The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-03-14 00:00:00

GAZETTE. TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1871.

whether or not, might have bees remitted. The .on
'sequence of this is that you must serve an additional
period of penal servitude.
Sentenced to 8 years' penal servitude from this day.
Prisoner : Thank you, sir.
Thomas Simple y, clerk, who yesterday pleaded
guUty to embezzlement, was brought op for sentence.
Rio Lordship add : I have taken time very anxiously
to consider the circumstances of your sage. On the one
band you have received a most excellent character from
very respectable sources; but on the other band, em-
beasleurent by the manager of a bailors, an you wore,
Is a very serious °Hamm. 1 hive no doubt yea were
*evenly pressed by pecuniary circuniatouloca ; but that
in point of law is no excuse
. . . . •

Sentenced to 9 calendar months.

Mow, //qx, :14). groom, pleaded guilty to unlawfully
obtaining from Mr. F. C. Mare, by false pretence, an
overcast and a morning coat, the property of Men".
Robens and Mace, on October 20, 1870; also with
felouiously stealing a florm, half-erowu, and two
sovereigns, the money of Samuel Morison, at Preston
and Sutton, on December 2s, 1870.—Ells lordship said
the more serious part of the charge was that of larceny
by stealing money from his master's trousers that were
left in his dressing•room. Considering the period of
Dine be had been in gaol, he would be sentenced to
seven calendar months' hard labour.

Captain Gladstone, captain of Marines on board the
Northumberland, said the prisoner belonged to hie
detatchment of Marines, and bore. very good character
indeed. He know him since July hit, andeould pro-
duos his character since 1854.

The Judge went through Use facte detailed in
evidenoe, remarking on the diecovery of the raw meat
on the doorstep. Prisoner as • 'mat of marines,
was probably well fed, and not like to steal a piece
of raw meat. The policeman was evidently sealone in
the reuse of the public, and ready to swear to prisoner
by his voice. The money must have rattled very loud
or the policeman eosM not have beard it when
It was Maid*, and the window wits shut. Prisoner
g• ie • true statement about his bores, and the sergeant
and captain also gave him • good character. At
to the parlour window, if it were not entirely down, if
it were partly open. it would do away with the charge
of burglary. He banded the farthing to the jury,
asking them to consider whatheethey most believe Mrs.
Chubb's evidence of identity, and also querying how
many mildew farthings there are in England.
The jury immediately found prisoner Not Guilty, and
he was discharged.

A1184)K AT ILANPISHAN.

served

*Go

Thomas Jams, 42, blacksmith, waa indicted for
maliciously setting fire to a dwelling-hoses and out-
house in the peeseenon of Robert Japes, at Runpi-
sham, on the 13th October, with intent to injure him.
Prisoner pleaded gullet/.
Mr. Mackey
Mr. Rindon Creit defended, and raised ne ?bins-
lion that the words of the statute my the offense must
be with intent to injure or damage some person, but
the indictment did not my whom Vie primmer intended
to injure. The mere intent to injure property use not
sufficient

--Bre help said he would take time to consider
whether he would reserve the point.
Elissboth Ann Jesnes, lieu at Rampishun, with
her lather a farmer, On 13th October, she saw prisoner,
her brother, who came into the dweWng hpuse, sad
srked where his dinner was, She saki that'll was
plrnty of bread and cheese in the cupboard, and he
must help himself. He went out, and returned, end
asked where Charles (prisoner's son) was gone. She
replied that the horses were gone to Farmer LawsWs.
Prisoner was rather abusive and went eat. Hs returned
and asked if she would like to see a good fire. She
said "Yee, when I make the kettle boll for tea," He
went towards the chimney plus and searched about,
took down something that he shook up, and went out.
She kept matches and candles, tau, on the mantel-
piece. she went out, and she saw some smoke come
from the cowshed, as she was by the kitchen door.
The cowshed was as far from the kitchen es the
prisoner was (rein her. She went out, to see some
one, and when she returned the fire had spread. Tbe
cowhouse, outhouse, their dwelling house, and three
cottages, with three hayricks, were burnt. Cross-
examined : Prisoner is • brother of her's. About twelve
Of 13 years ago, prisoner tried to cut his throat, was
sent to s lunatic asylum, and remained there 19 weeks.
Itampislism feast wu going on on the Sunday Wore
the fire. It lasts one day but people keep it up looser
when they have money. The fire was on Thursday.
By llr. Bennett: When people have money, they
will spend it.
The Judge: That has been so, ever since the world
began.

PRILITON.

By Mr. Bennett: Hee brother was stupefied-like
from drink; he did not know what be wan about—no ,
one did when they had drink.
Aim lionneell, servant of Mr. James, oorroberabed I
Miss Jeanee's evidense, and spoke to prisoner's talking
to himself when she went out.
Robert Joules. father of prisoner, was down in
the field, driving the cattle from the swedes,
JIM the foot.sod.mouth disease. He heard •
terrible alarm, and saw prisoner 12 or 15 yards from
the are, which was raging in three different directions.
Witness said: "You scoundrel, you have •
me," and prisoner turned and went out of thenZd.
—Cross-examined Prisoner had been in • lusultin
asylum, 12 or 13 years ego, on the drunken rystem.
He would drink, yes, very rhspid, and when he got
off his bead, he did not know what he was about, he
got quite of his head. Never saw him out of his mind
lately, except the day after he had been drialriag,
when be grayed for more drink lie had been dribbling
at Rampishmn lout. The fire destroyed £4OO worth
of property, baii, whams was lasupd toe £lOO9

sergeent Stillman arrested please ise Efeeshol, on
the day of the ere. He maid " Thom" r,. been look-
ing for you." Prisoner jumped np_ead said, " I've ' The shirrs hoof Fenian outleruks is too recast i
done it, and I niust suffer for IV WlWlMssald "Stop rennin leaf dusuptlon here, even if I were capaim ,
a minute ; you are charged with wilfully doing It, writings one ; but as a plain widow woman— whisk .
and then gave him the caution. B. repeated that be em—l have no pretension to write history. I"‘
hut done it, and aid not want to deny it. On-search. know that down at Weymouth, as well as everv,irisf.
inc him he four, I 'roaches sod Paper on the prisoner, else, we were always being startled by some freak r,,,,,,,. •
Prisoner said '' If I knew you were coming for me, I of what the Fontana had done, or were going
would have wine to Maiden Newton to you." generally the latter; this was common to all
Mr. Mackey summed up, remarking that prisoner hut we had special interest in them at Weyeass7,
seemed to be rational when he asked for his dinner,and because most of the men, when convicted, were marl
afkrwarda behaved in a marital manner. Portland, and we sometimes caught • sight of thee "
Miu Jeallea was recalled by Um Judge, and said the platform of out station, when they were clnexaaile
I.OW els ... aim • married use, with three children, the the little branch line. I suppose almost evenly,:
aga4aogOtt° aatuad
eldest of whom, Charles, was 16 years old. who reads these word, kaows that Portland • ?
breakwater,
asan,di
made
convictsa
regularther
e. a j uaheyois3
laha d
Mr. Bent.ett reed that his learned friend was quite only two or three mike from our town, and that
rig
ayh t
a in
datiaatli, no: trke2.l
set up
by
t
In aty.
prisoner. Clearly be was the author of the fire, and island, and so have done • great deal of work
he (Mr. Bennett) admitted it. The only question that they never did any before they came.
ILIZilt ntheudi
ert, If
wsthaaata he t
h wass 6
ra Dot
was
would be left to them was, whether prisoner was in Now and then one escapee, but he is nearly si"
a 42.2!
such • state of mind to be seeposaiM ld e for his so at retaken directly, or Seta drowned in trying to sa
tht time. This was • poor, ball.witted fellow, a man to some boat. 111 husband, who was • nusare, as iarfl
who hut &heady been confined for nineteen 'Weeks in , in•ii, saw one drowned. Although he was a m,7,
• lowan asylum, who has habitnal bouts of drinking, my husband tried to save iiim, but be wrrit dose iii.7t.
at the termination of which he gets 'lease off his head, : stone, not twenty yards from hie akar My Led_l,
If they believed that he was suffering in that way, Was very mush upset by it, for. inste:ri of heirie
—that be had no hesd—he could not have bad an forbntid"inbe ws
g-loualti a miki.i.
ngreffi..ka
n.ilgikeraißrelagiuei
yktysalana4";4..)lll4
intending mind. The physical type of countenance Taia
which the prisoner postponed was eine that showed lee who didn't seem ohne one or two and twenty. ifs,.
was not of very acute intellect, and after attending ever, my poor husband wan drowned himself not e,
that unfortunat. institution *ailed the feast, h, . long after this, and I have lived e ver since ou a 57
thought they would be of opinion that be was not little income he kin ueo, rind by letting fana_r,
, very dull, and I, living alone, wou'el almost hate
responsible at the time. He was awned of getting aputnnente in the aeamn. In the winter Weynimill
glad to accommodate soy one for nothing, in order is
father, and be Set Me to property which he might at have company in the house ;so I was very plea,* to
' fithreatt°thereis own
laantlyer'ills-fprosserngrioyn, hitiswpaurtnottoswuardggesstedhis
no very distant time inherit. The learned 'Nouns.' I haves chance of letting my firstAior rumut to amg
went on to say that itempicham feast is one of those I respectable young man, who wanted the or at a remZ
Institutions which are curses to this country which are rate. I had been,. with meny ohms, to the stargea7,
em
waist dned for some renews or Demme at all. 'lt was nuts see • batch of Fontana change fur Prßa we
fair for hiring servant', or one fqr the sale of agricul. obliged to come back uneathfied, because thend, but
tural products ; but • sort of drinking bout at which oompenies would not allow any strangers in; thje
e been
ar ri:tn:l advised beardwa at
veryk na op rap apply
a them e streetgood-looking
for
:hurt::
the inhabitants of the village set themselves to drink, the more annoying, as we all wanted to see a Cols,
They would agree with hien that such institutions were desperately when taken, and he had been terribly lug
and do drink se long as they have any money go ppend,
slahurrenomTerodannboere.u,taAteFsneinimian"infuptpo:mn:Ledw.:Oirweleeawrne.,:wmoh:ogabbadnlevltoo]
the greatest curses to our country and especially to this about the head, and rendered sensele s, before he um
'aunty, and if anything mould be done to stop it, it
ought to be done. But the jury had to do with the him ;so we all went back as we came. I had beet st
anheaPwP:ainldt
foonroonsndkziytniooownr oi
what
uhtahntiishtym: man. He
aHwbiwitaa.,
slit,
pea.
fiaßstooieneurif4.,„:4,rtdid, fmanorddm:y
suohppeepenbrading
to argue that there was nothing to show that prisoner fellow—very slight, very dark,, black moustache, aal
did this 4gdiherately and wilfully; but that be was at altogether a foreign air. He spoke Baldish, however
present. He wished to remain in the tonowoootoubbele,
Nig
the time unaccountable for his seem
Ths Judge remarked ea the painful nature of the apartments; that be was not very rich, he had
agreed to take them, and and sent for his boxes lion tin
facts In this coahnaa, i
atghe
bo;dria
atingdamearadthe eon
paaparaol the
yprro
in
Wai:dineou,mnaefoutisantohhd,abesaLhavls—idng:hhepeedp
llsaaihhodiokmueltielmba.myaveire.f.:47.ch
glid
Leh,
the amount of £4OO, of which the father wanonly Lusted male • capital waiter—beet was disamminte. I for ye
i station alotlognercei: hineyhladde athgarenathede:.i of; lu i gage, Mers okt
°t
1:Me:lb:lay
eQ°: what
t J. hisl
IhuT The
If oehbwfejn would:wnurnya Rdn besolw:Ddoniomunireelndddgiun:hessPoalicuatavonlWil "" di
I t4r:::ll'resoinb:lithi7:ditraltebstet:Deradeathßonrethmaineer.iTt -"bre
I'llh:emu:lid: ,
tethllankamme:ittywouansgmmoerne
Ipoikses,ehiev.
having
never lead hisd.
tahesigabpisWo;
an,
nibanoipe,anmanever. outiteof..aunldevl:
ugnichgatbythainayacohdansacy" ;thane de:
band, he bad been deprived of the power of known',
what he was doing, through • habit acquired • tong
thing
.had often been remarked before. At first he
time before, that might rake the other question, as to
whether he was responsible of DOR manner was always so soft and quiet that, as I used te
mercy on the ground of compassion to his father.
the public, putle,ccinsiwbdearrounst" bemeprerloy- sfe.me.°, to M ke no mquiries after any situation, or is
mat his friends t all; but alter he had been with tat
Sentenced to five years' peal servitude. about • fortnight, he went out nearly every May, aid
.
ptertgetTlisineefrroj'sumdfireaatuhcehaili,odflbenoesuhte by an adequate punishment.
all day long. I was glad to lbee that he did el, te
Ilia Wanted WICK OF YLITTONI really he mewed himself up in his room so oimataalk
John Keep, jun., who had been out on ball, was that I began to fear he would injure hie health. Wim
Indicted for stealing a neck of mutton value 2a., the puzzled me not • little, was the finding that bereft
property of Charles Meech, at Dorehisehlr, on January a great part of his time on the island—not that Porting
21, 187 L is really an island, only everybody calls it so, Is m
Mr. McKellar me/muted, Mr. Collies defended. winter time there cannot be a more dreary place is tk,
Charles Meech, prosecutor, said be was proprietor of world than Portland- the storms seem to rage thre
the Duke of Wellington. on the lot January, at nine oftener and fiercer then they do anywhere else; isr
in the evening, there were In the pastry two necks of roads are bad, the houses are small and mean, ed
mutton. Prisoner was in tbe bar drinking, and there except for the wild romantio sea view which Ine g
was a passage between the bar and the pantry, eorn• around mou, and the &whit Race of Portland, whir* a, .
municating by doors at mush end. Witness saw prisoner , vessel can cross, there is nothing to be seen.lfy aim
in the passage, A little after twelve he mimed the . paid me a visit also& this time, and nothing would lob"
mutton, and went with Sergeant Cousins to Prisoner's that I must go with her over the island; I did ro, ankle
house, where be saw one piece of mutton cooking by my surprise, I saw Mr. Lewis—for such was my iodpi,
the fire. A breast of mutton was hung up in the beck ' name • leaning agalffit one of the huge blocks of owe
TOM. Prisoner said be bought the mutton of Mr. ; which lie about the quarries, and gar :in so thompi.
Fndge.—Mr. M'Kellar : A well-known butcher here, I fully out to sea, that be never noticed us driving by.
my lord—Witness believed the mutton WY hia:— Then nay nieces husband more to fetch her h..,
ad
Croamexamined : It was in • Data oven: as he had never been to Weymouth blurt, he, um,
The Judge: What lea Dutch oven? I want to must see the island, and I mad go with him and bn
know. wife. floe woad time I went, and a second Moen
Mr. Collins graphically and mathematically des- my great surprise, I saw Mr. Lewia. To-day, be ww
erased this cooking utensil, and then proceeded to talking to • tall man in plain clothes, who had last at '
crosa-examine the waned, as to the arrangement of the look of a warder out of his uniform ' • try were re the
premises, middle of the road, so Mr. Lewis with 1. have been asking
The Judge thought it would be well if the ooaosel his way ; but I was Ileonfident from their eager harried
could agree on some plan. manner, that he warn not, Yet, when he recognised me,
Mr. Collins thereon okellebed • impromptu plan, to he named his cap, and the warder—l am more it au a
which Mr. MaKellar assented, and the Judge expressed warder—pointed along • path, is, though he was gide(
himaelflas clearly understanding the matter. It showed some direction, and then we lost sight of them : teeth
the front door here, the pa/ow there, and the pantry did not forget the incident. A few nights after this, I
somewhere else; but the exact situation of these was surprised, on answering a krona at the door, to
pluses we are unable to give without a wood out, which, find some one inquiring for Mr. Lomat, fur he had never
as the plan was not shown to our reporter, we are had a visitor before. The stinger gave the name of
unable to give. Brown, and was at once invited upstairs. Alters
Mr. Meech told a tale of two necks of mutton and • visit of about half an hour he heft. and then my
shoulder, which were in the pantry and Aorribile dicta ledger, who had seemed, I fancied, to cruel me of its,
the door was open I King was near those, and went earns into my little kitchen, and begin, in the chatty
out of the bar door, along the passage towards the manner which had made him so p'essant, to talk gout
pantry door, and the back door. Ile next heard (some- the gentleman who had just left. Ile iid be was sore
one running very fast, through the door, this person sleeted with one of the chief hotel., a! I had called la
unbarred the buck door. Mrs. Meech went promptly, speak about an appointment. Nuw, I had Evelio
and saw King walking very fad opposite the County Weymouth, maid, wife, and widow for thirty-two
Hall.- Crasa-examised : This was very late, and all the years, and knew by sight every gentlemen connected
wazialtpriscsarto theosTinaturep
aAsswdardillemryfrojonidempoertniant wiz wanodrShaaanyethareang,aitabrals,mwtmathe
people go out about 12 on Saturday night, with every hotel there, and this Rid none of them
very warder I had seen Mr Lewis...peaking withal
atob°Mhueatrria,lanl odl'°ll7aemk:lelinftadhcwiharmhilweinothemathni pasengs.—ln cross,
examination it transpired that King asked Mrs. Adams the island. I was quite sure a this, and knew, there
for • pickled onion, which she gave him. Prisoner ate for,, that for some purpose ruy lodger was declaring
it in the bar' and, said Mr. Collin., apparently it dia. me ; bat I reflected that Every family haa its seer*
agreed withhim. so supposcd he bed his reasons for trying to misled
Sergeant Coming went to prisoner's house with a me. Just now a oornii!ete change to.k place in my
search warrant, about 11 on Sunday morning. As the lodger's habits, for whereas he had previously been IN
Judge said, about the time that people go to church most retiring of overarm, keeping himself an tomb
or chapel. He told his errand and prisoner said within doors that scarcely a soul in the street knee
"very well," went to the fireplace, and showed • piece him, he now seemed to IsJ never tired of imaging abort
routing (probably for Sunday 'e dinner) and he vision. the front door. Ile cleaned my windoss twice votes
teeted the information that he bought it of Mr. as I had ever cleaned them :he painted my 'Lunen;
Fudge, for Is. too. I• • Wok room was • breast of he painted my flower.boses, , and was (replan*
mutton, and prisoner said be had bought that of me trimming the flowers in them; while he actually met
Fudge. Prosecutor " gave it as his opinion that that bye or three times to the White Lion, the public how
before the fire was part of that stolen from the Duke at the corner of our street, and drank hu ale at as
of Wellington. Witness prodused the mutton, which bar, instead of allowing the poturan to bring It for bin,
had been partly cooked, but as it hod been kept ever as had hitherto been the cue. I took the libertyd ,
since January, witness had put it in pieta. saying—for I was quite old enough to be his mother—
The Judge : For greater security I—(laughter). that I hoped this last would not grow into a habit whisk
Both learned Counsel: Don't you Ulm away that might lead to harm, when, to my surprise, he bent
Dollop, butcher in Mr. Fudge's shop told how he , would go Into hysterics. I tried to soothe him, se
uution l—(laoghter). out crying, and cried so bitterly, that I thought he
`ed there thine or fora hours, and told Prisoner • i took his hand in mine—he had • soft and delicate best
-.dot breast. I too ; but he rose, and mastering himself by great effort,
The dads.: I don't know the diffeeenee between Use went up to his room. In
the moraine, he apologise
breast and neck: This was a pions of the beet end of for disturbing ace by his absurd ways; he had had bad
the neek.—ln OTOOKISIMIIISIatiOeI : It termed out that news from home, he said. of course, I told MID not is
Mr. Fudge. Hrs. Fudge, Mee 1= Mrs H. Pe.= think any more of sail • trite; bat in toy own mini
and apprentice Fudge, and Mr. '8 man all i I wondered where he got the litters from which bails'
mutton in the shop on Saturday Rigiht upset him, se I was qmen had 1,0
Mr. B. Fudge said he took the for abreast of uite certain the post
I Ouse
mutton, not a neck, of
user my h &Utley. All this time, I had heart
, . , ,• _
of priatteer. -ensunined: I -- • but soon after,

wpak Peenlialr t, ,___ -- -,- no more of the Mullen be:expected
a°Me
- - had
a in t, mans cat e'en'. ea° the same stranger called again—Yr. Brown, I mu'.
others short. This was cut short, and he thought it He called very late one night, and went straight up Is
very likely
mkt seine og4 cub more bone than it a hail come from his shop.
pi meat Lewis's room' came down in • very short time, and left
The J
—(roars of ceder). without a word, as before, As I had admitted hint I
had a fah. chance of oendrming my opinion; he wai a
Mr. Collins mid that Mx. King left the public house, warder, I WU sure. He was • tali, bigibearded, hig•
late, and hastened home bane in terror of his Idle, whiskered and moustached man, who stood very aqua
Berrean, Cousins saw some mutton r la when he spoke to as a soldierldoee; weather-Memel
prisoner e house, and this °sly proved that baatilligesnd
and lll all the Portland warders are, and with a coma
that there had been a sheep, that sheets had
- a easki quick watchful look of the eye which they all aerials
part of that neck "me in the Data oven et the very- The next morning 'brouslet a heavy fan ol
prisoner. His learned friend wanted them to believe that rain, "712. gusts of wind from the sea; and on takin
because this:trimmer made love to the old charwoman ia rwitesifes breakfast, I noticed that he leek" en'
and ate a • led onion he mast have stolen a neck of cited, 'if not wild, and I feared he had taken cold. I
mutton! f every one who ate • pickled onion was told hits so but he said—" No ; the fact it Mrs.
moused of stealing a neck of mutton, his lordship, Gerran, I 'must now tell you • little secret; 1 aut
Instead of jetting off in a few Minsk*, would have to married, and I expect my wife from town to-day."
slay all night. " Indeed !' I exclaimed, for I had never dreamed of
Mr. R. being reeelled gave • list of seriousmelt • thing. " Yes," he went on, " she is coming
who sold at their shop. they bad no mansoransisso of
the meat sold Oyer the member. this • Big, mid lam • little worried to think who
aa r
aapismant ride she win have." "She certainly
Mr. G. J. G. Gregory, bander, of Dersheeter, had eili, thing," I sald i "Bet I will do my best to
"eat, Primes* for gellals and elwaria fould lam make her misfertable, Mr. Lewis." "I know 7"honest If the jury sequitted him, he would be in- be replied; "I thank you heartily, Mrs. Gerrie. ae
*lined to take him int* his aervieut rely on you very mueih. I left him his bnsakfiets ad,
Mr. Bennett, grocer and provision dealer, had known want dawa.erages, amaidarsigy asiwaiabad by what!
PrtiMer 30 yearn, and be WA barbs the eberaeter of had heard. The weather grew worse during the deli
an honest, quiet, hardworking Industrious man. .Pri. and by night it was little short of a tempest. 1 ohm
maw was a carpenter and grainer, and meld earn 244. thought of the poor young woman who was coming an
a week. the way from London on such • night; and what msa
Mr. It. Graves, chandler, Pee prisoner • Ileed It worm was, that I could not offer to go and meet bit
ohmmeter as honest, industries'', and sober, ever dam for strange to laay, Mr. Lewis did not know by whet
he was • boy. train elm would some, or whether she would travel bf
The Judge said it did not appear whether them was the Great Western or the South. Western line. It
ealabblif wrong in prisoner's being In the Poleelie •he blew harder and harder; the furious blasts of Ida
rather thought not, bemuse several doors opened in swept through our little streets, gni drove the rile
the The Proellenter wgo weld' sea arrear lb" ah• before it. as almost to blind you, it you tried to las
nalle=ga:. his, there were several Pee* who Pawed it. There was not • gag-light which was not blows
through the passage. The preemie* said he bought out, and I need not say the sky was pitch dark. Os
the meek of Mr. Andrews, of Portland, and ion such nights, I always sit and think of my poor bit
figlbe. bend, and of the may ethers who earn their lifial
The Jury feud the prisoner net rainy, • doilies aa the dmadfai see; and I eon hoer nothing'
which was received with appleusa In Court. airmwd aa Dawes, bat the bowling of
.tb? earn.
lag: Ail Ito be ttin lager of that mutton, nay na it was er, wonder OM the_ramee. ucema aw° ee
lard? w he broviabt Mr. Lewis's beer, before I
The Judge: That is • remark I did net expect from three '° aedinesekee I opened the door, it was 61.04
you. humor ere an *mks awes a point of law— blown oat
hand by the form of the wind. ••• It
more of laughter} eight, Robert," I mid, for he wu • very
(
le a nannthi. - and had been at the White lion for
The Jury were distilling with the thanks of the eivil Teals is, hAsed
. memo," he said; "there'. •
eleisee.CaunilY, amid
Wight" "ii "Pi"... 5114 11° iftled ehe ' moYsirs.o. aa-nlert that's a flying over the Chesil Bank like
rest, They've been firing artillery on the island ; but,
except now and then in • bill, you couldn't hear the
guns." Firing!"" I said; " drum ! What is that for,
Robert ?" "More convicts is off, ma'am," was his
answer; "and I hear there is some fellow of come-
goons, Mons 'em. poor chap! Hes sere to be aaogbt
each • night 111 this, if he hasn't tumbled over the lice
of • cliff already." I bade him good-night, and closed
the doer, still odder loony mind than I had orericult
been. It always made one sorrowful when I heard a
the poor eonviete, trying to escape. Whatever not!
faults may have been, liberty is sweet to all of as, 02
very few of them ever euer-oeded in getting loaf:
...,.._hardlY any,
_although many a one had lost Ids life
6 '1
I look the beer up to Mr. Lewie's room, as
tapping at his door said, as I did,' Here
year beer, Mr. Lewis ;" and, :s":17114a the door el'
omitted, and he took it from me. Instead of having bit
lamp burning, as was his custom, his room was en Or:
plate darkness, se that I could hardly me him, to F 7
1 billetiminrwhereastbaandheiaarseratalleraad In tie 'h.:u.rillitmueliheioak.Fid:nbadontetntaceret]
took the jug in idiom. I lingered for • soonestsli-7
Indium that he did not speak,
I was join dr e,
when I thought of his wife. Mr. Lewt , ta7ii
aimed the door, when I said how anxiont l,!_l` 1747;k7
0.._.1
her gstting safely In through the stern.wD:`_a, mare
menaatemat, he replied, without open'nf the nea kiad.
Mon • few inches, "I am much obliged far fee' this
tees, Mrs. Gorton, but my wile has been in I I
hear peat." I never was so astontehed in InfT"aoba,-,
had made two or three little preparation' to.
4 hir
a "ID
ud
o
bee, sad kit her!.Vie'" that IhalimulduDnot h.sy"aetednid iniotrint..hoto
the wind was re•riog so loudly, that you .
Ime kneek. I Ist her in ; aad aa eh* wee tired tene.aer,
0
imariesaal tkesnenimmeshat.tigglaucerbisapegbaplimaidagaskabaishat witeam:lol,• heithenlweilaidigesisdi* meliailabel

gob a little NOM cousiderstion. However, I Mould
igy nothing; and so I want to bed, and as soon as the
o,oeni would allow, to 'deep.
The first thing I heard in the morning, from my
oilman, wee that only one of the convicts had tried
"cape, and that for the present he was still at large.
it was rumoured in the town that it wee Colonel La
Troulle who bad got away, but the Goverounnt people
would not say much about it • the whole place was
astir, benaid. All day long I beard the same kind of
atiege repeated ; and, in feet. I saw enough to con, rice
iue that extraordinary exertions were being made to
capture the runaway. The Whit. Lion was searched
by • party of officers, and so was • house in the same
,tent as lby own, where • number of young men
lodgers were taken. I heard, too, that the railways
were watched, not only at our station, but that the
trains we examintd at places twenty or thirty miles
out, in one the (movie% should have got ill at some
little station. It was supposed, however, that at.
though these precautions were taken, he was still in
the island, as, from his wearing the prison dress, it
would be se difficult for him to escape notice. I did
not see Mr. Lewis all day, nor his wile; but. 1051
at twilight, I was startled by the latter coming quietly
Into my little kitchen, and asking me for the milk.
She was a pretty-looking young woman, wearing her
hair in short sun,- it we. fair hair, and she was
fair too, quiet and shy hi her manner, speaking in •
110‘01) o 0 low that I could scarcely hear her.
She explained that ber husband bad, unfortu-
nately, taken • severe cold, and would be obliged to
keep his bed for • day or so. Of course, I offered any
siminenee in my power. She thanked me, and went
up-stairs. When she had gone, I would do nothing
forithe life of me, for many minutes, but sit and
think of her; them was an misceountable feeling,
quite a certainty, it seemed, of having known her
before, although when or where I could not say. Si
strong and strange was this impression, that it was
almost terrible to me, and, as I said, I could think of
nothing else for a long time, However, I shook the
feeding off at last, and weal about my work, seeing Do
more of 111 y lodger or his wife that night. itobart at
the White Lion told me, when he brought the supper
beer, that, although it was bushed up as mush as pots-
yet it eartaunly was the Fasten who had escaped,
and that it was 000 of the most desperate and icsenions
snapse ever heard of. "Not, ma am," be said. "as I
believe in any of your ingenious escapes. I don't
believe in say man doing with a rusty nail, or two
priors of • dinner fork, or some suds thing, in four or
ine boars, what it would 'take g couple of smiths all
clay to do with • beaked of tools. IVa the warders,
ma'am. and they make these examen : that's what it
is, ma'am," This was the opinion of Robert, at hits
White Lion, and I must own that I had, on similar
occasions, heard many people in Weymouth expresso
themselves to the same effect. Once or twigs the next
day I saw Mrs. Lewis, and each time the impression
that I had previously Ken her grew stronger ; I fancied
however. that my looking straight at her, to try and
reniember when it could have been, disturbed her, so I
avoided doing so as mush as possible, but for the life of
me .1 could not help doing it sometimes, On tho
following morning I had to go out for an hour or two,
and when I came back, I found my wiodows *leaned,
the mould in the flower boxes turned over, and various
little things done, which told me that Lewis had been
to work again, as, indeed, I found was the case. He
had, unfortunately, been taken very unwell jest before
I came home, but previously he had been busy as usual
in the front ef tin, house. As alletteinpts to rieeepture
the convict had failed, sad so there was no longer I
suppose, a hope a keeping it quiet, that night great
bills were stuck up about the town, offering five
hundred pounds rewind fur the apprehension of the
Founts colonel—for it was be, after all one of
these bills was stuck up on an empty house just opgm
site to my own door. I naturally got talking about
this with Mrs. Lewis • at least I talked, and she
listened, for she said hardly • word; and at Intswhen
I struck • light to find something she wanted, I found
she was crying. I told her I thought she was weak
and low, that her long journey and her husband's
illness had upset her, said asked her to let me make
her some port.wine negtu, the last, thing that night.
She thanked me, but declined; and when she went
away, the remembrance of her face, with the tears on
her cheeks, seemed tau times more familiar to me
than ever. I determined to ask Mr. Lewis, when I
sow him, if his wife had over lived in Weymouth, but
it seemed as though I never should see him again.
However' I did see him that evening. I had been
upatairsfor some time, and as I was looking over the
contents of an old- drawer, I was very quiet, and my
lodgers thought I was out; but presently I came down
and met Lewis ascending enearying • light. I was in
the dark. "Good, evening, ilx. Lewis," I said • "1
I hope you are :better He looked up and said;
• Yes, much better thank you." He passed on, and
left me almost petrified. It was nof the some man.
There was the same dark skin, moustache, hair and
whiskers ; the same clothes • but this man, although
short, was teller than my lodger, decidedly stouter,
sod had altogether • harder, sterner expression.
There was no possible mistake. His voice, too, was
wholly different rand I staggered, rather than
walked, into my kitchen, feeling se though I
had seen a ghost. I load not strength to procure a
light; but in • few minutes Mrs. Lewis—sent
nen, as I found, by her husband—came in with one.
seeing one sitting, so pale and scared, in my chair, she
raid, "Are you ill, Um, Gem-an? My husband fears
you are." As if • flash of lightning had suddenly
penetrated all the dark places of my mind, I saw, as
hsr spoke, the meaning of all that had been mys-
tense, and by her face I SAT, she knew her secret was
revealed. She was iny lodger ; she was the Ur. Lewis
I bad known. Altered and changed in every respect
as she was, I knew her now. She locked her hands
together, and twisted her fingers with • nervous;
frightened ,iir, and looked anxiously at meet " Who— ;
who are you V' I asked: why me you dressed like
this ? Who is the wan— " " Mrs. Gerran," !
she cried, throwing herself down at my knees, before I •
could move to stay her, "forgive my deceiving you,
end still be my friend—he my lonband'a friend: If ,
you are not kind and true to us we are lost. We have I
no home but this—no friend but you. It will soon, I I
trust, he different; bet at this moment my husband is
a fugitive, an outlaw, a couvict,and • price is set upon I
his head." " A price uiron his head !" I echoed ; "is
he, then—" " Yes, she said, interrupting me,
although she was nibbling as if her heart would break—
"yes. my Moband is Co ooel Li Trout I-, the , !
We are American,, au,l ary icilp wei tog 1.,r the .
pursuit to cool, won au shall Ortl.ll 141 Franco, 11.1.1 CIA
then easily regain our home—never more, I trust, to
leave it." "line up, my poor dear girl," 1 esiJ, lift.
ing her on to a chair ' • sod believe me that no 'unify
would tempt me to betray your husband! for your
peke, at any rats, I will be true to you both. I hope,
for your sake, too, that he will leave his dreadful and
desperate schemes." "Oh, Mrs. Gerran," she
anowered. "do not think him s bloodthirsty man ;
there never lived a gentler or kinder being. He was
sadly deceived in the hulloes' which brought him
ben' but pray, come and see him, that he may know
he is safe under your roof." I went with hoe; and
found this desperate Fenian quite • mild, gentlemanly
person. He was full of gratitude to ins; and although
his close-cut bait, now he sat without his wig, and his
ilea face made him look stern enough, yet his eyes
MUM with genuine tears over and over again, when he
spoke of his wife and her devotion to him. Of course,
every one can now see bow it was managed. When
Is was sent to Portland, his wife came down. dressed
II • man, and, while lodging with me, took oars to
familiarise the neighbmn with the fast that I had a
young man lodger. 0.10 of the warders had already
been gained over—so Robert at the White Lion was
sot so far wrong in his guess—and he it •as with
whom I had seen the supposed Hr. Lewis talking, and
who came to my house twin. On his second visit, he
same toy that all was arranged, and that her bus'
head would getaway soon after dark the next night.
It was, fortunately for the scheme, a very stormy one ;
50 La Treulle got put the station, and followed the
Chesil Beak until he thought it safe to strike the
line, and then got over the railway bridge without
being recognised. He had • lugs railway rug over his
shoulders, which bid his convict drum, and the only
really dangerous part of his journey was through the
.treese to maga my house ; but the dreedfel storm
cleared away all passengers, and he entered tier street
eithoet having met halfa-dosen people. His wife
watching from her window,and esseiug him, 'lipped
down and opened the street door without my knoll tog
seything about it. Then they removed the stains
from her hies, hands, and neck, with washes which
she had brought with her, and be wore • wig made to
resemble her short curls. Poor young thing ; she
'Mowed mo such beautiful look. which she had cut
AL to enable tier to look more like a num ; they must
have been nearly a yard long, I am sure. They
thought no plan was so safe as Weymouth, and they
were right, for the °Moen were hunting all over
London and lrelaud and Liverpool. and goodness
kissers where besides. La Troulle showed himself •
little, bet not too mach, and no one ever suspected
the shenge in my lodgers. In shout a forteight begot
ouietly on board • fruiteloop which was going beak to
France ; and both he and his wife wrote to ine when
they got there, and also when they got to NOW
(Mesas. I don't know who the wader was, nor what
he received for his eervicoe; but I heard, shortly after,
from Hebert at the White Lion that one of them had
left Portned to go and take • very handsome public-
house in Leaden ;so that I had my suspicions. I
keow that 111 treated money, which I am happy to
an, thanks to my poor dear husband, I do not, I
aboeld only have to toil Mrs. Lu Troulle, or go to the
Oast house in Liverpool, of which they gone me the
aril, and I esal4 have all I wanted. She would make
nos accept her gold watch and chain; and I have worn
It, arid shall continuo to do so, in memory of her.—
Cferet6era's Journal.

AgTit ulturt.
(;ARDENING OPERATI)NS.

fItOIT
Whether Friel Dom°. Ash netting, or otbor kinds of
material be used for the proteetbn of wall fruit, pre-
paration should now be mode for iti tit°, as already the
bloesoms upon aprioots are needy bursting their bloom-
buds, end with • few ly iot uo, snob as we hove
already esperieaoed, peach and nectirine trees will
advance apace. When no netting can b 3 bad, it is oi
mach asliateoce to the blooms to plus it coping -baud
sport the tondo( walla in such a manner that it profeete
oot over the branches as much u pastiche. This tends
to ward off freed materially.

JUTCHIN GAWKY/.
fiemansional beds may still be made for asparagus.
Potatooa, radishes, and to sow • variety of small seeds
apon, if tor no other purpose than to forward °oriels
trope. Earth op all early peas and beans which have
wade progrem during the fine weather experienced.
&timid to the former, also, in regard to the injuries
aimed by birds. Sparrows often nibble them at this
lesson so greatly lie to injure thorn beyond recover,' ;
therefore, have resort to the usual means to keep them
sw.y, in all lurtanoes chore pea guards —widish are
"wet useful things—are nut in use. In chanties the
M‘P of fermenting material from seakale and rhubarb
halm to fresh stools, it should be borne in mind that
las, hem will be needed now, though the air must be
frxrn the crowns of the former. Prick out from
...`rtasse antuain-rown unalifiswers into deep Aids evil,
"Implanting also lettoors, cabbage, Arc. Make fresh
Plaetationso wads rhobarb. Sow oolones
11I'MPI, pasts , kat sad where ths plaiting ed
sresalas sr • bee been eeleyed, let It be some
Si whilst gm weilkoi rms. dlr.