The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-02-05 00:00:00

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OICZFORD FITZPAINIL

C•umon To CAITLIN AND RICEVEIII OF
STOLEN Paoraary.—On Wednesday • ease mune
before the Bor nigh Magistrates M the Towniball,
Blandford, which deserves especial note as showing
how farmers and dealers are vietiniked by the men
to whom they entrust the oars of their horses. We
trust that the publioity given to mob cases will act
as a check, not only to the men thus employed, but
to those who are far more blameworthy—we mom
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th• reosivers of such stolen property. It I. much
to be feared that a great deal of this kind of pilfering
is going on almost doily, and that for the sake of a
pint or two of beer, the provender allowed for bones
on a jouroey is stolen from them. The prosecutor
is tits present cam was Mr. William Ri out, hay-
dealer, of Okeford Filipino*, and the pranooor,
Joshua Rom, wbo was • servant in his employ, was
charged with steeling • peck of mixed oars and
abaft and 30 lbs. of meadow hay value 2. 6d.; and
Goorge Barter, of Compton A blies, was charged
with unlawfully receiving the same, knowing it to
hove been stoleo.—Prowientor stated : lam a hay
deader living at Okefoed Fltzpaine. The prisoner
Roan is is my employ. On Tuesday morning, the
nod January, be was sent with • bores and waggon
on • journoy. Re took • (punchy of provender for
the bores, ootasiMing of mixed corn and hay. The
mixed oars produced in court is • part of tte same,
and I believe the hay is also my propoty. —P.C. James
Moore. oat of the borough points, deposed: On the
morning of the 25th Jan., about 2 o'clock, I was on
duly In WinstAireet, Blandford, in company
with P.C. Butt, one of the county constabulary.
We met thin two prison•re near Ur. Abbott's
with tho hay and corn now produced,
and from information which I bad previously
, received I suspected that they had hese stolen. I
asked the prisoner, Joshua Rom, what he had in the
nook he was oarrying. He threw it off his shoulder
on the ground, and said," You can one, its only •
bit of corn." I asked him where b• was going to
take it to? He said, "to the Crown and Anchor."
I Irked him if his rosator's bone was there He
"No ; they are down at the Red Ijou." I
then book him into custody, and told Butt to take
Barbra I then charged Roes with stealing the corn
front his master. He said, "I should not bays
taken it If Barter had not asked me. I went down
to the Three Coggin; to bare something to drink,
lied when I was coming away Barter asked me if I
had a bit of bay or corn I Gould let him have. I
told him I had at the Red lion. He thee got a
mok and went with me down to the Lima, and I
put it out of my master's mok, which I brought from
Poole, into Barter's sack, and Barter took up the
hay." Rose then said "I hope you will ask master
to forgive we. I will never do it again." Witness
than went to Okeforai Fit:pains, to the prosecutor's,
and took a sample of his mixed oorn and chaff,
which he now producod ; which, on being oompared,
was exactly Ilk* that taken from the prisoner.
P.C. Butt coolirmed in every particular the former
wither's statement as to his oonverwition with Roes,
and added that when he took Barter, be charged
him with stealing hay. He mid he had not stolen
It; he bought it of Mr. Ridont, of Okeford.—Mr.
Itidout, on being re-sailed, divided this, and said hil
neither told it to the prisoners, or commiatiocied
Rose to sell it —The prisonors, who elected to be
tried by the magistrates, both pleaded guilty, and
were each sentenced to six wogs' imprisonment
with hard labour. —Mr. Ridont mentioned that Mace
they had been in custody he had bean to Poole, and
found out that Roes got some beans in his name for
the bores, het so far as be could ascertain Its never
took the bores out of the waggon to give it food,
and be, therefore, enepeoted lb. lad had also sold
the beans be got at Poole. When men by the
policemen at the Rad Lion stables the poor animal
had nothing to eat.