The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

SALISBURY QUARTER SESSIONS.

Theme Sewdocie were held In the Crown Court, et the
°meld Vas" ow Monday week. Ware Job. Devi/
Chambers, E.., Recorder. Ur. Irma. Hoddlag, Use
new Clerk it awe Peale took tie Mall sash sane
pude end prorkled.'

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4—The Recorder in °barging the Orand Jary, said he
bad, as on many previous onsasione, the Omens teak of
Informing them that their duties would be very light;
there were, hilted, mom menu of flmelstion
usual, bemuse doting the but guile the ISM oho.
seater had been very few. Be understood that °sly
one own bad been summarily dealt with ky the magis-
trate', and there were only Oro fir Mild that day.
intia sasielbetery stabs of this", essa doubtless owing to
' the vigilante sof She pollee, sad the amass of employ.
meal *Web bed been provided for the inhibitente of
the sity. Ong of the MIMS to come befoul Shim was of
a very dm* and straightforward shatmeler, bet the Oaf
would maLly depend upon what was eilhd 11111E112.
itantial evklesee. They would enemas their judgment
on them.., but he would remind them, as be had oftee
dome helot% that *be dell of • grand jury was simply
to aseartain whether there was =Hoiden seldom to put
• misuser upon hi. trial Ware a petty Jury. Ho amid
not slam the few observations which he thought it
=te maks, without ailed's.' to the loss which
unstained sines the last filemises through the
death of Mr. Sutton, she Cleric of Ilse POMO. Mr.
Bottom, he believed, met with great selifortemes in the
worse of his life, but during the time he 'sled as Clerk
of the Pease, be wet a very diligent and Mathes. officer.
He wag very metbodleal, and gooduated the busioses
of that Court exceediogly well. No doubt they would
have in hie seesseeet. Mr. Madding, an equity eilleient
aloes. With them observations, he begged to dismiss
them to their duties.

Alfred Goodfellow wee 'barged with stealing a cruet
=seas bodies, • pair of snuffers, • brush, sod •
the property of Yr. William flpearman at
Salisbury, en the 611 Septentote Iwai.-14. limeades
was counsel for the polarisation; the primmer ea' unde-
fended. At the time ad the robbery the prisooer waa
lodging at the be... of dm presseatar, in Charchetreet,
fft. Edmund's. On the Morning in gessilen the primmer
got tm and said be wee gobig out to work for Mr.
&own. Prossoutor left the hones berme him, leaving
him there. On his ream about eight este* he found
the prisonararr.sdi
sad immediately sailed the cruet
eland. He dissovered the loss of the otter
111101 AOL In bonne of the day, the prisoner celled
at the Bustard Inn, an &Wavy PkW, and offered the
arest-stead for sale in the tap-roam. Yr. Itoddle, the
Landlord, that it bad boo stolen, bought it
for ids., and late/y sent for Sergeant Johnson, but
before Isis arrival the primmer left. &meant Johnson
followed him along the rood leading to Devisee, and
overtook him DIM the &dhows turnpike seta The
miming snuffers, brash, and basket were fiend in his
On being *barged with stealing the onset
stand, he said be had won it at • rale, at the Avon
Brewery, Salisbury, on the previous evening. The
snuffer., he said, he found about six months before, end
had had them in his poessedoo ever rues In his
defence the prisoner said he picked up the snuffers at
Wincenton ; and the brush was bossed for him by •
young woman from Stnrainetior dewiest, .1 Glestoo-
bury. Al to the erase stand, that was Oakes from the
prosecutor's house by • young man named Humphreys,
who called in the morning to amompuly him to
Humphreys, however, having mosey, was enabled to
ride. lie left the rest stead La his (primmer's) pos-
session and being in want of mosey, he sold it at
the Bastard—The Jury found the prisoner_ guilty, and
he wits sentenced to four calendar months' imprison-
ment with hard labour.
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Brook seTileorgs Masow, were inalotva for
breaking end entering the poultry store of Mr. Charlie
John Wright, and dealing therefrom two gems, and
several fowls and duds, at Salisbury, as the 2nd
September lest. Mr. Read prosecuted, and Yr. Snowden
defended. It appeared from the indeed that the
prosecutor coodpies some paltry stores in Salt-lane,
adjoining the stone yard of the Load Baird of Health.
On the night of the lat of September them dimes were
broken into, and two pose, seven or sight daces. and
12 or 14 fowls, curried away. P.C. Harford sew the
prisoners near the stores shout 12 °Valk, bat it was
admitted that both of them lived in Salt-Was, and that
at the hour ia question the pabliselmmaes had only just
dosed. The jury, after deliberating for mote time,
returned a verdict of guilty, sad the prisoners were
sentenced to 9 twairdar irepriermament with hard
labour.