The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-03-13 00:00:00

somber eied rissring out the OA and banking ea
the sesi end. lbw lime dace repaired the fusee all
Mreetettemdfaid.
lartglake : I saw the sheep on the sight
ii eigdgemi, as • quarter !Mom 5 *Wash. There
were salielent turnips them foe them dosing the night.
Thom wens a low left the awning aftor the eseident.
Goinge &Midmost said : lam a fumes% living at Heir
"soh, the fans mat the *Wire. The day atter tbe
osigmt. liming heard whM had emarred the previous
egesagi. Driest to Me Maims and looked at the sheep.
weeks seim them previously. According to my
iodised tie sheep were wart 40s. a-piece. To •
Wow, wise has Wolin to eat re, they were worth that
; huts. I bad so turnips I woeld not give Mat
4,1.1 kit. sham, m I sisosid want to buy than tomU at •
7kary Timm, • fanner and Weiser Werehein :
I was met Swr ea the night of the aesident Isy the ter-
nags of the company to dries the sheep. I did dregs
them, ami found them MI sound. and they were full of
bad. I ens quite eertuin they were not in want of food.
Iwo boi*lg way sheep. I soosidar the.. worth MAL

sada
Jars Warm. the youager, who wired to dress
the drip, corroborated his father's evidence.
yeas, par" inahrer, Wareham. said that in
October last he was shooting ia the Add in quirion ;
the per in the fern rue very loess, the reds were
ry rotten, the quire were very thla in prose, and
we ditah was lair up. He rentarkod at the time as the
War of the
Fr •. Ire tweaking of the whole
hogrjegirbS o Isar It right have been • terlesigli
Were the ardor.
Beery Rishards. farm* lardwarreyer, : I
IND* St, leek Boehm has on the 22nd of Puhosajy
ffiratilf pointed out whin the reap got throsgK
the her end where tee sheep were fled. I
the w Is rut. There were three roods and 18
reetrid no
wraps earn, end I consider that 112 sheep
ve4ht banonple food cm that dimmers of Led with a
bit erp. For 13100 to 2,000 drop is tie renal ra-
w kr doss folding, so that then err had rash more
food aril they were dose folded. There was a fair
omie wee is the porting of had not fed off when I
wel is the Ism,
By Hr. Caniphall_ : The fame pointed out to se as
berg beta without nib prairie to the roident is a
...kis" quick feettoredaboosal not • sufficient protectiou, of
reedf, egret are in the firld. The dash along
Us kr of the adjoining Is now quite full, sad
meeet here been slowed oat for the last are° or eight
yeara
Thor Randall, a yeoman, said; I have been red
et all ay life. Larder the fence is question
—whore Is sheep are rid le have got through—he the
254 Of February. On the east end of the fere there
31 list rote ediffilkoal now rail had bets
IrTed to two old rails. The ditch had evidently been
aawly rated out Towards the warier there were 11611.
of very
_good quirk-ad hedge, but at the west sad there
wen 36 hat of sew dark rails. The ditch had bees
reeletly rand sue all agog re field, re quantity
which grew oe the 3 road LS pores was, I sherd. ray,
abeadmitly ample kw 112 sheep let lye up- and the
rem porta or as having been strewn with Meer was
maple fee re drop le be ses. Fre roe I weld re of
the hire it was or • eilloier perestre in =any
phew, reviews to its being =paired, against sheep.
yam mod Daemon, • farrer, seed: I west over the
Mid hi 'wren with the plea are by Hr. Bigards.
eirmised bath the ear retired SWUM al the fere
whew theumihjaie :re said to have pit The
frees is boa bad been very meetly.
eye e ' other parts of tie fin ar ersidered
that it ins us* Promos be Its beteg repaired, a
111111•1611{ proem:hoe le lune male of any descripMon
from therairy. The ditch had reserly hese dossed
out rag the Add in question, but the coittinuation
d the Writ 'keg the adjoining dad was quits 'fell,
bad bed mee been dewed cut for at least 6 or 7 raw
This kir the elm for the priatiff. Mr. gorgeeet
Kamm, sddnessd the jug foe the defines. He .neid
that by the Load radiaineat, a railway ornery was
boor to ore a fres, and to lore that fear ta rep•ir
all rag orb Ode of a railway, which should ho •
Wider proration to peered cattle turned out on the
adjoining had fro straying aro the railway, sir he
would be able to sill 111616•101111 who word show that
the was • seater fare for all the parer easter-
the see—that, in short, it wee a good ordinary
her Bet he should alas show that for does folding,
sa orrery leer such as was seresplated by the
se, was or eaffisione—but that it rot have additional
ter/ripe by hurdles, whir it was dearly the plain-
l'.l":;.= to Oars provided; bet which he having
to provide, weld not opli upon re defendants
Is ore good his loss. 7'he plaintiff had sow dried
iliat be bed retested say surprise at Mr sheep
having
got oat. but be should call a wirer who wraldt
air that whir be was list told of what had °courted,
be niallot be amid not believe it, " berimas dr fere
was a good," and likswiee, that he had mikeraedged
Or ha did ace feed the drop that night as it was wet
sad rid, and that he breaded to feel them the neat
row •' and thee be eareerd kis regret that he did
sot hid leer, as this the assident . would not have
soured. nu reel owes of the makialli wars blala•—
is would be shown by riders whir be should error
—the 410118 folding of the sheep, the writer of the Land,
the oast al food, sad that they therefor broke lieragh
as raider quirk-eel fare to iffier feed. or to get
is dry had. Against each eireasosterese as these, the
legislature sewer intended that railway ernproias
/raid plow up horse to guard artier, bet onsOy to
pat up salgorat hers as word wave for orrery
lad purposes, and be therefore fully contomplated that
era be bed produced evidere of the fres he had
had brielly stated, the jury mid have no hesitation ia
Mardis a verdist for the defeodants. He then
railed

William Hsevismi, a *Weyer, in the employ of the
Boeth•Westera Railway Camay, who I. was in
Poole on the 16th November lost, what a driver of an
engin* am in and said he had nut over sense sheep. I,
Beam sad Hawkias, two watelusea, went along ass
It.. sad hand that 26 amp had bsea kili.d, ma the
✓eminder of the 112 were in • earner au • ballast bed.
We examined where the sheep bad got out of the fold,
and load two bales is the lease ablel two test apart,
on the seat side nearest Poole. We leaked along the
tense up le the oat sad, awed Wareham, bat found
no boles. Then Imo no poste and rails where the
sheep got through Us. fines. It me a good guiakhst
hada.
John Hawkins said: I ant a Weidman on the South-
Weasra Nalway. The isot yams sone to me as the
night of the 16th November DM, and said sane sheep
bed Ma run over. He went along the line and lonia
25 sheep hod killed, and we found the remainder
of the on the balsa bank. We tore up some
rails In , and turned the sheep bob in4tliat
tiffs Gad. I emeekted the Nom mad sow i
sheep weld not hove got throat\ my pat but two
holes—lwo or three feet erartpi the eastern end el
lb. lad. I itassaimed Nee old leand Isle • very
wet, noddy madam, and there was hot • partials of
food there. I.was tare apa as khe 25th November,
and ow the plaintiff. Hs sad' that eame his servant
told hint a tie seekleat be woad set believe itots it
Woo soaks good foam He also aid Via be west into
the Geld ea tite emaing Jar tat rupees of *dug the
sheep seise toed, bull he wee very said sad wet. sad
that he tea Rata they woad gle boas, sad that they
would give the sheep feed to the looming; but be now
wished that he had led asso over night. Ho also said
that the sempear bad sterol kiwi.... wary tee the
eareesese el .ffte amp, but lee did not. mai it—lse
woad set Kr. Yeriblield a these. I mat to the pines
=as the Nth el February, and I observed that .s..
bad hoes reamokbein the Mae where the two
habit wars. Them lam the masks Is the
beak Mime qatelveste bad bees fora away.
TIMMY Barnes. a platelayer oa the Loathe sad
floahMegara Lle,, sad I mat with ILowkias sad
Harlem to Nee field belonging to tie plaintiff. Wa
keel* the amp boa through two holes, about a yard
aped, ist tat maim sad of the bedgo We bad our bead
hasps Is Arm tam by. I also mat to the fold sad
found ill very me sail made. tad taro we, not • amp
of fad far the amp to at. I saw emakted the
hedge bed fold the mei raeitiva by 11111741*51,. s.d /mad
AM a Nano just ait was Oa prees sight. I
somiaed the Imes else ea the 25tli of February 104
mid found 'wail a the tams had been takes out at
the ground lase the tate of the moident ; so that ths
holes Is the gitiokart went very slosh arm thaa they
were at the tinware sheep got through. .
By Kr. Kingdom: The roma why I went to the
north part a the fold to. azondas its ocaditioa ea the.
night of lb. asadent woo amuse Iquitos* the sheep '
am ea the mashie at that dr/. • were esattena
all over the lea Some digs before tbe Ude bad
rissa to. sonaiderable depth in the bad--som plass
the water was a lea deep. This WY the cam a tbe
muddy Mats a the held.
George Shiner said: I as the foresee on the lineal
the Poole Jaastina. On the lab of November lame,
hate' beard that sane sheep had hen killed ea the
line, I west to the fold Ind bead that ther sheep had
got through • calek-ast bodge aa to the line. nil had
pushed the quake aids, wool was as the tams, sad
the loot-marks were vista& for any as. to see. I traced
the maks by my hand lamp. I saw the ilbeep daring
the three days preview to the aseident. Thus was no
food kis the sleep to sat as any maim that I am
%ea. The amp mad not jump the hurdles to plot
the turnips. I bed been at work repairing the lease el
the beld ea the ay of the imideat, and a great mar
days helm. Tbe quiek.set hedge, where the sheep were
folded, did not MIA ramiriag.
By tr. Mock: There ma set a Mee turnip her the
amp to set fross the Yaw* warning till ths Widmer
dal IV tam the askant otearred, at ate tines I
Vr. We dad repair the lease efterwarde when it
oli was, ospoirlag iit me of ea madded again.
Thome lttr4., Maeda a tbe pennesent way, said
I mat to lie plalata's fold on the night of the essident.
I aterwarde went to pakelifs hawse aad saw his ea.
He alma to take the shsep that hod bees killed, sad
I hal Ikea taken to Wasa amok iigg est sp.
They wire very poor, and I should think the &mew
weight of then wee boa 32 le SHba. ask. We oat
than ler SU and offered plaintiff the s.ousp, whish he
reland to Das. I visited the lease ea tbe day,
sod saw that the sheep got through two bales In tbe
quiakeet badge no the seders sad at lb. fold. They
cook mot bars got through the lam at the weetem
and. oak atlesigh I was present at the trial is Los-
do., temaris OM last teas I liam heard anythiag &boa
their haring got out at the west end. THEO had Mos
nothing bat • quick-ast hedge where tke sheep get
*teak tar live or sa yeses before. We put op 18 beta
rails where the sheep sot through, but the job was alt.:.
wards made higher, and we aim put up two lengths
more.

-1;42. Magda& : I do not wetly remember when I
P'S inatril44ollls kr tbe fense to be paired. No part
of the heft Meg by the Geld requital repairing pus-
to the widest. We have repaired other park
of UN feeke where the fold was, but I mak Bay emaoky
Why w, »petted Ni. lam when it did not require re-
pairing. We hod pnviou to tel midget repaired
other pans of the fuss of the lad ea the raila were
rotteu. I 'appose we had repaired about half-way along
the Sad.
Ite-emaked •. We have Mani out the ditch knee
the maideuk ma the plaintiff, had ploughed his land into
La a seawall rule we she oat our ditches every
7•S. It night base been this the ditch in madam
arae dewed out MOO 111 soothe prevlowiy. 1111661104
My
may have been two yam Mee.
Mt. Lingilen : We hi,. timed out lb. ditch.
g Sls-.=trial? Irr.s
:314 pees II greseliand the ninny is 'Nil Nabsak-