The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-26 00:00:00

OBIUSIL

BOCLIIITA.BIIOIL APPolireff UT. —The Rev. John
Hosea:nod, M. A., vicar of (!erne Abbas, has been
appointed vicar of Froxfiebi, Hants—patron, the
Bishop of Lichfield
On Tuesday. before Lord Diets% Captain *lent Batten,
and Sir George Clay. Geary, Preldid and
father and son, both of Sherbo,ne, nurren,l.'yd to their
bail on a charge of having, on Tuesday, the 5: ti of Much,
stolen a quantity of coal, the property of Messrs. Bradford
rid Cu.—Mr. Trevor Davies, of Sherboroe, senesced for
the prisoners.
Mr. Tree nail: I am agent for Bradford and Sons, coal
merchtinte, at Sherborne. I received an order Irmo Sir
George Clay for five tins of coal, to he sent to Ostlehill.
On Monday I despatched two tons by my man Bout, and
on Tuesday three tons—one by my man Hunt and • •,..1
by each of the prisoner. One ton was to be left at the
Ledge The first ersgemi was oar.; the other tem
belonged to William Priddle. We deliver the coal free,
the carries, being included—Croesexamined by Mr.
Davies : I gave ptrticular orders wben they were leaving
that they should he careful with tbe coal, and to pick up
all that fell off. Hint had complained to me that it had
fallen off the day before. The prisoners were hired by me
to deliver the cord.
Joshua Rsekhisti deposed: I am • policisconstal le
stationed at Glanvilles Wootton_ On the sth of March,
shout a quarter to three in the afternoon, I was on duty
at Bitckland Newton, and on pausing by Castiehill.lodge
I saw the prisoner Georg* Puddle in the road with •
waggon, and be was looking about the road as if be had
Piet something. I said to him, " Have you bed anything
He said, "Yes; the horse has knocked the pipe out of my
mouth." I saw • bag lying in the bottom of the swim.
Seeing that it had been feat unloaded of coals I watched
him. PriEuter went on and donned at the New Inn.
Prisoner took his horre out and went into the home.. I
watched the waggon for some time. and then went
towards it As Georri Priddie came out of the house I
said to him, "You vs taken coals to Castlehill and
brought these beck again. I waist to kn is what you
mean hr it : you only took your proper weight to Castle-
bill, and you ought not to bring it back again." He said,
"I know that, bat I spas one of the others put It in,
top.Htistunry.ll.l%
I then understood there were two. other men at Ca/W*-
6M with waggon.. so I said, "11l wait till they come
down." In • few minutee afterwards they came down
ithwnhtlortwa'n t"hentrllrstopmtmiettagi.itifk47.o.ll"Didd
said
He sail" No I turned to William Prbldie, who was in
the other waggon, and asked him the same queetion. He
said "No" I then said, "Come, now, let's have the
troth of it" H. said, " I dvl " I said, "What did
you mean by iii" Re slid "It belonged to the +meson."
eehed bun, bow they belonged to the amien, end he
fell off and be picked the up, and he law' (wale
• td theyaket m
hem hack again, as they belonged to 8 r CL.orge
9,:r4He drew up alongside of the +mime and took the
e which were in • sack, and dung them into a
waggon. I said, "You'll not have the coals.' He said
"lain going to take them to C I said, "
you can go back to ilamlehill," suid we went hack to.
'tether. I called Mr. Wilsou, the butler, and asked him
if he knew anything about It He said he did not, ae
the two waggons went from there empty. We then took
the coals out of the waggon. and W,111.m ?riddle drove
elf.— By the Bench: The inn at GI divines Wootton where
George Priddle stopped with the coal is about a mile and
• half from Sir George Clay's. —Crossegetoined by Mr.
Nodes : The coals lay in the sack at the bottom of the
...den. They were not concealed and auy one driving
past the waggon tsiuld see them. George Prididle was
walking alongside his w•ggin with the hag of coal In it,
and not driving it. It wag possible he might not know
the coal was in the wagon. When I stopped Hunt and
William ?riddle. Hunt was with the first wagon. He
denied putting the coals in the first time, but admitted it
the next. I don't think he could have thought the first
time I asked that I meant the coals were in Hunts
wagon. The coals produced (a bag containing 1491b5, of
coal) were. I believe, the some as I took from William
Priddle. They were out of My ••••••••1•• • day and a
night, and were in the coal cell ir at Sir George's. I is,,
been told this morning that the bag has been emptied and
rsfilled I•11te I took it.
John Wilson deposed : I am butler to Sir George Clay.
Two tons of coal came to bin house on Monday, two on
Tuesday, and one to the L sige on the same day, shen the
police-oon.table brourht back the coal. I told him the
waggons wine emptied all right at the Cultic. The bag
was not quite fail, and was in the same condition ae it le
now. We put the beg of coal into a curner in the cellar.
The wet day Hunt delivered some coal, and I faun I that
he hal emptied the lag and put the empty one alongside
the ••••••011. I Mad* MinSl it and put it back again.
CrOi• examined: The horse in Hunt's waggon is a eshsa.
one. He won't start properly, and when he does he
jump into traces. There was some coal spilt about
near the L:elge gets the Previous dal.
Henry Hunt deposed: L am • carter in the employ of
Messrs. Bradford., and live at Sherborne. On Toe day I
took some coal. to Sir George Ctay. Yr. Tree said "If
any of the coal comes off the waggon he particular to pick
It up and put lion again." We always cony two baekets
to tisk. it ma) the house Our wegigjen were vary toll
and any uneven surface in the road, would shahe reel ege
A great deal did fall off in the road, and same of It wee
put into the wawa and •ouse into the beg The bag
haegkeriei to me, and was used by all the cart.. I saw
some com in a beg when I got to Castlehill on the
wsdheedey. The beg was not full. W ben we got to the
Ldige we brought our horses to the side of the road, and
we unloaded Gecirge's cart at the L schro. After we had
unloaded at. the Lodge we cleaned what was about, and I
drove on mr mare. She made a jump and eott o swing
around, and scattered some of the coal on the road
William ?riddle, who was coming next with his waggon.,
shouted to me, " plait the e al and follow you, and
help unload the wagon," On Wednesday, the eth, teed,
another ton to Sir George's. In delivering the coal I
found the 14s in the cellar and emptied it.
Kr. Davis then addressed the Bench foe the defence
and first took • teeinkal obJ•aiios that was Is;
Gammas atlaw, We ptisassms balms taw far him sad

there we. nop cit of e myer.ion.- Toe cost was given
them It deliver at Sir 0 ear Clay awl the Pms•-cd'i.a
prived that it ens di ii eloliverisl on the Toes lay. —Toe
Cleric intiot Odd he theagiit the ohjoction was • goivl
but Hr. Deriel ii I he would net leave the c.en there,
but would ad•lrew. them on the merit& The learned
gentians sit mn4 n earnest appeal oa behalf of his cliental.
and explained that the bat bad been taken not by the
primmer', but by the witness Hunt; that it was pertly
ASA by the dropping cod on the ma, and 'when they
came to the Lodge et Sir Cileoree Clay's the father's ...at.,
we. etopUnl tirst, and when Hunt ste,ted his horse • lot
of C esl to I °lf, which the yoontr Priddla stooped to
pick op and pot i•to the Au It waii In. heavy ti carry
to Sir Georte's from the L nice, and Willis ii Priddlis
dung it into his father's waggon. intending to drive It up
after mil. • UOll his own 'rage°. On his return, after *a
unloading, he found his father bad driven on homewards
end taken the coal with hhn. H. followed at ono'.
Intending to drive back with the coal, when he met the
policeman.
The Bench consulted some time, and Lord Digby said
the cue was not without suspicion, but they would
discharge Ile prisoners.
RITHILSHOT.
N. A meeting was held at Holywell en
Wednesday last, in connection with the shove movement,
when Kr. Wedmore gave an address to • very attentive
'Atheism