The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-21 00:00:00

POOLE.

THI EA.BIIII VISTRY.—The Rev. A. Wilkinson pre-
sided, and re-appointed Mr. T. Osment as his warden.
Mr. R. Delben was elected for the parish. The Chair-
men stated that the £lOO bequeathed by the late J.
Steele, Esq., for the benefit of the West -street alms-
houses, luid been invested in consols, and he also mid
that the house in the Strand, which Rim Con gave him
money to buy seven years ago, to prevent its being
made into • brothel, was let at E 6 • year, which was
applied to paying Min Ames for reading the Seripturvi
to r. the poor.
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Parte Sthathire, Thereday.—Bellore the Mayor
(Alderman Ja13301 Wood), .1. W. Martin, C. J. Stone.
Harris, and W. L. C. Adty, &qrs.—Emanuel
Clierrett, landlord of the Ship inn, wet eommoned by
Superintendent Gifford, for having tie hone' open at
12.45 Am— on the morning of Saturday following Good
Friday. P.R. Hunt and P.C. Carter proved fending
several persons of loose character in the house, with
jogs containing beer on the tables in front of them, at
the time neared; and that they afterwards saw one of
of the parties leaving the house between two and throe
in the morning, In reply to the bench Sept. Gifford
stated that the house kept by the defendant was the
nightly resort Of prostitute' and other loome and dis-
orderly characters. The defendant was finsdss., and
cost" 7.. frd., or 14 in,, the mayor cientioning him as
to his future congest. The los was paid. _

(Parris RlMloll6—Thes• 'onions were held on
Tuesday, the 14th instant, before Montague Bert, Esq ,
Recorder of Southampton, in the absence of Henry
Buller, Earl., Recorder of this borough, through
illness. Daniel Hallett, charged with obtaining five
quarters of oats from Mr. Thomas Winrer, by stating
that they were for Captain Wingfield, of Bournemouth,
I wee found gully and sentenced to nine month.' hard
labour in Dorchester gaol.—Robert Cole. aged 13
years, for obtaining a shilling from a woman named
Cole, promising to obtain some coal for her, and then
absconding wi,h the money, arm sentenced to 14 days'
hard labour in Poole gaol, and at the expiration of
that time to be ben. to Milborne reformatory for five
years.—Robert Allen of Stourpaine, indicted for
breaking into the dwelling-house of hie sitter,
Harriett Arnold, near the gas house, Poole, and stealing
three sovereigns from • boo, was found guilty, and
sentenced to 12 months' hard labour in Dorchester
gaoL —Emily Churchill, a mervant girl in the employ
of Hr. J. Warn, tailor, indicted for stealing a belt-
•overeign and four shillings from her master's cash
boo, in February last, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
to one month's imprisonment in Poole gaol, with hard
Labour.

Comm COURT. Thunday.—(Before T. E. P. Lefroy.
Esq., judice.)—Rogers r. Barks. A olaim for the
veins of 5,000 bricks, supplied by plaintiff to defendant.
Defendant stated that he • agreed for 5,000 bneks,
4.000 of which were to be soft sad 1,000 bard. When
he received them, he found that plaintiff heA supplied
him with all soft bricks ; there was not 100 hard
bricks in the whole. Numerous witnesses were called
on both sides, but his Honour decided that defendant
should pay for the 4,000 soft bricks he bad ordered, and
plaintiff should receive bath the 1,000. This would be
a judgment for plaintiff for LI 12a., allowing £3 for •
set-off owed by plaintiff. To be paid in a fortnight.
—Jennings v. Cleml and don. This was an adjourned
ease.—Mr. Harker for plaintiff.—The demand was for
£29. Defendant at last court swore that he had paid
£4 10a. on acomint to Mr. Jennings. The ones was
adjourned to allow Mr. Jennings to appear. Mr.
Jennings was present to-day, and SWOTO positively that
no Et 10a. had bees paid. Defendant did not appear,
and to his Honour gave inclement for plaintiff forth.
with.—Foot v. House. This was • claim for the
value of trees supplied to Mr. House, sines dead. The
brother of deceased was sued in this cam as executor to
the late Mr. House. The brother, a Mr. House,
solicitor, appeared ; and, having proved that he was no
executor, defended the action on the part of Mrs.
House, the widow. He produced the bills of plaintiff,
sect In and settled during Mr. House's lifetime. No
mention in these bills was inade of the trees, but six
months after his brother's death this claim was sent
in.—Judgment for defendant.---Lswis e. Andrews.
Claim Ila, value of desks shot by defeedaat. Defen-
dant said that, on • dark misty night in November Die,
he and him wife went as the water to shoot wild dada
He saw some ducks be took to be wild, and shot them.
Three were wild; only one was tame. He sold the
ducks, and we, then sued by plaintiff for shooting
her ducks. His Honour said that evidently the
ducks were shot by mistake. He should allow fie. to
plaintiff; that, and 84, eats, to be paid ,in two
moeths
A MAR BRUNING INTO BIS OWN BOOM-BMS
remarkably curious scenes have reeently taken place in
High-street, the chief actors in which have been two
meat door neighbours and once bosom friends. Mr.
King, draper and oetfitter, in his difficulties, had
appealed to his friend, and not in vain, but when one
man pats his band to paper to oblige another, lii. right
he should have something to seem him. Thus thought
tbr friend, and when King's affairs reached their
climax, and his establishment had to be closed, he was
foend armed with one of these ugly doemosenta celled
bills of sale, by virtue of which he had a prior claim
oven to that of the Sheriff over his neighbour's goods,
chattela, and effects. This was fully proved on Satur-
day week, when two rival auctioneers appeared on the
scene, and contended who should have the honour of
knocking down the various belongings of Mr. King,
Mr. G. Curtis, the Sheriff's agent, standing no chance
against Mr. Woolfrey, the representative of the bill of
gale. The lots were disposed of with marvellous
rapidity by the latter at the rate of • hundred or two
in ten minutes before his rival appeared on the field of
action. But at length there wee warfare on the dales,
and an Invasion of the territory where Woolfrey's
rostrum had not as yet been net up, still all in vain:
the Sheriff and his men were for once put completely
Acre de coszbea, but there was a great row comprehend-
ing • good fight between the auctioneers' men. This
was nothing, however, to what occurred on Wedneedey
afternoon, when Mr. and Mrs. King, on returning from
a walk, found their front door securely barred against
' 411,4. ingress, and had to employ Mr. Curtis and his men
to obtain for them forcible admission. Then was there
' open &mull and battery in the midst of High-street,
and • good crowd resembled to witness the novel
spectacle of a man compelled to break into his own
' house. There was not, as in the former instance, •
defensive army to meet the 'needing one, and thus the
campaign proved entirely exceesafttl after the rupture
of certain locks and darnere inflicted on various doors.
Mr. King was formerly his own landlord, but very
recently had handed over his interest in the property
to some friend who obliged him in the other transac-
tion. But the former considers he holds the right of
present ostenpation, if nothing else, and hence his
determination to regain his domestic citadel, and prove
to the world that an Englishman's home is his castle.