The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-12-12 00:00:00

WINTER ASSIZES FOR RANTS, WILTS,
AND DORSET.
(Continued from 2nd page).

The trial of prisoners under the winter assize com-
mission for the delivery of the gaols of the above
counties we continued at the es..tle f Winchester on
Wednesday morning, before Mr. Justice Lush.

VEWNIOII4 ASSAI'LT AT ARRF.TON.

.101111 Parch, :11, labourer, no education, was indicted
for a rape on Jane Jacobs, at Arreton, on the 19th
July.—Mr. eharles Mathews prosecuted.
The proseentrix is a widow, living in South-street
Newport, and the prisoner IV:14 slightly known to he;
previously. On the day in question he came to her
house, and paid he was about to leave Mr. Croaker's
farm, and if she would .s.tne with him he would give
her some vegetables. She told him he ha I better sell
them, and he replied that he had enough to sell And
for her too, and that after he hal transacted his
business he would meet her on ('..pins bridge at
three o'rbsk. She did not go to the bridge. but alsmt
Wiliest three she went for a loaf, and In I him in
Pylestreet. He again pressed her to come and have
110010 potatoes, and she said she tnust take her bread
home tirst, and he promiscol to meet her in the church-
"aid. (The prose...aria at this stage had a slight
attack
' hysteria in the witness boa, and some other
.
interisrl pending her recovery). She
and prisoner muted her. They
and when near the gravel
gone am far as he
wwi''pie.t'tnnihitteet7ests''w'twhowaenn:c7alc" Sr
ch
ehlF;e7lesl ia she had
he said
naondontlr
would
Lhlredwheharer .hbeirw.n.shSehge.sc.treuilt,nbltbhuet
knocked her down again, and then committed the
offence with which he was charged. She denied
having ever robbed him, but OD the contrary bet .re he
committed the assault he said iss Ito), were passing a
hut
that he would give her a situs .4 beer,
Imt that be had only a half-penny in the worm. In
cross-examination by prisoner, she denied that he had
ever been in her house all night, or that George Young
once found him there, and threatened to "chuck "him
out of doors.
The primmer was immediately found guilty, and his
Lordship, after telling him he had besu convi,ted ot
most atrocious act, sentenced him to ten years penal
servitude.

ASNAIILTN ON THE MON NW.
Joh a Pal lifer, 48, rook, read, a black man, was
indicted for NaSallitS on William Lewis and Frederick
Bates, boys on board the ship Moorhills, on the high
seas, and at Monte Video. in June, July. and
September hud. -Mr. Beetham prosecuted. -The ease
was .4 3 MoNt liagusting discription, and the prisoner
being foi.nl guilty of one charge, the others were not
preferred against him. :wad his Lordship said the
smallest sentence that could be passed for the offence
was ten years' penal s •rvitude. There were several
grwiattonN from that to penal servitude for life, and
while he riid nut intend to imissut the heaviest, he
eould not he content with tto. liAtest sentence, end he
must therefore vo ii .enal senitude f...r twenty years.

ASSAULT IN A hIMPIHEL.
Alice Itarridy• , :a, imperfect educition. and Haan
A adcrs,m, M. no education. described as of no occupa
tion, were charged with feloniously wounding one
William Merrick. with intent to do him grevions bodily
harm, at St. Mary, Southampton, on the 14th of
November last.—Mr. Tickell pnwecuted. Merrick, a
ship's cook, belonging to the Pandora, met the prisoner
Anderson tate at night at the top of tixford-,treet.
Southampton. She asked hint "to give her a liqocr,"
and he complied, and thee went with her to No. 7,
Winchester-terrauL They weat upatairs, and he gave
her a shilling for some more " ' and a half-
crown for the mom. She asked for more it...ney, Ltd
he said he would not give it her till she came back with
the beer, and then she said she knew what he was;
that he was a cal or a York bird, and that she
knew his little game. She then rushed at him,
"clawed " him over the face, and trio 1 A, strike him
with the tumbler, saying she w. odd spoil his " physog."
but he prevented her. Burridge then came up and
demanded money for the room, but he sail he had
given it to the other 111. sad Andenum thereupon
took the water bottle from the table, and struck him
:terms the forehead, and cut him. He thereupon tried
to get down stairs t Iturridge struck him with a
tumbler on the bowlbu of the head, and prosecutor, he
said, remembered nothinv after that. He did not
know how he got outside, though he "fancied" he
fell downstairs Vurtis was t alled to the house,
and found the orosmutor at the door, without a hat,
and covered with Ido,sl, which (mune from wounds in
his hesol.---itotli prisoners were 1-maniacsl of the
lesser offence, and his Lordship said there was some
difference between the two. Anderson, who began
the row, must receive six months' imprisonment the
other prisoner most go to gaol for four months.
Thonms Kr/whiny/on, 50, lalsonrer, read, was charged
with an indictable offence ,oi his own child, Mary Ann
Kenchington, aged 10 years, at St. Mary, Southamp-
ton, I.n the 29th cif duly. Mr. Worry prosecuted.—
The child, her aunt, Mrs. Kenchingtou, Nies. Poulton,
1/r. l'alk, and Dr. Pomeroy were heard, and the
primmer. being found guilty, was sentenced to 10
years' penal servitude.
Wallidia &wear. lalsmrer, imperfect ediusat. ,
convicted. on the pmeeention of Mr. Saunders, 1.1 an
11l l Ode offence at I 'llippeuliam, was sentenced to
10 yeani ismal servitude.
ATTEMPTED %WE MURDER AT SOPTHAMPToe.

.1,.1,1,1 si
j,j.n Fixh. y, Pi, engineer, imperfect education. tvas
indict. il for feloniously wo aaaaa ling Hannah Fisher,
with intent to iiuiirute, her, at All Saints. South-
ampton. on the tali July last. A. second count
-,,cd him with the intent to do grievous bodily
hai'4l7. pristeciiitei6l,l
nut guilty. Mr.
'l4'l'4°4 the 14-!. wa."
it ne. of the
twlinson, in opening thu w"
the ,ion ?
of the
most ierions that had occiiii!'"l
jury at these assizes, for it was iii."3l,,Y
ch ince that he ilhl not kill the W.,11111111, Wit" tn°
Ibis lay.
attemptesl murder of whom he was now charged. -1!!!
sd thi., ;iriauuiu'r.i if they wisheit to
eemed to have lived on very good terms with his
wife up to within the last LS unintlui, but belied taken ad,'7ll::li'i.l7l7rdghel.'"uritit:'.ll4llki'wl"l
to drink, and when intoxicated his manner became
atteseul, and he was jealons of her, and it was in one atihta;,;. "heluwatijulY
of these tits that the crime alleged against him was hardly prepared now —The learnt, ""4. fm,Y
committed. —Hannah Fisher said she was the wife of WaS very unwilling to t.rive the jury in -
the prisoner, and was married to him at Northwissl, ~t,„ther night, mil the jurymen themselves appeared
isle of Wight, in 1863. They had lived in Pliftmi• not at all t • relish such a prospect —Mr. Folkaril said
terrace. Southampton, for live months before July copies if all the evident* to be sublimed haul been
last. Ile was an engineer, but not a practical one, furnidied to the prieoneri. —llls I,ordshil, thereupon
and was employed ii, a gentleman's yacht On the told the male prisoner he must proceed now, hut
morning of Sunday, the Intl, Judy, lie went nut in the ht. might go down for half -an•hour and consider what
morning, sober, and retunied at two, but what his he lull to say. -The Court thereupon adjourned for
state then was she ilid not know. She WaB in the half-an-hour. and, on the resumption of business,
hack yard with prisoner's daughtair and some of her liadenham, who thmughout the trial haul cross-
own children, and she heard prisoner say to one of the examined the various witnesses with some acumen,
latter, "Where's your mother," and witness herself said that while the taking of them) houses looked sus.
"I am here." He ewe ii ,wn into the yard picions, he should be able to prove the fires had resulted
and sat on the brick,, and witness asked him where in a groat 1..88 to I • . The female prisoner had been
he had Is•ell• awl Le replied "With Hot, Ilose, the liyieg with I and his wife as his sister, hut in April
engineer," and then said " I've 'Well out with a nice last year it proved unfortunately that, she win
WitlieNo replied " I ain not jealous." by lain, and he wished to settle her in a limp:, before
He then Kahl " I laneah, I want to speak to yon iii the her ...11.1iti,111 us.,-. known to hie wife, anil where she
kitchen," and she followed I l 11l in, when he rushed it could carry iii due linsinessof iuiihliner and dressmaker.
her anil lit his left arm nom.' her iim.k. She thought lie Ilk' then pniceicileil to refer to his takin,•• if the vari,ms
intended to kiss her, hut he " I :MI t., cut relation with the Wtilllll/1 urg4,l
your thin ~it ~,it :milted it down there." Witness was tli pre% Aling motive ii all he lia,l done, anifaessoniteil
going to Kay t di, it, for tlie make id iliV is'-,r fur the tires by accident. At t! adshot View 24 t 0„,,,
children," but she could nit, :4,, lit: lirmight back the fitruiture hail been placeil, and workmen were engage,'
open razor she saw in his haul so quiek and ent her, there gipetittir.ig iip to eight o'clock on the Saturday
He cult her throat twit,. in the kitchen, awl witness night, and Insisted that in all these easel, there w"
held his hair to try and stop I • . and both han Is were ~,,reat doubt, to the benefit of which he was entitle4L
cut. Prisoner fell down with witues., :mil his daughter Th, in summing up, sail if these eases were
Mary .ttlii came in and tried to get him away:, and he aeehlental diet, 1. ere the prisoners the la. ,Kt utufor-
gave here Mach eye. Wittier+ tried to get into the Lunge of persons lie had ever heanl id ' • and it must be
next house, but prisoner followed her, threw her down, said that after the man's experience of fire,,, his planing,
and cut her on the throat again, and he then left her, as alleged, a lighted pipe on the bankets at Bonchurch
Witness then went into the back-yard, and prisoner and leaving it there was an act which must be carefully