The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-09-29 00:00:00

BLANDIPORD.
PETTY SESSIONS.

Sairan‘Y.—llefiess Mr. J. C. Mansel-I'leviliill, and
Nlajoradeneral Sir Charles O'Oyly, hart.
Mr. Budge aeplied, on Icilialf of Nfeasni. Godwin.
lweweri of Ibirwestion, ti, it the IM-vise of the llalf
Nloen Inn, Illanilferd, temporarily teat/dom.! to
them at the last seisions, should ba grantsel for Cl/.
ensuing year, elms making them liable for its good
• es- I uct dewing dm ye tr.-The application wa4
grantssl.
Augustine Fripp, of Spitichury, pleaded guilty to a
charge of 4 kielitecs in th it i Mare on the Nth .of
September, and Sr.'. lined 55.. leo:biding costs.
.I.4in Christopher Win .l, w.f.. I with a breach id the
Highway Act, at Tarrant Hinton, on the Sth S.e..
teenier, by being asleep when in charge of two b0r....
Owl a WilaAnni.-11110 ple.ided guilty, awl was tine I 9c,
including cots.
Harry King, .4 Itlanilf wil, was charged with a.•
'wilting Samuel Ilisci, a por.or, in the employ of the
evening of the Pith S iteeinb.r. Mr. Atkimio s il..-
fended, awl Pleaded guilty. offering every aP01.,4Y
Simairet and I /.rs 4 .1 Set It 'away 110.10..1v. on ill '
fi,r else offetuas, stating his elinlit Wan itrunk, and
knew nothing of the "Hoe.. with which he was
charged.-.tn intiseetor iif the company said it w is a
, serious iiirelleo, WI thi• porter rispiested the ilefeai4nt
' to deliver up his ticket elm tho arrival of the train,
which he refused tO do, and instead hit the man in
the iseieth.-1/efendant Wan timet 1:1, including oats,
Itad 2... rel. allowe.l for witness not called.
George It'll.', labourer, of IllOadford, was chairs,'
by _kit...re Dian, itrocer. &c., Albert-street, with
0 monitting an :w& ail ini him int the 4th id August.
1 - I hdenilant pleaded he was no more guilty of au
assault on I Wan than !Wan .'.'.'..f assaulting liiin. It
was all through a little ilein.- - Complainant dosisoesl
he sent mit a few little hills that had been owing WOW.
tin.... and ~,,,,,,,, tit,.,,, 0,, t„ it'll', who afterwards
game to hie shop and threatened hint, and smachei a
milt.
r... ire... I.l;iik.yinlif".
wife
eft.,
he
hei
" ri .1" him open if lie came iiutside. -Defendant xaid
told cimpleinatit Wit to trust her. Ille went b.
.tyi •
language, and offering him to fi.ghtn.th.reall dtsirsinitintsin.
shop, and, f
out id th • shop, and in the eviatfir his elbow went
through the donor winol.iw. Complainant wan an 'ii
ha fault an he. -Ti..' Bench considenel there wa4 an
iltawn:'"'
"'lf
glilit7.lr7iiiiii:loAotthi.;woonl to an. I)ean put him
assault at law by defendant's threats, and lined him
10a. ineleding contn. .%Ilowed a menth to rely.
I
Charles. Gisibey, .1 Keynetim, wax sin 1111 l oned by 1
lenry Paddock, a lad o I/f ......ynston, for an -.aveatilt.
Nfr. Atkinson defended. -Complainant dePosed he
wan iii Mr. i'ike's orchard having a vim, of "in isim
and base" with defend:intend other young men. lie.
cause he oituld run faster thainlefendant, word,. etue mil.
the orchard and kieked and beat him in the road.
Illendent denied this, and Mr. (tempi Pike, earissiter
and wheelwright, for whom Cesdiey werked. stated
and blows followrel. when (bailey turned him out id
that Paddock and others hail been npeatedly told not
1.. Play in the orchard, and Doolsi was only carrying
dismissed the ease.
Itobert Shute, dairymen, of Durweston, was charged
...it hi* instructions totem trespassens. est. -The Bondi
by Jemhea Shute, his wife tor ciimmitting an aseault
on her ..n the I.lth Septemlier, and threatening to kill
her.-Mr. Atkinson rlidend.cl, and stated it Wan an
unfortunate matrimonial dispete that ought never to
have come bodies the Itetich, and iliniii4 She threat,.
Complainant depowel that her longhand coon.. home on
the evening in question about live "'clock, and as coon
an lie was Oa id' the trap he said he would take lurid
If., Wan very abusive, and Wan tipsy, and the abuse
was an everyday ixiteirrence, his language beingalways
molt to lie heard before the children. Oriels...a:in:lined :
She did not have a quarrel with Ilion the night pre.
vioun. She load looen away from her lion", but it was
with 74hute's consent.-Elizalieth lland, a ilotniedic
servant in the employ ef Shut., stated she saw Shiite
drive up to the gate on the day mimic!, and saw his
wife come out to meet him. She stssid at the horse's
--. head while he got nut. The little girl came anti helped
him down out of :the trap.-By the IFtench i 'fie
PORTLAND. fell tint of the trap down between the shafts and the
liorw'slegs. The wife helped himmit. Shute used very
Tint Saw N.xv.at, I less.-- A binjr aerie* id experi• had Neguage. If.' wan tipsy. l'i....ey qitarrelled, but she
menu lutve been made by the Ordnance Cot 111 l litre could not sac what wan Laid. It was not kind words.
with the new breechlowling guns HOW iii comae. 44
inn,,,, she heard him say he wield kill 1114 wif,c..-j,,,,,,,,h
for the latest of the ironclad,- the Imperieuse Best, x young malt in employ of the 11.,,. W. If. B.
and the Warrior, and much useful information has Portman, NI.P.. stated that he waa going home from
hem stained respecting the behaviour and requieeinenta
of hrerc Kingston Illonse on the evening in question, and as
hloading steel ordnance, the action of mislern he Was going by the h 0,,,..,, Me.. Shute and the
gunpowders and collateral subjects. The particular children ran nut and called to him for protection.
, gun designed for this servic s kne e iwn as the 9.2 inch, 'elerlitle Nies. Shute Waa toiling hint what was the
of 22 cwt., and fires • projectile of 3410 lb. The first matter, Shute came up and tried to strike her. Ifs.thing respired was to determine the descriptiiin"( threatened to do for her, and called her filthy names. ,
, gunpowder best adapted to the size and amiaruation -complainant re-called, said her husband had often
,of the gun, and next the quantity calculated to give eatened to kill her, when ho' Wits moiler, ea well am
the maximum impetus to the shot within the stir thr
• when drunk.-‘fr. Atkinson, for defence, said his
' hated strain utsni the gun, for which it Was (1.9C1.10, as a client lied been to a sale at Piniperne that day, and
preliminary condition that the pressure should n. 4 unfortunately had too nutch drink. When he got
ascent 17k tine. Cocoa powders were chiefly home he fell between the shafts, end the wile instead
el
PloYed in the trials. previoux experiments having con- of helping him, clapped her hands, and said "Here's
usively demonstrated the 'superiority of theme, the the oil drunkard again." This aroit4o4 defenilant'a
brown powders, over all descriptions of the black guns temper, and a quarrel ensued, the threate used being
iciwilers of the past. but a NW niunds of pris t
matic arecrely HI.. words of no meaning. Defendant also
son. The and "rifle large grain" were fired by way 4 erniuoaris made a statement '4h...wing the marriage with his
methods of restraining the action of the p second wife had not been a happy iine, lie detailing
powders by increase of ntoisture and other device* which eeveral instances id her temper-The Chairman said
have been carefully studied of late years, were clistely from the evidence it Man evident the marriage WIVI a
observed and reeordial, the result being the v unhappy one, but the Bench miist take the art t
prisluction of a brown poWder at the Governmentery
of the weaker party, and he was bound over to keep
works. Waltham Abbey, which seem. to have given
the peace for 12 months, himself in £lO and on
surety in a like ounottnt.-lbefendant wanted hi* wife
c 'meet,: satisfaction. A favourable peculiarity of
She nown powder is found to be the small quantity of to be b nind over in a like /HIM but the Bench could
the jaiwiers also hav
itiniike, and even thin dissipates itninediately but not arc. do to this requeet.
se e a liquid residue, which; is so George Edwards, George Rose, and Charles Top
set.,
hot that it will fire gunpowder after twenty or thirty three young men ef Retrneneinth, two of whom
owls exposure,' and therefore a cause of danger did not appear, were summoned on two separate
when the gun is reloaded, the accident on board the charge* of teem-meting in permit of game on Sunday,
Canada last November having probably had some the 13th of .tligiiiit, lei lan lat Spetisletry. in occunt.
inch "right. Such misfertnnes are hereafter to lie tiim of Mr. Stynnst and on lands .it Charlton
guarded against by cooling the gun and using a close- an'. all in occotpiation oof Mr. R 11, Ohl. -
fitting sponge to clean out the chamber. Kottweii
and Westphalian coca powders have also been fired pvueente.l.-H..nry'• Maiiiinent:a keeper -Me,
he
r"a. wlin3Plmered Mewled not guilty -Mr Atkins,'
Kaw the defendants driving trap :Along' ion,. of the
from the gun, and have exhibited annilar qualities,
an 1, after some defects in the rotating rings of the farm reads near the village aof S tie, an 'l pr kiectilei had been amended, the gun was found tll L
t'.eni 'd'il, near a gate and take mre a l'ilrarYe; aiif'grr
make excellent practic., the errors up to abed -1,103 honnds, with which they beat a field or two. WheYn.
yards being remark tidy slight. The breech aition they saw hitn they ran awa fie fi Mowed, and
opened and cliee i with gre it facility, and without the caught Toon, whoeysaid he came fro Christchurch.
metal discs on the obturator answered admirably in
necessity of using the ratchet gear, and the fitting of and did not kno'f h• ml
m H i rd
w either II t pot i..r.. e aderwa n
ught Ewar dds on Mr. 01.1's land, wheresgreyltound
saving the oliturator and ointining the powder ga*es, ca
had started • hare, and while he was talking tort:tend.
The carriage aloe, in reported favourably upon by thi.
Cbonrnittee, the moils being regularand well undircon. ante the dog killed the hare within five yards of where
thrl, were standing Ile gave information to the
r.
•, The new velecimeter navented by Col. Selien fPr Police and P.C. Po •41 led in finding the men
i,f projectde through the guns, Mtn used in them
registering recoils, pressure en buffer,., and velocity - ' • w 11" r
nn premises at the Charlton nn, where he elicited
their name. -_p (-1 powpil eorrolinrated the lattair
trials with good effect. Two ~f these inetruments statemert. ;IT . th en till lain they were onlv
have been purchased by the War Department and out trying Btheiir digs,n ni-The'llefendant Rose denied
are now empliyed in most of the experiments at th.......- h'r rt tale tfth t stated
Woilwich. The reaults of dime ia,,,,_ - ... Y"" * wen) en MI .. . rap. as il
gun ha.', however, shown that there is S. 'thing yet by the keeper, who was quite half a mile away, They
1 sat' an. and frequent inspeetions of the experi 111 l eital
training the dogs to follow a carriage for
with etoessive charges, the
fib...infs.,: rnir.e.nr,n.twhin,,,s7.l,Leettly of steel artillery, (or art,,,, a seer., omit
gentleman, the dogs, seeing a gate m went
gun hail to be redined, and • tendency is diaplayed intone efielie instead of followingiin the 'r'.llld.. The
by ail thn guar ,of siiiiibtr manisfacture to enlarge the hare smoke of as lining worsht Wan not caught b
the 'gre-yhouned. dogs, hintftliv a. hircher ides, Is• donginyg
to another party. Neither of the greyle iiin.ds bele g.,1
bore, The increase is almost infinitesimal. and no to him ; he was only training for someone else. nife
gins ha. yet been rendered tativsrvicealolss from this emphatically declared they were not t esteeming in
Ca., W, tilt it has been thought advisable, piending
heavy breechloaders shall be netneted as far as persuit "f game-The Bench decided to hear the
inisliticatiims in the van or projectiles, that firing of second charge before adjildicating on the first. This
was for killing game on land in the oceuteition of Nfr.
praoticable to reducssl charge,. it in doubted R. R. Oil, at Charlton Marshall. --Mr Old deposed
whether under the pricient Collflitioilli it will be hs knew no more but What din keeper had stated, but
pi-sible to prolong the /ire of a gun withieit redining said Roan W. an old offender, WI he had several
for more than 940 battering charges. It will seldom times been warned off hin band, and on one oocmiiiei
t hose
be necessary for the Imperious, ii.• the Warrior to Rose threatened his son.-The defendant Raw,
fire Ale full charge, %nil the impissition of the rule
v because he appear...cf, was fined se. on each charge,
idl therefore he attended with no practical innon•
were each fluent
7s. 10.1. cos The other two
i enience. With half charges which are usual cents-total, 17s. led. at . defendant. were les. on the cha= with
practice, the gime will remain undeteriorated from the same coins-2175, 10d. each.-i The viers
probably • thousand rounds.
Nide

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Mr. IVelstord : I contend the Judge has no jurig-
dietion to consolidate the actions, and that the action
beiier tried is one for lie. lisl. The Judge tannin
try the lien,-wed applause.)
The Judge: There are two plaints and onc demand.
Tho two caused are before me and cannot be sew-
ated.
Mr. %Wigton' formally applied for bar,, to go on
with the action for VI Ile. 101, but the judge said the
case was at an end.

Mr. Bowen: AA Mr. Welsfonl decline.' to withdraw
tint 1:45 action I apply for the cooto of the day, the
other aido having but all action for 01, for which
there to no jurisdiction.
The Judge: 1 do not think the plaintifro oolicitor
ha' treAted the court with proper r..pct, and 1 grant
the C. Int,. aal far MI can.

Mr. Bowen.; We havu sent for the stewartlesa of the
vessel. She would have proved ,5..4 conclusivoly
that the plaintiff's statetnent wa ii. tis.au. of (al.*.
h.sxl4, therefor.• we must ask for the expenses of our

Mr. Welsford : Ntr. remark ri. to what the
steward..on would prove is unjustifiable bemuse it
would net he supported. It would have 6,11 w.ti.
vent had he said the person had been sent for.
:Further applause.)
The Judge in lischarging the jury nail : I am very
sorry yon should have 1.411 Irrooglit here unneee.arily.
The advocate for the plaintiff ought to have known
this difficulty would arise. Ido not know how the
Eli di t i 11l is made out.
gr. I 'oink a juror: On Friday morning the jury
felt that it WWI it your hon•mr's own suggestion, and
by the oonsent 41 the parti4N I,n both sides, that the
two claims 4.1144u1d he he ird together, but that Mr.
Welsford wished to take the two actions separately.
(Applause.)
The Judge : you not perceive that no SOMAS the
CO net 1,01 WWI entered, tie. jurisdiction of the court
WWI • •110,41

Mr. I hqui;in: Thnjnry thank yon tar yntir
hut we feel that our prunonee ye,terday w& 1111111. C.,

The .ridge : So it watt.

Mr. %V..14.0r1 Thu 3.04. 11:13 relluctod mum inc
that I ought to havc lirmught. IMO action may. lint I
Yubinit with all due rciipcct I waii right in tlc.l.,Purui I
adopted, and that Clic that claim only might t4l Imve
beim gun. into My cmit•uitiiiii i th it iudimmillem id
the woiil actdin, I hail a right t.g ion with ill.. lint.
Thi• I adoiso,l thr c.i.a ii A 0.114 ii.. I heard
what th.i• contract

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The Juditc Mule an entry if certain legal points and
facts in ronnection with the C4llll. irpni in. reading
isir the
certain ezjire.ision. in them would not indieate that
lie ( Mr. 'l% elsfortl) hail not formerly applied for tho
ee, 11 4. 100. “Ctloll to 110 W. MO on with ere the jury were
ilischanpal. If., had made a formal application to
that etfeet, ski gl. he 1110 11.0 formally request the
judge to put the objection on his notes before the
chance of tile jury.
The Judie, replied that the only effect MI 010 notes
would he .hat the coats would not he allowed to the
plaintiff, a.aliming that the court Mane held him to
Ii .in the wrong in his ilecidon. His iihject in making
the note was to indicate that Mr. Widsford had not
formally applied to him to make a note of the °Woe-
tiim (store the jury were iliacharged.
The entry in the dude's 11111110.41 NM all follows :
" I &Al that the tw.. sums of cii 114. hod. and £43
.11inthl he united, and fonn one item .4 1:31 Hs. 10.1. ;
dose, fonn ono entire demand, and cannot be
split int.i separate caw.es .4 DAti•ni. and that the court
ther,fore had no Jurisdiction to entertain in the
matter."

Henry Hughes, s travelling (filmy? for allowing
thr.e horses to stray on the highway in the parish of
Whitechurch, wee hned el, including coats.
The Chairman read the annual repawt of the Supt.
of Police on the licensed houses in the di, anion, and
several names of mahlicans who had leen requested to
attend were called, but only tie.. appeared, and these
the Chairman cauti )))) .1 WI to the future conduct of
their house.
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Tuts we. the annual sessions for returning jury list"
awl tho Rescind overmwrs of pari.hea attended with
the requisite lista, which ',Vera duly signed by the
Magistrates.

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