The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-12-11 00:00:00

THE ROYAL VISIT TO CRICHEL

POOLE.

THE DUKE 011" MARLBOROUGH and suite arrived at
Killarney at xis on Thum, lay evenine, on a visit for the
shootine season to hie eon-in-law, Sir Ivor flumt, at
Muckross Abbey, which he rents from Ate Herbert, M. P.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY RY AN ADVENTURESS
A lady-like looking woman, named Mary Catherine
Fortrafir, aged bl) yearn, belonging to Liskeard, Cornwall,
was brought up in custody at the Guild-hall on Thum's!,
before the Mayor (Mr. A. Ralston), Alderman M. Kemp-
Welch, Mr. C. J. Stone, Mr. W. D. Dogdale. and Mr. J.
B. Dorell, charged on reniand with stealing from a bed-
room at the Globe Hotel, High-street, on the previous
Saturday night, two gold guards, a gold necklace, a silver
watch, two gold keys, • silver pencil case, two £10) Ingres,
and about ASO in gold, the property of the landlord, Mr.
Alfred Reeve.—Mr. H. T. Trevanion appeared for the
prosecution.
Prosecutor said he previously lived at 5, Norfolk-terrace,
Bournemouth, and the prisoner stayed with him there two
nights. On or about the ith of September he changed a
£lOO Bank of England note for eight .£lO note. and £2O in
odd. About the same date he paid six of the notes to
Mr. Young. On Friday last he had two of the notes and
about .f.:1) in gold in his possession. The gold was in •
leather hag, and the bag and notes were in his private
box. He paid Mr. Young the brewer's bill from his
bosiness cash hot on Saturday morning. About seven
o'clock on Friday evening the prisoner came to his house,
and his wife and he agreed to give up their bedroom to the
prisoner, as all the other rooms, except the attic, were
occupied. On Saturday morning prisoner said she wanted
to go to Bournemouth, and from the prisoner's dictation
he wrote and sent off the following tidegram
" From M. C. Kit-Mee,. Glohe Hotel, Poole, to Her
Grace the Duchess of Pemberton, Devonshire Hone,
Brighton.—l have found that which you require, will von
come, or remit the money immediately, as I am waiting."
A replv was receivril from the Post-office that the
Duchess was not known at that address. The telecom
was sot sequentiv repeated to "Clifton House, Hyde
Park. London, W.C.," and a second reply wan received to
the effect that the address was unknown. Prisoner sid
the Duchess mist have gone to Bournemouth, and she
must go there aril see her; she wax expecting to receive a
large sum of money, and must cash a cheque before she
went 'Prisoner said Lady Dudley Ward was a niece of the
Duchess. By the prisoner's instroctiotis he ordered a cal,
wino, time between one and three o'clock, and the prisoner
invited Mrs. R seve to go to Bournemouth with her, and
said she would then see the Duchess, Mre. Reeve con-
seated to go. When the cab arrived he handed prisoner
into it, and asked her where she winhed to be driven. She
said "To the bank." He said "Which bank." and she
replied "The first hank." He then told the driver to go
In the Wilts and Dorset Bank. When the cab returned
Mrs. Reeve handed him some gold. He went to the bar
parlour, and saw the prisoner sitting at the table. She
took out a hag and some gold, and he counted £.34 in gold
and put it in the hag. Ile asked her to allow him to keep
the money for her until she returned from Bournemouth.
She objected to this, and he handed her the bag. The hag
produced was his, and the one he banded to the prisoner,
hot he did not identify it at the time. The watch and
trinkets produced were his property, aud the value was
shod IA . . . .

Mrs. Reeve said the boxes produced were in a che4t of
drawers in the bedroom prosecutor and she occupied on
Frsday. About seven in the evening of that day prisoner
came to the house, and said she wanted to sleep there.
She told prisoner they were full, and she raid she would
stop there if she slept with Mr. Reeves. Prisoner after-
wards went to the theatre, and prisoner cone back with
her daughter, who belonged to the thestrical company,
and was lodging in Love-lane, about 11 o'clock. She then
male amogensenta to give up her room to the prisoner,
as she did not like to put her in the attic. Prisoner went
to bed about 12 o'clock, not she took her to the bedroom
and assisted to undress her. The boxes were in one of the
drawers of a chest standing in the room, and she locked
the drawer, leaving the key in the lock. The prisoner
came downstairs about 9 o'clock next morning, and on her
going to the room she found the drawer unlocked and the
key gone. She opened the jewellery box, and saw it all
there, and the money was about its usual weight. She
then took the hoses in the attic for safety. She made
arrangements to accompany prisoner to Bournemouth to
see the Duchess. About 12 o'clock prisoner then said she
wished to rest, and she was not to be disturbed even if her
daughter came to see her. She showed prisoner into the
sitting room, where there was an easy chair. Soon after-
wards she took the second reply to the telegram to
prisoner, and found her in the bedroom. Prisoner
expressed her surprise at the reply, and said she supposed
the Duchess was in Bournemouth at the Bath HoteL
About two o'clock prisoner came downstairs and asked if
her daughter had been there. She said she said had, and
that she was coming there again bye-and-bye. Prisoner
said she wished to go to the hank to cash • cheque before
she went to Bournemoutd, and then she would pay them
what she owed, and also her lawilarly at Bournemouth.
When prisoner returned from the bank she still wished
her to go to Bournemouth with her, ant she went to the
attic to get her watch. She found both boxes open on the
table, and called out her husband, who was in the cellar,
"My watch and chain is gone." Before she went upstairs
the driver brought her £l5 in gold, and said he had found
It in the cab. She counted the money over to her husband,
and he took It into the bar parlour to the prisoner. The
police were sent for, and the prisoner said the money in
the bag was hers, and tried to take it off the table in P.C.
Reek's presence.
Mr.gdwnrd Jana. Young. clerk and collector, at the
Dolphin Brewery said he was at the Globe about 12
o'clock on Saturday morning. sad the landlord paid his

Tut: CONFESSIONAL AT BOTILNENOUTH.—The Rev. G.
Blake C meannon, organisin4 secretary, has been on a
lecture tour during the past week in Dorsetshire on
behalf of the Church Association, and aurietilar con-
fession has been the chief theme discussed. Admiral Sir
James Sullivan, 1LC.8., attended the Poole meeting, and
said that at Bournemouth confession was carried on to a
great extent, even in a church which did not profess to co
to the full length of Ritualism. A "vile book, "On
Repentaniv." written by Canon Cuter, of Clewer, had
been put into the hands of a female servant at Bourne-
mouth by a clergyman Whit woo preparing her for con-
firmation. Ile now repeated what he had said at three
previous meetings—that if any Male protector of a girl
found that such a book had been put into her hands
by either a clergyman or a layman, he would be justified
in thrashing him within an inch of his life. A clergyman
not connected with the church to which he referred
, attended there in order to read the Burial &Telco over a
' deceased lady, and ho was unable to enter the vestry in
order to put on his surplice because the curate was hearing
the confession of a young woman. A man at the door
stated that he dared nit open it to anyone until the
curate gave him permission to do so. Fifty or sixty
persons, with himself (Sir James Sullivan), waited upon
the Bishop of Winchester, who said the practices in
rmestion were contrary to the doctrine of the Church of
England and to the opinion of the Bishops, adding he
did not think there were more than six clergymen in
the whole diocese who adopted such practices. He
(Sir James) replied there were six in the immediate
neighbourhood of Bournemouth, and the Bishop rejoined
that he could only take action after proper enquiry and
proof.