The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-11-08 00:00:00

PETTY SESSIONS,

FRIDAY.
Before Mr. C. J. Parke (Chairman), Rev. Carr J.
Glyn, Lord Endue Cecil, and Mr. Rolls Fryer.
A labourer, of Henley. named Sidney Dimmer.
pleaded guilty to trespassing on lands the property of
General Pitt Rivers, on the 3rd November, in search
of game.—A brace of pheasants, which bad been
recently shot, were taken from him—He was fined El
and costs.—A charge of cruelty to a horse by work.
it in an unfit state, brought against two labourers, of
Killion, named James Osborne and Levi Hamrne-ton.
was dismlesed.--George Freeborn., of Colehill,
labourer, was fined ss. and cons for drunkennea •.
Catherine Bennett, the wife of the well known Cheap
John, was summoned for assaulting William Henry
Power, whitennith, of Wimbome.—lt appeared a
, disturbance occurring at one of the sales, the defendant
tried to clear the tent, and it was in her efforts to do
so that, according to the complainant, she struck him
twice in the face. It was also admitted, however,
that Mrs Rowlett was bu•tled, and had her shawl
taken away, and complainant still bad possession of
it —The Bench dismissed the cate.—Thomas
, of Hinson, for an assault upon William
ICt°of:s7 of Haymor Bottom, warn fined 2s. 6d.—
Edward Long, rA Winaborne, baker, was summoned
for assaulting George Dacombe, of Dean's Grove,
labourer. —Defendant bad ordered the complainant out
of his shop for insolence, and, as he refused to go, be
puttied him out—Dismissed.—A Ili of 14, named
Walter Prior, pleaded guilty to setting a oprirg wire
on his father's land, contrary to the Ground Game
Act, which requires them to be set in holes. and was
ordered to pay tbe costr.--Three boys, named Henry
Ration, Henry Bigler, and George Mullins. were
charged with setting fire to the heath in the parish
of Hinson, growing or, land the property of L rd
Wimborne.—Nfr. P. E. L. Budge prosecuted, and
stated that although the damage in this ca.e was but
small, yet last spring so much damage bad besn caused
by such acts that he must press fir their committal for
trial as a warnine.—P.C. Pearce on the 10th of
October, about 5 p.m.. was oaths roai leading between
Killeen and Wallace Down, and he saw the prisoners
near some heath, and liattow 'et fire to it. On going
up to them, he heard Mullins say "Let the -- burn;
here's the -- bobby." Batton then tried to put it
out, and they succeeded in doing so. Hatton said the
others told him to do it. If the fire had spread, a
number of ricks would have been burnt,—Mr. Supt.
Batty remarked if it had not been discovered a great
deal of damage mast have been dons.—They were
committed to the assizes at Wincluster.--Thomaa
Hutchings, of Wimborne, was charged with stealing a
dog from Julia Mullins, of the came place.—Mr.
Atkinson defended.—lt seemed defendant's mother,
when she wag about to leave her home, gave the cow.
plainant the dog. Some time after she wanted it
hack, but Mrs. Mullins refuted to part with it.
Defendant then to At it away, and had declined to give
It up.—The defence was that it wee his dog, and the
mother had no right to givept away.—Case dismissed.

AGCIDLW.—A serious accident happened at the
London and South-Western Railway Station here on
Saturday last. • young man, about 21 years of age,
who had been employed in loading timber on to some
waggons, but who was not in the employ of the rail-
way company, attempted to ot into one of the
waggons of a passing train, but missed twa Sooting and
fell between the rails; several empty waggona isaseed
over he legs, mutilating one of them in a fr ghtliat
manner. He was conveyed to Wimborne statioa,
where be was attended by Mr. Parkinson, who ac-
companied him to the County Hospital at Dorchester,
where he is now under the awe of Mr. &mem