The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-27 00:00:00

CROWN COURT.

Tuesday: Before Baron Pollock.
ThOslol Brine pleaded not guilty of burglary.
Mr. Templar appeared for prisoner, and Mr. Polkard for
the prosecution.
Thome& Lone stated that he was farm bailiff to Mr.
Jackson, of Herringstnne. The parlour of the house in
which he lived was on the ground floor. On the night in
gzeetion they went to bed about eight o'clock. hut before
be went round to see things were safe. The abutter
of the ereben window were fastened, but these of the
parlour were sot About 12 o'clock he heard a aoi-e like
a double-barrelled gun. Some time after this he heard
another noise, be and his wife went downstairs, and found
everything safe. He got op at half-past five, went down
and found the parlour door open. On the floor there was
• little book, which had been on the table the night before.
He than went into the kitchen and found the cash-box
gone from the bureau, and he also found the front door
unlocked. Hs afterwards, in company with the sup. rna-
wildcat, found • pane of glass taken nut and put down
carefully outside. The cash-box contained in one end •
half-sovereign and 1:2 3a. 61. in silver, and in the other
and 9s. 6d. Pieces of paper, produced by p.s. Mitchell,
I were marked 9 and 10, and those were the pages missing
from the book. Prisoner had been employed by him a
month in each mummer for two yams, sLii he had paid
prisoner out of the cub-box once.
Mrs. Stone stated that she remembered going to bed
about eight o'clock on the night in question. They heard
a noise shout 12 o'clock, and another like the gentle
shaking of • door, when ohs and her husband went down,
went over the house and found all safe. She got up the
same time as her husband. The box of matches produced
were not like those they used; it was Bryant and May's
they used.
Supt Batty Mated that on the morning of the 12th of
November be accompanied Mr. Stone to Herringstone. lie
found a pane of glass broken in the kitchen window just
below the fmtaning. and • pane had also been carefully
removed and put down from the parlour window. In the
house he saw • match-box, a put of • burnt match, and
three spots of candle-grease on • chair. He returned to
the police-station and saw prisoner in the custody of P.B.
Mitchell. Prisoner offered to pay him • fine of £2 13..,
which had been imposed on him the Saturday previous.
He (witness) said he had been looking for prisoner the
night previous, when prisoner said—Yon would have hada
job to Sod me, for I was not at home, I passed the night
In Yellowharn Wood. .

.-Ser.gsaii—t Mitchell Stated that he apprehended prisoner,
on suspicion, he searched him, and found a half sovereign
four half-ercwns, fire florins. subteen shilling., and in •
puree sixpence and a penny, • knife, a match box, and
some paper. The match bus found in prisoner's pocket
corresponded with the., found at Herringstone. He then
took him to the County Police-Station. He went with Mr.
Stone to Herrinsitone, and found the knife fitted tbe
marks in the window frame. Prisoner told him that he
had not done but. day's work since he had been gone from
the town, and that he had not been in bed for a week.
Henry Bartlett stated that he well a labourer, and knew
the prisoner. He saw the prisoner on the 12th of Novem-
ber. He was pulling manacle a little distance from the
dairyhouse at Herringstone. He saw Prisoner comm
from the direction of the dairyhouse, and priscn.r tild
him he had come from Broadmayne, and going iii the
direction of porchester.
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—ier7fepra7:l-n-Zdsressing the jury for the defence,
argued that there wee not sufficient evidonce to convict.
Rh Lordship, in summing up, said the question was
what evidence was there to connect the prisoner with the
stealing of the cash box. The person who stole the cash
box was doubtless the one who broke into the house.
There wee no doubt the prisoner was shout in the neigh-
bourhood at the time, and that he could not give a astir
fectory account of himself. It seems, too, the prisoner
was out 01 work, and the only account he could give of
himself was that on the night of the burglary be was in
the woods all night. Another thing was that he was out
of work, and if he wee earning no money, how could he go
and offer to pay the flne spoken oft He pointed out the
fact of the marks on the wood being similar to that which
would be made by the knife found on the prisoner. The
strougaat piece of evidence against him was that of the
pieces of paper being found on the prisoner, and taking all
the wricUnce together, 1$ was doubtless sessions matter.
The jury found prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to
eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
Mansood Need pleaded guilty of uttering a certain
request in writing for the payment of XL, knowing the
seine to be forged, with Intent to defraud foolish Harris,
et Hinton St. Mary, on the 30th of December, and was
sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour.

C 11•110111 OP XANSLAUGHTEL

Williams Hines was charged with the monslaughter of
Albert Isaac ilium, his brother, on the 20th September
last .

Mr. Wills, who had been instructed for the prosecution.
now. wjtlxdrew from the case.

;IT ;Alas case he had had the opportunity
of reading the depositions, and he confessed his surprise at
the verdict of the coroner's jury. In their minds no doubt
they supposed it to be • case ts be enquired into elsewhere ;
but he could not help exercising his own sound judertent
In the matter, that they ought to have come to a different
conclusion. Mr. Will. had expressed the same opinion, and
It would have been • most unhappy thing if the evidence
had been taken • second time, upon the notion that a
verdict of manslaughter might possibly have been returned.
His Lordship directed the jury to return • verdict of
"Not Guilty."
Thlt poor boy was accordingly discharged.
NISI I'RIUS COURT.

TUISDAT : Before tin lAN Justin* of the Court of
Appeal, tit* Right Hon. A [(rod Henry Thesiger.