The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-05-10 00:00:00

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WIMBORNE PETTY SESSIONS.

FRIDAY.

Before C. J. Parke, Peg., Major. General Powlett I
Lure, W. Rolls-Fryer, Bsq., and C. Parke, Baq.
Henry Mu let, of Bturminster Marshall, was
summoned by Robert Crompler, for El lc 2d. poor.
rate.—Mr. l'ravers was for the defendant, and said a
county court action was already pending against Mr.
Crumpler, in reenact to goods seized for this very rate.
They said that not oily had they paid the rate, but a
I .re quant.ty of their goods had been taken, and not
accounted fur.—Mr, flrumpler sail that transaction
related to another rate. and ha bad ogered the
defendant the balance; but be hat refused to take it.—
An order for payment was made.
The same defendant was summoned for keeping a
dog without a license. He did not appear, and was
fined ss. and mete.

-14-1111.x.i\iiiiiec 'engine cleaner, of Leigh. Wimborne,
wea charged with stealing flowers, valued at Is. and
the property uf Frank Coburn, on the 24th of April
P.C. Brooks proved seeing the defendant, about ten
o'clock that night, get over the wall of the garden
where the flowers went and a few minutes alter he
returned. He and Sergeant Ceuta went and
examined the bed, and finding traces of flowers having
been taken went after the defendant They asked
him whet he bad been doing in the garden, and he
denied he had been there, but when he unbuttoned
his coat the flowers fell out —Sergeant Cantell said he
wished, in the absence of Mr. Batty, to state that
many complaints had been made of g wden robb3ries,
and a man had been detailed off especially to look '
after the matter—Defendant denied taking the
flowers, and said he bad picked them up.—'l'he Bench
told him it was clear he did take them—Defendant:
Well, I never took none before,—Fined 10s.
William Ina, of Charlborough, was charged with
stealing two pairs of cloth trousers, a black coat, •
dark vast, a cenva,, jacket, two handkerchiefs, and
two hearth-rugs of the value of 10... the property of
Catherine Miles, of Hinton &Ltda.—The cmplainant
is a widow, and the defendant her young man ledger.
On the first of May they all went to bed as usual ; but
In the morning when she went to call him, her lodger
had flown, and, on examination, it was found ha
taken the things in question with him. She gave
information to the police, and P.C. Mathews, stationed
at Horton, apprehended the prisoner at Bournemouth.
He then told where he had left the things--some at his
mother's, and some at • Mrs. Cowley s.—Defendant
said the hear .hrugs were his own, and while he was
living there Mrs. Miles let him wear the thine* —Hrs.
Miles admitted that bite did lend them to him to go to
a place of worship in on the Sunday. The rags he had
made for her, and she found the cloth.—ln reply to the
Bench, defendant mad he was brought up in the union,
ad was on hoard the Bowswea for a twelvemonth,
but they turned ilire out..—He wee cautioned said dis-
charged.
Usury Keep and Thomas Jones, travelling gentry,
were sentenced each to • month's hard labour for tear-
ing up their clothes in the workhorses.

CHARGE OP ALLEGED ASSAULT AGAINST
MR. SUPERINTENDENT POLICE.
M. Emmanuel Modes, wine and spirit merchant, of
Weymouth, appeared as the oomplainant in a case
, of ansult against the superintendent of police—Mr.
Bupetintendent Batty—and there was also a .roes.
=mimeo taken out waited him by the superintendent
for an assault on his part.—Mr, Odes Symonds. of
Dorchester, represented Mr. Batty, and Mr. Joliffe,
of Crewkeree, appeared for M. Moties.—On the case
being called on, Mr. Smooch said he would irked the
court to adjourn it until the next sessions, as Mr.
Batty was confined to his bed. He hoped a day or
two ago to be praise, but the day before rester lay •
certificate front his medical attendant wee sent to him,
stating that he could not attend. Immediately be got
It he ascertained that Mr. Joliffe, of Crewkerne, was
likely to appear, as M. Toles' advocate. He
accordingly wrote by the first to inform him of
the state the defendant was n, and asked him to
congest to an adjournment for • fortni,ht, and to
telegraph his reply, and also to write to the
magistrate's clerk, announcing his willing to concur
in'such a arrangement. He, however, received no
telegram in reply, acid ytetetdep he took the
precaution to serve upon the caop4lneht hitneelf a
notice that Mr. Batty would not be able to attend.
That morning he had repaired • letter from Mr.
Joliffe. in which was contained an excuse that he must
admit he was not unprepared to hear, as these proceed-
ings were but the part of a larger scheme. Mr.
Symonds then reed the letter. In it Mr. Jeliffe said
the letter had C3lllO II) late and so utterly at the last
moment, that he could not arrange for an adjourn-
ment, lip had made his list of fixtures, and had
snrithgeoi tor taking Wimborne on the Friday, "I am
however laMs' to oothr with you on Friday as to
whet is right and pram between the part*. This
may be the more essential to 'you, seeing the poultico
your client holds, and that my client being a foreigner"
should rather have had protecUon than otherwise.
- Symonds continued that he would cell Mr.
Parkinson to speak ea to Mr. l!kitty's state of health.
—Mr. Jolliffe : Yes; —Mr. Symonds : Sit down,
Joiliffe, I have not done yet; you shall have an
opportunity to @mar, but I won't let you interrupt
me. Re then mW Mr. Parkinson, who said he was
a medical man and was in attendance, with his brother,
upon Mr. Bitty. He was now in bed and his oondi-
Uon was cartelaly limb as In require him to continue
there. It would be unsafe tor him to emus into arl,
that day, and he should not permit bleu to 40 .o.—ln
reply to Mr. Jolille, mitosis paid be had been In
adsielanoe on Mr. Batty for the last fear or five days,
but until yg6;•nday or the day before he had hoped he
might come into con;t., and be wee very anxious to do
no now, but he would not alto: WM. Re was suffer.
log from congestion of the kidney•—'. Joliffe said
be would draw the attention of the bench to :46*
There were two sumwoses Woe them, and supposing
Mr. Betty Might and it mayenien• that the one
chtemotts 400°1 be PllstPmmid, thatioried have co brew-
ing on the other, spigot him
he cottid not
or; femme, and therefore thaitonld'be disposed of.
iindtrilicod the application for an adjourn • ,
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margin the case in which he was the complainant. but
certainly not in the other. His (Mr. J diffe'd elieet
was a, foreigner, and although it might be atte opt •I to
cast some amount of slur tan ii him. th the could
produce certificates frim some of the first men in
o!:YinOlith as to his respectehtlity.—Mr. Symonds :
As to those certific ttes I shouldn't ail ,w you to read
them.—The Chririnan said ttey had iptite made UP
their minds that this being a cross-summons both
should be aij iurne I —Mr. Joliffe then wk th it it
should he adj ,arned on the usual rule, on the payment
of costs by the party for whme convenience the
adjournment was male. He thoeglst they were
entitled to have notice of this before only the previous
day, and then not until the second p ist. I was •
fact that by the same post he received a letter from
hi client, telling him he should rely trion bi,beinr at
Wimborne to conduct his case.—The Chtirinan :
Surely you could have tele.rraphed.—Mr. Symonds:
That was what I asked him to do—The Chairman :
You might have telegraphed halfea,lozen times over.
Mr. Joliffe : But why should ?It is not my dutl
to keep myself at home when I have other enga te-
rnents.—The Chairman: There was no necessity for
you to come here at all as far as we can see—Mr.
Jolliffe : Amor Hog to their own medical man, Mr.
Batty has been under treatment for the last five days,
why could they not therefore have written to me
before, or why did theynot telegraph.—TheChsirman :
You are aware Mr. Parkinson said he was, up to the
previous day, in hops he would h we been able to be
present.— Mr. Joliffe : Then why not have telegraphed
instead of serial', a letter which did not reach me
until 10 o'clock.—The Chairman: You need not go on
with that, we think 10 o'clock the pri•vions day a
reasonable time. Mr. Symonds : Unless I ha I
telegraphed a sermon I should have received the
reply—" I can't meet you, I don't understand the
ci-eunistanne. " He received the letter, we will say,
at 16, all he had to do was to telegraph beck—" will
consent to as adjournment, anil write to client." It is
all very well to say a client hnd writ en, "I shall rely
upon your being there." but I should say myself if at
appeal were made to my discretion, I should expect
my client to be bound by the way iii which I chose t )
exercise it. Mr. Joliffe said in his letter "if you do
what his right." Of course that meant csats.—Mr.
Joliffe : I wasn't thiisking of costa—Mr. Symonde
Well, they are creeping out now —The Chairman: I
don't think you need trouble us further, for we have
made up our minds to grant the adjournment without
costa—Mr. Joliffe then applied that the Bench would
fix the came fol hearing at I.3o.—The magistrate.; said
they could not go as farm that, but they would promise
to take it last.