The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-01-22 00:00:00

WAR kIiAK.
A SCA MP I

The polies have in coat, iy et Wareham &somewhat
ikey "-I iolting customer who gives his name
Haney Newton. deg:ribs; a. himself as • plumbar, 35
years of age, and • native of Manchester, with the
further testimonial that be was once a ahopernate of
CarrY. on a charge of baron; at den mid broken open
the charitable contribution box of the ass.eiation for
Lb. blind, paced at the Wel Hiilway St tam. On
Tuesday idght he weal seen bit-ring about ths !dation,
and be then state.' ho wanted to go by Vein to Ware-
ham. lie waa directed as to the train by which be
should loocgid, but wheu it was found that he did not
go with it, and that be aad suddenly diaappearaid,
snepiciona were aroused, an I ox • search bolos ma I.
it we. id...eared that the box in queetion was ini-slug
bow the wsitiagiroaut. The p were communie ,t id
with, end Sog;„ C etre, witai commendable prompti-
telegraph•d to • lillol • 'or of places, and hitusSf
traiu for Wareham from %Void On arriving at
Moreton the sergeent got out, to make 'Nair's.. and
we, shoat to re.eutier the train, wit n he new a mall 11l
• hurry bolt lute a carriag.. Thie waa enough for the
sergeant, who at once went to the coLoptilmeut and
requesied the individual iu a hurry to step °tr.
ale. Torre wee a bit of • bother, a little
high talk, hut in the end the gentleman
stepped out of the Culleitei awl coodescended to be
searched. On him were found ataiut t 0.., 22i. of
which were in C ipiaera. He ritterwa di, told the
Sergeant where be hat throwno the box, nt th • wee
a'giut 22 yard. the other side of the
• t dion in • ditch. He is wanted for several other

U. Toe dey he was broueht before the magistrate+,
and Mr G. Judd. stetioliutester a: Wool, said on the
Bth of Ja ueri, in the evening, from WhAt hi. cle k
ssi Ito him, be inwie a scorch, and fund the b f
cintiibution, to the vr.dare of the blind kept at he
trion was Fleeing. Ile also ilitiorivered that another
Ix, bel ming to the 03 troll Missionary Society,
which was kept in rim ladies' wait' og.roorn, bad been
4.13011, d, end the °entente tdten. lie at once cam-
usunicced with the p 11cc. He saw the prisoner
just It. r three that day, and lie was at the station
up till about ties.

-e-t.ationed at Wog, f105x...1 to finding
the Inn( under n bodge armored up with grow and
Sorgoant Coutes &lon deputed to the twits &hove
niaratx.l. .

Ti. prisoner pleaded guilty, and was mentenoed to
two us..aths' hard I.bour, a result with which he
appeared highly ple4s•d.

ANOTHER DESPERATE POACHING AFFRAY.
At the Wareham Fair's-court k Tuesday, before
Colonel Oxwaith and Mr. 0. C. F • the two men.
Frederick sr d Amiantus Whittle, were oharg•cl with
having st M ire.un, on the 8.6 ..f January, been guilty
of night II •sculog and using violence,
nige vi'. h • rest-.el at dpettiabory, and
rue • bah urer. H. *sum to so kid nksnami• with pia
br /Mania. On the fith ..1 Jaanuy, •
little a 1... 10 in tee ev 11111/. they went I • wood
c tile i West eta I. Whila them they hear I the
pigs in- and r .ttling and tiie rekert of • gun, he
phould think about 100 yards •11. tüey WOlit in the
dire tans of the • mud, and ear, three men, who were
walking about lookiug for birds. He and Denote then
got behind *outs faggots. The three men Men came
up try tba ditch which es/wets them, and they amid
—"Stand back end look out." At .on as they said
that they b. vat throwing stones, which , took uut
of their pockets. They Wowed them " ugly," an I he
gut five marks on hi. Goa from f.ntr II • was
knocked seuseless, and tell down. D ni, coo., on
and took him up and tualt him home. it. we. obligel
afterwards to remelt' in bad for four days. Dr. Bartlett
ette.ded him. He would +weer the two pdsoner.
were two of the men, but he could not tell which of
Lb. tlir..• had the gun.—Crues-examined lie wee •
stranger lo them part:, and the fir.t time he hid seen
the ,:eft mien!. waa in the wood Vint evening. One if
the WOU name clues up to him, and the others were
about four yards away. When he saw the 4100t,.11. OM
Sunday ho tAd him he did not kuaw the natuas
these men, but if he saw them again bee mid identify
them. When he was c0015...m.1 wrath the twy delend•
ante by the p awe 1.• o •uld clot onm IV they wet.
Iwo of the men, WICIRVIII tb.7 hal not a warrant for
them then. Denote was bia brathardnd ter, and
naturally they bad been talking till togath
—twadot likely any nue we- go.u4 11 have bia oyes
ku old out end not s ty anyt'ilos ab mat it. He could
not tell which uf the WEIN bad the gun, as " 1 arn't
aka, 'tin ensue."

Or rge 1) ci.. of the Shoed- walk, in the employ
oi C.ptnin Pb him ore, gave COE roboratlve evidence,
an •old three of the stone. iiuu 21c lino in the brand.
He and its other vitae.. had stick. with them. and
they threw them at the men, an I he b•lieved hi. stick
struck one of then. He communicated with tie
police, and the mat morning he and Sergeant Coates
went to the place and found several flint' lying about.
—ln cross-exeminetion he said he did not tell the
police at the time that the defendant's were two of
tee men. because his " pal" could not attend, but
after he had seen them then he identifiud them. Some
years ago he summoned three mon, two were found
and one not, the latter bring the defendant
Arcbilaus. He withdrew the summons.
Sergeant Coates deposed I • having made dupllnates
of the footmarks to be found at the .p .t in question,
which corresponded with the boots of defendant
Archaean. Toe previoni "rituals*. afterwards
identified Andefoidanti before him.

Sept. Feltbsin c irrob 'rated the evi knee of the
Sergeant MI to the footina'ks.
1 lir. Dickinsee, for the deface), criticised the
evidenee_, and contented that it wee moet unsatisfac-
tory. The fact that the witness w were ix,anle to
speak to the ilmtity of the third inao showed that
their testimony an to Vol two defendaati sh mid be
receive 1 with the greatest Ci iti /11. rb, chief 'Moose
WY (lewd., mid be, it 11. I been proved, bat pre-
viously be u.ibt • oh ar.;ti agaiatt Archilaus, which he
we. ebbs° 1 to withdraw. Sir. Dinkins ,u c main WO by
asking toe Satoh not to put the defendants ta the
trouble and expense of having to go to I)orobestw to
take their trial. de also called
Hannah Whittle, the mother of the defeudants, and
• widow. living at Winfrith, declarel on her oath
toil on tie evening in question her sons came home
between 10 and 11, and they never went out of her
house, she would swear "with a clear conscisoce,"
till the next morning. They canal not possibly have
done so with cut her knowing cross-examine.
non she denied "to her (1 " that ever she told
Sergeant Coates that Frederick came in at U, and
Archilims.some time alter. .

Tao ddeadanti, Laving been charged, said they
were not guilty, sad were torthw,th committed for
trial at the Assmea