The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-09 00:00:00

COUNTY prgy BESSIONB.-3AroaDAY.

Before H. B. Middleton, Fag., and G. W. Floyer,
Coionel Henning, CIL, and Major Amt.ll, IL
Esq., jun., and Captain Memel.
L•noserr.—Zsther Croeby was brought up on remand
for stealing money from Humphrey Moors; but the
did not appear, and Mr. Bauy having no
FruAle. %art:Wince asked for the prisoner to be dischar6 ed.
—The magistrates agreed.
HIGHWAT Cale Howard appeared for Mr.
T. Coombs in the Longbredy and Kingston Russell
higlivv.ex cam,—Colonel Henning and Captain Meant
In favour of the application being proceeded
;rll. .7Mr. Howard asked that the 17th of January
might be appointed as the day for hearing.—The
Court fixed that date for hearing objections.
Noe-hd•urrinmicx OF WITS LID CHILD. —l3z
mai ia-
m Moore was charged H Mr. . Lock with lea ng
his wife Amelia chn to the Dorchester Union.
Mr. Lock said they lived in the same house, but the
man did not allow his wife enough to support her. He
bad • pension of 7s. • week, and ig, nil to allow his
wife Is • week few the support of her and the child.—
By consent of Mr. Lock the came was adjourned for
• fortaight.—A friend in Court paid the fine.
81'1ILL110 FISEITOOD.—LcaA Gott and &inn Gan,
en
elderly woman and a girl, were summoned for
stealing four pecutyworth of firm god. the property of
the Prevon and Fellows of Eton College, at Piddle-
trenthide, on October Med.—P.C. Hill saw the dein.
dant. in Eine Copes, carrying wood, and on his
g to them lash said Mr. Roper had given her
speaking
leave to pick it up. He took it away, and
two days afterwards he compared the wood with
sttunpa in the oopse.—The woman declared that Mr.
Roper's bailiff gave her den:hear leave in the summer,
end she denied having gathered the wood ; they picked
It up—P.C. Match.= was called and said Mr.
Roper's bailiff left two years ago, he had anee last
summer. —The Bench did not want to be hard on the
poor women this winter, but warned them not to
break fence, and fined them O.i each, remitting.
Foams's°. —Thowas Dans was summoned for setting
wires and catching a hare, on Friday, November 14th.
—Mr. Weston for prosecution; Mr. Howard for the
defence—James Chipp, the keeper, was on land in the
occupation of Mr. Cleilcott. and saw defendant set a
trap in • hars's ion, and afterwards three wins in the
same field. Witness went to him and ovused him of
setting the trap, which he denied ; but witness showed
It to him, aiding, "You have some more down in
the bill;" but thia also he denied, when wither heard
a hare cry, and found one In the wire he had set.
Davis is not in the employ of Mr. Chiloott ; but works
on the road.—Cross-e : Did not know all the
labourers Mr. Chilcott employed; but saw defendant
CI:ILy crocking stones. On the day in question,
n wee on Maiden Newton farm all the after-
noon, and defendant was on the higher part, in the
of the afternoon; a hedge about six feet
was wen them • but he saw defendant stoop
three times. The other ;ins were left all night, where
defendant set them. Witness wee ones examined as
to whether he warn not short-sighted, and persisted that
be was not, and had never told George fiamways that
be was. There wea no path through the field, and It
was not a those cut thence to the highway, where
defendant had been seen at work.—Mr. Weston: He
worked at Notton —quite a different direction.—Mr.
Howard asserted that witness had got up his story
band.pei, and when he forgot it he could not recover
directly.himself lt wee one of the strangest stain
out, and why did not the witness go at once to the
Owls where he thought defendant had laid down
wires By defendantgoing through this field, be would
Amami iga way to his work half • mile. Davis
might have been trespassing, for instanc., • maa
might gnmpass after blackberries, but not in pursuit
of game, and Mr. Howard urged be oteght not to be
oonvicted.—Tbe Bench convicted, and Mr. Wake
asked them to look at the records of the Coart.—Mr.
Howard asked the Beach to neidpn the petniehmima,
at didosdaat bad *kg eldid"a "Pawed wok him.
—There had boo two prevkamonua, and
deader, was insd 111 tad Mae, tow ar.
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G Alm Tassaters.--Jehis siss, Owe ChitslistlNNS
Isaacs, and Charts. Lock, were rainntosed for
at Puddistown, in pursuit of garree.—Yrrmi:=
appeared for oleh M.—Charles Bar len, gm*.
keeper for Mr. Brymer, as November 30th, in the
aftsrnooe, went up the rued towards Pond-house,
Poddletown, and saw three men standing lit
via., lams, Critchel, and Lock hi Pitied them, sod
saw Axe join them, and the four men went into Kr.
E. Hayns's plantation, standing retold •rabbit's bury.
They saw him coming, and one picked up something,
=6it, d they ran away' but vitae= caught
I'il and
seised Azs. On Me 'peaking to them,
some very low language was seed, and Axe took •
ethic from Critchel, and threatened to beat out
vrlthsse's brains, also denlarior that if he cease any
'further they wouldoettle hlm. Be stayed there, they
up stones, and three more Joined them.—Mr.
toward ed there was no case to cram-examine
filtunuso Pout. —Ocrrof isse Jaws Berneood, • gtri
under 17, and who looked mittazinger, wee brought
up on remand charged with • piece of pork—
Treacle Anthony, grocer, of Po d, last Tuesday
evening, about five o'clock, basin; mimed pork before,
put some OD • placi where it would be missed if any
were taken, and about half.psst seven prisoner CAM*
and asked his wife to let her mother have two candles
till Saturday night. Witness thereon wept into the
shop, his wife said " No," and the prisoner turned to
go out, when he mimed • pie • of pork, followed her,
and, as she was shutting the door, he caught her,
browlet bar back, and told her to tura out the pork
which she had under her apron. She cried, and said,
"It is the first time; I never took anything out of
yore. shop before;" but witness returned, " I saw
your hand In the pork dish best Saturday."—The pork,
value ls. 81., wee produced. —When in custody,
prisoner said she should not have taken it, but her
mother told her to do so.—Prisoner pleadedguilty.—
Mr.
Anthony did not wish to press the case hardly
against the girl —Supt. Batty remarked it was • pity
but that something could be dons for the gl,l, as she
was • very good worker with her needle, and if some
charitable person took her in hand, he believed she
oould be mode • very good girl.—Defendant was feel-
ingly addressed by the Chairman, a ho werruerl her not
to comi thee again. They did not wish to ...ad her
to p.son, and only met her to imprisonment for one
day.