The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-17 00:00:00

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vest produced in Court was sent to her house to wash
on the previous Tuesiay. After washing it she hung it
out, to dry on a line in her garden, between five and six
o'clock in the evening. When she went to look for it
the next morning it MU gone. She knew the vest by
two marks on it —Sergeant White said that front in-
formation he received he apprehended the prisoner on
the previous Wednesday. When he charged him with
stealing it, prisoner said that about eight o'clock he
went down the yard close to Mrs. Sawkin's home.
and under the wall he saw the flannel vest. He picked
it up, took it home, and the next morning asked his
next door neighbour to dry it for him." The constable
, however, said that the prisoner told his neighbour that
Hrs. Sawkings gave the vest to him. The wall alluded
to separated the prosecutor's garden from Simkins's.
One name had been cut out of the vest, and when
asked how that was lie said he did not know,—Sarah
Sawkins said that she never saw the vest before, and
knew nothing of the prisoner.—The magistrates
sentenced him to 14 days' solitary confinement, and told
him they hoped it would be • caution to him.

DOW NTON. - -Housemen HUNG. —On Friday a
man, named William Williams, was taken before
Viscount Folkestone, at the Magistrates' Clerk's
Office, Salisbury, charged with breaking into the
dwelling-house of Charles Street, at Downton, on
the 30th of October last, and stealing there-from a
pair of trousers, a scarf pin, a pair of braces, and a
pocket handkerchief. The prisoner was apprehended
on Wednesday by Sergeant Obey, on his discharge
fram Winchester Gaol, and be was then wearing the
trousers and braces. The prosecutor, who is •
carpOter, left his house securely locked up on the
30th of October, but, on returning shortly after one
o'clock, he found the back window open, and seven
or eight panes of glees broken. He, however, again
locked up the house, and went away, but when he
returned in the afternoon, he suspected that it had
been broken into by some person. He then fetched
hie wife, who found that the things in three different
boxes upstairs had been turned out, and some were
lying about on the floor. On making A •
the house, the abov. --'•

atiout on the floor. On making a search about
souse, the above articles and other property
were missed. On the 30th of October, the prose-
cutor's son went to Winchester Gaol, where he saw
the prisoner, who was wearing a pair of trousers,
which he identified as his property. The prisoner
was seen in a road near the prosecutor's house on the
day of the robbery. Other articles found on the
prisoner were also identified as the prosecutor's
property. Lord Folkestone committed the prisoner
for trial at the next assizes.

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SUDDEN DEATH.—An inquest WES held On Satin-
day, before R. M. Wilson, Esq., coroner, on the
body of Sarah Fulford, wife of John Fulford. The
deceased was 66 years of age, and on the previous
morning was at her daughter's house, a short distance
from her own. On leaving the house she fell down
in the garden, and died about two hours after-
wards. She spoke only once after she fell. The
deceased was attended by Mr. Cesar, surgeon, of
Downton, and the evidence went to show that death
arose from apoplexy. A verdict in accordance
therewith was returned by the jury.

DEVIZES.—&t the Wilts Epiphany Sessions Mr.
Philip Charles Sheppard, a magistrate for the conicity
of Somerset, was fined in the nominal sum of owe
skating, for assaulting James Monday, at Limpley
Stoke, on the 27th of September last, by presenting a
pistol at, and threatening to shoot him. The circum-
stances were fully reported in our ciolumns at the time
the transaction.