The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-12 00:00:00

CROWN COURT, Flamm
(Wore Mr. Judie) BTLits.)
/MAUD AT •LLINGTON.

John Devenish Martin, 40, described as • draper's
assistrual, wu charged with patting off a fulled receipt
for 13,, int-nding to defraud Job Kendall, at t Hint:ton.
Itecember 29. Mr. Collin. prosecuted; prisoner was
undelespi.d. Mfa. Kendall, the wife of the linear:stator.
who keeps a heeehouut at kllington, said that prisoner
we. in the habit of ordering beet for them, and on the
WI December he went to the house and asked her
she want. dp. soffid to the Bridport Old Brewery. She
told him she did, and asked him to order
a sank of bare for her. and gave him 134. to ;Ay
for it. Several houre after prisoner returned, sa•lng
the beer would be sent in Ln honr, and proalooed what he
urp.rted to he &receipt for the hoer, signed on o • M
the Bridport Old Brewery recaipt forma, "no behalf of
0. D. and (.1.1., 0. Baum." The beer never came. Mr.
Kendall went to the brewery, and from what he then
learned he gave information to the police, and prisoner
me. anprvnavd. In anseer to prisoner. Mr. Randall
said he had dons writing for him, brit he 11.4 always
paid him well for IL-a-Richard Diwn L ONION,
formerly cashier and clerk to the Bridport Old
Brewery Company, denoted that on the 211th
D. somber no beer was ordered for Kendall, of
&Montan. Hid d not know who tie receipt pro.
dotted ; it was not bin or any One'. at the boswery, and
there was no 'O. Bailee" in the employ of that coma
P•ttft—Rurt. Unticrwood spoke to apprehending
prisoner at Metherhary, wli-n he sail he took the
money for writing he had d 10.. 61 , and for
shirt, I& 8.1. He said he forged nobody's aims at the
brewery.—Prisoner saki he declaimed against the
brewery and Mr. Kendall. He form rly ocuropied a
house under the brewery, and got into debt, when they
&deed hi. goods. He had some freehold property, and
they prowsod to stay promoting& but when he gave
on
"the writings" to their solicitor, they took all hi.
goods. He had had no debtor or creditor account of
the matter, and a- he had no means to go to law. IN
felt hn must do something to bring the m•tter
to an INge. As to Mr. Kendall, he owed him money
for writing—After a brief consultati the jury found
him guilty of uttering • forged remit:rt.—Wolin gelled
on by the Clerk of Arraign*, prisoner said, "I do not
s.• that I have feloniously taken anything from
any one."—This Judge: He had been convicted and
Properly NO for taw** • bolted instrament.—Prieoster
" The pussesetor has not nil it was in any writing."—
The In ip reminded him be was not charged with
forpery, and went on to say that the evidence
was very (Sur against him. He had observed
that he had already been in gaol between two
and three months. If the forged instrument had
bees a'promissory note, or anything of that kind, be
should have rent prisoner to penal servitid.• ; still, ii
was • serious offence, and the rate...* wits that be be
Imprissmed mad kept to hard labour for three mouths.
He wanted him that if be w-re convicted &awl., be
would he probobly sent to penal servitude, and seven
years was the keit be *veld receive.

110BOUIT AT BIIPPOIT.

Hoerr Col Irrnaeir, It. formerly • teleersOh el*Th NI
erldport, pleaded geniis, to forcing • receipt for £1I•.,
ieteeding to &freed the Electric leternstioaal Tele-
graph Company, at Bridport.— Fib Lordship mid be
ea very *rim tkat prisoner bed mode each • ne• of the
education be bad reeeiret. If the forged Instrument
had barn • bond, or • bill of eschaece, or motivator,
note, be would undnehtedly have been senate, el to
renal *recited' for many yeara Al it eat, and he no •
gret offence, the sentence of the Court was sic months'
Laid labour.

.ACIIII.IOI AT 114110,11111T05.

William with, Charles H•rriere, ant Jobe Peters,
a rough-looking trio, were Imitated for sacrilege at the
eari-h chars& uf Hampreston, Ostober 64.11. Mr. W.
Monk. and Mr. Hawks* preweetkul, and prieoven wore
undefeeded The clerk of the p•rioh. George Flinovit,
deemed toleavng the oburoh locked up at half-past
two o'clock in the afternoon, and all the artieles thereto
safe. At half-east even on Sunday morning it ws•
found the shun* hiel been broken into, and the fol ow-
ing ertiolse stolen—two curtains, • hem. certain rod, a
velvet owshion enver and lamella. and 20 pionna of innen
▪ theoook, end mem man 11•11214/ Miller spoke to
wing Harrison sad Peters in the village of Ham.
prestos, mem the char-h, during the after... tgre,
Chinn, Lengham, saw there about ail ia the evening
re,the rood towards NA., Peters *truing a bundle.
George Ohmett, lobschereith. spare to estelent the name,
•nd elat. d that there was • pis.* of r. 4 retest with gold
tamale imaging demi from the bundle Peters was
carrying. Joke Cherrett was with hie bro:her,
tke, het .11.118, and be corroborated hi.
et•testeist. P.:. Reeks, of the Poole form,
spoke In ovine Smith in Poole when it was
getting dark this Retard's, evening, sad h•lf-en-hour
tater be see the other prisoners in the put. 0.c.. on
Sunday be saw Pietas in the cell at Poole, when be
mow boo touch be *ought they should get. He
replied be did not know. Peters mid he supposed they
should have more for breaking into a elterch than into
a home !Mere we In UP. 011 Idle WI, and mot outer
two in sells oe tither side, end might hear the maven.,
tioe, bemuse he Gould see they. looking nut pi At,
holes in hoot of the doors.—P.S. Hunt, of
the Pool. force, (rite to epprelsenrUng the prisonern
on the charge of tweaking luta Theepre.toe ohu oh,
when Smith "We did it," Harre •t
broke into the (thumb," and Peter' said We broke into
the church." On Monday • conversation took plate
between Superiatemded Haynie., P.S. Hoot, end the
prisoners. The prosecution. however, did not go Into
this., and bin Lordship said he dui not at oil • pp,. of
odieemen questioning primmer.. He should tell the
jury to acquit teem If they meld not lind them go It,
without the itateumot• to the oonatebbx —Gems.
tuggs spoke to ending a bundle in WhiMn's y •ri.
italdrost, on Sunday morning. 11. took it to the
It wel npenni.encl 000bainael tho thines
er▪
odered. S peyintendent o,llford corrnhoreted Pd
Hunt, sale the premeen' statement@ when apprehended.
0. fou..d the thereto had been entered by cutting aiou
and load-work from • window Dear the channel of the
&muds, making • hole lane enough for • man to get
'trough. H. found a knife and gitialot 00 Peters, ono,
ae would cut the leadwork defense, Smith
mid none a the eittemass laded the, saw him ist I:am-
preston. On the 6th October he sleet at Bleariford, anti
on eh., 61,k, be walked to Poole. The reams be was
•ith the prisoners at. Poole was he hid get , and
hoeing been at the them all night, he told Ratline and
TOM that be was_ loth. irs buy an ',nos of
%bow, sad if taw WWI to p with him he email gin