The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-03 00:00:00

Legal.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.

EXETER, MONDAY, JOLT 26.

The commission for holding the astlaue fritMie *minty
of Devon was opened on Batiirdatternoon week in
this city by Mr. Baron Watson and Mr. Baron Ckannell.
There were 39 prisoner for trial, and there were no leas
than 18 cases on the Cause lint. Yeeterday the judges
attended divine servioe in the cathedral.

looming To—in—es; co—Ze—n—oe—a7kr. Baron Chan-
nell presiding in the Crown Court and Mr. Baron Wat-
son sitting at Niri

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron CHANNIELL.)
Alfred Mowbray was indieted for having feloniously
uttered • forged £lO Bank of England note to Frederick
Loff, at Exeter, on the 11th of March hat, with intent
to defraud.

Mr. H. T. Cole and Mr. Yong', conducted the prose.
tuition ; Mr. Carter defended the prisoner.
This waa • prosecution instituted by the Bank of
England, and it appeared by the evidence that on the
evening of the 11th of March but the prisoner went into
the shop of Mr. Loft', • bookseller at Exeter, and asked
for • oopy of Milton's works ; several were shown him,
and he selected one at the prise of is. He then said he
wanted some work of lighter reading, and he selected
"The Scattergood Family," at 2s. He then handed
Mr. Loff what appeared to be a £lO Bank of England
note. Mr. Loff looked at it, and suspecting it was •
forged note said he could not give change himself, but
would get it changed. He then went out, and in a few
minutes returned with • policeman and gave the pri-
soner into (melody on • charge of uttering • forged note.
The prisoner at first mid there was some mistake, as lie
was • gentlemen of respectable connexions; but on the
pclioeinan eneseapking to take him Into custody he made
• rash at the door. Ash. wee getting out the policeman
seined him by the collar ; a struggle ensued and they
fell*, the ground, Just as they were falling the pH-
soner was seen to throw sway something like a letter.
It was iinmediately picked up and found to be an
envelope containing five forged Bank of England notes
andthreeforged Um:4es. Another note was subsequently
found on the ground where the struggle took lawn,
also forged, and In his topoost was found another
forged note, On being 'Merged with the offence, at
the station lie said he wail not curry in one respect OA it
would prevent him from &wiring a respectable young
woman.
Hr. Carter having addressed the jury for the prisoner,
Mr. Baron Channell summed up,
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
He was then sentemeed to ten yen& penal servitude,
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CIVIL COURT.—(listore Biro'n WATION.)
1.1.111110L4. 1101.11D111.

Mr, M. Ninlth and Mr, Coleridge were ciouneel for the
plaintiff ; And Mr. H. 'l'. Cole for the defendsnt,
Thle was an cation brought by the plaintiff, a Miss
donna Once Plimsoll, a lady residing At Plymouth,
againet Mr, Haldane to recover ell3o, as the rloo of
part of on estate sold by the plaintiff to the defendant.
The properly had been sold. And a desnieaseuteil con.
vsying the estate, the plaintiff believing it was an oral.
nary oonveysnee, but II afterward, appeared IMO there
wee a Pfle.66 for 6 14114 of the purehase money oontained
in the deed, and the defendant having paid 11/6 refueed
to pay the balance of the £144, for which the property
was sold, Under these elreurnetaneee the present action
WO/ brought. On the part of the defendant it woe
alleged Mint the balana of the purelures money had been
advanced to the mother of the plaintiff for the aupport
of Iliw family, with the assent of the plaintiff before the
property was conveyed.
Al the oonolusion of the plaintiff's ease the learned
Iwlge suggested thet the case wee clearly proved, and
Mr. Cole submitted to a earth., for the plaintiff for
£ll7.

1110011111 P. PICICIOND.
Mr. If. fimith and Mr. Kerslake appeared for the
plaintiff Mr. Collier and Mr. Coleridge for the de.
frndant.
Thus WU an action by Mr. Roger., who ls oboe.
entailer In Railer, against the clefeudant, Mr. Plakford,
who is a dealer in bone, in London, to mover damages
for a short delivery, under a eontraot for soros bones,
whereby the plaintiff was a loser of ft& The deletion
MN that the cargo of bones was oorrectly delivered, but
owing to various causes bones are In a continued state
of deoompoeltion, which roused the deficiency at the
end of the voyage.
The jury retired, and no Doming into court retnrned a
verdict for the plaintiff for klo, on which the learned
Judp stayed execution until neat term, on the applies.
time of defendant's *anneal.

TUSIDAY, JULY 27.

Caows COOAT.—(Befors. Mr. Baron OHANAILL)

Roberi. °mall WU indicted for assaulting William
Hoborton, with Intent to murder him, or with intent to
do him some grievous bodily harm, at Plymouth.
Mr. Kerslake conducted the case for the prosecution.
It appeared that the prisoner was coininitted to the
borough poi at Plymouth in May last to take his trial
for felony. One of the rules of the polio that the pri-
soners, although only committed fur trial, are not
allowed to speak to eaah other, and • warder named
May wee placed in the airing yard to see that the rules
were not infringed. The prisoner upon one occasion spoke
to another prisoner, and May reported him. This cir-
ounistenee appeared to rankle on his mind, and he often
threatened to ...ill the warders, and he took an oppor-
tunity of weaseling a stone in • towel, and when May
passed him he struck him a levers blow with it, and for
this he was punished by the magistrates. At length
the prisoner was tried and convicted of felony, and then
he broke the windows and palled down come pipes
which were in his oell, and he was removed to another
cell. It was the duty of the prisoners to clean out
their cells in the morning, and one morning Hoberton
observed him sweep out a beetle into the corridor, but
without killing it; and Hoberton asked him, aa lie wax
always threatening to kill men why be did not kill the
insect? The prisoner said he would have (dome one's
life. In oonsequenee of the !Remelt upon May the prisoner
was kept upon the diet which was allowed to prisoners
confined for • month only, end he was deprived of his
dinner for Noun dean After the expiration of the
month the prisoner we/ 41lowed • better dish, and Hobe,-
ton told him he would now have his dinner. The pri-
soner replied that he should like so see the man who
would keep his dinner fro% him. One momma

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Hoberton having unlocked Medi door was proceeding
to the next, when prisoner cam% ni and struck him on
the back of bead with something blob turned out to be
• piece of his slate tied with oak? to. He said, "I will
do for them I" The prisoner wai then scoured and put
in irons.
The Governor stated that, hewing • disturbance, be
went and found Hoberton strikia the prisoner with his
fists, and he Will obliged to speakvery sharply to him to
get bim to desist. He asked therrisoner if he was mad?
The prisoner said "he was not mad. Hoberton bad
spoken eneeriagly to him, and frcm that moment he had
determined to take his life. He Mould have the lives of
Hoberton and May, but he word do ciothing to him
(the Governor)."
The prisoner, in his defence, add, that Hoberton had
Irritated him in every poulble wiy.
The learned Baron said, that at assault had been ootn•
milled there could he no doubt, and the only question
for the Jury was with what intent that assault had been
oonditted.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of the intent to do
pievouli bodily harm.
Two former °doh:Along of felimy (stealing coats) were
proved mallet the prisoner. He de unteded to ten
years' penal servitude.
Juin Indio was Indicted for assaulting Joanne Bolt,
with intent to murder or do grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Cox conducted the OMNI ha the prueuontion.
It appeared that Bolt end his daughter Joanna live in
alone cottage at Bamford Sidney. About four years
ago a burglary was °audited in their oottege, and the
prisoner Wee taken up and oonvided of the offence, and
was sentenoed to four poen' petal servitude. A short
time since he we. discharged, and he then vowed yea
pane° against the prououtrix. About 8 o'clock In the
morning of the 12th of July the prououtrix Was sitting
alone in the cottage, and hearing a null*, she opened the
door, and then saw the iirliconer standing olue to the
door. He directly struck her with %stick, saying now
he would do for her, He knocked her down, and eon.
tinued beating her. !Ike begged for niercy, but lie said
he would "how her none. He still beet her, and elm
then feigned to be dead, and he gave her several other
blows and then said, " There, you—, that's a settler
for you." The prisoner went upetaire, and theiwur
girl, attar al ettempti, suociuded in getting tiff the
floor I clue opened the door end went out and lucked the
door after her, anti she went about a quarter of a mile
to a schoolhouse where her unole lived. Blue was coup
pletely °ovoid with blood, which was flowing from
wound. in her head. An alarm was given and ponions
proceeded to the cottage, They found a large pool of
blood outside the door, nein opening the door they
found the floor covered with blood—"Ilotal runiiisig
nVpr rho .k...... .tykryrwinit upstairs aim alopr. ear, oh.
prisonor with a stick In his hands, lie instantly lumped
out of the window and rim away, pursued for some dim
tense, and evaded his pursuers, but WU taken shortly
afterwards in an uninhabited bode. He was upetelrs,
looking out of the window. Borne one said to him,
" Ouppoeing you had killed her I" The prisoner said,
'lt would have only been spoiling good hemp to bang
ice if I did." All the boxes and things in the upstairs
room of Bolt's cottage were strewed about. When In
the custody of the pollee the prisoner said, "I hope idie
Is not dead for rope's the only thing I fear." He also
maid he hoped she would not die ; that he had taken out
his knife to out her throat, but he lied altered his mind ;
that he lid been brotight up seven times, but this wits
the worst ease of the lot. He also said he heti thought
to hove found money there, and then he should here
taken the train mid gone into iliteffordshire, end got
into the oollieries, There was blood on his clothes.

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The girl appeared in court with her head bound up
with bandages. Her sloths' were produced, and they
appeared to have been saturated with blood. The
prisoner had told • pen n that Joanna Bolt had been
the muse of his transportation, and if she did not keep
out of his sight he would he the death of her. At the
lookup the gaoler said to the prisoner, he was sorry to
see him there again. He said, " Last night he wee
drunk, and this morning I got up and went to the house.
I thought I would be revenged for the four years."
A surgeon, who was Galled in to see the girl, said Rhe
wee lying on a bed, sensible, covered with blood. She
had nine contused wounds on the head and one on
the wrist. Several of the wounds exposed the bone.
She vomited, indicative of concussion of the brain. The
wounds were inflicted with a stick. Her life was in
danger, and she was very ill. She oould not bear to tra-
vel by railway from the effect of the concussion. He
thought, however, that in thue, with great care, she
would recover.
• The learned JUDGE in this cam left it for the jury to
say with what Intend the prisoner had committed this
Rot. His Lordship animadverted on the high courage
of the girl, who was 28 yeti"' of age.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, with intent to
murder. . . .

Judgment of death was then reoorded against the
prisoner.
The JUDGE told the prisoner the sentence would not
be earned Into effect, but he must expeot to pass the rest
of his life in oonenement or abroad.