The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-03-25 00:00:00

CROWN COURT.-SATURDAY.

John Alford, 20, labourer, and Dumas Blacketore,l9„.
*bearer, were charged with stealing from the person of
William Blake, the awn of 4s. 6d. OD the 21s1 January.
Mr. Speke prosecuted. This was a highway robbery,
but no violence accompanied it. Sentenced to six
months' hard labour.

George Cox, 38, carpenter, was charged with stealing
several tools and • piece of Dosed belonging to Samuel
Petrie, at Street. in March. He was arraigned on three
charges. Mr. Timing prosecuted, and Mr. Prideanz
defended. Prisoner had been employed as • carpenter
by prosecutor, a builder at Street, and the board, it
was alleged, was taken from his premises, and prisoner
made it into • hen coop. The tools were found in pri-
soner's chest, but it was contended that the tools bad
been given prisoner conditionally. As to the board
his lordship said there was no case, and as to the tools
he thought it was a fitter case for a county wart than •
criminal one. The jury acquitted the prisoner.

George Gillett, 37, carpenter, pleaded guilty to four
distinct charges of burglary and robbery at the Somerset
County Lunatic Asylum (of which prisoner had formerly
been an inmate) in October, November, and Decem-
ber, 1861, and February, 1862. Sentence deferred.
Robert Trocke and William Troalm, on bail, WITS
charged with stealing a sack, 1001bs. of turnips, and i
cwt. of mangold wurtzel, the property of John Bird, at
West Bnckland, on 2nd March.—Prisoners pleaded
Not Guilty. —Mr. Burch prosecuted, and Mr. Cos de-
fended.—Prosecutor having missed some articles, re-
quested P.C. Ketch to watch. On the evening of the 2nd
March he saw prisoners come up to an outhouse with a
donkey and cart, and take the articles, the subject of
the indictment, away.—Prosecutor admitted that he
had told Robert Troake that he might have, up to a
certain peilod, a few turnips from a portion of the farm
For his horses.—The defence was that the prisoners took
the property, not with alview to profit themselves, but
for the benefit of the master.—The jury acquitted the
prisoners.

Charles Sellick, 35, labourer, was charged with
stealing • goose valued at 10s., the property of James
Counsel', at Uphill; and Richard Hayman (on bail),
WAS indicted for receiving the same, knowing it to have
been stolen.--Mr. Spoke prosecuted, and Mr. Cole de-
fended Hayman only.--Prisoners pleaded Not Guilty.
Tha statement made by the prisoners before the magis-
trates were put in. Hayman's was that the prisoner
brought the goose to his lodgings. &Hick said be knew
nothing at all about the goose. Save Hayman'e acknow-
ledgment, the evidence of the prosecutor was not very
conclusive as to the dealings of the prisoners with
the goose, and that statement hie lordship said could
not be received, it being that of an accomplice, and
uncorroborated. The jury acquitted the prisoners-
William Weaver, 22, butcher, was charged with berg-
lary at Bath on the 3rd February, and stealing thirteen
pence. Prisoner pleaded not gully. Mr. T. W. Saun-
ders prosecuted, and Mr. Bailey defended. The prose-
cutors were Messrs. Wyatt, butchers of Westgate-
street, Bath,
as andg.t.timisoner having been in their em-
ploy, it w suggested by the prosecution that bas li. w
well acquainted with the premises. An entrance was
effected by means of a grating to a cellar ; and one of
the prosecutors being disturbed, said he came down
stairs and saw • man in the shop, whom be recognised,
by means of • faint light, to be the prisoner. An
attempt to capture the plunderer was in vain, and it was
not till sometime after that the prisoner was appre-
hended. The sum mentioned in the indictment was
missing. Several policemen were called to show that
prisoner was out late that night, and one of them said he
saw prisoner come out of the grating. Prisoner, who
bad been premoutely onoricted of stealing a pair of Imo*
was sentenoed to three years' penal servitude. . .

David Churchill, 70. a letter carrier, was charged
with stealing • letter containing a half-sovereign mad 30
penny postage stamps, the property of Her Majesty's
Postmaster General, at Somerton, on 4th February.
Prisoner pleaded guilty, and sentence was deferred.

Henry Giles, SO, labeurer, was charged with stealing
two tame fowls, the property of John Osward, at East
Coker, on 7th December. Prisoner at first pleaded
guilty to knocking the fowls down and throwing tbem
over the hedge. He subsequently altered it by pleading
guilty. Sentence deferred.

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Henry Millard, 17, labourer, was charged with steal-
ing 9s. 20., the property of Thomas White, of Wan-
etrow. Mr. Prideatiz prosecuted. It appears that
early in the evening of the 10th January het, the
money was safe in a glove, and the
_glove put in the
teapot, and the whole put on a shelf on. the dresser. It
was lost during the night. The prisoner had been •
witness of deposits in the glove. A police-oonstable,
who wassailed, said he compared come footmarks in the
garden with prisoner's boots, by placing the boots down
in the mark. A glove, sworn to by the daughter of
prosecutor, was found upon prisoner. His lordship
asked the constable who compared the boosts if it was
the first time he had been a witness in • esee where
the comparison of marks of boots had to be depose,'
to? Having summered that it was, his lordship advised
him in future to place the boots by the side of the
original marks instead of in them. Having been pre-
viously convieted at Frome, he *as sentenced to 3
years' penal servitude.
Charles Goddem, 35, labourer, was charged with
stealing two hurdles, value 2a.. the property of William
Fay, at Nuiab Bpiscopi. Mr. Hooper prosecuted.
It appears that prosecutor was walking across one of
his fields when he saw prisoner under • hedge. He
went up to him and found him breaking up some of
his hurdles. Prisoner was found guilty, and was seli.
tenoed to three weeks' hard labour.
William Button, 23, coal miner, was charged with
burglary in a shop at Mldsamer Norton, on the 14th
March. Mr. Saunders prosecuted. It appears from
the evidence that the burglar was disturbed in his
operations in the shop of Messrs. Ashman, and fortenatoly nothing was lost from the fact that there aaa
I nothing to steal. A witness was celled who saw pri.
I sonar attempting to break in at an earlier period of the
evening. Just prior to the summing up of the judge
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