The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-02-27 00:00:00

CROWN COURT. —Tin nn
(Before Mr. JUSTI,6 HAWKINS).

The following gentlemen were sworn on the Grand
Jttry :
Sir Molynenx if. Nepean, Bart. (foreman).
11. V. E. Brymer. it.P. Mr. C. E. Astell
N . It. N. Nlidilleton Mr. Carr Glyn
N . J. W. T. Fyler Mr. H. B. Midlleton
N r. If. S. Bower Mr. W. J. Smith
I r. Herbert Williams Mr. J. Batten
r. R. If. Eliot N
N r. K W. Williams
I r. E. Pearce
. G. Bond
Ir. E. A. Wool Mr. T. Hussey
Mr. G. K Eliot
Mr. G. 0. I lturchill
r.
Mr. J. A. Bragg°
Mr. T. Cola x
r. G. Warry Mr. J. W. B. Hawksworth
The learned Jrnor_ in delivering his charge to the
Grand Jury, con I them UP .11 the extreme
lightness of the calendar in reg kr.l te the charact•er .if
the offences they had to investigate. At the same
iime he thoudit it, he said, his ditty to tell thom that
lode labours might have been lightened considerably,
or many of the I:MC, ought to have been remitted to
the Court II Quarter Swaim., to whieh tribunal thy
mere properly belonged. The majority of the cases
Were those 14 simple larceny, awl were more triable
fat Quart ir Sessions; nevertheless, it was his duty to
lleliver the gaol of Dowetshire, and the jury must
ascertain whether they were prima folic cases for in-
WesCgation hy the pddy jurors. The eves for the
'Most part presmted no difficulty whatever, and very
few ielateil to her inal violenci. Hie lordship then
Wane. I at the A silent viints id the calendar.
Wi11,,., liciaol, etc klinz three torkeyA at Killion, value
iLI Bk., three so oaths hArd lii, ,or.
CU %arm 01, MI:AST.

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MOW Ann Nlozabcfla Burk.% on had, was indicted for
fcloilioa..ly marrying one Gearge Hedges, at Dorchester,
On the :1001 of January. MO, her former husband being
st 11 alive.—Mr. C title pro-eluted, and Mr. Gainey
I -.Rel.—John Keeley was the first wituesa called.
Mr. Caatle : What are yout—Witness: I am mixed up
in a lot of things. —His lordship: Answer the qiiestion.—
Wit 1101.4 :Wlii,h question shall I answer —llia Lordship
lint trill.', hut answer the ime-tion. If you trifle you
will tind your inistake.—Witneos: I am a coachsmith and
pliblican. I know John Burke, and was present when
the marriage took place at the Itegistry-ollice.—Cross-
examined : Rorke was a frequent customer of mine at
the public-leme. Ito hal lam away about 11 or 12
years, awl I heard he was dead several times from his
comrades when they came home from abroad. I believed
lie was deal. I knew the prisoner before she was married. !
She was a re,pectal le girl, and was about 17 years of age
when she wa- monied. —lly Ids t,aiolalop : I did not tell
the prisoner that her husband was deal. I don't think
Burke wont I hove troubled about the prisoner had he not
wanted to get out of again goinc aline.l.—George Hedgm
P•tid : I 31113 Iriker and live at Weymouth, ant married
the pris inor on the ARA of Janeary, 1870. She described
herself as a spinster. and was married in the name of
Clemente. —Cro-s-examin.l : I ant no party to the pro-
ceedings, se I lived comfortably and happily with her.
I was aware of the fact that she hail been married to a
soldier. I married her with the full consent and appro.-
' hation of her friends, and we bast neither heard any-
thing of the former husband. He mine a short time
ago to my house, but prisoner refused to see him.—
Sergeant Awe): said : I produce a certificate of the
marriage of the prisoner with John Burke, end January,
Ma which came from the Registrar's °nice—By his
Lordship: I served the prisoner with a summons at the
Instance of John Burke, who, I believe, is at Malta.—
Mr. Delaney, for the defence, stated that he should r use
certain objections to the marriage certificate, when his
Lordship said it was a prosecution that ought not, he con-
sider.% to have been taken, and he should not assist it at
all.—Mr. Castle: Well, my lard, I will withdraw from the
case. (Lanahter.l—Hie Lordship asked the iury if they
believed that the marriage in 1565 took place, and the
foreman said they left the queation open. (ApPliuse).—
His Lordship: As in my opinion the prosecution aught
never to have been institute.% I shall not allow the costs.
The prisoner will be Mu-barges'.
Thom's,. Davis, a lab-amen was indicted for stealing three
rabbit traps, the property of John Speaks, at Wynford
Eagle, on the 2fith December, 1076.-21 r. Templar prose-
toted, and Mr. Lewis defendal—William Churchill said
he was a trailer, and worked for the prosecutor. The
traps produced he set about a fortnight before Christmas.
lie had lost 21 traps altogether.- Henry Freeman, a
sergeant statimed at Maiden Newton, said lie received
the traps from George Mayhew, Mr Sheridan's keeper.—
George Mayhew said he saw the prisoner, on the :Nth
January, in Maiden Newton Copse, setting three traps.
He saw prisoner take up one of them with a rabbit in it
the following day. Ile was colic towards another trap
when be sew him.—Groes-examined : Prisoner was
summoned before the tuagistrates for po.liing and steal-
int, and was now doing a month for the former—The
defending counsel asked the jury to pause let ore they came
to the conclusien that the traps found in January in the
pomession of the prisoner were those set in Dceeniher, and
especially as the initials on them—"J.S."—were very
common one', an-I 'night, as his Lordship jocularly
remark.% mean "John Smith." He asked the piry to
say that the ends of jestice in the case, considering the
prisoner was doing a month. had been met, and as there
was very crave doubta to give the prisoner the benefit of
them—His Lordship rimmed up, and the jorY, after a
few amends' consultation, foend the prisoner guilty. —Mr.
Lewis reminded his Lordship that the prisoner was doing
a month, and ha I eight children.-11is Lordship: Well,
you go to gaol for another month, with hard labour.
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