The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-09-21 00:00:00

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CHAIM OF FORI01:15 DlrviSo.—Bich4rd °"e1.412
was charged with furious driving in High-street,
Dorchester.—Mr. Howard defended.—Mr. Reward,
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thappened. and saw in the road John Pisani, • travel-
ling jeweller ; a trap came up, and knocked him down.
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Defendant hal every appearance of being the man ;
it was • hard point —After being questioned: Will
you swear to him; he answered— "I will swear to
him." Witness told defendant be ought not to drive
eci fast • he was going at the rate of 10 mils an hour,
and he 'acknowledge I it by saying "Yes " Witness
got the people near to "heave" the UtlAil up, or he'd
have been smothered' and then it found he had a
cut on the forehead. Mr. Seward gave Information to
the policsa—Cross-examined by Mr. Howard: Could
not tell far how it was from the door of
the Phenix to his shop-door ; had nothing
to with the Phceulx ; ft arse not 100, or 50 yards.
—Q. : Was it 25 I—A. : I could not go so
fax as that. I make it about 12 yards from where the
accident happened to my shop-door. Patin' fell in
the middle of the raid, hi. bead facing to Mrs. Paul's
window.—Q. : Did he fall straight down the street,
across the street, or longitudinally!—A. : This is going
into • lot of nioeties.—Mr. Howard pressed the ques-
tion, when the witness answered: He wee lying flat
on the ground. (Laughter.) Should say his legs were
under the cart wheels, be told me one of his legs was
In great pain. Could not tell if the man was knocked
down by the honse's head, the shaft, or the wheels. He
was all of a heap. Ths cart passed by the man who
was knocked clown, about a foot or a foot and a-half
after the man was knockol down.—Mr. Devenish :
We can't understand how a man could pull
up in a foot and a-half, who was driving 10
miles an hour. Mr. Howard : Yea, sir, you
have seen the very point I was leading up to.
I won't ask him another question,as you see the point
He was driving so fast, I was obliged to pull him up.
(Laughter.)—Sergeant William Moody saw the horse
driving down the street eta rapid rate, and several people
called to defendant top' but he went °need knocked
down an old gentleman who was In the way, after
wLich the cart was palled up, about a yard or two
from the piece where the man was knocked down. He
was driving about 10 miles an hour, and did not appear
to endeavour to stop, before the old man was knocked
down. Witness helped pick him up and went up the
street to look for a policeman, as he saw the man was
hurt. When spoken to about it, he replied "Ye.."
Cross-examined : The man was coming from the side
of the street opposite to where witness was standing ;
he was coming from Mr. Steward's side, and was
knocked down there.—Mr. Howard said there was no
cane for him to answer, Defendant was summoned for
furiously driving, to the danger of the pueengers.—
The magistrates had noticed it was impossible for the
man to be furiously driving, and yet to pa up within
a yard or a yard an a-half. If that was: the view of
the Bench, there was an end of the case; built it
was not their view, he had a complete answer to
the case. Mr. Robert Davis said be had not
expressed such an opinion, and the Bench
left the case with Mr. Howard. That gentle-
man urged that it was absurd to talk of the horse going
ten miles an hour ; such apace hem n been got out
of it before. Mr. Greening was asked by Mr. John
Gmory to give him a ride, Mr. Howard (not the
lwil gentleman) was driving another cart,
_and
the two carts went •lown the street one shortly before
the other at four miles an hour. But the man who
was knocked down tried to cross after one cart had
gone on, not seeing the second cart; the abaft struck
and knocked him out of the way, the cart
paining ; but it was pulled up in about a yard-lands
half. His client totally denied furious driving, be
denied it also by his witnesses- it was also a moral
Impossibility, and be explained how the accident
happened by running againt the shaft. He should
like to have seen here the man who was knocked down;
but he did not object to the police taking up the came,
because in such a town, driving fast_ especially on a
market .lay, cannot be allowed.—WillJam Mewett,
who works at the Steam Laundry, on Saturday,
September 11th was going down the left-hand side of
High Bast-street. He wanted to cross just below the
"Stand-up," and when near Mr. Brown's wanted to
cross. Two carts passed, containing Mr. Greening and
another man; Mr. Greening'. cart was about a
yard and-a-half from the cart in front, not far
enough for • iprudent MULD to cross between them,
and he waited for them both to pees ; they were
going not four miles an hour. Witness stood in
the middle of the street when the carts passed,
and saw an old men step off the pavement and attempt
to cross the street; but he was knocked down, entirely
by his own (milk Ile mune against the shaft, and was
struck on one side. Witness was within about five
yards of the accident, and saw the whole thing.—Mr.
John Gregory, who was in the trap, said the old
man was only about eight yards from the Phinnix
when he was knocked down. The horse only went
about four miles an hour—between • walk and a trot,
His opinion w a Pasinl was trying to pas* between the
two traps and did not notice where be was going.
Greening was not the least the worse for liquor, and
could not have been driving more carefully. Mr. Fred.
Howard said on the day in question he was in to the
mark t, and his horse was put up at the Phcenix.
He left about seven o'clock, and as he came out he
saw Greening's horse just ening to start. It came
out of the yard close loshin.l him. Witness did not
drive more than four miles an hour, and any horse
going faster than that must have paused him—Mr.
Howard had several other witnesses, but the Bench
did not consider it necessary to call them.—The Chair-
man said the evidence was very conflicting, and some-
one must have been mistaken. He could hardly
believe himself that the horse could have been going
at the rapid pace spoken of. Either the man must
have gone against the cart, or the cart must have
gone against him.—The came was accordingly &mined.
AM:Knee CAP)/ OF FIAIOI7B —srles Grey'
of Puddletown. wax also charged with furious driving.
—P.S. Mitchell said on Monday, the 13th, about seven
o'clock in the evening, he wee on duty at the bottom
of High East-street, He saw Mr. Grey driving • horse
and a four.wheeled waggon. The horse was going at
• gallop. Witness went towards him and asked him
to drive steadily, but he did not appear to take any
notice, and drove along at the same rate over the
bridge along the London-road. There were several
grown-up persons and children on the bridge, and they
were obliged to run out of the way. Defendant con-
tinued the Tithe all along the road ; he should say it
was quite 12 miles an hour.—Defenrinnt stated the
animal was a young and fiery mare, and he should be
glad to get rid of her. It was not true the mare was
galloOng. It was only going at • canter, and he had
it quite under oontroL —Mr. Sept. Coward said there
had been great complaints made by people living in
High East-street of furious driving.—Fined 10e., and
coats—in all, DM.