The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-29 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

Mumma Riots PAK= Cu Inca. —VC Oa 100.
ham been oulleoted in We olviroh during the year.
PIANoIORTII RiCITALII.—Moa. Kobe and Herr
Rabbit/4c gave • oonoart at the Royal Hotel. on
Monday evening. The attendance was very meagre.
Roth vocal and usetranyeatal portions were excellent.

WORMING ldsn's CLOR.--A lecture wee delivered
at Ibis institution. Weymouth side, by the Rev. A.
Davidson,on the "Artisans of India." The attendance
um good and the subj.,* was ably treated. Mr.
W. Page was in the chak. We are sorry to learn
that the Melowish' Regis Working Men's Association
has been closed for want of members.

N 110118 nllife QU•11.1111LIL —At the petty sessions,
can Tueeday, before the Mayor and • full Bench of
magistrates, Blistbeth Wateh was charged by Mary
Talbot with using threatening lAnguage toward. lisi
It appellee I both pubes reside in Chapalry.counrt, and
on Wednesday evening last, defeadant accused com-
plainant of stealing • silk har.dkerehief, but •hich she
had picked up tin night previously. She toll defendant
where Ike bad bend it, when she held ups quart cult
and threatened to split her head open with it if she said
another word. She also felled her bad names.—
Fitted is. aad wets, Sa &L

THII GAD MITIR THAT WOULD NOT Wens. --
Beniarate Angel, a dyer, receding in Higb-street„ was
summoned before the Dineb of magletrates cm Tuesday
by the Gas Company, charged with tampering with • gas
teeter, with intrat to defraud the Weymouth (tea Co.
peny.—Kr. Welsfurd for defendant. and Kr. Howard for
the oompany.—Kr. Church, the manager of the gas
work; **Won the 24'h of August a complaint wee made
at the gas °Mos that there was an escape of gas
at defendant's house. He sent •mu named Frampton
who took down the meter, repaired • bole in the collar
of it, and again replaced it the same day. This bole
did uot hue any *drat anon the regietration dos.
On the 13 h Droember, 1806, • atter named Hadley was
smut round to water the m-ter; end the index of the
defendant's stood as 24,86. The meter wee again
indered on the 4th of January when it again stood
at 74,900. In onsequenes of this the meter wee
region. al and another one put up. On the 19th of
January whilst the fitter was engaged in taking the
meter to pieces, be found • hole had been punched io
the drew whereby gas (weld be bad and con-
cerned without registering I; Tbie aceounted
tor the index being the eame on the 14th bosun-
bee, tie on the 4th of limitary, and in eon-
sequence of which, the gas company bad been defrauded.
. . .

In croasexaminsiion Mr. Church said the meter
prodneed was the old one taken from defendant's
premises. There was a complaiot book at the °Mee. In
which, enter tbe clerk in charge neglected his duty,
all complaints were entered. The hole in the meter
Gould not have been in @listeners on the 94th August or
the index would not have registered. Pb. bole could
not have been made without detaching the mile! pips.
It was impossible for any of his (11r. Cnureh's) men to
have done it. Before the bole warn made, the sep and
lining would have to be taken off. —Thomas Hadley,
Ku fitter, was called and stateti that on the 13th Dec.
1.54 he watered defendants meter and took the register.
It indexed 74,900 feet. On the 4th Jannsury when he
again went to take the index it stood at the MOM Oa
the 16th, he took away the mote, and reolasul it by
unn•her. When taking it to peeps on the Illth he
salted gr. Chush's attention to a hole in the drum
whisk *mold not hate bees mt•le seeidentallT see Ira
r.o seruper•ng the work of any Aster. It.. screw
'ost unProperly pot in and the seller was covered
with sap and red tape! la orove-exantination,
witness asid be had ••••111 meters before that had been
tampered with. Upon the reword teressioo, when
defendant was told that his meter did not show that be
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had burnt any pa., he said he had bern compelled to
burn paritline lamp.. Two or three eveniep of terwsrds
witness and the Heidi looked into the shop and found
theism in the shop burning. He took the meter direst
from the premise, to Mr. Church'. °Moe, and where the
meter was put no perion bad access to it. Save the
hula in the drum, there was nothing to prevent the
meter from properly Frampton,
annthe- "aid that on the Ikh August he took
away the cursor from defendant's house and examined it..
11. noticed •ainall hole in the boa., and he celled the I
attention of Mr. Church to it, salt was. very peculiar
place for a hole. V. hen he pet the sap on, he seed a
leath.r cellar which ought to have been there when
Hadley removed it. It. almanac bespoke that sume one
had been tampering with the meter. • Hadley, who was
recall. I, said the leather collar was not on when
he removed the littinp.—Mr. Weleford replied at
some length upon the cane, and called for the defendant,
&twin Dun. an Lynn, who lived in defendant's honor.
He spoke to defendant complaining to him of the gas and
sfterwsrds gong to the °Mee to lodge a complaint.
Para Moe lamps had born Road in the bona., and be
boliesad defendant to be a Christian man. A Mr.
Martyr said he wee at doleadant's shop at the beginning
of she year. Something was said about the meter,
and it wee propo..ed Um, he should accompany defen-
dant to the pa aloe. They started for that purpose,
and stet Mr. Church on the way. Defendant spoke to
Mr. Church about the accounte, and they went to the
oft*, and the *abject uf the state of the meter was
then adverted to. Mr. Web/lord was about to call
the Bev. B. 8. Aahton, to speak mita defendant',
general character, but the Mayor did not see that could
have any bearing on the canc.—The Bench retired and
'After the alumnae of a few minutes returned, and said
that aa the majority of the Bench were of opinion that
there was not sufficient to soonest the defendant
with the sot, the aummons would be dirmissed.—Mr„
Howard gave notice of appeal.