The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-07-09 00:00:00

OHLIGI OF STILLING CLOTH AT WALIHILI.

MarfA4 Dugduic, 3J. was indickgl for febniotialy
'toning • quantity of woollen °loth, swine £3, tbe pro-
perty of Oberlee nommen', at Wareham. on March 9-,
1872. -Mr. Ffooks-Woodforde prosecuted; Kr. Cullum
defended.
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Coulee Summar., draper at Snoop and Wareham,
receive t a pared of cloth from Master, from 111. sere.
Kendall and Norris; it arrived on B.h March, about
taid.day,and he drove to the station, and took the parcel
therefrom to hie shop at Weeastreet, Wareham 1g
was cloth of different qualities bought from sample.
Mr. Collie: Did you ever see it, sir?
Witoese said he did riot.
Mr. Collins: How eau you say of what it eonsisted
Mr. Flooks-Woodforde put in the railway delivery
hill. to which Mr. Collins also objected.
Mr. Flooks-Woodforde : It la • part of the rra grakr.
Mr. Collins: That is • very wide term.that rta ;mks.
Mike to see something tangible.
Witness continued that the Parcel was taken to his
shop, bet to the beat of his knowledge it was not
opened. It wet afterwards mired from the shop. ,
Orme-examined : Had his Nisbet to mutate his shop
at Wareham. She Is not here.
Kaaminatioa continued : Sae would not open this
pared ea it was intended for the Strange department,
unless he authorised her.
Sarah Pollard, keeping • mond-hand 'tritium shop at
Wareham, meadiested prisoner soaking to the shop one
Saturday night, some part of March, near Gish.
ego& in the evening, no shop wss lightsd with
Mil os.4h, Possaar brined a WWI pawl, sad

asked wii•ther she ootdd leave M. Whose@ permitted
li,. to Immo it; did not take parikridar notice, but it
wiz about no long (3,.).
Mr. C .11ino to Mr. Ffooks.Woodforde : Why don't
You road ti her what you west to ? This poor
01.1 1,47 did not t ha any particular nouse of it.
Wine-n. exanam,d, 'all It W 44 13,3401.41 oith paper,
blt p, n. t end o,,etner it was lizht or daft.
Itha WILL It wag a no-e .1 ',le hal from Ww•l, • few miles
eII and • ...ry mail pan.h. Goahl nnt teecOlcot
WI he, she IEO4 I,er nephew nr niece hat o.civ-ell it up.
Ins I 'hticturo : hits. PoUarf, be good enough to try
to ..rreuolloct.

Mr, Flooka-Woodfonle : And I'll tell you this, Mrs.
POI'OOI. if vim do not 11100111.0,--..
01 r. Illion rote to protest warm •—the C. airman's
eletarvation was parfecely proper; but when Gemmel
▪ ts up and thrtettens a witness, that is most improper,
beanie it pa judiooe thii minds of the Jury.
Waives eintinuid that prisoder said the did not
w•nt lee he Mani t, know what it oontsioad. Elbe
• a +non emu, aft., it in a little hit; laot she
iiet. In seem 100000 0( 00010t(110g tint occurred
not bay witness went to look for her ou Sluday
and mho came out from Mrs Leinri hotter.
Ask• it her why &ha not some after the Parcel,
and she replied she felt very tired, and did not come.
witness told her die must fetch it, as she would net
elk. It to rtmsin any longer. ahe did take it away,
asying it was rattier hasty, add she harily know how
to.i!arry

'FfookrWoodforie : Did she say aoething of
pepl biz about?
Collins objected.
Trio Clairmau said with the deposition beton hie.
he ...mild ask chattier priron..r did say " Tame cps. so
aboat."— Witness admitted that she
istulA bees said No.

i-Vatuesr-r;o—oi.iCi;ed that wiener broke the paper
dowo, took out Pomethiog dub, put it under hsr shawl
spa carried it away. She returned and took tho
reol.llolor tinter bow shawl, also. Although it was
dark, the witeeas said It Wl.l folded like a putieL
Mr. 'brokeWoodford': Likes draper's permit
111r.i.leliiria: I ge pretest most strongly wad seer.
getiulir against that. My frond kuows Mat ea the
acpuirions, It is sat! a "grocer*, parcel," yet be pets
it ai" sly sin u"f..rir -8, draper's parcel. Eldreas-
i • I line•l ware ly t. Mr. Ffookeßfoodforde. hr caul
Y not hr the wronao wile.. she le guiity ; if
ci iv, she will ha bit; but you will not sutured by
unfarnices.7

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kir. FfookeWoodforde; This Is as interlude; we wUI
Dow proceed.
Kr. 0.,111ns : Weis *Dame! 'amine unfairly, away
from the depositions they hold, I mast and will protest.
Mr. Ffooke Woodford.. (ex minis' his copy of deposi-
thins :) I have mode • mistake ; it is . "grow'.
parcel" on the deposition; but I thought it was
"draper's parcel."
Mr. Colin. said if his friend admitted he had made a
all4ake that was suffioitont.

_
Buy Ann tote, of oth-lane,. Wareham, went
0 Bournemouth to eat bar dangling on Friday, and
returned on Saturday. Os Sandhi evening Mrs. Dag
dole was her house. when Mn. Pollard osole in sad
spoke to aim Dagdole. Toe latter took her by the
drew and asked her to go a little way with her.
Asked if it waster. and he rid" Only talks. Pollards
alter a parcel," Witness paid go but a little way,
and Mrs. Dugdale went on. When she returned she
bad something under her arm. and asked witness to
take it for her, but she would hers nothing to with
it. By witoer's pulsation, it was put in the peal,
and was afterwards opened, when it was found to be
• torge fold of dark speckled cloth. Witness west
Another way to us Mrs. Pollard, end uk her about it,
while Ma. Durdalo west for the second part.
aging brought it, Mn. Durd ale went
away, end returned about nine, when witness told her
the °loth should not stay there, and Mrs. Magda, pet
It in one of the Monti. Witness's daughter rid the
cloth should not stay, and Mrs. Dardale cold they were
fo,lo for wit keeping it. It was like a fold of ealioo in
• shop. Next morning Mrs. Dlingdalet same and asked
if she might take it out of the skirt to the hour, is
she would take it home. Witness coneented ; but Mn.
Dagdale brought it in, and went away without taking
it how. Her daughter slterwazda fetched
Dogdale asked what row they were halting up, and
wither replied "about the sloth you did not take
away." Dugdale sad "you mint be fools," and
said she had thrown it in the ring. She said the had
got it on th• cheap. _

'Leary Trimble, wareloonesman, from Kendall,
Norris, sod Co.'s, Faster, said in Marsh iact, he out off
• quantity of trosasering for Yr. Salomon of Swamis
end Wareham. It was mat oft; bet be did not seed
it off. There were 20 yards of grey mixed tweed, sad
10 yards of black and whits check.
Crost-examined: Bleak and white check Is very
common, is it not?
Mr. Ftooks-Woodfords : Nabbing common eoelle out
of Paater, I suppose.
Witness: No, I should hops not.
The cloths produced matohed the eleielee, and be
had not the lomat doubt they had belonged to his
employers.
Fr•derisk Stockton, of St thorough, who works for
Mr. Yeanley, knows Levi Reeving, when he had the
cloth, and on Sunday wan at his house, sad saw
Richard Cole, who went In and out, and brousht in
about three yards of sloth las that prodnised. as
said be had sold it to Bowing, sad ha took it to Boar-
ing's house, who sold It to tritest@ for 4s. sad the
latter gave It to Superintsodent Reiss.
Levi awning traced the cloth book to Cole.
Richard Cole spoke to selling the cloth to Boning;
he rot it from his Aster Elisabeth White.
White was not preen'. and it woe stated that tbare
was • medical oertifloate that she was subject to fits.
amperinteodent Zan saki that prisoner wbso at the
station said she did not staid the sloth, she picked
It up by William Stephens's, rooting frost West-
street,. That WA/ in the dinettes from Mrs. Pollard's
to prisoner's own bolus.
Cola, recalled, said hie sister was not hers, she woo
very
Mrs. L•gr said Elizabeth White was mar her con-
finement and unable to travel.
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Biissbeth White's depositioe was read. It slated
that ahe gave lilies Duda* 3s. for the cloth, at Mr.
Legg's roger's', and she sold the same for 3s. *IL
Ellen Undo* prisoner's daughter, saw Mary Ann
Legg In her boas* &boat six weeks before its went
before the magistrates. Mrs. Legg and her daughter
showed her some cloth—mom thee is now prodneed.
A few days before last Good Friday witness &end •
pleat of dark cloth, two or three yards longs. Lox
In ber bedroom, Hal not pat it there herseU. She
had no tue for it, task it to Um Brine's, and left it
them ure. Legg came, and took toe cloth to Mrs.
White's, to who.. Mrs. Lug sold it.
Cress-examined : See had 3s. for it.
Bliss Rouse, wife of Henry Hones, living near the
Independent chapel, sod a dressmaker. said Mrs.
Duessle brought • small perm' to her boom in the
early part of Marsh, saying she wanted some under.
bodice out out, and would oall next morning. Witness
told her it seemed too good for cedar-bodies; milkiest
would do se well. She wanted to sell it, and asked
3e. 61. for it, witooes nitimataly pee 3m, 63. for It, and
made it up into a shirt for War husband, who had
iheuniatiam. Ditgdale brought more, which witness
bought; believing her that she had some from Jersey
and the other frost Wool ; bet her husband would not
Let it stay in the home, and &Iw.. thrown out into the
Inns'

---i.C. John Person 'welted the hit witness'. house,
and got the start. alterwercle eppr.h.itded prism:ter,
who said she hal picksl upsb.sh.sk.delth la the
lane.

Illr. Rooks-Woodford., in summing up contended
that the aloth had been audloimitly nand from Exeter
to poneseion of Kr. Summers Although the jury
might bear a somewhat humorece speech enteeding
theta link here or tilers was missing, yet he urged the
jury to take the evident' as • whole, mil he thought
they mould have no reasonable doubt that the identity
of the cloth Ind been aufactiamtly nand.
Mr. Cott.nis said when he hoard • speech like that
! be knew his friend en perfectly aware that two or
three very vital links in the chain of evidence had been
broken, and unless they took the erbium as a whole
the case had failed. No evidence bad been given to
show the parcel had been sent front Exeter, none what
the parcel taken by Mr. Sunman bad contained, and
none to show how it had been dealt with or not after
reaching the shop at Wareham, none that prisoner was
ever near twit shop. Itee ben said that the jar,
must take the evidence as • whole and not mind the
absence of these miseries; but U such a principle were
admitted, the occasion would arise when the life of
an inoooeat person would be in danger from such a
principle. He said that Hr. Fook• Woodford' had,
• for the .nand time that day, asked • jury to
disbelieve his witness; but he asked them to believe
her or not, which they chose. After remarking on the
qoactity of the cloth the prosecution had not attempted
to identify, al compared with the 30 yards lon, he
urged that there were two or three serious blots on the
nee, and if it was not fully proved by tbe proseintioa,
the jury woull *ay the prisoner was not guilty.
The Chairman carefully reviewed the evidence, and
said that it would be better that even a venom who
was strongly answered to be guilty should escape, thou
that the laws of evidence should be broken, better that
there should bean sponent failure et justice than •
failure on the other side by an lanoeset permit being
found guilty.
The Jury numbed for 20 minutes, and retuned a
verdict of not guilty.
The Chairman, in discharging prisoner, pained out
to her into what great danger she had brought herself
by her oondact. At the same time he believed the jury
had ooms to the right decision.

ALITAATION OF 511fTESCL
Robert Mullett, wbo had been eentenoed to to
months for atealing• pick, was brought up again, whoa
the Chairman sud the Court bed knot his conviction
bow oorudiering his 'entente and taking into account
the t,ase he bad already been in pti.2ll, they felt
justified in reducing his sentenoe from two inbaths to
one month's hard labour.
Mullett: Thank you, sir.