The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-16 00:00:00

WIMBORNS.

&WEARY INTBOYRIENJE. —A parish meeting was held
at the Oddlelloirs' Hall, on Thursday morning, for the
impose of forming cart of the parish of Wimborne into
• special draining district, purenut to eectiou 5 of the
Sanitary Ant of PAL Tn. Rev. Prebendary °aglow
oesupied the chair. The meeting was not at all wall
attended, few, beyond the oommittee appointed at the
lad nestioe, being priment.—Mr. H. Chialett prodased
a plan of Wimborne, upos which the boundaries of the
Intended district were defined. The bounder, line
included all the hooseho:d property of the town, sod
all property likely to he built upon. Within 'hie
district the um:tittle will have full power, to work,
end do what is nuessary for the sanitary coodition of
the town. —After • few Asereationa by Mr. W. Druitt,
In which he exprused a hope that the town wouM
benefit by the labours of the aonunittea, Mr. T. Custard
proposed—" That the plan of the district shown to the
vestry, with the line of boundary method in red, will
thereon be the special drainage district, in atmordause
with section 5 of the 13.0it,u7 Act of 1866.e-14.
Brown sounded the proposition, which wu tarried
unanimously—Mr. Chialett said that the drainage
district agreed to, with he boundaries defined, must be
advertised for three months ; and then if as many as
twenty ratepayers, living within the district, were
dissolisfied, or thought therneelree aggrieved, they mould
appeal.—The public will, therefore, have full sipper.
' tualties of becoming acquainted with the district, Me
bestmluies, and its limits, before the sommittee enter ,
lapoo their actual labours. cordial role of thanke to
the rev. chairman closed the mousdings.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.— Witham Omer and Joseph
P. %Mk two men well known in Wimborne and the
neighbourhood, were brought before the Bench on
Wednesday afternoon, charged with Istrelmittiefio high.
way robbery on the psr•on of James Ford, a groom is
the employ of Mr. Nutt* on Saturday, 6th inst., about
owe (Moak, a.m., at • place called Clampsta, near
Whams'. it sppoup that Fold NH his sliasloor's

in • dogcart on the morning in qnation. to meet hi,
master at the Winaborne Railway Stag on, who WA.
coining down by the night mail. On getting about hell
way to Wirrhorne, near High Hell, and Glom to the
bridge that erosion the Allen, three men sprang front the
Sides of the road. Coe seised the horse by the lista-
hand rein, another by the left, while the tidal seised
imams by the leg. Neither spoke. One of the men
then quitted the borne, amended the oat, add, with the
insistence of the one who had hi Id of proemial:or', log,
lit led him to the ground. ['jaunts were then seised from
behind, • knee Wee put it his balk and a pinto' or short
gun noodled into his face, the man holding it demanding
his money or his life. Witness eried out " Murder"
three tirreis. The prisodir who hell the iiistol or gun
then unbuttoned witness's coat, 'mooed hi, hand into
his right hand trousers pocket nnh then into lois left,
and drew from the latter a purse containing £7 go., four
penny postage stamp.; and some human hair. Witness
voiced them to give him book part,of his money, butthey
refused, and left him, going in the dir ction of High
Hall. As soon as he sonic' remount thedogoart, wiinoss
proceeded to the otation, met his mmter, and 101 l Min
' all had happened. Hexed his mentor then waited upon
Sept. Hammond, ant gave information of the robbery
end a deuription of two of the men. Witnesa said th•t
b. bat a good view a two of the highwaymen, as they
held him ales, tt the eart lamps; bet the third he could
not d 'scribe, as he never left tho borse's head, and the
night was very dark. Front the description he gave of
the prisoners, the two men, Gower and Pounds, were
apprehended on Sunday; and, upon being confronted
with the witness, be inatantly identified them al two 01
the men who bed robbed him. He was sure be was not
mistaken, as be had &mole oppportunity wile they
were robbing bun of sewing their feature, and drem.
Roth the pri.oriers live together, the police-constables
Rtookley sad Chin, who apprehended thew, found in the
house two donkey bate end a eoat that witurom said wet
like Vie hot mid • mat worn by the inantwho held the
pistol at his heed. The four 'tamps were found near
the *cone of the robbery, some hours after, bye carter
named Reuben Hart; and, upon being produced, witneos
identified them ea his by some hair sticking to them,
and also by some words on the margin. yin, "The right
aide of the letter." In reply to the Bench, witness said
that Pounds had a son in the employ of Mr. Settle, and
the, be elept at the honor. None of the looney hen
helm removed. The prisoners, who veherd-rtily pre-
tested their innocence, were both oommitted for trial, bail
being refused.