The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-06-13 00:00:00

A LOOPHOLE IN THE LICENSIN4;

It was transfer day at the Bradford Borough
Wednesday, when a point cropped up, which ,s
importance, as it will enable houses for the sale it kw.
" off "to be indefinitely entend.l. If a person Lane. es
• wholesale beer licence from the Inland Keyfta
department, conducts his house well, and it is of sufficient
rental, he can come before the magistrates, and demand,
as a right, a licence to sell beer " off: and in this way, 4
the previous transfer day, no lees than six flee
m licensed
were obtained fro the Bradford borough rim4irtratea
Again, if a person holds a license to sell email beer hoot
the Inland Revenue, he can obtain a licence to rend
strong liquor, and then, if his house and .titer roiuirr-
manta are suitable, be can ask the magistrate for
license to sill beer " off," and they cannot nig.,
law leaves them no option in saw of this kunl in this
manner, at the transfer day, on Wednesday, eight entirely
new licenses had to be granted to sell I,er retail
and since the Brewster Sessions in the uterus of las
year probably some fill additional licensee hare tssai
obtained through this loophole in the 1.e5e,,,,,
The police and the magistrates are both powerlea to pre.
vent the spread of these houses, if the character ef the
applicant, the rent of the premises, and other conditions
are observed.

EXAMINATION OF BOSCO SIoANE. THE

NOTORIOUS BURGLAR.

At the I 'hippenhata Petty SOSSIOUS. Wednesday, this
, prisoner, who has been under rematad since the 2701 May,
was brought from Devizes gaol in custody .4 Mr. Alex.
ander, the governor, and Mr. Supt. Woodman, of Devizes,
and charged with burglary at the residence of the Rev.
Francis Harrison, of North Wrazall, Wilts, on the eight
of the 23rd May last.
The prosecutor, tbe Rev. F. Harrison, rector of North
Wraxall, proved the loss of certain property, including
silver and electro-plated goods, and identified that which
was found upon the prisoner (and produced) as belonging
to hirn._

P.SDiewett, of Keynshatn, eaitl that at about ten
o'clock on the morning of the 21.ith May, from information
he received, he went with P.C. Baker into a carpenter's
shop at Keynshatn, to lie in wait for the prisoner. The
prisoner soon came up, and he attempted to arrest him,
sayit.xg " BOSCO, I want you to come to the station with
me. Prisoner, who was carrying on his shoulder the
coat produced, sail, 'what do you want with me," and
sprang back into the middle of the road. Ile dropped the
coat, and drew a life-preserver (also produced), and
witness fell Lack to avoid the blow. The constable, Baker,
struck the prisoner on the head with his staff, breaking it
: at the second blow. By this titue the prisoner was running
away, and witness and Baker followed him in the direction
of Bath. At some distance he went into a garden and
jumped over a wall into a field : whilst he was doing so
(Laker threw a piece of brick at him, and struck him on
the leg, when the pyisoner looked round and said '' You
—, I'll shoot you. ' \Witness vent round another way
to intsrcept him as he got to the next fence. At that
time the constable and others came up, and all followed
across the field till they tante to the next fence, when he
'gain called on Sloane to surrender. Prisoner again said
he would shoot the first man that touched hint. As he was
getting over the next fence. witness made a grasp at his
lack, and the constable struck him with a fork, and in
another twenty yards witness and a villager had seized
the prisoner, and, after a struggle, the life-preserver was
taken from him, and he was handcuffed and taken lack
to the Keynshain p"lice-station. On searching the prisoner
there were found six dessert spoons, a soup ladle, trust
stand, and to, in money. Witness aftervards received the
prisoner's coat, and the other articles produced were
fas.ten4deritnilti hheestlee..veti..t Pristarouncker denied drawing the life.
preserver
... .. . . .

—F.E."ii.i;;;;;,r;;;;li,:d-ii;;;;iden,e given by the last
witness, and Mr. Hoare, landlord of the i 'rown Inn, Silt.
lord, deposed that having seen one of the photos of the
prisoner, and he having called at his house for refresh-
ment, he gave information to the police which leil t, his
apprehension.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, after having leen
cautioned by the chairman, was committed to tske his
trial at the next Salisbury assizes.

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