The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-24 00:00:00

FIRST COURT, THURSDAY.

(Beforel. notes, Esq., M.P., Deonty-Chsirman.)
ARRAOLT UPON • Cllll.D.—Jautes Perris, a young man, .
was indicted for assaulting Virginia Lewis a girl under
Ift years Of age, at Ellanvil'es Wootton, on the 19th
Septembers Mr. W. Fiooks prosecuted, and Mr.
Collins defended.—Prisoner was found guilty of a
eommon assault, and sentenced to six mouths' hard
labour.
FRAUD AT DORCllBErrill.—Caroline Hawker, 23,
described as a labourer, pleaded guilryto &raining by
false pretestmes ono pair f sheets, 4 yards of flannel, 6
yards of calico, and 41 yards of sheetitig, the property of
T,.0111611 and Henry.liamminbe, with intent te cleat and
defraud (hem of rho sdrae, gt Doreteetee, rang. 4th.
—She was sentenced to three months' hard labour.
ABNAULT ON A YOUNG WOMAN AT DORONERTZR.—
Alexander Miller, 28, a private of t e bst tory of R. H. A.,
stations at Dorchester, was in.ficted for an assault on
Sarah Slade, at Fordington. September 3th. Mr. W.
Ffooks prosecuted, Prisoner was undefended. It sp-
p-ared that the proseontris, who is a servant at he
King's Arms Hotel, was returning from her home at
Martinstown, on Sunday evening, and *rased Fording-
ton field in company with the prinoner, "oh, had
been drinking, hut was not drunk." When they
were about beltway across the field prisoner threw
her down and assaulted her. She screamed and resisted,
and he allowed liar to get up. They then proceeded to-
wards Dorobester together, and • man of Martiustown,
whom she knew, named Isasc Mills, appeared in sight,
when, as her boonet was dirtied, through fear thst he
would kill her, (as she said,) Abe put her handkerchisf
over it, but:, according to prisoner's teat anent. it WAS
. done in order that Mills might not see it. She did not
lipped to Mills for protection, because, as she said, she
thought prisons; won d lut her go home withoutfurther
molestation. Shortly after priseh r again assaulted
her, but she escape I from him, and went bonnetless,
and with her face scratched and bleeding, to the Great
Western Hotel, where she related what had occurred,
and subseqnently the soldier was apprelien ierL A
statement made by prisoner Was that he Mid been drink-
ing, was unconcrions of anything that had happentrl,
and she ought not to have come on with him. No.v
prisoner said that proturcutrix induced him to accompany
her horn., although she kneW be had been ever to
Martinstown with • young woman with whom be had
kept company for nine months. He was foiled guilt)
of an indecent assault, and sentenced to six months'
hard labour.
ROBBING A GRANDPATHIR.—JsriU3S Pitinall, 30, and
Susan, his wife, described as labaners, were indicted
for 4,ealing from the lwellinghouse of Wilimin Pi•man,
at Chaldon Herring, twenty sovereigns, on the 31st
Aare& Mr. Collins prosecuted, and Mr. W. Ffooks
defended. The male prisoner is a grandson of the
prosecutor, and baring been out of work for some time
and begging for bread, he and his wife were ehelerred
out of kindness by the prosecutor, in whose house they
remained five weeks. In a drawer in a room adjoining
that occupied by the eriamierc, the old man NM twpoeY
sovereigee. (hitt!' 3M Augulit the male priackee toak
some dinner and went out, saying he should be book
again at six o'clock, and the woman, who had been
left the boom, ea she said, to go end get some black-
berries. Shortly Afrer, the money was missed, and
suspicion fell on the prisoners. The police ware
informed of the loss, and went In 'earth of prisoners. '
They were found two hours after at Wareham station,
having taken tickets for Southampton, and on being
, marched, the man was found to have £3 6.., and con-
cealed under the woman's dress was £l2 in a box which
belonged to prosecutor. The uiaa when charged, said
abnedonithyeh"wommosnneymelugah tosiintlikare kinet&t.tomSoenutthgtothne,
direction of the Court, the woman was presumed to act
under the influence of her husband, and was found not
milt,. She appeared to be very ill, and was in a faint-
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