The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-07-29 00:00:00

lOROUGH PETTY BEBBIONB.

TOIESDAY. Baal) Mews K Morison. Ruben',
Hopkins, Vincent, Back, and Nathan.
Ax INIPOSITION Xi a CABlT.—Frederick North
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over wee SUIDLOUse 1 for d.onan liag • ',seater cab
fare from a parsnipr on the 19th inst. than was due,
wig., 2.. 61. when the legal fare was only 1.. 61.
John Cro.er, residing for the pre.ent at 11, Viotoria•
terrace, .aid on Saturday he eng toted the defendant
at the station to take him to hi. lo lie silted
him Ms fare, and he dematile I 2.. ii. -Defendant :
never reosived but 2.. from you. Witness: I gave
him 2s. 61. The blaristriates' Clerk: Two shillings la
6d. more than your fare, awl you had no business to
take it.— Cho Superintendent cold 111, fare WM ls, 6 1.,
and he we. bound to carry 112 i'ro•er said
there were two passengers in the cab.—llefenlimt we.
fined £l, and told if It occurre 1 again his license
would be taken away.—The Brocu thanked Mr.
Otolldi for coming forward, an I the Superintendent
said they had received similar complaints, but
the persona had not the courage to proeecute the
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offenders
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John Denman wee sumin .n.ol by William James
Hartle for committing wilful damage to a clothes
line to the extant of lo 31. The Minn. defendant wee
also charged with threatening to to 6..ioyoug b lily
harm to the said complainant.-IVben the cuee were
called on the complainant sake.' t withdraw them on
the defendant paying the costs. s..—Defendant con-
sented to du so, and the Bench allowed the case to be
withdrawn.
A STABBIXO ChM—Daniel Finn, a respectable
looking gnaw, was brought up in custody cherged with
stabbing Alfred Martin.—The complainant, •
Boomed hawker, residing at the Fishermen's Arms,
who appeared with his heal bandaged up, eaid the
prironer had been bilging at the seine houec. Last
sight ab nil nine o'clock he was in the kitchni with
the secured, when they tad words which endeal In a
mile. They both fell to the ground t get leer, end on
witorwe rising he found he had been stabbed
in the forehead with sin. , Art, instrument.
Prisoner went away, but whilst be wis bathing
his heal, the accused was brought in by the police.—
Prisoner said he did not run away; he was afreid the
complainant would have killed him.—Compleinatit
I do not wish to press the nees.—Fhe Magistrates'
Clerk: This is for the Bench to decide WM.—Joseph
Tell, • 1,, leer of the came lilac., soil the comolaisent
Was very noisy, ant had plenty of bear. He •tw
the complainant strike the prisoner three timer. —9 :
Did he strike him severely ?—A. He bit him in tne
Noe, and after three blows prieon, r struck the com-
plainant. —Q :Art. the stabhing, to you know anything
about it T—A.: l'rironer took out a penknife, but! did
o it see it open.—Q. : Dil you see him do anything
with it ?—A. saw him stab the complainant, wh
raid " I am etabbe I, I em etabb : Were yon
sober at the time ?—A.: Ye., and saw all that took
place. —Cross-examine I, witness said he saw the
oomplainant with a litife in hie hand.—Dr.
✓aid the complainant Wee brought to him, and on hie
examining him he toilet a loan indeed *round some-
where about five inches itilingth, anti extending from
the hair on the left side of the forehead to the right
eyebrow. It was • clean incised wound, and
apparently had been dose by some cutting instrument.
He o nild not use how it oould have Loren self-inilloted.
lie dressed the WOUWI: an I tho only danger would ire
If etripeles set in. wh c wee p ',wilds but not
probable.—Crompersmin :1. was not scrstch.
wee decidedly a cleau wound.—P.S. Apiey
stated that al, int nine "'do X the
_previous night he
went to the Fisherinen's Ares. The prianoer was
outside, and on witness going Into the kitchen he
found the complainant bleeding from • WAIWI &creme
the forehead. He was in a very excited eats, and
made use nt very bad language. lie appeared to have
been drinking. lie 'gambled the wound, and then
took the prisoner into ouch, ly. 0.. se ...china him he
found an old knife in his weistcost picket. aithough
when charged he dent al Vise tin ha Ie It ofe in his
poeseesion.—The prig 'net pOsital n ,t •nil wee
committed for trial at the sex; Q leiter Sessions.
Ambrose C. Orchard, of the St 'can locket lon,
was charged with refusing to pay a cortsiu fare to
George Cornick, a duly licensed porter.—Prosecutor
soil he took 10 packages from the gnee an 1 Crown to
the Steam Packet. and charged 2.., which t•,o defend.
ant refused ti pay.—Defendant said prosecutor owe
le. 61, for beer, and be tendered him 61. to settle
the debt., which he decline.l.—Fine I 2.. 61, and
ordered to , pay i rosecutnr hi. fare.
William Stanley, of B ale'. Court. we immmonad
by Thomas Lee for an aesanit o entenit' Inn tie 21st
of July--Mr. Percy Street eppsere I foe the coin.
plainest, who dated Ilia on the pl,•iooll rity hr saw
defendant buying some fish, and, af few word.,
the detail la..t put his head und• r sti'sr chin end
struck him • violent blow, ha; Ii on. of
Me moth, and canting hen mii -h i, - t
said the complainant pushed hi,l 6-e. he the
served him in a similar way, h he to it •rik
mint—Mr. Councillor Webb atat.,l the' • oar•mplaln•
-wi •...a.N• moot I c. n'th oigh
witness tried to povuade Mai te do es,. m font
lid not strike him. but tha coinpisiner.t i I! .11.4 him,
and he believed they linetlel against • ah
o,ms-examined Oomphainent'e pipe I P •nit of his
mouth when they pu agaM. t sash - alleys
feller was called, and oorrob /ratet.—Tl r It roch di..
missed the case.

Crully—ktendeahall was charze I wi.h I. •iog drunk
the peevints day.—P.C. Barrel. f .un I th piteous:
drunk, and am she would 11,4 ga tuner, he dr her luta
cuetody.—Pined 51., or 7 daya.
An affiliation Cliff), in which a cirl n 1,9.1 How
Parker was the applicant. all Wi .It.re. of
H.M.S. Minotaur. the defendant, was tried in at Isere.