The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-10-23 00:00:00

THS DEATH OF TEI MAGISTRATES'
CLERK.

At the Petty Sessions, on Friday, before Kajor-General
Peel tot-Line, Captain CI sr.-Homely, Lord Bust 10.
Cecil, and Kr. B. H.
B 4 ore tbe Lousiness; sot to. Court oommenced, He. W. H.
Atelosons of Biandford. mid he wished to be allowed, as
the stmior member of the legal profession pro:4l6lmi in
that c curt, to expreee hie eiacere end deep marrow at the
laformetion he bad received of the death et their vetoed
and exmlwat magistrate. clerk, Kr. Thomas Rawlins,
which took place suldenty that morning. lie had known
Kr. klawlin. a.. pereoual friend for 40 years, and during
that time he had never ha 11. n unkind eord from him; and
he did most deeply Ail ..ocareiy lest the greeieet regret
at his sudden demise. H. toought it wet doe to
tie dec weed gentlem in. and to those who were left
ti gay What he hal mid with the deepest feelings
of siacersty.—General Lao.: On the part of my brother
ma wietrato a. weli as wpm'', I sissy may that we feel his
low very much Inlaid, sad import sill uoder such awfully
sudden °A:caws:J.ocm —Mr. Atkisson: I can mews your
eror.hips that when I was umt with tic news at the
raliway .tot on OW. M0r61.14 it q site unnerved me.
Toe bums.. of tse court wee then proceeded with—
Hr.
.Welluagforsi (Kessrs. Radios' reaiQr clerk) miles as
Georee el.rsnall, taker'. assistant. of Poole, pleaded
gull y to delivering breed from • Cart WithOot brio;
provided with scales and weights, and wee fined Is. and
is cost
For neglect og to send childran to school. Richard
imbert, of Liagham, end John Dibbea. of Fernolown,
were machß esi si. ; eat Johan Brown, Of 808, and Henry
Kerley, of Winaborne erero cautioned.
Donnie Clench and Alfred Webb. of Lyt ;heti Metravers,
for Mowing dogs without a hoscuse, were each fined LI
and 91. code.
floury Martin, a oast ,r, of Darereston, wee charged with
being drunk whilst in charge of two bores,. and • waggon
at Cattl.44 on the 12 hot Octotmr.—He admitted that he
we. estop, but nut drunk, when the policeman found
him—As there ware two previous csa•ictione against
him for • similar Mimic, he was deed .CI ant 9s. caste.
William Stowers) .of aeon, wes summoned
for an &maul' on James klawkihs, of Klemm, on the 13th
October. —Toe evidenc I being of a c ontradictory character
U,. Bosch dismissed the CM., ordering each party to pay
their own costa
Henry B t and Elie Omit% Beet, hi, wife, were swum one
for mmulting BUS .b•th 04, at 11C,mon.—Elizabotti Bast
was hoed 5, ant oosta, and the cm* against her husbead
wee dismissed.
George Vincent, treater, of Heatheriands village, who
did no appear, wee summoned for being drunk and riotous
on the 3s d Outober. —D of endent haying been several time.
previou-ly convicted, wee now Said Cl and °outs, in
default a moot is hard lahonr.
Charles Coward, of 8 xpenny Hanilsy. pleaded guilty
to pawning 0.. General Pitt Kiva land •t Headley-own-
mon on Sunday, the 1411 October, and was tined 5.. and
13r. costa.
William Hall, labourer, of L,Ochett Hat-avers, wee
esigoogod with hevins, on the 14th root, broken and
entered the dwelilombouse of K lain Acre,' Groves, of
that. ewer Loop Farm. L tchett Hatravere—Fhe oedema
was to tie effect that Kra Groves on 85iorday,Ii. 1.141
inst., 03 ..n.ged a sovereign, and gave her husband 17a. led.
of the cm we, which he put in a puree in his Cromera
pockst. and left the Mame,. on the bed next day. On
Howley morning he mimed all the money excepting_ a
penny from hie puree, mil on going into toe pantry he
found from
of some one having been tithe home. Foot-
prints were also found underneath toe pantry window,
the apes of which had evidently been forced with a
knife.—P.S. Cattle and P.O. Kitchell sub sequentle
compered prisoners boots with till footprint, before
reforml to, and found them to correspond, 6111 did also
prisoner's knif• with certain mark. scar th. rytopmg of
the pantry wisslow. When a...raised on the Sunday
efternoon for some purple. by the police, prisoner had
only got 2s. and some coppers on him, but when searched
on Monday had three half-sovereign. sod at silver
ooini in his possesidon. Ile no, denied the charge fit
toto, but the umeisiret is 0 weidere I the ease proved, and
told him he would be oommit:ed for trial. It transpired
that the prieoner had been foe a short thee in the employ
of the prosecutor.