The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-07-23 00:00:00

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The Jodie seld the calendar, as the Greed Jnry
mould itheeme, vu not of a very heavy deuriptioa.
Them mere eely 10 011114111, altogether, and he did not
think they would occupy • large portion of their time.
&Ms maid have been tried at sessions In the ordinary
way, hal is. or two only were of • serious character.
Th. OW No. 3on the °slender was perhaps the most
modem It was • George of anon, and the prinethal
question for the consideration of the jury would pro-
be* le se to the Identity of ithe prisoner. Yet he
thought they would have very little doubt about that,
whoa they learnt all the circumstance' of the cam.
Primmer wee the brother-in-law of the owner of the
properly buret, he had been dispossessed of op of the
cottages, and bad been several times heard to use
threats &Oast his brother-hi-law. Somebody In the
middle ef the night app.ared to hare set fire to the
cattalos, and the Isoosequsooe was that they were burnt
doers. Neither was losured, and there woe • °author-
able ism There was evidence to show that • pence
saseeriag the desortmlos of prisoner was seer. DIMAS
the plan shortly after the fire, and there is no doubt
he west be bed an hour or two afterwards. /root eir-
onmerlamesespooling the =edition of his °lathes, sled
other Wee ltcldets, he had no doubt the jury would
have ws dilleulty in deckling that this was • es oath to
be pet he Walt of emuiry. There did not ems to be
the heat doubt that the lire ass caused wilfully. In
oar Ne. 2 the prisoner woo charged with having stolen
frees a letter a post-ollthe order. Ile mentioned this
ore Wawa It was left !somewhat in obscurity on the
depositions. II appeared that the letter was sent by a
woman living at Winouton to her mother at
young woman
and the order was oontained in the
letter. The young woman said she posted the
letter is the day she obtained the seder. dome
Mae that the letter was seen in prisoner'. poeusalon,
DAMN letter nor order having mate to the baud' of
the mai weenan's mother. Afterwards prisoner pre-
sented the poet office order, but It wee not !signed, and
therefeee was not paid. Meaner teemed afterwards to
ham premed some tee to write the name of William
Woodford on the order aa being the recipient of the
mosey. lot the order was nude payable to Bliotbetla
Woodford, and the pietenuter retuned to ply it. Pei.
Waal thee produoed the letter, and the postmader sent
him beak for the envelope ; but he did not return. It
appeared that a man named William Woodford was
sees to Owe the priewier a poet office order and letter,
and said ime would gee him belie-omen to ebonies it.
There wee also iridium that prisoner came beck sod
gave the order to this man, when the poem:outer bad
deolliied to honour it. It did not appear whether tale
mut Woodford was the Mother of prottecutriz, mod
there wee tithing to stiOw how the order !Ltd letter got
Into the heads of these men. Prisoner was charged
wish seeelleg, sod be ithe Judge) celled their attention
to the fade, that they might °madder whether that
oomt amid be maintained. If the order was plead
In priesser's hands by Wm. Woodford, he would not
be rant, is this mum, ; but there was &pother for
readying with 11 guilty knowledge. The learned Judge
again maks of the obscurity In whirl that part of the
ogee, relating to the man hemming in possession of the
letter, was Involved, and dismissed the Grand Jury to
And a bal.