The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-11-26 00:00:00

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THI Ow/ sap that I /dor'. who was eonwieted, many
years ago, of firing at her If ajmty, has been retained
from the prison for criminal lunatics. He is. however,
never to be permitted to reside in Great &item.

AT Bow-street polioe-ootirt, on Tuesday. John B.
Leftwich, ihe landlord of the China Hall Tavern,
Deptford, Botherhithe, was lined £5O for basing in
his possession a quantity of caramel as a substitute for
malt.

Assoic—On Wednesday, at thelOentral Crisoine,
Court, Richard Morris a publican, eras found guilty o.
setting his house on fire with • view to defraud the
Royal Insuranoe Company. It was dated that there
lied been previously five or six fires at places occupied
by him, and the judge, therefore. despite • recommenda-
tion to mercy from the jury, sentenced him to 15 years'
penal servitude.
Tax LAT, BIZAD RIOTS IX DIVOXISTRX.—Ths
rioters at Creditoo, Barnstaple, Newton, and elsewhere
were indicted at the Devoe Qaarter Sessions, en
Wednesday. Two youths, not of the elms known as
"roughs," were oonrieted of having participated in the
Crichton riot, and were each sentenced to two months
hard lebour. Two men and • youth, for rioting at
Barnstaple, were each sentenced to three month's bard
labour. Four Newton rioters were punished with from
one to three months. In several other cases sentences
were not prooouneed on prisoners who had been found
guilty.
CHM MACHU CBXIIOFITIAD DIXIVIATION.—In the
°owl vf Arch.., on Thursday, Sir Robert Phillimore
grme judgment in the arm. of Adis= v. Colthurst. The
promoter in the suit, it will be remembered, complained
that the defendant, • churchwarden of Chew Magna,
had removed earth and human boom from the church-
yard, in Mterings path, to • meadow; and no the hoarier,
Dr. Lushington, the late judge, ordered the earth and
bones to be restored to the churchyard, and condemned
him to pay £lOO. The defendant had not complied
with the order of the court, and the present proceeding
was to declare him in contempt. The defense wag that
Mr. Colrmerst was a bankrupt, and wield not osy the
rum. and as to the earth and boom, the meadow into
whelk they had been removed had been tranefered to
other bands, and therefore be °mild not re-inter
it. His lordship, in pronouncing judgment, expreseed
himself of opinion that one or both of the reasons
alleged had been resorted to with the deliberate inten-
tion of tendering nugatory and treating with onflt.".ltt
the decree of the late judge. He should, thee-form,
enforce the order, hut would sampled iljm Gamma judg-
ment of contempt for six days, in the hops that Mr.
Colthnret might make some arranpment.

LOAD 811a/TIIBUIT AD MB Rumen fireweed).—
At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday,
Robert Short Witten, formerly steward to
Lord Shatesbery, surrendered to take his trial
upon several indietmenta, charged him wilts
embezzling several large some of massy, the property
of bin master, which he bad received for blue in his
capacity asetcrwartL The circumstances summated with
MIN CAW are of a very extraordinary charaeter. It will
be remembered that the char.• was originelly preferred
against the defrudant upwards of two years &in. and
that the indictments against him were removed from
the Doreherter unisex where in doe worse they would
have been disposed of, to the Central Criminal Court,
an the ground that, owing to the indolence of the noble
earl in the die riot, he could not haven fair trio' is the
county where the offence wan committed. Proceedings
were subsequently taken in Chancery by Mr. Wham,
with a ahrw to shoo that there were aceonnts between
the parties, and that instead of there being as;
deleiency in the amount paid over by the defendant,
there was I. point of feet &Ulan. doe to him from the
ad. At oosietage of the procaredeg, Mr. Waters
obtained • dome in his favoor, and when the cam OM*
on at the Central Criminal Cond. an application was
mule on behalf of the defendant for • postponement,
on the pound that the whole matter was under soar
sideraticm in the Court of Chaneery, and that it was
Adelaide's, for the interests of justice, Mat the
criminal sharp should not be entered upon until the
eqeity proceeding were brought:9 • close. Th. trial
w. subsequently poetorined on-that means for si:
months, and upoo the last ocesasioe for twelve months,
and appoioted to be taken at the present sessions.
Mr. fluddlestooe. Q,C. Mr. Giffard. Q.C., and
Mr. Cole appeared for the prosecution. Mr.
Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. J. H. Lewis, for
the prisoner. Mr. Eltuldleaton said that the defendant
luid given notice of his intention to appear and
take his trial, but the prosecution were not prepared
to go on with the case, and desired that the original
arrangement should be carried out. Re then proceeded
to state the facia connote.' with the proesedhip against
the deferdant, aid said that the trial was originally
postponed upon lb. application of Mt, clafeud.us mm.
self, is the ground that the proceeding were going on
in Chancery, and Deal a deeree we, made by that
court, deciding which pony we. entitled to a beleee„
It would be onair to the defendant to pruned with t.
elrotnal charge. It was urged by Mr. Idaddi,ecee al,as
Lad ...bofterhury bad mode any applie.tim for
▪ putpooement, but that on every obecsion thee,
applioetrous were made by the d.feadant himself, anu
thst all that wee ever desiriod wan A. the original
arrangement. 'bond he carried out. It was islaci said
that ft is was U. more desirable because, so far so the
aosoanta bad already gone. errors to •large arnotot have
hewn discovered In it. aceount. of the dolondonx Mr.
ColeriAge, Q.C., said it w. sot desired t0p,... the case
on for trial at the present session, and he visa (pita
willing 'hot a day should be died in the neat winos
for the trial. The reel ground epic ebieh tie OW wee
gatemen w. that the defendant was not prepared
to take his trial, and be wag now so prepare& He
tuwed hat • charge of this deseriotlon ought not to be
Itect hanging over the heel of the defendant for an
incl. Ind ' period. Bar" Cli'41"11. `fin • long technical
argent. nt, elated to allow the Wel to proceed, and
said that 4be mit in si order 1 the Court moot be adhered
tw. The trial will not, there_ ,ore take OM till Sb.
Clammy pconnings eelsassiadie