The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-26 00:00:00

PETTY SESSIONS.

THURSDAY.

Before the Mayor (It Al-idre, Est ). .nd E. Name.
N. W mere, H. Gottb, aud H. Farmer. Eire.
Wiliam Baker was aummoned for an assault upon
Itolert Saunders.
The complainant stated that on Tuesday loot dcfendent
Mean to interrupt him aa he was !outing coal on the
quay, mid beat a each about him, which he f, Bowed up
with a blow In the face that covered him with I,llod.
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Defendant cros-examinel the complainant to show
that he had previously threat•ned to cut his head off with
his whip, and further stork him across the head with the
stock, hut the complainant denied this.
Robert Edwards c irroborated Saunders' ver ion, and in
answer loin, defendant, said he saw him strike with the
whip.
George Coward, gave the same description of the affair.
Baker's defence was that Saunders Sot threatened him
and than hit him across the head with the whip stock.
Upon th:a he told him he should give him one when he - - -
cone out of the waggon, and so he did, but only one. —e•
They each gays the other one. SLIGHTLY IN Eaton. —I understand there is Vs°.
Charles Deere, for the defence, said he heard the parties rej..icing in Poole among the Blue itibbonitee. Th' I
quarrelling about rime beer, and defendant h t the coin- have read in the" Dorset Express" an article retie' .4,
p!ainant across the lees with a hag, as he thought, in fun, to the inaugural dinner of the Licensed Victas'.lers
but upon that complainant hit him across the bead with Aisociation which commences "This newly-p',edged
the whip and knocked him silly. Defendant then tAd society,"
him when he got out of the waggon he would give him j, n the ranks of the total abstainers. 7. ern soul
one, and so he did which was quite rightl
George Baker, father of the defendant, described the to undeceive them, but, painful as it li, 1 rand infoan
uld
e &c.,r., and they fancy the L.W.. t„ 0. 8,11
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affair in the same manner, and said if Saunders had gone them it is a printer's error, and the asp Awes eh-,
on when he bad filled his waggon, nothing would have have road "BewlY•iledged."
occomel, but he got down in defence.
Sounders said he was bound to get down to get his " Iwraovencxv."—l see the Bears, mouth Improve-
red n 11. meet Commissioners have just elect ad • new member.
Defendant said .Ms head was cut opers, and he reminded iiis qualifications, according to hi' i proposer, are that
the Bench that it had been said, • ill any wan spills h. i, ~ ia tam has Ipews
another man's blood hie blood shall be spilt also t.." gent , • p earnt , .naaner, and bp
The Bench inflicted a fine of le. and Ma 61 coat; or 14 to Poison Food troilism gluing es." I :should say hi
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etre' an eadt left the Coati threettlains to "pitch" the was
a decided
cdeitice.—
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complainant. ALARMING t—All who liar, rem nowt,. Jerrold's
Joseph Taylor, of the &N.Y.C., was summoned by his inimitable "Mrs. Caudice., curtain Lectures ~ oill
wife, Emma Taylor, for en 'suck remember one chapter wt' ,ere the good woman dgia hes
She •tated that last Friday, after he bed been away elx
mouth, with the Naval Reserve, he came house and knocked elbow 2
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auto the rite LA her spouse, and decdolar"ini.
her about and threatened to murder her. Its struck ' " thisre'6 • r••• is OA house.' candle goes _
her about the head. She wet afraid to live with him. She ' stairs, shivering and fretful, and Sods it's the cat um
had tried to make his home comfortable, hut he was upset the milk-jug. Iljetory, we are told, repeats
away. knocking her at out, and she wished to beeeps-ated iaelf,
from him. She had been obliged to summon! him twice nights dso ."""ti
e tago, IhesT the landlord a°ls fiction,
dlord ofs ohnOultof or a
, titnitet.f
before. not 100 miles from the Shushan, bad to =deft°
In answer to the defendant, she said she had not run . rendi
him in debt. She did not threaten to stab him, and the a similar experience. Re wog '' ow"itle, -
mark n his new was not made by her with a kWh.
i Date..a.t
asked
to, .
alounuaists
for a
week.
which
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eras =need. due" fit is undecgolig allgeatigne), whiegired we