The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-03-21 00:00:00

POOLE.

Perry SEAsinms. Themlay.- Before the Nbteor. (Mr. F.
Styring), Jr. W. D. Dudale, aid Mr. C. J. Stone.

A PALTRY FRAUD.
A carpenter of Poole, named Henry Barnes, was sum-
moned for defrauding the London and South Western
Railway Company by riding on their lino on the 2ini inst.
from Parkstone to !Nada town station.; without a proper
ticket On arriving at Poole tho clefendant
ticket to a boy employed at the station named William
Allen, whose suspicions were arousel when he noticed its
dirty state. The boy took the ticket to a porter named
Arthur Digby, who followed the defendant and accosted
him, when he offered to pay the amount of the fare, which
we believe is only lid. Defendant said he had hail the
ticket given hint by a friend of his, • young man at Park-
stone. The ticket clerk at Parkstone station, Mr. Ball,
proved that defendant came on the platform just an the
train was starting, and on being asked by someone if he
had a ticket he replied in the affirmative, bat looked some-
what confused. He could tell by the number of the ticket
that it was issued on the lot of March. The figure "I"
had been altered into a " 2" it seemed, but in consequence
of the dirty state of the ticket, the cheat could hardly he
detected. The defendant now made • most ridiculous
defence, viz. : That the ticket was given him at Parkstone
by • man whose name he did not know, although he had
worked with him. Ho knew him by • nickname only.
The man told him he had a ticket for Poole, hut as he was
not going there he would give it to him. He did not expect
he should ever see the man again !—The Bench imposed •
tine of ss, and costs.

A ne.er-do-well, of Poole. named John Cure, was
summoned by the name company for riding from Bourne.
mouth to Poole on the same day without& ticket—ln this
case the defendant did not appear, and a policeman said
he had seen him ill in bed that morning. Au no certificate
of inability to attend was produced the case was proceeded
with. —Arthur Dishy, the porter mentioned in the previous
case, stated that a few minutes after the arrival of the
six o'clock up train from Bouniemouth he saw defendant
attempt to quit the station unobserved, by the
back way. The ticket clerk, Mr. Rickman, went to de-
ifendant, and found he had no ticket. Thrg arne morn
ns defendant had taken a single ticket to Wimborne, mad
he admitted that he had ridden from Wimborne to Bourne-
mouth, and from thence back to Poole without taking
another ticket Defendant said he would ply the fare,
but he bad no money thee—The Bench adjourned the
case for • week for the attendance of defendant

A PUBLICHOITSE BILML.
A mariner named Robert Amoy was summoned for
assaulting William Henry Galtolandlord of the Three
Crowns Inn, on the 13th March—lbis was &paltry public.
house brawl. The complainant and defendant with others,
were in the Lamb and Flag Inn, Lagland-street, drinking,
when a quarrel took place betsreen defendant and James
Dunning, who had sailed together, as to their voyage. The
complainant alleged that on his taking the part of Dunning
the defendant assaulted him, causing his nose to bleed,
and giving him xars on the cheek and forehead.—For the
defence the landlord of the house where the squabble took
place, Mr. Hunt, and a witness mimed James Beech stated
that the defendant did not strike complainant, but that
Richard Patel,, defendant's brother, did. The witnesses
said Robert Patsy tried to keep peace. —Before deciding
this case the Bench heard a charge against William Henry
Galion, for assaulting Richard Henry Patey, brother to
the last-named defendant, at the same time and place.
Complainant stated that in the squabble defendant struck
him over the eye. He then returned the blow, and they
had a struggle and fell together. His brother did not
strike Calton; it was the ring on his finger that cut
Galtou's nose. —James Reach stated that the first blow was
struck by Calton. —The magistrates dismissed the first
summons, and in the second case inflicted a fine of ss, and
costs.

WHITOMIIRCH.
SHOCKING TREATMENT OF A SISTER.

At the Shire Hall, Nottingham, Friday, Oeorge Goforth
Wyer, • surgeon practising at Eastwood, was charged with
having unlawfully received into his house, which was not
properly licensed, and taken charge of a lunatic, named
So 'Ma Wyer (his sister), without first obtaining the
requisite medical certificate ; and he was further charged
with ill-treating and neglecting the said lunatic. It
appeared that the defendant had received considerable
sums of money from his father, who is a retired army
surgeon living at Whitchurch, Dorset, for taking care of
his sister, who had been about two years in his (defendant's)
house, having been previously for twenty years in the
Leicester Asylum. On the bah February Dr. Tate, of the
Coppice Asylum, Nottingham, in pursuance of an order
which be bad received from the Lord Chancellor, went,
in company with • police officer, to the defendant's house
at Eutwond. He made known his errand, and was taken
by the defendant upstairs into an attic. The window of
the room was boarded up, with the exception of a apace of
about two inches. There was no fire, the chimney being
stuffed with sacking. The furniture of the room consisted
of • box and a trestle, and upon the latter a woman was
crouching with her knees doubled up to her chin. There
was no mattress or bedding, and the woman had no cloth-
ing with the exception of a small vest, which covered her
shoulder and breast, and an old wollen rug, which was
thrown over her. Her feet were intismed, her legs thin
and wasted, and she was apparently unable to stand. Dr.
Tate asked her if she could stand, but she made no ,
answer ; and the defendant said to her roughly, stamping ,
his look '• (let up, will your upon which the poor woman
began to cry. The smell of the room was horrible. Upon
the box there were some bread crusts and a tin can. On
one occasion last summer& neighbour saw the unfortunate
creature tied to • tree In defendant's garden; but since
thee the defendant had blocked up the neighbour's
widow which looked out upon his garden. The
defendant was committed for trial at the USW* on both
charges.