The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-17 00:00:00

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Perry Session, Thursday.- -Magistrates present:
The Mayor (Mr. W. N. Western) and Messrs.
W. Pewee. W. D. Dugdale, J. B. Durell, 0.
H. Dutch F. Wins, and H. Farmer.—Meria Ileghts,
wife of Richard Hughes, a fisherman, was charged on
remand from Monday with obtaining three pairs of
ir!!la' boots, value 14s. 3,1, the property of Mr. John
Wright, boot and shoe manufacturer, of High-street,
by false pretences, on the 3rd of June.—Mra Sarah
Harvey, wife of Mr. John Harvey, manager to the
prosecutor, said prisoner came to the shop shout nine
o'clock at night on the 3rd of June and obtained three
pairs of girls' boots, value 14e. 3d., on approbation.
The said her name was Mrs. Roger,, and that
she lived rsr nQueen.street, and promised to return the
hoots that night or early next morning. The boots
were not returned.—Prisoner here said she was
guilty, and that it was through a drop of drink she
&d it. —Mr. John Harvey said he ascertained on the
morning of the 4th of June that no one named Rogers
lived in Queen-street.—Mrs. Elizabeth Bryant, wife
of Mr. John Bryant, landlord of the Bell Inn, Fish.
street. said she bought one of the pillars of boots of
prisoner some evening last week for 2s. Prisoner said
boota belonged to her sister-in-law, whose husband
had left her with eight or nine little children, sad she
wanted some money to buy food for them. The
following day she bought a second pair of boots from
Mrs. Wills for 2s. aad rdxpennyworth of gin.—Mary
Ann Wills, wife of Thomas Wills, a pilot, said she
sold a pair of boots to Mrs. Bryant on Wednesday
morning for 2s. She had the gin, but she had to pay
for it. Prisoner told her she had the boots at Case's,
and was paying a shilling a week for them, and asked
her to sell them for her, as she wanted some money.—
Prisoner said she lent Mrs. Wills some of the
money, and they spent the remainder in drink.
—Sarah Wedmore said the prisoner left the
third pair of boots at her house on Saturday morn-
ing, stating that she did not want her husband to see
them—P.C. Reeks obtained two pain of boots from
Mrs. Bryant on Friday evening, and the other pair
from Mrs. Wedmore on Saturday morning, He
apprehended prisoner on Saturday, and in *newer
to the charge she said she knew nothing about
it. Prisoner told the magistrates that if they
would look it over as lightly as they could for
her, she would he a teetotaler for five years
from that day.—The prisoner's husband said Mrs.
Wills and his wife were both in his house very drunk
on Wednesday.—The Bench committed primmer for
trial at the Quarto. Sessions, but accepted bail, the
husband and another in MD each. —Ydrille Hodges,
a labourer, of Longfieet, was summoned for being
drunk and disorderly in Bowling Green-alley on
Sunday.--Supt Hunt said he saw defendant stagger-
ing through Bowling Green.alley at half.st one
o'clo,ll on Sunday, very drunk, and using bad
language. He went into one of the bonsai-I'h*
magistrates Imposed a fine of fie. and costs.
,forepit Beiky, a fish hawker, was summoned for
assaulting his wife. Selina Bailey. on the previous
Friday morning. —The evidence showed that the
woman was the aggressor, and the Bench dismissed
the summons, but ordered defendant to pay the oasts.