The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-10-21 00:00:00

POOLE.
ODDS AND ENDS.

"Closed door." being the order of the day at the
!fleeting if the Watch Committee on Saturday laat,
held to enquire into the charges made against the
pollee, I am unable to furnish my readers with
further information than the fact that it was adjourned
for a week. There is one consolation to be derived
from thi., that hole-and-cornered as the inquiry may
he, there are members on the committee, and when I
make use of the word members. I think it may oe
said to include the whole seven who are determined
that the matter shall be thoroughly sifted. Either
there exist. In our town such a '• sink of iniquity,'
a, the Poole Hercule., who has net himself to the
task of cleaning the Amman stable, terms it--that
every official, from the slid:, the Bench, the Watch
Gontnittee, down to the ice, ought to be sent neck
and crop into that place w it is popularly supposed
sinners cease from troubling (over quay, perhaps); or,
on the other hand, Mr. Alderm on Norton has brought
forward accusatiors &pied public bodies, in whom
the public faith has hitherto been implicit, which he
shouldlhave been called upon, if not from • moral pro nt
of view, then • legal one, to substantiate. There is no
blankieg the fact I Either Poole is terribly m 6.
governed by the., in office, or it has been most
atrociously libelled throughout the length and breadth
of the land.

That the result of the enguirits by the Watch Corn.
mittee—live mem en of which out of the seven voted
forth.' exclusion of the Press, while the %I ayor with
1111 l mentary irritation declared he would never
preside in er them if " the chiels " were admitted—will
be regarded as sati.factory by the general public is
quite mita the qtlewtiotl ; OXOOI4 to those few, who,
to use a disprove.' natural history assertion, fancy
that ostrich-like. by burying their heads in the nand
the rest of the world i nowhere. This is A public
nue. ion. and the irra,e.t cluarizes have hewn made
again.t those who hove cootort f the ruling of
the bonnie., again -t oe•ii for whom the ratepayers
have to pay hen, ily, 411,1 aictin.t men who have by
the peoples' von, been placed in isisitions of trust
and respon-ibility. And the public will not be satin
lied with any cut and dried " conclusion.," but they
demand the fulle.t investigation, let the result be
what it may.

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Th. beg thing for the public, the way to allay the
di-quieting rilinolirs afloat, which make the town
stink even wont., than its drains, and theonly manner
in which justice can he fairly meted out, to either the
alleged delinquents or the informers, is to have an
open enquiry. There then can be no ground for
insinuations as to attempt to bolster up matters by
the alderman's friends, or un-called.for vindictiveness
on the part of those who object to his method of
carrying out the object or objects he ha. in view.
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The death of poor P C. Horn, following so soon
after that of P C. Cherrett's, is one of the tragic inni
dents in this wretched and deplorable affair. Both
officers, there is no doubt, were goaded by these pro
ceedings to an uncalled for excess of zad in the dis-
charge ,d their duty ; and their determinathm under
the present state of things to carry it out with rigidity,
has, ii., doubt, Out them their lives.