The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-11-01 00:00:00

TIIR ()MEER. OV THE CONVIer
GARDINER.

Of the many criminals who have Rico their attention
to Weymouth, perliarn the mere of Joseph Ormsby
alias Gardiner, who met the fate of penal er vitmle at
the last tiessions, shows •4 hsrdene I a persietence in crime
,1 as any. Joseph Granby we. born at Knit tett •
Isam'et of II .a in On. ilu...brr, in Lincolnshire, io lOd
His parents were poor bat very respeetable
who gave him a Y.rr fur elezation according
to the ken of their mean. Tb• boy seem. to
have been given to fait company and a love of fine
Mathes ant did not hesitate t gratify ha tastei in a
dislioceset way. Ile wag pl.pel on going out into life in
a chemist's shop at 11.11; but bare he was swipechd of
(city pill° lug, end was discharged. Throve he went
to Seth, in Lieeolnaliire, and there cot a plane with •
gentlemen in • chemist's shop, and h ire his dishonest
tendencies met their lit punishment. Disc ivertol to
have stolen • gold rifle from a &Berm, rvent, he was
banded ov. e to the pollee in December, 187.e3, was tried,
and sentence! to 6 months' Imprisonment. After his
dtmherge, the next trace of him is at Sont..ainp•on,
where lie was spin in • chemist's shop at Above Bor.
There he led a very fast life, was su•psoroal, and got Hi
of. He is peat found at Taunton, Sower.,', wit' re he
live.' with Mr. ['mirrors fro n 1860. till June,
1851. Darin,: thin time he formed ihr amp .intsnee 0.
the daughter of a most remeetable gentleman of Sin
High-stem t, eloped with, and marrMd her. Mr.
Foursome, supposes that while with bins, Granby
robbed him of score, of pentode, and yet last October
Mr. Foursome received a letter fr um a person n ioned
Payne, asking him to give Orviihy ago id chirooter.
The recusant cliensiat'i as idling is heti discov..fed
at Monts. Hynes, McCulloch, sal Squire's wholsalle
druggists, 5, Oolnian.street, Lon lon, where to we.. t
ployed WI • clerk. While he remained there, Mr.
Squire dimharpd sin or seven men on suspicion of
robbery ; hut for some time could not discover who was
the real offender. et lest they rmorted to a ermine.
trick ; • maw was bitten is • large box. se' ..ner
time he disc ivereal the real Simon Pure,
Lie act of depredati in. He came from h.. .• • .oto
the store, were Le had no right t ho, end
stele several balm of pateut pills. ()no of the firm
was at once anineunicated with, and Ortesby was
apprehended on the 7th December, 11363. Other
pesularions were diseovered and in Jonntry, 1864,
ho was tried et the Central Criminal Coart,
for stealing 24 boxes of patent medicines, 91 on, of
nitrate of silver sad 7 :el posteee stainps ! ro these
charges he pleaded guilty, and his previous conviction
being admitted be was sentenced to 6 year. p •nil
servitude. He must have oondueted himself so well as
to obtain sense remission of sentence, and was let out
on ticket of leave, but In September 11461, he was
Gasified for not answering his ticket of leave. In
1869. we find him at Mr. Potts, in Mansfield, Stafford-
shire, and here he remained five or six months; bat it
Is suppond that Isis renal servitude bids deter eat
effect, for during this time Mr. Potts does not think
Gardiner robbed him of mush. Mr. Potta's suspicious,
however, were excite.' that he 1•41 not the min he
represented himself to be, and he loft rather suddenly.
He seems to nave returned to Sousersetshire, and
obtained a situation at Mr. Lengford's, of Wellintlon,
chemist who netieod that when he Gime he was rather
badly off for clothing, and what he had smnnel to have
been "road, -made." However, he Imnsedistely
launched into an ee,r
obtained • large quantity of new clothes, In bet so
moth that it aroused Mr. Langford'. snopieions. Thtt
gentleman marked poem money, passed it into his shop,
went to his shop after it was elated, and found the
money in Grassby's pocket- He also charged him with
obtaining hie situation by means of • false character,
which Granby admitted, and witheet a ehmseter,
he was immediately turned oat of doors. 111. only
fair to the wife to say that, although One child was
born, she was Peplielitld Irma Granby after his appre-
hension, and the parties bayonet seen ouch other since,
In Wellington, however, the convict paid his addresses
to a young lady of highly remeotebM family, and was
on the point of being married again. On its being die.
covered what a wrote% her lover was, and especially
that he was • married gum, this young lady was so
affected that she became variously 111, and her mind
suffered so much that before his trial took place, she
was obliged to be confined for some time in • length
asylum. But to return to Greeds, ; after bike oils.
charged from Kr. lausgftrd'e be appears to have stlyed
about Wellington form memo time, bet went from thence
to London, and there he wrote • letter to Mr. Mane of
Weymouth. asking for Ms &Hellion. The character by
by which he got this situation yea remitted from 45,
Pealowslnet, Btrnaby Boni, and spoke of big pleasing
manner,, gentlemanly appesnumo, of the long time he
had been with the writer, awl said he was • "vu ry
trustworthy person." His doiage at Mr. Mason's and
the result, sloven year.' penal servitude, are already
known, lie bad also three other Indininente hanging
over rt.. While in Weymouth. Gardiner Paid his
addresses pointedly to one young lady, and he is under-
stood to have been seeking the acquaintanee of two or
three more. He is spoken of as a very good counter.
ante from his earliest place; bet tbe fault which was
then developed, love of dregs. Glum to him to the
Ink and we understand that Mr. Mason has given ep
an immense quantity and variety of clothing, the pro,
seeds of which would be I/ sold, at least Efit It will
be numinbered that at the time of hie apprehension he
had £7B In money, awl =riled iestrumenta, smuts,
and drags, ho (ho value of £2O. He looks forward to
being released at some (Were time, for when visited In
Dorchester County Prison by the young lady whore
affections he had etstsusgled is so bin • manner at
Wellinetho, he admitted to her that he was • married
man ; but added, "I will tell you all some day." May
young ladies ho coo their guard against strangers of
"pleasing manners and gentlemanly appe cranes" be'ore
such a &wren fellow is again at large.