The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-08-30 00:00:00

BLAIIDFORD.

A COR,XIIII Comitrrren.—At the Chippenham
eJuitty Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Maokonuchie,
was beard the canes of ti. Hathawayul Chippenham, tr.
W. 11. Atkinson, solicitor, of Blaudford. —Mr. Awdry,
who appeared fur the plaintiff, said he had ootaised
Fidgets,! +widest the defendant for £6 2m, and out of
that amount he bad paid only Li. The case Mal been
several times adjourned, arid be now aided Mr.
Beet., county traiwurer for Lonset, who said the
defenuart was Coroner fur Blaedford and Mau/orris
district, his salary being £22 a year, and since the
judgment be had paid him nine month's salary. The
judo, committal the defendant for worm, days, but
suendis I the warrant for 28 days.
THS Sitt:roe Alines Gitaltir•a 60100 L.—The Town
Conocil have forwarded to the Chau it>, Commissioners
a memorial Wing before the Heard the desirability
of their permitting the re-opening of the Milton Abbas
Grammar School. The memorialists say :- -"The said
school hes been closed for several years, and the re-
opening is considered necessary, as apart hum the
National School there lion other school in the t we
of Blandford, and in consequence tue inhabitants are
omnpelle l to send their sone to a distaucs to be
e located. The buildicgs lately occupied by the said
school. are well adapted for the purpose, and, under
the a As management of the late principal. the Bev.
JAWS.. Penny, now rector of Tarrant Rushton, it was
h• Id in repute, and your memorialist, believe that a
Ilk, future is open to the school should the prayer of
the petit,on be gr•uttal." On the face of the memorial
It is evident a strong cage be. been made out why the
coe should be acceded to, but the educational chari-
ties of the country are being so abominably confiscated,
the'. the 0 inncil may rely upon it they must not be
content with mere memorialising.
CHASSIS Or Aneoe. —John Stratton was on Saturday
charged, bef-re Lieut.. General Parke, C. 8., with
0. Pond stated on the 18th of August he I
rec•
eived 'of-mutation some time after ten p.m. that his
rick was on fire, lie went up and saw it, and from
the way it was burning he felt convinced it was on fire
from the outside. Tue rick we. of clover hay, the
pr since of seven acres, about ten tea; it wmi all
des r.iyed, lie rained it at £6 per tin. He afterward.
Went to the ninety p lice-station and saw the pri•oner.
and hi reply to his question why he set the rick on tire
prisoners cid be did it front poverty.—Charles Jacksou,
gatekeeper at the Mill-down level crossing on the
flowerpot and Dorset Joint Line, stated on Thursday
nizht about • quarter peat eight he saw the prisoner
near his gate. Prisoner asked him for a Weiler snatch,
and he gave him one. About a quarter before nine
witness brad some one go across the line near the
gate, in the direction of the rick, which WAS about a
quarter of 11 mile from the gate. He afterwards saw the
r c n fire.—Supt. Underwood stated that on Thurs-
day Sight, a few minutes befire eleven, he was going
into the police station. He said "Are you the
eer.:ean: Ti Witness said 'Yes." lie then said "1
come io give myself up for setting fire to the risk."
The rick was burning at the time. Witness told him
to come in. and asked him his name. He gave the
name ol John Stretten, aged 52, New Brunswick.,
North America. Witness cautioned hitu. He said
" I set fire to the rick about ten. I did it through
poverty. I had some mateless of • man at the railway
butt. I saw the rick ea I was oosuli-g towards the
town, is I came from Sturminster Newtin."—Prisoner
after being can loner!, said " I do not wish to say any'
thiug."—He was committed for trial at the maims.