The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-02-11 00:00:00

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Counrr PITT! SEIIIIIOII% Tuelday.—Maclatratts present:
Lleut..C.4lael G. P. Manse!, Captain J. W. B. Hankie.
worth. Lieut. G. U. Bled. the Eld 01 Eldon. Kr. Was
Rodgeth Mr. W. V. Caleraft, and Mr. 0. C. Ferrer.

DEFRAUDING 1111 DAILWA If DOMPAIST.—JEFAU lismiden,
manager of the Wareham Cement Work& rind his wife
were summoned for defrauding the Loudon end South.
Western Railway Company, by riding from Southampton
West to Wareham on the 18t8 December without •
ticket —Mr. J. S. Hoelrison, of Waterloo superintendent
of the company'a police, and 'aspect... Gardner. of
Southampton. were present to support the summon,.—
Junes Read, ticket collector at Wareham station, said
defendants arrived by the 12 M down train on the 28th of
December. and passed through the gate without giving him
any ticketa.t He called them beck, and they laid they had
lust their ticket& He reported the matter to the station.
maater.—Mr. Thomas Hunter, stationmasterat Wareham,
stated that ca the arrival of the 1128 train on the 28th of
December his collectm celled his attention to the fact
that the defendants bad passed out of the station
without siring up any ticket& The collector brought the
, di feadanta to him, and the male defendant told him that
1 1
hishaddro,..e. their ticketa on the platform at Saadi-
m apton
147 that, West. ll • EOLE defendant he could not be
for at. and that he had better pay.
Defendant replied that he knew him, and that if the
tickets were not right he would make them right. He
than went to his ticket drawer, and found that the fair
ticketo produced had been (mad from fimthamptes
West that morning. He got defendant to fill up a form,
and if terwards c,immunicated with the staticammter at
Southampton West. Mr. George Richardson, booking
clerk at Southampton West, proved by his bock that the
four third-class tickets produced were the only ones issued
8, Wareham on Saturday the 118th of December. He also
proved that the ticket with the previous number was
Leaned on the Friday, and the ticket with the succeeding
number on the Monday.—Defendant said he end his wife
went to Southampton the day before Christmas, and
they started to return by the first train on the Satur-
day morning, They were late, and he ran on ahead and
took two third-class tickets for Wareham, for which he
paid 7& Si, but when his wife arrived at the station the
train had left, and they had t) wait for the next troth.
He afterwards found that be had lost the ticket& and he
supposed that he must have done so at flonthemptes
tatim.—The Chairman said the magistrates wen firmly
courinced that the defendaats knowingly travelled with.
, out tickets, and ordered them seek to pay • flee of fia
' with Ilk costa, and Ti. U. the fare—total, CI lit ed.
Thum POACHING. —Marisa Brim, • labourer, of WI..
filth Newburgh, was scurtmosed for poaching by night at
that parish on the Mth of December on lead in the co-
mma= of Mr. Jo:1 Oroad and others.—Mr. R. N.
Hot of Weymouth, prosecuted; Mr. X C. Weston,
of ~.geter, deb, —James Lucas a watcher, in the
employ of Mr. Weld, said he and Richard Cobb went to
Ilewt hill to watch about half-past tea on the night of
the 15th of December. He saw defendant at the sad of
North Wood with a dog and • hare net and some stick&
and he took them from him. He had the net and sticks
In • bag at hie beck. Defendant said to him "Don't hurt
a fellow, Jim, rv• • hard family at home, and they must
live."—ltichard Cobb, the other watcher, fully oorrobors.
ted this evidence—Mr. WISE= did not dispute the facts,
but he raised i umber of legal objections, all of which,
however, the Bench ereireuled.—Defandant had not been
before the Beach for seven yearn, and the Chairman
the light, sentence of • fortnight's hard labour in
passed
p. that he would not °Read again.

(Uzi Thitrefl. —Charles/4W wad Herbert Brom% two
lads, of Bare Rum pleaded guilty to tramming in search
of conies on laad In the oconpathea of Kr. Charles
liasumbe. at Due Dees. on the Lied of January. and u
I they had both been curiously marleted they were each
ordered to pay 156., laded's' aseta
&Hoot. ParmgctrtioN.—Toas GUM of Bele HUM was
summoned by the School Attendees* Committee of the
Wareham Union for disobeying • reagistarial order to
I send his children Catharine and Alfred to school
=tir.-11r. Howard supported the mammal:aid
e was • bad aim During last year the
should hare made about 450 attendances, but they onlg
I atteudod school 913 and 81 times respectively. Althoutu
an eau had been made on defendant to Read
aetrel to Wad regulady, they had only mad.? instead
a sessilagges this year—Kr. William Dollen, School
Attandanes Meer_ „produced the schoolmaster's aorta fleet*
of stsmilmos.—Demat, who appeared to be drunk.
noisily asurtud that the children had been to echo,(
redardn aid lbe anther also saki the mama She said
they lived • long
_aldose@ from the school, and the road
was awl had, which oesethaes made the children lam
and they were then marked " swear in the resister. The
children &Seeded every day last week, but she had
herself looked at the register and seen that they were
only entered as present ivies. —The Chairman
Imposed the full penalty of and said be was sorry
that he humid not Sict • beerier flu, as the case was
such • bad one.

Dam 13rorr.-71ismas Steelieg sod ammo Week.. both
of Boeings, were summoned for trimming in march of
gems on land la the occupation of Mr . W
irk=
at Swenson. on the fri th Janoary.—DelegAaate
guilty—fl. Chairman told Block* that the three
months' impriemmant be had undergoes for stealim
ducks did not seem to have done him say good, and
him to pep a penalty dial., including costs, or •
month's hard labour in default of payment. Nposks we.
lined 15t , including mats, or 11 days' bard labour.
Ifeurrzemaca CASE— Mar* of Bars Regis,
was summoned for disobeying an order of the Bench to
coutaibots la. • week towards the support or hie mother,
Mary Clarke, whets chargeable to the Wareham' Oniom.
—Mr. Howard supported the sum coons.—Ddendent add
he had no work, and therefore could not pay the a
—The Bench made an order on defeadaat to pep
amount.