The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-17 00:00:00

BRIDPORT COUNTY PETIT SESSION&

11011DAT.—Briore J. Guidry. Esq. o(asiinalua), W.
Boomll, Elm., J. M. P. Montagu, , and Capt.
Nagle.
Docageinnes.—Wllliarn Porches', for being drunk
at Beaminster, Feb. 111, was fined 13a. EU Howson
and Jam". Boss, for being drunk and riotous, at Chard
slosh, Fob. 15, were fined Ss. each. James Day, for
being drank sal riotous at Hook, Feb. 29—aad the
=mid he was very violent—was fined 3s as be
In bad health I The different* la the nes is
remarkable.
• Duo BIT 01 1111011.-11. blower's wife, amid
Jams Hoskins, was samemmed for stealing 3d. elfin...
belonging to John Studley, Esq., at Broadwineor.
Pressealor's theme have been broken and owned away
• good deal lately, and be only wanted to slop the
praetice.—lnsed 3d., value 3d., and costa is., and
allowed • week to pay in.
turnar.—Jamas Smith and Robert Bowditoh, of
Whitohereh Canontoortim, who permit in turning their
donkeys on to the highway, notwithstanding cautions
and fines, were ordered to pay Sa mob.
TWIT? THIOOO, WAIL—Ann Cook, wife of •
labourer, and • girl named Mary Ann Norman, pleaded
guilty to steeling turnips, value Is. 64, at Thorneombe,
belonging to Mr. T. Page, but said they did it through
want. They were lined fa. 9d. each.
• BAUD CASL—Willisai Pitcher, • Utica Cheney
baker, was sammosed for selling bread otherwise than
by weight, at Burton Bradatook, Marsh 3.—P.0.
Chat/ Cendeat delivering bread from his tart in
the • without weighing it, but the specific charge
was the to • Mrs. Bartlett. Defendant serried
• pair of spring bathes weights. In cross-examination
by the defendant, the constable paid: I did not hear you
ask Mrs. Bartlett for mosey for the bread, and did not
me any money par, bet I saw bee psis something to
you, which you pot into your pocket. I did not bear
yoe offer to weigh the bread.—The defendant declared
that he did not mil the bread to Mn. Bartlett, and
offered, if the eras was adjourned, to bring her to the
court to prove that the loaves were given to her. Ile
said he was in the habit of offering to his customers to
weigh the breed if they wished it, and that his @elicitor
had bid hire he seed not weigh %unlash they did wish it.
Mr. Goadry said the magistrates believed that the bread
was sold, sad told defendant he was bound to weigh
the bread whether his inurtomers asked him to do so
or not, and that the weights he used most be stamped
by the Inspector of Weights sad Measures. If he
weighed the bread with any others he would be liable
to be fined.—lt was stated that defendant bad bean
previously fined at Dorchester for the ume offence.
—Defendant said that was through • policeman in dia.
guise.—The magistrates fined defendant 15a and Ba.
outs. which be paid, sad said he had been unjustly
fined. —Mr. Oundry said the magistrates were deter-
mined to protein the poor in these casea—Defendant
said they would do them no good, as the only coos'.
(pence' would be (as we understood) that the bakers
would have to raise the prime. Defendant gave vent
to some "tail talk," and Mr. Guidry threstesed to hare
him turned out of Court if In did not keep (joist.
AINIAULT AT ASILETZWILI.L.—WiIIiariI Bryant wall
sommoned by John Bryant for an assault. —Mr.
Manley for defendant.--Complainant said he was •
servant ea Rev. E. W. Fox's, at Askenwell. On 29th
February defendant and George Way came to his
master's house to see witness. Defendant asked him
whether he was geing to pay him Li. Witness had
borrowed 30s. of defendant, and offered to pay that
bask if he would give up his property. Defendant then
struck witness several blows. Way was near, and said
It was • shame; he %mild sooner lose the money than
serve the man so. Witness celled the coachman,
William Dulling, who was • few yards off, and he maw
defendant strike wither several blows. Th. arrierez.
_ . _ _

emulation only elicited that defendant and mitoses were
relatives, and that defendant had befriended witnesa.
—Kr. Keeley said he could net deny that theta bad
been an eassolt.—The mitnites suggested whether
the caw could not be ..td between the parties, but
the defendant said the complainant owed him about £5
or £6, and he would oomprombe tbe matter and give op
the property if complainant paid £3, and complainant
ref coed to pay more than 30s. —The magistrates there-
fore fined defendant Be. and 15e. costs. . _

MATING FUN AT • DIONTO MAL— Josep: Ligg
wee charged with ameaulting James Oak, at Po.
—The father said that on 10th February he beard
.creams, and went to see what they arose from, when
he bend defendant pulling his boy along tha ground.
Be ran towards him, and heard Mm threaten to knock
the boy's brains out if he did not come on. He told
defendant to let the boy go and he rented. Defendant
arse very drunk. The boy was very bad all night.
Defendant was very abusive to witness. —The
little boy was called, and said be was playing in a
field with other boys, when the defendant (who admitted
be had been drinking) came into the field. The other
boys made fan at defendant but he did not. Defendant
ran after him and dragged him along the field, and his
father came and took him away.—Defendant mid the
boys need unbesoming language to him, and he ran after
them and took bold of this boy and wanted him to tell
him who the boys were that did so, as ha did not know
which of them it was, but he had no intention of hurt-
ing the boy. He &led a boy named Smith, who stated
the boys were sailing after defendant—The magistrates
dismissed the ease. _ . . _

Franal7prrfiri.--Several of the ampler, of land
• Charmouth, adjoining the turnpike road, were
summoned by the Surveyor of the Axminster Turnpike
Trust, for not putting the abutting hedges and drake
into a impair state. Some had dons what was required.
and others expressed their with/gore to do so, so the
coma fall through.
Ranstriso. —John Drake, William Stamp, and
Henry Carpenter, were summoned for a trespass in the
game preserve of Cornish Healey, Seq., at Lyme Regis.
The two lint-named bed glass, end the third woe
be They told the keeper they did not think they
weareibtoisg aey harm Stung notice I They premiered
not to do the like again, sad were laid 15s. each, or
14 days' imprisonment.
A YOONO LAMM= II TROMILL— A little boy
named William Hallett was summoned for unlawfully
leaving the service of Mr. W. Payne, butcher and
fanner, of Chidsook. Complainant said he engaged the
boy six mouths age as an iqpiltural ser rant, all.. lid.
per week with food, to do Hese and messionally
drive the plough. About three weeks ago, eta Heady
eight, defradint's mother asked that the befe warmth
raised le2a6d. a week. He Garr Is, whisk the wow
refired, air gave him Dries Urt the boy should leave,
and lean he did on the following Saturday—Mr.
Manley, for defender, urged that the mother thought
the nodes she gave warmth and the =tidal"
dismissed the saes.
Gimeg AII•AULT ST • Boy.—n Thomas ApUn was
immersed for ersulting • little boy aanuid
Chubb, at Beeminster, March d. Comeithrot C}saldire
was playing in the street with other boys, whim dr
fondant same by with a little cart, which he (complainant)
touched, whereupon defender Wok him in the ffic•
ere, and knocked or three of his teeth, threatened to
,us. his knife on him, and did actually pall it cut and
open it, though he did not use it. o.age Oreenham
earroborateL —A. young maa mend Daniel Portant,
walled for the dream toll a very different tar H•
said complainant threw a atom, which kit defendant on
the arm. Aplin pursued eoroplainant, who ran away,
and fell down and so his teeth were knocked out. He
said defendais did not strike Chubb.—A man named
Rioliard Randall was also milled, but he was intoxicated,
sod the =prates refused to bear him. —Wader
was lined fie. and 10s. costs, or 14 days' inaprieonment,
• magistrates oonsiderieg the awe proved.
ROBBING HU OWN FATUAL—A young man, named
Albert Morris, was charged with stealing two cones,
value E 2, belonging to his father, Mr. IL Morris, dairy-
man, of Costley. blapperton. George Palmer, a
buteher,of Nettimembe, was also charged with receiv-
ing the seise, bat, after hearing the rider*, the
magistratee decided there was no shale against him,
although they considaud be had ailed very indiscreetly.
It seams that preseeetor's roe has not been living at home
for the last twelve months, sad his character Is bad.
The erns were ire in their stall fatly on Friday
morning, the 6th. Prisoner was lint seen with them
at a publio hones at Nettlemenbe, where he got a boy
named leery Gar to be In charge of them. Prisoner
offered the salves I. Mr. Geier Hine for sale, but be did
not bay them. He then went to Mr. Palmer, told him
he bad bought the salves at Dibberford, but could not
sell ose of them to the dairyman be bought it for, and
asked him to bay them both. This he did for 10e.
P.C. Dewiest' Willi in rank of the calves and found
them in the slaughterhere of Mr. Palmer, who told
how he bad came by them Afterwards the constable
apprehended Albert Morris at Loden, and charged
hie: with stealing two calves from his father. He
motioned him, and prisoner said, "I thiew I have done
wrong; I did steal the calves, and sold them to George
Palmer for 10a, but I had arced him 22a. 6d. for
them." Prisoner was committed for trial at the
maims.
A Yoona WoOl.ll-11•SPOThot/S.—A boy of 15, named
John Gillman, was charged with stealing • gun, worth
6e. or7s.,belonging to Mr. Daniel Wilmot', farmer, of
WaYtowe NethorhurY. The boy went to prosecutor's
to help his brothers work, and carried off the gun, and
hid it is a bank. Two days atter he got • boy to go
out with him, when he took the gun from where he had
hidden it, end tried to lire it, but the thing wouldn't go
off, so he put it husk again. The gun was subsequently
found, and prisoner was taken law custody, when he
said be Intended to return lb. He now wished
the ease settled, andlikaded Kr. Wilmott did
not men the ere. The M•Disesed lbs boy
to • wades bard lobos.

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go
for too 411 to Inlaid.
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of ROO to the Royal Notional Lifeboat Institution.
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it proved • brWieot loasgaralleo of the 'oseeon.
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her Majesty was oath Awed, sod the
of hats WaS atealii. Ha Noisily, who was
&Mbud to OolP moszJag sod wore • orioles sap, waa
mod gracious is Itafre seknowledginesto.