The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-07-04 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

COUNTT PATTI' Sinesiorr..sy Friday.—Bofore Mr. C.
Goodden (chairman) and Mr. G. not.
TA.6414 Clark alias rar, represented by his mother.
Thomas being " down in the North." wax charged with
being drunk and riotous at Wyke. P.C. 3m, on the 6th of
June, saw defendant in the village street drunk and
abusive—very so. Ile hurled his epithet& at any person
who happened to go by. The official remonstrance was
met by an attempt on the part of the defendant to throw
the policeman—Fined 10a, to include costs.
John Sheen pleaded guilty to having similarly committed
himself, and admitted he bad once before put in an appear-
ance at the bench, but that was eight years ago.—The
Bench told him they hoped he wouldn't come again for
another eight years, and mulcted him in a similar tine.
Charles John Ward and Thomas Lowman, overseers of
West Chickerell, was sum nioncul for the non-payment of
£l2 Os. 4c1., due to the Treasurer of the Weymouth Union.
—Mr. Wets! ord applied for the issuing of a warrant, and
the magistrates granted the application.
James !Janney was summoned for allowing cows to
stray on the highway at Wyke Itegis.—Fined 105, including
costa.

llennj eillen was summoned by Charles Morris for
damaging a fishing net Mr. Howard was for the defen-
dant Morris lives at Wyke, and complained that on the
23rd of June he had a net on the beach to dry. When he
saw it on the following day and examined it, he found it
cut in two places in the inner mackerel net, Ile put the
damage at half-a-crown.— The lkinch fined the defendant
10a and costa and Is. for the damage.
Thema. WAite, another fisherman, was fine/ the same
amount for drunken and riotous conduct on the same ,lay
at Portland...

BOROUGH PKrTT SLSSIONS, Friday night (9.15). —Before
Mr. G. B. Websferd (Isyor), 1)r. Drew, and Mr.
Reynolds. _

1114 UGG LING.
Joan Rogers and James Stone were brought up for
smuggling the firat 51b., and the latter sib., of Aieg
tobacco—The men had been employed ao firemen on
board the potato steamer Denia, which not long come in
from the Channel Islands.—llenry Walter Ferry, outdoor
officer in HAL Customs, said that afternoon, whilst
examining the packages on board the steamer Denia from
the Channel Islands, lying in Weymouth Harbour, he
found Mb. of foreign manufactured tobacco on dames
Stone, one of the steamer's crew. Five pounds was found
in the possession of the prisoners Rogers. Ile asked for a
remand until Wednesday next, as since their arrest some
other tobacco had been found concealed in the resseL
The remand Was granted—On Saturday morning Mr.
Price appeared with reference to ow application to admit
the prisoners to bail : and stated that 371 b. more had been
found on board the Denia.—Mr. Hopkins was present, in
addition to the other magistrates—The Court was
willing to accept two sureties in XX each for Stone and
two in £lO each for Rogeni.—Edward Edwards, of Wyke,
offered to become surety in the whole LSO for Stone.—
Accepted.—Rogers afterwards found bail.—lt seems that
miter Rogers and Stone were arrested they were again
searched, but no more was found on them. Mr. Godfrey
and other officers then went into the Denia's engine-
room and thoroughly rummaged it, and between the
bulkhead and the lack of the boiler he found concealed a
canvass bag containing 241 b. of shag tobacco and a tin
with 131 b. of csvendish. The vessel was put under de-
tention till the Board of Customs could he communicated
with.—lt is said that one of the engineers has absconded
and that the police are in search of him.