The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-25 00:00:00

cAuncry Prrrr SIMMONS. Saturday. —Before Mr. Herbert
Williams. Mr. E. L Hindersley, Mr. H. B. Middleton.
Mr. E. Nara, and Mr. G. Warry.

ANNOTAXii.
Two stupid-looking labourers, named Jaw PhiiliPs
and Riehard &OW, of Compton, were summoned for an
assault upon • woman.—Mr. Weston prosecuted, and Mr.
Howard defended.—Edwin Burridge, of Cruston, on the
evening of Good Friday last, warn at Hide, at his mother-
in-law's. He left about 10 in the evening, and was per-
fectly sober. He and his wife as they walked on saw
two men who were afterwards joined by four others.
They began pushing against them, and he asked them to
go home quiet ; instead of that they caught hold of hie
wife by her leg and pulled and pushed her about, tearing
the shawl off her beck. He recognised the two defen-
I dente. as he had worked with them, but he did not know
who the others were—The wife corroborated this state-
ment and also swore to the defendanta—Mr. Howard,
for the defendants, declared they had nothing whatever
to do with the party of four, who had been what was
commonly called spending Good Friday.—The Chairman
hoped Mr. Howard did not wish to put it that Good
Friday warn kept as a day wrongfully: he would rather
take it that it was a day usually properly spent— Mr.
Howard said of course. No doubt everyone thought he
kept it rightly in their own opinion. He continued to
urge upon the Bench that the defendants had no connec-
tion with the group who committed the assault, and put
It as a matter of law and fact that it was not • cue in
which they could convict Even believing the six were
all together, there was not • tittle of proof they were
acting in concert He put in good characters from the
masters, and called Charles Lee, a carter, who stated that
ma the Sunday following the Good Friday be was in com-
pany with Burridge, when he said he knew the defendants
didn't touch his wife—only "set on Cothera—lined Is. itt
and Is, caste each.

Hoary Maga" of Powerstock, was summoned for
stealing a live fence. value 4d., the property of !Ir. Thos.
rooks. of Toiler Porcorum.—P.C. 66 proved the case.
As the prosecutor had written to say he did not wish to
press the awe, defendant was let off with paying the value
of the wood, 4d. and ga costa which he intimated
" wasn't very cheap."

ILOBBII(0 TILL

Janus Cavrowe. a young soldier of the 15th Brigade
Royal Artillery, wee charged with robbing • till—On the
7th the prisoner and another went into the Swan Inn,
kept by Mrs. Rogers, at Broadwey, and ordered some
beer. Au she turned to serve another customer she heard
silver rattle, and turning round saw the prisoner with his
hand in the till. On examining it she missed • 2s, piece
which had been there previously. She called the police.
and gave the prisoner and his companion—another soldier
was with him—into custody.—P.C. Haines (52) found a
as, piece on the prisoner. When at the station his com-
panion said the prisoner would take the money, although
he told him not to.—He pleaded guilty. —Two ts
of the regiment gave him • good character.—The Bench
told him it was a most diuraceful act, and sentenced him
toll days' hard labour.

The license of She Canteen, Portland, was transferred
to James Austin from Samuel Shaw.