The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-11-07 00:00:00

THE LIABILITES OF INKEEPERS.

In the Queen's Bench on Friday, before Mr. Justice
Field, an action was brought to recover Jai under the
following circumstances :—The plaintiff, Mr. Charles
Reginald Buller, a magistrate of Devonshire, was
stayin., with his wife in November, hod ' year at the
B oyal York Hotel, at Brighton, and occupied a suite
of rooms, a sitting-room, bedroom, and dressing-room,
on the first floor, from all of which there were doors
opening on the corridor. On the night of Sunday, the
214 of November, they retired to rest, the plaintiff
sleeping in the dressing-n,out, and his wife in the
bedroom. having first locked the dont, to which there
were no bolts except that on the lock of .me of them.
During the night eemme was obtained to the rooms
from the outside passage, proems:ll4y by twiethig one
of the keys ro,iil,l with pincers, and a quantity of
luoperty, etowietieg of watches, chains, and other
jewellery, al well as is pouket-book belonging to the
Plaintiff :ma his wife were stolen. It appeared that
(tering the same night two robberies were effected in
the hotel under sbuthw cinaundawasi -on g of them of
jewellery worth e3OO. The defence in substance was
that the plaintiff had contributed to the loss by not
turning the bolt on the lock of the door of the room
in which he slept, while ou the other hand all reason-
able care had been shown by the &fondant. The jury
found a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount
claimed.

EXTRAORDINARY ATTACK BY POACHERS.
An affray, in which three men were shot one being
severely wounded, otTurred in biloddaeth Woods, near
Llandudno, on Lady Mostyn's estate, on Thursday
night. A number of keepers and assistant-, and three
oonstaldes assembled in a gunroom, whence at one
a.m. they intended to sally out and lullike a raid upon
a bold gang of poachers win, infested the woods. The
party mwtered 17,, but had only three guris among
them. Their design evidently got wind, because soon
after midniAht shots came from a low wall oppoeite the
building. Brookes, one of the men, incautiously
of the door, when two shots were tired and a
charge „f small shot struck himiii the face, several of
the 'huts entering hit hesul. Bp s,kes was laid on 4
bed. The poachers' tire was then incessant, one
breechloader at least being at work. Marbles were
used for bullets, and doors and windows and every
aperture were riddled. This fusillade continued for
ahout forty minute" and while those inside the gun-
room shidtered thelle,eireti Under laddes and benches,
and one of them ineffectually flout a loft returned the
lure, „thee,' of the poachers were engaged bagging
pheasants hi the swiss'. The firing afterward, cea,,esh
No arrests have yet been made.

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