The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-04-07 00:00:00

PLANDFARD.

Perry sasehro..
the W Viwounir P.rtmas
11. Portman. M. Mr J.
3 Farqultarsoll, Mr. M. S. floret, &IQ Hr. L. A. H. C.WIII

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Rd,,..rd Mattheira, Frefleri.k IG,IIB, end ifli Reps, three
.... a Blandford. Wife eitininonel for unlawfully having came
I. i ii,,i, 1,,,,...taa, and weeaulting the polies %Inlet In the
eueetion id their duty, at Liao ~,, on the 12th klan-h. —The
delealant Wells, who le a strong, muscular man. had been 10
Wanes pneriously coneleted, and hae but lately returned home
after uro.nrotag wren years' penal wireltuile l'idic•-ennetable
betide, 'wed that ea am 12th halt. he wee on duty at
Unita", and wiw the three defendants ems. 01 the Down
between hown Wood and the Aria milestone towards Illandford,
?boy raw. Into the turnpike nod • ik.r,.. he was. (hi seeing him
they at dret turned to ipi back, but then MUM toward, lain large wicks which they had Ile noticed that their
a.. .. were balky, end there eras chalk en their tnnieers nail
bad been knpaing Itharlii 1...cht44 were particularly
lad
oat be 40 Ii "sno rZterniteuy"Zall_ll::P,".4 aol b'e'
pagwadi thaw, and pr•seutly saw a rabbit praarustas Ibuutih

• hole in Well's pocket He mead his attempt to Nardi
Riggs, and Wells tbes left and mit back with his pocket*
empty. He had a struggle with Biggs, and Wells pulled •
irtrxt nut of Me pocket., and Matthews pulkd
him (the °ratable) back. Wells held up the bag
with Use ferret and mid it was his, and defied him
to take It away. Mr. Daniels at this time came up,
and he called on him to moist in searching Rlgga They teak
nets and aims and a rabbit from Riggs. The other man had
left. —Mr. Daniel., a farmer, living near the place where the
affair took place, said that as be was riding out of hia rickyard
he saw a crowd with the police and the three defetelanu in the
middle. The policeman called on him to assist him. and be
took his horse to his farmyard, and tied it up and then
retureed. Wells and Matthews bad then left, and he helped
the rotatable iwarch Biggs, and saw him take the things from
him There wu • scuffle. —Matthew" and Welk, in defence,
said they Liked the constable to search them, but he said he
did not want to, AS It nip mend they had nothing ahout theca
Riggs told a very lame tale In defence. Ile &Moved that he met
a travelling man and bought the rabbit. lo eta, he, of him.
Ile had net been with the other defendants that day, but
overtook them on the road The policemen pushed and
tulle I him about, and then Mr Daniels came, and they
witch .1 lion - -charta Lane, a little by, was called to Me-
lon.. the statement of Riggs that he had not been in the
cow any 41 the other defendant& The trillion said he saw
all threc defendants at the top of IllukoLane betweeen 0 and
10 o'clock on the morning in quesUon.—For the defence. Ann
roster was called She said obi was on her way to
Keytaton on the 12th instant, and saw the three
akfendants. Poliereoustable ?Buckley was near to them, and
mid, "Now I've taught you." Matthew' and it offered to
let the constable search theta, but he replied that It appeared
the) had nothing about them. Riggs did not reshot being
perched.- Matthew* strongly submitted to the Bench that
there eas nothing against him in the game raw, and asked
then, to disnois. it. He caused some &allurement by placing
the Honourable Mr. Portman In a eimilar position to himself,
by way of Illustration. -After the Bench bail consulted for •
short time, his lordship said Matthews did not seem to know
that • person who aids and &beta was liable as well as the
p,;rioonon whom the rabbits and ferrets were found. They
were opilte sahib-4 that he way skiing and abetting, and for
that offence he would have to toy a flan of 40s , and the omits,
101. ,or a in Imprisonment in the house of correction,
with hard labor, in defaalt. INA" ha.l to pay • like rum, or a
month's hard Itleour, and IVells • inning RUM, or two month's
herd labour. As to the asmult on the relics, the Bench had
,1111/ sabethrr they ought not to send th, for trig at Quarter
soedons, lint for that offence the sentenee was three calendar
inwoliil hard Islam? volt --Matthews and Biggs quietly left
the Court in the cu't'ely of the !once, but Wells, whets
jug outside oti Um landing, seized the balustrade ...1 refused
1., .It.cend the atairrise The whole of the pnople rushed
from the Court, ~,-la n ralar "Nan," followed. fl.. prisoner
bwore very ll, awl violently resisted the police. lie was
seentowolly dragged into the ,ourt by a :mintier of policemen,
mid there with great difficulty handcuffed before the Bench.
The Bench, after this tiolent CLltillit 'WI 011 lb.' inn. of Ute
prisoner altered the osentenee of three months hard labour,
for the assault on the pollee, to six months. lie that Welk
will now be deprived .1 his liberty for • term of eight month.,
enol Matthew. and Riggs for four nruths. The pridoner, after
he wan handcuffed, refused to walk from the t'ourt, and be
wail drag:tool into an all • lag rome, w!mre he rentithiel quiet.
The affair caused quite • sensation in the unusually quiet town
illaielford, and a large crowd somf nollected in the hope of
seeing the prisoner brought ll.mn and tarried to a vraggenette,
which bad Leen drawn up outside the Townhall, and in which
were seated. handcuffed to the rail round the seat, the other
two pri.oners, ready bol their journey to Dorcheater. They
were quittly emoting their tepee. a /ex ury which they probably
will he deprived of for some time to sums. The pri•Oner
Walla, a hour or two after the Court rase, toles, WI:kW/
duiv Italian. to the waggonette, apparently cowed
Jt11,1,1 ilayil.llo, .4 Blaselfionl, was summoned for treepais.
hog In search .4 game on land in the occupation of Mr. Charles
Henry Flower, at litandload, on the 2...nd March—Mr.
Atkineon defended. —The land in qutstion heing the property
of Viscount Po ortman, he and hi. son retired lion. tl,e Bench
during the boating col this ease—Samuel Foot, • guneeeStpes,
stated that on Sunday morning, the Mel March, just after els
o'clock, he and another keeper named Iforlock were lying In
wait on Camp Down, and ean defendant coming along by Mr.
Flower's barn. He had two dogs with hint, and was beating
the furze. Defendant came along till he was rotors-wits where
he was concealed, and gave the little dog a blow with a mull
stick to make it go into the furze Ile Jumped over the
hedge and mid to defendant, "This is your Sunday morning
work" Defendant said he had not been there before He
replied. "No ; not alma lag Sunday morning's walk."—Cross-
examined by Mr Atkinson : Defendant was not in a track,
where chalk had been hauled, the whole of the time he maw
hila, nor had he his hands in his pocket, all the um.. Some-
times he tame along with his hands in his pockets. Did not
ere a rabbit, but the dogs moved severed—William llorlook
said he saw the dogs hunting the lune, and heard them bark.
Defendant begged tam and the other witness not to say any-
thing about it.- Cross-examined by Mr. Atkinson : Defendant
we. net in the track the whole of the thee, but he ran round
the furze. -Mr at3/410a0n, for the defence, did not deny that
the deleadarkt was there, bet eahl It waS not for the plirraaell
of poaching. Ile had been insteueted that his client, who WWI
a very respectable man, was never out of the Melt, and did
not Into hi. hands out of his pockets. Ile was merely taking
• stn .11 snow the Down.---The Bench lined the defendant 10s.
and the cost, Se Od., and allowed him till the next meeting for
payment.