The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS.

COCNTY HALL, DORCIIESTRIL—Satarday, July 7.
—(Before H. N. Middleton and W. H. Sok, Hints-)
LARCENY SY A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER
Timothy Irorster, who represented himself as being
a commercial traveller in the seed line, was charged
with stealing a sovereign and a half sovereign, the
property of John Collins.—Mr. Weston appeared for
the prisoner.—Ann Collins said,—l am the wife of
John Collins, and live at Kingston in a cottage be-
longing to Mr. Fellowes. On Thursday morning I
was c, " g into Dorchester, and left my purse upon
the table in the parlour whilst I went into the
kitchen, and then left for Dorchester, without
thinking anything more about it. My purse con-
tained a 1:3 note, a sovereign and a half sovereign,
and some silver. When I returned my husband
asked ine what money I hail in my purse, and I told
him. We then examined the purse, and the sove-
reign and half was gone. When I locked up the
cottage I put the key where we are accustomed to
put it for each other.—John Collins said,- -I am
gardener to Mr. Fellowee at Kingston, and live in
his cottage. The prisoner, who gave his name as
Worster, called on me on Thursday last betwen 11
and 12 o'clock in the morning. He came to me in
the garden and asked me to give him a glass of ale.
I went to my cottage, unlocked the door, and went
in with him. He seated himself in the parlour. I
then went to the kitchen to fetch a jug, and then
to the cellar and back into the parlour with the ale.
I poured him out a glass, and then went back into
the kitchen to gets glass for myself I went back
into the parlour and sat with the prisoner about a
quarter of an hour. He peured the remainder of the
beer in the jug into my glass and his own, and, after
he had drunk his up, said he must have another glass.
I took the jug and went into the cellar to draw it,
and whilst I was there I heard prisoner's footsteps
over head. I went up as quickly as I could, and
found hini seated as I left hiet. I notictsl the purse
on the table. He drank a little more and said he
must have no more beer that day. He then left, and
I asked me the way to Mr. Cake's. I then locked the
, cottage door and showed him the way. My wife
I did not leave the key with me, but behind the
I garden door. She had left the house about three
I quartets of an hour when I and the prisoner went
in. Directly I hail shown Wonder the way he had
inquired for. I went back to the cottage to see what
I the purse contained, and found in it a £5 note and
I a little silver. There was neither a sovereign nor a
half sovereign. The windows of the cottage were not
, shut, and a man was working within sight of the. cot-
tage. —Ann, wife of William Torrington, Fording-
! ten Moor Turepike Gate, said,—On Thursday, about
11. o'clock, the prisoner came to my hones
and asked for a bottle of ginger-beer. He placed
! half a sovereign upon the table, but just at that mo•
ment my attention was called to the gate. He also
asked the gentleman who was passing through in
horse back to have a bottle of giuger-beer. After 1
I had served him, I placed 9s. fid. on the table, and
I prisoner took it up saying that it did not signify my '
giving him the other twopence, he would call again
Anil have another bottle of ginger-beer. I asked him
where the half-sovereign was, And he replied, "if
you have lost it we must try and make it up between
us." I said it cannot be lost; to one has been in
here but you. He took a sovereign out of his pocket
and said that was all the money he had, and added
I that he could not stop then as he had to be off to
Dorchester immediately, but he should be hack
t pr.:gently in a fly. He did not come, and on Friday
I morning about 3 o'clock, getting up to open the gate
for a party, I saw him walking through. I told him
he had not called and left me my half-sovereign, and
be replied that be was not the person—that I was
migaken. I told him I was positive I was right,