The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-03-14 00:00:00

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NISI PEWS COITIM-4,IIIDAT,
(ijefore Mr. junta CaottliioN.)

The Court opened at half-pant ten o'clock. The only
cue remaining on the cause list was tha,, of

THE QUI= V. THE PARLSH OF HINSON.

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This was an indictment against the Surveyor of the
parish of Killeen, removed by writ of certiorari from
the court of Quarter Sessions—Mr. Kingdon and Mr.
Buller, instructed by Messrs. Kemp-Welch and
Aldridge, appeared for the Crown, and Serjeant King-
lake and Mr. W. Ffooks for the respondent.—Mr.
Buller having briefly opened the case, Mr. ltingdon
stated that the action was brought against the
Surveyor of the parish of Kinglet], to show cause
why he should not keep In repair a certain piece
of road; leading, from C,cinstitutiori.hill, Poole; to
Botirnemduth. It was doite suffi,ietit foe him to show
that the piece of road in dispute was for many years
always described as a public high road. In the year
1751 the same road was described as • public one, and
continued so till 1810; but in 1805 an Act was passed
called "The luolosure Act," and the commissioners saw
fit to make • new road, but did not then apply or procure,
as was required by Act of Parliament, to have the old
road closed. The new roadbed been generally uned,Mit to
all intents and purposes the old road waa still a parish
one; and tberefore the Surveyor was bound to keep it
in repair. lie was alitiuk to call Witnesses, when Mr;
Serjeant kinglake acid that before his learned friend
did So, it vioold perhaps bp as well for the purpose of
faifilitating the busiiiiessOf he referred to the various
*actions of this Act, Which empowered the closing
of the old roads. The object of ill§ Act was to
enable the Comnaissioners,when setting out certain new
roads, to shut up the old ones, and he contended that a
new road having been set out, the old road became no
longer liable to be kept in repair by the parish.—The
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—Serjeant Kinglake then raised the objection fhat in
the indictment nAnson was called a Parish, whereas it
was not a pariah at all, it was only a tithing. —His
Lordship held this objection to be fatal.—Mr. Kingdon
then applied that the indictment might be amended, but
his Lordship remarked that he could not do that, and
gave • verdiet for the defendant, without point,
The Court then Proceeded to the trial of prisoners.
firisaftril Vliktni AO iiiatiLi A+ stiltnill. ,
Welter edit)] was indleted for Waling • elver
watch the property of George Winzar, at Sydling St.
Nicholas; idso with stealing 80Iba. of wheat, the pro-
perty of John Bevies, of the same parish.—The prisoner
pleaded not guilty to both counts—Mr. Collins prose.
outed.—George Winzar, a shopkeeper, residing at
Sydling St. Nicholas, said: On the morning
ief the 31st of March, 1884, he bad • fire on his
Eid
mises, whir% destroyed the greater part of his
Der/. The watch atlaalrept in p clipboard In a little
n: There were Several things tater pot Of ithe trop-
hy the neighboring, whieh, with artidles taken from
idg
ther parts of the house, were, after being temporarily
ed at a neighbour's bogie, put in the school-room.
1 id not see his watch at that time. Missed it the
I flame evening. First now it again on the 28th of February
' last, when it was brought to him by the pollee. The
watch procittoed was his property, and it had been in
' his,posseasion atiopt flfty yeafe.-titirrence Rqbineon
, laid- he knew the prisoner, who gill) him I
Match about three months ago, and asked
named
him to take charge of it, and pay a man nam
grip. Be. which he (prisoner) owed him.—
John Perrigow said he had a oonverpation with
. prisoner just before he went to prison. Prisoner owed
Witness et, and when asked for the money, he told
rness he had nothing MO is watch, which he had
te from eft a little shelf in Mr. Winter's Whop at
e tittle of the fira, lie also said he had given if to
Wish Lawrence. Witness did not see the watch, and he d
not yet received the Bs.—P.C. Brown said he
had the watch of Eliah Lawrence on the 20th
february.—P.C. Wordsdell recollected, seeing the, Pri-
dOeer alisiatitig bringing the geode ,otff. Priioner in
defence said that be never entered the house at all; he
was outside.—The judge having summed up, the jury
returned a verdict of guilty, and his Lordship in
paining sentence, remarked that it 'APB a serious offence—
taking advantage of a misfortune in 'a person's house
by stealing his goods in the confusion necessarily at-
tendant on the removal of goods from a fire. How-
ever, at the prisoner had never before been cOnvioted of
felony., thjiu tle charged ,With tato oiroes, the
ientetice of the Co rt drao that his shOnld ' kept to
hard labour or sight calendar months. o evidence
was offered in the other ease.
BTIALIN
Beck,
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