The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

ERRE REGIS.

FIBIL—On Monday evening about half-past eight
o'clock, • rick of straw was discovered to be on fire
adjoining a barn at Mr. Beaseot's farm at Rogers-bill,
between To!puddle and Bore Regis. Before any
aesistanee arrived it reached the barn, and in a
very few momenta the barn, stables and dairy
house were one mass of flames, lighting the country
round for several miles. A great slumber Ef per-
sons from Bore Regis and To!puddle, and Sergeant
Hill and P.C's Arney and Cross, of the Dorset Con-
stabulary, were soon on the spot, and rendered every
assistsnee. They also placed wet blankets and sheets
on the dwelling-house near the barn, and, the wind
being still, the house was saved. Had there been any-
thing like • breeze the house and all the premises must
have been burnt as the whole was thatched, and the
only supply of water was from one well. A thrashing
and mowing machine, the produce of about six ernes of
wheat, and other property in the barn was all con-
sumed. Fortunately the whole is insured. The ire
is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary.
Calcirer.hirron.—A match was played On the 16th'
Inch., at th s place, between eleven members of this club,l4
and eleven of the Puddletown club, which terminated in
e easy victory for the former. Subjoined in the wore.

Black Swan. in Swanace, on the some day. Be had
one pint of beer himself, and paid for • qnart. From
thence he went to Court-farm, but had no hin r to
drink till he went to the Globe. He had not nioch to
drink there, and wax soffi motty ,11.. t to kit W Pit‘c he
was about. He did not ?melba Viet lie told anyone
that night that he we not certain in which pocket he
ut the mon. y. TI ere were some pence in his purse
wit.s the gold and silver. As soon as ha found the land
in his pocket he looked round. Ile felt the band polled
out of his pocket, but did not s e it. wheu pr goner
and Brown went out, they were absent but two or three
minutes.— Harriet Rooks, the landlady of the Globe
Inn, Harston, said the prisoner and William Hobbs
were at her house between 9 and 10 o'clock on Tip stay
evening kt. Hobbs called for a pint of beer. When
she brought it he appeared to be sometime searching
for bin money, and she, supposing lie had none, 'said,
" If you hese no money why did you call for the hoer r
He then found his purse and took outs shilling. There
was other money in the purse, but she could not siv
what it WM The prosecutor was not drunk —George
Cattle, carpenter, said he accompanied William Hobbs
to the Globe Inn on Tuesday last. Afterwards George
Cross and prisoner came in and had a pint of beer.
They efterwards asked proseontor to t. eat them, and he
called for • pint of beer lor them. When he opened his
purse to pay for it, witness saw in it two pietas* of gold
besides silver. Witness was sitting on Hobbs's left
Lind and Cross WWI sitting on his nght, Cattle sitting
on a chair on Croat.' right. Soon after the beer was
paid for, pro-ecutor said to prisoner, "Hold, what
nusinesis hes yonr hand in my pocket." Prisoner im•
inedistely got op and went out. Has he was going out,
prosecutor said, "Hold, I want you a andante; don't
you go out of doors " Prisoner raid "Isbell be back in
• minute or tan." Prosecutor then said something to
Samuel Brown about pri,oner having taken his money,
and Brown also went out. Prisoner returned in about
two or three niinutes, and shortly afterwards Brown
also returned. Pi orecumr charged prisoner with rob-
bing him. The landlady told him he had hrtter search
himself before he went away and accost. il people of
robbing his. Prosieontor then submitt. d to be sesrched.
and witness also 10114 he woul I ish to be searched
before he left the room as he had also sat next the
poseou'or on the left. —Samuel Brown, a stone mason,
living at Harston, said he w.iis at the Globe lon no the
15th inst., with pris +nee William Hobbs and George
Cattle were also there. Witne-s was siting on a chair,
end prisoner net oil the settle between him and Hobbs.
Prosecutor treated them with a pint of beer, and took
out his puree to pay fur it, and put his money hack into
his pocket. Sometime afterwards, as prisoner was going
out of the room, prosecutor said to him, "Stop you, I
want you, you have my moue." Prisoner replied, " I'll
be back again in a minute or two." Hobbs then told
witness that Cross had taken his money, and asked
witness tog° after him. Witness went out, and on turning
the corner, he saw the prisoner coining in the direction
from Mrs. Weeks's to the Globe. Witness followed
him into the house and Hobbs said to prisoner, Tbee'st
get toy money," to which prisoner replmd, "I han't
got it, nor I han't seen it, if thee lik'st to search use
thee canst." The distance from Mrs. Weeks's house to
where witness was standing was about 15 yards. He
(witness) and prisoner were both sober. Witness knew
nothing about it till Hobbs said he bad lost the money.
—George Mueselwhite said that he waa • mason, residing
at Harston. He WIWI outside the Globe Inn on the night
in question when he heard • noise in-doors. Fie heard
George Cattle say he a:mold insist on being searched.
He went in and was requested to search George Cattle,
the prosecutor, and the prisoner. He found is. 6d. on
Cattle ouly.—P.C. Florence, stationed at Swanage, said
that from information he received on the night of the
15th inst. he went to prosecutor's house. Prosecutor
told him that he had been robbed of nearly £3. They
went out together to Harmon corner where he saw the
prisoner atanding. Prosecutor put his hand on prisoner's
shoulder and said, "This is the man who's got my
money." Witness then took hiin into custody. Prose.
outor then said that he had bad stolen from him two
sovereigns, a half-sov,reign, a florin, some silver,
and he thought some °Dopers, but Was not quite certain.
Witness told Cross he apprehended him on that charge,
and prisoner replied, "Then all that Goble has got to
do is to prove it." Witness took prisoner to the look-
up at Swamp, and went hack to Harston again. Just
after daybreak be was walking along on the top of Mrs.
Weeks's garden wall and Eyre., the sweep, warn
walking along by the aide of the wall. When they
came op to • recess in the wall, at the boundary cif Mrs.
Weeks's garden, where an old house had been pulled
down, Byers called his attention to something in the
wall. Witnees jumped off the well and saw a loose
atone; he lifted the stone up and saw two sovereigns, a
half sovereign, a florin, three shillings, and two half.
pennies. One could see the spot where the money was
found from the place where priaoner was standing when
taken into custody. It might be between sixty end
seventy yards. The early part of the evening hat been
dark, but the weather had cleared up by twelve o'clock.
—Win. Byers corroborated the evidence of the last
witnessin respect to the finding of the money.—Supt.
Boles produced a plan of the district. The Globe Inn is
situate by the side of the road leading to Harston
quarries from the Swanage and Langton turnpike road.
Mrs. Weeks's house was nearly opposite the Globe. The
place-where the money was found was fifty-four feet from
Mrs. Weeks's house, forty-six yards from the Globe,
and between sixty and seventy yards from where prisoner
was standing when taken into custody. —Mr. Trevennen
addressed the Bench at very considerable length, remark-
ing on the discrepancy on some parts of the evidence,
said that it was apse of persecutio3, and contended that
there was not sufficient evidence to go before a jury.
The magistrates, after retiring for a short time, said they
had decided to commit the prisoner. Mr. Trevennen
applied for hail, and the Bench agreed to accept the bail
of prisoner's father in the stun of kW.