The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-17 00:00:00

CHARGE OF TIORAE-STEALING.

At the Police-court on Monday frilliest Cornick
formerly • porter at the Verwood Railway Station. anti
Ames Cooks, of Bristol. were brought up in custody on
remand, before Mr. H. F. Brnuocker, charged with
stealing ecob man, value 013, the property of Mr.
James Shearing, builder and farmer, of Daggen'•-road,
Alderholt, on Monday night, from Cranborne Common--
Prosecutor said he had a hay mare put in Cninborne
Common on Monday, and when his man went for her on
Tuesday he could not find her. He went to the common
himself, but also failed to find the mare, and be then gave
Information to the policeman at Ringwood, and also at
Ferdingbridge He afterwards went to Bristol and saw
the mare at the Poliee-statien there The mare was worth
about PD.—P.C. King. stationed at Verwood, stated that
on the 30th of November he served the prisoner Cornick
with a summons for poaching at the house of Frank Sims,
dole to Cranborne Common. Cornkk then told him that
, be had no work. On Wednesday he received information.
' that the horse had been stolen, and went to prisoner's
lodgings, but he was not there. He maw tracks of • horse
about 300 yards from the house, and traced them
Into the highway, leading to Cninborne He went
to Bristol pn Thursday. and accompanied P.C.
Popham, of the Bristol Constabulary, to Mr.
Daniel Weston'. stables and there an*. the masts, which
prosecutor's son, who accompanied hire, identifi.d. He
(the constable) also knew the mare himself. PC, Trow-
bridge and be apprehended the prisoners at Bristol and
charged them with steeling the mare. Corot& said
nothing, but Fowles said be did not sts al the horse—he
had never been to Cranhorne Common, and he should like
to prove he had not been not of Bristol for the lost 11l
months. On the way to Wimborne on Friday, Yowlee
said Cornick came to hie hoses on Wednesday evening
about seven or eight o'clock, and slept there that night.
Cornick Vild him that he had • little cob that his father
gave him in • field. Hsi if he would come and help him
get it into Bristol he would pay him for his trouble He
went with Cobb& in the morning to get the hone, and
he let him have some money to boy some food for the
hone, wad Cornick gave him Is. 61. for his trouble. He
brought the prisoners to the Witnhorn• Police-stall,,—
P.C. Trowbridge, 'tabooed at Alderholt, said he was
directed to probed to Bristol on Thursday, and did so.
About sight o'clock In the evening he WM the prisoner
Cornick, and told him he knew him ea living in the
neighbourhood where the horse was stolen. and he replied
"that will have to la proved." He then went to the
house of Mr. Daniel Walton, who Cs* him to the stable,
and he there saw the hay mare, which he knew as belong-
ing to the erceecutor. He task the mars to the police-
station at Bristol, and afterwards brosseht it to Wimborne
and gave it up to the prosecutor.— P C. Popham, of the
Bristol len, said he was on Bath Bridge at eight
o'clock in the morning on Thursday, and • Wiltshire
policeman came ti hiss and said shoe's, had been stolen
and travelled through his district About tan minutes to
nine he saw the prisoner Vestries riding • cob mare,
which he offered for sale. H. celled the policemaa's
attention to the mare, which Yowls* rode off on towards
the town. He did not see the younger prisoner there At
eleven o'clock he gave information to. his inspector, and at
one o'clock he saw • telegram. leo same evening he saw
the Dorset constable, and went with them to the prisoner
Fowles' house, and both the prisoners were apprehended.
He had not seen the Wenner Cornick before to his know-
ledge—Mr. Daniel Weston, wholesale fruiterer and cab
proprietor, of Bristol, said both the prisoners came to
him in the market on Thursday morning, and Yowles
asked him if he wanted a cob mare, as that young man
(meaning the primmer Conbelb had one for sale. One of
the prisoners asked him if he would go to the White Hart
end see the mare, but he declined to do so, and they then
brought the mare to the market, and he looked at it and
said it was not big enough and would not suit him.
Cornick followed him Into his office, and asked him what
be would rive for the mare, and he ultimately bought her
for £lO. The prisoner Cornish said he brought the mare
from two miles the other side of Bradford-on•Ayon, and
that she was given to him by his father when two year.
old. He said be had bad a few words with his father, and
left his home. He paid Cornick £lO in gold for the mare,
and he gave him the receipt produced, in which he signed
himself as William Billy. He told Cornish that if his
feeler wanted to have the mars hart, he cool,' ,lo so
by paying him very little over the .210 as profit on the
money. Vowles came to him in the afternoon and asked
him what be MU going to give him for buying the horse,
and he said nothing as he had paid the value for it. He
asked him where the young man was, and he said he had
just seen him off by train. Yowles was rather tipey, and
he gave him 2s. fa , through • neighbour, to get rid of
him. ° A Bristol detective and • Dorset constable came to
his house about half-pest eight the same evening and took
=gon of the man—Cross-examined by Viewless He
own him (Fowles) for 30 or years—By the
magistrate: Towles said Cornick was • friend of his. but
he would not swear that he said he knew him bet ore.—
Frank Porter, of Daggen'rmed, a lad in the employ of
the prosecutor, said he law his master's cob snare tamed
into Creations) Common on Monday afternoon. He saw
Cornick looking at the mare He found the mare was
missing on Tuesday morning, and told his master.—
Cornick had nothing to say in defence, but he stated that
Vowke had nothing to do with stealing the horse.—
Vowles said Cornick and another young man lodged at
his honk 10 or 11 weeks ago, and on Wednesday night he
again stayed at his house. Cornick told him that he had
• cob which his father had given him for sale, and asked
him if he would go with him in the morning and help sell
it. He said be would as he had nothing particular to do.
Next morning he went to • field and caught the mare,
and Cornick gave him In 611, for what he did. He did
not even know Cornick'e name at the time, and he was
not aware that the horse was stolen.—The magistrate
committed both prisoners to take their trial at the Dorset
Quarter Seebons.—Mr. Weston said Cornick was not sow
wearing the same suit of clothes se when he purchased
the mare of him, and no doubt he bought the new suit
out of the £lO. He had brought down prisoner's old suit
of clothes, and he applied that the new suit and a sem of
14 found in the prisoner's pouession might be handed
over to hies—The magistrates told Mr. Weston that be
must make his application at Dorchester.