The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-01-08 00:00:00

IMULIIIO STOCIISOL

Dutiel Baker, an oil man. pleaded not guilt, to a
°haree of gumbo; a pair of stocking. at Portland oe
the 29.. h of Ueoember, the property of Fanny Buchan.
Mr. 1.1.1.1 prosecuted
Tha evidence in this Calle' as given before the
magistrate. on the previous day, will bs found I.
soot.t•r °oilman.

—fiCe-juTry— lou;1 prisoner guilty.
Tbe Court sentenced prisoner to firs years' psnel
wirvitud• and two years police eeper•isioe.

THE CASE or MUTILATIEG A DOSEET.

Joseph Eveleigh, on bail, we. indictsi for feel-
on.ly maiming an 1b.., the property • f Devid Funny,
at 37na a Isbury, Go the 15 h of I)ecemteer, 1883.
Pris iner pleade I not guilty.
Mr. B. Fewest Lick prosecuted.
David Forsey stated be lived at Hype. Ind WM
boad.builder. He h 4 • inkey, which be kept some-
time. in the orchard fitted aotti times in the saw-pit.
Oit the night of the 13th tef December he wow it in the
• .w-pit between nius and ten at night. He weet
the saw-pit tho next morning, but the donkey was
gone. Between nine and ten the same in ithlog the
donkey came home wet, dirty. ant in • sad con Sion.
He examined it, and found blood running down
' between the hind legs. Under it. tail were so', very
bed cut.; there were hrs. cut, in all with clay pnehed
in. Fie top irted this to the police the out day. He
west aroma I some field. sat, a turnip field by usi
track,' id the donkey ; on either side of the dookei's
track was the track of a Mate. feet. He saw the
sergeant compare a boot with eome of the tracks, and
they fitted exactly. They went on further, and found
appearances ti show that the donkey had been throws
over a hedge an I down a bank 15 feet high, and rolled
in a ditch. The donkey is progressing favourably.
P.C. John C. lime @total he was stationed at
Chidsock. On Mondey, the 17th of Dec., be saw the
pr....cuter, whit complain, I to the sergeant of hie
donkey being ill-trer6ed. He went to Eli.", saw the
d obey, which waa very dirty, sod appeared to have
been thr.owu into a pan It had three cute,
one four inches long au! an inch and a.half acmes.
It bad the hair cut off its tail. He traced the donkey's
, tracks from Mr. Marsh', farm, near prosecutor's
house., to Down Howie, closet, which priwner lived.
lie covered up fifty or more tracks am they went elm*
for the purpose of comparing. On the folowing day
be recrued the traces, and on Hype Doan found the
dookey's h dr. He went t where prisoner was at
work and lit tked at hie it iota, and thou wont ti Ey"
H. returned MO apprehended pris mer, and took one
of hie boot, and compared them with the track.; tmey
corresponded in every shape and form. When be
apprehend. I prisoner he mid "I know nothing at all
about it, but suppose I 4611 oasis months." On the.
way to Bridport, when near Providence Gators,
prisoner "aid Get'. stop and look round, I don't
Bottom. I shall see it again for some time." He thea
said "I want to .4311 thew legging. for 12o."
Sergeant Hauer.' stated he was stationed at
Bridp mt. On the 18th prisoner was brought to the
station by the last WILOS.II. Hil boots were takes AI.
and on the next day went with the pdlioeiroosetablit
and prosecutor to the tracks. He found a lot of
tracks covered up; they uncovered them, and he
compared the hot with the tracks. These boots
correeponded with the tracks exactly; both measure-
meat. and impression corresponded ex wtly. They
traced the track to Down House Barton, where
prieoner livol,

The jury found prisoner guilty on tbe coact,
namely, of wounding. end recommended him to mercy
00 account .4 him youth.
The Chairmen aedd the jary had hood him guilty
of wounding. The jury hal recommended him to
mercy, and he had received • good character from his
master. The Court considered it a grow OM. of
cruelty, and if it had not been for th- recommendatioa
of the jury, end the good character, they aboald hare
sent/awed him to one year's imprisonment with hard
labour. He would be impriaoned for six mouths
with hard labour.