The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-03-18 00:00:00

COIX ROBEZIT.

Jews For, of H•dwell, was charged with stealing
worn, the iirop.rty of W. Trim, of Wineham Farm,
Bishop's Caui.die. I. Wharton prosecuted.
A veHiot of guilty was returned, sad u former *ma-
victim:l being proved azeinst the prisoncr, he was
sentenced to 12 I:Almada months' imprisonuient.

CROWN COURT, THUISDAT.
(Herons Mr. Justiee Orove)

Jf II Maria natch wa,,aualo brough't up, ar.d her

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airmen tt ,temert real. She cave Cr s(i:curt of her
I mei...din:a before noir: to We, etenth, find extrl that
.ho Icnio irk the letrircs ci lire. Smith, Charlotte
Row. bu, Mrs Cobb took her bv rt-rtn. and would
rot let I r if. issene that hire smith had NA
4.1.,1,ters ; rt.* ct., (Tele:iner) took tie le lents at 151.
Per week. York-hui.dloga were not firrt.e..s. Lacinp.
but very twoondary or e,. She wee never goestioned
ab I er antecedents in Weymouth, and I.ft, or WI.
rattler driven out by her life b log threatened.
She emnytiMed that &potatoes were made on the
hit day she was rentende J. other than those after wards

The Judge raid Ws cleric had followed the 4epeei-
tiens. and could not detect an eob.tartial chtTereres.

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Ttuteh melted Vat elm might he guid ti by the
Ju4;:e*. nctre; but his lordahip esH ha
sounrel in the agree of as, gtb, (&4 fair play. lie
orp to admit ittar elnwity,
In addrera'sg the Jury, his lor.!abip rointeti out
that the present fume was n. drr a vetet.t statute that
say person incurring any debt or liability, it be bee
obtaine.l erreltt under fahe proter, cee, or any other
fraud—oball ha gailty et • tnisiewoanour. A false
pretence must be • false statentet t 1 FOICO exiating

matter, lantana • statement as " I have a gond business.;
you eau trust me." It most be by the false predawn
that credit was obtained, not that a person bad told
falsehood., and a wo one eutipliwt her independent of
that. But the witrewee all state 'bet hut for thew
tepee • Wallets of planner, they won't Lot have sop.
plied her with good* or lodgings. B,eeral of these
stet( tret,te bad been proved to be fake, and probably
th• west iniportant one waa her attain: that she bad
an income of somewhere between £4OO aod £5OO a year,
U part of which was derivable free. India bands,
whereas the proseitudon showed that dwell, before
she was an Inmate of • pauper seylum. One of the
stab/meets was disproved by prisoner hereelf--sbe said
bar father was • magistrate in flanipehire, and bunted
his hounds, whereas she afterward. stated that her
fath. r was a peLtleuian farmer in Somer...., that a
Inother was a dectnr, hu. hal died. and eh. had £2O •
year from the widow. They hod to consider whether
she obtained ladclog. from lOn,. Crabb, fowl and
vegetables from Mrs. Green, and a set of teeth from
Mow.. Leg. by false pretence.: were the.. pretense'
Isle.. did the who wee. ripply her with good* In con.
sequence of the false messianic, and did she make those
preteree. knowing'. '
Th • i ay took but Fall-tanionte to consider their
verdie', and then found her guilty on all the
taunts. . .

Ali leaded gaily too previous em•ictiou.
1., 'learned clutwel ststed In answer to an enquiry
that he did rot intecd to protwed with flitt obtuse of
felony. Mr. I(urch 0.0 vtated to the Judge thst ths
Suoorinteudect from Weymouth had made Inquiries
at Various places and timid tell the reoult of those
esquivieo, sod scald toll of previ,us practices at
Clifton. Guildford. and elsewhere. and tho Reveren,
of ficarhormigh gaol was also 11.1' y to givo him lordabip
Information.

In passing tenteneo his lorasbip : Maria Treteto,
I ha., given every conslareation I owlet to your etas,
sot I era sorry to say it ls • very hail one. I have made
eroulriee. and I eon beer nothing in Your fawn,. MIT
communication I have made with the counsel hes ima
beeo in any way to your prejudice ;but lain told that if I
make enquiries of the polies sod others, I shall bear
still worse of you. Theis is another indictment
against you for felony, you have boon acinvioted twice,
you have been puntshed by • long torte of imprigon-
anent. Since you got out of prison, you have followed
the ems comma again ; von have been going about mak •
tag 'also pretense..., •nil obtaining credit from peoplo
who could ill &trod to part with their mute,.
It is extremely melancholy ; I believe from
your demeatiour yau molt have bin brought no
r"rio ably; your original edeoation must have boon
that .4 milady, and It. excessively sad to see that your
mind has brooms so depraved that you go from place to
place, imposing on people. many of them poor people.,
living by letting Indringe. It is ab.olutely neoeseary
that an example ghoul I be made. I have given every
oonstieration to your Giro ; but I can find no reason
to show that I ought to pass a le.. heavy seatenoe
than the one lam about to pees. I must nut all sr
myself to be led away by mere feeliees of charity. I
am doing • duty both to yourself and the public, by
paring what must be to you. at you- are, • very 'ever.
sectence—that is, that you b • k in coital servitude
for five years.
Prironer seemed to pollen's at hearing the senteluse,
and we ooleklei rem.vd below.
Mr. Ceiling afterward ulcer., hi. lordship to allow
more Iberal colts than n.iol in this case. There had
been • great deal tf traaitie, aod • great deal of
expense.
The Judge went. I. rf merle,' that the came mutt
have cost the pnlice r. :rent deal of trouble.
Mr. Collins Ye.•, my ler end • great deal of
money which cativit ho rec ,up .1.

DISTIOTISG h. WILT,

John Woo/freq was cbarrd witb unlawfully destroy-
ing the probate of tf.e will of JawPs Arnold, deeeseed,
with a fraudulent intent. Mr. Sullen prorensted, and
OoMoe defended prisoner. . .

tibsrg• was vs In the indictment in eseinue
way, to meet tbe different wactiona of 24 and 25 Vic.,
esp. N. reating tot, theft or destruction of toetsmen-
tory inetrunienta and document, of title. Th. (.oes of
tho care, were rather sineul.r. It appeared that the
prisoner had pureh.foi a freeLold cottage at Child Oke-
ford, from hn J.raeg. who had been in poeses.lon for
thirty years before. The proescotor sod his wife laid
claim to the property, and ;mesmeric.. to the teneat not
to pay roil to the prisoner. On the 27th October last,
as the prisoner was preptarlog to go to church, he was
sent for by the protoeutar's wife, and On going to the
home of John Read. b. found the prosecator and his
wife, and said 4. tin latter, You are COMO AOWn shout
this property. What have you to do with it?" Sh•
replied, "1 am John Arnold. widow thitt war ;" the
prisoner sold, "And what have you Rot to show' Ton
bane nothing to thow," She repliel, "Teo. I hops;
my husband has got toy late hnsburt's father'. will In
hLs coat pooket." After some more talk the prisoner
asktel to see the probate, and put it in his pocket to
00111017111 it with his copy. Re wee tiled after, hut ram
away to his own house near by, and being followed.
threw the probate on the fir. front whish it was taken
half burnt The prisoner pi:m.l.d golly to diattroyiog
an oririnal documset helot:ming to the probate of the
will of James Arnold. A mireher of witnesses were
called to show the reepostability of th• Prisoner, and •
surgeetion wee made that the only claim of th• proos-
cutor and his wire was founded on the ides that the
land was what is known among this elms of p•opl• as
'heir I oil." Their idea moms to hay. been that as the
land had been &seised by Junes Arnold to J. W. W.
Arnold, "hi. bein and assigns for ever," the fatter was
usable to sell the land, which mast deeoend to John
Anion, the boir.st.law, through whom the prosecutor
claimed.
The learned Judi, said that he .could not allow it to
go abroad that documents of the character end im-
portant). could he destroyed with Impunity, and ths
least ecotone* ho Gould peso was sir months' imprison-
ment with hard labour, to which the ptisonsr was
tumor tingly sentonsed.
•TZ•LING • now. . .

Williams Giths, :Irotrol;71o;ki-a-, fellow, was charged
with steeling • hone, the property of John Mostyard,
tit Stnur Provost.
Prisoner plealed gailty, and wits sontenoed to rth
months' hard 'aboar.
This finished the booboos