The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-12-21 00:00:00

ALLEGED CRUELTY OF A FATHER.

Oa Monday, Info.* R. N. Howard, Etc. (Mayor), Dr.
Drew, and J. K illation. B. H vita., and J. E. Roans.
Zees ,
W. J. Staiter, f ither of the b who was found sleopint
in • truck and who bad Wen begging, was automated for
alloirine his son to wairi-r ab ..eid end bee alai.
The titan, in mower to tie O.rrit sold he earned 12i. a
week, and wes not obi red Mule rent His defence was
that he could out lap the boy •t loam
Tile Moyne said if its home was so wretched as had been
represented, it was no wonder toe boy leaves it; at Ike
same time I'm. a told nit allw the boy to wander about
the streets. tie dated the home was so wretched and his
father so cruel Lila be wes afraid logo haste, the father
bad beaten the boy and the mother too, so that the child
was afraid. . . . .

itamer said the grandmitherentioed the boy away, and
told him bilori the fattier 'Yea that he wee not to take
say notice of whin his father said. but tonnes back to hey
house whenever he waoticl to, &ad last time he did come
lio.t.n • the buy Wag a. duty a. • 000 a.
. . . . . . . . . .

Mr Vlcksry intimated that the hop's hair had to be cot,
awl he in. be cleeissed, on this occasion.

Mr. Irt .os :If you hays beaten tha boy sto severely as
he has e.t.d. can you wonder that he runs away from
horns t-8 AiWif : I serer best him sloes the regatta, when
I struck him twice with a stick ; since than I have Ist the
mother do what she !Wes with him.

_
—Dr. Drew: If the father can give evidence that the boy
ie beyond his control, we cut send him to e reformatory.
Steiner: It is well known to the polio, as well as to me
that the boy would sleep away from my house on the
beech.
_ . . . .

The Mayor (to the toy): What is your reason for run-
ning away from home? Ware rota beaten on Saturday
mornlog f —II ,y (who ma in the box next that where hb
father was): No, Sir.
Q. Whoa were you bitty's. On Friday night t—A. No.
Q. How long before tut wen you Instant—Sommer.
Q What made you rm away from Loom on Saturdayf—
No answer.
r-- _ . . _

—the JL.yor (to defenduat): That day you beat the boy
with • suck, I rainwater • man coming and taking the
stick away from you, end breaking it, and threatening
what ha would do to you.
The boy was then brmght from the nalgtibottrhaod of
his father t the magi.tntes, and, again asked why Its ran
away, said, very quietly and tirirdly, that ha MA sent on
an errand and lost litdtange out of his pocket. and was
afraid to g home.
Q. R,er long before that were you punished at hornet—
A. I can't mind, air.
Dr. Drew, to Stainer: Would you Ilk* tha boy taken
away from you, and sent I) an Industrial School
Stainer : No, rertaintr not. The bay is valuable in
some thing., and I can't he him to Khoo!. I've been
before the School Boaril air -dr. end I shall be brought

-'ti7.-11Opkias : And yo t won't hays much sympathy from
the us/illustrate..

Sergeant Delamont but Wednesday morning found the
by eleening in an open truc I near Mr. Greenwood's stone
yard. Ha bad on visible weans of subsistence, and the
sergeant knew him am a child who had been sleeping on
the beach, and had not been under proper controL H.
wither was here hokum if kr him when the Prince of
Wales we. hers; his mother could not get him home, and
his father beat him with the stick produced (about as
TO as the thtitnli)
Rttbens : You coil hardly strikes boy with • stick
like that without breekiny a trlue.
Sergeant Delamont continued that the boy told him his
father beat him and his mother tax The boy was in •
very dirty state; be was "pickled.'
The boy was stood up, and declared he was boatel' by
his father ; hte mother was also beaten by his fathw, and
he was afraid to go home.

c; iir-iday la 4 served the commons at
Shilvinghemptoe, when the wile told him the boy ran
away browse hie letter best him cruelly, end she was
thinking of rimming away also Incense he best her so.
They had • large wilderness place there, not very comfort-
abb..

Sta!err said he we only 'wilting after a farmhouse.
The grandmother, Mrs. Miller, declared the father, when
he was inn bad temper, beat the biy and his wife, the boy
unmercifully, laud she hod takeu him that be might not do
anything wrong before he eras fetched. Had seen a few
marks on him Could not let him sleep at bar house
because the people she lived with objected toil, and she
wan obli.:ed to tell him to go back bome.
Stainer asked why the grandmother should tarn the
child against hi, Ii me.

The Mayor : Turn the child ILisitist Ms home Why It
is because you treat him cruelly that the boy gels to his
grandmother. and the pmr grandmother does what as
can for him.

-1.11;1;t1;;; declared that the grandmother kept the hog
from school. aud he (the father) had beau summoned
before the filhool Bowl for it

loao,w.r to Mr. -li;oren.... the man said he was •
Protestant of the Churco of Sugland ; but he had work to
do on Sunday.
The Mayor trld Stainer the boy lived in fear of his (the
father's) bett.ng. and in coneequence of that fear be
wandered ab rut the streets; he hed not become • criminal,
but a boy going on like that would soon become one. The
llonch had determined to send him to ma Industrial
School tall the age of I& lie would be taught la%
conduct and the m.ans 01 sputum a living, and the
hoped the course they were edopting would cause the boy
to turn out • respectalde member of society, instead of
becoming trouble ti the comae,. Stainer would hays to
par towards ths support of his buy at she school.
The tether: Will biro father and mother be allowed to go
anise, him

fie was told he roust arrange with the managers of tha
school shout that, end that the iemol would be at Bath.
Further be was warn,' t turn over a new leaf with
regard to the conduct of his wife, sr be would fled hire.
self In an awkward pteition.

By Dr. Draw: Mrs. Holton hes cows of her own, sad
supplies other plop!. wholesale.
Mrs. Itiisaheth Halve woo thee put in the box, sad
depzuvoltfh;untthuiGm. e
the wilt ehes;:uld a
ldM.:ot.
.B;xasuy bs
s.i wor il m
.bat
day
bou r
it wm.
Mr, 0 per odd that • simple of Mrs. littton's ma*
wet Latvia the mum day, an timed, and reported as b sing
perfectly gomaine.
By Mr. Arden : Had sold milk every day for sing time
past, more thou three wont ss, end di? not kno or lout she !
was saline pure milk. Sue bought Mils she salt Mr,
Basell of Somuel Gerd.
By Do. Drew : She mostly sold her own milk to her own
customer., and that she bought she mid to those who
nought wholesale.
Be Mr. Rotten.: Seery day she had milk of Mr. Gir.l.
sal that der 1,0 h•d ton gallons She -ea sure It sr••
Mr. Gard's whish oh 'old Mrs. B oxen, sash. unteurea it
tweed.
Mr. Hooper said this was • defence of a vary doubtful
character, and one which be hoped the Bench would very
strictly look at. The law woo that :—" If the delendent
' prove to the satisfaction o/ tbe jmooces or Gomm that be
bee purchased the article in qe.estiOCl So the same Is
miduabytthutzrocal Ob d.
bo
had n' rasoon :a.
all i:tyi
written
h7ataht.r,
seol est
oz.utd
whoa s, :gab
ahe
t4i m 4
it, that the article was oth.r.leo, and that be sold it to
the same Itllt4 44 when be pure% omd p. he sMII be di,'-
charged from the prostmuti-n ; ehooll be Stahln to pay
the costs incurred by the on. 1.1.,10ws he shall ham
given due notice to Isms that he wool rely Mt the above
defenee."—This was a defence that might crop up at any
time, unless the strong min of the law is maole to beer op
on it, an.i loe was afraid st wool crop up in other come.
The magistrates retired, aid wrre almost for soma lime.
On their r turn, the Chairtneu Clisrlm St ma,
the Bench have given your cam the moat ger' sue remelts,
Won, and kolieve it to be • • ry bed ems indeed. It is •
thing that momt be put a stop to, and the Bench are
determinood t., dose In your code you will have to par •
fine of .C. 2 an I the costs You have made yourself liable
to • fine of .CllO, therefore we hope that as wo have acted
so leniently to you, it will he • worsting to you, and you
will not come here again._
. . .

w.ftereglira:Th-edio-Pay LI. including the out'.
Mr. Lun.lie tuought it ehnold be st.ted, in tairners to
Chose who bav,. to buy milk from °tura for the pup ete
of selling It Again—that they would be tr. from Um
ty it they obtained • warranty. Tber.fore thry had
penalty
get one on huying milk.
The Chairman clatinued Che in G 10fp
_l3 411.4 CllO.
Lb. gnagistr ttes did not think it quit eo bad a. the othrr.
However, it wu bad gunnel, and he would us fined 41
and

—fttla Liounte I to £2 Is.
Mr. Hooper, In jueuce to the polio*, mentioned that
erre& samples having been t Asa, and different reports
sent, Mr. Vickery bad the minority of the mesistratea not
to prosecute in the asset where there era toe minimum
amount of water with the tuilk ; bet in fitter. this
leniently would not be shown.
Mr. Talbot said in all caws that mune before the Bench
and were proved, the defendant* would suffer for it.

WILTMOUTH HARBOUR
POI viz VIII 1131K1110 ISVILIDAT.

71D11 TABLE..
THu 1032 PUG., 1/91.
low TAMIL, 1111111•00111.
11.14 a.m. 338 p.m. 11
11 Stl pm. 6. 2 a.m. LS
11. 2 p.m. 991 p.m. 13
11.16 a.m. 660 a.m. 19
12.50 p.m. 7.14 p.m. 11
1.14 pm. 7.38 pm. 93
1.38 p.m 8. 2 p.m. 10
21 mm. 693 a.m. 21
126 p m 8.43 p.m 21
241 am. 9.10 • m II
3 p2l pU j
3, am. 9.54 acc U
3.64 pm 10 16 pas

914 • m.
9.28 p.m
110. 1 a.m.
10.1k1 pm.
10.60 a.m.
11.14 p.m.
IL= • oa.l
19 2 s.m.l
12.20
12.48 a.s.
1.10 p.n.
1.22 am.

7.14 Lin
7.38 p.m.'
8. 2a.m.
818 p m.
8 60 a.m.
0.14 p.m
0.83 a in
10. 2 p.m.
10.26 a.m
10.48 p.m.
11.10 6m.
11.32 p.m.
11.64 am_

DM. MOH WATS!. RAW
---•—
Friday I 7.14 a.m. '
7.38 p.en.
Saturday 1 8. 2 a.m.
816 p in.
Sunday I 860 a.m.
0.14 p. in
Monday I
1 10. 2 p.m.
Tuesday i 10.38 a.m
1440 p.m.
Wadneday I 11.10 4. 01.
11.32
p...
i 11.84 am.