The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-04-13 00:00:00

BOURNIMOtrI'H.

AN inquest w.e. told 0; Friday at the polioe•rtation
before Mr. J. Driiitt, leely of • newly•born
male child which had been found qu the saude that
inorning. It was wrapped in tbroe copies of the
ly relomph, and hal been deposited lust above
high water mark. Dr. Nfortran expreseed the opinion
that the child had had • separate existence from the
mother, and the Jury returned an open verdict of
"found dead no_thft .

Tuner or a —On Vriday. before
Colonel Venner and Sir William If eathoote, Hannah
Pitcher, an ..ld offender, was charged with stealing •
wedding.ring, the property of Harriett Jane Shore.
The prosecutrit is the manageress of Red House
Ooffee Tavern at Springbourne, and she had the
nng in 4or desk, the lock of which warn broken. In
Nom:thee 144 is,e the ring, and sent for the
prisoner, who had done ftiting t hcr. be denied
all knowledge of it, test it warn aftertrirl,f4un4 that
she had put • wedding.rlng In pledge for .—Rrisoner
called another womsn. ntined Soaysll, • identified
the ring as one she had given her to pledge tot bee,
Under thou circumatimeni the Bench gave her tta
tecefit of the deubt, and dismissed the ease.
MTRAUDe• TIIIICTCLE. —At the same Court. Charles
Edward Marshall, • yowl, was charged with steal.
ing • tncycle. value EIS- the imotosaty Af Stills Emily
Harriet Arians, .4 Weetbourno, on Atnl
George William Ayling, coach painter, of Branksonu
Terrace, proved to having the machine to repaint
from proseciitrix, which he tied up with a strap and
left outside the shop on Tuesday at one o'clock. He
ueutrl it upon his return. —Charles Alfred Smith,
Littleburs, V4i3bourne, deposed to seeing the
prisoner hang ng &bon/ thstr.:tycle on Tuesday, about
half past one o'clock. in • 0,440164 W IA WWI', and he
finally rode off on it Witness inforiUsT the idiot,
man .4 the ocisirrence —P.S. Ayres stated that be
arrested prisoner at Salisbury Policeetation on
Wednesday. Superintendent Matthews had fund
the tricycle in the Close on the previous night
isuttunded.—llefendant admitted the theft, and
pleaded Wu bt oeir.e ti ?oumetnouth for work, and
being without any *nional, tuso wanting to get back
home, he stole the nisointge. A "nreiiquit totviction
for petty larceny in March, 18115, was proved, an 4
defendant wee sentenced to two months imprison.
ment.

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on Accinver.—Mr. Druitt, syn., held
an implied on Thursday afternoon on the body of a
young man named Edwin Head, xi. whose
dead body was found lying on the beach on she
previoua Tueeday morning. Tom Head, greengrocer's
assistant, said that deceased was his ber4st, who was
business for hinwelf at 5, Railiraptsrrace. Witness
last saw him on liiindsy night, and he appeared to be
in good health and spirits. Deceased was not in the
habit of going to Badibil, thong') sometimes be
went on the Sunday. Deceased wag not • test4tallsr,
nor did hr dnnk much. Twtely he noticed that his
brother wan 'ruing a little low in spirits, and he had
told him (witness) that lw did not know what he
should du on the nett day, as he had no stuff in the
shop and no money to Net 597 to pay his rent. He
added that be risked ha bad 04)cer wen in. airy.
John Joy, painter, 9, Terrase.road, said that he knew
daoeased wise had lived with him for two years.
During that time he Dever saw him drunk but ones,
and that Irma torm time bask. He saw him on Monday
as ban iashe Argot* and doomed declined to have