The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

BOROUGH PETTY SMSIONS.

SATURDAY, August 18.—Before the Mayor.
Boorimond Sharman was charged with stealing 34.
and an umbrella, the property of Mr. James Andrews,
Salisbury-terrace.— Mrs. Andrews said that she knew
the prisoner. hi the beginning of last week she brought
back two or three umbrellas she luel given her to repair,

for which she paid her, and showed her a carriage-um.
brella,and asked her if she could put • new cover to that.
Prisoner said she could, and that the charge would be
Is. td. Mrs. Andrews said she would first ask Mr.
Andrews about it. Prisoner called again on Thursday,
when she gave it to her to repair, and on Friday she
called, and stated that she had not enough gingham for
the cover, and no more money to buy the material,
and asked for something on Recount. Mrs. Andrews
gave her :is., and prisoner said she would bring the.
umbrella home on the following Tueaday. She had not
had the umbrella beck, nor seen the prisoner since till
the present thne.—Sergeant lkirrett said that on Friday
afternoon lie went down to Weyanouth,asid apprehended
the prisoner at a lodging-bowie there. He asked her if
she could produce the umbrella in question, and she
said that WWI her business, and had nothing to do with
him. He told her he must take her back to Dorchester,
and idle said she would not go unless lie showed her his
authority. She also told her husband that if wit-
ness attempted to take her away, he was to take up the
poker and smash hie brains ont.—Prisoner was remanded
till Monday.
Matilda Gould, Fordington, was brought up by P.C.
Cousini, charged with having in her posseasion about
half-a-bushel of apples under suspicious circumstances.
—Witness said that lie was on duty that morning about 5
io'clock,teur the King's Arnis,when lie saw prisoner going
down the street towardsF ordington. He followed her
borne and asked her where the apples were she hail just
brought in, and she said that was her business. Her
husband then came down, and on his asking him, he
Kahl they were up stairs, and lie then went up and
brought them down. Prisoner said she exchanged •
couple of caps with a woman for the apples, but she
would not say who the woman was. There were bits of
twigs with the apples, showing that they had
been struck from the trees with considerable violence.
—The prisoner was remanded till Monday.
Mosnar.—Before the Mayor, and It. Davis and F.
Hodges, F.ms.,
Matilda Gould was brought up on remand. The
police had obtained no further information respecting
the apples, but they had ascertained that the shawl, in
which the apples were wrapped, hail been stolen from
the house of Elias Allen, at Pordington. Caroline Allen
said that on Friday afternoon the prisoner came to her
house, and took a sheet from her shoulders and asked
her to give her a shilling for it. She told her she had no
shillings to spare, and prisoner then threw it off her
shouldersand told her to give her sixpence. Her husband,
who sinus at home.said he would have nothing to 110 with
it. Prisoner then threw the shawl down and said it might
remain there till the next morning. Witness then
went into the street. leaving her shawl behind the door,
and the prisoner with her husband in the house. When
she returned prisoner was gone, and she found the
shawl hail been taken. She did not see it again till she
saw it in the possession if P.C. Cousins.—}llias Allen
corroborated the statement of his wife, and said that
he was mending shoes at the time, and could not see
prisoner take the shawl,as it was behind the door. She
never said anything about it.—P.C. Cousins, in addition
to his former evidence, said that when he went to
prisoner's to ask her for the apples she
had brought in, her husband, who shortly
afterwards came down stairs, told Idin that his wife
hail but just returned after being out all night. On
the previous oight, prisoner's husband tom hini that his
wife was out,and that if he saw her anywhere he was to
leek her up. Prisoner's husband maul his wife
was always affected in the head about this time
of the year. He owned she drank a little, but he never
saw her staggering drunk.— Superintendent Penney
mail that Mr. Arden had seen the prisoner, and that he
said there was nothing the matter with her, save what
was caused by drink. Prisoner was coinmitted for 14

days.
'Rosamond Sharman, who was remanded on Saturday
on the charge of stealing 3s. and an umbrella frame, the
property of Mr. Jones Andrews, was again brought up.
—P. S. Barrett said, that since the last hearing he had
been to the store of Henry Simmonds, Fordington,
where he found among some other whalebone which
Mrs. Sismondi showed him, the 9 umbrella ribs which
lie now produced. Mary, wife of Henry Kitumonds,said
that on Thursday week the prisoner came to their
store at Fordington, and asked her what she gave a
pound for whalebone, and she told her 2s. The day
following a 1111411 came and said he hail brought the
whalebone his wife had talked to her about
the day before. She took it and weighed it.
There were 64 lbs.. and she gave him l2s. 6d. for it. In
the bundle were the nine ribs' now produced. They
were longer than any of the rest.--Mrs. Andrews said
that she could not identify the nlei as belonging to the
umbrella she gave prisoner to repair.--James Andrews,
son of the last witness said, that when his mother asked
prisoner if she could repair the uan'aella, he noticed
that one of the points was touch longer than the rest,
and the prisoner remarked that there were nine rtbs,and
it would, take more to cover it than if there were but
11. He identified the rib with the long point as
belonging to the umbrella given the prisoner to repair.—
Prisoner was eoinmitted for trial at the Sessions.—
After the case had been heard, P.S. Barlett, on going
down stairs, saw prisoner's husband standing at the
Hall door, he having conic up from Weymouth to bear
the result. Ile consequently apprehended him, and
charged him with being an accessory to the robbery.--
The man gave his name as James Sharman, and the
evidence being read isver to him, he also was co lust]
for trial at the Sessions. The prisoners had with them
three children, the two eldest of which were ordered
to be sent to the Union Workhouse.