The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-13 00:00:00

BRED PORT.

Tire meeting on behalf of the Society for providing
Additional Curates in populona places which was to
have been held in the Town-hall this (Tuesday)
evening has been poetpooed for the present

Mr. GIORGI BOCICILAND Wee feigned by the
Bridport Literary Institute to give iiia original
=Meal entertainment, entitled " Romance and
Reality" ea the Town•hall on Toniday last. There
was • large attendance and the entertainment gave
great eatiefaction.

Tel Irtm o Novnregg.—The pyrotechnic &spiky
oommentorative of Gunpowder Plot wag this year of •
very ttme drecrii•Von. Several lighted ter barreh were
tolled about the streets, a few "Gaye flitted here and
there, anJ a conoiderable ni.mber of rockets and cracker.
were exploded, affording very mild delight to the crowd
of resells who thronged the etreeta.

BOROUGH POLick Tuesday.— Before 8. W.
Wheelies' Em., and H. B. Houma, Esq.—Mary
Ann Toutrain was with stealing tow bap
from Messrs. W. Hout-rraind Co. Benjamin Swabia,
of the mill of Messrs. W. Sommell and Co.,
raalrEprisoner worked at the mill. They had mimed
tow bap trona time to time, which were kept in • Plum
40 *high the prisoner would have access. On Saturday
last be was shown at the polimstation three tow bees
b. recognised one of the as belonging to Mears!
m
Houtmell and Co., as it bad their mark on it, done by
their foreman; them now produced were the begs shown
him. An apron produced meat have been made nut of.
bag, it had a:so the bin's mark on it. Them bags bad
beets taken out of the premien without whams'
mnerion, who was responsible fir them good&
tah. ;lid think the bap were worth about 2c—The pri-
soner asked the witnem it he had known anythieg
reenlist her before, and he said he had not.--Mary
Bryant, lodaing at prisoner's home, letter writer, said
she bad seen buts at the hones about three months ago.
There were about three bags. Phe did not see the
'prisoner bring them. About a mouth ago she saw the
prisoner wear home • bag, on • very wet evening. The
hags produced were similar to those she had seen; she
did not know where they cum from. Three or four
months ego the prisoner said there was a "bother" at lb.
Houndeell'e factory again with Mr. literaffielel about some
bags; prisoner did not my so to her, but she heard her
say it. Soon after this conversation she saw the p.l'
senor rip up some of the begs with a knife. Witness did
not know what she did with the pieties. She saw the hag
prodrued, with th• mark of Messrs. Hoon.ell on it
Oust bend 206, used by the prisoner hat week for as rry•
leg ma—P.C. Hopkins said last Saturday morning be
executed • seereh.warrant at the prisoner's house. Under
the stairs he found two of the bags produced, one of
which had some shavings In it In the pantry he found
the b., marked No. 205 which had the prosecutor's
Initials on it; there was coal inside it. He found also a
piece of a hag in a bedroom He took the bags to the
polioe station, and afterwards appobeaded the prisoner
She said in answer to the charge that she
only had one bag, whit* she sore house when
It was wet one motile' about a week ago. On
Monday morning he west to her house again
arid (mind the apron produced, which was • plebe
of baying that had been made into an apron, and was
marked with tbe prosecutors' ieitials, and be found also
two other pieces of Miggiog new prodeeed.—The prisoner
elected to he trial nimmarily, and acknowledged that
she took home one but (No 206) am evening when it
was wet, the others she said were either brought be her
or gime to her. She pleaded not (silty to stealing
them.—fiergaant Lavender in mower to Mr. Whelan,
I said prisoner had been in custody to.fore, but never
convicted of felony—Mr. Whethme said the magistrates
multi imam to no other medallion than that the prisoner
was guilty, by her own showing. There bad been great
ineousisteney in what she had said. She told the pol oe man
that ehe ouly took home the bag (No 205) about • week
ago, hut it bad been shown to have been taken shout a
month ago. If she Ind taken it then on account
of its being so wet to wrap round her shoulders
and had afterward. dred it end returned it he presumed
the Me-are. lionmell would riot have objected to her
borrowing it, bet instead of that she had kept and used
it. Another point against prison, was that similar
bags had been men in her house three months ago, eci
that there appeared to be a system of taking them.
Being employed at the mill she was in face paid to look
after the property of her masters, but instead of taking
oare of it, she carried it away. He certainly thought
under Mom circumstances she deserved • severe
punishment, but as she had been convicted before
they would only rentenee her to one month's imprison-
ment with haidlabour.—Richard Hanslynox travelling
packman, was charged Irish moulting P. C. Humber,
shoot one p.m. o• Tuesday morning while in the execu-
tion of his duty. P. C. Fleisher said last night about
one o'clock there was a row is the George Inn, and he
wig requested by the landlord to put a stop to it; he
endeavoured, in cosequenee, to get this man out as he
was making a row, whets he amen tad bim and tore his
ooet. Primmer was intoxicated at the time. He was
very violent when going to the station, and all night In
the sell he was very noisy. The damage dene to the
eat MA 7. The prisoaer woe fined 1114, and fa. costs.