The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-18 00:00:00

W EY MOUTH.

A Rswano of flO hae been offered for informs.
tion concerning the perpetrsiors of the recent
Weary at Mr. R. Baiter's, Spring gardens.

Tue Douturr Brues.—On Monday sionnight the
Rey. W Barnes gaye a reading from his poems at
the Wortmg•men's Club on the Weymouth aide.

Jostrii N SAL. a tramping confectioner, wsson Mon-
day week, before the borough magistrates, charged
with being drunk and begging in ?dory street.. ne
denied both charges. and iu answer to the Mayor,
said he last worked in Scarborough and was on his
way to Torquay rimed ss, and ousts, or seven
days bard labour. Committed.

WORILIIIVeft SIIPTBIL—On Friday se'nnight the
workmen r .nneoted with Sketchley's machine mills
were ',pled with an excellent repast by their
master. Besides the emptoyeh there were several
tradesmen present. The supper took place in one
portion of the workshop, which had been partitioned
eif, lad gaily Arc 'rated with sowers and evergreens
e see **Amen. Previous to supper being laid,
the ectensive machinery connected with these works
was set in motion, and the rapidity with which
work was tutored out of hand, appeared to astonish
those who were invited to the feast. A substantial
repast was placed on the table, admirably served up.
and partaken of with a keen relish; after which
speeches suitable to the occasion were delivered.
Several excellent songs were sung, and • most
pleasant and agreeable evening weaving.
A FOOL PROCEEDING. --Three lads named Byrum
Brett, and Pitman, were brought before the borough
magistrates on Monday week, charged with stealing
fowls, the pmpertv of Mr. George Gulliver of the
Boot Inn, Weymouth. Fowl+ were kept under the
old Town-ball, and on Monday night, 3rd, Mr.
Gulliver lost three, and on Saturday evening another
three. The same evening, about seven, Symee went
to Mr. Parkman'e, the Chapelry Tavern, end offered
him two few's, which be purchased for 2s. 3d.. and
they were afterwards identitied by the prosecutor.
Mr. Supt. Labery spoke to Symes saying, at the
Station honed that the three prisoners including him.
self had done it. Brett denied that he had any part
in it, when he wait rebuked by Byrne', as to the use-
lessness of telling lies about it. "You know"Symee
remarked "we were all three together." Brett still
maintained his inoceroe when Byrnes said "You
know we did it; you and Pitman were outside
while I went into l'arkman's to sell them, and your
mother wee standing by when we shared the monev,"
Brett a,serted his inocenoe. when Rymer again said,
! you have got a cheek." Brett rejoined :
" Can you bring any one forward to say we were all
together?" Symes answered "Oh ! yes I can.
Young Chartee saw na in Maiden-street, all three
together with the fowls, and Charles said ' Ob ! oh!
you've got something right enough to night.'"
Pitons, at that time, was not in custody. When
apprehended, he was, in the presence of Seines,
told the nature of the charge. Pitman, like Brett,
.denird complicity in the affair. —Sigma recalled the
•traeaction to his recollection, " You, and me, and
Brett, done it. I sold them to Parkman, and
Awed the money between the three of us." Pit-
man made • reply, equivocal as it may be, "Then
It's all right.—Henry Charles, • boy, spoke to "peeing
the prisoners in Maiden-street, Symes and Brett
having something under their slope.—Brett said it
was his handkarcbiee—elymes would not allow this
construction, but told Brett it looked like a large
loaf rather than a handkerchief. One of the fowls
lost by the prosecutor was found near the !mega of
the mother of Pitsnan.—Symes pleaded guilty, and
Brett and Pitman not guilty, each alleging that
though they were with Symes before and alter the
robbery, yet at the time they were not acting to.
gether.—Symee reminded Brett that he had part of
the proceeds of the sale, 70., and Pitman bd.—
Both Pitman and Brett were unfavourably known to
the police, and Symms had led the life of an outcast
about the town.—Bach committed for one month's
hard labour.

noR POLICIMTh ix DAWIRR or DEMO SCALPID.
—Five soldiers belonging to the 56th Regiment were
brought before the Borough Magistrates on Tuesday
charged with drunkenness sad riotous conduct and
with violently amanlting George Salisbury, • mason.
From the evidence adduced it would seem that the
MOO came from Portland with the express iotention
of creating a disturbance. They came over the
bridge, and taking off their belts, commenced to
strike the shutters. A police constable cautioned the
prisoner* and went to the station-house for further
assistance. In the meantime the prisoners proceeded
up Thorny-street, and in the distance the polite saw
the pritorier. set upon Salisbury, knock him down.
etzik• him with their belts. Otee of the witnesses
sa,il that they aleo kicked Salisbury. Upon the

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pobe. coming up, four of the primmer, ran away,
but one of them (Allen). twing in. the grip of the

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prosecutor, who was on the ground. was unable to
get away with his companions, Before Seeing, they
threatened that on Christmas-eve they would take
the hair and the skin off the heads of the police—to
scalp them in fact. Had it not been for the
Interference of the polio*, there is every reason to
believe that Salisbury would have been very seriously
if not fatally injured. All that the prosecutor said
in passiog them was "Good night, my lads," and
for this he was brutally assaulted. The belts were
produced and three of them bore marks of blood.
Shortly ter this, the prosecutor havine recovered,
be was about to proceed over the bridge when the
four runaways stopped him, and one of them named
Holmes, struck at -him with his belt and cut his
head open. The police then succeeded in appre-
hending them.—One said be had no hand in the
row, a second had nothing to say, a third that he
was fiist struck on the head by a civilian, a fourth
that he was not in the company of the others at all,
and the 10th bad nothing to say. Two of them
further said that Holmes was not with o:tem.—Salis-
bury, the prosecutor, said he was certain Holmes
was the man who struck him with his belt on the
bridge, and, moreover, the police took him almost
Atirante d< i,eto. Holmes still persisted in declaring
it "mistaken identity." Two of the prisoners who
were actually seen to strike the prosecutor, were
sent to gaol for • month's hard labour, and the
others were ordered to pay 40,1_. or go to prison for
the same time. Having no money or friends, the
whole live were removed to Dorchester.