The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-05-03 00:00:00

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thong= Cass.—On Friday Nicholas Penfield
and John Bennett, sailors, admitted having been
drunk and disorderly at Portland.—At this point Mr.
, FL•ine was briefly instructed for Bennett, and stated
I this was not a case of • Mil wilfully going to a public-
I house and getting drank. Rs had been on board •
vessel, where they had plied him with drink—Fined
ss. and costa.—Wifliam Boatswain pigtailed guilty to
having been drunk and riotous in the highway, and
was also fined ss. and costa.
COUNTRY BAITZIL —At the County Petty Sessions/
on Friday, before Colonel Rwaffield, Dr. Smith, and
Mr. Russell Cog, Wiliam Bvt, of Oanington, was
called to answer an adjourn numinous, for keeping
flog unlicensed, but did not oome. At a previous
court Riggs had said the dog belonged to Mr. Miller
but that person now appeared and stated the dog was
odd to Baal for " half -a-d.wen calves' reeds" ; witness
did not get the reeds; but Beggs had had the dog, and
be polios found he hadn't the Roams, he killed
Symonds said that was rather • strong act of
ownerlibil4 had Bans was swissad to pay 5e an 4
soot&

Ittgetes or flare Cattecess.— it t,l e last County
Seem •ns, Abraham l'e ace, Heim: .t 1 ler, awl
Charles Pavy, wera swam .tte I by the over.oors of
Portland. for n na.payment of rates. —Mr. Welaford
stated that Mr. Seriven, the assistant overseer, hissi
had a paralytic stroke, awl the came wet adjourned.
INSPECrION OF THE I.I.RoUGH Potici..--• in 'Thtual*
day miming JIM. Inspector, Captain Egad. in.
aikido i the borough forms at the Aation. Tiler
number 16, including the superiotendont, end the
Inspector apimar ei very well ,atisfied with thie fine
b sly meu. Tne book., and all those aeeeneiriee
which so much increase the work in the offi,.., without
its app mring to the public, w re also vet), minutely
examined, and also glee eathtfaction.
WTEL AND ITS WATT/ARDEN AGAlN.—Dorehiketlr
Highway 11 mrd v. Jame. Roberts, called waywarden
of wyke Regis. was summoned for not paying a call
of £6l. -Mr. T. Co-nabs, their clock, appeared for
the Highway Board.—Tie waywarden pleaded that
he was out of office, the call was made on hiin MI the
16th; but he bad no power to make a rate, he had
filed his petition.—Mr. Symonds said thi s would not
discharge him, being • public officer anti trustee.—Tne
order was mute pro forma forthwith.— Mr. Coombs
apt lied for his cost, which were allowed-39..
THE Ass's Com—Jonathan Cook appeared on
Friday Isst, to answer for seine ef the vagartee of his
pets. He appeared nantichiog what seemed an over-
abundant mouthfel, for lit, c tel I IA make his speeeh
plain until chewing wit advanced, and then be
explained his view, if the law, which hi was sorry
made him liable. The. donkeys had been tout with
some out ea-tward (t* Winfrith " and " Poxwell "
appearad to come oat between the chewing) -and he
th mght the pars in with them ought to be answerable,
and not he.-- Fined in. a heal, and costs, total 10..
PESO .Clut:B LITTLE WANDERER. A B ithtonian
youngster wait returned to his home on Wednesday
night, after trying ti nue ify the police. P.C. Hans'
ford (mind him on 'Tuesday night in the street near
the railway station; he cave his name a. Percy L
seven years of age. Taken to the police-station, he
only had 40., an-I was fed ant 'Meg'. He stated
his grandmother had sei.t him to Bristol to see his
nude who was a atone ma.. ,n, but he did not know
h aAdress. Next moraine he wan sent out into the
yard to clean himself, whet, he made off out f the
front door; but we, to et missed and brought back.
The boy baviug given his grandmother's addrens as
Camden-real, Superintendent Vickery telegraphed to
the chief of the police, hr-html; but found the child's
mother wee living at Ahntlie's-cottages, Bath, and
that he had run away on Tuesday morning. Having
communicated with his mother, the Superintendent
sent him back in charge of the guard on Wednesday
night. The child was at extraordinary story-teller
for his age, and the police were surprised at the
readiness of his invention.
AVID, £ll-es CAsr..—iumionsh Smedley v. Bennett
was a Portland case.—Mr. Welsford appeared for
oomplainamt, and Mr. Hume for defendant —They
had been next door neighbours, anti complainant's
husband died two or three years ago, leaving her
with three cnildren. She stated the young man had
promised her marriage; but as he did not fulfil his
promise when it was meat important, she seems to
have got him to meat her, and an agreement wan
drawn up by Mr. Crocker, anti signed by Bennett,
in which he promised to give her 51, a wok. He
visited her, but she says she iefused to allow their
acquaintance t t be on tht: former intimate terms, and
he withdrew his psyments.—Mr. Haune elicited that
her first chill wa, barn bef ire her marriage, and he
urged she ought not to have drawn this young MAO
int her toils. The agreement to pay Ss, a week was
bum fficiently stamped, and defendant found he comic'
not pay so much.—Oa the other side it was stated
that defendant forced himself into her h eve, and
complainant left him there and went to her father's,
because Bennett wool I sleep in the house.—Order
for In. a week, with orlinery costs.
CUBS:PIN, wilier. No List Is SiEN.---Thomss Male
and James Patten were summoned on Friday for
unlawfully "creeping "its Portlantbroad, on the 11th
net, without permission.—They admitted they were
creeping, but one said there was no notice forbidding
IL—Mr. Arden appeared f r the Admiralty, and stated
theoffence was crAvei by an old Ac: of Parlament, by
which it was not allowed to" creep" within 100 yards
of H. if. ship., or mooriteenlacee. There are vitriol,
modes of searching the bottom of the sea, creeping,
with hooks; sweeping, with a lope; and dredging,
with a net; anti if it wer. allowed, I eople would be
encourage.' to pick up things thrown overboard from
the ships. In fact they had had such cases, where
teal-ft and many others thing. had been picke I up.
Althou:h this was the find can, brought up. creeping
h id been g log on atone time, and Capla-n Inglis, the
Qu Isn'e harbourmaster, felt oblige.' to bring up these
men, as they hal been warned siveral times. Ou day,
he warned them as he wa, going to Weymouth, and
when he came back, he caught them in the act.—Cue

of the men wanted t ) .r cu. they had m) werning.—Ai

this was treated as the a first o cue°, they wire only
tined 10,. 61., or 14 days' each, although they were
lia'de to in flue, or to be sent to prison without optiol
of a tine.
SH ,HT WEIHIITA AT PORTLAND.—Elizaheth Mitchell,
an elderly shopkeeper, sv,s sunnnon-d f r h tying short
weights in her shop at P•otla.i.l. She admitted the
weights wero tint- but did not know they Were
light. —Superintendent Gale soil this was nit a very
bad cue ; but Mrs. Mitchell could not show him the
weights had b •en ex unined within any reasoaable
time.—The magic rAtes cautioned Sirs. Mitchell, and
allowed the case to be discharged on payment of costs.
--Archibald Wood was sulatnunel for having a
quarter-pound weight • quarter of an ounce abort. He
sol I bread and other articles in the shop. His excuse
was having bought the weight of relations.—The
deficiency heinz mach w,rse than in the last case, he
was fine,i Mk and costs, and the weight forfeited.—
lie pleaded he had not Much in his shop, and was allowed
a fortnight to pay.--Mary Pitcher, keeper of a very
poor shop, at Portland. N. 2,1 also charged with haviog
thort weights. Her daughter' who is so short as to be
almost a dwarf, and who appeared to be afli.cte,l in her
speech, came for hr mother; but her attempt at
explanation could scarcely be understood.—Superin-
tendent Gale visited this, which seemed to be a small

huckster's shop, and found seven weights short, among
them a quarter-pound deficient six drains, and a
quarter-ounce a drain short, while none had been either
stamped or denominated.—The daughter said they had
no help but from the parish to pay their ren..—Fined
51. including noes, and the weights to be forfeited.
The daughter was told that if thy could not afford to
get a new set of weights, they had better give up the
shop.—Allowed a fortnight t pay.
BEATING UP TICE 4UARTEILS. Asenath Sarah
Gordon wee summoned by Ruth Anscombe, for
wilfully commiting "damage and spoil" on • door at
Portland. The two billets were prison officers wives,
and she with the longest name was far the nhort-r in
person. They lived at the Grove, and Mrs. Anse 'tube
stated that on the 18th Mr.. Gordon came and said
little boy Anecombe bad struck little boy Gordon,
Mrs. Anscombe couldn't help that ; but defen-
' dant's wrath was warm because the boy had run
away, and she c citch him, and she consoled
herself with threatening to screw his neck. Mrs.
Auscombe coolly told her 'twee the best thing she
could do if she caught him, when this irritated Mrs.
Asenath Sarah Gord tn, wh suggested kissing. Mrs.
Anscombe was in favour of kicking, when defen-
dant went off, and Mrs. Anscombe upstairs. In came
the by and was taking his tea, when the sound of
Mrs. Asenath Gordon way heard, and the boy fortified
himself by locking her out. Mrs. Gordon's maternal
wrath was too strong, she sent the lock-bolt crash
through the staple, and came front to front with
the enemy. Down came a relieving force in the
person of Mrs. Anscombe, who ordered her to
leave. She disdained to fly till Mr. Jackson was
fetche I front next d tor, when she retreated in good
order before the allies.—What was the cost .4 repairing
the door was asked. —olk `. nothing at oil; they sent
some prisoners, who mended it tree.—DefenJant cross-
examined Mrs. Anscambe MI to where she met the
boy, and it appeared plaintiff did not see her burst the
door; she denied it, and said she met the boy in the
yard.—This instructive and important case was
adjourned for a second hearing, unless neighbourly
counsels prevail to keep the women at home with their
boys.