The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-05-22 00:00:00

POOLE.

TUE REGISTRAILAIDP or BiRTn5, M %ART WEN, AND
DEATHS.—This office having become vacant through the
death of Mr. John Adey, who hail held the post for a few
months only, a special meeting of the Board of Guardians
was held on Thursday to appoint his successor. The
Guardians present were :—The Chairman (Mr. J.
Hayman), the Vice-chairman (Mr. F. Milltis), Messrs. .1.
W. Buckley, E. C. Oakley, W. Meadus, C. Paterson, and
C. M. Crumpler (elected guardians), and Messrs. W.
Pearce, C. J. Stone, T. Slade, jun., G. H. Gulch, and J.
B. Durell (guardians ex-officio). There were five applicants
for the appointment, viz., Messrs. C. H. Batts, T. H.
Balson,A. K. Harris,G. C..harlton,and W. Bristowe. Upon
the proposition of Mr. Oakley, seconded by the N ice
chairman, and supported by the Chairman, the Board
unanimously elected Mr. Calls registrar of births and
deaths, and the Clerk (Mr. J. Slade) also cimferred the
appointment of Registrar of Marriages upon Mr. Ralf's.
The district includes the parishes of Poole, Longfleet, and
Parkstone, and the emoluments amount to about .£l5 a
year.

..IMPVDENT ROBBERIES By A SERVANT.

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At the Petty Sessions On Thursday a servant girl narzed
Sarah Sticktand was charged on remand, before Messrs.
W. Pearce, C. .1. Stone. and J. B. Duren, with robbing
her employer, Mr. W. Barnes, draper, of High-street.—
Mr. Barnes stated that as the prisoner, who was his
servant, was getting ready to go out on Thursday evening,
his sister had occasion to go to her room to speak to her.
In consequence of a communication he received from his
sister he accused prisoner of theft when she returned in
the evening, and demanded to see what she had inside
her box. Accompanied by his sister and one of the young
people in the house he went to prisoners room and loond
the hat, feather, ribbon, bands, and three dozen reels of
cotton produced. Prisoner at first .1.241 having taken
the things, and named shops at which die said they had ,
been Purchased by her mother-in-law and herself. Some
of the things bore his name. He askml prisoner where
she got the waterproof she had worn out that evening, and I
she said she bought it at Bournemouth. He asked her to
show him the waterproof, and she said she wore it out :
and met her sister and lent it to her. She eventually
produced the waterproof and acknowledged having taken
it and the things found in her box. A wrap belonging to
one of the young people in the house was missed next
morning, and he accused prisoner of taking it, which she
: at first denied doing, but afterwards admitted having
done no, and said she wore it out and lost it. Ile had
reason to believe the prisoner had other thitge and on
Monday be obtained a search warrant. The value of the
things produced was about £3.—Mrs. Annie Barnes said
she returned from London on Friday evening, and in con-
sequence of what she heard she told prisoner on Saturday
she would have to go, but she should like to look in ,her
box first. She found laces, ribbons, and several more Tress
bands bearing her name in prisoner's box- She took the
things away and placed them in the shop. She sent
prisoner away directly, and told her she should send the
police for her on Monday morning, but she did not at the
time intend to do so. On Sunday she saw prisoner pass by
several times wearing a skirt belonging to one of the
young ladies in the house. Prisoner was also wearing
another waterproof.—P.S. Beaken said he executed a
search warrant at the house occupied by John Bolt, a
fishes man, on Monday afternoon. Prisoner was there,
and in her box he found the skirt produced, which Mrs.
Barnes identified. —Prisoner pleaded guilty, and prosecutor
asked the Bench to deal as leniently SS they possibly could
with her. Having lost her mother perhaps her surround-
ings were not so good as they might have been, and he
thought she may have been tempted by love of dress.
Prisoner had been in his service about five weeks, and she
had borne a good character hitherto. —The magistrates
paned the lenient sentence upon prisoner of two months'
imprisonment in Poole Gaol, with hard labour.

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that D.R.V.—This corps mustered at the Armoury
on Tuesday last to meet their new Adjutant. There
were present—Captain Lloyd-Jones, Quartermaster-
Sergeant Sudden, eight sergeants, and 41 rank and
file. Headed by the band the corps marched to the
Grammar School yard, sod in consequence of the
Adjutant not putting in his appearance, the men were
put through various movements which were executed
very creditably. The monthly Challenge Cup of the
first team were shot for at Radbury on Wednesday
last, when the first cup was won by Quartermaster-
Sergeant Sudden with a score of 67.
solurn Spas SOCIETS. —A meeting was held at
the Town Hell on Thursday last, the 17th inst. The
chair was taken ateight pm. by the Rev.— Phinn, who
'Wed very briefly the object of this Society. The