The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-03 00:00:00

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blinWree or fair times. we both tel he .010 the lop and ,dk
canoe and took him MT inn I could not see chat itt
he woman
moo Mum'. Thorne tout his finger and thumb to his .me, taking
a sight at on, sod wal'ed
Cnes-easau 1: 1 know it was Italf-past eight because there
mos a yoUng wotiwi there with a watch.
hr 'toward : In it net the fact that the boat. generally land
at this place? Yl.
• There is • nrgular made path there? Nes.
When you landed there, you had keen at work on the beach
mat nd,iod the win de of the they 1-1 had Imam there from throe
4:1...1 in the morning.
You had some beer to drink there ?—We had 14 qua/Up( beer
amongst 174 is
While ynu nem mun the Leath yem aro quite sure you could
see them ! oh. yes
Ton are quilt- sure you could see them hr..,,, the other side of
the Fleet iii,. yes
11..* In you x-comit for swing them so 14aau,lu '—No
AMMO%

Was that tour intention? - Yes, I ebould have gone between
them of I emit'. have prevented a fight.
It,, it Rolls deo caught hold of sou! no.
tll tot tto man Norris " 51.04 will get hurt II you go
there? -No.
wn, it led for the intrisne .4 preventing you rushing between
p. 1,11,4 ii,,' M•orri.l too hold of y.o, 7-1 JO not hoots shy
he took led.i .4 to.
la. too.. where Moe men live? I believe three at Wyk.),
and i.ll, .11 Wu\ 111
Aft. r tie. little affair b•.k place, you walked hoards Wyke?
s. r.• home.
way would you retool houte?-We were going home
It,.- -one way. We went up thy Chickerebn.l. and turned to
ill lett
'I y.m ..11 the rod towanls Latielmuse? I do not
kn... I. melees.,
V.... n.,t on ...ntie little way, and turned to the right 7-1.10,
..••totii-I to the left.
Th.,. is no road to the left, unless you turned towards Wey-
-11.1111 tils! -.Wilmot did not answer. There wo nothing to interrupt your view of them 7-No,
tit. Wed.. repeated the gamed n ; but witness did not sir.
apoear goolerdatad N.dhitig at .117-N.'. air.
Mr 11..0 art interposed ; but Do tou it. up to the Portland Ferry bridge, or straight
Mr Wed.., Pahl : I know the locality. every inch .t. aeries 1-We pullei Ongght souse
Mr llowart : I have in. doubt 14 it-- (laughter). Anybody sitting there could me you were coming straight
Mr W 4.4.111: l'ou my that where you were pitting WWI an scroni7-Yes.
open view. 11... 1.1.• had you been sitting there ?- About When you gut to the ahure, how many landed 7-17 landol
tw. tity toinuto.e ;Inset about eight to about half-pest_ altogether,
you prefeoed host it sine hum hmhes between you and l'ou live at Wyke! -Yoe.
the loth. to sitting In the open-We were sitting In the Mao. (Put of the 17 how many live at Wyke 7-I MIA tall.
Ind you ptatc there were Unite furze bushes there? --There What did the rot of them do! -They went on
were "ow at 1.4e1t. hut MU,e didence behind. You did not go on with the rest 1-No, to sat down on the
was this malt domed -In a Jersey.
Had be anything over his Jersey ?-I le had nothing over his o nat. t. breathe the frush ad, after being there from three
Jersey- o'clock in the mooting till eight at night 7- No.
Ile did not *Dome to take off any clothes?-lie took off his or to look at the landlaspe you hol seen every day of your
Jerset tile'-N"
Ind be do that Until Thorne eta uck him? Mr Thorne did not What did you sit down for?-To SCI, if we could see 141111 C fish
stole him. 3. II he did not wrotle with hint, till after this man In the Little Sm.
ante:, t 0,,,,., the too. Dow far •ere you sitting from this couple 7-About XI or 40
you • efl: inrt,,lly and collectol?- Yes. off.
Aml rewly to rush into the fight' I should have gone tn.. oat' the others went on ! There were only four of us
het *no them to hate stomped a fight -(applause, w !itch was go with the net.
euminspol I thought there were 171-That le with the big not; four
Y.. 0 did rot attempt to become one .1 the fighting party 7- go with the little net.
N.. who go with the little net? and Joseph Rolls, and diet..
Fle-evatinnel be Mr Howard : There were three other awn
there lesidee Billies were there not 1-Nlot. Ind you speak? We only spv-he one to the other but as to
And tlne could have prevented your bring hurt by
the too onde.: his fiste-Yea I didn't ask you that; you had some conversation 1-What
stopping what we mid I emit mind.
You hoe been &toed about Nene furze hushes. These were conventation.
room distanee at the hark, WON they not '-Yen, at the back of Whv. talk !- No. we had no eenvereation.
u:id bap fine a word-. conversation "- -that is what we call
„in, f a no gn.n,..1 for the Insinuation that there were any tsie We talked together
IM. ,11•114., hale you? -None at all could they have heerd It 1-I don't believe they tould.
o 'too woe in the open, at your bark there were Use hew did you atop there before Mr Thorne spoke to you?
NM' T,..„
-About two or three minutes.
Wens there any at the eidey-No, woe a hoe you looking In the direction where they .ere sitting?
Men there any In front?-145 only the ass in font. ...,We was looking all about
p
Wo It gan
the mabean I.lser?-(MItS open, It ens the most open Igtotstion repeat...lA I don't know; I can't fell you, 10. art alonrb
we did.
Mee you Isyn there Once with the pdicennit Roper, andp
do you mato by saying " You supposed you wets."- out the place "-Yee
We WU sitting there looking for fish.
not know the local names of plates?-1 ,to not
ore no y nma tt,dog to tots ou run from that question, "What do
boil d ti. t know th
Dave yin, hem. there before,- I have bon there 0 rebel • I n"t
laysay tit, a .' unit.peed we did."-fSilence.)
, ou na o .e n ones.
1 -aged e were. them
gin co.unles : She does root belonw to Wrynaouth. Wlrvilitd"ntr'Y-i'm say 'that before? What made you hesitate-
Wittiest: I 11.1%e here about two years and threes We Il'etr :‘onthe other side.
quarters
Were you baking in the dir'ection where they were tilting?-
. other complainant 1k as thcos We were certainly lookilig somewhere about that way. I don't
Mr (*harlot Thorne tho Wohnslay evening, Jule 7, I met oiactly know.
th.• laat witness 1111111.. finekerell med. mar Powell V Its. almost whst d„ yon us .it yoU .1.111 0111eiy know —1
:rig 0-k . I hal been '.'thr eridtet fhld land Ilkel Wake don't exactly know where they were When lASI Tolle to us
took a walk towards the Little Senor the nett. 'There It • ' we were looking In their direction.
carriage nod to the farm and thence is a pathway to the Fleet. Which way did they comel--They came acne" to no
there ben here IS months. We wod down the pathway. and , that they coo none alums along the path, till they tune
when we got to the stx,re, in quite en optimal place. to where you weo?-Yes.
W.. could ore the fisherman come mom the Fleet, and they Would that be the nod to Wyks?- No, It would be the road
tlould see on. I saw alt come acne. en • bet and land. to weymouth.
There oases furze hetween us and the path, but some behind • after they had spoken to you, In what direction did they go!
us. Ii or in pinto behind, so th3t in me:My, where we were -They went away tower& Weymouth, through the forge
sitting was quite so ceposed Place in e'ome Monte of whet tooseae
Miss Wake said, I saw the four defendants, who ',OM, sbounk Did you f.41.w theno_l4.. ws went weeds W
yk..
ueThree was a little obstruction by the fur.. and t eosid
Dld you follow thou any Situnce -When they was making
only see their howls. Dne of them asked what we were about mouths I did follow them, end I said "What me you making
there. land I told him to ntlnd his !maims.. On. .4 then, e.,,t
mouths for?" I want a little way after them.
we le. re there "Ike mal I"I the.' Is' wi" thole Then the statements that pm and the others stoppod them
own 10W.... if they were any Way he...". they ern"' It" (nen going on are wrong" N.. answer.
aol bee,. us alone. main. 4 Meta Us in that way The said you beard them give their evidence? -I did not take inueb
they Phould It, what they Ideated- We then made one eotY notice what they mai humor* I knew they was telling lies.
toward the stile, an 4 got over. on the flied to the stile they Dow do you Mho they were telling lies if you did rod take
p.0.e.! Mom hiletiell against a.: hut I took no notice. They notio .4 who they were moor_ 'silence.
got or, r the us stile with Miss Wake had hold f my arm.
A. tlwy huolol availed us, Bilk. Severn' "-me dedleated Deviug Oran me no an•Wer, you noon to my you did nr4
Me to fight. All were acting together, and when we lake nMierl- I notielnl is/nee words; hut to tell you the truth
tot over the stile, the two Morriscs and Dino were sir, I did not understand what they did say.
wing usioent language, not fit for a worm° to how. you did not knew; now what did you notice 1-1 A vacant
Miss Wake several limo entreated them to he quiet. And we
told the defendants we should not go hack that war: we Mr Thorne did not beg you to go out- Afterwards be aid
should go the Way WO came. We turned beck over the stile, you bad bass, go on
and they followed tat. We got down to about the tame spot as

Fined ?Se. including coats.
Jolt,. Pte.tyr, sr. minmi..tied for a Wilder offence.
Mr Baker telt the • ttttttt nom through the window. Service
NM iii•ufflcient.
(k.zte Walter, was 1111111t11.11,1 for a 'limiter offence.
Defendant lead the dog left with him by a friend who maid the
license had lave. paid.
Fined ineluding cute.
Robert Gomblen was a,lu.trnnoziej fur selling intoxicating
drink to a !per..s, ole, dy drunk,
likletnlant elided f"r the adjournment Id the case, that he
might aunmion two witinanka in his favour.
Adjounied till next Putty nemiona

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whore we started frewl, when the two Maybes and Nike Did either of you catch hold of Mks Wake's:trot-I believe
offered to fight me single-handed. Eons WM with them ; but . James Morris caught her hj the &Yin, hnt I diii n°•••• kith?
he did not offer to fight lie turned lock with the others. 1 ; Then you did not me whether he did or pat-Nut exactly.
toil them I should nen fight, and tried to laugh it oft telling 1 What d . you know? -I hoard him say he caught hold of her MONDAY.
them they ought to be Wutned to try and strike a mingle man, , trom coming in to replee • binw'
when there were four against us Mike wrung his Isle in my 1 When did lie say this T- Ile told me of it at the time.
face, repeatedly challenged ins to fight, and struck me on the : Have you had any conversation together about tint --No,
nme, before I had struck any ..nc. ~Wheu talk,, *trues ins 1 sir. le,:n alrouly eleven such measures itresented, the number
the
e osol with him, to keep histe from strikleg me again. I caught ' Ikve you hal any talk P-No. air. of statues reiwaled, expurgated, and retuoveil from t
him by the neck, and he threw use on the ground. Mise Wake . I thi you mine in flout Wy ke this morning ?-Yera. three ad iIL
0 fTht Leo Loan4,it tu IC 111.441 C. MILt cilia: in
Ilminll,vinaltattahel that there
eren7lltad-ill6
wog two or three yard. from me, and I saw her in the grasp of Didn't, you talk about it?-No, there was a lot of other
one of the other men, ticorge Morris. Ile had one arm all chain with us. statues posetl since the 5:1n1 George 111. There had been
ant 2,01 el mote had been partially
around her, Podding her ; the other arm I could not see. She Wheu did you me my friend Mr Weston ?-1 have not seen
;published already seven octavo colonies, which earned
~..t.'hkenai.ni:o7ui:tinth; lie got rid of being equal to all the
screamed for help several times, mil told them to leave her hint di,stai:ti:itit:,lll
alone. Rolls picked toe lip fr„,nu the ground, and then the Some further enwrexamination took place, but the blench
1;} , the eighth volume would be published next year, and
other fellow let go Miss Wm e We proceeded and they 'thought it needle. to proceed on this point. c statue law of this country to the end of William
the. ninth might be expected early in 1877. Six more
followed, using in•leeent and bet lantruage. We ran and got to Sir fluirmal : You were al. the theatre with the others?-
* fanninium, when liilke Caine in advance of the others., and Yes. , and the whole act of the statues
work down to 1888, the period
ran. Mi. Wake was in • very excited state. We had bid not you go out fishing with the others next day ?-Yes. ~
ovrooilF:li.siDiesh,,irttc.ootrillteudrialnitinirieabite2iO3
auin....
ton even been in an improper position, nothing Improper Did not you and the "there talk about this =le lteSt days i wrhe Dili..., then re,. uhn,,,,,nd taw..
had taken place. We spoke to a policeman when we You will do well to think about that question 1-I cull mind.
came home, and afterwards went to the police station. What do you inail by saying you di In't?-No answer.
The following evening I identlflot them In the present. Mr Weston: Were you ever in a court of justice Wore ?- i
of liergeent Wills and Ser,rt Amory. Rolls mid " I dal not N 4.. .Sevcral hills Wont advanced a stage.
et
rike vou, air: 1 picked you up when the others knocked you Y,u are not used to he cross.txamined ?No sir.
down." Theret wet ou are rather confused ?--(Silencef
Ily Sir Eliot: Rolls did not lin ; but I did not hear him Sir Coombs thought this was hardly a nutter for re-examina-
dissuade the ,dhers. When he picked me up. I wee under the lion.
impression it was that Um other matt might go into me again. . James ll.wrir, fisherman of Wv ke, corrobtratal line as to
They charged us with aCtlia. improperly. They wood to he I the lanlittg, tont Thorne calling thorn ignorant felkws They
ieber. ; ..11.1 they were not watching. atonic replied that if they did
ilr Weston : You felt annoyed at than men watching pot- not go mi he should Male theitt, Sc. Toe woman was Moog
Not at their seeing us; it was not till they spoke to on that I the "fun" twainon. Thorne mole no :nom but jump away
Waa annoyed. fnon the girl aml struck . dward Mike. I caught boll of the
Irid not you speak to them first? --No, they spot° first, girl to prevent her being hurt; she was tp.ing in amines'
What did they any ?--They axial what we were doing. them, and that 1171-4 toy ode reason for doing at. When Bilk.
And that rather annoyed you?-01 course It did. and Thorne tussled they fell and Jooseph Rolls picked them up.
What ! being asked a civil question-. What are you doing? Did not see any insulting language, or acti.rw after.
Cnowexaminol : I know It was hall.past eight, because my
You must be rather a susceptible wan, must you not I -No sister had a watch Where the young maii and woman was it
&Mover. waa an coixeli 111..1Ca OUl.ll..rat a Illtl furze bushes, and mute cut
Did not say you could fight • bit 1-After they had spoken to furze behind them. There Were five or six waggon hauls of
me, and threstet,l me, I told them they not better not do it. cut fume there in heaps. There was eon,e tune all round
'roil had struck him then 1-No, I had not. them: there is isdhing hut fume all round.
Did you any you had done a little bit of fighting before, and Mr llowanl : Dow moly bushes of cut tune are there
you thought you cull 4140 it Antßill,--1 may Ince wild tio about?-There sire • number.
Ind you tell them them they must be an ignorant set of flow many In front ?--A genii number in front.
fellows !-Yea, to tomtit no in the Manner the.), did Cross-examination c•attinued : Every niorning and evening
Woo not that almost at the fir•t word they had spoken 1-No. bdore. we Inwe heat there, but we have not been since as we
Was it bemuse they Were looking at you f--Yin, and what work farther down. ran this night we sat down there but had
they mid not done on for about three weeks Irefoni
I always understomi that • cat may look at • King! Ws. Wan it to onoke a pipet-Yee, aod to rest ourselves. Tills
that the reason you called them an ignonutt set of fellow.? - evening we sat down for the mate. We did nen agree that we
They asked on what we were doing, and teased unseemly would sit there. I now three sitting down, eel tint down iny-
renterks. self MI not ask them why they sat down. Thorne Cattle
A,,,t that st, an moult s-lrotr, in the rretene,, of a lady, Kerma, the path to Us. Ile oild not square 1111 :tt us. I dtl not
I should think so. any anything about fighting : We did not try to stop the man,
Ind you Boman: off at Dill. before he attengsted to strike did not thilik It best to do so. heel been at the theatre, an.l
you? -No I did not, all had been talking about it &lewd Bilk,, said Charlie
Quite pnsitive?. I am quite positive. Thonte struck him first, and witness odd he took hold of the
Are you sure yod did not strike him or strike at him 7-I aan girl to keep her Inn. harm. Itilke anti he had talked about
sure, quite positive . It ,ot the bleach, and abo every day since. If Mike had swain%
Fearing what fillke should do to you, you caught him by the they had not, it would be nil,,. Phi not seemly houlting words
neck and down you went together?-. Ile threw me or actions from any onc when they were going away. Bilk.
What was the object of your putting your anan round his waked Charles Thorne whether lie wante I any more or not ;
neck ?- -To mei cot Mtn striking me. Thorne sail "So " Bilke asked Thorne because he had an
As emit as you and Mike got up, Morris let her ye ,-Yes. much in..uth about a.
When did you MN Itolls next? -The neat evening. Ito-examined : Wiwi Mite followed him, it was because
Where did you sec hint? - At the 'police shatiost. Thonie put his finger to Ids nose.
Who, ototion 1- The Weymouth ladle: station. Richard Morris was al,. eX.IIIIIIIOI. Ile oli.l not see a man
Wlto Wu with hint? -Mr Vickery arid sergeant Apsey. and woman near Foxholes. Innit first to last -(laughter). Few
Who elset-No answer. them when they mot its. Ind it-it hear any conversation between
• And the Itadiude policeman 1- I aultinot recoiled. Thoroe sod ,uy of them. Only hetrd Thome tell them '• You
Tar were eon for, and bound them here 7- Yee. hal lamer stip it '
Int nuperinterrdent Vickery ask questions and lake down Sir Wei tin: What a fool -(riers of laughter). I'll not ask
pone...o_l thee„t, you miy more intuitions if you do not attend to Me.
Untiwenh in the premium of the ilasliimle
In further examination. and with great difficulty, • very
"c't.o were there; dki he or did he not? -I cannot any. partial corroboration of the other witnesses was given by
Morris. Thonte struck the Abut., no Mike said. In cross-
The Chairman : Iron% you think we had hotter confine ours
Pelves to the assault ? cratitination he Sabi they not down to rest themselves, and that
Mr Warble :I am thitiking that Mr Vickery will sum:meale they would have a pipe 41 tobacco each. 101 not sit there
the Detach ahurtly to ktok out for fish. Ilarl a chain net abreast of Foxhole&
She counts: Ido not think It los anything to do with the The others heel their eyes 011 the water, hilt Ile ili•I not. Rake
mar, even if the Weymouth Superintendent has behaved int- amid 'Lorne struck each other on the woe, and Mike brought
properly. blood. Sir Thorne then put his arms notiol to Clore With IMO
The Chairman : I think we must confine ourselves to the The young lady was two or throe yards oft , and said "tart
assault them, or else he'll kill my chatt"-(laughter). There was lin
Mr Weston: I bow to your decision, air. swearing on either side. They had talked about this at the
Mr 'toward :So long as they contented thanaselens with themn,-(with .nlhatsis)-he slatuld think sit; had talked
minis you did nothing? -Yes about it almost ever since. If Rae had sworn they dil mot, it
An.l when he struck you did ion even tient strike 111111 with `th" °°tru°'
your listsi?-i dad ttok The Rev If. C. Pigott, rector of Wylie, mid Falwani Illike 1
Sir /toward mil he was now going to call the Melillola sail the Morrie"; were his torishiooers. Ile did not know '
pelicentan much abut each of them litdiVidUatr. The other Morrisos .
were a quiet, inoletnise funnily, u..,1 lie tinderstosl that these '
nenorant Wills: I an, sergeant of police living at Radipole.
and the Wyk., disttict is under me From infomiation received two aharol the NOM" of the faniily. lithe certainly aame
on July athi I canto to Weymouth. The County Pollee have from a Dandy not quite so unknowo to I.one ; lust he always
understood he was an itoiffensive member of that family.
no station here, and if anything tuna Up, we have the use of
this hall. I went that night with Sergeant Apse yto the Sir lloward mid there was groat croiit to the young people
Theatre, brought Rolls, atttl Mr Thorne identified him as one that. they had had the matt y sod womanly resolution to put
of the men ; It'll, sail " I did not strike you, sir." Mr Thorne themselves lit onnn 1111 l ication with the police, in referents: to
mid "N.,' and !tolls mid " I picked you up after you were this cam. There was not a single fact or sondubility reflecting :
knocked down " Thor,. said "Ton. eh,' hell the young lade Upon his clients in ahy way; they went to look round upon
the water, aft.l ev the 'wane that mune down the Little nea. I
by the ann, for them to knock Me down again." i went with
Mr Thorne tor the Theatre, onl he identified the other three "„ierr •••„• 'i :ib"thethin,.; they were in • I,,..ini:lie leinee,, "'flit'
mot. I have since Ireep with Mr Thorne noel the young lady to w.. •.e 'malted out the contrahetiom oe•ween the state-
to the place Mr Thdrne pinned out Bilke as the one who ments of the fishermen, who had sworn directly °Neon., to
strock him first Puke mil "You struck me hint' lie said each other, in enes-examinatirt, as to the re-to,, why they att. !
" You are the nun who vs.!, off your shirt, aid wantol to down mar the young, people. Why should the young peopie
fight tue at Lot" I went that day to examine the itlace, no have gone up to the fishermen ? It was because they bad ma Is
where a MAO& t•lOk 10Ia0', and have since been to the Mute linproper renter's., respecting their character, awl the young
1,,,,,,ith Th„rnc aral oiat waa.. It ,a. „la„ oao.. three Man. ItatUrally, instead of their going away like skulk., went
to four yardu fnitt the public pathway with no furze between, OP " wthal tehem ant tinny "nrthl The Y"th.,.i... """ "a" if
but sonic faggots of fume IS yards 1 chind. Theme was nothing they Were ' ntliimil." 1014 Inotlits 1;10 aw,..). A eery proper
1,,, eolleva: the place ; there were tdenty notre secluded places, observation, though Ids fawn' Ur Weston had tried to give it •
if a person wishol to ror. ineautleg that it would no: bar. lic e mt... le.l the fishermen
She Wortrot : Wee it quite necooary for you to volunteer then were not hunino ; the drink they had hal, the suit they
.....„,... that there were plenty
of more et„thdett one„ had been x orklue in, and their feelings, had made them less ,
In the titights.urhomi ? - Yes. than Mount As t i tho young lady, she very properly and
Mr 'toward : That was from Instructions from me, a-as It straightforw tr ly said she ;voted gone in he them to stop
not I-Yea. the light, and .11,1 the match for a monicot believe that she
Mr Weston sal., in defence, that one story can good until used the coarse ohs:nation " Fart then, tWo ion elan thty'll
another story was tokl, and he was glad them were inen °tithe kin thy °tali .'
. Why. l" i'"'' at the ),..1.: 41S. and the otall
Bench, sod no, thoontkitmhat who. they ....it..n saw, hut in the lynx Wino 14314.1 it. 1111... y Inolll4llllVe met 411h0/Ity in gkeiding
men who could look at the matter Intro a contition •ense point that this wo . ono of the gross lie,, that hvl lasso told by the
of ~,,,,,, What Aim" eon, than„,,0,,,,, ~,,,,,,ho hove hi, to defendants holay. Th. y mends., that it was a 1.:1.4.4,14.10111,
noi toes coo,hia•thoro if they were 44„..,, „',„th„e; Wr,,,
,g. that the fishermen had told a hotelier of lies, anti for the pn.-
" hvil be to him that evil thinks ;" and if Thorne ,no the y.....„ tectiot, of the publie, Inc asked the Bench, as this was a 4.,,e
lady didn't evil, why should they object ? What were the I 'iwre 1 eam"nts et then 'nth' ennily Tithe a ""e' I''cite nine
wont+ Thorne sonde use of ? Ile sail "If they were human defendants the severest punishment they could, and al.. any,
they would go oil " That was, "It the y had feeliesgs the sante as he was mire tloy w... 11.1, that the poor: people left the Court
AA he had, they would go away. nod not Interrupt mum." These without Dm slightest stispiciou ag Mist them, Cett they
inclt bad been out Admit: oil daY, mid when ttwY wers onuing ilmervol the greatest torat,e for what they lial .I..im, 3.1,1 left
eer,,,,,, the Fleet, they gaa. a „,,,,,ie aittiett d„..t eery ins.thrty the Court without the slLlitest man* upoo their character.
together, and they certainly dil go mot perch themselves non After a short coosultatim, the Chairittati mid they hal given
nee) I, ~fl. the ~.,,,,, 1..,,ty, ~,i,,,,,,...,.r.ther moro .outo every attention to the =in, b•Villg Leen 4.111..W.1tti 011 it since
that Thorn .• discovered tilel.l, anti tokl Thorne °fit ; but she shortly after eleven ski, . It appeared Drat ou u eduebteys
UMW t 0.4 tell whether they were starttlito up or lying down. the tradesmen shut up early ht order tint the young people
Then lit was that Thome said . y.rn must be MI igllOnAnt lot of n.j g" ' "i• Th,se tw" tonog pertains. Charles Tip-me aml
fell-as to atop here watelsiog us." Ile admitted allying "If Mary wait. ook a walk accordingly, and these fishermen came
you are Oman you wlli go ..n." and he might have laiil " I acne.* the Fleet ter them. The .ssatilt had levet dearly provol
have thaw a little fighting before, and I thiuk I could do it against the fishennen, and the Bench Ana.' Edwani !hike,
again." lliot was the ...et of the affair ; there was no rhyme Jamul Morris, and !Reliant Morris C 2 ii, reels .4 the inunnoonscs,
nor reasou shy they should begin to litutie them „about but matcher a 3 etch, anti in default .4 tonne It to Is. 1.0 ii-rd-ester
Iliorne thought it inaassary to establish before this young lady gaol for one month hard labour for each offence, the terms to
Can he wn a liit .si a Wall, only Inc mistook his customer follow each ot, or. With sat init.. Itolls be hod it takm. that
Thorne sent up soil squared off at Bilk., and it was ton till them actite fart that the 4'thorn lii, and Ile had helpol up the
that !take took his own part Perhaps the thin:mum thought yonng man when he was 1, flocked don et, therefore Utey only
they hod as mach right in Fusholm as Thorne and the girL fined hint 10s. They also thought it nglit to say there was not
Tine latter Were the originators of the nseault, and thought it the allghtrat tittle of evidence against either Charles Thorne
neetoery to make an outer, iti order to DOC: their characters. or Mary Wake of the slightest tinpropricty whatever.
aewoften di, they . that „tat ash... th.......traadia......„. The, eross or 1111111 l Jill og.iniq (.1111/1,1111,111e. an. 41141114 RA
she harm n0U114101141 brings • charge against the matt with hem; The tines of the Uorriscs and Bilke were tend firsts
' hut she o.uld son do Out -it this nose. and therefore she Uinta! Is WU 1140 W three o'clock.
round mmt these unfortuhate fellows. As to the annuli on Rich/int Talbot wa3 summoned for being dronk on licensed
the w ttttt au, thes heard that as 1.0011 all Thorne got up. the Math" at W) to.
nun who het laid of lur let her go Tbe fat was, she w.a,. PC. Koper proms; tne tune Ile 4.1.1 Mrs trioodell not to let
li. a very men en state, old watiksl to 114.11 1111.0 the fight, and defendant have any ittore her, and she replied that she would
Morris, fearing she inighi get a chance blow, put his arm round Te‘Ltht,;
,alt:eyrii,.,hhi ,tti'h.ohhititih wy.,1:,",!..hh,,,. '',"l..l.".";:l6,,nheeidan,hitrtt.u.ih,,,ii,i,'”aTtilin4.
her to matron her-. entire v fres homane motives. liens.
glad to sec the dentyman tithe parish present, who believed hod had 3 great linatitity of les,r at the boach. %intent after
these young Intl, 40 110,1111 et WA rentiectahle, and it would have ,wniyi',:i.:. fa“,o,..ii.'aal kTetii6lite ci';,;';,:tit'lllasettar,;',thltie he''aathe'metigyhisoltrieerwirg
great weight a ith the Bench, COllllllll fro:. • der-pilau like Mr
Pigou. After hearitt.: the case for the enwit.:u tttttt ots. the from drunkenness.
thatch would agree that any little ihooivettience (hie' girl and Defendant mil he Ron 01,1.111 the stun ott the beach, mil the
Sir lion.. might have sustained, they had only themselves to beer hail an effect upon itittl, and lie left. Nes Getsidell rel Med
Shank for. to .lraw hint any beer.
Fined 54. onts remitted. Fourteenl ildtsr allowed.
Chorks Th..rne then was charged '4th aseaulUng Edward
111 Ike. fkotie Walibridie WAY 14111111101 n I for iding 011 a Ina.C.noll,
hout reit.., lie had been IMUltolled, and Itai met Witham,
, itel the cross summons, Wit
1 Edward Make, fisherman of Wyke. said: tin the 7th July I ac.il'iinctsnj tota'64e.
lud been on iNolisiol twwclt fishing'. sad about hell"Pald eight .laint- 1 ea. asides was eharrol with asoulti•cr James Itobert
. left the beach to eon. honc. I came Nome with °thew. two Robert.% at Chlekend. He had admittol this offence to corn-
Imat loads at the saute time and we CU11.3 to FOllll4Ol. where
'we frequently land. We saw Thonie and Wake when we left Plahiaiit'tiut.hii wanted '4? withdraw the tile'
1 the botch : they were not lin the limo. hetWeen two, furze lien., St.., was summoned for keeping a dog a ithout a
. bushes. Having landed, we eat .nt the gram 30 or 40 yards lieellie at thoiland
I 'not this onside. After we had besot sitting there sonic tsme, Mn l!. T. Atkins, taupervier" rof Inland Revenuc, app.:aro lis
Sir Theme sponse to us, awl salt' " You must bean ignorant lot prosecute.
a f,.tioa,, to mop here watching us." Joseph Rolls mid "We mkt, toot A i t take out the theme, and Rlal
are sit watching you." Thome mil "V-u had better go tint Basel I.i'the n'irti ..at'ecil 'l'.e",""-i •
Will'ims. Maker, was . 'sniutounY 'ifotl'iod for • similar offence at
ior else I'll nuke you. If you don't int oii. 11l light or' a one on
you." lie said ha had done • little at it at one time, and he porato,L
Ile did tiot app.'', but his wife came, and so,! he could not.
thought he oold .10 a little again. I said '' 11 you CUI do •
little at it, you had better strike me." !low." C4ollllllln towards get leare to Conte.
us, talking all the while. Ile Juratiol away from the girl he lir 0 ohninn uund tn,, wuu bound t,,, come who. „„„ohohd.
lb:airy 11. Mer an Racise officer proved the cue.
Was with, and struck nre 1 pulled elf nay blue slop, and stztick
liefendanYa 'Wife itaid it Wili 1...4t there by Captain Wtarren,
hint again. I did not pull of my Guenasey, and nay shirt was
not expoied . lie struck me three.. lour lanai, and 1 struck Geo hig
.. .. . .

TUZSDAT.

Till lISPAY.

Mr. Clitons's two Labour Law Bills pa,sed through
Committee, the Conspiracy and Protection of Property
Bill undergoing twine alterations. •
FRIDAY.

Several minor Bills wore ulvance.l.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
MONDAY.
Mr. ROEBUCK moved that Mr. Plimsoll's Shipping Sal,
which its author had allowed to fall behind in reliance on
the promise of the Government, be placed among the
orders for Thursday.
To add to the embarrassment of the Government, Mr.
DILLWvN gave notice of a question about the necessity of
according precedence to Mr. Plimsoll's Bill.
The President if the Board of Trade ruse and gave notice
of lok intention to introduce a Rill giving further power
to the Burl of Trade to stop unseaworthy ships. This
announcement was received with ironical cheering from
the Opposition benches.
Mr. DISRAELI, amid renewed ironical cheers from the
OppoWtion. Kahl he did not think that it would be po,sible
to pa...a the Pollution of Itirers Bill this session, and the
Savings Bank Bill would have to he abandoned.
Mr. Caoss gave up the Offences against the Person DU
The llowe went into Committee on the Agricultural
holdings
TUNIIDAT.
Mr. DiseAstm refused to give precedence on Thereday
to Mr. Plimsolls Bill, remarked that a measure would he
Introduced to endow the Board of Trade with power to
take more rapid and direct action for the stoppage of
unseaworthy ships' and promised that if lie were in charge
of the besiness of tile House, Mr. Plimmlrs Bill should.
on being reinto.ducel next session, be considered pani
pa.n., with the Government measure.
11,11 Some progress was made with the Agricultural Holdings

WED:9OID.,IT,

The PRESIDENT of the Baard of Trade 114ra:to—Cs-et- the
toure.rary mea.oare dealing with th. at ...age of unsea-
worthy ships. This Bill propoaes to enahle the Govern-
tnent to appoint officers in sufficient numbers to detain
unwaworthy ships for survey au.l to allow one-fourth of
any crew. without the preliminary step now neccasary of
desertion, or without even the barrier of giving security
for rosts, to demand the survey of the ship.
TREMONT.

Mr. Pi.insoi.t. apologists! ti the Speaker of the
for his " transgression of Parliamentary usuages" " in no
grudging or rein-taint spirit, but frankly and aincerelY:'
At the same time he intiutatgd that he "did not withdraw
anik:itionent of fact."
Mr. DlSRterms.thd
I, in gracious tern withdrew the motion,
but th Mr. Bentitick and Mr. Newdegate complained
that Mr. Plimsoll had not retracted the charges he male.
The withdrawal was Un..11ilill111.11). agreed to audit loud
cheering.
rxsztwonvfn rAsE AT POOLE.
MT. AsIILEV asked the S.,eretary of State fir the llama
Department, whether his attention had Imen called to the
.theuisAal by the Petty Sessions at Poole last week of •
ca-e against a shipowner, in which the Home Oilire
prosecuted and laid the information under the eleventh
sect' of "The Merchant Shipping Act, PCI and
whether lie had been informed that the grounds of this
decision were, that " unsuitworthines+ " in the above
-
named reetlon did not inelutle "overdomling." that
"sending- a ship to sea in the. mine ,ieelbm did not incluile
" taking, 'and that receioalfle evidmice of the defective
state of it ship's hull ant equipment. for the pornose of
such a prooecution, must he the result of a survey and not
the statement of Cp.., en boand
Mr. riots. sobl that his attention had c.,rtainly been
• called to this 1.3.4 e for the prosecution had been ordered
by him...lf—(a laugh). Ik. must Conte, that he had been
very much surprised at Die result of the ease before the
magistrate,. Ile had api lint to the magistrates for the
reasons of their decision, ml had rts-eivnl in reply a news-
Panvr repot, the mine a- he haul prevponly seen himself.
11., hail therefore writti n again for further particidant
a+ to the ground:: it the'r deeision, which, it seemed to
hite, were the tine its sfated by the I 1111 l . member. The
whole of the papor.t when received would lie laid before
Hie law oilieers of tire Crown wait a view to further
pr. sved gs - (rheerst.
The 11. et, went into rot 1111 l ittee on the Agricultural
Holdings lid!, when Mr. DILLWVN sharply arraign., the
nimbict of the lbwernaietit, especiallv in dolling with the
Merchant Shipping Ildi; but Mr. Sullivan explained that
Mr. Plimsoll was desirous that Ills Kill 5h.,u1.1 Is: postponed
in or.ter to give pmeetenee 41 the Hovenistient
Afterwards the C•mtinitt., rentaine.l at work till one
o'cloek, when the Bill passed through Committee.
FRInAT.
Mr. BATEs asked for a Select Committee to inquire into
the allegation+ of Mr. Plimsoll affectiag his conduct as
Mr. Insitsmd dhl not think a Meet eiTh 111 l ittee
for. hot if Mr. Rate, t! ttttt ght it ne.nssary would give him
envy facility in his 1, weer.
Sir t ADDERLZY move! the ~erond reading of the
Unseaworthy Shipping Bill.
Mr. Itsri• with mud, emotion, which once found vent
in a bund if team ilefewlit.l himself against the charges
of Mr. Plinnoll, stating that the ships that were lost were
worth wheta they /ailed £1115,235, and that they were
inoured for only LIDAIIId.
Mr. PLi usoux next sp .ke, hut isaute no reference of any
knit ti Mr. Dates or li, ..tatinuent. Its showed the need
of legislation, partiratirly in regard to grain and timber.
laden ship., tn,t all enelassel ships : an.l he linp,ol the
Importance of a !oast line. But be would do nothing to
imperil the pao.ing id the Bill.
ilue t'iutscyi,UmK of the vattg withEit.isi;l
the tinsern'
imiemit would iiitralucc douse. ai
and grain in hulk.
In the neiro, of the debato Mr. DIA.AKI.I explainol to
the SIMISSI.I House that the I: .yerisment ha.l brought in
tido Hill not in consequence of the coercion of public
opiiii tttt but by its as+istance.
The second reading was agreed to.
EMSLE MEI!Irll. PR VTITIONERS.
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Mr. COWVKIL Tkurbc drew attention ta the letter of the
Duke of Richinorik requestin4 the t,itni,fl of the Slis
Comma no the subjcet of the exclusion of women from
re.tistratiann. mactisioners of medicine, und asked
whether the biverninent isint-tinilatcil the introduction
Of lOW 11111.3,..1r0 .na the subject next session.
Lord Sasims ssid the mitiject was referred to the
. . . . . .

itenoral Me i.L i:ouneil at their ineetinu in Jun-e, and
they had nia.le iiniartant !oetze,tiana. which would lbe
conshiere.l in the rive++. Tne itavernment would he pre-
pare,' mxt we...,ien to claim whether they eunsidenal
lcia-
lati.id.,ir.iblu or not . .

I %ELI OrivFy could not ennreive, after the
decl iratiosi of the Meilicdl Council that w n.uht not
he excluded from the nroftantion. that matter. could
remain as they were now.
In reply to Dr. l'uttrwt,
Lord SANDON promised the production of the pepseu

SATCIWA V.

Mr. liaTEs moved for a selact lice to inquire into
Mr. Plimsoll's char.ies against himself. After • heated
delette the limiter Wm settled by igissing a resolution, on
the motion of Mr. It•in that " in the Tinian' .4 the house
no stain rests upon th 3 character of the member for
Plymouth in consequence .4 the statements made in the
home by the m b emer for Deft.'

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