undertake to hear all
the ratepayers. He suggested they should put them-
selves in the bands of one or two gentlemen. He thought
Mr. Andrews would probably represent the inhabitants
mused to the scheme, and LG. Symonds the Town
Council and the original materialists. He would be
happy to hear anything any one might have to say, but
It would not tend to elucidate matters if everybody
spoke. This arrangement was accordingly sensed to.
The Rev. Mr. Motile handed in • written statement, as
he was unable to remain. Its contents did not transpire,
but the rev. gentleman said he wished to give his reasons
for entirely withdrawing his name from the memorial.—
Mr. Andrews remarked he understood Mr. Moule had
been in constant communication with the proposer of the
scheme, Mr. Gilpin, and he had also been told that he
went up to the Treasury.
Mr. Symonds then opened the case for the Town
Council. In the course of his remarks he said he
appeared before the Commissioner with some regret,
but, at the same time, without any fear as to what the
result would ultimately be, or that there would be say
Imputation upon the bond fides of the Council throughout
the whole proceedings. Without going into what he
might call the archieoloa of Dorchester, as contained in
some of the memorials before him, he might draw his
attention to • plan which would show what had been the
site of the markets from the year 1834, or thereabout, up
to the cunt time. That site contained an area of
about 1 acres, or at any rate it was short of two
acres. or many reasons it bad for some time been
considered advisable to obtain another site, and
' Knap had been looked upon • suitable one
tra,Litn as
be worry to my how many, years. At all
events • great deal more than the last au years.—The
Commissioner asked if there was any contention as to
the eligibility of the site I—Mr. Andrews said that was
his contention. Nearer the town would be more fitted
for it. (Applaud from the audience.)—Mr. Symonds was
sorry that parsons assembled to conduct • solemn enquiry
should not have more decency. With regard to the
eligibility of the site, that, he contended, was beyond
question. It was the only site that had ever been sug-
gested or contemplated, and it was one with which the
(Armen and others attending the markets had expressed
themselves perfectly satisfied. Further,
.it was never
contemplated that any portion of Beggars Knap should
be used for the purpose of the fairs and the markets
beyond that coloured pink on the map. [The pink
portion was exclusive of the parts set aside for building
purposes.) As to its suffidency, be had not a word to
urge, for surely if a piece of land about II acres had been
for 40 years sufficient for the purposes of the markets, no
person in his senses wen going to say that the contem-
plated site—ta. 2r. and 21p. was not. Whatever his
friend Mr. Andrews might say, he thought he might
leave that point very safely in the hands of the Commis- ,
Muer.

—iiir-Andrews then asked for the production of various
minute books, and a slight peonage of arms occurred,
whieh the Commissioner put a stop to by remarking that
any observations outside the case would not have the
least weight on his mind. He desired the enquiry might
be conducted without any personalities whatever.
Mr. Andrews was very sorry there should have been
anything like personalities or motives imputed in the case.
He then referred to the allowed motive of the Council for
acquiring the whole of the ground—that they feared the
erection of another set of Grove Buildinga —and argued
that the very fact that it had been divided into gig lots
would of necessity lead to the production of a similar class
of buildings, which he presumed the Town Clerk would
deprecate. —Mr. Etymon& remarked they had not as yet
that point under their consideration.-11r. Andrews was
not going to be put down and would not be interrupted.
—Mr. Symonds would be the last to interrupt when he
kept to the point. Alter some further observations Mr.
Andrews called

nsor, the well-known auctioneer, who said
the question of • fair field had been agitated for
the last 95 years, and the site in question was considered
a very eligibM one, being near the town and between the
two stations. He remembered being present at • meeting
of the Farmers' Club when the subject wee discussed. n
was not the impression of the agriculturists that the
was to be used for anything but • market ground,
ground
road towards the Great Western ptation warn the
mind* entrance to the town and it was only about
27 feet wide. He would suggest that a pathway should be
made under the trees which their ancestors had planted.
It would be a great gratification to the ratepayers
generally, and the trees would be saved- The Corpora-
tion could then build on the South and South Western
site and would be able to let their houses just as well
The markets had incremed for the last 9D years and would
continue to Increase the more acconiodation was given to
the public. He belirrred had the town generally known the
warn ping to .ell the ground and cut the trees down
they would have petitioned the Prince of Wales against it.
One remark as to their being scrubby. He had been •
Umber surveyor and seller all his life, and there ware but
three trees he affirmed that had their tops off. Anyone
looking at them now would say they were a lino raw of

In reply to the Town Clerk he said he had hardly ever
known an occasion when the old fair field was insufficient
In point of area for the accommodation of the market,
The ground as proposed was quite ample. The only
objection was that it was a further distance from the
town. He was invited to meet the Council aeon the
matter, but be did not go. He knew it would be of no
use, as they had made up their minds beforehand.
(laughter.) The memorials, be believed, Mr. Pope went
round with.—(Mr. Pearce made • suggestion. and
Symonds told him to shut up—Mr. Pearce said he shouldn't
Mr. Symonds : I should like to examine you.—Mr. Pearce:
It would take • good man to do it.)—Mr. Erten was
then asked if they lied not all come from the same mane.
factory—There was • bit of • dissension at the terms the
question was put in. and Mr. Outten asked what wee the
use of discussing a matter which would not have the
least affect upon his mind.—Re-examined by Mr.
Andrews, Mr. said in his experience he had seen •
great many memorials, but he did not remember one that
walked round, in company with a pen, by itself and asked
to sign it
people
3. }. HODGES, • member of the Town Council,
volunteered his opinion of the plan. It had been advocated
by about one half of the Council —eight He believed the
minority was four, and there were four absentees. Having
traced the steps which had been taken to secure the
ground. he said it had always been considered desirable.
that the governing body, should have the whole of the
land in question, under their control. The scheme
for alienating • portion of the land into 21:1 or
more lots for building purposes had filled him with
astonishment A powerful argument for the purchase
was that it was the only opportunity the town would ever
have of acquiring a piece of surplus land. A fair ground
was not the only thing they wanted. He would like to
see abattoirs there, or baths and wishbones' would be a
great convenience. Then again, as this was the county
town • reformatory school might he built there,
and for either of those purposes they had not a
foot of ground beyond that Live acre.. On that
account he was an advocate for NU being kept as an
openc public
space. There 'uZeri: had been a very great manifestation
point of the fair ground itself, no gmultiumntant from
t
would venture to say what would be the requirements of
the town in that respect in the next ten years. It was •
'natter he knew in which there had been much difference
or °onion, and member* of the Council whom he respected
were of a different way of t akWO 0 him_self. she
time he said the memorials demanded respect from the
names that were attached to them.
In answer to Mr. armada, he said he should certainly
not consider it • pow way to deal with public
to leave the nort Portion unproductive.Unguirerwier
required, he would lot it for allotment gardens which
would produce far more than the pound rents. (Hear,
hear). He was told loofas wen now Paying at the z ate
of Chi per acre for allotments—Mr. !Symonds: No wander
vre wants° many lunatic asylums—Or it might beeonvert-
edinteacsicketpouncl. Of course in the blues &clause could
be inserted by which anyone committing • breggh
them would forfeit them, and it would to that extent be
under the control of the Town Council, but be was sorry
to say as a member, that they could nut trust f •
,_
Town ()mull to carry out • covenant. (Applause and
" Wollaston field for instance." They might =Whig
take it that he admitted the present plan to be suitable
and the area aufilcient
Mr. Gregory, an architect and • member of the Town
council, v• it as his opinion that the proposed site was
sass for building cm He knew there was •
meat desire for the preservation of the treas.—an the
course of the discussion which here intervened. Dr.
Robinson asked the Commissioner whether it was pro-
bable the Treestuy would sanction • scheme against the
wishes al the =Worn, of the —MZ. Clutton
Whkh means that you want me to my decision
before I have bawd the case. lam not ping_to give you
an anewsr.l:- An offer had been made to rent the northern
portloa ofthe ground far 11 yearn at a rental of 1)8 per
annum. Ha lookad nos it as an advantageous ear, so
lt would at moo swum to tho town a substantial testa

Mr. Symonds remarked he would take care the offer The Rev. OA= GM would wish to see the Bill pais,
should be laid Were the Council at their next meeting. and thought they had to thank Mr. Cross for his great
Mr. Clutton : And I have no doubt ther will accept it ability end Me.
Laughter.) The report was received and adopted.
He firmly believed that the houses which would be DIJDONS AND auttinitoo.
erected there would be of an even more objectionable Mr. PADRE read this repmt.
character than (hove Buildings. The Corporation went " The bills for the ensuing quarter were examined and
to the Duchy on the pretence—whether true or net it was ordered to be Into :—Dridges, Mg 04 84; gaol, get its 6.1 ;
on their books—that they wished, by obtaining Pouter- hall, 1.43 36 lid; house, £6l 8. Id ; Bherborne Justice-room,
sion of the ground, to prevent the erection of such £4 9s 6d; surveyor's salary, £5O; balance due to surveyor
buildings. from last quarter, £74 Ifle lid ; for work In hand, .g2i9 Ins 10,1
A great deal of bye-conversation took place, in the —CM*"
course of which Mr. Andrews stated his belief that build- "The Nuaiment-romn.—A meeting of the Bridge and Guild-
ings erected on land several feet above the road would be lug and Gaol Committees was held at Dorchester on the 3nl
most dangerous to shildren. He would not for a moment
of June to consider the advisability
sability of removing the timid-
. men to the gaol or of keeping them w here they are now. It
suggest the plan had met with Mr. Symonde's
i was unanimously resolved—" That when certain improvements
.v. 84 becioncirelied"pa74 bi;hbeenc°::3llildiwp w recommended by Lord Shafteribur) have been fully carried
. out, they consider that the present record-room may be made
erected r :would have cowed to be coroner. 1 available for l's purpose, and they therefore do not Mink it
Examined by Mr. Symonds, Mr. Gregory said his'
advisable thai the records should be removed to the prison;
anxiety about the trees arose as soon as he knew thii i especially under existing circumstances, where Ware wean.
were to be cut down. He had no idea the Duchy .tobe an extreme probability that the rwiem will
be
taken
out
previously contemplated selling them. Until en the lof
_the control of the county authorities."-
land around the stations MA built upon they did not
Mr. JOHN BATT/0 suggested that it would be well to
know what they would want.
.. . .0 heat the nmnimimteroom by hot
'kr said

-room water.
ROT. C. W. BIM:IMAM Saida large quantity of the papers
might be confiscated. If the Mayor of this ancient
borough would permit, they might be consumed in a bon-
fire on the sth of November. (Laughter.)
The report was then adopted.
LUNATIC ASYLUMS.

FLOVItIi read the report of the Asylum Com-
mittee.
" Expenditure this quarter. £00743 lid; balance in hand,
£.440 3. bd. The balance on the non-pauper and out-county
patients' account last quarter was £568 be ild ; amount received
on non-pauper account, £142 Is.; balance in hand, £7183. Bd.
The visitors ordered the agreement to he drawn up with the
Justices ol the borough of Southampton for the maintenance
of their pauper lunmdes at lis per week from the expiration of
the present contract. Number of patients in the two miliaria ,
Males, r3O ; females, ; total, 499."
The report was received and adopted.
El SA SC F..
Mr. FARQUHARSON read the financial report
'The committee, having examined the treasurer's accounts
for the Met quarter, find the expenses to have amounted to
£3,108 fis. 101., whilst the melpts have been am follow.: -
Balance in hand Lady-day lavt, £1.868 13.. lid.; a county rate
at • halfpenny in the X., paid at Easter Seesions last, £1,649
17s. Od. ; fines and fees received at ditto, £l4O 9a. 101.;
Paymaster-General, on account of county pauper lunatics, for
one year, £7O; from the Visiting Committee of the asylum,
another payment (In addition to £7,600 already received) In
aid of the county ma., £300; School of Art, for gas consumed
at Shirehall, 14 4s. 6d.-total receipts, £4,843 4s. 7d. ;
deduct the above-mentioned payments, 0,128 !a. 101, there
will remain a balance of £1,644 18.. 9d. available for the
purposes of the coming quarter. The committee recommend
a rate at three-farthings In the C, amounting to £2,924 18..
3d , to be ordered to be paid one week before the next
seasious.
Mr. Farquharson stated that the rate of I in the g, was
less than they had had before.
INC COUNTY CONSTABULARY.
Mr. Faxarrom read the police report .-
" The measurer's accounts for the quarter ending at Mid-
summer lest have been examined and found con-set; and the
following are Me receipts and expenditure :-Heceipte,
£6,100 a ; expenditursX3,l49 13s lid; balance in Treasurer's
hands, 12,9008. 7d. The committee recommend that • rate of
Id In the C, amounting to 0,507 7s 44, be ordered at them
seadons, The Chief Constable has reported that Supt. William
Brown, of the Shaftesbury division, hoe been certified as
medically unfit for further duty after upwards of 21 years'
service, and the committee recommend that • pension of £76
per annum he granted to him from the Set eranuation Fund
under the Acts. As to Weights and Measures, the cost of
Inspecting weights and measures during the peat quarter has
been XS as 64, the amount received for stamping weights and
measures for the past quarter has been £26. 3d, and for con-
demned weight. Si, and one moiety of the amount received
for penalties during the mule quarter has been 17s lid-total,
£3 4s Od ; coot to the county, 3.. The number of persons con-
victed before Justices during the past quarter has been eight,
the amount received for penalties being £ll5. 6d."
The report was received and adopted.
WINDOWS STATION.
With reference to a small piece of ground at Wimborne
station,
Mr. FAILLE said the matter had been referred to the
police committee. They did not think it necessary, and
therefore he would not bring the matter before the
Court
CHIRP CONSTABLE'S WORT.
The CLIMB of the Pairs read the following:-
"168 persons were apprehended by the constabulary, and
were dealt with as follows ;-Discharged, 27; summarily dis-
posed of, In; committed for trial, 19. Them returns show an
increase of 27 in the number of parsons apprehended Am com-
pared with the corresponding quarter of last year, the
principal cause of increase being under the head of larcenies."
This concluded the civil business.

FIRST COURT, WITSINESDAY.
Before (Mr. JOHN FLOYIT.R.
The following gentlemen were sworn on the Grand
Jury :—Mr. Henry Fookes, Whitechurch (foreman) ; Mr.
Simeon Ruddall, Woodlands; Mr. Thomas John Homer,
Witchampton ; Mr. Alfred Purifies, Wimbome : Mr.
William Munckton. Wirubome ; Mr. Samuel Hunt,
Wiruborne ; Mr. C. H. Frampton, Wimbome ; Mr. C.
Gay, Tarrant Rushton; Mr. C. Grumpier, Lytchett
Matravers ; Mr. G. S. Tasker, Minton: Mr. Job Ryall,
Edmonsliam ; Mr. Walter Wallis, Canford Magna ; IG. J.
Raymond, Canford Magna; Mr. Elias Shorland, Canford
Magna ; Mr. W. Spicer, Wool ; Mr. W. B. Parry,
Winterborne Kingston' Mr. G. Ellin, West Lulworth ;
Mr. T. A. Oakley, Wareham : Mr. Charles Cradle,
Stickland ; Mr. W. Besant, Affpuddle ; Mr. W. Pitt-
holism; Aff puddle ; Mr. H. Little, Up-Cerne ; Mr. H.
Longman, Moreton ; Mr. R.. R. Old. lip-Come.
The CLIIRK of the Puce (Mr. Rooks) read the royal
proclamation against vice and profanation.
In the course of his charge to the Grand Jury, the
Chairman remarked the number of prisoners for trial was
greater than they had been for some years. The number
of prisoners committed to the prison during the quarter
also showed an increase, as 'did the number of apprehen-
sions. It was rather difficult to account for that state of
things. It might be an accidental reflux, or it might be
suggested that the want of employment which was no
doubt felt in the larger towns had its effect. It would be
a matter for regret he thought if a change were made in
that increased neverity with which old offenders were now
treated. An Act now before Parliament proposed very
great changes in the administration of Justice and inter
fared with what was called local management That
however had received considerable explanation at the
hands of the Home Secretary during the last few days;
and if the local management that essential feature
of the institutions of the country, could be preserved,
he hoped the measure might eventually produce the
benefits it had in view without destroying the greater
advantages attached to their local institution. The
Chairman then concluded with remarks upon two or
three of the cases in the calendar.

TRIALS OF PRISONERS.
THE CHARGE 91, 11•LICIpVE.ASEIII!.T AT
_WTKE.

Robert Goodden, formerly landlord of the Ferry-bridge
Inn, Wyke (on Nal), was charged with unlawfully wound.
ing Robert Williams,—Mr. Castle (instructed by Mr.
Hanna) prosecuted, and Mr. Templer defended—This was
• most extraordinary case—in its results. The parties
were formerly partners in a boat and seine. Differences
ensued, and the result was a law-suit, in which the pri-
soner had the best of it. No doubt old Williams—a
fisherman of Wyke, getting on for 60—is a quarrelsome
old fellow, and, as he says, he can't forget or forgive the
fact that be came off second beet in the dispute. On an
early day in June the parties met on the rcad to Port-
land. Then, according to the admission of the prosecutor,
he gave the defendant "• push.- This, on behalf of the
prisoner, was stated to be • violent blow under the ear.
The result was the prisoner was thrown forcibly forward,
and in so doing, his witnesses declared, his hand, in
which he had a bottle, swung backwards, and the prose-
cutor was hit in the eye. The results were so serious
that the prosecutor had fainting the of a very serious
nature.—After the prosecutor and one or two witnesses
had been called, the Chairman stopped the ease, and the
Jury, endorsing the defence that a man who is struck
forwards would put his hands behind his back to save
himself, found the prisoner not guilty, and the Chairman
told him be left " without a stain upon his character."
Alfred Pitmen (30), labourer, was indicted for breaking
and entering the counting-house of the Great Western
Railway Cot:,ffiy at Rodwell during the night of April
30th, and • Is, lUd., the moneys of the company.—
Mr. R. F. Templer prosecuted; Mr. Castle defended.—
Prisoner, a ticketof-jeave man, was acquitted.
George 31ir-114nd, on bail, WM charged with embezzling
.C 1 is. 6d., the moneys of his employer, Wilson William
Beale, at Wimborne, on April 26th; also with embezzling
on May lit 7s. Ud., also bectielgi to Mr. Beale. On other
th counts e prisoner was with stealing the same.
—Mr. Castle, instructed by r. Tanner, prosecuted ; Mr.
B. F. Lock, instracted by Mr. Moore, defended.—Six
months' imprisonment,
Henry John Gray, Thomas Brickell, and flosses Hillyer„
on bail, were indicted for stealing at Blandford on April
7th • trues of hay, value 35., the property of Cornelius
Hunt,—Mr. Cloth prosecuted ; Mr. B. F. Lock defended.
—The defendant Grey pleaded guilty. Brickell and
Hillyer were acquitted. —Gray was sentenced to one day's
Imprisonment without hard labour.
Henry Joyce, on bail, was charged with stealing two live
ttethe property if William Drake, at Wtnterborne
gliton.—Mr. Templer prosecuted; Mr. Castle defended.
—Acquitted.

SECOND COURT.—WEDNESDAT.
Before Mr. H. WiWawa, Mr. A. Bank's, Rev. J. H.
Austen, snd Mr. J. M. P. Montagu.

OBTAINING DIONCY BY FALSE PRATIINCBIL
John Legg, alias Beseconik, 33, a labourer, was charged
with obtaining a sovereign and one half-sovereign, from
Mary Warren Russell, at Radipole, the property of
Arthur Norman Beer. —Prisoner pleaded not guilty.—
Mr. Waddy prosecuted.—Mary Warren Russell, of the
Royal Oak Inn, stated Arthur Norman Beer left some
money with her. She did not know the exact sum. On
the Crd of May prisoner called upon her with the letter
produced, and said he had taken Norman out of the
Union, as he had married Norman's daughter, and that
he (Norman) was going to live with them. Witness
gave him the money on the faith of that state-
ment.—Mary Charles, a widow, residing at Radi-
pole, was staying with last witness, and i
"that gentle-
man" (meaning prisoner) called on her and asked her for
the money Norman had loft there. Witness awroborated
Isss witness as to prisoner receiving the parceL
Arthur Norman Beer (a prisoner at the gaol) said
soner was In the infirmary e that establishment in May
last Witness asked the governor for permission to write
to Mrs. Russell for some money left with her, and as he
did so the prisoner heard him, lie never authorised the
prisoner to write or take anything to Mrs. Russell.
Witness was not going to live with the prisoner, and he
wee not his son-in-law—Mr. Bawler, the deputy-
governor of the prison, proved that Norman had permis-
sion from the governor to have a letter written to Mrs.
RusselL—Prisoner said he knew nothing at all about it;
he was ill in bed at the time.—The Chairman summed up
the case, and the jury immediately found the prisoner
guilty—Prisoner acknowledged a previous conviction, and
was now sentenced to six months hard labour and one
year's police supervision.

_ _
STILILING WINE AT WITIIOUTH.
James Hanger. stealing three bottles of wine at Wey-
mouth, the property of Gilbert Adolphus Hideout. clerk
in holy orders.— Mr. Wilke prosecuted—Prisoner pleaded
guilty to stealing one bottle.—The Rev. G. A. Itideout
did not wish to press the case. Prisoner was not em-
ployed by him, and he knew nothing against bum —One
month hard labour.
SHOES.

BTEALI:

HORDE

Sidney Alpheus liorrodge, carter, 17, stealing horse shoes
at Stour Provost, on the 9tith March.—Prisoner pleaded
guilty, and acknowledged a previous conviction.—Three
months' hard labour. Later on the prisoner was e-
and informed that in addition to his sentence brec::lotta
have to remain under the supervision of the police for one
year.