The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-10-19 00:00:00

3 I. &ID7ORD.

Q. O. Y. o.—Liurt Fridays Gazette °anteing the
following announerment: d Lieutenant Edward
William Berkeley Portman, to be Lieutenant.
nut liirrorwriox OF Tlill CllOlOH.—We are pleased
to ray the result .4 the bazaar hell '&4 week In &dual
.I this object has pr .val it to h,ve been quite •
soccer. l'he reolipts wer. some £4OO and the
expense. only amounted t • about CIO, thanks to the
liberal aid rendered by the ladles who were concerned
in the movement.

FATAL Acctorwr.— An inipest was held on Friday
morning last, before Mr. W. 11. Atkinson, coroner,
on the body of • man named William Pis le, who met
with his death by drowning in the river St ow on the
previous Wedneaday YAM was the
foreman.—The iieoessel was 46 year* of se, and was
a dairymen in the employ at Mr. Abbot-, in whose
service he had been for the lest 12 year., previous to
which he worked on the Down Howie estate. among
other of his duties while in the service of Mr. Abbott
was to take a beset from 000 aide pf the river to the
other to feed the stock. On Wednesday he appears to
have endear:sure-I to perform this work, but on arriv-
ing at the opposite bank,the current was so sarong that
ha was unalde to Lind. On Attempting to tarn back
and retch the plac, from whenoo he bad started, he
seems to have loot all management of the boat, and it,
drifting over the fall, c ipeissd ad nothing m •re was
Peen of him. The police were at once oronmunicated
with and dragging commenctd, and was continued
until eight the nsitt morning, when the body was
recovered about 100 jar& feom the scene of the
accideut.—Tbe jury found • verdict of accidental
death —Some young men named II Antra, on the pre-
vious afternoon, had a narrow escape in their too rash
'Soots to sec seer the body. Althou4h warned not to
venture too near the roam of the irAdent, they per-
sisted in doing so, and their boat capsized. One of
em swam ashore, and the other was repotted with
difficulty from the boat to which be was clinging.
" Fistorwaa, Kssrtnos."—At the Boreurch
court, on Tuesday, btfore the Mayor (Mr. W. Pitman)
and Mr.Charies Pond, Jews Hawkins and Mari AIM
Pitmen, a married women, both of Blandford, sur-
rendered for the third time to their bail and pleaded
not guilty to having stolen and received two pars of
gold ear-riorvalued at Zs, the property of Mr.
Robert H jeweller, of Matadi...A. In the early
part of Jnlylast the prosecutor WWI removing from
his old premises In SalisbnryAtrest to now ones in
East-street, and the defendant Hawkins was employed
to clean out the premiere miter the removal. Nothing
MOM to have occurred until nearly three months
afterwards, when, In the latter part of deptember. Mr.
Supt.. Hunt, acting upon information remised, went to
the house of the female defendant. Pitman, and asked
her for the ear-drops she had had from her brother
(the defendant, Hawkins). She at first denied all
knowledge of them; but, being pressed, at last pro-
duced them, awl said her brother gave them to her,
and told her be had picked them up as be was remov-
ing__ the " What goods r asked the Supt.
That you'll have in gnaw at," she replied. Wion
Hawkins Was taken into monody be said—" I never
stole them' I picked them up."—Mr. Hood now
identified them as his property. In reply to Hawkins,
he said be c,m1.1 not say that he (the defendant) had
not asked him if be had lost some eardropa—Called
upon for their defence, Hawkins said he was engaged
to scrub out the breve, asid be fatted the ear-eines in
the shop. TWO or three days after he asked Mr. Hood
if be had last any, and he told him he hid not. Pit-
man said her bother gave them to her, end told her
he bad picked them up. :die did not know they were
of any value, and had put them ashis until the Supt.
celled upoe her.—The magistrates took • singularly
lenient rker of the cure. They thought there was "a
mystery" about IL; but, seeing that Mr. Hood coold
Dot say Hawkins hel not spoken to him about finding
the article., they would have the benefit Pf the doubt.
and bs disolterged.—The 'efendaats appeared agreeably
surprised at the result [lvor the benefit of the people
who fancy "findings are keeping.," even U ((mad in a
shop they are employed to "scrub out," it may be as
well Instate that at-or weeks ago • pier woman in
London, whose little boy f..und a bag of gold in a
public meat market, was a nt to prison for 14 days for
spending a few shilling,'s id the money. The stipendiary
told her her slit • y was to hlre at woo takeu the bag to
the police- tation.)