The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-24 00:00:00

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PETTY Samlows, Thursdey.—Bdor• New& W. Pearce,
C. J. Stone, K. Kemp-Welch, W. D. Dugdale, J. B.
Doren, and EL H. Hatch.
m=Hewes, a labourer, of Rumen-place, was MEP
or being drunk and disorderly end making use of
obwene language on the Quay on finndey night.—P.C. D.
Horn said he saw defendant coins out of the Lord
Nelson Inn with spirt at ten minutes past ten on Sunday
night He was rolling drunk and made use of abusive
language towards him and refund to go home. --Supt.
Hunt said defendant was in the habit of defying the
police whether he Ina drunk or sobar.-11* Bench fined
defendant 54. and costa.
Sarah lidgs., wile of Carter Kidow, pottery burner,
of Parkaton,,, waa summoned for using defamatory and
',bag., language towards Charles Miller, a carp4rnter, of
paricstone, on the previous Tuesday. —Del indent did not
appear, and a warrant was issued for her apprehension.
!Ka Cartridge, • fisherman, of Drake s-allier, was
stonnicesed for not sending his children, Betty and John,
regularly to school—Mr. ft W. Dickinson, Clerk to the
Scool Attendance Committee, said he was vary happy to
Inform the magistentos that the cases brought forward
last week had had a very good affect. At the National
School daring the week ending Saturday, the 14th instant,
the average daily attendance waa IA this being the
largest average attendance during the part nine years.—
Kr. Stone said he believed that when the law became
',Adeptly well known parents would conform to it by
sending their children regularly to school—This case had
been adjourned from last week for the attendance of
defendant —Yr. J. tiowlam, School Attendance Officer,
said the last monthly return from the National School
showed that the boy had not made a single attendance,
whilst the girl had only attended ow* at the Free School.
The girl, however, was now attending regularly. —Dot wi-
dest said the boy was over 13 years of age, and the came
was again adjourned to enable him to Prove this.
migoplar Cuss was similarly sumenoned.—This case
had been adjourned to aacertain whether the child wee
attending at the National School., and as it was found
that he waa the Bench dismissed the case.
SATOWAT. —Beton Klemm C. J. Stone and O. H.
Dutch.

WrrA —Albert fle, grown, a labourer, waa
charged with assaulting his sWe, Elisabeth Jane Brown,
on the 17th and llith instant, and complainant sought to
obtain ase tdon and an allowance under the new
' Osumi Act—My, H. T. Trevanion appeared
for defendant —Complainant mid her husband pirlredd
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hoe, and kept her short of food. On Monday and Tuesday
sights he pinched her and drove her about and she had
blows on her body. Be was always in drink and she had
not known what a happy home was line.) they were
married, now IS Years ago. Since Christmas he had mils
given her 15s. • week to keep him, hermit, and four
croesexamination_ by Mr Troves:Am com-
plainant said her husband only had El Is • week, out of
which ba had to pay h. "allowance money " at Me yard
whs. be iroetet Up till lately he had been irregular in
his ss to her, hat lately ne had been more regular.
He dirsir her ISa out of his guinea • fortnight ago.
She woold not live with him any mom She did tell her
husband that there was a man at Sturminster she liked
better than she did him, and that she should go to him.
She did go toStarminster and stay • week. and when she
came beck her husband twitted her about it She did not
think that he would do this and did not consider that it
was enough to vet any
_married inso. She came back
from Starmiuster Mandan and she did ten her
husband that she should go where she liked, She had told
her husband that she had been improperly intimate with his
brother. —Kr. Trevanlon having addrered the Bench, Mr.
Stouts mid the magistrates did not consider the offence so
serious as to warrant Mem in ordering • wpwauss swa
maintenance, end they declined to accede to her request
' —ln answer to Mr. Stone complainant said she did not
went her husband hound over to keep the pew, se she
would not live with dint again.—The Bench then dismissed
the cafe, the defendant promising tops, his wife no •
week and do his best to make her comfortable if she still
lived with hint

Mottita. —Panay Bun, of Nile-row, a
inwied woman, living apart from lier husband. was
charged under a warrant with continuously and wilfully
neglecting to provide adequate food and clothing for her
three children, Jane, aged eight yetis, John, &Why°, and
Rose, aged two, dating the pest month- —Mr. G. H. Conway,
relieving ofhosr, sithilehe had repeatedly received information
from the police and prisoner's neighbours of the wretched
state of the children He visited the house and found it
eery dirty and quite destitute of furniture of any kind.
There was no bed or cooking utensils and the only thing
in the house was a few old raga The neighbours told
him the chi dran were sometimes locked in and at other
tints@ locked out of the house,
_and that they were
constantly crying fag food. Hs believed the nsighbour,
bad 0:11111610•11 lid tbs Allem by balding food

the upartair window on a clothe. prop.—Mrs. Emily
Saunders said priaoner usually sent the children out just
after eight o'clock in the morning and they did not return
until three or four &clock in the afternoon. They would
then sit on the doorstep and cry for food and the
neighbours gave them eome. Prisoner sent the children
out for the day and came home at all times buss 1 The
children were net clothed nor were they clean. When
prisoner came borne the would lock the ch Idren in the
house and go ewer again. On Thureday evening the
children were shut iv. lathe bedroom sad she supplied
them with water and bread and butter through the bed-
room window. She placed the food in • paper beg and
handed It up with a clothes prop.-11r• F.mma Dean said
the children were turned away from the house in the
morning and they came beck about four o'clock in the
afternoon. They could not get into the house and they
cried for food. The woman and girl who lived with her
generally came home and let the children into the home
and then went away again. The children hai scarcely
any giothbaL and she had repeatedly beard them cry for
food. They were dree.ed better that moraine than she
had ever seen them. They usu illy only had on • frock.
She had seen as assay as 15 or 16 men and hovs visit the
house during a day and had seen as many la 7 key* In the
marule6 haring been there all night. She had heard
(amanita* Playing and dancing at the house.—Mrs. Mere
Mitchell said the children were crying for fr.e most
nights. The mother went out and left them in the house
alone. The children often said they had been in the
Ladies Walking Field day and were hungry, and she
had frequently men the neighbours give them food. She
had seen.. many as eleven or sight men go to the house
at night, and men also visited the house during the day.
--Superintendent Hunt said he frequently saw the
children in the Ladies' Walking Yield before nine o'clock
In the morning. They told him they were sent there by
their mother. He had seen them there again as late as
four o'clock, and they told him they had not been home:
They were in • dreadful dirty state, and usually
c
P.C. Reeks said he went to the house at half-pastrllnt;
morning with • warrant for the apprehension of the
prisoner. Re found her lying on an old mattress in a
corner of the room, and a girl and a lad were lying on the
floor behind the door. The children were lying on the
floor in the upper room with only • few ns. to Mr" them.
When he charged her shy maid there was half-a-sack of
potatoes in the cupboard that her father had mint her.
there, and the girl said
He looked in the cupboard, but there was no potatoes
whooper had sold them at the
Three Crowns Inn. —P a Beeken said when prisoner
lived in Bowling Green Alley he heard the children in the
house crying bitterly at 11 o'clock at night. Pnsoner came
hem. Kam efterwards, and she told him she had to goad
to awn her living and she could not come home before.
He heard the children in the same house erring on
Thersday night He had visited the house that morning,
and an old mattrem and • dish broken in three pintoes
were the only things them The stench woe frightful.
—Eallurnh Pry a girl, wss called for the defence. She
said she had been with prisoner night and day for •
month, and from what she had seen the children had had
plenty of food. The children had only been looked up at
night time. They were either sent down to their grand'
mother's, or kept at home, or seat to school in the day.
time. Meseta prisoner took it in turns to wash and dress
the children every morning. She had • young man at the
house with her lea night—The Chairman said
was sentenced to • month's hard labour in March trig;
• similar offencs, and since that • like charge against her
had been dismissed with • caution. She would now be
sentenced to six weeks' hard labour in Dorchester Gaol,
, and the children would be taken to the workhouse.