The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-07-05 00:00:00

I N DUST RI AL DCHOOL.

The Rev. CARR GLTII MOV(d, "That the sum of 2..
per week be contributed out of the county rate towards
the support of each girl sent to the Poole Industrial
Soho .1 for girla by the Dursat County Magistrate's
ist.tead of Is.
This was agreed to.
There was no u'her business of importance.

WMIVr.BI)IIf.

The Court assembled this morning at ten o'clock for
the trial of prismers, who numbei al only four. The
eleputy.chairman ii. Floyer, Esq., M.P.) was sccom.
panied on the bench by A. Banked;' G. W. Floyer,
H. B. Middleton, G. Warry, and E. Pearce, Esqrs.
The following were sworn on the Gran I Jury:—
Niessra. Richard Gangs (foreman), Hoary Bewaring,
Nathan Bird, Joseph Coombs, William Cluett, Cheeks
Carter. William Edmunds. John Furmedge, J. God-
win, It. Labrorn. G. L we, Marsh, J. Mead, H. Payne,
J. Pries, TO. PouncY, J. Bowe, 3.?. Roper, J. G.
Rowe, W. H. Smith, T. btsrens, J. Scott, and T. C.
Saunders.
The CLERK of the PIACI having read the proclama-
tion against vice,
The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN delivered his charge, and in
doing se expressed his pleasure at being able to inform
them that there were only four prisoners for trial.
Thira was only one instance he c 'al I remember in
which the calendar was e, light at this time of the year
as it was now, and on that occasion be believed there
was only one prisoner; but if his memory served hiss,
there were generally many•mote prisoners at these
sesaione than they had to deal wPh that day. Alter
remarking on the Chief Constable's satisfaztory report
in the diminution of cr:me as far as the g odences
were concerned. he rem-rked thxt with egard to the
lighter offences the Chief Constal•le had info, med them
that the appreh-nsions in the pa 4 quarter numbered
5t more than in the ran responding quarter of last year,
and he gave it a. his opinion that the increase was
mainly under the heels of vazran,y and drunkenness.
That was a statement which coiled for some litile
observation n the part of that Court. It was satis.
factory to find that the more serious offences were
diminishing, but they could not look wi bout appre-
hension at the increase in the lighter offences. They
could hardly do wrong in attributing the vagrancy
1,, the depressed stet, of trade, and especially so
of agriculture. There was, it was true, a revival in
some portions of trade, and he hoped there were bettet
proepects in agriculture, in which that county was more
interested, than there had been in past yews. They
still felt the effects of the depression, and he believed
it woe perhaps owing to that cause that such a large
number of vagranta parsed through the county. With
regard to drunkenness they might take c unfort from
the great exertions that are being mad-, h th in legis-
lature and in many other different nom ~ by personal
efforts in reclaiming the lower cl ...on trw that which
is such a serious an I degrading vice. They npglit not
agree with all th • inet Inas th,t wnre hoin•: male from
time to timo, but they mll4 all a:roe in the ex .11ence
of the aim and untiring exertions being toads for tile
amelduaiinn of the low rd asses. They knew that the
upward prh slow, but they might hope though
the habit of drinking was not sivedily got rid of, the
exertions b. log Made wool.l not want their fruit (5 (10
time, an I that the public w tu'd not be dienouraged at
reports rich as that laid before the Cold the p *seinen
' day and relax their efforts, brit look forward to the
improvement of thst clam which they were trying to
produce, lie might mention • matter which was
gratifying, and ti them as representing the county,
that the Court was informed the previous day by Mr.
Mensal Pleydell that the reformatory would anon be
vacated by the boys who hat been kept there, and that
, silt was not thought necessary to keep op the east,-
' lishment an a ref nnatery it was available as an
, industrial school. Mr. Minitel Pleydell, as owner of
, the property, is able tu place the building at the
' disposal of the c. aid A want wonlii be met wilieh
heel been felt for years. The case of Sayers charged
with felony at Child Okeford was bri• fly referred to,
, and the Grand Jury were afterwards discharged to
their du' irs.