The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-12 00:00:00

LVIIATIC ASYLUM%

Paystioot.. •

1,11416 4
, of id. in tbtlf, ',mounting to £2.924 16s. 3d.,
rsoonam...d.d, The Committee ciallel attention to
..4.
the Chief Constable, that thiee divisions
tbe retort a
ls, Conte. Boa Port. and Wareham. bad soot
only, e
nava& a the Constabulary Fees in 0011)
in
se order al last M.chaeltusa Sessions
ra rrport of this Finance Committre.,
"4,77,:f v.' giv. 8111101191 hoped the court would
the scolatng given several divisions at
Previous tesaioes bad bea Wine cern._
reel us scolding on that occasion -
which had such • (laughter and hear, hear.)
had turned or.r • °el' lest—

poufs AZPORT.

The repay. of ths Police Ma'iona amounting t
c. 321 14.. lod bad boot effected. Bonds had toen
i;tordonta for the nymcy. .atru.ed,,evn,
by the ,n 1
them, at a coat it tI3 The
leaPede"e behalf of
ba The
that the {mime of the
th.o..tet;erc htdryilelrr.ie elliciaecip maintained for the year.
The Treasurer's 6110011111 S ab°Wl4 the tulke'lni
ittecipth Z d.
Ralanue at Christina.. • • *. 1.149 19
Rateii
01 44. ...rived at lipirb622Y..,i,b,s 1'714 b
!,ddributiona (rum Lynne OP W ,i 6., 0 0
AuPerinte mii ndenta and •, rarr*." tor tedg.
Sc. DM n
le.l
"-..art; allowance up io Mlcheeltom. 2. 1, -
e 2

f.:.,71m 10 7

The £2,614 3
Siflerflfluallon fund amounts to £3860 lt 3d. invested
and £2404 31, dock, to which £1,21 b. 44..
ntech:d from the men will be added. Ai4 rate. amounting
to OM lee. 104., was recommended. The committee st the
ran._ flt '4 the Chief Constable, recommendul that Mr.
eeterY be appointed medical officer to the police of the ('erne"es.llsr. Do_fliing. resigned. and Dr. Lawrence to the
thrrieti Doresterdirislno, vice Dr. Brown, also
Weffalte and 3114.,sures : tin 14s, ld. has been
.—e-c'red for stamping weights and measure., and £3 3.1-,
for l'ebrflee ; the coda of inspection had been £l5 Ila 10d.,
having L 6 PM 4d. In favour of the could). Nine persons
had been convicted before justices daring the quarter, and
£7 12e. Id., was received for conviction..
CHIEF CONSTABLES IMPOST
The Curt* of the PILACZ read till, report, which stated that XS worms have been apprehended, 1.1 whom 04 were discharged 174 summarily disposed of, tt corm
min"' for trial. Forty one persons lees than the same
quarter lam s.ar had been taken into custody. The
criminal returns showed that 375 more persona had been taken
Into custody during 1803 than during VMS. There Is an
Increase in nearly all els.e, of crime, but prinripally 4.1
offence. under the Vagnuit Act, but a de Tease of 12 in the
number committed for trial, and the percentage of undetected
mime has fallen from it to 22 per cent. For using deficient
weights and rnes•ures 33 persons had been convicted during
the year, the Inspector made Etai visits. and Ircuoti
weights were stamped ; the costs of inspection being
£42 be 113, the amount rams 0,1 for stamping
being £5O fia. 10d., and for condemned weights Its ed.
leaving a balance of 38 14a. sd. In favour of the county. !ince
the Passing of the Contagious Difielool Act In Augud, there
have been 23 outbreaks of footithddnouth disease. and two
sheen stab, and there are at present 0 farms affected with fo.d.
and -mouth disease and one with sheep scab. Fr the drat time for
some Yeert, there la • very considerable decrease in the aminint
" v•gnm.7 the reduction being 1,489 in the past three months.
The t; Mel COnsitahle attributed this result to tbe more strict
enff'r'4fiwn% of the lagrant Act arid the operations of the
Ilendicity Society, which has been lately established in the
county with marked effect
The Cgaiteam expressed his satisfaction—and, he
was sure that of the Court—at the very gratifying
results of the Iletidinity Society : the reduction in the
number of vagrant.. was certainly very large, sod
the operations of the Mendicity Society seemed
to have produced a marked effect on the mendicant
tribe in this county.
Ur. Caultarr remarked that the thanks of the
county were due to Captain Aniyatt Brown for having
started the society in Dorset.

HPRIMAY DIRTUCTIL
A letter was read from the Tows Clerk of Sharks.
bury. relative toe proposal to make MOON alterations is
the Shaftesbury Highway District.
Hr. PARKS, who had given notice of a motion tot an
alteratioo of the Wimboroe Highway district, with.
drew his motion, intimating that the difficulties in the
way seemed to be insuperable.
The Clerk of the Peace was requested to inform them
of this, and also to remind them that their notion was
not forwarded in time for these sessions.

DIJINDING THI POLICY..
FaAmprox moved that the proviso in Roe
No. 269 of the standing orders of Sessions he altered
by substituting the following :—Provided that in ease
of an aggravated assault [or in any other c‘.o where
there may not appear to be suatoient time for the
obtaining of such opinion] the (lief Constable shell
Live the power to employ an attorney to prowcute For
to defend]. and shall repot to the Clerk of the Peace
Ms having no done."

Mr. GONDRTthoht this would ho giving too ranch
pewee to the Chief Constable.
The Rev. CARR GLTN anticipated it would lead to
much expense.

It was'pointed out that the difficulty to be met was
the defending of constables against ehargee of perjury
or files imprisonment.
Kr. Hasittam reminded the Court that exceptional
Oases of this sort had been met in an unexceptional
we; before, and he saw no reason why they should not
in future.

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After a farther expression of feeling in this direc-
tion,
The CHAIEUIAN suggested that the motion should be
remitted to the police committee, requesting them to
define more closely the powers to be be given the Chief
Constable

This was agreed to.
ALTICIATION AT TIN PRISON.
The Rev. C. W. BINGHAM moved that a sum not
eseeeding MO be granted out of the County Hsi.. for
making feertain alterations in the County Plison—
namely, for the enclosure of the Galleries leading to
the Cells in the Rust and West Corridors of the upper
part, agreeably with a presentment made in partuaace
of "The Prison Act, 186.5."
The Court then adjourned.

FIRST COURT, WIDNIZDAY.
The Court sat at 10 o'clock. John Moyer, Req., M.P.,
&spray ehairman of Quarter Sessions, presided in the
Court, whisk immediately proceeded to the swearing in
of the Grano Jury.
Mr. G. H. Davis was sworn as foreman of the Grand
Jury, end the other grand jurors .were t—Megars. W.
T. Aylesbury, John Bannton, Thomas Reale, Henry
Rest, Henry Barnes JAUWA Lee Carpenter, John Cole,
John Caine., FAwin Dunn, W. Damon, H. Denman,
J. F. Hannah, W. How, C. Kent, G. (Hawkins. T
Lopatin, James Loyclam, Francis Mills, Charles
Parsons. Henry Pope, John Ifearslej, and P. &Radon.
The Proclamation having been read,
The Chairman delivered the following
CRARGL TO THE GRAND JURY.

Mr. FtOran said : Gentlemen '(the GraUel Joey, the
=lender which will be laid before you contains about
an average number of names of prisoners who are to be
tried at the motions, and the nature of the charges which
are made against them are of the ordinary character.
There is therefore in these respects perhaps but little to
/I tall for comment on my part, but there are one or two
t &stones of the ealendar to which I think I may in•ite
I your attention for • few moments. One of these you
• will find indicated in the column of the calendar headed
Degree of Instruction." There Are 11 prisoners in
, the calendar, and of these 11 prisoners, there are four
! to whose names the Tatter "N' is attached, the meaning
of which letter Is that Ile person can neither read nor
write. There are four more to whose name. the letter 'II"
is attached, and the meaning of that "It' ia dist they
' can only read— that that is the amount of education
! they have received. There are two to whom the
wig. 1 "Imperfect" is attached, and there is one
prisoner who is reported to have had a good education.
! Now I believe, and I think I can speak with some con-
6dence, that the state of education found in the
' prisoners whose names form the calendar, i. not a fair
representation of the education of the c only at large..
I should indeed be very sorry if it were no; and if that
i. the fact, and if we and. aa I think we do find, that
the criminal claarie are chiefiy recruited from that per,
of the population who have had hut a runty or very
deficient educeition,or who perhaps have cot hat the
adrientage of any situation at all, I think we WO at
*nee that the wait of eimatien is connected with the
existence of crime, and T 1 en we are led to this further
infeeenoe and hops, that if education is more widely
extended, and If • hatter and improved education is
given, then we gni look for • reduction of crime, and
for the increase of those moral virtues which are the
beat test of the well-being of society. I mention this
because, as you are well aware, at the present moment
great attention is being direct. in the Legislature end
elsewhere, to the subject of education ; and I think it
Is • proof of the necessity of an improved education, and
especially of that education which teaches the great and
indestructible truths of right—of moral right—and
wrong, and of the necessity of being these arca troths
on religion. There is one other feature in the calendar
to which for a moment also, I yeah to draw your
attention, and that is the information oontained in the
first column of the oalletielsr. It may be in the recollec-
tion of any of theme who were present et the last
Epiphany Sessions, that i then called your attention
to one very remarkable fart in the calendar with which
you had then to desk That fact was that net of •
total of 20 or 21 prisoners, about one-half (nanvely 10)
were natives or residents of other wearies, and nut
natives,/ or residents of I iorselehire. I mentioned that
fast as indicating, (and 1 thought with good reason and
justice.) that the increase of crime which we bad then
to lament was connected, to • very great extent, with
the prevalence of vagrancy. We have had within the,
last day or two very important information given us
bearing upon this point. You ale aware that shortly
after the commencement of the year, a society was
formed in this county for the suppression of mendicity.
That society has now been in operation for about throe
months, and yesterday Captain .Imyatt Brown, who
undertook the laborious and troublesome ethoe of me.
retary to the society, reported to the members in the
County Hall, before the oommeucement of the business
of the County Sessions, the proceedings for the last
three months. That report, I may say, in the opinion
of all who were present, was of a most gratifying said
satisfactory nature. One great feature of it was that,
whereas, in the quarter ending the 31st of March, 1869,
there had been admitted iato the several union work.
houses, no less than 3,602 vagrants—l don't mean to
say that they were all different persons, but that was
the number of admissions, and of mune if • vagrant
passed through the county from one union to
another, his admiesion to each house reckons as one.
In the quarter ending 31st March, 1870, that is the
quarter just passed, the admissions of regrants into the
Union houses were reduced to 2,113, showing a
dimunition in the number of vagrant irises of no less an
amount than 1.409. That occurred in the face of, up to
the time, the rapidly incressing amount of mendicity.
It oecurred. notwithstanding, what you all will agree
with me, has been a season of unusual severity, • season
in which, in many parts of England, there bare been
complaints of want of employment and these consider-
ations, I think, increase the cause of satisfaction we
have to feel, in this, the first result of the operations of
the society. I will not detain you with other funs
relating to the lleirlieity Society, ,the special matter,
being nether for e .nsideration in other places I may
mention that, although the expenses are small, still
there is an amount of expenditure necessary in carrying
out the work of the society, and 1 trust that the
inhabitants of this county see, as I think they will see,
that there is good reason for having confidence in its
work, and that they will come forward to supply the
not very pressing, but still imperative demand that
must necessarily arise, for the purpose of carrying on
the society's operations. But the reason why I call
your attention to theme particular Vets is that, cool.
perm: these toostatethents tosetber the one the
meet in the first eolunro of the calendar, and the other
statement which I have just read to you from the report
of Captain Amvatt Brown, I think you may arrive safely
at this conclusion—a conclusion which you have had
already pressed on your attention that vagrancy is
closely connected with the commission of crime, and
that if we largely reduce the number of mendicants
travelling 'bout in the county we shall also largely
reduce the number of offences with which we have to
deal at Quarter Sessions. I will not detain you with any
further general remarks. With regard to the calendar,
I think there is very little beyond what your experience
and the experience of your chairman will he enabled to
deal without mush asaistanse from pis. There is sae
oue in the calendar in !bash Mary Elisabeth Blundell

Crow;ezamined A penon named Harriet Carpenter was
I... Aging In the bonm at the time, end Mao a person named
Clench, and a great Many others. Carpenter left a day miter
the watch was load—she waa a friend of the primmer.. Penton%
coming to the hotne could rite the room where the wMch WV,
kept, for washing their hands, but she only allowed poolde that
she knew to to so.

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Alfred Bi.hop, landlord of the Railway Taveni. atan
identifl• d die watch which hi. wife had had ewer mince she wal
inuring!.

tYtitint ent to the Buli's Head on Feb. 17 to appre-
hend the male prisoner for leaving hi n • Ile and family
chewable to the latish. Ile took hint to the police statifln,
and the female primoner came to the !dation te reeker "hukband."
nail nusicault we. committed on 16 1 IIIC.IL She gave Wither.
the key of the room dm occupied at the Bull*. lionel, that he
might let • doe out of the room. lu s drawer in the room he
looml a gold Albert chain, and in a eigar.box over the fire-
place three watches, and in a drawer In the wanhatand tht trateh

Mr. Pole renisrliesi aunt nearly four months had espired
%ince the watch Iran attired, anal that It might hate hem
illegally p..lleli. or dim sad of in other ways, and a. got Into
the roomicssion ot primmer, for the room au ~pen to other
perrria,
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Prisoners werefound guilty of receiving on the AM awe.
Mr. Castle offered no evident* in the mental ca3e.
llickleburgh was winteneed totem, months' hard tabour. and
Bullard three months hard laming., the terms tnminen, .t
the expiration of the imprisonment they were suffering for
another offence.