The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

DIVISIONAL PETTY SESSION&

BATORDATi—Bstore H. Williams, Esq. (chairmen),
R. 0. F. Steward, G. Warry, K L. Mittlentley, B.
Sunders, E. W. Williams, and C. E. A stall, &qrs.
Don Ltoursert—Joesph Mounts, of Wyk* Regis,
wee summoned for keeping a dog without • licens,..
P.S. Pitlield said be sew defendant with a dog on &ter.
day, the 16th May, and asked him for his license He
said he had not one. Had sees defendant with the dog
several dines within • fortnight before the 164 h.—
Delendantsaid be only Mild from • voyage to the North
of England for ooal on Thursday before Saturday, the
16th, and was away • month. The dog belonged to.
shipmate, end after the policeman bad spoken to him
he saw the mother of the owner of the dog, and she said
her son had got • license for it, but that be might
bare the dog if be liked. Upon that he
took out • bosom. —ln reply to the Chairman,
P.S. Pititeld said it might bare been a month before the
16th that be bad seen defendant with the dog.—Mr.
Williams remarked he had before said he had men
defendant with it at different times within • fortnight
—it made all the difference to the defendent.—Tb•
serpent eaid it might be • month.—Tbe Beads die.
missed the coes.--Subeequently Mr. Beach, eupervisor,
asked the Bench to re-Qom/der the case, saying the;
the government would have to pay *epees'' which
were heavy, sad they would complain.—Kr. ,
said he didn't ears about that; the case wee not made
out to the sallefaction of the Benoit, and therefore
they dismissed it.
William Pearce, shepherd, at Waterman, was
similarly rummosed. He did not appear. P.C.
Bishop proved the ease. Defendant told him the dog
I belonged to • man named King. The policeman
advised hlin to get • Hoene. but on calling •
sewed time he found he had no; done ea.—fined Us.
Mr. Beach risked for expenses, bat the Bence thought
255, enough. Bubesquently the defendant appeared,
and said %. dog was one he had borrowed from John
King, Er. G. Mayo's shepherd, to help for hew days;
he had never kept more than one dog, and his roaster
paid the tax. Kr. Beach pointed out that the Beene*
was not tam out by John King for the dog till the
day alter the 254 b, when the found it in defend-
ent's possession.—The Cheirmaa said he had so doubt
that ender the Act defendant was Basle, beinil;
pth ossession of e dog, but it wee • hard owe.
was the pima who should have been summoned.
Under these circumstances, the Beale reversed their
&assort, dismissing the twee.
Dnonsanieste.—George Spicer, of Tolpuddle, was
sammonedafor drunkenness et Porldlebown, July 18.—
P.C. Bishop found him drunk and rolling about the
streets. He had s hone and out, and wee troublelome.
—ruled Sc. end wets. - - .

i—seTtli..;.----dhades—Pike WM summoned for missal
John James Cos, at Maiden Newton, July 8. glo2
men are labourers in the service of Mr. Bartlett, and
complainant alleged that defendant streak him in the
feu as he was sitting on • sell, knocking him over. No
words paned A youth named Wrizon corroborated,
and added that on the 4th complainant had challenged
defendant to fight him at any time.—Defendant did not
deny the charge, but said he struck complainant in
consequence of bis previous challenge. —Fined fkl.
A TOLL Oath—Henry Phillips, of Brientapuddle,
carrier, was summoned for nou-payment of • toll of Si
on puling through Fordington Moor-gate, Judy 17.—Mr.
Weston prosecuted. —Thomas Ooz, the keeper of the
vita, said defericlut wee • common carrier, sad usually
rough the gate on Mondays, Thursdays, and
rtitirsd through
The toll was 6d, sad defendant mealy
paid Is. in the monde' so as not to stop when
retnraisg. Oa Friday, in going through to Doreheeter,
defendant paid 6d. toll. There was defendant's mother
coda men in the waggon, also • pig. In the evening,
when defendant named through, there mammal= iroe
on the waggon and the bed of it was (allot eoaL Defend.
ant's mother and the man were there. Ho asked for
toll, end defendant said be should not pay; the things
were not his own bet the man's who hired him In the
morning. Subsequently, defendant told him the pig
was his own, and the other things belonged to the man.
—Cicely Norris, mother of defendant, said she came in
and went out with him on the day in question, but alie
didn't see why be was to pay bemuse of her company,
who was hie mother. The men who rode with them
was a blacksmith, who bad some in to choose the iron
to mend her eon's waggon. She offered the gatekeeper
6d. so that there should be no row, but he would not
take IL—Crom-examined : There was 110111111 coal in the
waggon coming back : both the Iron and the coal were for
the blacksmith to mend the waggon with. The toll vu
refused at drat, but offered just if ter we were through
the gate.—ln answer to the Bench, the defendant said
be wee licensed as • common carrier, no particular days
were mentioned in the Ithense.-111r. Williams said that
although defendant was licensed as a common carrier,
he wee not prohibited from axing his waggon for private
purpoesit—lfs. Weston urged that the meat of proving
in exemption ley with the defenclut, it woe Impossible
, for the procreation to do so.—Tbe Hsieh ordered
deteedest to pay the tell mil the sulk Is, Id.