The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-11-18 00:00:00

COMMON INFORMERS.

T tem is* little seaport of Doreetabirs, seamed Poole
in addition to ite bar hour—Joe of the le •et in the
Ch tenet —the town filits hareem, for a gentlema who
hag dietingunehe i himeelf .o •••1 on. capacitiee, eio the
'mulattos of a timher merchant be J eine the great m eeel
, quielifiutione oft ml abatainer, and teetotal a I•oc ate ;
he is, more over, a public character, rej en: as in th ,
, city of &Herman of the buongle. Now, to hie Ilet of
honour. •od diwinction. moat be added that of hirer
of informers. This illostriout aldermatela testot .1 titu•
ber merchant had an opinion (shared by all t otol
abetainere), that the pnblichoowe of the town were
oonducted most shamefully and disgracefully, and that
the LIMO/jiff( Law., notwithateoding their 'severity,
were trampled wider foot by the inhabit anti &I wel
as the publicans, to the kaosledge, moreover, ot the
local p ellos, who wink. I at the evil. He, there( ore,
determined by active steps to purge the hirough of
the hydra-headed LI tester. Al termite, though be lie,
awl therefore wielding no small douse of cor-
porate away, be felt It was go use engagint t•ie
services of the local petty constable* for the
great object which pr sud Do heavily on hie mind,
th•ref oro he resolved t • travel farther all 11, and
I.p3tt, from a Methane unknown men yowls-sing
the special and peculiar talent required for the great
enterdrise—firm 10. pup** above all petty snit mean
considerations, and who would, to eh, leeter, ex 'cute
everything required of them, Ti the met,'polls
Jauraeys, for be had haul that there he c —I or
money—obtain on the shorted n otice in Hai loafs
trained to the work, and perfect in every par-icular,
To the LO•••ter private detective. one SU. B etcher, he
addrouse himself. The terms are agree I tape., and
on the day appoints I • cenple of private detecttves
muko their first appearaau in that oh treater at the
ellaP3rt ; metre lostroctions to supervise the whole of
the publiohouwi in general. mad •0014 of them is
particular, and with an eye to the loose m alit,
everywhere present. Azipla to, I. are provide I, and
prunes. lit, be rep ertel from time t. time. It was
necessarily • work of time, aol no small skill. We
naderetaad thtt the inquiry aboorhad not INN than a
f ,rta,ght. At every port strange vieitore arrive by .
sea in p,pria persons. Now, • pair of the in oet
diegulsed visitors who ever set foot in I'o 'le go by
lull. One of the expert. • link:., I that he ,Ir all, • .
god deal himself, using the slater expreesi on of having
• good voice for drink. He treated ;et ipie, ao I i
opent his money freely. Nis a empanion saif that he
wae permitted to awed as ranch mosey aa be liked if
im thought it mommer--ho we. Mit to jacks what I

wee necessary. There 'es no limit to hie exoeums.
Without lea airing tao curiowly into the mode
a lota I by the pair of well.p ji axes, to oh d • thev
aul ed it tit 11,114 •ot over ft V gal a 04.• 41,1 At all
employer mid great moral r• I• 1 in theiv slf its re-
sorts of often laioliossee, polic• weir, inclu I.
lug gm eu.eereodent f pram, sod pray it.
inched lust.. Whs. •hi cii heavy tide, 1.6 he. ire !
but, as we • I• 14 en,, tee Weight broom lb. detective
net. Toe *bole of the capture] wore charged wit
V. 1.0111 1111,11004 a44iodi tit L o.eai L bac At the
•pornial potty eee-1104 app iint,el lan rivariug tie
C. es, toe 16..1 ce.eloity woo It al agitate Ibe twa
In sr 1.104114 r •• I Uansttl • mauler, 'eta put int the
witues•-bos, wed beroemlly admitted the stays iie ha
taken—• I the •lataila of • b B itcb ,r eng szene•••,
6/hide r Lord's' ith to, two p let. 1110i•Stiaaaf. 05 Lel
Williams and lux:on, beiug sent d rwu La vid: "it
report noon the °moult of th• whole of lb p iel.c-
house* tr. Pools • that he bre! Lek,*al crop sum.
mosses ; elm adeitting th st he wrot r • letter Li tie
isewmpapersh sal be lutenist t, g on with Lice cases.
se leo esil l.a that letter; i Er. if tie •re Were AY
nail, devils in the way as the a were tiles oo the
h aa
Prior t tee 6 np, of what • contemporary
hss designs d,oise,„ pireitenent made by the Poole
Teroperanoe We Were SlWiliya of opinion teat
the detestable r•ce of common informers, beard f
merry years sip, hal disappeared, or oils-dories
become ettiotte ; for no one re mid p islhly hives good
wart to say for Vim., ancient roust., foul kntvs,
stirrer.-up of molly water, who ruidoter,o,etiod
1... Mont action-, destroyed the peeve sod blmie I the
hal:vows of (amides ; them aretilent f llwe, ime
b"Ps a, hair livery devil oi them, been long nose dead
an I buried ; the evit they did Iry I after them, en 1
there .141 no good to interfere vrid, their bone,. Surely
the spirit. ,rf these Beni. Sr. no: age n to revirt the
glimpse. of the moor, malting nigh: hideou•, sod, in
the shape of private as(' airy media, or hired informers,
se: over agarn t or itciatnihl. plays 1 Cod tortait !
(air pasted writer on the law •if -v. Isms 6.4, in th.,
moat ears/ell manner, cautioned tribunals liveliest the
zedoue eel Isom in support of c ruvictioas given
by p ilicemeo, constabies, and others mnpl iyed
;io the euppression soil detection of crime.
We noe 0 invinced tha: if the puesibilitvr ar
even the probability, of cases being got up in
the highly objectionable made like test ral-p • i at
Poole had occurred tra) the eminent writ d, hew. all, iu
tire strirogeet term., have • Ivised the rel rctron of every
Wog,' of evidence prozured s extra- it 6041 and re-
volting a manner. the teetotal bady highly approve ol
the proomiliog, f •r sires ly au apoial is made for soh.
sorip.mos in order to present a teem ocilsil to the Dir.
eatabies alderman foe what he tem doe.; sad one
treasurer not being enough, we obroesorri that two hive
news spp Anted. We never heard that the liormsel yin-
Lueders •d Poole were skitter. cgtlaa.t the law Ware all
others of the seine trade in the teed; test isnot to the
proceedings we have dmorsimd was necessary in order
to secure the bettor regulation of their houses, or
rattier completely to extingoish them, for thai i • tne
real teet riai onjecit. Na complaiot woe ever made by
the priblic of (ace °flannel t awn that the u•rnd at ut the
laukeepers was so mange rusty bit the. ins local
1 p dice force we. uuable to cope with it ; far if that
; toad been a a, d•pend up an it tile a Mt.. ales w iota
hive bad na ditlioulty au applying west-vac remedy
wee nemmary • but the feat houses sere
all well regulatd, for when tn.. detectives o memeoced
their dirty work, they could bad uo:hing La rep art
U 11.1; therefore, they set ab eut the ureetion at
off, ace,. Toe private deteotive, Wild ono, • tat it,
Mil been loth, inetropolit 6u police form for 17 years,
and lett it ouly last jai) with a pension, sod men
(oak up toe trade deecrioed. Phi. inquiry agent, in
order the beater to carry out his iestruotious, went to
toe Crown lan, P 4,116, where be describe I himself as
• ' gento;nan," sad remaio 1 far • foetid,/ b•, epse
inimey freely lo giving trick to poreons going to
the inn, He got up a Whole eerie* of eased &a oust
the lan iloid, Er. Collie, sisal as harbouring the pollee,
perinittiog gaining on hie premises, iselliug liquor
during the protiibitssi hours, and for Delon( mir-
ing clueing hour' OP Smut .y. tab. .vid.uce iii wit.
port of the chanters was of • drug character. Cue
instauce will suelos. the boomer .wore that tile
superintendent of police had ctrack no lees than tweet/
gismos of giu—which was • complete fabrication. The
agietrate. who Invw•tigeled the Oates insult-sod the
whole or most of them, and those, not diemismd were
withdr twa. Procne hugs were then t.k-n against the
ex-policeman sail (Alm infor•ner for perjury. He ws•
trio let be WI lehesUpt Au is, held darino last week.
so 1 o a W. In,. lay eras found guilty, B iron
Ilridillestoo sail that the prisoner'e p a.iil a Cs, a
met legs led ne—that of a tore I informer—out if
be Ira lea iu ouch a mserable calling, he must keep
teiguj,, the strict hounds of the law. His liar
a Wed that he did oat envy (be rell-iotione of those
who hat employed the priaoner ta ferret out pro is
of ,al.Caniaiot rog oast respect .bb.. p•ople. He
11,... sentenced the prianer La seven years' penal mist-
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-4 I'd is • 6 termioatio to proorvKllngs which are of
the in wit do graceful , harsh:. r ; in our opinion th .v are
, the la.t degree unconditurionsl and When
•rer a hired informer sii.dost pohlicans again • ,ro,d
up, w • cal: Iwo° the bubo a! b f ire whom he dare.
ajp•arl. rej.et every w ri of hi. geld •,••,„ at it
W oaf mi, be, an so of j hit.. for the Grown to mai
Inn C unmied in m ••• robe to the !snit on
the proceeding which have d•veloped emit tonl per.
jury, sr, that if any one hsu in the least degree mitered
f um the ',victim:a of the hired it ml p•rjured indomes,
all prop r reii.ratlin Mould hi male, and ecei. •
legs a rh oil I be taught to the 6 tee teetltslier who
t the disbalical m.chinery in motion, so that uo wan
again will dare 011 his awn ac tint to 'mid., priv ta
,etectirer, hired it:formers, or like horrid Ignorer,
I 1 the purp ma. of rnablin In '.l lay inf dinati
summonesheit to ant, ant ceps • e •cia' reign of
reorar ii, a 111.1,4111 MA 1.1111•2b11i11100C•i111.—Lietased
Virtu-Wen' asierte.