The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-05-15 00:00:00

lIRIDPORT.

COUNTY POLICE. Tuesday. —Before Mr. S. W.
%Vhe•ham, Sol mu M .le, • middle-opal man, who
witted h.wing trio -rly live I at erewkerpe, wa.
charged with begging at Wlrtohurch Canonic 'rum, on
the prowl .tts day. Pi lion& p leaded guilty, and +shot
to be dealt leuientiv with in oinsequonoe of ioannity.
P C 1.1,,u.5, pr,ming the case, sold he sae prisoner beg
at the Suo Inn, Whitchuro, and &Um at three public-
h •uses at Chideock, besides private reeidenoss.
senteoce.i s-wen dayw.

DOIUMT BUILD State AIIeOCIATION. —ln comae' demo*
of the rapid lucrense .4 the number "f member, of toe
ahoy. aesociation. It ha• been found necessary to open
depots in *wk.oc parti of the county for the cal. .4
hives end bee-keepkg appl.ances go era ly. It will
be seen by an achertleem..nt in another column that
Mr. Samson, of Ment-atreet, b.c undertaken the agency
for Briciport. Tie opening .4 devote is certainly •
move in the right direc in. ina.rauch r • it wilt enable
Ved beekeet us to inspect we'd@ of the newat
designs an I met approved onostruction, and to supply
their want. close at bland instead of sending off to
London sod elsewhere for them.
Ptizeitlita rams rae Cores. Tagtan.—Ar the
Rorotuth Po ice,c nit, on T .eriey, helms) the May y
(Mr. A. Bryn II.), Mr. Chile. Edmonds, and Dr,
tiny, Robert Raman.. mod 14. iu the employ .4
Mears. Randall and Coombe, Allingon. we- charge
with stealing the sum .4 4.., toe propeity of the Brad-
p et Cat] Hon. Company, on tee prorten, day
Join Bile., muisger .4 the t • said defendant wee
in the habit of naming there. On Irriday log ha
reei-tant tol.l him SAES n.y w.. injasjog. and he
instructed hie w4e to ma k .'me coins n Saturday
last She did so and pleura them in the til.. Last
evening, abut five o'clock, he restates I the till. He
found two halt-crowns, three shilling pieces, end a
number .4 slipaocee. dhe belf.crowne and shillings
a-re marred, hut the eixpences he did not examine.
lie left John Northover and bie sister in charge, and
went to his tea. Wuilet at tee he was told to go back
to the chop, where he 64w his aseiaant and the Jaren.
dant He 6.4 Northover say to defendant You
bad no boaineee in here behind the bar." Wane.e
then went and examined the toll, and said in &l-n.
dant's prate .ce—" John, I have missed hal -a-orown
fulls •he till." Then defendant beld nut in his hand
half-screws, a penny.pieoe. and several sixpences, hut
witness would not take them. Just then Sergeant
Arne, came in, and witness charged defendant with
reeling the half-crown from the till. Defendant again
held out the money, but wit... r.fnad to take it,
giving him Mt, cust.dy.—Entilie Bile., wife of last
elineoi, said that on Saturday hut she marked some
in"ney—hallorecrown—and pot it in Vie till. On
Monday (yesterday) she wokei anther hail-crown,
three obi lingsPi•olci, sad six lieourPiroca• PLse luf
them in the LILL Afterwar le, in consequence of
something she heard, her busbrind sod honed went up
into the bar. Sergeant Aro.), was there. She sal/
Minutiae with some money in his hand, but she d d
not take it.—Witnees bore identified the coin.
prodoce r tires she had =wit- d —John Northoyes
call he rr. i an assistant at the Collies ir had he
mi-aid some money front the till on Friday. dime
clerked m ditty, se above deisribed, wee weeny tin the
till. On &today afternoon he name up into the bsr
ab •ut eve p.m. He maw defendant take come mine,
lam the tll and put it in hi. pocket Wi urea .id
"At! Robert I" and defendant add 'Oh I John."
Th manager gore him into custi ly, an I the in hay
way given to the sergeant. —Sergeant Array staad
that en the previ ins night be went into the Tavern,
and there saw proervutor and the prisoner. The
manager fold him that prisoner hal st den some
money from the till. D4endant took horn his
pocket 4s. Id., via, half-a-crown, 3 sixpence., and I I. ,
The half-crown and two 11 the sixpeno.s were mooed.
Sire. Biles identified teem es than she had m•rked.
When grititias cheers:l him with stealieg the money
defendant said he oid not know whist ma le him do it,
and molted pro. utor to (nejee hlei.—oefendant now
leaded guilty to the charge, rind elected summary
Edwin Mamba, • partner in the
Lm of Randall and 0 .mihti. said that defendant had
been in their erepl..y for 15 months. He bad been
placed In the way .4 uni old manay, and, although they
were Very "rani, they had newer missed tally ; the firm
wi earprieed to Mar of tat charge. The lad had won
their coefidenes, and he trusted the Bench would deal
leniently with the c.a. and the firm Intended ti take
him beck spin. His partner (Mr. Rendall) wee from
home, but be stated the above in his behalf—Toe
Mayor said (eddreming defendant) that it was sad to
see a lad of tender years, educated, and well brotult
up, and in 1,011011.14i00 of bi• employers' confidence,
before them on a charge like this, He had to thank
hi* ma-tars for the leniency raked for, sat one.
Deg nently they were loath to seed him to geol.—Mr.
Biles here also beefed the leniency of the Borah.—
Defendant was fined 10c, which his brother Immedi-
ately paid.