The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-24 00:00:00

BLANDIPORD.

Teftooon the kind eswitavoun of the R.,. J. R.
Qmlrk. re tor of Blandford, Woe boy named Pew, who
took in June lut eared the life of another at White's
Mill, by treating him horn the water, hoe within the
F.O few days rewired a medal horn the Humane
Socistl as s reward for his lordery.
ACCIDZWe.—Ou Monday afternoon Mr. and Mn.
ile.,the were peseta' Lord Portman'. park, when the
doer were being fed, when the pony tot* fright,
d.bea &ems the rod, and twat the rabble! smashing
I; to plod.. The denpanti were hot? . much shaken,
And Mn'. }Linville somewhat injor,d. The pony. with
the shafts galloped .e far as ttryanstoneddreet, and
was pulled up be • Istap.p....
BLAISDPOLD FAIL —The Sapttmior fair was held ea
Monday and wee wit'lont doeption the dollen on
reserd. The sharp penned numbered 2200; business
wag extremely doll, end a large nu ober remained
The ruliog wird eere—for lambi, from 40a
55, ee,s, from 53. to 64K; •01 'pedlars from
804. 0070.. Cottle and hOl,lOll were mato., FAD:, arm.
Pigs were plentiful, and met with a eled7

OtIARGE OF UNLAWFUL POSiLBSION OF

GOVERNMENT srolurs.
In the Magistrates' Boom at the offices of Mr. Johns,
on Tuesday last, • one which has created ooniddersble
interest in the neighbourhood, was heard before Lod
Perlman (oheirmen), J. J. Farroherson, and G. G.
Give, &gra.
lowa Aresleoeg, whe, we understand, carries on
extengve buidoeis In the city of Bristol, appeared to
answer • charge of haring uslawfolly in his possession •
quant,ty of Governmeut store., which bad been brought
down to lb. Blandford camp for the use of the troops.
Armstrong wee first brought up on Tuesday last, but
it, o•lni{ to the ineureuvres, the principal witnesses
sionid riot appear, the case was adjourned till the follow.
leg Tuesday, the magistrates accepting bail to the
amount of 1:400. defendant himself in £2OO and two
sureties in .ClOO each—Mr. Clod', engaged by the War
Department, appeared for the pronention : and Mr.
Carter, berrister on the Western Circuit, instructed by
Mr. Atkinson, rf Klandford, defended. The following
evidenoe was adduced :--11r. (Medi, first called Com-
miner, Keapp, who said he was in charge of the der6l
of the Southern Army. The eamp broke up on the bed
inn., end its onsequerice of • considerable accumula-
tion of urservionble stores, for the sake of convention
It was determined to dispose of them en the elm..
Accordiugly on the evening of the 3rd September he
...lied epee Mi. Areottreog, at the Antelope Inn,
where he lodged, with the view to effecting a 000treei
for the pureeing of the tuners stores, the result of the
interview being that Mr. Armstrong promised to be 00
the Down on the following thy. He estimated the
value of the articles at £tt. It was left to withers to
lurk for stores scoardiog to the requirements of the
troops. When be had &emend with Deputy Commie-
eery Birnie respecting the contract, he followed the
army to Wiley. On the 6th Slept...6u he received a
telegram from Commissary Brink at Blendford to the
effect that • quantity of aseeteseble stores had errone-
ously got pecked with those that were ssansened. The
army was then moving forward. Ile telegraphed to
Commissary Burnie directing him to Innen to. 'rejoin
and report to him. He also meet a telegram to Mr.
Armstrong, acquainting him of the fug, and the lather
came to him at Wiley,when he (witness) told him what
he had beard, and Mr. Armotreni said be did not, as •
man oi badness, wish to take advantage of any error
that may have been made in the tranornissioe of the
stores, and expressed himself agreeable to their bang
thoroughly examined and everything taken ban %mob
wee not °endow:wed, adding that he had not seen the
contents of the packages. At the conelusices of the
conversation Commissary Brent, joined the:. hiving
I just arrived from Blandford. He (witness) saw Mr.
A.mstroug on the Bth September, when he wits taken
into custody, end he then expressed • wish that every.
thing should be properly adjusted. The goods were
paid for by Armstrong to their entire satisfaation, but
[here • receipt was produced by Mr. Carter, whin,
however, bore no 'firestone] as regards the receipt he
knew nothing. There should have been • list of lb*
ertioles *old, to prevent mistakes, but on this 00300012
such a precaution was omitted. William Jones
Binde, Deputy Commissary, was nest milled, and he
stated that be saw Mr. Armstrong upon the Ran Down
on the 4th September. at shoat two or three °Week In
the afternoon, and made the agreement with him foe
the sale of some unserviceable stores which were lying
about, some in rata and casks and others loose. He
(withers) made only a cursory examination of the
articles, and did not go through them thoroughly.
They appeared to him to onsist of tent pegs, nose
bier., 'heckles, said some iron axes. He did not see
any tarpaulins, water-bottles, belts, new any kiod of
hose. The sum paid to him was Lb for the lot which
he sold. At the time of the sale of then artisies!
there wee a large quantity of serviceable 'tares in peck.
ages, in close prosimity to then sold to Mr. Armstrong,
which were for trammfasion by the agent for Mews.
Chaplin and Horne oarritrt, Witness remained till
about four o'clock Hoene,
'lay, and then left to join the
troope at which time the packages for Chaplin sod
Horne hid not hen removei. The neat before men-
tioned, named Flitcher, was furnished with • list of
his peerages, mate out by the corporel,which were one
signed to Portsmouth, Wiley, and Comanager. Wit-
did not Ithow what the contents of those packs/yes
, wore. They had big-un to load the waggon before he
left, and Armstrong's empty oases were all taken oat
that *IMO day. lie followed Commissary Knapp and
the army to Fontroell, and arrived there whilst Mr.
I Armstrong was talking to Commissary Knapp. Heard
the former say be did not, as • tininess man, wish to
take advantage of any error, and said toneettung to the
effect that if he was furnished with a hat of the stores
te had been sent wrong, they should be rehires&
He also said he had not himself nen any of the arCeles
mentioned as serviceable, adding that be had left the
men to clear off whit bad been left on the Down.
The body of the troops were gone at that time. lie
sew some tarpaulin* lying lonely about that were to be
handed rue., to Chaplin and Horne's moue
Mr. Frederick Wood, inspector of the Somerset and
Dorset Railway, said on the evening of the 6,h instant
his attention was directed by the railway offi rale to a
cask lying in the station yard, which did not seem
to be empty, although represented as snob. It was
deposited close by some stones used by Mr. Armstrong.
On examioatioa he found in it • teepee:in which wee
'severed with pew, and another near the bottom of
the cask. The hoed of the seek was not severed in.

Supenntendent Underwood, cousty constabulary,
said he went to Blaudford on the evening of Thursday,
the sth inst aul there saw • itrge cask whieh be
produced. He examined the contents and fore 1
two U./paellas under •OUle paper, which were Marked
with the brood arrow and the letters " W.D., and one
appeared to is. quite new. Heals° found • large box,
oentaining 40 leather belts, marked " W.D. ;" 45
new water bottles, 18 of which bore the additional
mark " LP." He also found a number of other things,
and gave them all into the custody of Polloe-ooktabla
Stockley. The two bone* were nailed down, Sew Mr.
Armstrong on Sunday at Wiley. Called him kik and
told him he was charged with nolawfully having in his
on a quantity of War Dipartment stores at
rstectad. lie said "There must be some mistake,"
and added that he had been told of it, and that every-
thing shoold be set right, expressing a wish to see
Commissary Binaie. On Sunday moroing he wrote •
statement. Witness produced it, and it ran as follows:
"On the evening of Thurstay lest l purchased from
Commlsoary Bind*, on the Down, all the stook plok•
ages that were there, for which I paid him et-175.; read
also several casks and box, of condemned stores, and
the loose materials on the ground, for which I paid him
LS As! had to leave early in the morning for Wiley,
to make arrangements there, I employed • man to
remove the goods, telling him to tske ell the empty
packages, full casks, and boxes that were open, to the
railway station, to be forwarded to Bristol; and, whin
the army agent had cleared off, to take charge of all
that was left, send off what war worth carriage, and
the refine would be for firewood. I never examitied a
shies package, therefore have no koowledge whatever
of contents, and believed them to be, as they were de-
waribo Ito me. 000deuaned storea—J•Mais AZIISTIOXG."
Adolptins Stainer, mons, then deposed that on the
morning of the 6th Mr. Armstrong employed him to go
in company with
attention to the caw cookining the another man 1311,1ned Coffin, with •
cart,empty
cases h e Iturd •
is
ti
Down, an bring from thence some
packages to tke station. At the staon
the holm. Galled
water-bottles, which Weil one of those Mr. Armstrong
had instructed him to take away. He assisted in bring-
lug away two loads, which consisted of empties, with
the exception of one, which contained tent pegs. There
were several other persons on the Down engaged In
removing different things. Deposited the whole at the
011 d of Mr. Armstrong's store, and there was no Dowel-
meet of the eoutents of the au.
Henry Outilo was next examined, and be bore out the
testimony of the former want," coding that Mr. Biros*
marked all VA) arks in chalk, so that he was sue of
their identity.
, The Chairman said the question was as to the time
when the tarpaulins were pat into the cask, and whether
they were there at the time when Commissary Bitola
sold it.

ih,-Closli said this was a clue whloh was by cto means
free horn dilEoulty, and he was drill that the aspect
of the CAN would not become improved if the we
were adjourned. It was for the Beech to consider
whether the macho were pleas,' to the mak by My
penmen who was loterteted In the uses.
The Ilonob said they considered Mr. Armstrong hai
provod being coffiehintly authorised to remove the
goods, and that, looking at the whole of the evidence,
they were of opinion that ho was ent'rely Innocent of
any fradithmt intention ; but that those articles bad
bad not the slightest doobt, The hearing of the
been surreptitiously put into the cask by some one
they
ease bad brought to light the very lax mode In which
the War Department stores were disposed of, and
would most likely be the means of Milusing the a'abc'a"
ties to apply a remedy to fhb; eel At the same time
they would observe that they thought the patios had
most thoronghly done their duty.
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MILBORNE SF ANDREW.
Ilikritier Thanksgiving Services were bell on Sun-
dsy at the pariah eburob, and Di 15s, -111. collected for
the Damn County llospitaL

WEST LUGWORTII.
Maven Homs.—Tbe good old Eoglieh =atom of
celebrating " harvest home" by • hart took plisse in
this pariah, on Thursday, at the farm of Ilr. Dorsi,
and Mr. Ellie of Eurngate, when mom enbstential wed
exeellent diunere were provided, sad master; ism,
and friends enjoyed themselves to their hearse sroteat.
Thew gentlemen are highly esteemed by their
labourers, sod voluntarily raised their wive
the interposition oh the Union.

WINFRITH.
Honsunterina.—A dating cam el housebreaking
oesurred In this pariah on Tama*, Met artek. It seems
that two sailors named Allow., sad Parker, =
deserted from one of If. V. Ships at Portland,
oe the road In quest of adreutnre. Finding the home
of Mrs. Toms, on the Dorchester and Wareham read,
without any care taker, the omispler's &ashlar
having goes out for • few minutes they explorsd the
prominc, approprietsd Mr. Toms's watch, and made up
• bundle of his olothing. While limy were Maytag
themselves In this nefarious say, the girl game 11.
and (nod the (*llona upstsin. At her debt, theyTa
as fast and as straight as their sea lege amid carry
then; but the tigerish constable was mat as thou
track, and they loaded at Wareham lock-up. behes-
quently the magistrates of that amiaat borough
committed the.. ter trial at the seedime.

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LOVIRS' quARRAL AND SUICIDII
Oo Sunday evening, &loans woman gamed F.y. ark] 19 'Nil for some Oaks pest dou,estie twersot in the
employ of Mr. Sheppard, baker, Dighetnet. Itridg•
water, had • dispute with • yowls man, mimed I) Mud,
with whom she Das kept company for some time, and to
whom she wee shortly shout to be marriwi. About
eight o'ooolt Mir left him and was not after•erds men
alive. Shortly before midnight the fathor of the de
mem& aad •young man whilst inetitstiog *search for
ber, found the bonnet, dream, and boot, of the deceased
on the canal baok, Dear Hemp Ward, and bee body in
the water.