The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

WI! BORE.

Parr Ramrtois, linday.—Hagistrates present: Ths
Rm. C. J. (Lyn (chairman), Lieut.-Co/ Pagan. and tbn
Rev. J. H. Austen.

Wholesale Poetchisg.—John Gerd, of Wimborne, who
appeared considsrably the worse for drink, was charged
with having n his possession unlawfully 12 pheasants,
four hares, cue rabbit, and seven nets ; also with
trespassing iv search of gerne.--13tasptien Head, keeper
to Ste John Coventry, Esq., on the 24th November
about three .in., saw defeadant coming from a cover
near Bobber/ Park with a hag, stopped him, and took
the game, ke., from biol. Defendant said a man named
'Bill" had employed him to carry the bag to Wimborne.
He admitted having been convicted of poaching, but
said that wee all through an " arsoident.—(laughter).—
Fined £7 mil costs, or low months' imprisonment.—
Defendant Isved if be went to gaol, as his wife and
children would be destitute, that the Chairman would
send her a pheamust and hare for her Cluistmas dinner
Jolla Croat Wife.—Jame Cross and Maria Bartlett,
of Corte Mullen, the former wife of the celebrated John
Crass, admitted snaliaiously injuring certain wood, the
property of Kr. Coventry. They went into a plantation
pick- ing up wood and breaking young trees for dring.
Defendant@ sod others were constantly trespassing in
the woods.--Both admitted the offenoo—Uri. Cross, ID
reply to the nagistrates, mid her husband was not able
to work more than four or flve days in the week. They
had seven children to keep, and if they could but get
theirjown she ahould not have occasion to pia an wood.
—The other Lefendent, who seemed to think very lightly
of the °Hem, and passed some jokes on the witness!,
said that hi husband had no work—The Chairman
said the &nth were certainly sorry to use them there,
but they lied no alternative but to doe them. They
would, however, be as lenient as possible. The fine
would be Id, 3d. &tome, and 2e. 64. costs each. He
also intimated to Mrs. Cross that she mint not entertain
any ill-feeling Naiad Mr. Coventry, as the trustees bad
now nothing to do with the money collected for het
hasbaad, it being In Chaneery.—Mrs. Oros said go did

not, for she thought him • bind gentleman, but be
ought to bate given the nioney to her husband.—The
*omen then asked for time, and were allowed • week.
Tinothy Oxford, of Stoney Down, near iituratinster
Marshall, was summimed, but did not appear, to •
&ergs of endeavourieg to assist • prisoner to mope
from the custody of P. C. George dom.—Fined L'7 and
eosta, or two months.
Len Scoviour, of Holt Forest, for trespass in moan&
of game on lands itocupieil by Daniel Wilkins, was fined
El, or 14 days.
Charge Itelstead and Charles Poster, of Lytehett,
lrr
,rmilmaling on Lytchett Manor estate, were each
annu g including coats, and in default nnteneed to 14
dart' imprieonount.
Charles Hymned. was convicted of trespassing on the
26th November on land in the circulation of Mr.
Bennett, over which Lord Rivers had the right of
shooting, and also on land the property of the same
nobleman. Fined el, including outs, or 14 days, but
on his defiantly statieg be would rather gore gaol than
pay the flue, the Holub increased the time from 14 days
to • month.
Amos Perreif and Henry SAerring, wines wives
appeared on Pieir behalf, charged under the Highway
Act, with being at seek a distance from the teams they
"re in ellerge of at °usage fit. Michael, Nov. 23. a.
to have no control over their horses, were fined 61 and
64. 6‘l, eons each.
A share of stealing • pickaxe was preferred against •
prisoner named Riduird Pope, of Constitution Rill, by
illiam Amoy. gardener, et the mom place. It
aPP•arbla, however, that the pickaxe was lent by • man
named Joy, to the prisoner, and that Joy held it and
other articles on account of a debt due by the sou
plainant, the Bench diamiusd the case, giving Pope a
oertifinte that the charge we. unfooutled. Pope said
he had been licked up in the cells neatly two days, and
believed be bad caught a ; could he not get com-
pensation ? The Magistrates' Clerk told him his remedy
wu to bring an action against Amoy in the Downy
court.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT MRRLEY HOUSE.
Marley HOU., situated • abort distance from the
town of Wimborne, and at the present time occupied
by W. Raahleigh, Bag., very narrowly escaped destrue
Sinn by fire on Thursday, the 26th ult., and last
Wednesday night It was the seem, of on outrageous
attempt on the life of its principal occupant. The fire
occurred in the portdrm i.e a
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ungrwr
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d the
bone.. for the
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home. These apartments are right and left of a long
corridor, extending the whole length of one side of the
mansion, and it has been the custom for some time past
to light up this peerage with parraffin. At OM end
of the corridor a moderately abed room was used sea
lumber room, and in this wood and Goal for lighting the
fires in the upper portion of the mansion were kept,
besides hones, old mattresses, and • variety of
miseellaneona artioles generally stowed away in such a
receptacle. The Bre was first discovered by the house-
maid, shortly after seven in the morning. On opening
the door of the lumber room to provide herself with
wood and coal to light the fires, she was startled to find
the place on fire. With great presence of miod she
immediately closed the door, and gave an alarm, and,
plenty of assistance being at hand, the fire was in a
short space of time extinguished. Information WM at
once given to Superintendent lisynten, who proceeded
to make an examination of the premises- He found the
the fire had evidently begun just under the roof, and
that a large mass of the ceiling and woodwork falling
on the Boor beneath, had set twat on fire. The walls
end ceilings had evidently had paraffin oil thrown on
therm„ and the only 0000161i011 which could be arrived
at was that some person or persons had wilfully set lire
to the plane. The roof, being of lead, all air was
excluded; had there been any blase, the whole of the
mansion would in all probability have been destroyed, as
within only about • couple of yards from where the
fire dropped, light pieces of wood, • box of composite
candles, coal, and other such articles were placed.
One of the servant., a scelery maid, stated
that about five o'clock the same morning she
awoke, arid, being &axiom asi to the time, went out into
the ogridor, where a small American clock for the use
of the servants is hung, and that she then fancied she
smelt something burning, but, not being alarmed, sh
went back tobed, and did not awake till after some of
the other fervents were up. She also said that soon
after she went down stairs she sew • stout man, whom
she had not seen before, pass out through the servants'
entrance under the principal balcony of the house, and
that she was so frightened as to run and hide herself in
another part of the house. Mr. Rasbleigh, who Sc
afflicted with paralysis, and unable to make any levee.
tigation himself, requested the Superintendent to make
all haste to London, to consult with his agent there, and
the same evening Mr. Raynton proceeded thither; but
soon after his arrival he reeeived a telegraphic message
not to proceed any further in the matter, Mr. liaableigh
having, on • new emersion of alarm during the Superin-
tendent's absence, sent for and obtained the services of
Mr. Plummer, of Clorebe,ter. That officer visited the
plane and made enquiries, but up to the present time,
so far as we can learn, without any astisfactory
result. On Wednesday night, between 10 and 11
o'clock, whilst Mr. Ituhlei„th was being undressed by
two of his servants, in a room on the ground door of the
mansion, they were suddenly alarmed by • missile being
either struck or thrown against one of the windows. fie
great was the force of the blow that, besides two puma
of glass being broken, the iron frame-work of the win-
dow WU bent. Sergeant Groat, of the Wimborne
division, made an examination of the place the next
morning, and found near the spot a large piece of fire
brick, and, in the area beneath the window, a small
portion of the same, which had evidently been broken
off. The perpetrator of these outrages has not yet been
discovered, but there appears very little doubt it blooms
one wall acquainted with the premises. Since the
present occupancy all the servants ate engaged by an
agent in London, and continual changes are being made.