The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-12-07 00:00:00

1 ETTY SEBBIONB,—THozsDAv.
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Boron the Mayor (11r. G. Corti* Mr. F. Warm Mr.
Moor. awl Mr. Heist mt.
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XXX X XOSDIPART CASS.
Thomas Prole. of Perkttone. tollgate-keeper. was
runtmoned hy George Joann Keeper, fly proprietor. et
Bournemouth, for donut ti•inme to a b:ougliata It the
SIPS"'. of SIO on the Iffith N.ivember.
Mr Trevnuton wim tor the e implideank and mark an
e0...00c swath in which het stated the charge had been
be..ught not vindictively. but to leech the defendant better.
Keening woe rall.of 4, ...t on Haulm night be wee
wee it. lab .ur. He erect then t • the Branksoese Park-
hired t comet' Pool* t •I etch Dr. &milts for a lady who
rpm% ther.b, avoiding the turnpike-Aata, because he
thought the beep would he In bed, an sit was an urgent
CAW Aqtrf t Aing up the doctor in Poole he returned.
and jeat when he came out into the man road, having
gone by the ...toe way, demo the defendant. whom be did
not know. *mediae in the read with a monstrous cudgel
In hit bends. Be tont, to be • highwayman.
D fend nt ' wet,' sod made twee desperate
attempt. to ",rip' tho horse. Upon that he lashed his
Is ro., and nut ti.o at 20 tulles an boor He ale, laid
into toe ,leten-lanL three or tour times es bard salver be
• arr.op the tore. and dirre.ly after be heard a smash
moo the pawl.. I Ism brougham. He still kept driving on,
expect tis to bear • .hisi, -ut finding be wee not further
molested, he pullwi up, and found his embeds bad been
mashed.
In reply to-Ml' St me. the WittleS4 said by gem& Wealth
the bye p.l I ha did avoid p pax toll both going sad
coming bitch, but it sag Dot wt. t that lot nt he went that
w•r.
B the defendant : You ran with my bores and tried to
at .P I, although I seat index at the rats of 16 miles an
hour. Complacent els. said the resein be tweet olf the
road was for "convenience sake." Hit did not expect to
tad bim (the defendant) up at that time of the 'debt.
D.fendant La I threatened him if he did not pay the toll,
out of which he had tried t defined him, he would sum-
mon him.
Dr. S.uythe. who was In the broughtial. was Cain sod
said he was estate in the carriage at the time, we.
awoke by • violent enishint Wow on the ride of the
tentage. Complainsi,t was driving very fast. 1
Hr. Trevanion • As if is km
Hr. Stone: Boke wotill if he wanted to evade the toil.
It cuts both ways.
Defendant, who conducted his own case with o=dd/st-
able &Mitt, cto.-examined the doctor as to wetter he had
not sob equently told him that be was asleep at the time
and he 'thew nothing of it, and it was irdhing to him; '
but tint doctor stud be could not recollect ever having
said so.
In reply t Balaton, Mr. Trevaolon said he did not
dispute that by going r rund that backway the complaint
evaied the toll, but at the same tiMe there ent no
indenement to the complainant to avid* the toll. for the
owners of the carriages always paid far that.
4andant totally dialed that he ever touched the
carriage either by Mud or whip, and he contended the
eiew hei been timely broualit foceratd by the complain-
ant to avoid • prn-eutios for cheating him out of the
toll. He ineeded to take out • summons against Heat-
Log.
The Bosch: Then we shall adjourn Oir decision until
after that is beard.
A couple of lath named John Risco& and William
Naga were sumuanned far assaulting an old man named
Thomas Btrnee. The defendants, it stems, in company
with other lads, bad been in the habit of making the old
man a butt, emd on the merinos in question they used
him rather roughly.—They were fined Is. each and costs