The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-01-12 00:00:00

THURSDAY.

Henry Coles, labourer, was indicted for noise/fully
tresp•sing ell certain land, at Stockland Bristol, in
pursuit of game, and waulting William Henry
Ifawkins, the eamekeeper of Thomas Daniels, Req.
Mr. Cole prosecuted. He was found guilty, and
sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. He also
pleaded guilty to stealing • coat, and other
m articles,
and also to assaulting Lord Taunton's gamekeeper, and
was sentenced for each offence to 14 days' hard labour.
John Brook, labourer, pleaded guilty to stealing a
small quantity of bread and pork, the property of Ann
Mizen, at Weston, on the 23rd November. It appeared
that he had spent most of his life in gaol, and in penal
sereitude, and for this offence be was sattenoed to
seven years penal servitude.
Joseph Osborne lon bail) was indicted for stealing •
quantity of barley, the property of William Newberry,
at Nortonwlellamhden. Mr. Hooper for the prose-
cution ; Mr. Cole defended. This was a very eiryalor,
but at the same time, very trivial case, and resulted in
the oega,ttal of the prisoner. Before he was indicted,
but as soon as he had pleaded "not guilty," Mr. Cole
wished to put in a special plea, ousting the jurisdiction
of the Court, tho pnaoner having elnedy been put upon
his trial for the same offence. When arrested and
taken before the magistrate* at Yeovil, Mews Harbin
and !fatten, he was asked whether he consented to be
tried by them, and returned a reply in the affirmat •:,
pleading not guilty. He ihenfentered upon his ilefe,e,
and two witnesses were celled on his behalf. The
magistrates then retired to consider their decision, and,
being divided in opinion, resolved to send the ease for
trial. The chairman said there was so legal erstienee of
It before the Court, and as the prisoner had pleaded not
guilty, there was great dlteetty in the matter, and the
case must go on. Mr. Cole said it reminded him of •
case at Exeter once in which • poor fellow had been
brought up half-a-dozen times upon the same charge,
who exclaimed "How many more times shall I be
brought up about thu duck."
William Head (mi bail) was indicted for stealing, at
Claverton, • quantity of iron, the property of the
Kennett and Avon Canal Company.—Mr. Meech for
the pr wention.—A previous conviction was proved,
and lie was Pow sentenced to three weeks' hard labour,
and afterwards three years at Redbill Reformatory.
John Barrett, labourer, pleaded guilty to stealing a
bundle of straw, value 44,. the property of William
Humphrey, on the Bth of December. He also pleated
gailty to having previously been convicted of sheep-
dealing, for which he pwed four years in penal morel.
tilde, and for this off-ince he was ordered to undergo
lee years' penal servitude.
Simeon Primal., Labourer, pleaded guilty to breaking
and entering the dwelling-house of Joseph Jacobs, at
Stoke St. Mary. and stealing 12Iba. of meat, on the
31at of December, and was sentenced to nine mouths'
hard labour.
John Sadly, labourer, pleaded guilty to stealing, at
Taunton, an umbrella, the property of John Taylor,
after previous convictions under the Criminal Justice
Act, and was sentenced to nine months' hard labour.
William Southwood, baker, pleaded guilty to stealing,
at Wellington, a set of brass Ily•bells, the property of
Robert Marshall, on the lst of December, and was ern-
teoced, after two former convictions, to three years'
penal servitude.
John Coles and William Strong, labourers, pleaded
guilty to unlawfully trespassing on certain Innis in
pursuit of game, at Over BWwey, and ansanltine Daniel
Palmer, gamekeeper to Lord Taunton, on the 9Th of
Deoember.—Strong was sentenced to nine montha'
hard labour; Coles to 21 days', and three years in •
Reformatory.
George Adams (on bail) was indicted for steeling, at
Stoke St. Gregory, several ducks, the property of Mr.
Michael Venn, on the 9th June.' Mr. March for the
prosecution ; Mr. Cole defended. The proewutor I. •
yeoman. In May last he had two broods of duck+. The
elder b sod he marked with three snips in the left fool,
and the younger with three snipe on each foot. In the
middle or latter part of May be missed four of the older
brood, and three weeks afterwards he lost six of the
youoger brood. Ducks, similarly marked, were found
is the piewsion of the prisoner; and the dawn was
that the whole brood belonging to the prisoner were so
marked, and he produced two in Court that exactly
corresponded. In the course of Br. March's address to
the jury, • sergeant of police spoke to him, upon which
Mr Colo remarked that the proceeding was most ex-
traordinary and irregular. If a sergeant of police had
attempted to Instruct him he should atone, have orders
him out of Court. The jury, to the surprise of every
we in Court, returned • verdict of guilty, and the
prisoner was sentenced to'three months' hard Labour.
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William Southwood, labourer, was indicted for steal-
ing, at Crowoombe, 12a, the property of his master,
Richard Bindon Landon. on the 27th of December.—
Mr. Laren for the prooeention. He wall found guilty,
and mentenced to sic months' herd labour,
Charles Tooker, labourer, was indicted for Wieling
at Minebead, ten aovereigns, Use property of William
Tucker, on the 3t/th of December. Mr. Lovell pio
*faceted. The prisoner was found guilty,and • previous
Collviation having been proved against hila, when be under-
went three years' penal servitude, he was now sentenced
to sin peers penal servitude.
Charles Priddle, labourer, was indicted for
stealing, et Kingsbury Episcopi, 56Ibs. weight of bay,
the property of John Pettinger, on the 15th of Desem•
bor. James Musgrave, labourer, on boil, was indicted
for receiving the same knowing it to have been atolen.
Mr. Wyndham for the prosecution ; Mr. Cola for the
defence. In consequence of the verdict in the duck
stealing cam, which was diametrically opposed even to
common 1001111. Mr. Cole challenged the foreman and
several of the jurymen as they came to he sworn, and
they were turned out of the boa, moidst the Laughter of
the whole Court. On the day in question Piddle was
seen to take bar from the field of Mr. Pottinger, end
Musgrave took it from him, and carried it into a linhay
in an adjoining geld One of the persons who saw it
told • policeman, who welt to the balmy for di. par.
pose of watching the bay, and there found Musgrave,
who said that the bay was his. The policeman at once
took Kuterrnve into wastady, end afterwards arrested
?riddle. Tim prisomen were acquitted.
John Hoare was committed by the magistrates it
Olastonbary for being an incorrigible rogue and vague
bond, after a previous conviction. He had been im-
prisoned no Iwo than five times. He was now ordered
to be imprisoned for three months' hard labour, and
during that period to receive fifteen lashes on hiu bare
hook with the

BEOOND COUBT.—Wzng r.
(Before Mr. R. A. BzzlosiD.)
A !TSAI.. —Paull (appellant) v. the Orenumn of
Broekley (respoodeut4-114. Rideau: and Mr. Edlin
mire for the appellant, and Mr. Cole and lir. Spoke for
the respoodenta.-11, Prideent stated that the appeal
was mad* by John Peal, Ben., occupier of Brookley
Ho. near Cisme, on the ground that he wag rated to
the amount of Cilin for land and premises which 'bottle
be rated to other venom, viz., James Williams. John
Hill, George James, George Sparks, and Joseph Hedges,
of Clem., hey being the occupiers of the land rated
to him, the appellant. —Tim Chairman, after mine
deliberation with the other magistrates, said they were
ananimoualy of opinion that the rate, in Its present
state, could not be maintained, and coked the litigant&
if they would agree to the rate being amended m the
Court should think proper. The coonsel on both cidee
soscurring. the Court decided that Omega James and
John Hill should be rated for the property they ad-
mitted they sere liable to be rated for, the amount of
their ratings—rlo and Pls—to be decimated from the
amount with which the appellant was aseessed.—Mr.
Prideauz asked that his client's costa might be allowed.

' bat the application was refined. This was the only
appeal case, end tto: C .u. t then proceedoi with the trial
of prisoner,
George Parfitt. John Pruitt, Jol,n Curti*, Samuel
Snoble, miii Albert Briadile, (out on hail). pleaded
inilty to awaiting and obstructing P.C. Weaver, at
High Littleton, on the th November list—Mr.
Hooper pro.ecuted. and Mr. EJlio defended all the
~rieoners.—The Chairman said it was a very brutal
....AA. as appeared by the deposition*, and the sentence
was Mut they be sab impnaoned for three months,
Wlllil.ol Ishour.
:quidnick Buddell and Alfred 011 is (on bail) pleaded
guilty to stssaul 1. S. Wvbb, in the eiceution of his
duty, on the littlr October, at Keynaluim. Mr. Speko
pro-ecutod. Mr. Kahn defended the prisoners, It"
called the constablc, who maid he did not wink to press
the case against them, and two persons gave
them good characters. Sentenced to one month's hard
labour each.

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Ilenry Starr, labourer, was indicted for indecently
assaulting Thins Mines, at Fromc, On the 29th
November. Mr. Saunders prosecuted, and Mr.
Prideaus defended.—The jury returned a verdict of
guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to three months'
hard labour.