The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-07 00:00:00

FIBST 00IIRT.7Tirussoay.

(Motors J.-F-LOITER: E.q , M.P., Dop.ty.cbehmum)
auxpiD aaTrastro "At 1111111103.

Bndle, • middle-aged mom, was charged on
four indictments with damaging, with intent to destroy
mod Trod, r swims, machinery used in the manufacture
of dra gigg pipes, at ICLoson pottery, tbe proper,' of
Meaux Clement end Wlliatn &Woos. Mr. W. Finolcs
sod Mr Culling prosecuted, and Mr. Pule defended.
Thie the • thee of an extroordinery notary, for g was
alleged that to prisooer in low than six morths dit
,bioey to Use extent of 61,200—L400 by cionsiog repoire
10 w.chinwry aid the necessity for new maehithre, and
ilOO by stoppage if work, overtime of the staff, ho.
Toe motives actuating prisoner were suggested to b.—
to his serment.ge from engineara, and lb* in.
litigation of other mthofmturen I The prosecutors
perch/mod the pottery in September, 1867, and entered
on paterion in Oetober. The business is managed by
Mr. Clement &Astons., sod the other partner (Mr. W.
&Wow-) lives at Lambeth. The works had been
lying 'scant for 51 Isom Mr. Clamant Hatatone said
that prisoner was reoornmended as the smother by •
Mr. Omni, who bad red naly been cotmeeted with
the work.. He siosomensied on the 7th. The boilers
were prsvioe.ly examined and reported in good order.
Five days after the tire in No. 2 boiler waa lighted.
The draeght was very bad. Primmer alleged th-re was
• lath. Mr. Batetone did ant think ea. Prisoner
ruggested the boiler bad bettor he lilt. I. Mr. Batmen"
mod an. he would try an alteration of the Bum. Tbe
workroom of Memo Intram and On. were e•lied in,
and the brickwork around the boiler was removed. On
Illood.y, the 14th, two men tamed Domosey and
Baldly, with Mr. Brown, one of the firm of Ingram
and Co., examined this bailer when it was empty, and
In the prisons" of primmer. They conaleded there ?as
no
leek. mo the 18th they again examined it when
fell of water, sod the themes of leakage was again
proved. On Saterday. the 19*. Maass woe got so,
and the holler wee still all right, save that the draoght
was bad. Pritheer kept the key of the boller-hothe.
Os Mooday morning, the 31. st. Mr. Bathtene weal to
the pottery directly ober Mx o'eleek. the time the works
were opted, and found snapper in the boiler-hones.
Fr end ma there, and in the works wire two men
named AlMn and White. Prithner said tn Mr.
Ratirtooe " the boiler leaks.' Mr. Beldam : Where?
Prianer Underntath, at the farther end. Mr.
Ithlatoth idled two et:slimes to pull away the brick-
work at the sod so that he could tee. They did so, and
he othersed • long hole, ond the wwer *own, out very
feat—eo feet that the bole amid not hors been made
long or all the water small have run from the boiler.
On she 9 Is Decembar he nor -clod limers. Invent end
Co. to repor the boVer. When it woe tared up,
the bole in guestioo was the only one Is. it. As goon
aa it was tented up, prisoner took tip a sledge hemmer
and berth boating away at the pletee, saying, '• Look
here, master, yo• see that the plate are thin." The
due of the t. 0.• were inside the boiler, showing that
'force moat h‘ve been used onliside. He had no
ethoiction. Nally in April primmer said to him,
" Friend hay is... saying smoothing to you, and I bore
'teat mind to strike bun." He replied that it wag
ridiculous, and told him to get on with his work.
Primmer then said "I alit get inlo t bniler wish.
haulm., and chisel, bat I dig not make it leak." Tigs
aurprieed him. On the fullnwing Thunder prisoner
▪ Ii him "1 bye you d ,n't believe what Friend bag
atddr Mr. B.tdone enderstood him to mean that
Friend had "hone I hign with making • hole In the
ho ler. Hs replied " I can't do otherwise." Priathor
said, "I hope toe will lo over it this time, for the
take or my wife and famUy, and it shan't heron
again." Ho told him porgcniere hat been sent to Mr.
Rotates' at Lambeth. and whatever he advised would
be done. He then walked away from peiminec, who
was prying. Co Friday primiser ask-d if he woe to
leave on Sttarlay, and was told yes, and when the day
arrived he was diedouged. Boa on Sunday Mr.
Balaton., told him he weld continue is, work. 84Oill
other dithoeeries were made, and prieonyr was di.-
*barged on the 17th April. Sumo otientar had left
boiler* •nd machinery hart worked well —Orom-
examined : They psi I £8 000 for the freehold and
plant. While the pottery sou shot op • men was ere-
ployed to litho the marbithry in order. Teas was the
newest boiler.— Bmathmined : The lire was only jest
lighted when he saw the leak. While prisoner was
the the maaListry was always requiring to be re.
pared. _

Coarse Frioad. a youth, said he was employed at the
pottery cedar prisoner. Bet,,. tho ere we. lighted in
No. 2 Loilor, prisour got into the deo with a hammer
and chievl and hammered at the bot Mr. When he
evms oat be said, "rhv plate is very stvat,bat if that
don't make ha leak, I'm—if I don't." The boils, was
worked for two or three days attar. Ingram's tsmin
exami,oed it, and stud it warn In good working order. On
the following Monday, when he went to writ k, prison.,
add "ale mats," and t •Id him It was undsrosatli at
the rot. Willlll4 reutonedi block, and saw the water
sowing faat.

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John Koskilir. • Cornish engineer, was calkal to
prove, that the bole was wade by violence from the not..
side, and c old not have resulted from steam. The
plate earn prodacod, sod he 'lowed how a ham ..er (pro.
deoed) and s.id to have Wombs con 4 sat use of prisoosr,
which wee found emoted) fitted into the marks on this
daaic
Mr. Pole *dammed the jar 7 for the defence. Re
cued that the boiler. being an oil one, wan vary snob
corroded, and that the how had rusted oil; and, es to
prisoner's hammering on the boiler, he conteadod it was
bin duty to use considershis foram in that way in
oeder to test whether or not it was fit to on. Me
sailed

Gnome Lon, who ?ocularly worke4 IA this pottery,
to say that the 1c.7 of *ha boder-houes was loft beh;wl
She door, during It. eight wise, up to April he worked
then.

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Frsdrrick Kim of Wimboroe, was sailed to give
soisotille .•11..r05. Rs said he had been a practical
enginer fir 90 years. He produced & model of au
ordioary Cornish boiler, set, to show the armagemeat
of the tlaes, an a lupe model of a Onraisti boiler,
made by the prisoner, His evidence was to the ',int
th•t the flocs were not bawl enwnsit to to•bi• prisoner
to maim such • bias as was seen in ths slam, an 4 his
theory was that the whole plats bad beim vreakesed by
werosion, sat that the hole was made in raising the
beiliw by • crow-bar or jack. It we. theeng Deer's duty
to itiike the boiler to tow it, mid espeei•lly so at thi•
was au old boiler, which hod hien out of am many
years. If the It.. woe 2 fret 8 inch*. Nome, the bolo
might ht.' heenvaa3e with • hammer.

I:ll.eo.—re F,TO;:d Ole .as
tf: to. one way, end Mt. the other. He bad been
quite up to the end of the boiler, and so bed the
11.4411 PL

The Ohalrmito yawned up the ease and said there
ereth three queitioes for the jury: 1, was the hole
made by b10w..,, wa• it the recall of weer or tear, or
iorn.firt from damp? 2. if they tbongl.t the hole wag
wed, by widen was Ii doe, by the priaoniir ? aril 3,
If the remit of bl ewe In prisoner, was it oothaioned In
the ordinary diseharee of his duty in testing whether
It. boiler w.s lifer netting op steam. or we. it does by
hire wilfully and salieitesly to dames*, destroy, and
raider ageless the boiler. . .

After ten consaltation. the Jury returned •
r.rdiat of 04 gu.l,r.
the pr ...coition were considering whit& of the
other three indiatmeom the 7 should prociaed with, Mr.
Pole sail he shoal i object to their being Pied, as form.
IC part of 1b...... charge of whieh the prisoner heti
been asquittei--should in fast reisethe plea of mania&
atqad. He eurgestod toe question ahocd stand ever
to (be as,isisa for argument.
The la. sod emeneel for the prosecution, while
dissenting fri r. POiled law, were quite willing thet
the abhor thive indiatineeta slioalJ be remitted to
the ••••••whee tbe poiat amid be argued before the
judges.
The remaining indiettneets were therefore remitted
to the arise., and prieoner wee liberated from custody
oa tie same bail as before.