The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-05-11 00:00:00

POOLE.

MI Potion Foltoe.—We have been informed that
the oommittee appointed in April last to enquire into
the borough expenditure have determined to recommeed
the reduction of the police form. In the *Monition'
that an shortly to be made in the foroe (after the
retirement of the present superintendent) it is to be
hoped that the oMee of superintendent of the Fire
*We will be given to a person not connected with
the form so that in ease of • firs the superintendent of
the police may not be prevented from doing his duty,
relmoWng property from being stolen by on•
prineipled roughs, who look upon a fire as a time of
harvest. During the last fire in Poole several things
were stolen even from the houses of the poor I
PILIIINTATION TO NZ. SOPIIISTEIDENT GITTOID.—
The men composing the police force of the borough
have presented Superintendent Gifford (who is about
to leave this town to take charge of the force at Maid-
stone, Kent) with a very beautiful marble eight-day
timepiece, aceompanied with as address. The presenta-
tion wee made by Sergeant Hunt in the presence of the
whole feral. The address wee as follow" :—" We, the
undereigned(the whole of the member" of the Poole police
force) bring anxious to show our estrus end regerd for
Mr. William Gifford, now about to leave no, for his
straightforward and manly Goaded towarde no as super-
intendent forth, past seven years, beg to present him
with the accompanying timepiece, and trust that he
will accept the same with our good wishes for his
future seseens, and that it may for very many years be
the means of reviving pleasing recollections of his con-
nection with us." Then followed the newel of the
whole of the members of the force. Mr. Gifford said
he accepted the &direr and the very bandeaus testi-
MOMuli with feelings of gratitude. It afforded his very
great pleasure to know that his conduct had been such
as to merit their esteem, which convinced him of his
duty to sontinee to on towards those who were ere-
seated with him in the way that had maned their good
wishes. The presentation woad act as an inanities to
him to purse* the same course towards them with
whom he Mould be emanated elsewhere.

Pierre Sesstoes, Thareday.—Before the Mayor (W.
Pearce, Seq.), W. L. C. Ade'', LIT. Roger', H. Harris,
and C. J. Stone, Heirs.
Obirrecting a &inf. Officer.—Charks Beckisphows,
Ism&lord of the Ball's Head Inn, was charged by Mr.
Woolfry, sheriff's °Meer, with resisting him on the
preceding day in the execution of his duty. A seizure
was made for rent, and because the officer strove to
remove • wagonnette which tleckingham stated belonged
to another party, he attacked him in order to prevent
It. A serious row ensued, and the police had to be
seat for. Beetinghans was much excited, striking out
right and left, not caring whom he assaulted. It was
proved in evidence that he not only struck a man named
Grover, but also the two policemen who had been salted
in to sustain the majesty of the law. The prosecutor,
however, not wishing to press the ass, owing to his
conviction that Buckingham committed himself while
under the influence of liquor, and as Superintendent
Gifford gave him an excellent character, to the effect
that on one occasion he was instrumental in preserving
the life of a police mutable, the magistrate took an
extremely lenient view of the matter, dismissing him
with • caution.
The Loagfied Pablit haw Cane.—The adjourned
°barge agaimit Joeeph °Gobi, landlord of the New Inn,
Longliest, for keeping open his hon.* during the hours
of Divine servies, on the 25th nit., wee heard. The
defendant ogled two witnesses, viz., John Padley, who
gave widens* that he was walking In the fields with
Gooby on the Sunday morning in question until put
the time when the people were (bemired from Longileet
church, and • woman mimed Saunders, who swore
positively that Mrs. Cobb, the complainant, entered her
home previously to reeking her husband at the New
Inn, end limb it was more than half pest twelve o'clock
when she did so. As this evidence conflicted very
meterially 'Mb that offered lost week, the woman
Cobb was &led and rieexamised. She adhered, how-
ever, to her stebeenent than made, that the caught her
husband drinking in mangey with four or Sr. other,
in Go•by's stable at • not later period than half-past
eleven o'elmetz. The sass was again adjourned for the
produstion of further evidence.