The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

POOLE.

I TCWII COUNCIL- At • meeting of the Town Connell,
on Friday imolai.% • camamenkatttin from the harbour
muter for new piles around the Ballast Quay wias talc.m
it.. cons donation. After some dismission the matter
wee referred to • committee.

I NATIONAL ficiloous.—These schools are In a very
flouriAing cooditon. The numbs. of boys in avera
1.
ettexdenea I. 33U; the number of girls. Ill; arid the
nu.nber of infants, 65; making s total of 380 et.ildren.
A night school bee hem% Geminated duties the erica'',
when .6.,ut 100 ertended. The total remora for the
year 1865 were L'365 Is. bd., and the expenditure. £341
16.. 81., leaving • balms°. is bead of

CAIIIMXTIIIe Ann JOlnitlie STRUM —On Monthly
week, the espenters end joiners of this town strut k for
leilteaer,tod.entd:dlivrt.24.. re: weak, Instead iontstiehade ails. a:
place at the Antelope Hotel, when It was unatibuee ly
resolved that no gamma. of wage be agreed to over the
present standard of 21, per weak. Sone of the men
return 4 to their work, and others have left for
neighbouring towns to seek for employment.
Don AND SOUTH-W Itathwie.—A special
renerd niertms of The shasubolder, in this compeny
was held on Tbunglay at the offimm, Waterloo station,
for the ourpme of ce.o.ldering el-Ten bills now pending
I 0 protein...lt; Captain Mangles in the chair. The
h.acte of • hot tor withorimag the London and South.
Western Railway to oonartiet railways from their
Southampton and Doreheater Railway to the Poole and
Bournesnouth Railway. and for other purposes, ...re read.
The .p. 14 was £54,000 and borrowing powers rukneo.
The chairman paid the bill would wane* their system
through an iuderodent line with Bournemouth. lie
hoped that DOD* of the proprietor. would baveoeradon to
et Bournemouth to recover their health. Bournemouth
was • place of g, eat repute with iovalids, and was rapidly
increasing. He thought the dirwetors had managed re.
,siakably well In getting sees. to Bournemouth by
,unking • abort line slouch • small expellee. A share-
holder asked if there was any chance of • line running
to the deep water at Poole? The chairman mid th-re
were tramway. elrestly authorised to run down to the
ooep water at Poole. On the niottou of Lord Bury,
the bill vow approved of.
Fiaoczira OUTRAGE ON A Boy.—A brutal out-
rage was perpetrated on Wednesday night near
Pools. A boy, about 13 years of age named Edwin
James Wareham, in the employ of Ur. Sweetland,
baker, Parkstone, had driven to Upton to deliver
some bread. On returning, shout SADO o'clock,
when opposite Upton House, two young men rushed
from behind a badge, stopped the horse, and de-
manded the boy's money. The lad took out some
coppers and gave them. He had upwards of £2
us his pocket, which he refused to deliver up, when
one of the men dealt him several heavy blows on
the forehead and other owls of the heed with a
stick. The men then robbed him of all his motley,
and left him bleeding and insensible at the bottom
the cart. The horse being accustomed to the
journey. brought the cart back to Parkstomi, and
the boy's employer and parents then saw the fearful
ojnriee to which be had been subjected. It .a.
with great difficulty that be could make known what
had happened. Mr. Ellie, surgeon, was called, but
gave very faint boom of his recovery. 0.1 Thurs.
O.), morning Superintendent Gifford, of the Poole
ormstabulary, apprehended Reuben Derrintan and
Frank Heckford, at Lytchett, near Upton, On
suspicion of being the guilty persons. Blood well
found on Heokford's clothes. and in the poseemion
of the other man was a small bag believed to be the
one in which Wareham carried hie money. On
Friday morning Superintendent &piton, of the
Dorset constabulary, Winiborne division, applied to
the Poole justices for the prisoners to be handed
oeer to the count, authorities, and, after a short in.
vition of the circumstances, his applica,ion was
eaeri to, and they were removed to Wintborata at
the polioe-oourt of which town they are not unknown.
We may ren.ark that the manner in which Superin•
tendent Clifford followed up the slightest clue
, obtainable as to the guilty parties ia highly credit-
able to him. The inquiry before the Poole Bench
was conducted privately, but we learn that two
witneswe were called, who proved having seen the
I poisoners near the spot within half an boar of the
event happening, notwithatan.ling they bad both
I affirmed, on being taken, that they bad not left
I home the entire evening. The clothes of one of the
1, plumate were also produced, being mach stained
with blood, and there was, moreover, the (sot that
I the boy Wareham had taken 245. from the prisoner
Heckford in the afternoon of the same day, in
payment of a breed-bill. Mr. Ellis, the medical
man in attendance on Wareham, proved that when
the lad was brought to his eUrgery on Wednesday
evening he was in molt deplorable condition, being
mock sztinnated by loos of blood. On attempting
to sow up the wound he fell into an epilepeo tit,
from which it was estremely doubtful for some time
whether or not he would rally. He described him
as much better that morning, but Wall not out of
(Linger. The two prisoners are slight-built, boyish-
lookteg youths, under 20 years of age, but there are
pretty good grounds for believing that a third pereou
I. implicated, and that a warrant for his appehansion
, has already been obtained. It moor. likewise,
asserts that Wareham, when able to give his
evidence, will identify one of the parties at least.