The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-11-10 00:00:00

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SAIJSBURY.--Cirr PlerTT Sag=Owe, Monday.—
Before the Mayor (J. Style, Esq.), J. Hussey, W.
Fawcett, and T. W. Gilbert, Faqrs.
Charles Preseby, a seaman on board H.M.S. Asia, was
charged with stealing two gallons of beer, the property
of Mr. Figs., Three Swans 'Hotel, Salisbury. Superin-
tendent Caldow mid the prosecutor had declined to
prosecute. He believed the matter bad been coin-
promiesd—the beer and the jar having been paid for.
He (Mr. C.aldow) bad been to the Three Swans Hotel
that morning, but Mr. Five wee not within, and the
barmaid bad informed him that the prosecutor did not
Intend to proms the charge.—Tbe magistrates, under the
circumstances, directed the prisoner to be discharged.
UktawsoLLe PaWniso.—Hanry Elliott, of Nutford-
street, was charged with unlawfully pawning, on the
ttod October last, 30 unmade mate, the property o 1
Mews. Moses, of Cannon-street, London.—Mr. Hill
appeared for the defendant—Mr. Merchant said he was
manager of the working department at the prolamine,
and in the come of badness be forwuded to the de-
fendant a quantity of ready-cut garments. He bad
done so for some considerable time previous—more than
two years. They were sent him to make up, and re-
turn. On Saturday week, the work not being sent up
the previous fortnight, he same down to Salisbury to
inquire why they had not been sent. The pronscutor's
books showed that the defendant had received 96 gar-
mint,. Witness saw the prisoner, and he caked him
why be bad not sent up the work. The prisoner replied
that be would have some up on Monday. Witness in-
quired how many there were finished, and the defendant
showed him some seven or eight that were lying near.
He also said there were some upstairs in an unfinished
state. Witness took away with him four in an un-
finished state, and nine finished—making in all 13.
Witness told the defendant that there were &I on the
books yet to be "mounted for, and he wished to see the
remainder. Witness told the defendant that he had
been instructed toy his employers to see all the work
before he left. The defendant then told him that he
had some at his boniest Faherton, and witness said he
would go with him and see them. Seeing that he
hesitated, witness said to him, "You have not them in
your possession, I must know what you have done with
them. I must see it before I return." Witness asked
him what he had done with the goods, and Liter some
time the defendant told him that he had pledged them,
and he handed him over the ticket". There were 83 costs
in pledge altogether, the number he required. The
pawnbroker's tickets showed that the defendant bad
pawned 51 bandies, or 72 coats, built subsequently
transpired there were 30 pawned. He received 22
tickets from the pawnbrokers, whish were for
83 costa, the number he required. Out of the
83 mats there were 63 made op. The 51 bundles
contained 30 coati, and they were valued at 14s. each—
£2L The defendant was never authorised by him or
his employers to pawn the goods.—ln crueeexamination
by Mr. Hill. witness stated that the prosecutors paid
2s. 9d., 3s. 3d. and 3i. 6J. for the msking of the coats.
For the coati; in question the defendant would be
entitled to receive 2e. 9J. each for making up, and the
agreement was that he should pay the carriage one way.
In the letter he sent to the defendant he deducted 10s.
for back work. The defendant was some time back in
difficulties, and the prosecutors allowed the work to
stand over, and they then &wording to arrangement
Informed him that they should deduct 10e. on each
pareeL It was not deducted for the purpose of indemni-
fying the prosecutors for the whoa* of the goods they
had sent to the defendant. When the pareel were re-
mised a cheque was such down to the defendant in
payment. Witness always tried to put everything in
defendant's way instead of injuring him. The arrange-
ment between them was that the goods should . be sent
by luggage train, and if the defendant sent them by
passenger train it was at his expanse, and not the pro-
mentem The allowance forth* coats produced was out
nannially ; they had no difficulty in getting them
made at that twice. The Proineklorei when they
the defendant, °mantled to employ hint when lilt
work, but it was not likely they could do so when
tih, had not.—Mr. Sewell, pawnbroker, Nattord 4i
eald the defendant pawned handles on the 22nrdet

October The si bundles included the 30 COMA, AS
stated by the last witness. He advanced on the cloth
£l2 6s. 411.—Mr. Gilbert : Are you in the habit of
dealing sub the prisoner ?—Witne.s : Yes.—Mr. Gil.
beet: Did he certify that it woe Iris own property ?
Witness : Yrs, he said the bundle. belonged to bier. I
knew that his machines were constantly at work, and I
:oncluded that the goods he pledged belonged to hire,
otherwise I should trot have risked the sum I advanced
upon them—The witness, in crow-examination by Mn
'fill, stated that tho defendant had irledged goods fre•
quently. He usually redeemed goods for other.. Ili,
sometimes raid menu. Whenever he had a remit.
tenor he paid the interest. Ile complained that he did
not receive the money from his employers as he finished
the work. Ile was not aware that those goods were
sent down for him to teaks up. He would swear that
lie did not know such to be the one. lie had informed
him recently that he had received goods from Mourn.
Moses to be made up, and since then he had not taken
any manufactured gooda. —The Bench: You were aware
that they were to be made up !—Mr. Sewell: I thought
lie purchased the cloth, and then sold them when made
up. Soured the coats pledged were pawned before they
were made up. Witness lived opposite the defendant's
house. He had seen large package' of goods taken Into
the defendant's house, but he thought they contained
cloth that he hail purchasel—Mr. Hill: Did you
not know that they were goods sent from the
prosecutors F—Witnera : No. I did not —Mr. Hussey:
It is not convenient to know everything.—Witness
stated in answer to the Bench that he heti been &pawn-
broker for about 16 years. He was willing to give up
the whole of the goods if the Court so onle
Gilbert You must have known what you were about at
the time.—Mr. Hill, in defence, said it was impounds
for him to resist the charge manic against the defendant,
that he did not illegally pawn the goods, but there were
extenuating circumstances in the case. In order to
make up the goods the defendant had to employ from
18 to 30, both men and women, and he was compelled to
keep them constantly in his service, or otherwise they
would not work for him when he wanted them. The
allowance was so exceedingly small that there MIS
naively any profit, and if there was a delay in the
delivery of the goods, defendant did not receive his
money. He had, however, to pay those in his employ,
and out of sheer necessity the defendant had been con,
pelled to pledge the goods, and it appeared from the
evidence that the defendant had every facility for so
doing. Sr henever • remittance came he paid the money.
The prosecutor's witness had, according to the letter
produced, made it • debt, as he had stated that he 'hail
deducted 10a for goods furnished him previously. He
hoped under the circumstances that the prosecutor
would not press the matter against the defendant, as
the pawnbrokers had consented to give up the property.
He would add that the defendant had pledged almost
all his household goods in order to redeem what he sent
up in the last perceL —The Mayor said, under the cir-
cumstances, the Bench had been disposed to take the
moss lenient view, and that was to inflict • penaltt_of
Ma and expenses, or 14 days' imprisonment. The
Bench ordered that the goods should be given up to the
prosecutor.
A PAWNBROMIR FIN[D.—Mr. Sewell, pawnbroker of
Milford-street, was charged with unlawfully taking in
pawn from Henry Elliott, on the Mod October,
311 coats of the value of £2l, to which he pleaded not
guilty.—Mr. Merchant stated that good, were entrusted
to Elliott to make up and return. He went into the
defendant's shop in company with Superintendent
Caldow, and inquired for the cloth for which he pro-
duced duplicates. The defendant said he had one bundle
downstairs, and the remainder upstairs. He noticed
that the ticket stated there were 51 brindles, or 22 costs
pledged; but subsequently he discovered that there were
eight short, and these were found in the defendant's
possession. The defendant stated that the
goods being cut out were not unmade goris
ise the cutting out was the principal
in it.—Elliott being as be thought • respectable trades-
man, and his machines constantly at work, he thought
the goods were his own property. He did it to oblige
him in exchange for other goods. In consideration of
the loss he had sustained be hoped the Bench would
deal leniently with him.—The Mayor said the case was
very clearly made out —lt was a very serious case, as
the facility to get rid of the goods was a great tempta-
tion to Elliott, and consequently placed the property of
his employers in great peril. The Bench had decided
to inflict a penalty of £5 and expenses.—The Acts of
Parliament were perused, and the Bench ordered that
their former sentence should be set aside, and that the
defendant should be fined double the amount advanced,
via.: £24 12s. 941. with the costa, amounting to
£/6 Is. 9d. This tld have made the t forfeited

-.41111 WOUI- cave =am --- amount
by the defendant £47 7e. 10.—The 2 and 3 Via.,
chap. 71 wan handed to the Bench, in which it stated
that discretionary power was given the magistrates to
mitigate the penalty, and it was ultimately arranged
that the fine as at first imposed, LZ, should be inflictell.
—The defendant immediately paid the penalty, together
with costs, 1:6 135., and consented to hand over the
whole of the property pledged by Elliott to the prose-
cutors. —Mr. Smith, who had taken in pawn of Elliott
30 coats made up, also expressed his willingness to give
usi the property, and Mr. Merchant declined to press
the matter any further.
AssAULTING THE POLICE— Wm. Francis, • mliceman
in the employ of the Great Western Railway Company,
was charged with assaulting P.C. Mole, whilst in the
execution of his duty on the Saturday night previous.
The officer stated that about ten minute" before twelve
o'clock on Saturday night be was on duty in Ftsherton.
As he wan passing the Wilton Arms the landlady re-
quested him to clear the house, lie entered,and found
the tap-mom full of men. Among them was the
prisoner, who was ineitiug a brother countable to fight.
After some difficulty he got them out of the house, and
whilst he was standing in the road he received a blow
in the head. His bat was knocked off, and no his turn-
ing round he saw the prisoner, who said, "What have
sou to do with it," accompanying the expression with
an oat'. The prisoner then ran away towards the
station, and on his coming up to him he put himself In
a,fighting attitude, and threatened to assault him if he
went into the station. With the assistance of the
sergeant on duty he took the prisoner into custody.—
Sciperio tendent Caldow stated that when the prisoner was
brought to the station he was in a state of intoxication.
—Mr. May. the superintendent of the Salisbury Great
Western &Oleo Station, stated that the prisoner
ought to have been on duty at the goods station on the
night in question. He (Mr. May) was sent for on
Saturday night by Superintendent Oaldow. and be then
found the prisoner drunk. He would be discharged
from his situation, for be was already suspended. The
prisoner had been in the employ of the company for
eight yearn, and his conduct had been good up to within
the past three months. He believed that • friend from
Frome called capon the prisoner, and thus be was in-
duced to leave the station. Be had a wife and family
who would have to suffer through the prisoner's mis-
conduct—The prisoner said be was very sorry for what
he kai done, and he trusted that considering the punish-
ment he would receive from his employers that the
Bench would look over the waiter—The Mayor said as
the prisoner had expressed contrition for his offence,
they would only inflict • fine of Ills, and costs, or seven
days' imprisonment, and they were very sorry to see
him in such a petition.
()GUSTY PETTY SESSIONS, Tuesday. Balton Lord
Folkestone, (chairman,) Sir F. Bathurst, M. M. H.
Haab, Esq., M.P., and R. A. Ferritior, Esq.
ftra•Lieci • WATCH.— Edward White, • sailor, was
brought up on remand charged with stealing a giver
watch and chain of the value of FA, the property of Mr.
P. Green' innkeeper, of South Newton, on the 30th of
October last.—The prosecutor left his watch and chain
on a table in the parlour shortly after nine o'clock on
the morning of Friday last, and he left the room about
a quarter of an hour. On his return it was missing, and
be gave information to the police.—P.C. New traced
the prisoner on the road, and eventually overtook bias
near Warminster. When charged with the robbery the
prisoner admitted it, and Landed the watch and chain
to the offioer.—l'he prisoner pleaded guilty, and the
Bench sentenced him to four months' imprisonment.
STEALING VW/STABLE& William Frampton IFILS
@barged with stealing a sack, and a quantity of vege-
tables, the property of Thomas lop, on the 31st October
last—The prosecutor left • wagon, in which was • sack
containing potatoes, cabbages, &a, in the charge
of a lad named Yates, at the Stag Inn, Charlton.—
Yates went into the public-Louse, and during his
absence the rack was stolen. The prisoner left the hag
in custody of a woman named Tidford, who banded
it over to the police.—The ptisoner, having been pre-
.viously. convicted, was committed for trial at the next
January sessions, to be held at Devizes.
The treasurer of the Salisbury Infirmary acknowledge'
receipt of nem., the amount of a collection made in the
parish church of Handley, alter a thanksgiving service
for the late bountiful harvest.
„During the month of October, 510 depositors attended
at the Salisbury Penny Bank, En 34. 10d. were
deposited,and LN39s. 11d. withdrawn. Present bathos
at the Bank. £419 2s. 4d. Mr. Bingham and Mr. W.
J. Wilton are the managers for November.
ROCIDEJIT.—On Monday a serious accident occurred
to a man named Samuel Brewer, in the employ of Mr.
Horn of Allington. Brewer took • horse and cart for
the purism of fetching some berths for thatching, when
• ladder which was lying on the cart frightened the
animal, sniff it ran away. Beewer fell out, and one of
the wheels went over his left leg, severely injuring it.—
He was conveyed to the Salisbury,thanuary, where he
Is now going on favourably.
, REMOVAL Or PRIIIONIRS.—The following prisoners
sentenced to panel servitude have been removed from
the Fisherton county gaol by an order from the Home
Secretary to the prison at Milbank :—Charles Jones, 10
years, for maliciously cutting and wounding- Leonard
Prideaux and James Angell, eight years (or arson;
' George Williams, 10 yearn for hone-stesling ; George
legs, four years for sheep-stealing; and Edwin Cox,
three years for burglary.
FRIENDLY Socirrias.—The report of Mr. Tidd Pratt
for the past year, as Registrar of Friendly Societies in
England has just been issued. During the year 1869
the regents: has examined and certified the ruler of
1277 friendly societies, and also the alterations of the
rules of 1277 societies; making a total of 2554 certi-
ficates. Nineteen societies have deposited Voir rules
with the registrtr. Notices of dissolution have been
received from 137 friendly societies during the year
ending 31st December, 1861, of which number 67 sere
, advertised in the London Gazette. Not more than one
or two of the societies dissolved daring the put year had
tables prepared by an actuary, but adopted a uniform
monthly payment for all members entitled to be
admitted, in addition to which, in most of them,
after a certain age the members were entitled to •
pension, or, in other words, an annuity, to seen»
which their contributions were inadequate. Most of
them were held at public-houses, and • monthly
contribution was required to be spent in beer. Numerous
complaints have been made to the registrar of the ex-
travagant charges of the management of friendly
societies, particularly of those who have extensive
agencies over the kingdom. The number of amounts in
oaring hanks, including the friendly societies investing
direct with the oommis.toners, in the United Kingdom,
was, on 20th November, 1862, £1,558,136, and the
amount of investments, £42,592,494. The operation of
the Post Office savings' bank' commenced in tember,
1861, and the erogrea of the banks from that time, mid
especially during the past years has been highly satis-
factory, about 180,000 depositors having opened amounts
in them during the year 1881 Much use has been
made of savings' banks by friendly, provident, and
charitable societies, and by the manager, of penny
banks, as shown by the subjoined nuniher of accounts
opened with these 'bodies :—Friendly societies, 1010' •
provident mid charitable societies, 642; penny banks, 82.
A grand concert was given at the Assembly
Rooms on Wednesday even* by Mr. Aylward,

and the attendance was numerous. Maclle. Carlotta
Patti was, of course, prima douia,and she acquitted
herself admirably. She poesesoes immense oompess,
and her voice is, without doubt, of very superior
quality. She is fully entitled to the eulogiums
showered upon her by the metropolitan press, and
she is lure to obtain a host of admirer; ill the pro.
vines... Madame Fanny Haddad hu • fine oon-
tra/to voice, and Wogs with great taste. Her "Ship-
boy'. letter" was readered very effectively. Signor
Ferranti is worthy of especial mention; but Herr
Reichardt did not captivate the audience. Mr.
Vieuxtemps is a very superior violinist; but the
pieces he selected were mueh too long,
and consequently became tedious. He has marvel-
lous command of his instrument, and the music cer•
Willy was very fine indeed. M. Ascher is also •
very clever pianist, but the some fault attaches to
him as to M. Vieuxtemps in the length of the solo.
The concert, however, was • great ounces on the
whole, and the thanks of the public are due to Mr.
Aylward for the rich musical treat he afforded.