The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-05-24 00:00:00

AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TITEPAY, MAY 24. 1870

WIKBUBITL
PIM SmettlOirs, Fridey.—(Prement C. J. Parke.
11;,(Chnirtnan) Rev, Can J. Glyn, Rev. J. Austen, and
Ma -General Michel.
',urn gramme. -CATO tants Dowasev, of bytebee4
Minstec,Mopkeeper, Climbs Cutter nf ninon, dairyman and
Thommffurehme of the mine parish. shopkeeper were severally
toed LI and f.mei for haying in their pcimemion unjust
werran licssano.—.Ctitatra lIAPOOOD, of Whnborne. was
surantoned by the Relieving officer al the Wlmborne Union to
show muse why an order should not be made upon him to
maintain kb s wife, ebenteable to the Union. 11 r. 'honer
=rfor tbe Board (louden,. anti Have in °Milne of the
m.. whir+ It appeared that in det,ber tut thiotigt:
brutal treatment the poor woman received front her husband
dm wee driven to a state of mental derarrrement, and on
several awasions hod to take refuge for the nht in • ihriner'"
barn. On one occasion she wa. found by Sir s. Oreatlved's
keeper in an Insensible Ant. Aline !n a bog, partly undressed,
has-mg gone up to her mid Ile in water, and wee then retestse
first to • public house, and frost thence to the ladon, where
elle has remained ever since. A warrant was then issued against
the defendant and he sees eenteneed to two months' imorbetn-
Mehl The page woman Ira. by the magistrates request
brought int court, and etpremed her belief that if she
rfturned to live with her husband he would rspczt Ms brutal
sonduct and be in danger of her life. She would rather
remain in the Union. The defendant. whow conduct in court
Was very unbecoming, mid he was willing for his wife to come
back but she might do as she liked. lie would treat her as
well as any woman need wish to be fmated. The Bench con-
sidered that the woman had given • hlfileient maw" why.be
objected to return to her husband and ordered him to pay
Ca ed. per week, the rod of her maintenance In the Union-
Defendant was formerly In the Royal Marines and is now in
the receipt of • pension of Is. Id. per day. Be was also ordered
to pay Ita. 0,1. costa.
Jails [(impairer was fined Ids and Se costs for being
drunk and behaving indecently at Long HAM.
Funnies deem. of the same village. aged 14 years. wan
Oned It.. including caste for being drunk and Arnim.
Jells Cola, of Constitution-hill, was fined LI and 7s. colts.
In default one month's imprisonment, for being drunk and
riotous. It appeared thM • summons had been taken out by
the defendant's friends aganut hint for an assault; but this was
withdrawn.
TMODIAB Iltawsrr wee fined to.. costs remitted, for having
two hones straying on the hichsay In the parish of Shapw;ck
WILLIAM LI TILL' WAN fined fls. including meta for wilful
damage by tatting eighteen loads of gravel from a pit belonging
to the parieh of Keynettone.
Joe. Miami, a ragrant, wan committed for one month for
hes Prig and tearing up his clothe..
WILLIAM CI'LL, labourer, was brought up in custody charged
with embezzling various dims of money, the property of his
meter, me Rem,e ward, dairyman, Colehill. - Mr. Tanner
defendesL—The prisoner sat emplo,ed to sell milk hi the town
of Wimborne, and it was • part id his duty to pay over any
money he reoeived to prosecutor's daughter who kept lb* books.
Evidese• was given which showed that he had received money
from different parties, and not accounted for the same.— After
• part of the evklerios had been given, Mr: Tanner said the
prisoner, by his advice, would plead guilty and throw hinwell
on the mercy of the court. lie elected to be tried by the Bench,
and on bin master pleading for him to he dealt with as leniently
iss WWI nalttet..voi to shoe months' imprisonment, had
the time the Beach had power to commit him.