The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-05 00:00:00

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AND AGRICULTURAL if

re. cm• a obtaining 100 e by lam Prolime. t"" Mr.
Spooner ase then breVit on.
Mr. Spooner evidence given on Monday inn then mad
over, and Mr. George asked the Bench to adjourn. In order
that they might obtain an sower from Meson. Barrie, el Caine,
ae to whether they bad recommended herr to Mr. Spooner.
The Bench rid lbw were Do oenr the Unions that they did
not like to adjourn,
Yr. Mentord said he oould prove that Mn. Blundell had
mitten to Menem Harm

Mr. Reynolds was then
Mr. George: You see Mn. Blundell there T-.-Ar Yee, Q.
Is she your .rile'—A. Nest Wrofhtork Mr. Itortolda
confluued: I never autioeWM Mr. Mundell to *dr lity
credit for °Ma'am" goods, or use my wife's name.
Ann horn.: While Mra Blundell was lodging at Mr.
Thiswhet Mute. sbirmeititlintaheimiPm4rod.ourtuneralintobalgiruliendteshheenhaancould.
Thisinorotmotrii.
&erected to Mr. or Mrs. Reynolds. Port we. Woo! Int °D.
Mon was boiled and sent ...ay by Mrs. Blundell, ts
Meuter Thi. ham
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the go.nl.
were add:reeled to Mrs, Blundell. The ham was cut out from
the Lamm in the house.
Mr. Reynolds did not think he hod bought a ham of Mr.
Spooner. hut he mould not be certain, for he bad bought bacon :
but he did hot have any cooked aud scot to Master Blundell.
Mr. Weldon! asked whether the Bench considered there was
any false pretence?
The Mayor thought one of the false pretences was eery
strongly proved.
Mr. Welsford applied that the iiriooner might be allowed a
chair, • trch was panted.
Mr. Spooner erues-examlned : The first transaetion I had
with Mra Blundell was on the 15th June, lie, to th amount
11d.; thlo I served myself. This was the first time I saw
Mrs. Blundell mum.. wh n priooner re 'resented herself al
Mrs. Reynolds, and mid the was recommended by Mr. Harris
When would articles are purchmed. we enter the &Wrens ;
but when only one the addrem Is marked on the parcel. I
don't recollect Mr,. Blundell buy Mg any bacon value CI,
and paying for it. I do not believe I void her any booutt
before the 15th of June, I have not the sltillGod
recollection of serving her before the 15th June. It Is
very untasuai for pentane to nuy sa worth of bacon for • family
stone time. lira Blundell has bought to that amount, but site
has not paid for it. On her first Introduction Mrs. Bluirdell mid
she had applied to Maws. Marti. for bacon, but they did not
execute retail or ere and referred her to him (Mr spooner.
Nothing more WU mid, except m to the price of the article.
He mked het where it should be oent, and sbereptied to °lira
Rea 'wide, Me 3, Portland-place." With that she left the shop.
Ido not think any more parasol. On the second occasion
nothing pamed exorpt about buyiug, but the mine direction§
were given as before, where It was to be sent. On the
occond occasion he .114 not recollect ..king " Shall I send the
man to thermic place.. before." Ido not recollect what she
mid.. to the sending of the good.; but I should imagine I
asked, and the good. were to be sent as before. There is no
doubt the name of Mro. Reynolds wen mentioned on • soda-
gamut accarion ; but I cannot swear to it. The goods were
ale aye directed either to Mr. or Ilr...:eynold.. Ido not re..l-
- a little tdri ceming down in timelier with an -.flier ton • scrap
of p.pm. Tyre pa:tither mumtron were mpriled by my young
man in Mr.. Blundell's name; but I can't te I where they were
. .

On looking at his book. Mr.Spooner said : The . were
mot to 3,Port6nd-place. The accoont was sent in at MI Imam,
fird or second week in October, and at the end of the
year It w sent In wain.
Sono note. 'mitten by prisoner to Mr. flpoonm were pro-
duced, the writing of which Mrs. Blundell admitted to be
him
My. Spooner : On receiving 0114 of the note. I sent back an
amount of tbs, of nausage. to Met Blundell's, and sald that
au the only amount I had against her. Miss Deeming
waited for the amount, and I mat h. beck by her. On the
following morning I rescind another note and with it the
amount be hid mat to Mr. Reynold., and the little ac.
count for the mumps. When I found out abottt the
matter I wrote to Me. Reynolds and Mrs, Mundell
Galled, I charged her with having obtained goof.
on false pretence.. She raid PP many things
in an.wer tome very eirtrmedinary thing., that
I dont know what the Bald. We were very non hot at it;
but she wee the hotter of the two, Did not add that I would
charge her with obtaining by false pretences unless the money
were paid. I went out of the shop and left her, thinking the
, mi. ht require rod. Next morning he told the young man he
might go up and new what Mr.. Blundell talked about It ; but
nothing vi. mid about getting payment for th • gocals. Ido not
neolinet whether anything ewe esld about getting an acknow.
ledirement. The shopman'fl name is .1. B. Fuskett, and he
brought • receipt Iron) Mrs. Blundell, by way of sok work:do-
men• He had made no effort to obtain the money, and
taken no step. in the ,natter.
By If r,aeorge There wean,, doubt in my mind that on the
amond and other occasions. she ordered me to mend the good. to
Mr.. Reynold.. The only account he sent to Mrs. Mundell
that for thipmumges ; all the other he had against Mr. Reynolds,
In answer to question. from the Bench,
Mr. Weleford saki that Mr.. Blundell had written, "Mrs,
Blundell enelises Mr. Spooner'. bills, and having ordered the
wenh herself she believe+ the ditto be right." one of I hole bills
am. the one mid. out to Mr. Reynolds. . . .

11 Mr. Weldon' : Mrs.. Bandell wanted to trander the
ao,ount front Mr... Reynolds i., honed.
. . . .

Mrs, Iteynolia.ile—pd that Mr.. Ithintisil %he hail
,trtlerod the things. and Mr. Spimnar hal no right to put
them down to Mr. &Todd&
. . . . . . .

Mr. Welsford, tor the prisoner, at the close of the
evidence, said that in order to sub4satiate a charge of
false pretence, it was nemesary to show that merepre.
.entationt bat been made. The charge was that lits
Blundell had made false representations to Mr.
Spooner, but she had made no representations at all;
what she had dose, @Geordies to the only statement
Mr. Spooner dared to to.lts was, that priaoner had
requested the things to be sent to No. 3, Portland•
place but this was merely in answer to a passing
question as to where they were to be sent. Thererore,
he contended, the whole of the circumstanoes were
greatly in favour of the prisoner. If sbe h•A acted in
the way she sea' repreaented to have done, she mnat
have been boiliolll. Where was there • person more
likely to be known than Mrs. Reynolds! Here was a
person living in the town fore number of years, and it
would be absurd to Popp*" that prisoner would order
goods in the name of Mrs. Reynolds who had lived in
the town for so many years. Mr. Moore did not
&Vernet to say that Mrs. Blundell said she was Mrs
Reynolds. There must be the fact that the prisoner
must have said something to Mr. Spooner to induce
him to beleee she was Mrs. Reynold.. He contended
that her directing him to send goods to Portland.plaee,
did not make a ease of false pretence. If this
w.s enough to commit the prisoner for trial, woe betide
the unfortunate visitor to Weymouth who had to direst
eradesinen to send the good. they ordered to their
different lodging houses. i the Belvidere Terrace, and
elsewhere, and none of them would be safe in doing
so. Mr. Spooner was open to the charge of carelessness in
not making due enquiries. He asked the Bench, before
deciding to send the prisoner to Dorchester gaol, to
await her trial, because unfortunately her friends were
at a diatom*, and it was not at all likely she would be
able to obtain bail in time to prevent her going to
prison—he asked the Benoit to consider well before
sending pri.oner for trial, because there were hoodreds
of persons liable to be brought upon a similar oharge.
Mr. Spooner, by having allowed the matter to stand
over so long, showed that be had treated the affair as a
mistake. Mr. Spooner's 'baptise had received from
prisoner a paper 'thigh Mr. Spooner had with his own
hands aecepted as • promise of payment. It was
as follows —"I: promise to pay on demand, Veers.
Spooner and Go the sum of 23 14s. Sd., for value re•
relived, on Tuesday next, at twelve o'clock." Mr.
Spooner tnsatel this paper as an acknowledgment and
pet it in his till, and allowed the matter to go on for
months. Had this money been paid, they would never
have heard anything about receiving goods under false
pretence; but Mr. Spooner wished to make the Ca. as
strong as possible &rainst the prisoner.
The Mayor I must say Mr. Spooner gave his
evidence v. ry fairly.
Mr. Wel.ford continued and quoted Goodall's ease
R.g. v. Joltiasoe, wherein it was laid down that the
pretence must be of some existing fact, made for the
purpose of inducing the prosecutor to port with his
property. Could the Bench suppose that any jury
would believe that the worth spoken after the gasds
hat been obtained were an inducement for Mr. spower
to part with his property. If the Betels thought so,
he (Mr. Wadsford) must atate positively that he did not
believe any twelve
,iurynien would come to the cooolu.
sion that any such inducement had been held out.
In reply to the Mayor, Mr. Welsdord said that there
was not *tittle of evidence as to any false pretence in
th• other case. In the absence of Mies Thome. he did
not think it would he iodation,' to make any remarks on
the ascend cue.. . _ .

Th. Bench then retired for about a quarter of an
hour, and on their return
The Mayor said prisoner had been defended most
ably, but the Bench had only to decide if tlsere wits •
sollleient case of suspicion to justify them in sending
prisoner for trial. She woold stead committed on the
charge of larceny in converting to her use goods of
which the was the bailee, leaving the solicitor to the
prosecution to press the charge of false pretence if be
thought proper. As to Mr. Spooner's ease, the
Bench had had some little digestant:et ; but Mr.
Spooner had given evidence that she had given her order
;c such a manner as to lead him to believe that she was
Mrs. Brunel hi, and all the entries in his book showed
that the goods were entered to Mr. Reynolds. The
Bench oould not see any ground why she ought Oct to
be sent for trial on that case also. She was therefore
'Dominated to the sessions for trial
Mr. Welsford enquired whetLer if he could find out.
stsntial bail, the Bench would allow the prisoner to be
at large.
Tne Mayor : Yee, certainly.
Mr. Welsford said the prisoner was in • very odor.
tuna's position, she had not • single friend in the
town.

The Mayor said the ease ins not like that of a
stranger wining for the first time into the town. Her
name was well known to the %radiomen, and there were
reasons why she should not make use of it. (Great
applause.)
The prisoner asked to be allowed to speak to Mo.
Reynolds, and on that lady coming to her, prisoner
Aux* hands in the warmest manner, aid engaged in an
earnest °coronation, which lasted for some little time.
. . .

Tbe prisoner af tereards left with the policeman ;;;;;
she had borrowed. saying that she did not wish to
defraud any one.
FRlDAT.—Before the Mayor (R. N. Howard, Esq.),
and J. Pox, Ere.
grim Rem-E.—Jam Talhor, • married woman, but who
hi& left her hisband, was brought up by P.C. llanalvini for
'toiling an umbrella value Its. 13d. from Me shop of Mr. °bed
Carter, St. Mary-street. It appeared that prisoner sent into
the shop • little girl to parttime maw trimmingii, and while
Mr.. Carter waa serving the girl, prbioner came juet inede and
Pretended to be looking at IMMO things in the window. An
umbrella stand was does by, and from this prisoner very
cleverly filched an umbrella. Mrs. Carter quickly mimed it,
Mr. Carter was not at home, and she immediately sent infor-
mation to the pollee. Prom her description, P.C. Hansford
recognized the prisoner an he found her in Maiden-street, with
the umbrella In her hand having had, apparently, no time to
dispose of it. She eaid she had bought It at Do/cheater ; but
the policeman took it from her, end she then owned It am
taken from Mr.. Carter's Mop. Only a quarter of an boor
passed between the time the umbrella ws• etolen, and when It
swe found, &Mt prisoner was brought up soon alter.—The face
were proved and the prisoner pleaded guilty, and mid she could
not think what Induced her to NUM.—The Mayor mid ahe was
Whit to six months iroprimmnent ; hut se they did not know
of any offence by her before the she would be sentenced to
bird Islsiur for It days. --Primmer am promptly dispatched to
Dorchester gaol.

SATURDAY. - Bofors R. N. Howard. Req. (Mayor),
J. Timed, EN., J. Drew, Esq., and it Remit, tag.
AXTIIONT Rues was charged with stealing • &a, value ed.,
St the Nelson Inn, Weymouth, also with amaultlng Daniel
Vaper, and damaging hh cost, to the mount of IL, on the
evening of Friday.
111 r. Wainer applied to he allowed to settle the matter, but
the Mayor mni that they could not allow • charge of larosny to
be settled, but if the witness thought prisoner did not intend
to steal it, he might withdraw.
lie. vosper said Ruff came in about half .past eight hat night
to the bar of the Nelayt, and asked for ity, of tobacco. Witness
supplied him with it, mind gave ea chtht-double piece for it,
hooking MA he tobacco as if it was not tight Whom motif
he dil not like the tobacstem weight he might go to the males,
and asked for anollllll. id. They had • dispote, about lid.,
which witness refused to give tam out of a eff slier
plisoner had a glass of beer, no best., not entitled to it. H•
then said he would smash the glass. Witness mimed the
gismo, and found prisoner had it between to. legs. He thought
prisoner might not hare intended to steal it, but only to keep
It, that slums. might 1104. talte It away. Witness gave him in
cusesty on the charge of stealhigthe eon ; but while detaining
Mote tore witosses cont.—The Beech wondered that there
ewe 'llO islonious inset, and the prisoner was discharged.