The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-10-30 00:00:00

sHERBoRNE.

LECTVRE.—" Rune common features of our nearest
relatione—an introductory chapter of natural history—
Wat the subject of a torture given by Dr. Williams at the
Maereally Literary Institute on Tuesday. Under the able
treatment of the doctor, the lecture was very instructive,
awl it is to he regretted that there was such • meagre
attendantse to hear it.
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--iiiiiTTlA7c;i7--Tire return match between ten members
of the 16th D.R.V., and the same number of the 7th
D.R.V., took place on Wednesday at the ranges, at
Dymore, Sh Thorne, and result"' in a victory for thy
Sherlswne corps by Zs points. Altbnigh the westher was
somcwlmt unfavourable, there was some gsod shooting,
and at the doss the result was derlarml—Sherltorne,
ye0vi1,537. The highest score for the 7th Dorset corps
was made by Sergeant Foot; and for Yeovil, Captain
Harbin.
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Perry' Sestinas, Thm,lat.,—Befqre Major Falwaamer
(in the chair). Captain Can Glyn, Captain thtodden, Mr.
E. Benthtll, and Nlr:_lien(lall LittlehaleA.

• RETCRNING FROII PACK MONDAY MR.—I/For!, Ileirkte,
d,neribed WS a groom, James Hallett, a drainer. and Jaincr
Mitchinson, alias "Bristol Jim," all re4ling iii Milborne
Port, were eummonsel for asthulting Maria °emend, wife
of a shepherd, also living at Mahone, Port —Mr. Watt',
of Yeocil, appeared for the complainant. —From the
evidence of complainant ant her witnesses it appeared that
on the 15th of October, about VI fetlock in the evening
herself, her husband, her son, and a datighter-In-law, went
int, the Black Horse Hotel, Sherborno, to losk for one of
their family, who hal promised to meet them there.
Failing to lint him they remained there but a few minutes,
and then proceeded or. the real to Mithorne Port. Before
leaving the inn it would appear that sonieone of them
optke to the defendants, who were there drinking, and,
being apprehensive that they would be .foltowed on the
road, they invoked the assistance of two policemen, who
wcompanietl them part of their journey to Milborne Pert.
A few minutes after the police had left them, however,
the defendants overtook them, and Bristol Jim sprang in
front of the females and tried to step up m their toes.
Failing to do this, be began 'hexing awl rutting rapers in
order to impede their progress.
member of the Chester police force—begged defendants ts
desist, and to let them go home quietly, but they would
not ; Bristol Jim producing a large stick and
brandishing it ever their heads awl threatening to
strike them. Eventually all three defendants struck
' the complainant's party, and there was a general tight.
The complainant received a severe blow between the eyes
and also several blows on the head, of which she bore
marke. Her son—the eonstable—was knocked down, and,
according to the complaint's evidence, received the blows,
for when he got up he was "covered with blood," and a
little mud. He had not thought it worth his while,however,
to remain to prefer a charge of assault against defendants;
he left it all in the hande of the ceruplainaut. Mrs.
o,rnonl denied that any ttf the party were the aggreesors,
awl also that they were the worse for drink.—Julia
Osmond, her daughter-in-law, corroborated the foregoing
s see in the identification of the defendanta. She could
only swear to two of them. The statentents of the
defendants, on the other hands, put quite anew face upon
the matter. Hallett, a respectable-looking young fell tw,
sail he lett the Sleek Horse on the evening named with a
man named Charles Bantle. and proceeded as far ae " Dog-
house." When they came here they heard a row at the
top of the !silt and, on going on,foued " Brietol Jimmy "
lying in a ditch at the road side, and Ohio Chester police.
man and the complainant's husband knocking him about
rather roughly. Ile acted the part of champion for the
downstredden, and, for rescuing her front the assaults of
the two men, he wan told by the comphivant, that he
would be summoned (or assaulting her. From first to last
he never touched the woman. He considered he only did
his duty. —Hewlett, the other defendant then gave his
version. He said he left the Black horse with a boy named
Charles Smith, and overtook the Hating patty on the
brow of the hill. He saw the "Bristol man 'in the ditch,
but did not see Hallett there. Saw also the Chester
"bobby" belabouring Bristol Jim with • stick. Ile had
no time to say or do anything before the complainant
came up to him, and, peering into his face, said he was
one of them awl she would summon him. He said,
"Summon me ! what for t " She lifted up an umbrella
she had in her hand, and giving him four or five knocke
on the head with it, said "There ! that's what for."
(Laughter.) After the two witnesses had been called for
the defence, the Bench said they were of opinion -that
Mallet and Hewlett were not toblame; they would therefore
be discharged; as to Ilutehineon, they thought he had
committed an assault. Bristol Jim : The woman bit my
finger Brat; I have the mark there now; but at he
appeared to have been very roughly treated at the hands
of the complainant's party, he also would be discharged.
Each party to pay their own coats,
A Bereft OF .N COW, of Yeovil (who works
at ,Bradford Abbas), liciarg Pollard, labourer, of Yet-
minster, Joist Contray, of Paradise, Yeovil, Frederick
Gillham, and George Hillyar, also of Yeovil, Frederick
Bailey, labourer, of Steford, John &dirt', labourer, of
Bradford Abbas. Samuel Ring, Molnar Xing, carpenter,
and Charier Bragg, all of Bradford Abbas, and Richard
Penny, were summoned for damaging saplings ist Clifton
Wood, in the parish of Clifton Mayltank, the property of
Mr. Arthur William Bridge. The offences were com-
mitted on various dates, and were proved by George
Brown and another keeper, named Boa-ditch. The last-
named defendant did not appear, and when the constable,
P.C. Ilutchings, served the summons, his wife NAM her
husband would never attend such meetings. The damage
,In each case was laid at 61, but as seine of the defendants
had only gone a few yards in the cover, Captain Glyn
expressed an opinion that it was improbable they could
have done damage to that amount. All the defendants
present pleaded guilty to stealing nuts, but aflirmesl they
did not tramp!e down the unsierwood. Owing to •
technical mistake in• the summena, Cable, Pollard, and
King, were discharged—it being alleged of them that they
were found on Mr. Arthur W. Bridge's land, instead of
which, however, they were on Captain Bridge's land,
which adjoins that of his brother's.—The Bench cautiened
the defendant's against going Into the cover at Clifton
again, and fined them 5,1. each, Id damages, and the
costs, which, in the case of four of the defendants,
amounted to Si. ed, each, and in two to es. each; Penny,
who did not appear, being fined ss. instead of 5,1. fine, Id.
domagen, and the same costa, Ss. fit It was elicited that
in the CaSe of two of the defendants, the keeper bad given
them permission to go into the wood to pick nuts on a
particular day; but as they could not go on that day, they
went a few dap af terwarti, and were now summoned for
damaging the underwood ! Captain Glyn asked if the
damage would not have been the same had the men gone
to the wood on the day they were given permission ; and
the keeper replied that "he sposed 'twood." In answer
to one of these two defendants above mentioned, the
keeper admitted that after telling them he should summon
them, he had them to his house and gave them a "deep of
cider."

MAN KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.
Early yesterday (Sunday) morning a young man
named Crump, of Exeter, lately employed as porter
at the Sherborne railway station, was borne upon a
stretcher to the Yeatman Hospital, suffering from
fearful injuries sustained by being knocked down, and,
it is thought, run over by a portion of a luggage train.
Medical assistance was of no avail, the doctor pro-
nounced his case as hopeless, and shortly after his ad.
mission into the above-named institution,hesuccombed
to the injuries he had received. It appeared that the
young fellow was on duty at the station coupling some
trucks when the accident happened, and the train was
a luggage train, which passes through about mid-night.

Lull Suffield appeared at the City Police Sessions on
Saturday, in knower to a summons which charged him
with furious driving in Queen Victoria street. His lord-
ship, who admitted that the pace might have been nine or
ten milesan hour,was ordered to pay a penalty of !Outland
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