The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-06-30 00:00:00

in melody, and Vhirtgi.tth.d the prom as his pro-
erty.-Defendant, in defame, said h. passed the
geld, on Weancalay morning, on hiFWay from Chapel-
borne to Dorchester barracks with • load dr boy, and '
teeing the prong in the road he picked it up and poi
it in the wagon, lie intended to return it sobs cam
I back, hat returned soother way and could not do en.
Fie iqtended to per through Clopiellsonse on Saturday.
and leive the piek.-ne litseelt said they were of opinion
thee be ?had to deaf the prong, sod sentenced him to •
mon th 'stun prisontied
AN A NGLIIII fit litbOtte..7-11.1ward &arse, of
Yeovil. Wan charged with 6.l.ing 'We amens of water,
the priests property of the Right Hon. Loft Wynford,
m the perish of Toiler Fratom.- Sergeant 111,11o•ay
toted thatbetween one and two o'clock in the afternoon
of she let Si Jane, he sew the defendant in a meadow
belonging to Mr. Whittle, in the parish of Little
Toiler. He was Aiding with. rod anthem in • dream
of water which tern Direful' the flekl. Witness knew
there bre *Mt in the stream. He informed Lord
Wyeford's gainekeeper of the matter, who said defen-
dant had no right to fhb the& -Defendant said be had
always had liberty to flth in Mr. Pope's stream, aid he
thought that was his propatil to which he was angling.
-Fined la., andante 166.61.
WiYMOUTH.--Sestuet • HAT.- the polies-
awn on Wedeesday, before R. Bower sad J. Ayling,
&qrs., Mow Hopkies,•• reed contractor, residing is
Weymouth, wee eberged with debar' • hat, the pro-
of M. L. Chretiennei- hem • writes on the Great
Western itailway.-Tge . warn represented by
fuspesii.a. A. W. Moe on.-Prossistisn stated ow
Monday he travelled frogs Yeovil to Dordaiddr by the
Great Vieders Rahway. Upon getting out if the
carriage he forget kis bat, winch was suspended from
the roof. The train had Maned before he discovered
his Ives, and he then informed the elation master' of it.
There Was no other person in the carriage when it
started for Weymouth but prisoner. The bet now
produced Wee the dee he had left in the train. -John
Ames; a tithe" soiled.* se Dorchester, stated that
when he took prisoner's Debt es Monday evening
he saw a hat banging from the nef. He asked
prisolr if it ma • bee, when be regld
‘'• yes: jle was wearing • Me at the
After the Crain had
bad
he beard prosecutor make
inquiries about hb hat, and witness telegraphed to
Inspector Morrison it Weymouth, about the mutest.-
superintendent Lidbury deposed that on this morning
he, in company with Impend. Mtirrinon, visited the
prisoner's Muss about a quarter to in o'clock, aid
wished to see him. Hi. wife answered tith Min, and
informed them that her husband was not at hoe*, but
had gone to Portland. Witness told her tbe business on
which they were come, when she produeed • bat which
her ha-band had brought home with ishn es Monday.i
B. was shortly aftermath apprehended by P.C.
-A
termed was applied fa, and the oass stood over
mita Miry, bell- being helm for the prisoner's
a oe. On that day be anewired to his bail,
when charge was Mein gale Into before W. Talbot
and R. Bower, Enos% whim, in addition to the
evidence above given, the felloeing erse adduced : -
William Smith, a booking elm* se the Orese Western
Station, stted that prisoner cams to the station bout
10 o'clock on Wednesday morning and inquired whether
a hat had been lost, as he had got one whisk me not
his own. Witness could not inform him, and referred
him to the station-master.- Inspector Morrison deposed
that from information he received on Tuesday that a
bat had been lout, be communicated with &iperin-
tendeett Lidbury, and they Tinted prisoner's home.
Mrs. Hopkins produaed • hat, which prosecutor
donated as the 004 be had left is the railway carriage. '
At this stage of the proceedings the ease was postponed
for two boors, in aosemesnes if the ticket eollector,
John Ames, not Ming 66a.nd dung this tiles
orbiter very meth to wif the cam maid
be pressed.-The magistrates' clerk, Mr. Aides, said
that was the only counts that amid be adopted ender
the circumetanese.-Prisoner said be had been gives to
understand by Mr. Stevens that it would not and added
that that gentleman had told him that be did not think
be (primmer) bad any intention of stealing the bat. -Mr.
Ards* said that Mr. Stevens could not interfere in the
matter, and that he Ind informed bias quite differeatly.
-The witness, for whom the emininatioa had
been obliged to he delayed, aow arrived, who
simply corroborated the erbium he had given on
Wedneal.y.-In answer to the Bench, if prisoner
wished for the case to be summarily diapered of, or seat
for trial at Searions, he and of all preferred the latter
soon., hot afterwards said be would rather have it dis-
posed of at mos. He made • very long defame, the
substance of which wee that soon after he got in the
Dole at Yeovil be fell *deep, and continued in that
ociedition until be WM awoke by the ticket collector,
Inquiring, "I. this your hat?" He replied, "Of mane
it is," thinking the collector alluded loth' one be bad os iris
hesd. After the train had started be looked about and
, found a bat suspended from the rod of Unearths*, and
be than thought this must have bees the one that the
eolleotor inquired shoat. When he arrived at Way-
mouth he took the bat home with him. The next day
; be did not go out Mall, hula. Wednesday be went to the
' railway steams, and inquired if any one had
lo.t a bat becalms be bad one which did
not helmet to him. TIND clerk bald bier that tire
hats bed been lest, to which be replied that he only
knew about one. He than left the station for the
purpose of going to Portland, bat was taken in custody
and conveyed to the station. Uhe had chosen to pay
proeeoutor's travelling expenses the ease would
bare been withdrawn, but he &beet to do so, think-
ing if be had done so be should ham criminated him-
self. He had no intentwo of stealing the hat, and had
only taken care of it. -Mr. Bower said, prisoner had
informed the ticket collector that the lid was his.-
Primmer said as he was sleepy he must have orimuder-
stood him -The Court was then dewed, when after a
ehort ddiberatioe the public were nr-adasitted, sad Mr.
Bower, in siring the desidoe of the Beach, MOM Iced
that they were of opinion that prisoner intended to
sppropriale the bat for his om use, or togas' a reward
for miming it. They should therefore sentence bias
to 14 day? imprisonment with hard labour at Dandies-
ler Geol.