The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-01-02 00:00:00

FELOAT SERV ICE.% IN 1,76.

ASSAULTING THIC PGLICE

A GOOD "HAUL"—gI2 FOR NINE PENCE
A few days since, as a man named Perron, of this
town, was pursuing his avocation as greengrocer,
dealer in oddities, &v., he was asked by a servant in
the employ of Major Bogle, c.c., to buy a little "old
metal,' which the vendor said had been given him by
his employer, who had discovered:the same a few days
, previously whilst turning out the contents of a
I package, apparently, it had not been opened for a long
number of years. The "old metal," it appears, was
composed of a number of forks and large desert spoons,
and altogether weighed several pounds. A bargain
was struck by the dealer consenting to give tkl. for the
" old metal," and nothing further appeared to have
been thought of the purchase until some days after-
wards, when the itinerant presented the metal at the
warehouse of a wholesale dealer, to whom he consigned
the same for the sum of is :M. With keen eye, the
wholesale man reviewed his purchase; the spoons and
forks were black and " verdegreasy enough, there NMI
no mistake; but ah ! there was a something which
was curious about them." Not farfrom his shop there
VMS a jeweller, and he determined to get "his friend's"
opinion on the "old metal." His gratification may be
imagined. With a little rubbing the " old black spoons
and forks- turned out to be composed fine siker, and
the jeweller offered £l2 for the lot. But the tender
conscience f the dealer bade him reflect ; after all, his
expected "profits" might be wrenched from him rather
unceremoniously if the "old metal" had not been
obtained honestly and he hastened to set himself
right on that particular. lie had no difficulty in
tracing its original owner,and he repaired to Sheri. mite-
house, where to his "exceeding joy" he discovered that
the "old metal" had indeed been given to the semint.
Elated at his good fortune he " blew" upon himself,
but the servant learnt bow he had been " sib!" as well
as the "metal," Of course., he was dissatisfied with
his share of the bargain 9d., and afterwards went to
the wholesale dealer's chores and demandel 4:1; the
entail dealer hearitr• farther of the matter, al., put iii
his claim for a similar an t. Hrul the " hie MAU
complied vrith theseproposals,the matter would probably
never had I,een male pnblie; intt he positively declined
to out-ode another shilling on the purchaser. —The
matter is now in the hands of the police, and we
shall probably hear more of it

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At the Police-court on Friday last Charles Coward.
dealer, and James Newt, a blacksmith, two young men of
Ilasolley, were brought up in custody, before Mr. J. C.
Parke atool the Her. C. J. Glyn, charged with assaulting
P.C. Hann whilst in the execution of his duty, at Handley,
on Chriattnas Day. and Keats was further charged with
attempting to rescue l'owarol Iron; custody, and with
me:subtle, Henry Hann, son of the constable. —Mr. F. 11.
Tanner, of Wellborn°. prosecuted ; Mr. H. T. Trevanion.
of Poole, defensled.—P.ll. Hann sail he wan stotionesl at
Handley. Ile was on duty in the village about oioarter-
past In the evening of Christmas day, and saw some
men standing outside the /Loeb. • ' 7 Lll.l -sir-ifl. them
sail," fats e• bowls and give hi, ." Ile went home
and watcho, • .., who come and sang meter his win-
low, :stool after Joey had done they ran slosvn the street
Coward was coming down the road from the Roebuck,
and there were two men a little way down the street As
C Wrant paSSed he threw 3 stone at his doom SIDI ran away.
He ran after him and caught him uor 31.1 yards below his
house. HO asked hint his name, which he refused to give,
and he told him if he did not give it he should take him
to the station. Coward then saisl, "It was not me who
threw the stone, it was young Goddard, who is gone
round the house." When he had taken Coward a few
yards towards his house he struck elm at the side of the
head with his fist, and knocked his helmet off, and nearly
knocked him down. Coward wrenched himself away and
ran 3 few yards, and he caught him by the coat, and after
001, "Give Inca struggle
.got him into the house. When in the house
Coward st
your lark, and I will put my
name down." Ile replied, "Give Inc your name, and I
r
will put it down myself." CinVIUNI then gave his name
snol mid, "How could you see who it was threw the
stone ,on 'etch a olark night as this? lie ranked. "1 fesw
yoou do it." Whilst he was tussling with Coward and try-
ing to put the hanolloolts on, he pu I against the door,
/
which was not locked, and tried get out. Keats and
others ',meted the door open f the outside, and he
shut the door again and locked it lie was tussling with
Coward for twenty minutes or half-an-hour, lout did not
draw his staff. He heard Keats say, "We'll have him
oout," and then the door was burled open and the lock
forced off, and the first man he recognised was
Keats. His wife, who was in the room, ran to the
sleer and dared the men to come; in, and tries! to shot
the door, Iles son Henry then went to the door and tried
to shut it, end the 'eels outside "taught him by the leg
and half milled hint out Someoteaid, " Pell him out,
We'll murder him," and this Wan e ` ea out over le times.
After a time his son got hi, leg flee, and the men then
ftired him by the hand. His tri called out, "Father,
' thee are breaking my artst and I. ting my thumb." He
still kept h-ill oof Coward and trite to liberate his son, but
, rod,' not. His son called out, "l you let my thumb go
the man shall he let out," and the men then released his
soo. They shut the do or awl his son kept it Coward
became oo osier, and he afterwardsi left him in the house
, with his son, and went sett of the hack door to the front,
' where he saw K- its owl oothers. , Keats refused to give
his nettle, ied someone +AO it w's Keats. The daring.
done m the house ono( his s-on's trolowsers amounted t.. :Is.
He atoPlirldo or a warrant :0141 anprohended Keata—Crosse
examined he Mr.-To ion--n: 0%. oard's coat was broken
' to pieces. hut it wood I nod have I on if he had riven his
scan'. lie del net know wl:cthaf the remark "Let's give
him one" ',wont a Christmas evall Thee slid commence
singino a Christnias sterol at his biuse, Ile would swear
it was not a stearlsill that wn.o thrown, as it left a mark
on the doer. Ile footed the stone produced (a small flint)
in the room afterwards, and shoorel it to Coward, who
sa, t after taking it in his howl, "That'- not the stone I
I threw." The eight was Is 1:1,1,111-041it one, and he has' the
door ajar and PAW (award tlor sr the stone. There was no
mark in his head where c oward struck lkiiii.—ln re-
examination witness said C warol told him MI the road
from Ilanoller t•s Voorwool that it was a foolish jotl to
have him to Wimborne tor, as it was only a lark, he took
up a stone anol shirt at the obsar jo olr w ive the singers assay
, and they all rams down the hilt ;Cowael afterwards told
, Ides it Was a vnowball he threw at someone's he/el.—Henry
I Ilann, son ef the constaiole, said he cone home on the
, evening of Christmas Day, aliont half-past 111 O'ClOrk, and t
(.01,1 Lis father and C.oward it the house. Ills father
elsorgri Coins/el with throwing stone at the door and
ossaultieg him, which ( % ward denied doing. • ',sward was
, quiet then, lon afterwards he tirsled with WS father for
al,oot M minutes. The door wed locked, end some moon
outside lourstrl it open, anol he saw Keats and several
others. Keats aaid he should come in and liberate
remold a, he was 11.4 the man who threw the stone. The
Iwk of the oloor fell on the floor As he was trying t.i
kmos the men from ensuing in Keats anol two other,
caught hold of him by the leg *ii! tried to drag hiss ,ont.
, The leg of his teotssons wan pu4lleil otf below the knee.
Someone said, "Drag the -- out, and murder him?
Ile got free after a thne, and t n someone toll hold, of
his anus and bit his thumb. he mark left was but a
1 small one.) lie could not -ay Who it was bit his thumb,
Ile said he would open the 010 or-and let the prisoner co if
'1 they released hi s arts, and they did so. The tussling
, went on tow lu minutes or half-Mehour, hut he abl slot see
! his father strike anyone. Ile should think there were
men outside, and his mother helpeol hint to keep the shoot.
alossel, and rriol " Murder '.' several times.—Harriet
Hann, wife of the polieentan, said her husband came home
about PI on the evening of the *Rh of December. Whilst
her bust ssnol was at the front door some men eame and
soma under the window, anol then ran away. She lto.-ard
the sonnet of a seine against tte door, and her husband
opened it and ran out directly. She looked down the
street and saw her husband brim.: C. ward back, and when
, they got :tear the door Cowart' stnsck her husband by
the siole of the bead with his list and knocked' his helmet
off, There WAS a tussle, and thot man got away, lout her
husband caught him again aeol brought him into the
house. Coward was, very violate, anotwoulol not give his
uatne. There were a great many gathered rowel the
door. Her son Mille ilk )W4 afterwards Coward tried to
make his escape, and got to the front door, ouel she locked
it. Th.' door was Imaged openodireetly. and the lock fell
off. She went to the door and saw Keats standing close
by. She stared the seen to route into the house, and they
said they should collie in and sow fair-play, as a
policeman Woul,l sWenr siting. Her son Mina to
try anol close the olooor, awl on of the men caught hold
of his lee, osn.l said "Drag the silt, we'll kill him."
They broke her SOU'S trouserk, and after he red Isis leg
away tbey caught hold of Ills arm and Mealool It between
the " durn" and the door. Her sots celled to his father
for help, .3.4 they were lofting his tl b. Ho got free at
btst.----Ilr. Trevaniou addressed the Ifweelt for the .lekmr;
31,4 interpretol the remark "Let's gee him one" as
terming that they would give the policeman a caret, lie
admitted that a stone we.. thrown at the policeman's olosr
for the fun of seeing the sits:ere run away, hilt it was
acthing more than a prowtield joke, and had it not been
for the esolicentais's holiscretion in arresting a man for
such a triviod offence they moull have heard nothing of
the present cases. II" should prove that the policeman
was not strnek at all, and tinder all the cireuntstances he
should ask the iteneh to indict hut a mese penalty. --
Henry Pitman, shepherd to: Mr. Hillolsord, if Ilazelley,
£ll4l as he %CV, V.Oillg lilac
on I loristmas nighthe heard a
comajoany of singers at the policemen's hootsc. They sing
f..r a fear 11l ill utes, an•l then all ran away wills the excep-
tion of Charles Coward, George Blanchard, and himself.
The constable came out and took Loki of. Coward and
demanded his name, and told him he had seen hint throw
S stone at LiA door. Coward did not ewe his name. bat
nottplained that the polliceutoen had broken his coat. The
podteensan then took him into the house. Thuy ware only
about ten yards from the policeman's door, and no blow
was struck. Coward did tot knock the policeman's
helmet off : he did not know whether the conetahle was
w..r:e., his helmet is food. A gowl many cause lack, and
0.011.5 went up ti.. th, door adol ,ajd "Let ei.../...—eh..
'ln a Antall, OA ill a dos umeet signed by several fanners
of Ibutolley. Wilr: gave K' at( an et:calm-A ch:.racter, and
sahl los hal maintained h • wi.lowtsl mother for some
ymws. I Owarol wa .31 ~ s al too m foe a young an of good
• --.......„—Th0 Remit o e5,..1.05l the casea very gross
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for trod drawint his staff uno er smolt trying circumstances.,
and expressed an opinion thuit he might Is. be allowed a
gratuity lw the court of i;otarter Sessions. Thwr also
epode, in terais of stnong disupprohation If the un-English
conduct of these persons o hoo were utside Doe house
and heard the cries of 'Monster t" and yet did not
interfere.

The hfelnetta of the National Lifetoast Institution
Turing the •torufe of the ymir which has just closed
rendered signal WrVieru in saving life free shipwreck
on various parts of the Colliti of the United Kingdom.
lithe hot of lives saved we find tile ketch William Pitt, of
Poole, I life saved. The long list shows a total of 4101 lives
rescued by the Society's lifeboats during the year, in
addition to to vessels saved from destruction. In the
'erne period the Lifeboat Institution granted rewards for

they

sluing 85 lives by fishing and other boats, making a total 0112111 *BIAS. RINKING.
of 54 lives saved lent year, mainly through its ingtrU• LOYAL "Knees' Lome Armen ORDER OE OLD A London corresTion,lent writien :—I heard of a
mentality. It should he also stated that the launches of FILIVIDS. —The annual supper took place at the IG.sl Lion
the lifeboat., unattended with positive results, have, as inn, on Friday evening. The chair Wan occupied by Mr. curious rinking experience, which in amusing in itself,
in previous years, been during the year very frequent.• J. Northovre, jun. About 25 sat down to a capital spread and also IlluNtratee.how mixed the company sometimes
But on such occasions there is no time for hesitation, and provi•led by Host Menem The usual toasts were given is at these establishments. Two handsome and well.
thg lifeboat proceeds out at once to offer help, which, an and responded to. It seems the society is in a prosperous conducted girls had been noticed for several days to
it, often happens, the vessel in distress may not, from state. :Some good songs were sung, and a very pleasant frequent • West-end rink, and their skating was the
various subsequent causes, ultimately need. Altogether, evening was spent • envy of their sex and the admiration of all One
since its formation the Society has ootitribute•l to the gentleman, a oolonel in a cavalry regiment, rout
saving of 21',372 shipwreeke•l pervious, for which cornices BHERBORNE them mine little service, soil tried to ascertain who
it has granted IMI gold and %liver medals, besides Accithern.—Ast a horse and trap belonging to Mr.
. peenniary rewards to the amount of L 50,020. The , Enos Dennis, landlord of the Greyhound Inn, were they were but failed. I so happened that on a future
day one of the ladies was slightly injured by another
1 character of these noble lifeboat services has varied i
proosmlinf„, ,lown West bur you Frhlay act the animal
much, some having been performed during the darkness skater less expert than herself, and again the gallant
of the night, others in the daytime: but nearly all have stumbled and fell, breaking its knees, and doinF much
colonel offered his services, and trie•l to ascertain the
been rendered during stormy weather, which would have damage to the vehicle. I' he horse, it is stud, was fair one's name, lie' somehow succeeded, and abse
prevented any ordinary open boat from accomplishing suffering from weakness. 1 discovered that though the two ladies were not eisters
the resew. Again, it is meet gratifying and encouraging
to know that. nothwithstanding the peril and exposure - - - they lived together at a great house in 'lnc d the
incurred hy the gallant crews last years, only one life WRS Went-end squares, Ile suppesed them to be members
lost frnm the Ze lifeboats of the Society, although about of the family. Judge his surprise on discovering they
12.000 men were out in them on all occasions during the were two housemaids.
twelve months. We feel assured that an institution so
truly national and benevolent in its character will main-
tain its firm hold on British sympathy and support, and
that while it continues to pursue its course of usefulness
and unabated vigour, the support and appreciation of the
public will be proportionately liberal We will only add
that contributions in aid of the neat and important
work of the National Lifeboat Institution are received by
all the bankers throughout the United Kingdom' and by
the Secretary, at the institution, It, John-street, Adelphi.
London.
WIXBORNB.
POLICE, Tuesday—Before Mr. Parke.
Edera,l M,rean, a lusty vagrant, was charged with
wilt idly making a false statement, for the purpose of
obtaining relief as a casual pauper at Winthrirne on the
previous evenine. Its had been twice previously con-
victed as an idle and disorderly person.—The prisoner
pleaded guilty.—The Deputy Chief Constable said he was
sentenced to one month's hard labour for begging on the
fih November 17,75, and on the 27th of August last he hail
. another month's hard labour for makings false statement
—Mr. Pirke now convicted the prisoner as a rogue and
vagaliond, and sentenced him to three calendar mouth's
• 1 hard labour.

untrarow TO QTIFINSLAND.—The new iron Clyde-
built ship, the "Zamora," sailed from Queenstown on the
21st instant, bound for Brisbane, Queenslsnd, having on
board the following number of emigrants, under the charge
of Dr. Hill Wray: 149 single men, 75 single women, 173
married people, 27 children between the ages of 12 and 1,
and 7 infanta, making a tate! of 324 souls, equal to 30.61
adults. The single women are all under the care of the
matron, Mrs. Curry, this being her fifth voyage.
CURE OF 10 YEtIL, ASTHMA (THIS WEEK) DR. ',MOCK 'S
PULKONIC WAFERS—Mr. Welch, Bookseller, Camelford,
writes :—" Mr. Burnard, St Juliott, Cornwall, for ten
years suffered very much from Asthma, and after trying
many medical men and medicines, was induced to take
Dst. LOCOCK'S WRFRRS, and the result has been mar-
vellous: nothing he has ever tried has done him the tithe
part good these Wafers have." They instantly relieve
Asthma, Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Rheumatism, and
all nervous pains, and taste pleasantly. Sold by all
druggists at is. 41., 2s. IkL, 4s. Pd., and lls. per box.
A CONTRAST. —lt was this week announced that "•
ship has recently arrived into the London Docks from
Bassein with two severe cases of scurvy. The Board of
Trade have directed their medical adviser to hold an in-
quiry as to the cause of the outbreak." This affords
rather a strong contrast to the course pursued by the
Admiralty, who, on the arrival recently at Portsmouth of
two ships of the royal navy in which nearly every man,
except the officers, had been crippled with scurvy, and
two had died, immediately proceeded to promote the
officers without further inquiry; and when, a fortnight
afterwards, they asked the head of their Medical Depart-
ment furs report, tssok especial ran, I.Mt to publish it, and
have since persistently refused to produco it—British
Medical Journal,.