The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-28 00:00:00

SINGULAR CHARGE OP DEFRAUDING
CLERGYMEN.

A yo ong costermongsr named Samuel Newman was
brought up at the Wesiroietter Poliomourt on Saturday
ma the charge of pr3coring ostritable cootributions by
fraud from the Mrtou. th, Ras 0 T. Ached, and
othe tandems—. fbe Res Chaos Tabor Arnaud, vicar
a St. dull.v,Highht•, stated that the primer called oci
him on hU e gh cr February last, and loft • letter which
led to an interview. The prisoner told witness that he
was • convicted thief melons to reform. and that he had
just came out of pawn. In replying ts cliteetions the
wisher ihntioped Use anise of other dioramas, and
said that he had profited by the miniatrations of the Rev.
Mr. }lmager, a prisoo chaplain, and that If witness would
lend him Si. Si It small enable him to get an honest
living by buying '.get able stock, and resuming his former
trade as • costshoomser. Witness lent him 51. believing
Whom but never saw anythine more of him afterwarda
The form of letter addressed to the rev. gentleman
by the primers was as follows :—" Dear Sir,—! am
• thief. and I am twenty-oh yen's old. and I have
oily lost Cetae out of prim ; and I am threateeed
with penal servitude for the next offence. My parents
are dead, and I know no one but • gang of thieves, who I
.10 not want to go near as they always get me in trouble.
I am • coetermonger by trade, and I dos tame why I should
be • c marks and now that I bah ow liberty hoe more I
went to start an honest life at once before it is too late. I
can go to market now that Use
.priors are low, and get •
good stock for about da or 5a Sir, I appeal to you to ask
you if you would kindly trust me—a poor thief—who
wants to do (sod with this little start in life. I ask it
as my last chore of doing goal. My dear alt, if you
will, I faithfully promise to repay the money, with Gods
kelp, at two-Iplus, neir night, or one shilling per week
until paid Do, dear lir. give a poor thief Wu me
a Uhl, and will do he best to satisfy eon,, and
be an hooest assn.—l am, Sir. your humble ',mat,
I Amu Hz.isererr. who waists to be koshst.',.--Tne Res C T.
Leland sdd he wee iodised almoet to suspect the
weaker, both. thought he might risk es. on the reform
of • taiel.—lnspecior Crania 'eked for a further remand,
so that the Rev' II Myth and C. Osespbell. Use letter of
Gloacester-terroos, Kaisiastoa, might attend aid dapaa,
se eahtly aliallar treads on the part of the prisoner. Re
(the wawa.) besseeed by his enquiries that there would
be numerous charges spinet him—fl. prisoner said he
admitted the soUsorship of the letters, and was very ism
for what he had done—Mr. d'ilyncourt thought it was •
very cunning way of Imposing on charitable people, and
remanded him for the sitletnos of an °SIM from the
Illendicity Society.

A Coatoos Boning or vin agJo In which English. salon. and, ,nooga, geglisamm generally. are intmestm,
hoe just corm to heal from Baena, Ayna To ell readers
of the sea stories of the lidiasbethast peclod the nuns of
Thomas Curers fish la Iseallier. a Oavendigh was •
navigator and bucconeer, and me of toe scourges of the
Spaniards, until on as ilifated do he was captured and
hung at Buenos Alm by 00. 01 Wu' :0011-4-Wal, just ails.'
he had made an ussnmegif ul demist upon the emit. It
I. of this wadng that some traces are suppress to ham been
disc mired in the harbour, at the mouth of the lo Pleta
As Italian cauchaos captain, whose weasel was mooed in
tho harbour at SIM Um* the last mall left, ending gnat
ciMoulty In caging his andsor, obtained help from •
neighbouring vessel, and when tb• anchor was brought up
discovered abash Ised brought itri • Imre sheet of cooper,
evi .eatly torn from • case of the muis material. Ou being
cleansed Um meta SMS (mod to bear. among other Nads.
the letters "LB a* and • mom as. various initials. A
dyer was sent down gad brought up two Imola of PUtO gold,
which he reported he had taken from • oust that wai
imbedded In the ground. By this time the entliodblea of
the &motile get wind of the itinerary, and dm Pieced •
nnerd at the spot to prevent farther unauthorised explora-
tions, intending, so it said, to eilliolev divers at the public
expects. in ograpiotiar the *web. Meanwhile • edentate
essociatloa la Me tom hag examined the mass of metal
which was torn from its fastenings by the nation captain..
"caw, and Ii of maim, from the date it bests and
higaggs To. C." 'Ay& appear upon it tl-1 the tremure
which the/ supposed to ham bees dlscvorid formed pert
of tbe plosdor of Thomas Cevendisk and wen thrown
o VW*
board or bat withhi. thin in ate 11/4t lOWA cat the
booms', Ms lits.

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