The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-05 00:00:00

WEST LULWORTE.

STNA LINO A BEM CAME. —Robert Mitchell was charged
before the Rev. G. V Garland, and J. Modem, and C.
W. Dishy. E-qrs., with atealing an empty beer cask
from the camp at West Lulworth, the property of Mr.
Penton, brewer, Wareham. Mr. Lowey appeared for
the proaecutiom and Mr. Trevennen for the defendant.
Wm. Knight, cleok at Mr. Pontoit's brewery, said that
,on the 25,h July last they sent 24 casks of beer to Mr.
Drew, aho supplied the camp with beer. The whole of
them were marked with Mr. l' nton's name and were
numbered. He entered the whole of the numbers in a
book. o.ie of the casks bad it number painted on it in
white paint. It was marked C 54, and was not Mr.
Panton's mark, and no other barrel in the brewe7 Wee
60 marked. The barrel having the white paint on it was
the one now produced. Mr. Panton's number on it was
288. In cross-examination, wantsa said be did not
know at that moment how Many of the 24 caoks sent to
Lulworth camp had hi-en returned. No doubt many
casks sent out were never returned. Since the warrant
had been issued against the prisoner no less than two
waggon loads of musks had been returned to the
brewery from various ports of the county. Mr. John
Drew simply proved receiving 24 make of beer at lonl•
worth for the camp from Mr. Penton. Mr. Samuel
Tucker, of St. Andrew's farm, near West Lulworth,
said that seven casks had been put into one of his fields,
and as they were lying in the sun and spoiling he sent
his man to fetch them under cover. His man brought
in six, and lie saw the seventh lying under the hedge
till about the 18th of August. Witness new Mr.
Panton's name upon the casks, but did not take per.
ticular notioe of them. P.C. Dowling said that on the
24th of August he went to the prisoner's house. Be
was not at home, but came home shortly afterwards.
He asked him if he had a beer barrel in his house, and
he said he had. He followed him into the kitchen where
he saw in the corner the barrel produced and another
barrel. He asked prisoner where he had got it, and he
said he had it from his master's a twelveineth ago or
more. He had it full of beer and another man
helped hint to wheel it borne in a barrow.
The prisoner had another old cask, with one
head out of it, outside his back door, with Mr.
Penton's name marked on it. —William Dorey. farmer,
at West Lulworth, staid the prisoner had worked for him
for the past four years or more. He had not given the
prisoner a barrel of beer for the last 12 months. He
lent him a barrel to put some beer in that be brewed at
home. Ho might have given prisoner a cask of beer,
put into Mr. Penton's oak, but if he had done it, it
must have been three or four years ago. He himself
sometimes had beer from Mr. Penton's. The casks were
called for at irregular intervals. Tbe prisoner was •
good workman, and he bad always considered him •
I steady man, and honest. Prisoner said be saw the cask
lying in the field day after day, falling to pieces in the
sun, and be took it home. He did not take it with a
I felonious intent. What he told the policeman had no
reference to the cask in question.—The Bends sentenced
the prisoner to three deys' imprisonnient.