The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-10 00:00:00

STIALOO POTATO'S.

Philip Willi= FOX Mk labourer, was charged with
Ws:aloud, itealhig • bag matainiag two Methsla 04
vaialtbiLi to. wopesi, el Joseph Kesch, in the
Holy Trinity, Dareltastar.—Y, Pearce prose-
&Ttale4assA Kaiak said he lived in Shireh ill-lane,
Dorchester, and occupied lead for the in ion* of keeping
ocieres and sold milk sad grmagroo OW. 11. occupied stores
for haste his gresavoatry. Oa Nov. all prisoner
WY la employ, and occupied tinom ue bedroom se he
did. It wee ha custom to hang up too key of the elms on
• peg la his sittiag-roota. The k e. the sittingcoom
wee pet la the bedroom. On the m r iing in question
primmer tot up about 10 minutes put Sc.. Witness is-
marked. What makes you gm up so early on • Sunday
morning,L* and he replied he waateo to gm on with his
work. Witness afterwards heard a niOwi with the milk
can& Prisoner brought the milk bon, . From econetbiug
said to Wm, witness want to his it mid then missed
two bushels of potatoes contained is Vie hag (produmd).
It wail last In his posiesesion on the S turiay previous.
Ile communicated with the police, set went to the Sun
Inn, at Burton, oa Baader elteroon i. Prisoner was in
the habit of rooming home to dinner in 8 suds,. but on the
day in question he did not do so. Witomis spoke to him
at the Sun inn, sad charsed him with taking the Pote'
t TOL He denied the charge. —iseorge Ahying in
Pease-lane, said he had been working lir Mr. Keith. On
the Saturday evening prisoner s ill hr would bring hoe
mate past as ois the foUriering morning, 4th. Dorchester
Arms. On Sands, manilas, between five and sir, he
brought hire the tag of pumas (pr einc.l). Prisoner
lent hiss la on the Saturday night end witnees gay* him
3s. 61. oa Sunday whoa he brought the p rtatose, which
IVY Is. dd. for the potatoes, and the It borrowed.
Caroline Anita said on Monday morning prisoner came
if ter the potatoes, and the said she should not let them
go till the polio@ came. H. mid Kr K —eh told him to
feteh quint...end ithe then let time have th•_m..

7 O.; mo.d., morning
going towards the Proms, carrying a bat of potatoes.
John Bowditeh corroborated. lie saw him going
towards the From. with the bag, and afterwards raw him
C3IFIO Pea WitbOUt . .

—A-c-ting-liks-riator &kw spprebenied the prisoner, and
charged bun with dean :6 o• tatoo. Witness found
the notated loose as to. in the shrubbery at the
From. and the bag was by.
Priv:mar tin a Indus statement denying that ha
toot the d
out of the store. In his defence to the
jury, he said he admitted ping to the h ,usa of Atoka and
getting the potatoes, but he did not take them trier', nor
was be goilly ol dealing the...
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
There was a previous conviction of steeling a watch in

--be.atenosd to eight mouths Imprisonment with hard
labour, sad am year's police supervision.
The jury wished to censure Aplia for baying the
potato's.

THE BROADOAK RIOTING CASE.

Arthur Martin, &unmet Spencer, Henry Cook, Henry
Caddy, and John Woodford kLay were indicted for being
riotously assembled with divers other pawns, whom
111IIIIMI are unknown, to the number of 150 or more, utast..
folly end with force did injure • certain home, of the
property of one John Henley, at Symondibury, on NOVIIZIP
bra sth, 1881.

Mr. Will. grammars& and Mr. B. Forst Lock appeared
to defend.
The prisoners pleaded guilty.
Mr. Lack said under his advice all this prisoners had
pleaded guilty of the charge of rioting. It we. quits clew
that. technically speolnag, her. certainly was a riot, sod
that damage we. dans to the house of John Henley. It
We. only one of the many lostamon of license which people
sosume to themselves on the historic d event of Fifth of
November. Mr. Hen*, it seemed, bed bosom. way midis
himself disagreeable to some of the pantie of the neigh-
hood; but on behalf of the defendant. they had expressed
their sorrow for the damage they had does, nod had made
reparation in the way ol repairing the house Under these
cimonstmose and bearing in mind they had beea in
prison for nine days before they could get bell (not from
my dillicalry in getting sureties, hut 'mange it wee left to
a judge in °heathers to grant ball). he would ask the Haut
to consider the case favourably as far se the defendants
were concerned, and allow them to bind themselves over
to keep the pesos for a period extending over another sth
of
_November.. . .

-11;.Vills, for the prosecution, was perfectly ready to
tak• the view which the defendants wished to take. The
only object the prosecution had woe to show that pee*
had no debt to talc. the law into their own hands.
The Deputy-C-a.r,oan onite agreed with the view taken
of the en,. Titer co ,Id be an quidation they had
renderrd t ,mselv.d aineeah's to tbode Acts which pro-
rintonely •sa•mbling sod diens midchief and
balmy t a ierellind•houen or other buildiag of that
d emotion. He ,inderet add ft on the maaistratea who
were especially cherded eith maintaining the peace in
that part of thee .unty that there were indicatiotts of a
little exams of liberty, and he !nicht say of license, with
reference to things which come of the inhabitants had
reaenn to think called for their 'pedal exertions and
interference This coil ant he permitted. We in Nag-
land COLII4 VIM in peace and quiettn 3.. and he c mid only
wish they could de ea in all parts of Her Molested king-
dom. The prisoners would be brand over in their own
recegnisanoes of the amount of £lO for the space of •
par, thug extendlng over the next 11th of November.
Ho eeeee much they miztit wish to keep up old coat And
(and he wee not one to disagree with them), don must be
kept up in a peaceable and orderly manner, and with oon-
aileration to ether peridend as well as themselves.
The priaocerd were then dlaCharitsd.