The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-10-02 00:00:00

WIXBORNE.

T. the Editor.—Sir.—As a ratepayer of the Parish of
Wimborne. 1 beg, through the medium of your columns,
to protest against the unnecessary expenditure of our
money on the incessant watering of our roads. The chief
result obtained, in my opinion, is to make the roads
thoroughly rotten, and to keep the street, in a eonstant
river of mud and slush: and then the culminating point
of extravagance is reached by laying down fresh gravel,
at the rest of the ratepayers, to rectify the daru,ige caused
by the watere wt. ho are we to hold responsible for
Ilia state of things, Mr. Editor 1-- Yount Ic., Thomas
CufseaLL.—Wintborne. September nod. Phi.
Peter SESSION 4, Friday.—Before General Sir Edward
Greathed, and the Rev. G. V. Garland.
. The jury lists were presented IT the overseers of the
various parishes in the di v Won, and the verification of them
occupied sonic conaiderattle time.
Frank Luca, Frank Maidmeat, awl nun Smith, three
young men of Handley, were summoned for trespassing in
search of rabbits on Lind in the occupation of L rd Rivers,
at Handley, on the 11th of September. —Mr: Atkinson
defended.—Josiah Ridout, keeper to Lord Rivers, said be
saw the three defendants and another iTitan whom lie did
not know beating and hunting with dogs and chasing
rabbits on Handley Common. They had sticka and stones.
He charged the defendants with what he had seen, and
Maidment told him he would not come there again if he
did not summon him.—Crosteexamined by Mr. Atkinson:
Handley Common was intersected with I,lNis in every
direction, and people had a right to go there. He saw the
men start several rabbits.—Esau New, another keeper,
said he was with Ridout 3111 i saw four persons testing the
• furze with two •loge awl sticks. Smith and the unknou n
moo ran sway as they walked t swards them, after watch-
ing them for about an hour Rideout chargesi the two men
and said be shoeld summon them, and Lucas asked him
not t i sin so.—Cross-examined by Mr. Atkinson One of
the dogs was a puppy seven or eight months old. He saw
the dogs run after three or foot. rabbits. Th.- men did not
tell him they hod been bunting stoats, but they did say
they hod killed a bedgeh.e.—Mr. Atkinson oithrmtted that
the summons ought to be dismissed on the ground that the
place where the offence was alleged to have been committed
was improperly describ,l as being in the occupation of
Lord Rivers. The magistrates °veered,' the objection,
and Mr. Atkinson then submitted that his clients were
not in search of rabbit., but merely out for a walk, AA it
was too wet to go nutting —The Bench emsidered the case
prier-ti, and fined defendants 5.. and h. 10d. costs each.
Henry toilet, of Sturminster Marshall, was s ttttt moned
for allowing four rows and a heifer to stray on the highway
in th tt' parish on the 15th of September.—Defenilant
plended guilty. mid, as he had been twice previously
convicted of similar offencea, he was fined his. flit., and
costs, 7s.
Gory. •Oriti,, a labonrer, of Ifatupreeton, who gave the
false n eine s,f Janie* Thompson, was sitnnuoned bw being
drunk at the Greyhound Inn, Windterne, en the 212nd of
September.—Defendant pleaded guilty and expressed his
sorrow.—Re was ordered to pay a fine of 55., and la costs
at ,ore.
tient. Abhors, an elderly la,ourer, of llamprestm, was
summoned for stealing a quantity of gravel, value 10s., the
property of Mr. Tom Chissell, at Hampreston, on the Uth
of July, but the magistrates took the case as one of
malicl nis injury to property.—The complainant paid •
man los, to get 10 yard,. of gravel out of a pit belonging to
General Greathed, and this was left in a heap at the pit.
The defendant was sent by Mr. Pike to get some gravel
out of the lame pit, but instead of doing PO he took the
heap belonging to complainant. When remonstrated
with, defendant was abusive, and persisted in taking the
gravel —The magistrates ordered defendant to pay los,
value and 10.. routs within a week. _ . .

,R,,,ward, a letmurer, of E Intonsishany was
summoned by Rscanna Cutler, of Woodlands, to show
cause, &c.—Mr. Atkinson defended and the case was
adjourned for further evidence.
AN UNI.VCIIT YOUTH.—Thmnar Amts. &zed 17. of
Kingston Lacey, was summoned for assaulting William
Ricketts, of Wimborne, some time in August, at Wing- !
horne.—This case was adjourned from the last court to
enable defendant to prove his innocency, but the two
witnesses he now subponaed denied any knowledge of the
affair. An additional witness was called .412 the other side
to prove the identity of the defendant, and ag the a.ssault
was &violent and unprovokedone the Bench sentenced him
to a mouth's hard labour.
James was further charged in custody with stealing
lid., the property of William Dodd, at Kingston Lamy,
that tuoming.—Presocutor said he was coachman to Mrn'.
Bankes, at Kingston Lacey, ati-1 the prisoner was a
sva.:gouer in the employ of Mr. Batikec. About the 'otter
pert of July be lust alusllmiverei4a from Isis room over
the s.yl.lle-rooln and at the t,-,:inning of August be missed
another half-sovereign. last Tuesday he missed Is. 61.
from the ticket pocket of his greet coat which was lying
on the brougham in the coach-house. On Wednesday he
. missed 31 from the same pocket and three-halfpence
, that remained were then each marked with a cross and
I returned t the pocket On going to his coat this morning
I he taigas,' the marked coppers, fie called the prisoner
and asked him what money he had in his possession.
Prisoner said a shilling and showed him one in his purse
and said that was all he had. He asked him to turn out
his pockets and is a pair of mittens be took out of his
left-hand trousers pocket he found the marked coppers
concealed:—P.C. Adieu's proved receiving the coppers and
apprehending prisoner.—Prisoner pleaded guilty to taking
the three-halfpence, but said he took nothing morn—Re
was sentenced to an additional mouth's hard labour.