The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-03-30 00:00:00

ON PLC NJ 11.4.

(Front the Merl. •rie
14.1.1 A• ifil..lll 111 e." • liefore the
tumfeitrati, Lite other w.L• w, iverwheliiiiii; mug
it would' have beet, 111111.1•A114.• br theill to have 'ousel
limpoiole for the priemer it, the way of •• a doubt."
rh.• lira y hue 11.11 opea will act a.. a siAIIIIAfy
IL II to. Ile hopedit will not lead Go A l'l•lletitiAn
./1 these charge,. Th., eibcitor for the defence (leak
tenderly ispl gallautly, ita wail to be expected, with
the iiervant girl.. called to miii.bititiate the primeentem,
and he failed to shake their 'tinted te.titsiosiy that the
iefenim warn Led "lite day after the linit fall if
stiow thin year." he clad In., lie.t with, the bail omit.,
end the intimati.,ll ii au "appeal" wail iamb/Oily .me
of thole, "bang." with which kcal lireenwkagetierally
encl. still, it Cahn.' 1,, deniel that the young lathe*
who make "penny awful." their eluvial iitaidy, unit
lAd gentlemen who have notheag else to imccmiy
their LIDA. Call bring their imaginatione to
almom anything ; and it really Arellisi 100 ice that tlie
danger of a walk in Ilrank.iniie Park in the future
will commit inure in meeting a 11111,4Allaill than any.

11110SPil VW!,iii support IPI Ilk o.llr, in
charging the prisoner with having committed an
offence upon a &Harem date 1./ that stated in the
warrant. moo we know id a great authority, but
(4/1111114/11 eenw w..ulil acen, t.l kid "laying-
iloowu" that "a variation between the time and plaist
married, and that proved will not be material. A
wan canoes prepared to meet a charge laid against him
the date f which is, .ay, tiz.l for the 22n0l ; and all at
mice the prosecuting lawyer may. "we have made a
mistake it was the 2lsl. IL 4.41114 hardly fair he
should "all on the hop" be called upon to show where
he WWI on the 21s1. How many of 114 CONII.I itiVe •
aoccuiict account of what we were doing and where we
were a week ago! And these odences occurred 3 and 5
months back. Again, it seems ciii i. ui, that the Poole,
limns, and Dorset police, who have been 'marooning
the locality for weeksanot weeks, never before arrested
a man, who, according to the testimony of the girla,
had keen in the continual habit of I ging &boot the
place, and making signs too them when, in their inn..
cence, they happened Go look out of the window. I
believe I non not wrong ill niati II 1( that the disrepoit•
able individual whose alleged niisconoluct first lot to
3 l'osolo., 2 Dorset, and 2 Hants constables being
specially sent in plain clothes on duty in the park, wan
a man of a very different description to the defendant.
However much I may syiniatliose with the somewhat
onatapuken expression...l belief iii his innocence, given
utterance to by his shop-mates at the hearing, .ir the
protestations if lois modieitor, that a married non, th,.
father .f 5 childrinh a pensi tttt er, with the best"( char.
sclera, would be incapable of such an act, I mit.t
admit the force of evitlell.4. against hint was too strong
Go allow of the justices doing other than the) did.
In connection with this case I may come a fact
that ought to put to the blush those who insfnmoti.
the Poole police do nut do their doily. Magistrates,
witnesows, and everybody else were unable to tell
when "the first WI of XIS IW " took place, lett Mr.
Superintendent Hunt easily settloal the ipiestiont by
producing his Occurretioto llook, where it was duly
'wooled. A week or tw.o am, the force WA/ vulgarly
bullied in a certain paper and on • certain platform
i1i4C41141. SA IS WWI otimaci.onsly stated they had allowed
a horse and trap Go remain standing in a public
thoroughfare all night. The real fact WS4 the corner
had carelessly kit the poor animal in his own private
yard, to which, of course, the isoliom would not hare
access,

Mr. "Teddy Ilighmiwe," ac he prefera to lw called
in place of he. real name Edward Kerby i.. " • caution "
in b.c way. hily 29 yeara of age 111. has paswel 57
inonth.--or nearly live yearn in prieni. It may fairly
he suriunwil that h. htc been kept at the ratepayers'
expeniw for nearly double that iwried. Ile dill not
oirry Ilia hic threat ot last week not to budge an inch
ami the road to lii.. otation. The kat time lie went to
primn, jiwt before hi. release, he aililrmweil from the
Castle a letter to the Ch.tirman of the Boar.'
limardiano, in which he coolly .taied that as
he hail Wailer feet he would he glad if they w.nohl
wild a fly to meet him at the station to take liii,. up
Si. the Union !