The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-22 00:00:00

EMBEZZLEMENT.

31101615 c At. who amine' on rx ra sharp y .ting rum,
Was eumm mod on Friday, before to., borough I:lls4io'r .1. 0.
on two charges of taking money) Colleting to his euipleYer.
and net itomunting for it.
Mr. Samuel Freeth. proprietor of the Fountain Hotel,
SAW defendant had heen a billiard marker. Oa Satonlay
morning Hrs. Aldridge W 64 In the hotel, noel owed is. Idd.
On S Imlay moruin4 the ,I•fentlout greet and asked ikr for
the Is. 10.1., which she paid, thinking the defendant woe
In his employ. He never gave prisoner any authority t
obtain payment of Ma money, not did he ever account fur

Mrs. K. M. Aldridge mid she owed Mr. Freeth le. 101,
when • person came in, for whom she had a "foul of
brandy. On Sunday morning she gave the it 101. to that
man (defendant), who told her the samo as ha fold her
before, that he had to c diect this money far Mr. French;
heal., told her afterwards that he hid paid it for her to
Kr: Freeth. . _

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Ore -ix tmined Did you pay me in Mr. Strood'a house
or not

A.—That hat nothing to do with it
Q.—Did you pay me on Saturday night I
Q —Then why did you say—on Sunday moraine? You
are getting in, into trouble.
Witnese:—! bee heen twiro ptid, and it haa Alen three
limes plid. hound,l me hut from one plArm
to another ti get it. To doicri4at.4 : lam very urry for

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Scott mil thew charged under th,, ollowing clreum-
at maul :

Mr. Freeth ta;d ot Fricbtr, tho 11th, he gave Mr. (lardy
64. 5. for Scott to fetch 11 cwt. of cot. Irons the ce-
h-olv,. Th•, elite arrived three or foor hours tatt,r, and
witness went to to It at it, tart t`prish, it eirmt three cwt.
Ordered it should lie where it. We till he sent over to the
-Loose to know how lunch had Leon p sid for, and on
Vie dy sheeted ha letter they wr.ite that Sc kt had pant
for fear eat., 11. Prisou•r of terwaeds Come into hls
bar, and laughed about doing bite out of 44. 14.
! Orees•igsmined: Ms first gate the us mey "Tippy."
in the bar.
W. J. Far well, presumed to he " said he rreeired
the money and gave it to Scitt. It wss 54. and $OllO
more mccosy, he did not know 'o, witch; but he gave
the money to fixott as Mr lisrdy give it hint.
Promisor said he did n k kiwi how much money it was,
and in Cr 4.-exationatien ht *ought t • show that Farwell
and he bad s one ale; Itul Forerun soil he had trust Id at
the Pie and Whistle (or his for hitunslf.
The prisoner shut that the B nub misfit des' with thy
case, and in def, noe said he del nut kn is ear Itly what
money be ft C Ivel from Farwell. Mr. Freeth agreed
to give 11d. a cwt. for the c.dt,,, and he (prisoner)
ordered five cwt; but there was net no 'in in the pony.
cart for the other cwt., ss h kdd Mr. ?mete there
was a cwt. more to c •use, lie had no intention of
steeling, and was t • pay the leisure due on the
coke to Mr. Freeth if the B-nch w,.uld give him one more

chance.
The Bench enquiring what prisoner was discharged for,
Mr. Freeth Bud it was bec_mse ho was dish .nest in not
paving the money for the games of billiards ; he would
r, turn the genies at unpaid, saying the gentlemen owed,
when he had taken the money.
Prisoner bnbted herd for anot'i,r chem.*, and ,*id he
should, no doubt, have to go into the suard-room when be
got hack to the militia, who were at Dorchester.
Toe Mayor said the magistrat, had given him the
benefit of the doubt in the dist e VW. le.7.suso of the way
in which the witness had given her evidence ; bat they
could not in thee .c .n 1, and they r untanned him to seven
days' hard labour, w:ireing blue he WM liable to tl--ee
months.