The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-11-07 00:00:00

WARELIAti.

COURT Lirr.—Low-day and view of Frankpledge of
tho manor and borough of Warelliun, of Mr. J. H. Col-
man, was hell at the New Town ball, Wareham, on
Friday, bolero Mr. James Trick, deputratewerd. The
several offiser were appointed for the ensuing year, via. :
Carniters and aletuters, Messrs. Spicier and Bow ;
breed weighers, Hours. Gadsden and Best • surveyors
of chimneys and mantles, ?Jess». Poynter and F.
Harahallsay ; scavenger, Mr. A. Yearsley • hayward,
Hr. Hibbs ; bailiff of the court, Mr. Fran;pton. At
three o'clock the jury and their friends dined at the
Red Lion lintel.

Gouzirr Perry Sessions. Tuesday.—Before the But
of Eldon and N. Bmi, Esq.
George Mastersigs, Mary alan Hecior, and Name
llec:or, all of Borden, were brought up, on remand, at
the magistrates' clerk's erne& charged with breaking
Into the dwelling.house of Thorns, Bunn, of Norden,
woodman, on September 21 (Wooribury.bill Falr-day),
sal ete.ling thorefroot • quantity nf smearing apparel
and other articles of the value of £.5. From the
oviden given it appears that the prisoners live at
,olue little distance from the prosecutor's whose
resilenoo they could see from their own house, and that
on this day they saw the prosecutor and bis family leave
home for the fair. No sooner had they observed this
than they went to his house, and forcing open the
pantry window, enterei the place, and carried away
property of thr value before mentionaL The prisonen
wore apprehended on Wednesday last at Hungerford, in
Berke, with some of tho property in their possession,
and having been brought here by Supt. &les, they were
on this day folly committed to ttke their trial at the
ensuing Dorset Quarter Session&
lionounit PETTY SPLESIONE, November 4.—Before
Kr. Charles Willcox (Mayor),and Mr. Stephen Bennett (Justice.)
Joins Passe, landlord of the New Inn, on the quay, was
%wanton.' and convicted on (ho information of P.C. Paul,
for keeping his house open n Sunday morning, the 20th ult.,
during Illegal hours for the sale of burr. Fined in the mitigated
penalty of 20v, and So. coda.
WILLIAM SAIIIDIILE Was also summoned, and convicted OD
the ame information, for having been proem, In the home,
not being a servant or inmate thereof, at the .me hour when
it might by law to have been closed. Fined in the like with. '
gated penalty of 20s. and 5... costs.
Tii lot cage Is the first conviction which has taken puce Other
at (lie Borough or C I tutty Petty seolons,for the Wareham
U der a recent arid very wholesome clause (ICI) in the it
s, I 33 Viet., Lap 27, and which by desire of the Bench the Town
Cork (Mr. I, Finite:) read out after the conviction, to those
pr,ent in the hall, viz., " Where any person licensed under
any of the said recitol Acts to sell beer, cider, or wine by
retail, or anv person licoioed under the Act a the 9th year of
licorice IT. is convicted of keeping his house upon for the ale
of or of selling beer, wine, sp rits. or any other °tameable
liquor, or of suffering the same to be drunk in such house, at
any time during which such house ought bylaw to be closed.
any person (other than the servants or inmates of such house)
present in such house at such time, shall, unless he account
for his presence to the satisfaction of the Justices having cog-
nizance of the case, be liable on son:unary conviction, to •
penalty not exceeding Li for each offence." This novel enact-
ment. it will at once he soon, affords very strong protection
to all decent and wellatsposed landlords, and maim the real
offenders in such CMOS Justly liable themselves.
In the two foregoing came, the penalties and meta were paid
down immediately.
BENJAMIN °Karr was summoned on the la:or:nation of P.C.
Parsons, for being drunk and riotous in Westatniet,in the very
early hours of Sunday morning, the 28th ult., sit., between
12 an.l I am—Defendant did not appear, and the case was
heard in hi. absence, on proof of personal service of the sum-
mons. llis mother appeared for him, and wee allowed by the
Mayor to make her own statement about it. It appearing that
defendant was an old offender, he was fined the full penalty
of 40s, and tit costs, or in default a month's imprisonment
with hard labour.—A week's time given to pay.
Mr. &les, Superintendent of Wareham police, appeared in
support of all to informations heard.