The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-12-05 00:00:00

tat) anb Crime.

A TRIM BILL for treason has been found against
Stephens, the runaway Fenix* "head centre."
Tax governor of Richmond prison, Dublin, where
Stephens was confined, has been suspended at the
request of the Lord Lieutenant. Mr. Marquess alleged
that he acted in the Wetter of illivollotbdi prisoriers
on social initractiona reoeived Milt= the; government,
which the government inspectors of prisons deny to
have given.
THE /SURD= BY POACHERS IN SURREY. —The men
charged with the murder of a gamekeeper were examined
on Wednesday before Sir Vinson 'Jelliife, and a bench
of magistrates at Reigate. Skeet, one of the men,
stated that he held a loaded gun in his hand, and that
the keeper sprang upon him and tried to wrench it from
him, and in the straggle it went off. Alt the men we
committed on the charge of wilful murder.

Carrauf Jame, M.P. for Harwich, and director of
the Great Eastern ltailwanis.not a very mild man,
,and we are Sot surprised at Udine him summoned
. before the Harwich magistrates for assaulting one of the
company's clerks. The complainant, it seems, was
,isent by the auditor to the great Eastern Hotel Corn-
to copy some accounts, and Captain Jervis, being
at loperheads with the auditor, ordered him off the
premises. The clerk refused to go, when the captain
used some very ungentlemanly language and forcibly
expelled him. On the other hand, the secretary of the
' company was called as • witness, and declared that any
director of the company had a perfect right to expel a
clerk from the hotel. The magistrates acted upon this
opinion, and dismissed the summons.
Juwrzoss' Ju run : TOTAL P.OLIPIa OP A. can Tent
Donarr Banc& ,-The . following ' almost incredible
statement comes to us from Atheriton, as • report of
the magisterial business transacted there on Tuesday
, last : ' At the petty see/jowl held at the Town-hall,
Atherstone, on Tuesday, before lit P. Allison and Copt
.Prettyman, John Watts, of Nuneaton, was eh ed by
izepti Washbourne, gamekeeper to C. N. N.
:
~ M.P.' with trespassing in a wood milled Al..
;North Wood, and doing damage to the andorwoot lb
'de assayer of one penny, on the 25th October. Having
neglected to appear to a summons, he was now brought
up under a warrant. The prisoner pleaded `gitill' to
being in the wood gathering acorns! He wastommitts4
Isi prison for one month with hard labour." If this
!sit te statement of the offense and the
54 John Watta, it would be difficult to is
too strong to oharaoteriee the transaction am it .
In the hope that the case may he ousooptible elegant
,
,i nation, we forbear to make any comment upon it, tuna
an opportunity of explanation blabs= offerceh-.,,:Per
the present we must refuse to believe that Mr. Newde-
gate can have authorise! • presecution for such •
trumpery offence; or that be can be acquainted with
the fact that inch proceedings have been taken in his
name or on his behalf. —Birmingham Post.
WI -OMIT W TM) DIVORCE CASE.
'i '• , iiii.: .s. .:
, t..wynd have each been petitioning
• ' ' • '.lto be entreated with the issue of their
Mr. in,, "lie learned •udge, however, in •
IS Wiin, 'ro, declared that neither the
' marriage,
~_ . '. "am the parental re-
' - 0)0;10 blooded over to
—trimmer, to