The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-29 00:00:00

WKDNEMDAY..

[Before R. M. King, Esq., and W. K. Allen, Esq.)
lirnry ICia!, (28) pleaded guilty to an indictment
charging him with obtaining In. from Jamea
at Yeovil, under false protenccs. (Inc calendar months
bard labour.

Gre,swe Fool (256, labourer, also pleaded guilty of steal-
in% two geese, value about the property of
Pickford, at south Barrow. One mouth's
imprisonment.
Geurye &mew' (on hail) wna charged with embezzling
the sun, of tis. 31., the property of Messrs. liagehot and
1%,. On the 14th of January, • man named William
Ralph, ros sent by his master, Mr. Burge, of titalbridge.
for Al cwt. of coal. The man paid the prisoner
1:1 2a. 6.1. for the 30 cwt., fur which 1m received •
receipt, and lie also paid him 9,1. for a cwt. for himself.
Prisoner had s ntered only 21) cwt. instead of 30 cwt. in
his book, and when taxed with the discrepsiicy by Mr.
Bush (the prosecutors' clerk), he ufferiml to make up the
deficiency, which was refused hy Mr. Bush, who said
the case *limit be taken before his employers The jury
found the prisoner guilty, with a MCA milation to
mercy "II account of his having offered to pay the ttttt ney.
lie was aentenceil to four calendar months' bard labour
at

&wand Spiller (Is), w.. charged with Healing one
pair of Nada, value Bs., the property of Edward Fray.
ling, at Hatch Beauchamp, oti the nth E•ibruary.
Guilty, three calendar mouth.' hard labout.
. .

Sulu" Matcher Inn bail/. pleaded guilty to stealing
one shilling and three box keys. the property of Joseph
Edgbill, her touter, at Glastonbury, on the sth Feb-
rusry. Four months' hard labour.
Juwpit Scat (on hail), pleaded guilty to stealing one
pair of boots the property of James Day, at Ilia/ton-
bury, on the 27th of January. Four months' hard
labour.

Joha Daris was charged with stealing 1 cwt. and •
half of coal, the property of Messrs. Urquhart and Co.,
of Chard. Guilty, 2 calendar months' hard labour.

Ilmw Nine (32), labourer, tilrailuil guilty to aka.
log 14 Om. uf kd pipe, ti'' 'wort ty Jsmu Ik4, lit
11.in•lbury ti.. 214 of January. lla
; tram furtlirr ehmeged with etxxling otiu come:: holler, the
; tirvorty 14.m0w1 took, at Ilaolloury uts
tho 1114 January. lie AIM 1411411:11 guilty to this
chirp., and was actinium' to fuer calendar mouth.' hard
(Amur, . . .

•
ehiumek (21) plvitilnil nut guilty to atvaling five
fellioi4 axe. “ii.l i,tlirarticleo, 11,, nroi..rty f Wali.:r
Lock owl utiivr. At Illornbl.,tlnii,. MI the 4th Mardi.
lII' %VW. (01111 d guilty, cud 'WM411104:41 tii 3 months' impri•
4.411111.11 t.

RII lei 4 enllown (le), and Prune ia Aiwa lra, (17),
w, re charged with stealing a knife, a watch, a watch-
guard, slid 4 purse, the !property if .1. Whesilon, it
Loisport Bastfiver, on the 111th of February. Col-
born Vesiled guilty, and there nut being sufficient uvi-
defiee to convict Knowles, he was discharged.
1144,11 014 W. a little boy, was charged with feliiiii•
°wily entering the dwelling-house of John Ruilworth, of
Odconsbe, mit stealing therefrom a purse of iiioney, and
2g. fid. --- Jane Hoilwortli, wife 14 John itx4worth,
shopkeeper, said :--Oti the 12th February, I placed •
purse lii a il-awer in my counter containing £l3--- Ins.
of which was in gold, and CS WA. in silver. 1 lucked the
drawer, and put the key in my pocket. Nest morning
1 went to the drawer and found the purse and money all
right. I again locked the drawer and put the key in my
pocket ; and on changing my dress I left the key in the
dress 1 took i,ff. tbuut two o'clock on Monday morn-
ing the prisoner's father mum to lily home, ; and after
some eonsyrsation 1 asked the boy where lie had got the
key f , lie said f y pocket. The purse produced
is the same that I put in the drawer.- -Thomas rampkin
said he was going down a lane towards Od be when
he saw the prisoner, who appeared to be in a gate of in.
tosication. By his side, on the ground, were two half-
crowns and a penny piece, and Oil the other side a pur,ie,
the same as that produced. In the purse 1 found /31
leo. 21—John Rod worth said lie examined the premises
and found that a lubare of glam hail been taken from •
window, on which means SICCC AS had been gained to the
house. Witness went ill COIIIOIII3, with Chant to his
I se, where he found the prisoner in Ilia father
threatened he would mulish him if he did not tell hint
at once where the 7 was; and the prisoner replied
that lie had hid the 7in a field. Witness took a
linden', and on seamhing under the hedge they found
17s. 110.. They then went to Frampton s house, and
he I I mil Ow purse cunt " g les. 20., which,
with the 17s. 110.1eft:fo. BOA. unaccounted for. f luilty,
Nentviice. 4 months' impriionnient, and 4 years in a
Reformatory.
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117,.;0r, butcher, of Glastonbury, was charged
with strafing one half-sovereign the y of William
Brice Edglaill, at Glastonbury, on the 12th of January.
One of the wititessea fur the prosecution being
absent on account of Illness, the Court ruled that his
deposition al Id not be taken as evidence, and the pa-
wner was discharged.
(Before C. A. Moody, Esq. M.P.)

Thermo a Smith (40), was indicted for committing an
aasault on llobbs on the 19th February. Six usouthil
hard labour.

Hear!, Ikrk (:k), WWI charged with stealing 11110211 of
money amounting to about I:10, the property of Mr. John
James, at Winshatn, on the 7th December. He pleaded
not guilty. Mr. H. C. Folkard prosecuted. There were
further indictments against him, to which he pleaded
guilty. He was found guilty on the first charge, and as
several convictions had been proved against him, he was
sentenced to 4 yeane penal servitude.
John &ironing (26), was charged with atealing seven
peck a of oats, value at Chard, on the let March inst.
Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to twelve
the' hard labour.

Bii.i.s loNonr.D. —Emma Hill, .Tolin Davey, James
Burton, W. Bartlett James, George Lane, and Thomas
Please.