The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-06-07 00:00:00

AND AGRICULTURAL GA,

got home at 9 o'clock
How did Mr. and Ira Jewett get into Lb* home?
I had on. key and they anolltir.
You never kept them out of the bouts on any mambo?
No.
Did you ever me Circum at Mr. Jowett's
At Menet nines on Imeinme
Never on your busineml
When he eel the report about that be bad sesa me with •
soldier, Mr.. Jowett had him up to my lace. Be wanted me to
go home with him (Circum)
Did be my be waked to see you in ?
at eight o clock, but I would not.
I Yee, and I said It was bet ti tia. They all wished toe to
summon hint
But you didn't?
My pareots did oat with it.
You dewed all the reports about you?
Yea
Did you go toss. Dr. AldridsLii
No ; oft eley when he me ng Yrs. Jowet4 be wonted
to toe me, but I said " no
You thought that was craning • linle too Ow?
Yea
Ham you ever had visitors at Mr. Joinat's bouts of • Sunday,
or on aa evening, when he and hi wife ham been out!
No.
Norm?
Only my own friends.
Who do you mesa?
My mother, name sad brothers.
Do you recollect larlog on a particular Sunday somebody
who was not • Motion I
No.
Specially lad outetner, on a Sunday morning, during church
nen. bed you a young man hove?
No.
Did you me Dr. Akiridge drive peat of • Sunday morning?
I have done no when I have been opts/re
At melt • time have you had • man on the premises, who
afterwards came in?
No.
Now Dr. Aldridge to bare, and I am going to all him
preably : do you continue to ewe.' that last summer nobody
tame there on a Sunday morning when Mt and Mrs. 'meat
were away
Only my brother cams one Sunday morning.
Row old is be!
Seventeen.
Whin is he?
A shoplifted.
How was be dreamed?
In dark clothes.
Did be go any before Ir. and Mr.. Jowett came beck?
Yee.
When you were at home for a fortnight's holiday your
mother spoke to you about your condition.
Yee she asked me iii was in the fannly.way, and I mid
DO.
Did she do anything more than ask you?
No.
Did she only mak ogee ?
Several limes every day.
And you aiways denied it?
Yes.
Wes that what Mr. Janet referred to when he mid if you
00.11. you would tell more?
I don't know.
What did your mother my shout your state?
She said If it was enything eta but being in the family -way
she would not mind doing anything form. ; but if It wee that
she would do viableg.
And you still denied it?
Yes.
When Mr. Jovial erne openers and asked you whether it was
true what your neether mid, did he tell you whet she mid?
No.
You toil his be knew, and be mid " Bow about the roporte
September ;/ ems that all/
Yes.
At Milord be asked your father what the daughter bad been
myre.
YOL
Did your father chorp him with being the father of tee
child.
No.
You were confined at the eniou ?
Yee, I went there a fortnight before.
What did you do?
Pick oakum with other yams.
I enppo.e they talked about your amanita, and wanted to
know the father!
Yes; and I TOLD mar, JEREMIAH JOWICTT. (ml. was
mid with • cremendo Waning to Very loud.
You talked about Its good deal didn't you?
Ym.
Did you talk about anybody nee ?
Ne.
Not about soldiers.
No.
' Ind you say when it wee Mr. Joint' thd all this mischief ?
Me.
191•1 did yoe tell there !
I don't remember.
Dtd you ay anything about who year edeteeei was at Wey-
mouth a month?
Yee
Did you tell them Mr. Joint& and you slept together the
whole Una/
NO.
I have one of the women bore?
So you may hove.
Are you sure you didn't my so?
Yee I never slept him.
Did you my you did!
Where did this take place?
Sometimes In the kitchen, where he ought not to have been,
and sometimes on the sole
Did you my earthing about your mimeos getting up .row
because of your being with nether.,
I told them at the Union thit the didn't approve of me walk.
log with ono soldier, mid we Ind words about it
Didn't you my you had been with more than one soldier?

you oli.ealt about nithars gweterally

Did you my anything about being with soldien and your
mother beteg called In to Mak. IMO) with Km Joint& about it?
That was the time mother Inns mot for.
DA you ow anything about soldiers walking up there on a
Sunday to welt for you?
No.

`i-ou. know women named Payne and Stroud'

*ISM they present when this talk took place?
Sometimes.
I under Mend you to my distinctly that you were °ever on
Poundbury with 507 of the soldiers ; that you ismer walked
up the path.long.ld. the railway to the Brliport rend; that
you never mid soldiers walked up to Mr.Jorrett's bones to waft
for you ; and that nobody except your Mother cams to the
home last summer on a Sunday to see you?
I do my It.
This closed the cromexasulattion.
Re-examlned by Mr. Lock : Cl-cue, to the engine driver at
the waterworks. On the report he set about in rurpersolusr.
Mr. Joweit Inquired Into It. and was quite mtisSed with my
conduct. When Mr. !omit in antiwar to my telling him he
knew all about my being in the tandiewsy enbi, " How about
the reports in September." I mid "That's all tilts" Thomas
Tipper was the only wither I ever walked with, end I loft him
In Itheary, 18ele. Fran that Ume to the present I ham never
walked with a soldier or kept cornminy with soy other man.
Elisabeth Srymer, mother of the complainant, was called to
give corroborative evidence. She recollected her daughter
coming home in March, and knew them was something the
nutter with her but could not tall what. After the had re
tumid to Mrs. Josirett's she felt uneasy ahout her, and on the
Nth March went Uwe to me her daughter and to ask Mrs.
Jowett about her.

Mr. Lnek What took place?
Ms Symonds : Warn Mt Jowett tiro?
Mitoses : No.
Mr. Lock: lbcooesqueoce of vrbst Kn. Jowett sold what
did you du 1 . _

wont oto the parlour with Nrs. Jowott.
lir Symonds: Was Mr. Jowett Man?
N o.

1;.. Look : Did Mr. Jewett come In while you were 1b.,,?
You Mrs. Joint* told Mtn that Mares statist bad come as
she thought Mary was In the hunliy way. I didn't tmdaratatid
what be answered, but I ow As looked airy guilts
Mr. Coombe : C 0.,., that Is a little too wide what do you
W5O?

in...: He didn't know what to say—he went sod sat down
and "awned" (drol/n:) the dur—Oougbleri. Um JoweM
mid hadn't we better send her away at one 1 and be mid, " I
think ito." Mrs. Jontt wentj.Femin to Mb Mir about it
Mr. Jowstt remained In the our. ...ito lb. kiwi...
When 111 m. Jowett returned began to poll her behind to
cry. She mint into Use parlour end] foliond. Hier sister mid
to her "Hock, dam I Its not true." Mr. Jewett went amnia.
Mr. COOGIbli: Her evidence amounts to tble—we ewe in the
parlour, Ills. Jotted went upitalm, came down and Wed, MIS
Dickinson mid "Hod., dear, It's not true,' and Mr. Jowett
went away.
Mr. Look •. What pawed ?
Minim : I don't bow what pna.4 between lir. Jewett and
Mary upetalre, Mr.. Jowett told bar to gather up Mr things
and go. Al we left Mr. Jowett caw into the WM/a: I said
nothlng to him.
Mr. Lock : He ditrnt deny the internity 1
Mr. Combs : Did be Need if
Witness.: No.
Mr. Ooombe: It's no oar to ask if he didn't deny It he may
have treated the charge with contempt, sad not Mocerht it
Demmery to deny it
Ur. Lock: That's • sower of opinion.
Mr. limands : No, It.. newer of to..
Yr. Lock: When did you next ses Kr. lomat ?
Whew: On the following Wedneiday when b• cease m
our
house to an my husband what Mary bed to my for bona
He told Mr. Jost* be know nelbing of it, Mat ma hem known
to themselves. Mary mid to bun "You know it wee you.,"
and he made no answer but" U you can WI on Ile you can
more." I told him hie countonanosoa Me previous Saturday
night showed me he was. guilty MIL He replied "You know
the reports int September." My husband said to him" Would
you make m• believe that • young woman would look. man
in the Wes and my that if he Insect guilty ?"--Oanghter).
don't resnemker every little word Mat wee add, huh. made
goner " I Mall AID. Meet ma what ray band am do for bor." I don't mind anything more pawed,
ghe waa cromesainined by Mr. Symonds,
Mr. Symonds: Did be my wilds( about tasking you
Inner for the scandal your daughter hi a est about his.
No.
Ind he ay that lb, child wee his?
He didn't disown it. The oak! tither' IWO ver7
.flaughter.)
Oh, does it I
Yee, very well, indeed -flaunter) you can me its father's
Mums very wall—(oontinued laughter.)
T 0,.:. a bdter Judie of gnaws. perhaps thee I am.
Lae limo' • board I —(roart or laugishsr.)
Not yet.
It me surgested the appliatot 'WWI have produced an
sularged photograph el um bib).
Then me wet asked about the rep-rte in September, mid ahe
mid dry were stories got up by that " aegimedriver fallow
and disu her owning In to nuke place IMO when her desightir
wind twice with a soldier 18 months ago. She bad had a very
bad c Id, sad toil her *Moe for moral weeks. She inns
denied being in the fuetlyorar, and winos took no man
Wily hem& about It. Hoc daughter won boom at the dme
and when the saw her at Mn. Jowett's without them she mulct
WI what was the matter. Did not tell Mr. Jowett Maty arid
It wet him, but told Ulm Dickineto to. Had eight e
hlidavm
Mewl!. Two son, one a boy of 17. He wee not In the habit
of coating in to me his dater no goods" for he always had
work to do.

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I- Mr. Lock sir be bad no other riders to &wt.
Mr. Symoed. • Is thin any coo for me to answer?
Mr. la : 'Thins no rano— Ur& no earroborsilms,
The Cna ran : There's no corroborate whalever ; If that
is the whole of your foe it must be darn&
The case wao rural accordingly.
Me undentand that In an ordinary arhation cam, whore it
appered,oit the appikation for a stornorkthr them war Woh
, a want of corrohoratice as In this Metros it writ poi be
ranted ; but as the conduct of the borough mirror re
ailed to question, it was thought beet this tirolorge should
be publicly inquired iota The position of the dilallMat oar aim be our IkpOlogy for reporting theme, at such tooth.
Al Mr. Jowett aft the court he use frontward on the
result by to. MN*, and kis tab error ami Ord Wm
SOT to Pro ran Koos • Otr—A ruddy yottb
neon Orson Cox was summoned for en amault oft
Matilda
Burt, • girl of 17, Sang win her rho mad mother at Higher
Skipper, in the parish of Bradford. Mr. Wawa promoted.
It seemed that oo ths afternoon of May 30, the oO.ghusol
bed to go to Glantstofte mUI Scream. Sour. The mill about lt air from her home, and the try lies romp esnral MI& A. she raid through "Twelve Aro " she sew Or working
then about BO yards from the e.ah. On observing her he left
what be was about and psesed into the adjolniog field "Tea
dem, 'to see, Mr. Meltoneageseted, that nobody was about,
flnding the neighbourhood elesi he returned and aune up to
the comnplanant near the pie esparto the SOW He rid
" Bono, Tilly," took her by the are, and threw her back Into
the taro. She said "you hod bettor lean me roue, 1 shalt tell
Saber" rood to pt from hint, and pursued her way. He
aturht bold of her oar , she tried to NMI* and return home
but be revolted her. He held her round the arms, pro{
her up the Mr, and tried to poll up her clothes. Now
haring • hood at liberty she turned round, rood to open
the g., sod roped, naming away sr fart as ebe could
towards Orintros lOU. Hs did not follow her. On return-
ing home die told her what hod happened, and
also her mother. She hid never Orr Cox any
moot to take liberties with herr(' neverwaled=blina Doisidest : 1 nem touched bar an,y loon Shoo lus dais:
I sow. Is • "wilor AA& got par mrs, 'ow we've goo
cols they mei sot do ISA aboosic.'
'women, and you Ilidatilltibrib.
go 11"4"4".• hard kabourriv"—fft°—"ualoseng:
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