The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-08-22 00:00:00

WAILIELAX.
COUNTY COURT.

(Brfors Mr. Swiesnt Tiodal•Atkinsoo. Jody.)
nerd ware ao less than 90 plaAots sistarwi at this
Court, but many, were withdrawn ; uill th• Radiates.
(Hr. Yrwslani Mime) dialmal of .but O. The most
important cam triad by His Honour was an

ACTION FOR ASSAULT.
Hint Blinn v. 1311.01011 WOODROW. eee Claim for
CA 194._ deoissea
Mr M. U. Weston. for the plaintid, and lts. R. N. How.
ward, by the defendant
Mr. Weston said the plaintiff is a shepherd at St.
Andrew'. Fano, and the defendant is a gamekeeper for
the Lord pf the Manor on the same farm. On May lath
the piebald( wee driving a do* of sheep along the high.
way loading from his master's (ann. On the way he had
omission to open the gate. The debindeat wee riding
bolded him on horseback. and beteg annoyed that the
plaintiff did not lreep open the gate he assaulted
striking him with a whip, and outUet bis head 09.10- Ids
was coedited to his house close on a fortnight, reosived no
wares, and was compelled to call in a doctor.
Plaintiff said he was &shepherd working for Mr. Tucker,
of fit. An trey's Feria, Lalworth, On Murder, 1841
May, he wee ddving hi. meet Ws sheep from one field to
another. He opened the pats to let the sheep through,
Defeniaht, who was on boriiebink, wanted t Pam
thrrugh the same irate. but after the sheep had gone
1 thievish. he (plaintiff) closed the gate. Defendant, whilst
on h 0b0e,,. open it the gate and went through. Oa over.
taking him be pulled round his horse in front of him, and
struck him *UNs the bead with a whip. knocking him
down. Whilst he was down, defendant g.t off his bores,
pulled him up mad told him to so on with the sheep. He
c mid not or on with his sheep, and was obliged to lay
down till he got over it, when he went borne. The sheep
went astray all over the place He was obliged to call in
• doctor, who ordered him to keep quiet, and he remained
at borne 14 day.. Plaintiff admitted he had be. con-
victed of rabhit-catching.
Mr Howard : Were you not sowlintOnsd no late le June
last for poaching and assault f—l paid for it.
Did you not have 14 days' hard labour for poaching I—l
know I did.
Did you not bars a month's hard labour in April last
No, I paid the money.
And this was not your first offence, woe it t —No.
Did not Woodrow's under-ken:om glys evidence &Cellist
yon I—lfes, I suppose.
I. further crossexaminat)on plaintiff denied he abused
the deleedeat, or celled him a thief. He (P'aintiff) had •
stick (procured) in his hand. He did not hit defendant
But he told him tie would have hit him, I lit he didn't dare
do it There wee only one blew hit h. the defeudeat,
but he aimed at him revers, times. During the whole
of the fortnight he was at home he did no w,irk, and he
wer paid no wages. He had 10s. a week, and there were
eight of 'ism to live.
Hannah Brine, wife of the plaintiff. said when he come
home be was bleeding in lb. sad. and was crewed with
blood. Hs we, at home newly two week..
Richard Rawls, said on the day of the assault he bad
• o onrersatton with the defendant He said the shepherd
had insulted him, end was attokine. at biro when he
warded off the Mow, and gave him • ' pat in the heal."
Mr. Howard', " plain unvarnished story of the affair
was that there was no animosity on the part of the
defendant, but thsre might hays been on the plaintiff's
next. The plaintiff is a man who ltaa been tht:e times
tentletict of poaching, and a strong point war within
three weeks the sesault in question he was coo-
victid of assault and poaching. On this Iftt`o May the
defendant was on horseback, and just as he come no to
the plaintiff he Ckleed the rate right 14 the h°"'"
All Woodrow said was "Thank you." Brien then corn.
metered abusing him, and, finding the defendant kept his
temper, he no with the stick and threatens I him.
D'iwid••4 eo phi. whip to defend himself. sod titer ,by
the plaintiff Wal hit in the heed. There won only one
blow, and would it not be reeennable to suppose,
' Woodrow had wished to assault the inee, that lie wool,'
have bit him more than oaos I He contended it was •
trumped up affair.
; The defendant wee ogled sad slated he was heed game-
, keeper at Lulworth Castle, and was in the employ of Ur.
Weld-Bittedell. He had hem there employed nearly two
years. Oe Ohs Mbomou in oesedos be wee on horeehems.
, and had 'several doe, with nil& Whop be got up to the
Ital• Bawl was lest getting the sheep tbrouph. He
' plan= the gste arala.t him and made the horse shy.
He (defendaad said "Thank you.'
; The Jades: 111-deserved mules is sake In disguise, and
I have no doubt what this "Thank roe convoyed.
I (Isslightari)
' I. fatten evidence defendant said the plaintiff
threatened to do for him, and 'truck at him with 1
stick He warded off the blow, and In se doing hit him
on the hat—not on the here heed. He did not try to
• strike him; be could hays done eo over and bYfrt again if
he had so wished. .

Honour said this milled the quostioeof"'lOW."
—whether the defend vut deed more violence to repel an
emaelt NMI 1•411 luosqar7 The Jai* Itid it WU rsthel
pilaf Ili MN, MI he vtlistre been batter satisfied
If he had bed the doctor him to give evidence es
to the Were of the blow. stops tileit=st a a
meuevise 444 bap* been tfieidoat it in the
world sod a Pesaber—dpre wee no reseal hi he @boob*
sot be prowled, and *we was elm ite reason *by the
defendant a restractable tam, should be abused. It streak
him. iltilni than us a ler/. that the defesdiat wee