The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-14 00:00:00

POOLE.

Twit Gsm..—lt is rumoured that the result of a
careful inspection of Paula gaol and house of correc-
tion on behalf of the lucid authorities is that so
large an outlay would be required to snake it in con-
formity with the recently issued Government regula-
tions, that the probability is the establishment will
be abandoned.

Parry Sessions, Thursday.—Before the Mayer
(J. Wood, Esq)., E. Limey, J. W. Martin, H.
Harris, and J. Lankester. Feqrs.—Henry Williams,
• smith, of Townotate.street, was brought op under
the following Mecum/deems. On the previous night
he was found in High•treet having a Germ alterca-
tion with • man in the midst of a crowd. A
constable desired him to move on, when he refused,
and said it would take four like the polioscosn to
make him. Orimplainte having been made by in-
habitant, of his conduct, and he Persisting in his
disturbance of the public pesos, he wan apprebeoded,
when he became very violent. Bat, of course, he
was taken to the lock-up. —Superintendent Gifford
said prisoner was one of • number of young men
who mumble nightly in High-street, to the annoy.
acme of the townsfolk, sod, therefore, he felt it his
duty to press the case.—The Mayor said the
magistrates were determined to keep the streets
clear, and to support the police in the execution of
their duty, and tined prisoner 10a and 6e. 6d. oats,
which he paid.—.---Two women, named Mary
Williams and Mary Ann Hamden, each with • child
in her arms, were found about one o'cl,ck on
Wednesday morning shivering, weary, and hungry
by the police-sergeant, near the Market-house, and,
ea they had no visible means of subsistence, he took
them to the police station--a welcome refuge uos
would suppose under the circumstances. They
stated to the Bench that on Tuesday thty walked
from Weytnouth„ and being fatigued and penniless
they halted at the Marketplace; if the magistrates
would now discharge them they would never enter
Poole @gain, and would immediately depart from
the town. On these terms they were liberated.
Elisabeth Belson was summoned by Supt. Gifford,
for depositing ashes, he., on the quay, August 3rd.
The superintendent did not press the case, as the
offender is very poor, end he believed erred through
ignorance, but if any other cases occurred he should
feel it his duty to press for the full penalty. Under
these circumstances, the information was dismissed.
--SATURDAY.--Before the Mayor and E. Lacy,
Esq. —Francia Joseph, a Portuguese, and William
Rogers and George Hill, seamen, of Poole, were
brought up for desertion from the schooner Heroine,
belonging to T. Wanbill, Esq. It seems that the
men had been conveyed by the police to the ship
under the orders of the magistrates, but Joseph
swore he would either go on shore again or to the
place reputed to be more warm than pleasant, and
when evening arrived the two Poole men went
ashore in the ship's-boat, and the Portuguese, not
being in time for them, swam the distance—about
a mile and • quarter. They were apprehended on
Saturday morning. The Bench sentenced them to
one month's haedFlabour each in Dorchester gaol.