The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-01 00:00:00

WIXBORNA.

PETTY Benson, Friday.— Mastetrates present: Mr. C.
J. Parke, the Res. C. J. Glyn, the Rev. G. V. Garland the
Hon. Rrelyn Ashley, Mr. R. H. Mourn and Mr. H. F.
Br uneker.

—Will:en Ushgordi lahounw, of Wimborne, summoned
for being drunk in Churrhedreet on the Bth inst.
was represented by his i.other.—PO. Brooke proved the
tale, and defendant was lined ss. and eadd, 81. to be paid
on Welder.
dewy leunderf, a labourer, of Hanaprestoia, pleaded
'nifty to being drank at Winiborne on the Bth of
December, sad ',ma ordered to pay 10e. fine sod?. meta on
Monday. _

Pres& Deekweed, of Sturmtaster Marshall, wee
summoned by the excise for keeping • dog without •
license.—Mr. Tozer appeared for the Eons* and Mr.
Trevanion for the Intendant and admitted the oSence.
He said the dog did not belong to defendant, hut it was
out sfrith him. and he had already been tined tl for the
trespes•—The Bench inflicted the 'lowest penalty Cl 6s,
Itaiut But and trei &Mrs, two men working on the
railway, were summoned for trespassing on search of
PM, on land at f„:orfe Mellen on the Ilth of December.
Mr. 11. T. Trevanion appeared for the defenoe. —The
evidence of Stephen Heed, the keeper, showed that
defendant's did not leave the railway, and the Bench
diamiesed the case.

Thomas Barnes. Fronds Banns. and Mows iseterema.
labourers, of Moreton, were summoned for being quarrel-
some and disorderly at the Itid Lion Inn, Aimee, and
refusing to quit when requested by the landlord.—Mr.
John Doininy said defendant's camq to his house with 7
or 8 other men about quarter put 5 in the evening on
December 13th. They had several paves of beer, and the
other men left about 7 o'clock. Defendant asked for
more heir, and he ref need to serve them. Thomas Barnes
and Maaterman more at him, and he told them to bare
his home, hut they refused. This we. the third time
within 8 or 9 months that defendant, bed abueed him and
a:Cued to leave his house. He should not have served
defendants at all if they had come to his house alone.—
John Arnold said he went into the Red Lion on the even-
ing named and Francis Barnes knocked him down.—The
Bench fined defendant. 4k and cat. 7s.
A man named harem, of Holt Wood, and two men
named ffentionon and Loads,. of Horton, were summoned
for cruelly beating and torturine • cat, the property of
Henry Raveled, of Qualm), by setting • dog to worry the
lain. and cutting off it. tail at Hortbn on the 10th inst.
Mr. Trevanion appeared for Loader end Hardinian.
Ingram did not appear Emily Reviles said she went to
Horton on the 10th of December, and her cal followed her
aa far am the white gate leading to Mr. Newman's Farm.
She left the cat there. When she returned elm heard the
barking of a dog and the shaking of the hedge just before
she got to the same gate. She pared through the same
We and beard the crime of her cat. She recognised
Hardimaa, and called him out and told him that we. her
cat hews. hunting with his dog, and that he would have
to stand the consequences if he did any injury to the cat.
He replied 'lce not got the cat, Minas." She watched,
and maw several men beating the hedge. The men went
off toward. Horton, and she heard the cries of the rat
and the harking of the dog 'till they were out of hearing.
She could swear to Hardiman and the dog. She after-
wards received the dead eat from George Maidment, and
It had its tail cut off, wee yes 7 much bruised, and
appeared to have been worried to death.—Crose.examised
hy Mr. Trevaaion : It was dark; but ahe gram very close
to Hardiman. Her husband did to to Earthman the
same night and ask him if he had been in the road that
night —George blaidment, an old man living at Horton.
aud Ingram sold him the cat for a black rabbit on the
evening of the 10th instant It wee dark, and be gave
&I. for the cat, Ingram said he had just killed It—By the
Deputy Chief Constable: He might have told the polio,
man that the three men summoned were bunting UM Cllt
In the hedge. Cruse-eraiiiined by Mr. Trevaralon : It
was so dark that be could their feces, but be knew their
voices. He could swear to Hardiman's rob:in-IKr.
Trevanlon, in addressing the Bench for the defence, said
Ingram was really the culpable party, and Loader and
Hardiman had nothing to do with the cruelty—Daniel
Lockyer said he was at the Horton Inn with the defend-
ant. on the evening In question. He walked home with
Maidment, and at the Newman's gate two doge moan-
protying the defendant, harked in the hedge. Hardman
called his dog beck. When begot to the spot he saw
something in the hedge, and Ingram caught it and
carried It on his arms. No one else touched the cat, and
they left it alive in Ingram'. arms. Loader asked for the
eat to take home to his mother. but IMP.m iaid he
wanted it Loader. and he both asked Ingrain not to hurt
the cat—The Bench fined Ingrain 110 e., dnmages Es, and
costa, and Loader and Itardiseaa were Deed 10a. each,
111. id, damages, and costs.