The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-02-13 00:00:00

WIDEBORKE.
PETTY BEBBIONB,

Wore Mr. C. nuke, Colonel Piga, MrjorGeneral
Powleir WIN oGpt.in elork•Kannedr, Rev. V. J. Glyn.
sad Mr. W. Rills-Fryer.

WILFUL DWITZUCTION.

Albert Pounce was summoned under the Mesta and
Workmen's Act for having wilfully destroyed Al worth of
shrubs, the property of his employers. Masers. William
and David Stowed, of Perndown. nurserymen. He
admitted the offence.—thierge Trickett, foreman to
proeecutors, said that his •mployers had lately lost many
plants and &brute through the neglect of the boys
• noploy there. Defendant had been in prosecutors'
employed four or flve years ; he was ordered on the 23rd
January to plant certain valuable shrub cuttinge which
were in a pot. The value of the plants in question was
£t—Th. Bench ordered the boy to DO to Plaintiffs by
fortnightly Instalments, and the costa. ts.

Ellie &Aden, • small farmer, was charged on remand.
with having stolen • quantity of hay, the property or
Mr. E. Gray, farmer, of Lytchstt tinkerers —Mr. Tanner
appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. H. W. Dickinson
for the delence.—Edwin James Gray (161. • eon of the
prosecutor, said that in consequence of instructions his
tether gave hint on the 1.1 Farrier, he laid wait for
the prisoner in • abed in his father . yard, about hell'
past eve in the afternoon. There were hayricks In the
yard. two being near the shed, 61 yards from where he
was concealed. When he had been there about half-
arpliour he saw the prisoner come in at a gate near.
Prisoner got up on the " hay cute" on the rick,
and took 801110 hay off. He passed so close
to him that he could have touched him. As soon as he
reached the top of one of the ricks be put some of the
loose hay under his arm and went off with it. Wittier
then cum from his hiding place and said, "Put down
that hay, Sllia,lt don't belong to you." He was sure it was
Sudden, the prieorter. ma he had known him all his life.
As soon ae be was spoken to., prisoner ran swig, and
witness sheeted. out, " father. h.,.. Ellie Haddon
steeling our hey. He went indoors and noticed by the
cloak Matit was five minutes put six. It wail dusk but
not dark, and he recognised prisoner distinctly. He went
out again with • Unborn, and on looking about he saw
some bey which had been dropped, and pickedit up.
—Crosoexantinisd: He had summoned ;odium; for an
assault two years cc. and the mera was &mimed.
He knew that prisoner bad four brothers Jou,
Mick, Edward, and Fred. It sea • windy evening
on the Ist February, sad some of the hay might have
blown about, but it woo not very like y to, as be het •
" thatch bundle "on the top. Further preened, witness
said that the bay might have blown about • little with the
▪ uoteritheunditor the "thatch bundle" on the t p.
• mould think prim:leer—who made no reply when he
inures) Called to him—took away about Elitsa of bay.—
sexamined : The hay, which imute on the top of the
rick, was "sparred " down with "thatch bundle," and
could not have been blown about with the wind. Two
bundles of bay, tied with string, were produced, one of
which the boy said he picked up after prisoner ran away,
and the other was • sample taken from the rick.—Mr.
Dickinson said he did not think both tenths' came from
the same rick.—Prosecutor (Elwin Gray) was next called.
He said he was not at bonze after one o'clock in the after-
noon on the lot February, but he gave instructions to
watch the rick, and returned at eight o'clock in the even-
ing. He went to Poole in the afternoon, and saw a man
name Whittle, and another roan, named Hurdle, and the
landlord (Mr. Ballard) of the Angel Ino.where the, were
miring. On returning home on the night of the lot of
February his son told hint that prisoner had stolen acme
hay from one of the ricks. He examined the rick., and
found one cut—ths top one—five inches lower than when
be left home in the afternoon. The hay was "sparred "
down on th• top of the rick. He notiosd tracks from the
rick of bay to the rate, and from the gate up the road to •
field occupied by Budden, in which he kept • bone. He
picked up the bay (produced). and it corresponded with •
second bundle of bey, taken from the rick by • policemen.
Both bundles of hay w. ro his property—William Elder.
lon, • shopkeeper, at Lytchett Matravista, said he knew
prisoner. On the la of February prisoner cum to his
house, about hall-past thres in the situnoon, for hell-a.
gallon of beer, and witnenie wife mood hue. Prisoner
apoeued sober thee.—p.c. Mitchell deposed to spore.
heading prisoner, who told him he had been sway from
home nil the siternoon tot the tot of February. —F.ir the
&hue. Hr. Hickio,n pie that Mir woe a e too of
mistaken ideottly, aryl called • man tuna d Charles
• truster, who swore Val be sew prisoner
in Poole about fire o'clock in the atom.% of
the let of February. Prisoner celled on hint to settle
an account and they went to the Antelope Hotel alter.
wards and stayed there or half or three.quariers of an
hour. The Amiable. Hotel tree about el miles from
pro...cubes house. and it would have been Impossible for
petunia either by riding or driving, to have been at the
letter piaci by dye minute. Oast etx.—Chcepegantined
From six o'clock to seven the some evening he we, in Mr
Gray • company at the Ansel Inn. He left prisoner
previously as be (prisoner) was the worse Mr drink. It
wes quite impossible for him to say how much drink he
had bed on that day. He was about "three shuts in the
wind,' as he always was on • Thursday, being market
day. (Laughter.) Sudden'. relations asked him to come
and give evidtaiss He could not really tell at what time
of the day he last looked at • watch or slosh on the let
Febrawrin—Re-eiatatsed: He remembered that while he
was la the Antelope Hotel bar with primmer on the eft r-
awn of February let, that the baressid lit up the gee as It
wee getting duak.—Frank Fry, a yeoman, residing at
Mantua, said that he knew the defendant • little, having
seen him several drum Between eight and nine o'clock
at night, while on the road home from Bare Rub,
prisoner came op to him from the direction of PoOle.
Primmer was the wont, for drink, and witness walked
'along the road with him for about a nalle.—Edwin James
Grey, recalled, positively swore that he Ins not mistaken
in prisoner, an thst ho was certain he was the man at
the rick.—To Captain Carl Kennedy: Is was light
enough at the tithe to cou prisooses (see.—Three previous
con ctioni whir. Vovod spinet Vieener, and the magi.
trues rommitted int for not allowing- belL Yr. C. J.
Parke, Mr. W. Irtoilmrryer. and the Um C. . lye who
arrived in court after tke sees bad dla sot
adiodiostai

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James Watts, of Constitution was brought up
chargid with having will ally awl maliciously set fire to a
stabl.., coach-home, and the continte, on the 11th June
hot, the property of one Frederick Proctor. of bourne-
toouth.--Sopt. Batty sail that the priaoner gave himself
up • day or two ago to Inspector Alexander, at Bourne.
mouth, samitting that he had set fire to the premises in
June last, The prisoner woe suspected at the time, but
there was no proof of toes guilt The property woe insured
In the Plume Fire Moe toe £350, and that amount woe
paid for damages. Witness went and saw prisoner at
Boornensouth, and pawner there told him that be had
set fire to the premises. Prisoner told witness that in
Jung he had charge of some premises at Bourn, Valley,
and that a man named Proctor had • ball of isle on the
furniture. The week before the lire Proctor told him he
must have some money, and saggioted hat he should set
the place on dre. He at first refused to have anything to
do with it, but on the F. Iday before the fire Proctor
pressed him very much. He again refused, end Proctor
then told him that if he would not do it he must have
him out. The threat woe held out so strongly that he at
last commented to fire the place. Proctor said he knew bow
to mix up something, at he had done so when at Harkins,
in Boer, sad had a good bit of money by it. The stufi
coutiated of oil and tar. The tar and oil mixed were Is be
pours I over some straw, a candle put in a puma of cork, and
the cork plead in the straw. A light was then to be put
to the candle.—Prisouer here denied having said anything
of the sort to Superintendent Batty.—Policarsergaant
Cantle proved that on the Mb June last the premieres in
question were burnt down. Be. Batty produced the
written statement prisoner made to Supt. Alexander at
Bournemouth, on the 7th but, and in that statement
prisoner said: "The fire woe on a Sunday evening in the
month of Jane. He (Prootor) threatened to tarn no. out
in the road unless I consented. He had • bid of sale on
my furniture. lat last consented to do it. On the Friday
be threatened me vary strongly. The advantage I wee to
have wee, Proctor said, £ISO to stut in busing= at Bourne-
valley in partnership wild him, and that sum waa after.
wards, with my consent, reduced to £lOO, which had never
been carried out" Prisoner now denied that he had ever
made the staleinenta imputed to him, and said if he had
made them they wore untrue. Ile was, he said, quite
Innocent of filing the place. He had suffered a great
deal lately; be had heart dimes, and repeated doses of
choral bad affected his brain. He had mitered heavy
lessee, and woe at the present time in the deepest distress.
He had • wife and nine children, had nothing to keep
them with, and his furniture would all be soli wit Tue.
day under a bill of sale which Proctor (whose tool be was
Supposed to be) held over him. Ile could mows the Beech
that if Proctor had got him to set tire to the premises. be
would now expose him under all the circumstances; but
he we, perfectly innocent. The magistrates decided to
adjourn the cue till Wednesday next.