The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-02-17 00:00:00

COUNTY POLICE.

SATURIUS.—Bef.,re Mr E. %V. B. Portman, and
Nlajordieneral Llenne.
John Wesley Targett, of Whitechurch, was brought
up in custody of the police charged with stealing the
sum of £2 Ils in gold and silver, the property of
his master, William Cuff, on the 6th February.—
Prosecutor deposed he Mat a beerhouse-keeper at
Whitechureh. and prisoner had been in his employ
since Ist July last a goner I servant. and to assist in
the wheelwright and carpenter's usiness. On the
evening tin Ui Febniary he wrote a note to
Nteegef Fo,,kes. at the brewery at Milton abbas
and gave the mow.). -a half -sovereign. and £2 ls. in
nil' or to his wife, who then, in his presence. placed it
in an envelop, and fastened it to:rether. He wrote •
letter to Mr. F,sdies ordering 31; gallon of beer. It
was addresse to Nlessrs F....kr., brewers, Milton.
He asked prisoner to be up early next morning and
give the money to the poetinan, but he had not seen
the prisoner since till now, in custody of the police.
Ile returned home on the 6th, about hve, o'clock. and
his wife said the man had gone off with the money.
Then he gave informath et to the police.—Jane Weston
Cuff, wife, deposed on the sth ebruary her husband
pr co her LI Ds. from the till, with a note. She
placed the n 0,1,7 aiol note in an envelope, fa tentsl it,
and tied round it a iece of white, string. hlie ask, d
prisoner to be up early in the ning to catch the
ixistman. as she wanted to send to the Brewery. The
next morning lie was no iesin enough to c.s ch the
postman, and he came just before eight (twenty
minutes) and she told him logo on himself. She gate
the money to hir little girl, who threw it downstairs
prisoner. and he picked it up and put it in his
pocket. She told him to take the letter and money
as quick as he could to the Brewery. He went out of
the house. She did not see him again. As the beer
did not arrive, or prisoner, she got uneasy, and sent
her little girl to the brewery, and then she found
pram. er had not been there. She told her husband
when he came Fookes deposed he
earned on business with his brother as brewer. On
the 6th of February prisoner dal n.,t come to the
brewery, nor any day afterwards.—P.O. Pilford,
stationed at Whitechurch, depose t that on Friday.
the 6th of February, about six p.m., he received
information respec ma the robbery in questi n from
the prosecutor, and on the following morning traced
prisoner to Dorchester, and (nen there to Yeovil ; and
on the following day (Sunday) to Hadstook and
:Menton Hallett, where be found him in custody. He
eharged him with stealing I:2 I Is. fivm Ins employer.
He replied, "I know I had it b t I consider he
owed it to me and I thought I'd take it while I had '
the c' ance.” He had in OW in his ooeeession whet;
searened. wino' tie owned as his property, tied with
other things in a handkerchief. Ou the f.,llowing
day he took him to Blandford. He then stated on
the way that lie w•nted money to buy some clothes,
and took it for the purpose of buying so me. '• This
is what I bought, what I got on, at Dorchester, and
also an overcoat." He ad since been to the shop at
liorcLester stated by prisoner, and found his state-
ment correct —Prisoner pleaded guilty and elected
to be dealt with summarily, but stated Cuff ,'wed him
the money.—This Cuff denied.—Prisoner then made
a statement I That Cuff wrote to him ("Amur him to
return. He was to have 54. a week, tvi h (nod and
lodgings. He reckoned they owed him 1.7 101, out
of which they had paid him a 10s. -Cuff maid it was
fable, it was 2s. 6d. a week.—Pnsoner then said he
never slept in a bed all the time there, but was inaly
allowed straw in the stable. - Sentenced too. • month s
hard labour.