The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-09-22 00:00:00

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ROBBXBT Kr • TRADZSMAX racist Wszta Ramat'
firartun.—Thomas Lambert, a tradesman, 11 Py.-blll,
East Peneard, was on Tbarsitity brought before the
Mayor and J. B. Plowman, Esq., on a sharp of steal
on the 14th instant • rely travelling wrapper or abaif
of the valet of El, the r y of M John Top.
Wimborne, from the Somerset and Dorset Rahway
Station, at Wills. The prOlMOgi4f, who had paid &visit
to Welk, was returning, in company of his wife, by the
three &clock train to visit Glastoribury on theirs:Ll
home, and whilst waiting for the train to start
the shawl on a stool on the platform, on which the
prisoner was sitting. In the hurry of getting into the
train the shawl was overlooked, but before the train bed
got out of the station the prosecutor looked oat of the
carriage window. and saw the prisoner still on the plat-
form. On arriving at the Glastonbury station he
telegraphed his loss to Wells, and in the interval betweett
then and the arrival of the next train from Wells went
into Glastonbury. Him and his wife were oath. plai-
form when the six o'clock train from Wells earns into
the station, and prosecutor's wife called his atteatiou to
• man getting out of one of the carriages, who she said
was the same she had teen sitting on the stool at the
Wells station. The prosecutor accosted him, asking if
he had teen • hie* shawl on the stool at the Walla
station, bat he denied that be had. He bad under his
arms bundle tied up, which on being opened was found
to contain the shawl. Mr. Wood. the station-master,
and inspector of patios for the company, was aommuni-
Gated with, and be arrested the prisoner and handed him
over to the county police. The prisooer, who acutely
felt his position, pleaded guilty. Fsoalle;it testimonials
were read from the Rev. A. Goldner, vicar of East
Peonard, and the churchwardens and farmers of the
parish, as to his previous irreproachahl, character, and
Mr. Win. Fry, a retired tzad.sinaa of Wells, also ap-
pearedand gave h an excellent character, having
oor im
n him, when in business, for many years. The
Bench, taking this into consideration, and also the bad
state of his health, sentenced prisoner to Wilk dap'
imprisonment without hard labour.

A EiTILNGI PrSTOILLL.—A letter liss 6tho PUblWted
In some of the journals of the Principality. to
the "Trustees and members of tb• Methodist chapel in
the village and parish of LisniadOrn, in the count" of
Carmarthen," dated from the Oaks Rectory, West
Somerset, and bearing the signatory of the Ray. J. B.
Bishop. It seems that in the approaching 111•CtiOD for
the county of Carmarthen, the votes of the Nosicon-
formists are likely to be given to Mr. Sartori., the
Liberal candidate, who is pledged to support Mr. Glad.
ortone's Irish policy. Mr. Bishop reminds the trustees
and members of the methodist congregation whom he
addresses that their ohs* was built on his ground
nearly three-quarters of • century ;ender • lease of
ninety.nino years. "Now," he "would you
not think it hard d, at the expiration that loam. I, or
my next representative, would decline to resew HI And
would you not consider it es • sacrilege on our part if
we proceeded to dismantle the walls of the building and
the court-yard, wherein (unless my memory grimily kils
me) I saw several tablets to the memory of your read
Being • minister of the Church of Ragland, sad whose
duty it is to defend her very existents, jolt as much Of
more thrill her doctrines or her formularies, I ask you
not to shoot your arrows at my aura by redo( for
Yr. Sartoris. Learn from this to do to others what
For should wish to be dons by. Behold I lam willisr
In this particular instants, to passe the males of just*
Into your own hands, and my that whatsoever mamas
ye shall mete, It shall be measured to you main." 3

Pint= -s-ad Publiabod,-it Chu:eh-ewes, DoTobooter.
by Atsaut ATKINS, of the Parke el lardiotto•
for WI ad eaproptislor.
Tassisy, Boyfnuabor ra, WM

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