The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-02-13 00:00:00

'N COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1866

The chair was taken by Mr..). G. Laureate. The
newly-formed bead dieeourecd cone favourite pieces
lit the ante-room for half-an-hour previous to the
teeters being given. A temperance hymn having
been song, and prayer effaced, Mr. Knell delivered
his address. Father Matthew, the great apostle of
the tSUiPS,aaco reformation in Ireland. was
desoessled from the family of the Earl of Leadoff.
11 In his boyhood hews. distinguished by his generous
and social disposition. He was educated for a priest.
pertly at Maynooth Colic:8. and was ordained in
1814, and soon after became the mostliopolar priest 1
in the south of Ireland. Is 1820, as one of the f
Hoard of Industry at Cork, be freirently came in
contact with the victims of strong drink, and wee ere
long led to become an abstainer. This made popular
the temperance cause, and within nine months in the I
city and comity of Cork, no lees than 200,000 names
were enrolled in Father Matthew's pi/dee-book.
He lectured in different parts of Ireland and England,
and it is computed that two millions bad taken the
pledge thrcrigh hie efforts. Admitting that many of
that muul'vr did not continue to be abstainer., much
good bad been dose This had been chiefly felt in
our Australian and American colonies, whither
thousands upon thousands of the Irish people emi-
grated through the famine caused by the potato
disease. During the nine years the temperance
caeas made each remarkable progress in Ireland, the
number of convictions for crime decreased from
120,000 to 5,000, and the onnsumption of ardent
spirits gradually diminished in seven years by one-
half, while at the same time the increase from
customs, including such articles as tea, sugar, ko..
was considerably increiwied. The letterer referred
to Cornwall in proof of the great good done by the
temperance cause in diminishing crime, to that
county there were fewer public-house+ than in any
one in England of • similar size, mad the 000 sequence
was that crime had so diminished that they were
shutting up the gaols, the polio, bad within to do,
and at three oonaeoetive sittings fiddle niegietretes at
Elston, not a single mos was bravest before them.
A vote of thanks was accorded to the loiterer oetbe
motion of Mr. IL Hodges, serionded by Mr. Hicks,
which haring been acknowledged, the National
Anthem was played by the band, and the meeting
ended.

It op to the peliew —P.C. Hopkins denord to reosivins
Ithe Mattek and the oust from previose witnesses, sad to
I:mrisibendin thuottellsoseri. ,whosenr he wad, he We
lusdud i;
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I was stated that he mu • wry odwilbjpetbd young libea•
sod a very bad oberestst, sad that be bad ponies'',
bees convicted at the court of stabling. Lie was
Bestowed to three stomas' hard Labour.

Baerden Humana (au.—Os Friday. &awls of
serials nature wmi innstirated before the Mayor (T.
Colfax, Seq.), and d. W. Wbetharn, Esq. A A.A
mimed John Hallett, wee charged with stabblaf
?made Aceennan. baker, with a knife., February 2nd.
at Mr. Hawker's, Ringo( Prue& Lane. Complaisant
stated that he went to Mr. liewker's boom between
twelve mid one o'clock Mat morning. Prisoner (who is
I a lodger) and other peo.Se were there, and they all had
something to drink. Ho oat not mach the worm for
what he had had. lie spoke to Mr. Hallett on busi-
ness. Between three and four o'clock, seeing prisooer
talking to a sroin•n named Powell, and holding her
round tie neck, he mid to him in it juke, " You ought
to he ashamed of yourelf." This seemed to annoy
prisoner, who then entre ever to where he (complainant)
' was standiiie, •nif a 'toggle took pflos between them.
Jobe Hawker's wife saSI plisiner had a knife in his
hand. so he (cormileiant) had better mind what he was
about, lie then threw prisoner upon the floor, when
he 11.. • knife in his Mind. Primner said he would
Pet the knife through him and do for him, sod made
I three or four attempts to strike bun with the epee
knife, earth time about the head, and at last be suc-
ceeded in stabbing him (oomplainivat) under the em.
He tried to get the knife from prisoner, but he could
not do so, and left the house. He returned in •
minute or too with • stick, when he found prisoner had
left the house. He marched the premise., and found
prisoner in the workahep at the back of the house, with
the bode black-handled asap knife, with a blade
about three inches lung) in hie head. He bade candle,
hot no stick then. He told prisoner to come out, bat
he would not, and .aid he would do for him (rent-
fltionly after, P.S. Lavesder and PC.
Hopkins, who had been sent for, arrived. and prisoner
was taken into custody. His nook we. bleeding, and
there was blool on the knife. lie afterwards went to
Mr. Scott's., aurgeon, who examined said dewed the
wound.— Georgina Hawker, wife of John Bleaker.
shoemaker, was prima Her evidenes differed in some
respect(' from complainant's. She odd that Ackerman
tried to "heave up" prisoner from where he was sitting
by the woman, when Hallett 'eked him what be did
that for, and strweled with him. Both fell, the
prisoner undermost. At that time prisoner bad no
Mae ilia his hand, tem parsed them both got latmet
prosecutor left the room. While he, was gem,
took out Lis knife, and raid he would do ro.rriim
(oompleinant). She begged him not to re his knife,
when he threatened to stab heed she did not get out of
his way. He passed into the peeing* where prosecutor
was, with the open knife in his hand, and
tried to stab him. They fell together, and prosecutor
tried to take away the knife, but could not.
They then got up. H. saw blood on the door and on
progenitor's neck. He did not notice that prisoner's
finger was cut, if it was, it must have been done by his
bolding the knife in the struggle. Prisoner west out to
hide himself, and was ultimately taken In muted, by
cobos. He was tipsy at the time, but prosernitor
sae not so.—David Hawker, miller, said he was there,
and in consignee°e of prosecutor showing him the
wound in his neck, prisoner threw him (witness) down,
and they struggled a good deal on the Boor. He than
fetched the potion—Sergeant Lavender said that on
erasing at Ha. ker's house, ha found prosecutor bleeding
from a wound in the neck. Be searched the premises
for prisoner, and found hint in a workshop behind the
house. fle took him late the kitchen and searched hie&
While he was doing no, prisoner took • knife out of his
pocket and gave it to him. It was Mooed and was
bloody. He produced P.. He toot the prisoner into
custody on • sham of arabbing, and his &newer was he
had been obliged to do so in seU defence, and would do
on spin. —Mr. Scott, surgeon, of Bridport, said Sergeant
Lavender brought prosecutor to him about quarte, to
(ye that morning. He examined his neck and found
Hut there was an incised wound jest behind and jai*
below the left ear; it was not • deep wound het about
an inch long: it waa not a &onerous wound but was in
a very dangerous place. The knife produced, be be-
lieved, would indict such • wound, widen was more a
cut than a eta. The cut was made by • bloat instru-
ment, and the top of the knife produced was blunt. It
would have required some little form to mains such •
wound. The prisoner was oommitted for trial at the
next assizes at Dorchester.

EXETER DISTRICT DOVIIIT Or B•III[ROPTCY,
Monday. —(Befort Mr. Commisnicatr Androws)—
In the application in this case, made on the pr•vious
Thursday, the CORIRIIIPSOROf mid he bad considered
the case, end was of opinion that there had not been
such neglect or wilful default on the part of the
official assignee as to mate him responsible for the ,
lose a the money. He could not get the money
except by the intervention in some way of the bank.
reps. wife. It was true that she could not get it
without the book; but the money was no use to the
estate while it oontinued in the Savings' Bak, and !
to get it out it was neoemary that the wife elmald
act in some way. The court bad not the power, that
be knew of, to compel her to have authotised the
official sanignes to receive the money, or to compel
her to have signed the receipt. As regarded the
official amignee, he had reason to believe that the
wife ••• • pence to be trusted; and it was evident
that she was acting quite, fairly, and was ready to
!do her duty towards the mart. He (tee Commis-
! timer) did not think the official magnet was guilty
of neglect, or was even imprudent in trusting her.
Indeed, ship joatilied the trust, and would have kept
the money to return, if the official assignee had not
i been unions about it and so wrote to demand ate
I retu,n or an amount of it, which was a very proper
! step for him to tabs This bankrupt's wito
! ian-
mediately sent off the mosey by her husband, who
! was then on his way to the bankruptcy omit. It
was hard on the meditate, no doubt, het so it would
be if the official amiciass employed an agent to
dispose of a bankrupt's estate and the agent became
bankrupt or embattled the money. Stub a este as
this had beta reported, and Use official magma was
then held mot boned to snake the amount pod.
Even without such an authority, he should have
given the emit dection.