The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-08-29 00:00:00

THE CHARGE AGAINST • PRUSSIAN.

The Prussian sailor. John ScAoeby. was charged on
remand with stealing lb. from the till at the Ponsonhy
Arras, Hamworthy. the peoperty of Job Flab. on the
previous Tuesday week.—Mr. Tremution bad no further

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with assaulting David Mitchell and inflictisig°W
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prosecutors evidence it appeared then both h rots
prisoner were in the employ of Mr. Dugdale at Itert,l4kl house as labourers. On Saturday they were in th together digging, and prosecutor interfered with enr,',--„,._▪ •• because he came back late from dinner. and
fault with his digging. Some words parsed
swore at prosecutor, and struck , end
knocked him backwards. Prosecutor worked leer:l;Z
hour afterwards, and then they all left off when a
risme on. He found himself ' very curious,-
evening was very ill, and went to Dr. P rind hilpits siii the
-
roorning.-In eroseexamination by Mr. Tr, onevani's•nwers_
defended, prosecubx admitted that he went to • wri me Monday to see his daughter, and walkol
"be Hamworthy and Weymouth stations
mann, head gardener at Sterte, said he rg,%,-„T prosecutor an improvement that might be ati:,n4• 7
digging by throwing back a spit to till up a honO "4 he got enraged, and found fault with prisoner' tad
and twitted him about nut keeping his tiels‘dOro.ag
five yards distant, and heard no by,
as
remained on the ground about a minute o
oto
an hour and a half al terwnqls, till the sto "r -
/hoes
and did more work than usual in the u"
Bench: Prosecutor did not complain to him o',;--st-T the
r St his
sufferii
hold liiivaelf
P6lb.eebrueinknniesrd"uhndTedewirinirlue.hilliidssdunPtrpime7 U‘ted his oily with Pk' I"llrXei:Ttervanh.hriie 4Ohnlinifede. 'lnaSh44:.huhuL, Trevanion : The pain might have been Mende nsi'd
well in about a
Bench: The rib was not broken. There "4,4-7- HY the
appeared to have sustained a good rhakins„, ule'„,,l°', _l4
have felt the effects of the blow at the time.
not think the case one to be sent to the 1,1
and Mr.Trevanion pleaded guilty toaontio,:"„„r,.....ter "nt,
mitted under great provocation, and e coin
or
He
inressed Me sinews
goep:f:aniiirreharle(l.l:l4l:4:.:fl by osefsiat.::drilLreanannyidayi minutes,
regret of his client for what he hail done
imposed a tine of £4, including costs, or
labour.-Prisoner paid /A and was allowed-
pay the remainder. • fwilught te
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Patrick Lawn, a prisoner in the Itiroo
veten..h , , brought up on remand charged with wes
Mr. G. M. Whitehall, whilst 111 the exiscist7",,Yor•Ouinor
and inflicting grevious bodily barns, on the - toss.""trt, *
-Mr. Whitehall renented his former erifibth ---
Smyth coming to the gaol, and said priwo ",ce at to hr.
the mouth and cut his, lower lip aim 7.11,k him ig
troth, and the blood sported out on the hi
also struck him by the side of the head, and raiaa-
as large as an egg, and then closed with him
and ty,j get his head under hie arm. Prisoner kicked at lu.n to
times, but only struck him twice-on, in the sisdower"'" anti once in the knee. The prisoner ha,' heary nsif,;l
boots OD at the time. While his wife was between thew
prisoner struck at him over her live tine,. ios
the police and pristoner V/119 put in le; Mal+ oulhandeulled
and placed in the dark cell. About seven ~'dock the...me
evening prisoner &booed him and said he was not goo; to
treat him like an old woman and it his Sli.4u, hadn'teoine
he should have hung on to him.-Prisoner sohjecte,l the
governor to a long and searching crors.exasisinspon ths
matters mentioned in his defence below. Mr. Whashall
produced two small potatoes, and said the deficiency in the
weight of prisoner's potatoes for the day of the assault was
caused by their falling out of the scale. Ile denied onking
prisoner with • key, or aggravating him litany way-Di.
Hatton Smyth also repeated his former evidence, and said
he first saw prisoner kicking Mr. Whitehall in the wheel.
yard,and, turned back to give the alarm. It'hen he returned
he saw prisoner striking the governor about the head and
face at the foot of the stairs. Mrs. Whitehall went
between them, and prisoner desisted. lie fetched
constable, and on his returning to the prison he inspected
the potatoes, the prisoner remarking that he had no fault
to end with the quality, but he thought they were rather
sinalL Prisoner showed hint • blow on his forehead,
running upwards and outwards from the right eyebrow,
and said it was caused by the governor striking him with
a key. Before leaving he examined Mr. Whitehall, and
found several bruises about his forehead, a very severe otes
behind the left ear, two of the upper teeth loose, and the
lower lip cut and very much swollen. There was also
severe bruises on the other parts of his body, and the lower
part of his abdomen.-By the Bench: The blow on
prieoner's forehead had a linear outline, but he could not
say whether it was caused by a key or how it was caused.
-Prisoner made a long statement to defence, and said he
hail had suspicious during the last two months that Mr.
Whitehall was serving him with a deficiency of diet, bet
he did not wish to make any complaints to the magistrate'
or doctor for fear of being considered a dissatisfied and
troublesome fellow in the prison. In order, however. to
give the governor to understand that he was aware of his
allowance he had his bread weighed about five weeks age.
The bread was not deficient, neither did he suspect it to
be, his motive in having it weighed being to caution the
governor against serving him with anything deficient. on
the day of the assault as he cause from exercise to dinner
he found the two tins produced, with soup in one, and
potatoes and bread in the other, in the passage outside his
cell door. Ile took them into his cell, and as the potatoes
were low iu the tin he rang for the governor and had them
weighed. The governor first weighed them in the tin, and
then without, and found them short of a pound. Prisoner
:nte'tneifie'berUla:secn.down. He
produced the potatoes he was served with on the day of
the assault and every day since to show there was no
necessity to serve him with small potatoes and that it was
done by the governor to aggravate him. On the day of the
assault the pound consisted of l potatoes, 17 of which
prisoner now produced, and said he had eaten the othw
three. For the days since the pounda consisted of
5,6, 5,6, and 11 potatoes respectively. Another thing
prisoner charged the governor with was extracting, the
ingredients from the soup, which was served very thin.
Prisoner said he rod no stranger in such place., and when
he found the potatoes were deficient he knew perfectly
well what todo, and asked the governor to allow him to
write to the magistrates before the potatoes were cold. hut
be ref used to let him do so till lie had finished his work.
The prisoner further charged the governor with laying
various traps to get him into trouble, by serving hits with
a disfigured book, ge. Prisoner admitted the mouth, but
said he was first struck in the hack and on the forehead
by the governor with a key, nnd was also kicked several
times iu the shins.. When he had struck the governor in
the mouth he suspected it would come to a trial, and from
what he had seen of the deceptions of the governor he
thought he would Ise sure to say he kicked him whether he
did or not, so he kicked hisu and "clouted" him a bit to
enable him to tell the truth.-The Bench conunittssl the
prisoner for trial at the next Quarter Sessions.
The Court adjourned at this stage and re-assembled at
half past three o'clock.