The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-08 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1859.

then helped her up. She was in great pain.
The prisoner having helped her up, walked away
and left her. She then walked home. lien.
family had dined, but she could not eat any
dinner, and went upstairs to her bedroom. Her
mother followed her up, and the girl told her
mother what had happened. Site was crying. They
remained upsitaini till her father called them down to
tea. She took half a cup of tea and then went upstairs
again. The mother did not tell her husband anything
about it until the 2.1ril of July, and the reason she gave
for not doing 110 was, that her husband had an affection
of the brain and the heart, and, having a large sum of
nioney to collect to meet a bill becoming due, idle did
not like to tell him. As soon as the father knew it he
haul the girl examined by a surgeon, ainl procured a
summons against the prisoner. The prisoner came to
Hare house on the Zird of July, and asked him if he
would take a walk as far as the George or White Hart.
Hill said, " I dont know you ; what's your name r
He replied, "Suarey." Hill said, "You Snarey ? You
are the nom I want to pee." The prisoner then went
into the home, and Hill cal.l, " hat have you been
doing with my child •:" Ile replied, I don't know her.'
He swore he had never seen her but in the High-street.
Hill said, " You blackguard, let's have none of your lies
hem for I have witnesses to prove you were walking
with her." 'Clic prisoner said '• What are colt going to
do in thin jib ; will money make it upr' Hill said,
" No, you blackguard, I IlleAll to lint it in the hands of
the law, and the sooner you get; out of coy shop the
better, as I find my hair (ire) is beginning to rise." The
prisoner then went out of the shop into the passage, and
asked again if money would make it up. Hill said,
" No, you Iklackguard, nothing will stiske it up with iii"."
Prisoner then put his b$ in !till's face, mid said, "So i
help me God, if you go about to injure my character, I'll
split your head and beat out your brains." Hill
then got a hatstand from his shop, and said, " You
blackguard, if you don't go out I'll beat you out." Pri-
soner then left.
From the cross-examination of Hill it appeared that
he tram a hawker carrying about a pack, but having a
shop in Winchester. lie bad previously been a gentle-
I man's servant, but had never lived two years in one
place. He bad carried on the business of a hawker in
several places, but did not know how long lie had lived
at any one place. not tell the prisoner Ike would
ruin I . The girl WAS examined by a surgeon on the
14th of July.
Mr. Poulklen, in his address to the jury, dwelt upon
the improluibilities of this extraordinary case.
Two witnesses, one the nephew of the warden of the
college, and the other the kleputy-organist of the cathe-
dral, were called, and they clearly showed that they were
with the prisoner at this particular time, and that he
could not have been with the girl on that day. One of
them had entered into an engagement with the
prisoner after the morning service, and he had entered
it in his pocket book at the time, and the book lie pro.
dusted.
I The jury asked if they might stop the VW, as they
were perfectly satisfied of the innocence of the prisoner.
They returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and wished to
add that the prisoner left the court without the slightest
stain upon his character.
The verdict was hailed with shouts of applause.
Mr. Baron Watson said be perfectly concurred in the
renlict.
James Bradley was indicted for counselling and
procuring Mary Stubbs to marry him at St. Michael's,
Southampton, be knowing her hashand, James Stubbs,
j lobe alive. . .

Mr. Russell conducted the prosecution.
It appeared that some years since Mary Cook married
James Stubbe. li. 'at Stubbs was tried and sentenced !
to 10 years' transportation. In the same year Bradley
offered to marry her, but before they went to church
Bradley asked her if her marriage with Stubbs was bind-
ing. She replied that it was not. They were then mar-
ried, and lived together till the present time. In 1857
Stubbs returned to this country on • ticket of leave. In
• few months lie was taken up again and tried,
and was then sentenced to six years' penal servitude.
The learned judge told the jury that the prisoner had
asked the woman whether her marriage with Stubbs was
binding, and xlie bad answered that it was not, and then
lie married her, and they had lived together ever Since ;
it was for the jury to say whether or not the prisoner
could be considered guilty.
The jury at once aopfitted the prisoner, and he was
ordered to be discharged.
.11,ery N 11441,5, who had pleaded guilty to the
charge of marrying Bradley, was then brought up fur
sentence.
The judge onlered her to be imprisoned for 14 days,
without hanl labour.
Hanna B/w was charged with the manslaughter of
Selina Rose, at Southampton, on the :10th of July.
Mr. Beethain was counsel for the prosecution; and
Mr. Carter defended the prisoner.
The deceased, a girl of 15, was a stepdaughter of the
prisoner. They had a quarrel about some ironing; the
deceased was very abusive and kicked the prisoner, who
then gave her a box on the ear, and a fall was heard.
The girl never spoke after. The prisoner expressed
great regret, and sent for a doctor, as she thought the
girl was in • fit. It turned out, however, that the girl
was dead. The snrgeon was of opinion that the death
we: caused by a fall, and not by the blow.
Mr. Carter urged upon the jury that there was the re-
, lation of parent Slid child, and that the parent bad •
right to chastise the child.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.