The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-01-08 00:00:00

TRIAL OF PRISONERS.

Joseph illanook (33), grocer, and George Bennett
(24), vermin killer, were irrlicted for stealing • live
pig, value Me., tbe property of Toone. Aunty, at Six.
psuoy Handley, on November the 24th last.
"dr. ,dal promoutad.
The foots of the ome are somewhat ourioim. The
prismarre are little dealers at Sixpsany liaadley, and
reside very near eachother,sad prosecutor WM indebted
to one of them for go,ds ha had had. On the SVIO
lug of November 24tu toe two prisoners went to the
prosecutor'. bowie, arid &eked his wife if the pig we.
sold. Sh asked why. Teary replied they were not
going to be put off by that, for they inten led to have
It. She refused fo let them have it, and ehe -to id
with her back to the stye for that pup.... Toey
then went away, but ~n the following morning the
pig wan minis& Informatiou was .riven to the poime,
aird the pig was lound on the prisouer.' premise..
When the prisoner. came for the pig in the brat
place, prosecutor's wife, who admitted owing
61. 30. to fii.cock, prornies I the prisoners if they
woold call on the following M oiday she would come
to some arrangement with them. The pig was worth
more than the ainouut of the bill.

Air. Willer de:ended, end in oroesoixacnioation
extracted from oroseoutor's wife that Himook had
refused bar credit, but she denied that she had offered
the pig as security for the debt When the polioeman
went to take flieciock in custody, she said she did not
wish him taken for stealing the pie. Her husband
gave him in custody. lie did not know anything
about their transactions.

Fur the defence Mr. tinkle contended the prisoner*
had • belief that they had • right to the pig, and did
not be,.. felonious intent to dant the animal.
Tb• Jury returned a verdict of not guilty, but the
Chalropta adefeed the priaaner• te be oacetal how they
dealt with other people's property.

THE UPWEY MONEY STEALING CASE.
Elizabeth E hounds, on bail,_WlNl indicts.' for steal-
ing sr, the m aim of Edward Herniae I, at Upwey, on
September 26th last.
Mr. B. Posed Lock (instructed by Mr. Weston)
preempted, and Mr. Willes (instructed by Mr. H. N.
[toward) defended.
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Lock, having opened the case at considerable
length, called
Ellen Hemsted, who said she was the wife of
Edward Hemated. and formerly rented • house of the
prisoner'. husband. The house we. • outteve walled
in, and there we.. well facing the road with a door
In it, and the house lay a short diet MOO back from the
yard. The windows and the do d lami the garden.
they were going to leave the house on October sth.
About this time she (net the key, and wee provide
with a new one. In September she came to Williams'
and Co.'. bank at Dorchester and got ClO—a E 5 note
and the rest in gold and silver. rho number of the
note was 3,56 L She pot the money in her cash-box,
which wee in • cupboard in her bedroom. On Tues-
day, 25th, she went to her box and left there a £5 note
and two sovereigns. They moved into their new house
on the following day, and .luring that time she left
he house at frequent intervals. It being a flue
morning she I-it the windows partially open.
On Thursday, 27th, she found in the box only
two half sovereigns in the place of the 1.7. Between
the 25th and the 27th she had not taken away money
from the cash-box. Immediately on discovering her
loss she went and told the prisdner. Witness told her
she intended to give information to the police, and
prisoner used she had better make a good search first,
for she might have mislaid it. Br.l wean the 25th and
the 27th there was nobody in the house besides them-
selves, so far se she knew. On Friday, 230,
Cerullo. Harwood wee assisting her in moving the
things, and while she we. there the puliosomirgeant
o nine and took her to the prisoner's house. ito
October 3rd Bessie Lovelace, the prisoner's daughter,
came to her and pointed out a bit of paper, and picked
It up. She opened it, and found in it four hslf
sovereigns and a eivereign. The paper vvoe colt, but
dry. This was about nine or ten in the morning, end
the ground was wet, se th-re had been a heavy dew
or rain. The paper was lying ou a small pi ,ntity of
dust, which witner bad thrown there on the Monday
previous. She had swept the lust from her.bedro.i LEI

Cross-examined by Mr. Wales: She had lived in
Edmund. home about a twelvemonth. Harwood wee
occasionally snap' .yed by her. She had always been the
beet of friends with the prim:mar. thituber 5.h there
was £3 10e. due to the prisoner's husband for rent
Harwood helped her in moving her goods. The Ship
Inn was between the new house and the old, an-1
during the afternoon of the 25th she went in with her
husband. She gave the keys of the garden and the
front door to the girl Harwood hi give to Mrs.
Edmunds. Witness and her husband returned to the
old house later on, imid received the key., but whether
front Harwood or prisoner she c not say. She
again saw Harwood on the following m ruing. She
had suspected Harwood previously f robliing her of
thing. in the hones, and in c insequence ehe made up
a pud ling and pat some " medicine" into it.
(Laughter.)
By Mr. Lock: She suspected Harwood of stealing a
Christmas pudding and apit of marmalade. She was
with Harwood on the 25th and 26th all the while she
was in the house.
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Caroline Jane Harwood said she was servant t
Mrs. Edmunde before September 27th. On that day
prisoner gave her • £.5 cote enl 5.. She tIS her to
take the note to Weymouth and change it. The 51.
was some of her wages. She told her she had not
better trust it at the bank, but to go to a shop over
water, and buy some °Alio,. She could not remember
the name of the shop, and she changed the ante at the
bank. Prisoner told her to give the name of Lovelace,
as the person who sent the note- On leaving for Wey-
mouth Mrs. Edmunds toil her to go to a man at
Nottington named Jimmy Symea, and ask bim if he
had any money for her. She did s and having called
for her Irian I, Louisa Powell, they went on to Wey-
mouth together. She had the money in a furry puree
(produced.) She went to Eliot's bank. and Ported
stayed outride. At the bank they biked for the name,
and she gave the name of tolV(1111011, as directed by
the prisoner. She received three sovereigns sad f isr
half sovereigns. They stayed about in Weymouth
some time, and walked home between eight and nine
o'clock. When she got home she gave the prisoner
the purse and the money in her daughter'. bedroom,
and in her daughter's presence. On the following
morning prisoner said if there should be any "to-do
about the not. she was to say she had ti.t changed
one, and there should be a home for her as long as she
lived. When she was questioned by the p Moe she
said she had not had the cote, because pns iner told
her to say so. She helped Mr.. Menasted to m 'ye
her things, but she was not in the house at all when
'be warn not there. She remembered being sent by
Mrs. Heinated with the keys of the old house lir the
prisoner. She gave the keys to the prisoner. Witness
had not taken the money in question from the cub-
box. The furry pares belonged to Mrs. Edmunds.
bier owo purse was • leather one, which she purchased
of a cheap-jack at Upwey. She had never bought a
parse at a shop in Park-street.
This vitamin was cloeely examined by Mr. Willes
as to her proceedings in Weymouth, but her evidence
was sot shaken to any material extent.
Louisa Powell, living at Littleatoor, gave corroboes-
, tive evidence.

P.S. Will., P.C. Andrews, and P.C. Matchern
repeated the evidence which has been given en fully
In theee columns The latter proved receiving the
paper, clean sail dry, in which the girl Lovelace found
the money. The duet on which the paper was lying
was wet and sodden.

The elides:Kw of the clerk at Masers. Eliot's b .nk
Mooed the case for the prooncution, &int Mr. Willso
argued there was not the slightest corroboration of
any sort. It was simply toe ir Ilarwood's bare
story.
After considerable deliberation the Court desired
the case to proceed.
Mr. Willem then called Mr. It. J. Wright (Wey-
mouth), and Mr. Francis Mills (Dorchester), to give
evidence as to the prisoner's good character.
Mr. Will., delivered a learthy and forcible speech
for the defence.

The Chairman untamed up, and directs,' the jury to
give the prisoner the benefit of any reaeo.able douht.
Without say hesitation the jury returned a verdict
of not guilty.