The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-05-19 00:00:00

/Mu anti Crimt.

Tlti proaccution of ezZovernor Eyre cru partly
beard at lior..trect police court on Friday, and wan
adjoulned until thin day (Tuesday).

MALICIOU9 OCITRAGI.—Some miscreants nbtAined in
entranoe to the garden of Colonel C u at Fordwieh, the
other night, and succeeded in talung out of one of his
alrh pond. nearly 1000 aalmon fry. Not content with
this, they poisoned a number of goo reach in an adjoining
pond.

Tug CASE or CRCELTT I'o A CHILD AT MARGATE
Mr. Lomax, who wan convicted at the Janeary Dyer ,
quarts.r vewoons for cruslty to her child, Agnes Lomax,
and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, bu
since elven birth to • chili. 'line child, however, died,
and Mrs. Lomax has since become insane, and ban been
*int ton lunatic asylum.
068CZwL BOWES.— MOO Geeing of • book, seised at the
residence of lie. Lfichin, deutist,Roetidelle, were brought
into the Rochdale Police-court, and lit. !Actin wee
aum.noned to show cause why they should not be
destroyed. The book is entitled " Depravity of the
Roman Priest, and Inimondity of the Confessioaal."
The magistrates, hieing lamed the case, ordered the
books to be destroyed. Mr. Dickin said that the owner
would Repeal against their decision. John Iluedleston,
bookseller, wa• summoned to show mule why 13 of the
same publication, found in hie shop on the Bth instant
Should not be destroyed. The charge was proved, and
Ihs magistrates ordered them to be destroyed.
A PRECOCIOUS SCAMP.- At Liverpool, William
Walter Heaps, 15 years oil, a very little boy for his i
age, was put in the dock charged with having stolen
175 belonging to Messrs. Beeiden and Co.. ale and
porter merchants, in whose eflice he was • junior clerk.
On the 29th ult. Heaps wan sent to pay the sum
named into tie Adelphi Bank. Instead of doing so,
however. be went to an outfitters, bought • new suit of
clothes, then proceeded to the railway station, and took
a through ticket for Pieria There he arrived the next
day, and et maec set about viewing the sights of the
city, having invited some French lads to aceompany
him, standing the expenses, and liberally treating thin
with wine, he. Next he fell in with • ParWien newel
Ferret, who undertook to be his guide, and who robbed
the young adventurer al 1:15. An acquaintance of
H. ape, living in Liverpool, having discovered that the
police were making inquiries concerning him, kept his
friend in Peri, informed of their moveinents by means
of telegraphic manages. These induc..d Master Heare
to shift from plane to place until la arrived at South-
port, where, having enjoyed himself for a few days, be
wee apprehended by a detective on Toesdey night, and
taken to Liverpool. He had got rid of XV of the stolen
money. The prisoner was renianded.
Porromi TeLlego.—On Wednesday, at Leamington
petty sessions,Elisabeth Hawkins a/ras Lee, was charged
with having, on the 12th of April laet, pretended to
till fortune., and using certain means to deceive Miss
Alice Shelly, • young laily of independent means,
residing at Leamington. The information was laid by
Susannah Ball, • young girl who bad been in the service
of Mies Shelly, and she deposed that about four months'
ego the defendant came to her mistress's house. She
bold Mies Shelly she °pule' tell fortunes, cut the cords,
And read every pip on them the same as she could the
alphabet. The name night the defendant rIIIIIIC again
to Mien Shelly's, cut a peek of cards, and told her
there was • dark gentleman and • light gentleman very
fond of her, and she advi.ed her to have the dark one.
Defendant had with her a bottle, the contents of which,
she said, cost a sovereign. She touched Miss Shelly on
the bead, and threw the stuff in the bottle into the
Ire, and when it sparkled she told her that the dark
gentleman wee very fond of her. No money mused on
that occasion, but she subsequently took the defendant
£3 from Rise Shelly. On the 12th April the defendant
cone to Mi.. Shelly end went through the W.llO per-
fornisner. In cross-examination Ball denied ever
haring been at the defendant's house with young men,
Ip,t asserted that defendant once offered her alo for an
immoral purpose. She had not taken the defendant
any nioney since the 12th April, nor on that date, the
last money sent by Mies Shelly being sa. for seeing the
dark gentleman in the glass. The complainant bad
summoned Miss Flhelly as • witness, and she was not
cell. .La. the bench held Ii r evidence to be immateriaLas
that of the complainant did not support the informs,
tlon, which cha.ged the defendant with committing the
offence on the 12th of April. The complainant having
no other evidence to support the charge, the bench di.-
mimed the case.