The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-02-12 00:00:00

BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS.

FRIDAY. Feb. 8.--Refote the Mayor /leery Carpenter
alias Rrkee, wool brou.zht up on reulan,l, charged with
lint-glary in November la-t, at the residence of Mr.
John Groves, hrewer.—Mr. Howard spiv areil for the
onovecutior.—The oroseentor said he lived in Hone.
a mire, Weymouth. On the night of Friday, Nov. 16,
he retired to rest ahortly after ten. harint! first tiatiatieil
liiinaelf that the doors were fastened. The windows of
the tarlour, where he and hie wife had been eating.
lookeil into an enelose.l ytrd. On the following morn•
jug. hia vife mimed • dress from Mitt Immo. and sent_ _

1:r —fiver ntendent Lidbory.—Mary Pitcher, servant
to proseiutor, maid that coining down stsirs shout 7
o'clock, on the morning of the 17th November, she
noticed tie window of the hack parlour partly o. en. and
the things atreaed shunt the room. 'Pliere wee dirt on
the window ail!, and she told her mistrea• of the cit..
cuinstanoe.—Mrs. Groves said, that on the morning of
the 17th she examined the house, and found that a silk
dresis, a child's dress •tel four collars we-, miming. pn
the following Monday she also mimed • mantle. The
mantle had a hood detached, which was not taken.
Sic identified the mantle and dress as her property.—
Superintendent Lidbury said be went over to Mr.
Groves's house Witticism 9 and 10 o'clock on the morning
id the 17th November, and observed the Wick parlour
window was open. Pine sting his search. lie found •
ladder standing against the wall, and on the garden and
I,ther site of the well were footmarks. He gatetted
the prisoner in the flue and Cr,, end some days after
the robbery he apprehended three women at Wareham
for receiving a portion of the iitolen property, and they
had been fonvicted. On Friday laid he went to Porta-
,,,,, ith, when prisoner MILK handed over to him by the
police. On travelling to Weymouth. before prisoner
MA{ told the charge, he mid he would not have hail it
happen for the best t'loo that wm ever COll/0.1. On
arriving at Weymouth, witness said to prisoner he
supposed he hail been toll the charge against lcii,c; he
replied that lie bud not, and upon tieing made aware of
it be sant lie wax not quite innocent of it. He gave the
name of Bence, and bid addrem, Kent lane, Lambeth.
He sail he hal ben on bout! H. 11.8 Immortalite
nearly three montlis.--James Parker lived opposite Mr.
Groves's house and knew the prisoner. Ile saw I, i 11l in
Llope-equare between 6 and 7 On the evening of
November 16. Prbsitier went liy the name of Carpenter
at Warehani.—Jaile Brown, dre,suiaker, Stokeford,
near W•ireliato. nail. prisoner called at her house on
the evening of the llth November to light his pipe.
He told her his name was William o...profile and that
he wax going to Weymouth. (In th• followiny Sate',
'lay, the 17th, he mine into her house an 4 oroduned a
silk drees—the on* now in court. He vaid he bought it.
eta hatted sole at Weymmitti. He wore at the time a
woman's mantle.—P.C. Strange, Wan4tain, said on
Tuesday, 27th November, he overtook Mrs. Steveas in
Eitatholneroad. sod on marching her found under her
cloak a silk dreva—the one now produced. He gave it
to Mr. Ecles. Mrs. Stephens had since been convicted
for receiving the dress, knowing it to he stolen. —Supt.
Fedea produced the edit dram, and also the mantle which
he had received from George Foot. of Ellandforth an
iniikeeper.—George Foot said he kept the Castle at
Rlanilford. On the 20th or 21st priaoner came there,
havinz. in addition to other things. a mantle which he
°demi far aah.. He said he would delimit the mantle
as a lien for beer and victuals. Witneu, told his wife to
supply him, and she di 1 to the value of He after-
wards gave it up to Superintendent E lea.—Prisoner
said he pnrchamil the things (von a person named
Hunt for 1.1105., was committed for trial at the assizes.