The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-21 00:00:00

SZCOND OOURT, WIMINDAY.

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&fore Mr. 0. W. FAILLIII4 Mr. B. LITtLEHALICI, and
Rey. J. H. AUSTWX.
Stealiv Homy at OktOord Ititspaine.—Boberg Ridotti.
a little boy, aged 10, WY hidimed for stealing £2 10a,
the invert, of 'Award Phillips, at °Word Fitspaine,
on September 30, 1873. P.C. liansford said be
knew nothing against the boy beforc—The boy pleaded
80157, and was senteneed lobe imprisoned with hard
labour for a fortnight, with sir strokes of the Welt
rod.

Maliciously Woomiing.— Jrndirrick /Word • lad,
aged 17, but who looked much i younger, was ndicted
for maliciously wounding Robert Everett, by stabbing
him with a pick, at Moneta' Osundlo, on September
22.—A second *mint charged him with a common
asasalt—He pleaded not gcnity.-111r. Tench, prone-
osted.—The prosecutor is a labouier at Stalbridgs, aod
worked at Cock 11,11, on September 22. About fit•
o'clock, p.m., be was engaged tying straw, when pri-
soner some up and stood on the bond. He would oot
get off, and prosecutor pushed bins off, when prisoner
"bet.' him in the breast, prosecutor struck him again,
when prisoner caught op tbs pisk, and said he'd send
it into his guts, and &trash him in the waist, ono
ot the prongs going into bin, and another blew wounded
him in the foes. Prosesutor Amok him again, sad
told his mastoff, and afterwards went home' feel-
kg himself ill, was attended by Dr. Long,
and remained 11l in bed • week.—Prisissr mid Everett
Sung two bundler at him, and Dearly koocked him
down, and afterwards struck him with his fort.—Tba
proeeoutor admitted, and said that virlooner did not
attike him then; it was about three o 'look ; but there
was no further quarrelling till about Ave o'clock
Prisoner said that Everett kept on beating him all the
afternoon, be laid on him and beat him on the chest
and said had kill him, and thee he (primmer) held sp
the pisk to keep him off, and Everett ran on the pick.—
Noah Durant, labourer, who worked with the portZ
said Everett wee throwing bundles of straw at Ashf
all the aftitroooo, sa for • lark. About ire o'clock,
prisoner struck Everett in the files with a pick which
he was using in his work.—Dr. Robert Oodslpb Loog
fogad Everett's intastine protruding from the wound,
which was • dangerous ono, and he was isoalinod to his
bad several days.—Obartas Parlous, labourer saw
Everett throw throe bundles at primmer, jut Were
the accident happened, and ea his throwing the third,
he laid "Don't throw any more; it will end bad; but
Everott kept on teaming the boy, sad they had • light,
, and Everett knocked the boy down sad fell on him.
When he got op, Everett latched kin again, and the
boy bald out the pink towards him. Everett came to
the pia, and got stabbed la the fass.—Gronsersadasel
Heard nothing about Everett being struck In the body.
—The Chairman pointed out that the boy had received
•oertoin amount of premettiem by ban teased all this
&Damao= : but not suffieletat to justify him La oda*
such an instrument as the pisk.—Tbo Jury fraud him
, guilty of • summon asosolt.—The ()hokum said prl-
' goner know perfectly well that It was through God's
mercy he did not kill Event; whim he would have
nooolved • pentialunsat that be would have remembered
' fer lite.—One month hard labour.

Bsimin amid, 31,
bather of taut and TAinnes Wells, 35, cigar maker,
were Indicts:l for stealing an India rubber purse and
four roverelgue, the property of John Burton, at Bland.
on Sept. 13. Mr. reeks Woodford. prosecuted. —Mr.
F. Well., dealer in fish was employed by Mr. Burton,
nod went to look for him at the Orown and Anchor
Inn, where be toned him, with the woman alongside
him. Burton had had some drink. After a short time
there was a row between Watts and • young man
named Coward. While it wee going on Sums Smith
took Burton by the,ans, sad put her hand into his
weket, and talcs out his pure, and give it to Watts.
Witnesa told Barton what had bent done, and then
Watts Immeitately holted.—Croge-examined : Ile was
net going to fight with the prosecutor. —Prude Psd-
dsok, a bu'oher, who also keops the New Inn, Bland-
ford, said prisoner Watts had soros beer' and tendered
• sovereif n in payment for It and his bed, and
received 19s. itd. in change. The landlord of the
Crown spoke to Burton Wag In his house, partly
drunk, and to Watts bolting out of the boom. The
Prisoners were travellers who same for the fair on the
Pb, and lodged there sinee.—Cross-ezanilned : The day
after the, fate prisoner changed • sovereign, and said
be would buy thru or four pounds worth of cloth of
hini.--Superlntendent Moore, said that when pro-
secutor complained to hint, the female prisoner
snug loudly, to drown the prosecutor's vole.. Bat he
arrested her, when she resisted, and it took three men
to take her to the station. He afterwsrds arrested
Watts at the New Inn when be found throe sovereigns
and 19s. 44d. in his pOoket —The prisoners said they
asked for a young man, • lodger in the house, to be
brought as a witness for him.—John Burton, the pro-
secutor, had a purse "what his first °ought sent from
London, as was • policeman." It was as India-rubber
puree like you keep tobacco in. He had four sovereigns
is the pothet.—Cross-examined : Be went to another
publisheuse with prisoner Math, and had something to .
drink, sad lost nothing then.—The female prisener said
Wells had been transported, and had been is prison on !
various oceosione, only for aesalt.—He was reselled,
and then admitted that he had bad peed servitude—
" that is all" for giving a man some loafers with white
he eel fire to soinething.—• boy named Coward, said
Bones got up to fight his (either's) father, when the
woman Smith took hold of hiss by the arm,
sail that wouldn't do, and took out of his
elret a little red purse, and heeded It over
tothe mos.—The woman meld that Mr. Banes would
have given her &twitting she wonted, if she had asked
him. It most have bets Wells who took the pers.
from Mr. Boron—The primmer Watts mid he ma out
of the house because there wee • quarrel there, the
people attacked his,, and be went off to *eke ears of
himself.—The jury found them guilty aid they were
untamed to four esludar months' Ilatisement.
Stealing Planks at HilOckl.— es Jams, 211,
labourer was indicted fee stealing as ash plank, the
property of William Hands, at Hillfield, and two ash
plants the property of Wiliam Dampier Bide, at Hill-
Sell, on Sept. 27.—Mr. Pfulut•Weedforde prosecuted,
and said only two slabs were charged in this indiett-
ment ; but they recreeented arzalarge quantity that
was lost—Geogge Solway, put down
quad y of nib tea field galled Mit's Kure. They
were intended for the protection of • quietest hedge.
• large number of them went mimed, aid he idesNled
one of the plugs Osem-ezunined : Never asked
prisoser's muter to diseharge him • and had no quarrel
with him, but once before him dealing some weeds ;'ltis
muter forgave him thee.—P.O. Paul watched primmer,
and sew him removing something in his garden. Alicid
him what it was and he mid some wood; It was emu
palinp round the garden that had broken down, sad
be was balsa It In that nobody might any it sway.
Whams took away a slab, and afterwards two other.;
one was in • ditch seder a ladder. They did not at
all match the pother ruled the gsriee.—ln defuses,
the prisoner said that the garden was net his, there
were some Whim in it.—Tbis jury found bins guilty of
reeeiviug.—Mr. Woodford* did not pram the mooed
oath-- Prisoner had been summarily convieted before,
and was senteseed to four months' hard labour.
Stealing Oil-olotA, etc., BrisiPort WrsaAall
Cleat, au bell, was indicted for stealing a plane,
American cloth, and other a:tithe, the
property of William Tether sad another, his masters,
at Bridport, on July 2&—Mr. /looks Woodford. pro-
secuted ; Mr. Templar defended.—William Tucker,
wheelwright, at Bridport, said prisoner had been work-
ing for him. Some time ego, he missed a quantity of
differeet Ankles, among them a plane. On 28th July,
he west to prisoner's house, and on hls way met pri-
soner's wife with a perambulator, In which was mark-
up some oil sloth, and proseuter then informed the
police. Prisoner brought bask a plane, and said he
bad takes It by mistake. He salted what shout the
oilcloth, and witness told him about it.—Crossera-
mined by Mr. Templer: Had been giving prisoner 16.,
a woos, aid he gave him natioe to lean as he
was going to work on the railway at (Heston.
bury, where be would get 22t. a week. Witness
was very ready for him to leave. lied several others in
his employ, • man named Horsy, who left without
notice; he had been charged with stealing a cilia...
Witness unit swear to tbe oilcloth prodneed. Had
recei,d en anonymous' letter (produood) about an hour
after be Lad lost the plane, and on the 31st Judy • letter
written by a °leek at Elturmlnster and signed by prisoner,
stetter that re had brought home witness's bsnlOwe
I. mistake.—Hoexamined : Fear days before this he
had been to prisoner's house, and told his wife he was
determined to prosecute Outlier for having stolen his
plsoe.—Mr. Tucker's son identified the piece of
oilcloth as his, by the pattern which was quite
new, also some black drill, bolts, and screws, as
like theirs. They were kept In a loft, and prisoner
had no right to thern.—oesexamined : Hussey
had bolted, and they believed he was in London.
Prisoner had enquired the peke of the cloth,
and witnem said he would eat it out for him, if he
would bring the pattern. Dared my they would have
given it to him. They parted very friendly. Had not
said to prisoner "If you had told is about Haney,
we should not have pat you there ;" but mid" If
yen had told the truth, we might not have put you
there." Did not drink with the primmer afterward..-..
P.S. Pitfield said that prisoner said to Mr. Tooker I
hope you won't prosecute nee."—John Northover,
wheelright's apprentice, said In July be Was going up
to piti,4 the loft, and saw Hussey and prisoner looking
at this fi eercloth, and et terwues raw Husey
oaring the roll into his own paint shop. The
pets rer afterwards asked him to put some little
wheels on the perambulator, and witness thought
the muter knew all about it, and oonsentiad to do
Prisoner afterwards asked hiss to take it home and do
It, as there was very little room in the chops, and he
cmgentad.-11r. Ti rapier said time cane resolved itself
into two pointe—whether prisoner was guilty of stealleg
the plane, and whether he was &Hy of stealing the
oilcloth, and be bowed to thew that the primmer was
guilty of neither. He tithed the jury to Imam, II the

olielelk really belonged to Mg Taker Abet Hussey took
the sloth, sod old It to thopeniesse. As to the plans,
he had act tateetkia at all el stealing it .--Sammil
wflhlam Andow,elinit al Starmiester Newtessintion,sald
primmer eama to him on then and hewrote tbo lettee
on the 81s1 became he WeA tiegagod lb. day before
A 'denies named Spenoer, sold prison. r lived with
Ides 61 yarn, and four years la the hoes*. lie had
supplied prisooer with sinews, Ito , for a Firths waggoo,
like those products& Farnham. Perish disk
of South Perrot', who had got* bell for the prisoner,
gave him • good eharaster.—By Mr. Woodford.: Ant
the brothor-la.law of the prisouer.—Mr. Tenspla 000-
tended that th• oileloth was such Ls might have beta
procured at say wheelwright'. in Bridport, and it mould
not be sworn to specially as Mr. Tucker's. The pions
be returned lo an open IMMISOT, show's( there was no
eurecioutnem of gullt.—Mr. F. Woodford. said Mr.
Tooker did not suspect anything till he received ao
anonymous letter, which said, "U you min America*
Moth, oilcloth, don't blame your own chaps for It; It
Is lea perambulator." Mr. Woodforde also alluded to
the lettsr respecting the place, showing that the pro.
stouter ooroplained to the isife aril threatens-I to
promouto her husband on the 28t1, and on the 29:h
prisoner, only a day'e poet alter, went to tint clerk to
get him to write a lettor about the plasm. Why lif •
person would get off by getting snob • lettor as that
written, every eriraloal could seespe.—Th• jary
found the prisoner guilty of receiving lb. oil-sloth.
One nr.oth bud labour.

Situltrag Creme and Males ra /ea CludborcergA.—
Hwy Nihau, 14:almaltott, and Caroline /INA
were indisted for stealing • quantity of cream ad
butter, the property of George Paul, at Kist Obeli
-
borough, on September 2 —Mr. Templer prosecuted;
Mr. F. Woodford" dsfeuded, and prisoners were
acquitted.
Williams James 28, chairmeader, was indicted for
stealiug four fowls, the property rf Jane Legg, of
Fordiugton, on the 6it October, also stinking • shirt,
the property of Joseph Pope, at Fordington, on Om um*
day. it. was found guilty of fowl 'testing, and •
premien' eon/Lotion was proved.-81Lo calendu months'
bard labour, end one year's pollee supervision.

GWV4 Jarman, al- tas Soarat, pieedod guilty to •
chard, of ste•ling gallon' sloth's, at the Glebe I.
Wam yoath. He said he was ander the Mean°e el
drink, sad hoped ths wart woadd dad lealently with
him.—The Cbidimea salad Mr. Sept. Vickery, who
sad he did not know math of the prisoner, he bad
soiled two voyages out of Weymouth, sod gar. the
Dam* of Smith whoa apprehended, but on reformat to
the ship's books, they fouad his name was Jarmany.—
&stoned to two months' bard labour.
This terminate d the imaiaess of the Sessions.