The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-11-20 00:00:00

TIIE CHARGE AGAINST AN ELMILITIA

BANDSMAN.

Before the Wineanton Bench of Magistrates on
Friday, the young man Saw,e, F 0.11,, formerly a
band-man in the D. 4 set Militia, was charge I on
rem ind with feloniously entering the factory of
Nlissrs. Dyke and SOW, Milhor..e Port, and stealing
ther. ft inn gloves to the value f between 1.-20 and M.
—Mr. Trevor Davies. of Sheri, .rue, al.peared for the
pnesecutors ; the prisoner was un nefetnled. —The
factory had been burglariously entered on two
and evidence as io the first was now taken.
—l.eorge Anstey said he was employed by the prose-
cutors to lay out glove* when they were finished. On
the night of the 15:h of OetAer lad, I e was the last
person to leve tine warehouse, and it was, thefefore,
his duty to see it vilely locked up. Whleh In. ill-I.
None of the window-a were then broken ; he took base
the k. y. Between seven and ellt the follow ing
in. °ruin; he was cent for. an I on comilleo to the factory
i.e saw that two pant.. id gia2-6 in the window had
been broken, and the casement undone. Wheti he
unlocked the door and went inside he found gloves
scattered about in all directions.—Mr. George
Ebenezar Dyke, one of the firm of Dyke and Sons,
atated that as he was going through the factory earl
betw -en seven and eight ..'clock on the morning of
the 16th of October, he picked up a new black calf
glove. a few feet from the warehouse window. On
examination he diseovered that the window hail been
broken open, and he found a box and two or tl.ree
lined ghosts outside. He sent for the last witness,
who hail the warehonse key, and also for P.t Ottery.
On going into the warehouse he saw a number of
gloves. of various shades, strewn about tine floor.
E vent:tally, on ex union: the stick, he was able to
tell how tuati had been Mken —seven dozen anal seven
pairs of men black grained gloves ; six dozen and
seven pairs of boys' black calf gloves ; three dozen of
men's ditto; and between one and two dozen of beaver
gloves. Tim pair if boys' black calf gloves produced
by iVeting-Sergeant Ottery were of their make. The
able of the gloves was ab lit M. —Charles King, in
the employ 1.1 the prosecutors, said he, in comp.-thy
with Me, eral friends, were returning from Sherb irne
to Milisirite Port on the evening of the 1411 ult. and
the prisoner overtisik them on the road. nit.,
procceiled together as far a.s Ihe " Cross,- NI
when the prisoner left him an I went in the direction
of his father's house—William Stockwell, in the
employ of the prosecutors, depisied to seeing prisoner
come from the factory yard, near where the warehouse
wa., about quarter-past eight on the evening of the
15th of October. He asked him (witness) if a young
man named Clarke was there, and he replied that he
thought not.—William Hunt, a labourer, of Sherborne,
said that on the 16th of October, about quarter to
seven in the morning, he saw the prisoner in Mrs.
Miller's cow-stalL lie had twin bundles with him,
..ne having a handkerchief and the other a cloth over
it. He could see gloves (new ones, he thought) under
the handkerchief. When he first saw the prisoner he
was kneeling down tying up the gloves. Did nit see
him take any from the boxes, but after he was gone
witness found several boxes concealed under the straw.
—Sarah Wiltshire, .4 the Duke of Wellington public-
house, Dorchester, said the prisoner lodged at her
house for a month when the Militia was there. On
the 16th of October he cane again, having a bundle
in his possession. lie made a remark to her when he
went to bed that he would give her a present before he
left. The next morning he gave her the two pair "f
black glaves produced • they were rather too large for
her. She tolil him slie should not have them for
nothing; and Inc replied that if she liked, as he was
"bard up, she could give him 1, 6,1. for them. She
did i,. Prisoner undid a large inackage of gloves
while he was at her house, and t.dd her they were of
his own make.—Henry Cromwell, draper, of Newport,
sail the prisoner came to his shop about the Zstl,
I netober, and asked him if he wanted to buy any glove*.
lie produced a quantity of gloves unsorted, and
paire.l them in, the tsnunter. He suit he was a glover of
shepton Mallet; and that there were three dozen pairs
in the pan-el, at is 61 a dozen, lie gave him 221 61
for the lot.—Mr. Dyke said the gloves were worth 26.1
a dozen, wholesale.—l'he Clnairoan told Ilr. Crow-
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well that he had bought the article* at a notononsly
low price, and his c snsluct in the affair was very
imprudent. Thus it was that such robberies were
entsvuraged.-1/etective Curtis, of the :Monmouth
Borough Ps dice, proved appiehending the prisoner at
the Great Western Railway station, Monmouth, on
the 10th of November. He was carrying a coarse cloth
tualer his arm, and he asked him to give him his name
and address. Prisoner said that was no oils to him,
but sa being pressed *aid his name wal "Jones, and
that he lived at Lawrence-hill, Bristol." lie charged
hint with the robbery, and he amsearesl fidgets' subse-
quently they went to Mr. Cromwell's shop. tin
searching the pris over Ise found upssu him £1 2s 1111
Psisoner was s hen charged sith breaking into the
factory on the 6th ssi November.—William Bannton
(wove that on the 6th of November,
about quarter to nine in the evening, he locked up the
warehouse in the factory and took the key to Mr.
Garry Dyke. From the evidence of Mr. Dyke, that
gentleman went into the yard on the morning of the
7th and found that the warehouse window (which had
been repaired since the previous robbery) had again
been broken up, and twelve dozen of men's coloured
calf and nine dozen of men's black calf gloves had been
taken away. Seven glove boxes were ale, missing.
The window was Irarred, but the bare were tender and
could easily be bent. The gloves produced by Acting-
setgeant Otters, Detective Smith, P.C. Guard
(Bruton), Detective Curtis, and James Moorse were of
his make and corresponded with those in his premises.
_miss Williams, daughter of the landlord of the
Queen's Head, Bruton, sail the prisoner came to her
aimes house about tea-time on the 7th of November,
ansl asked her (witness) to buy s vme gloves. He had
them in a box, and after looking at them, she
purchased one pair and her aunt two, at 91, p.n. pair.
These were the ones produce I in the court.—Williara
Carver, a sirnalinan at Bruton Statism, also deposed
to the prisoner coming to him on the 7th of November
and hiss ,urliasi,sg three pairs of gloves for Is.
l'rissvner told him he had two packages of gloves on the
platform.— John Ball said the prisoner came to him on
Friday. the 91,1 i kat., and if eresl some gloves for sale.
lie told him he slid not want any; but eventually
prisoner presses, him to buy some. saying he wanted
sass money to get on to Newport. He 4ave lists 7w
for the lot. which numbered nineeen lain! Prisoner
said he had hal them from a woman of -Yeovil, who
was bankrupt.—Henry Cromwell, being re-called, said
the prisoner came to his shop at Newport again on the
10th of November. He said he had brought him some