The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-09 00:00:00

BLAIiDFORD.

Teta woman Mary Knight, who ersa committed o.
Dorchester gaol on the coroner's warrant for
wilful murder of her daughter's two illegitormag,
childrin • week or two since, has been lih•rsted
hail, throdgb the intareession of Lord holm,.
We are given to wrid id that his lordship cob.
eiders that the verdict the jury arrived at was
opposition to the evidence adduced at the inqueat.
NATIONAL RUTS' Rt3lOOL ELANINATiox.
result of this eternisation has just been n•port,.4 to
the committee of the school, felon which it appear,
that, out of the 97 children who were examined, !oh
passed a satisfactory •xamination, and earned
etovernmeut grant. Tim result of the NiAht 8,;11,4,1
elimination wee of • like estore, only two out of
the ZiG examined having bees stench off.
Iliri.c SisoOtfive.—Oti Tuesday afternoon last the
tehepreseLienutenseallmea:ool49:brMd challengert
h I b scornr"ipentetiuctliurab.
raeinhem of the Sib Dorset Bilks competed, for the
the
dhThe weather was delightfully fine ;
was much too strong. especially wheel
on, after • close contest, by Private
senoc2littli'oh:l 107:::dt,nnithclmake .400 .:emwgps
sewr7ti ifnzat:ea the
rliy ni
sh 7. scores.e e shrTithe'straanagc7
Light with a score of 49 marks, and the cop ty
Private Groves with 45 marks. Corporal %dont eau
made 45, bat had nue miss more than Private Grow,..
The other best moor.'4 were Sergeants Wareham 4';
Green, 42 ; Davis, 40; Corporal Park, 40; Privates
Bidout, 39; and Roe, 35,
I Courry Porn, StaitlONS, March 30. —Before W.
1
P. Chsdon. Esq. (chairman), J. J. Farquluirren, •
and the Rev. J Watte.—Bsito *ay Assad&
Davi was summoned for assaulting Jousts Itawlenve.
hut he did not appear. Complainant .'aid that on ti.,
Isth March he was coming oat ef the Royal Oak puhl.c•
house, at Unborn., when Davis aims up, took him by
the throat, and asked Ideate "stand a quart of ale," and
on his refusing knocked bins down, struck hin. thrie
four times, and kicked him. There had not b 0 n •
previous quarrel. William Smith isorrolmrated.
mother of defendant said her son did not attend berm.,
he was obliged to go to work. The court adjournid
ease till the nest petty sessions, when, if dal,odant
not appear, a warrant will be isened.--iletemp and'
Theft; Jain,. Pope, of Charlton. and George Pegs. of
Lytehett, brothers, were ehaiged with stealing& moll
quantity of rape green., beloagiag to Me. Caddie. The
offencus were committed at two different times. hate
Pope said hie wife was ill, and be picked • little of the
greens for her—it was but very little. George Pop(
said he had six children, all of whom were young and
some of them ill, he bad bad a hard wintorr, for there
was very little •Ofit, and be took the greens to make a
meal for his family, but now he hoped to get jut, work,
and would not offend again.—Fined fel and 4s. Gd. sorts
each, and allowed a week to pay in.—Driseteerwas:
James White, of Hilton, pleaded guilty to having being
drunk and riotous and was fleed ba.—Gcree roirealg:
Two Blawdfordlai, named James Cheese roan and Thom,.
Short, were charged •ith being in unlawful poseemiou
of a rabbit. -P.C. Butt saw the defendants going from
Mr. Farquharson's down to that belonging to Sir J.
Smith. Afterwards he found Cheescoan had got a rebbt
under his coat which was warm, and had blood upon
They had nStl er dog, snare, nor (mad. Short said
Chebsinan asked him logo with him I. take. message
to the keepers. On their retiree they picked up the
rabbit, which was lying on the ground ; it was stoic
Sanielintendent Watts said it was quite fresh when P.C.
Butt brought it to the station. —Short dismissed, Chia-
I man tined 2s. ; both cautioned not to pick spa rabbit
lif they saw one again.--Alleged Theft of in Noel," of
I Wood. —A respectable looking old 1•003•111, Darned
I Sarah Mayne, was charged with stealing wood being
portion of a badge, belonging to Mr. Bellamy.
Prosecutor hired defendant's htmband as hedger, paying
I him extra as he (prosecutor) wanted the wood.
lie saw defendant carrying a "such" of wood on hir
head, and when she saw him she dropped it. He cols-
pared it with that cart from his h,dge and found it c..r.
re:mended. There was no other wood like it near. A
°unstable supported this evidenas.—Defendant said the
wood did not tolong to proserator ; .be &end it in Mr.
Shepherd's field.— the Baum& earsidered prosecutor had
been too hard upon the old woman, and dionissed the
ease.—Stealirso Turnip Greea—Joseph Cox. tusk.
layer, was summoned for stealing turnip arsons, belong-
ing to Mr. Mackerill, Spettisbury.—P.C. Pepe sa• hlira
on'Sanday moraine, February 24, in prosecutor,' fi,.1,1
filling a basket with greens. On geeing him he went
away. The greens be had got weighed about lathe, and
were worth le—Cox did not appear, and a warrwat ass
issued.