The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-02-21 00:00:00

sTaLuace • WAIVE AID CRAM

Thomas Irwin was ags/a charged with attempting to
steal& WM waste aad chaia flan tits person a
Robert klibbn at the New lan, on the 14th of
lfabruary.—Primoner elided to be &aft wish at mon
and was seatoaced to three months' latptio,nrosst.

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William Payne wee Merged with stealing on. £3
sets, two kaLlsoveregaa, and IS, the property of
WHIM Hannah and to.. his employers.
Mr. B. Burnett prosecuted, socirt7Howard Bowen
defended.
Mr. Hobert liollaad stated he was asshitaat cashier
to Atm fiennah. About half -peat seven on
Friday evened ha made up tin cash account,
NW.* counted of tose £5 nets, two helf-sonesigas,
CI Ifs. 41 in silver, and 34. 004 in coppers. He
placed the mossy in a drawer to the sae, and the
hey is a drawer underneath the safe. He locked the
Ace doors, and bung the ken la the dining-room.
Thai was the usual nurse a&pted. Payee was In
hbe. Hannah's employ as an assistaat. His duties
would be to get the Ins of the elks the first Wag la
the wonting, which would be at ball-pan •••110. Hi
would awl open the adios, light the and remain
to the shop until he west to breakfast Pitma.,
home when the keys wen kept, On natarde7 morn.
log hi (mums) got to the shop at tea minims past
eight ; he had so =Woo to go to the refs until hall.
paM Uhl% sad on examining the Mal box he found the
note mng, and the two ballsoesteiges and sight ,
shillings in silver. Hs bad wrapped the liallsoversigas
In Use piece of a newspaper wrapper Zeducedt.
Prisoner had been In Mrs. Hanitsh's sen angel
mouths.
Cross-examined by Hr. Howard-Bowers t Priming
generally asked him if the cub was all right when
be made up the accounts, but he did not that night.
Hs Paid ros. as MVO to Payne. Hs had no
particular mark on the half-sovereigns to Identify
them. There wen bells in connection with the °Moe
bolts. On Saturday morning primmer woe in a very
excited state, as if he hat been &bang. He knew
prises had been in the Good Templar., but alter.
wards found he had broken the pledge.
Sergent Mitchell stated that on Saturday lest be
, received information of the robbery. Hs went in
oompan_y of Acting-Sergeant Carter te the King's
Arms Top and fond prisoner thus Hs had some
I conversation with him, and he offered to be searched.
'He found Is. Md. on him. Prisoner asked him if be
would like to go to his lodgings and search his box. sad
he repEed " Yes." He wait, but found nothing.
Some time afterwards his attention was called to some
portions of a 5:5 note in the w.c., which he now pro-
duced. Altogether there he fend five pieces.
I Acting-Sergeant Carter Mated that he went with
I Sergeant Mitchell to the Hang's Arms To, and from
there to prisoner's lodgings. Prisoner brought him his
overcoat. He searched it, and la the outside letteharid
pocket he fount two half sovereigns, wrapped up in
the paper which Kr. Holland identified as the piece in
which he wrapped them. Winless then apprehended
prisoner, and charged him. In reply to the charge
primonsisaid be was innocent of it.
Charles Garrett stated he resided in Charlee-etreet„
and was a plasterer. Prisoner lodged with him. On
Saturday afternoon be sew him go into the yard while
the police were upstairs.
Mr. E. Burnett, on behalf et the prosecution, said
If the prisoner would plead guilty they did no; wish
to tsi hard on him. Oa behalf M Mrs. Hannah, who
did not wish to press then" and who wanted them to
deal with him as lightly as they could, he wished to say
they only wanted it t" be aa °maple to the other
employ6s.
Mr. Howard Bowes said prisoner had by his advice
consented to plaid guilty. H. asked the magistrates
to allow prisoner to return the property and dismiss
the case instead of punishiog him. If they adopted
that course he might again become a neeful unsubse
of society, whereas if they punished him he might go
from bad to wont
Mr. E. Burnett said that Mr. Holland was quite
willing to adopt the coarse suggested by Mr. Bowen.
The Mayor said tb• Bench bad decided to seatence
him to dun months' imprisonment with hard labour.
Prisoner was then removed in custody.

But Famdraio's Girt or Croak—lt is stated that
filr F. Johnston.. Beat., generously caused • hundred
tons of coal to be distributed free of porterage amongst
ths poor, last week.
STEAM COOKING AT Tell W01111013411.—Tb• Our
diens have idely adopted • complete system of steam
cooldng at the workhouse, a building on the north side
of the workhoues being coaverted into an engio• room,
where steam is conveyed to the various parts required.
A threshorse vertical boiler =floes to generate steam,
six coppers are dons away, and in one=loolssi:
oavhig of 20 to 25 per dot, has been
work has been carded out under Mr. S. Jackson,
surveyor.
WIZATIIIAL-1111AD. Mr. Wilson, organising
diocesan secretary of the C.E.T.S., gave • lecture on
Thursday everting lad, at the Holy Trinity Temper.
Aaarroolll, Higirstred, on the subject of wheatmeal.
bread. The lectarea was provided with some circulars
lashed by the Bread Reform Lucie, which wore
dietributed. In order to assist the people in getting
the fall MOWN of strength for their m )oey, and to
=that "slakine which somstimes lead to drink-
order to gala artificial strength, the use of
bread containing the nutritive elements of the wheat
I, necemery, and this is obtained by grinding together
all the different layers of the wheat except the bran.
This latter except is very important sub. lecturer
pointed out, for the outer busk or bran of the wheat
contains hard fishes which are of teo irritating and
relaxing, and eves rplit chaff. awns, &a. Thus whole
meal bread la dilated from wheat meal, shoe
the former tackle's' the brio, from which the latter is
rejected. Wheat meal bread AI made of the gluten
holding layers, es well se the white or starchy interior,
being ground finely, ad ae to be pawed through an 18-
mesh wire sieve, and its crust has • fine smooth
granular surface, free from flakes. Mr. Wilson pointed
out that the use of fine white flour is very WallidA4
especially for poor people, and, where a good variety
of other food cannot be had with it, children are liable
to game from risketty house, coasumption, and bad
teeth, while childrea fed on wheatmeal-bread, with
mama salt, some kind of fat, fruit, and vegetables,
have every chance of growing up strong end healthy,
even if they never touch meat. Specimens of the
wheatmeal-bread were exhibited, and very good it we..
Hot what can we do if the millers will take out
only the fie* or starchy inside for the bakers, sod maks
it mere doable to pet dad which ought to be cheaper
than the whits, and which every good labmwer's wife
knows is bed kw her children f—The Rev. W. 14.
Idhuttlewortis, who presided, asked Mr. Wilson to tall
monsetking about the advance of the C.E.T.S., in the
diadem—Mr. Wil-on Aged there are temperance
eddeldes now in:sides. and be had been ached to
start 12 more, 105, the biomes in the umber
of members bin 2, . the Church of England
all the Bishops are members of the society, six Wu
total abstainers, and 8,000 clergyman are members,
4.0103 being total ebetaiaers.—The Holy Trio iq
Church, it srm stated. has 124 /Grenade and 120
'dolts. Hearty vote, of thanks were passed.