The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-02 00:00:00

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The Lord Chief Baron Kelly opened the Camisoles
for helding the assizes for the county of Wits on Tuesday
afternoon, at Devises, and then proceeded to church. on
Wednesday morning, at 10 °Week, business oommeneed.
the Chief Baron presiding in the Crown Court and Yr
Justice Biles sitting at Nisi Pries,. There were 38
prisoners for trial and nine Sal cause.

CROWN COURT.HBeIore Lord Chief Baron KELLT.)
Ann Farr was indiet-d for the manslaughter d Jan*
Farr. her child. at Highirorth, on 24th of January.--
Mr. Mardi proseoutech —From the evidence It appeared
that the prisoner was delivered of an illegitimate child
In April last. She had been repeatedly In the High.
worth Union for some years, and she and her child were
there in January. The attention of the medical °Man
was drawn to the date of the child, and they imagined
it had had a blow on the head, and they melted the
prisoner if snob had been the ease, but shit made no
reply. She was continually basting and shipping
the child, and shaking it is • very violent manner. On
the igth of January de used the child Do cruelly that
she wee brought before the guardians, and the child wee
directed to be taken from her. A mane was about to
take it, whim the primmer graaped it by the neck, and it
was with difficulty the child could be forged from her,
The child gradually sunk until the 24th of January,
whoa It died. The surgeon of the workhouse alitribatad
tlici cause of death to the !hock to the system prodneed

by the prisorter's 11l treatnimit.—Tbe jury f,,aad
prisoner guilty.- ,The Chief Berm, in meting
mid the conduct of DA prisms, was the must berteir.
be had ever heard in • *sere of jualiee. He
Mere, that bad the indictment bees for murder, it
act have been bin duty to tell the jpery that the eride,
supported the charge, and that she must have ~as„..??,
• violent dealt. The lantenoe would now he
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Mr. Edlin promoted and Lopes (Wendell ii
prisomr.—lt appeared that the prceseater was
at Swindon and Denims and the rimer
in hiti employ, but bad been dive/malted. The
thee wrote • letter to the prosecutor, 'Nary.", Li
I with having committed adultery with his wk. aa7
threateeing send the child to his house, irides.,
certain day, be tent him 1:44. The preeeoatoe
that there WWI no ground for the imputatkto.pi
Chief Baron, in summing up, observed that he as,.
sidered it one of the most heinous crimes that could is
Onnamitted. There was not • particle of evidence that
the primer bad fitasonable nr probable Pow. 11,
jury retired for a short time. and then returned a
verdict of galley. The Chief Baron then ordered ri.a
prisoner to be detain:4l until the opinion of the Coat,
OllzziCriminalwould,
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Lewis YG=lll, was indicted for malicioutly
eieff cutting :daeltrite, the 1001111 of HenrY
at Wistterhourne Bassett, on the 3. .of January. 11,.
Lopes prosecuted, and Mr. Saunders defended tha
the prisoner. The prosecutor occupied a large faro at
R'interbourne, and the prisoner was ahoy in his empl y.
Ott the 3rd of January the promoter has a duff
cutting machine at work at • barn. Between two atel
three o'clock that day the machine broke, and wri
rendered useless, and upon its being taken to piece. it
was discovered that • nail had been pasted thromth the
Machine in inch • manner that it broke the /mite and
destroyed the machine. No discovery was made soli:
the 'mood of Kermit, when the prisoner was taxed with
having done the splashier, and he then admitted it.
I lone witness said that the prisoner told him if that use,
would net do he would get a larger one that wma
I jack hi st ~'—(roan of laughtel). Stones and oilim
things sometimes got into the maehiae be as ident.
The prosecutor naked the prisoner whether he had done
it for a •4 wonderment," which he meant to intend
mischief • the prisoner isaid be did. Mr. Saan'eri
.rbmiaasa that a chaff cumin ruschios dM sot 00411.
mislaid the statute. Chaff maths( won not an agri.
cultural °mintiest. The Chief Baron held that it me
incidental to agriculture. Mr. Sander. Then &admitted
the jury on behalf of the prisoner. Toe, moat ha
satisfied that the prisoner had committed thri set
maliciously. The nail might have got into the maehine
by accident. The chief Baron summed up. If ths
I prisoner had done this for mischief that would he malice
mrilliciest to ashidy the statute. The jury avid tintr,
bet *About malice. The Chief Baron said if the
Prisoner did !I for mischief it was leg.' =See. The,
jury then found the prisoner guilty. Tbe Chief Baron,
addressing the prisoher, satd—l MO sorry to see aid of
your age in such • situatiou. It is impossible to dellit
that you knew when you let do nail go into the machine
you would do some nrischief, and injure the man whom
bread you were eating. Take my thence; don't do them
things again. lam going to peas a more letiect
sentence than your offences dwarves, ma that is, that
you be imprisoned for one month.
I me. Kingdon. /was trying prisoner., 1.1 two
' days.

Sips—Before Mr, Justice BTU iind eSpvid

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Jury.)
PINNY r. —lir. Coleridge, Q c., and sir.
If. Here were counsel for the plaintiff; Hr. T. (010,
(IC., and Mr. T. W. Saunders appeared for the defro.
dant.—The plaintiff in this cue was a fishmonger Inc
I small way of business in London, and be brought but
action against the defendant, Mrs. Hannah Reomar, to
recover damages for injuries ;sustained by his son, a boy
10 years of age. through the negligence of the defon.
dant'. Pen in driving a erase-cutting machine on her
term. The eircumitatees of the ease as proved it
evidence were as follows : —The little boy having been
unwell was sent to stay with an eagle in the neighbour-
hood of Trowbridge, last senuner. He got much
better, and was in the habit of going with hia uncle and
cousin to the defendant's farm. O. one occasion,
being on the farm in the mowing aesson, the defendant's
son told the boy he thought be bad wounded • rabbit,
and requested the boy to watch a bole it order to take
the rabbit, should it come out. The defendant'. DOR
WWI driving • mowing machine drawn by twe hones,
and when he came up to the spot where the boy wt.,
the machine caught the boy mid cut one lee rff ju*
above the ankle and wounded the other leg. Re
suffered very much, and during his illness was supplied
with food and nourishment by the defendant, who also
cent the doctor to attend him. After six weeks the
boy war taken to London, end the action was brought to
I recover damages against the defendant, as the plaintiff
alleged that the accident was caused by the defendant's
'on who was in her employ at the time, through his
carelesaly driving the machine. On the part of tl.•
defendant it was contended that there was no oesgeiles
on the part of young Redman, that the boy teas in a
place where he ought not to have been, and wiNere he
could not be seen by any one driving the machine. Tra
Jury found • verdict for the defendant.