The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-07-08 00:00:00

CHARON TO TEI ORM) JOST.

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In chemise the grand jury, Kr. FLOM said he was
happy to be able to Worts thorn to.t the sung yoesear.
able oondition of the soenty In regard to its arimiaal
offertoes, white Its mationed at the last sessiona still
continued. The alma., of prisoners, in point sf
numbers, was a light ors, lad there was • return es
the calendar made by the Governor of the prises,
which slowed that the winter of persona committed
to gaol during th• last quarter was 121 as against 161
In the oorresponding quarter of loot year, or • reeler
tion of 25 per act. Kul on looking further Into the
calendar, there waa cotertri which at arty ram he
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thought not quite of so tory • native, 'ls., list
there ore throe chargosof ladeoent amaults epee
females. They went well aware that this charge radar
certain aireuststanom wag 04e very easily mad. .eg is
might be very Matruh rebut, and therefore they
were bound to look with podia oars late eacha, angel
and to weigh the evidsoi whether in the gran cl jsry
room or the wart with 'try great ethanol. In these
mass (so far as he .14 pAlill to judge from • slight
I pumal of the deposition), there was sot such ot osbt In
ids mind with regard to *air daty,the nature of Me 'wi-
den°, being such as at my rate to glee ries to a• peskier-
able degree of presuceinies limiest all the pa isobars.
The nature of the mime was one oil serious dem siptios.
0f..... against proptily are serious math we, hut
1 offences against the pawn are still mush more as dolts,
, and especially agalaet Shows who have lees poo or to
retort theaselves whist offeadera The Is .jury
I suffered from oiliness against property may sees pass
1 away, but mimes of the daterlption he had meat" toed
might be soaompenitad by circumstances which w. add
hardly paw away through the remainder of if.;l sad
It was one of the fine regelremeota of a aivili sod
emotry whore the power of .1114./ is 11114.411J.5de teat
our females should be &ale to go abroad and to pigs
from plass to oleos In the of their carious
avocations, without beige exposed to Insult and injury
from whisk they may sower recover. He was net able
to say whether that was a elms ol offences which was
es the ineremas In this wont, : it was certainly • son-
iderable nambor—thres offenses of this kind—whim
they looked at their proportios to the other charges on
the Galindo,; and if they had any reason to think sash
amass were on the loom" IS would be the duty of
the 'earl to show their seem el Ike madam ohareater
of the crime by visiting the offenders wish perhaps
more than meal severity; and It would he their duty 1
—and a duty they would readily discharge—to wake
the calendars of prisoners to see if any oommity arose
for such iscateaed severity of punishment. The hem.
magistrate then referred to world oases In the
calendar, particularly remarking on the law in the ere
of the persons *barged with stealing wearing apparel
from Calonel Astell's at Puddlehlaton. With regard
to the length of time which had elapsed tins. tho loss
—some two vans, they had to oonaider the mitre of
the articles obether they were stroll as would readily
pate from band to hand, and wars matter of frigates%
exchange or sale between warms of the data to which
they belonged.

MOTIO/111.
Mr. Yfooka-Moodforde moved tha Court on tha p art
of Um Doronestar Highway Bowl, to 'artily for ' b.
stopping up of • carotin highway and footpath lewd Mg
from • turning out of the public highway from Maw mat
to Datobsator (nova aa sooliptad in the oortigoats) .
Grantsd.

—Mr. lifooks-Woodforde also mond to stop up ond
divert a highway situate in tin Abbey. Shorborss, and
for the !substitution of another in lin that sof.—Onsan ad.