The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-09-13 00:00:00

00UNTY PETTY SESSIONS.

SATURDAY.
gams if. B.lston, Esq. (In the chair), Captain
prom, Colonel Steward. G. Flyer, Esq., Ci. Warr',
Bp., and E. L. Kinder,ley, Esq.

0)7I1018 AGAINST THE LIORNSING ACT.
Ginn* Durman. of the Alexandra Tavorn, Wird
(Wokenll was summoned for keepinr open his license
awing illegal hours. Mr. R. N. Howard
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Sergeant Haines, stationed at Harlin,'le. raid on
Sunday, August 29th, from complaints received, he
watched the beerhouse kept by the ddendant, the
odna Tavern. At 20 minute. pest 11 be went
bones and saw two men in the kitchen with
indent. There was a glue with beer in it in
/ a man namtd Gard, a pint cup nearly full in
yf a man named Randall, and • glass bottle
fall on the seat by the side of Gard. He salted
At who the men were, and he sail they
of his. Gard said he had come there to
defendant about some pigs. fis had sin,*
• letter from the defendant saying Randall
ea account of his wife, and Gard had come
- and was entitled to • glass of beer.
. said be had complained to the sergeant of
and went there with him on the day in
He corroborated what Haines had said.—
tint said ha bad kept the home for nearly
, and during that time be had never had the
complaint made against bine He had
the polies in every way be (mold. On the
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had to attend to his wife, Richard Randall came to
his house and assisted him in the out-ti our work. He
was there on Saturday anti on ounday morning; be had
his breakfast there, and after heyhad done his work he
had lunch with him in the room they lived in. Ran.
dell was • man who had everything it home, and did not
run about to publio-houses. On the same morning
Mr. Gard brought a bottle of cream for his wife and
then went onto Langton. On his return, he came to the
house again, during the time they were having lunch,
and defendant asked him to have • crust of bread and
cheese and a glass of beer. The bottle of beer wee not
drawn for either the men, but for Mrs. Parker,
who was nursing hi. wifa—Kroma Parker, the
nurse, was called. Mr. Lerman had promised
her a bottle of beer and she took it home for
her dinner. She was not going to pay for it.
—Richard Handell said he resided about • mile from
the defendant. His wife was confined, anti as ahe
was very ill he asked him to go and attend to his
cattle. On the morning in question he went there
about seven o'clock and fed nis cattle and poultry.
Mr. Durman asked him to have lunch, and that wise
whet he was having when the police came in. lie
did not pay for anytning.--Samal Gard said he knew
Mrs. Durman wee coneued, and on his way to Langton
he took • bottle of cream for her. On hia way back
he called for the bottle. When he went into the house
Darwin and Barden were there. Lerman asked him
to have • crust of bread and chew*, and a glass of ale,
and that we. what he warn having. He bad nothing
to do with a bottle of beer that was on the seat, die
did not pay any money for the beer he had.
After a long deliberation, the Ileoolo dismissed the
summons. Tee Chan-moo said they had given the case
very fu'l consideration, acid although they had decided
to dismiss the 101111014811 they mu,t sry they considered
the cam of the very gravest possible suspicion, and
they had great doubt whether they ought not to
convict. A landlord of a publichouao ought to be very
careful how be entertained his private friends, and
they hoped this would be • warning to him. Tee
police were quite right in bringing the charge.
George Northover wee summoned for • similar
offence on the same day.—Mr. Howard defended.—
Sergeant Haines said et Sunder, August 28th, at a
quarta to 1.2, he visited this New inn, kept by the
defendant at ChickerelL He was (tweeted by P.U.
Baker to go to the back door one way, and witaeu
went the other, lie met four men coming from the
back door, and when he got to the door he saw Baker
knocking. Witness also knocked, and after the lapse
of two or three minutes Mrs. Northam and her
daughter. came to the d oar. He asked them why they shut
the dour against the oonatable, and they replied they
did not know it was Baker. Hs saw a half-plot cup
broken on the floor of the cellar, and another nail-pint
cup on the head of • barrel. There was also a bottle
of beer on another barrel. He asked Mn. Northover
what it meant, and she said it was the droppings from
tee pale ale barrel, it dropped a quart every day, and
they put it in a bottle, lie asked who was la the
house, sad she replied " Nobody." Hs searched, and
In a backhouse close by the cellar he found
• man behind a door. lie wiked him whet he wanted,
and he replied he had come for a glade of beer.
Northover then came out and said, "What do you
want, you scamp? The man said he was •
treealer, and came from Forteeham.—ln cross.
examination witnewi said both he and Baker wen In
plain clothes. The back door was bolted or looked,
There was nobody in the cellar when he went in. The
defendant kept *owe and eold milk. The man he found
behind the door gave the name of George Temkin& -P.C.
Baker said when he went to the back door he saw two
men come out of the house. Northam's daughter
was coming round the house another way, and when
she saw him she rushed into the house and bolted the
door. They refused to let him in till Sergeant Haines
came. He beard something fall on the ground and
break, and also heard somebody rushing through the
house. When they went in there was • cup
broken on the floor of the cellar. He further
corroborated flame'. evidence. For the delouses
Mr. Howard called loonies Northover, who said her
husband had kept the house for nine years, and
he hal never before been summoned for • breach of
the licensing laws. On the day in question the back
door was left open for the purpose of washing the milk
cane. A short time before the constables came, two
men came to the door and asked for milk. She did not
save them with beer. Her daughter was outside the
house washing milk-cans at the time, and came in as
soon as the men had gone. Witness shut the door.
She heard knocking at the door, and asked who was
there. Somebody answered "Police I police 1" She
thee opened the door and let the countable come in.
The bottle of beer and empty cup referred to had not
been used for drinking papoose that morning. The
man found on the premiaes was named Tomkins, and
he had told her he came from Mr. Mar's, at
Portesham. He had not bad anything to
drink.—in reply to Superintendent Gale, witness
could not say if it was usual to serve travellers in the
oellsr.—Richard Honeybee depuised on the morning
in question he come from Putton by the path running
near the back of defendant's house, and asked. at the
house for halos-pint of milk. He did not have milk
or anything else to drink, but went on with the other
men, without going into the house. —The defendant
said he had kept the house for nine years, and his
mother for a long time before him; but he bad never
hoard of anything against the house to his knowlecke.
Mr. Sept. Gale said he had brought the case on
account of general complaints which he had roc-ivied
of late respecting Sunday tra ling.—The Bench de-
cided to convict, and they fined the defendant and
coots, and ordered the license to be endorsed.

ALLOWING OATII.II TO STRAY.

John Lever was summoned i,r Allowing cattle to
dray on the highway, et Puncknowle. on August
23rd.—P.O. Dennett proved the case.—Fined ss. end
Costa.

John Cheney, fish-dealer, was summoned for slow
fog a horse to stray in the same parish, and on the
same day. -PC. Dencett also proved the facts in this
case.—Pined ss. sod costa.

STRALIXO APPLIA.

Samuel Fox warn charged with stealing 14Ibs. weight
of apples, the property of Thomas If 'pea, at Toiler
Porcorum, on August 27th.—}le pleaded guilty.—
Fined 10s. and costs. or 14 days.