The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-18 00:00:00

BIIIDPORT.

Fin DING the *need and the theatricals re popular, ;
we are given to umierstaud that the (lacers of tb:i
rifles are about to sive • 101 l of some piretensious
under dISIIIIKOIELINIspEITODEgE.
SODDEN DEATIL—OD Friday eernoight • MU named
Samuel Newman residing in West-street, died very
suddenly. He bail been a total &totalizer since May
last, and it appear* that sudden change from a
rather free life to ansbetemions one had caused ao
ulceration of the stomach, from which be bad
suffered several weeks. On Friday he was suddenly
seized with vomiting blood, and whilst his wife was
gout) for the doctor, Mr. Denxiloe, he expired. He
was well known throughout the district being a
regular attendant at must faint and great markets.
Boitorou Parry STPAIONII, Tuesday. —Before the
Mayor (G B. Kenos, Esq.), and B. W. Whethein, Fon.
—Edward Gifford, of Bouport, and George Gibbs, of
Prem.., summoned for stellins night soil at Bridport.
on the Ist inst., were fined 2s. 61 each and costs.—
Loveridse. of Boutb-stpt t. beer-house keeper,
charged by P.C. Bennett with keeping his house open
for the sale of beer on Sunday morning, the 25th
November last, visa fined 2s. 61. and costs.
Harriett Goland charged nith a like offence, by
P.C. Bookies on Sunday morninc the 2nd inst.,
being an old offender, wits fined 1:1, and cod.; Si. 61
—John Barnes, summoned by P.s. Lavender for
being drunk, be.. at Bridport, on the lot hist.' was fined
5.. and costa—Robert White and Samuel Rockett
two boys of Bastotrret, ebarged with letting off ire-
w.rlis in Bast•street, on the 20th Noven.ber lest, were
ordered t, pay the costs, Parsons
was charged with unlawfully knocking at the door of
Goorge Wills, of .Idouth-streek—Dianissed.
Tun ACCIDENT TO MR. J. (lox—The adjourned
hearing of a case of John Cox v. Samuel Trask, for
negligent driving, whereby complainant was knocked
, down and seriously injured, took place on ths th
lost., before J. P. Stephens, and S. W. Whetham,
&qrs. Mr. Manley appeared for complainant, and
Mr. JAI% for defendant —Thomam Saunders said:
1 tam • duly qualified medical man, and assistant to
Dr. Hay. I attended Mr. Cox on the 22nd and 23rd
of November for fracture of rib and other injuries;
the rib had entered the lung, and be was in a dan-
gerous state. 1 have seen him this morning.
and I consider him out of danger. Cross.
examined: The danger was from the rib enter-
ing the lung. The fracture might have been
amid by his falling no • curb atone, or other
, bard substance. There was no wound outside the rib.

It ZOOM w; 1.1 !
in ditobe", insibta:aajVdl.;l° was liven nw.taTr",;o';:u 1: Shoes is an old man about eighty, and is rather
Warren, son of the plaintiff, for the sum of £2O 95., desL Be would have more than ordinary difficulty
the nit of the present defendant On that order an is getting out of the way of a can lege. Re•examined
execution wan put in and eeecuted on tie sth November Mr. Col is a kale strong man for his age.—Caroline
by the bailiff of the Bloolford County Court, and •
trap, horse, and harnesa seized, of the value of about Hatchings, the wife of Thomas Hutchings, of Burton
L'2o, which the plaintiff in the present action claimed as Bradstock, said : On the 22nd of November, I leg
his property. In isonsemience of instruction. tecerned, Barton to go to Britiport Harbour, and left the
the attorney for the plaintiff gave notice to the bailiff
the court not to proceed to sale.—Plaintiff said he lived harbour for Beidport about 2 o'clock. When
at Handley and kept a little shop. On the sth Nonni- opposite Mr. Douglas' house at the harbour I taw
her he was on hie way to Shaftesbury, when the under'
tb carts coming down the road, driven very fast. I
bailiff of the court stooped him, sod with this aesistance three
of a police:nen forcibly ejected him from his cart. The saw a man on the left side of the road coming to-
cart, horse, and harms., were his property. The horse wards the harbour, he was near the wall. the path•
he changed for another, which he Ind hail in his pos- way in the other side of the road was broken up
session 14 years. He sent his son to get it exchanged. undergoing repair. I maw the third cart knock
lii, changed it with a Mr. Orson, of Cranborne. for down Mr. Cox, and the wheel went over him. I
another horse, which wee brought to his house for ran up to him. Defendant was out of his cart trying
his inspection. He &penned of it. The harness to stand Mr. Cot on his lege' but laid
he bought of the deceased Mr. Dowling, formerly . . .
m Dana again near where he was before.
residing at Shaftesbury, about three or four !rears ago.
I
The trap seized win oleo his. It was one he had in begged the man to take Mr. Cox to some house.
exchange for • heavier one which was made for him He said he would send some one to me. I waited
by John Adams, of Handley. He gave £2 to boot, mine minutes, out no one came. I went to Mr.
Ile had been assessed for the horse 10s. 6.1. per year. Strain's for assistance, and some other assistance
Crose-exemined : My son hes been living with toe Came. I then went on my way to wards Bridport.
three or four years. He does nut carry on the haul- I afterwards went with Mr. Elias Cox to the quay
nen of shopkeeper. I have two hones, and pay 10s. 64. at the harbour, and saw there the man who drove I
for one. I entered the horse as a hi.ree in trade. over Mr. Cox, and! said "Thetis the man who drove
At that time I had only me horse. I never returned over mi.. con.„ Mr. Eli.. Cox asked hie name.
for more than one horse. T have not hwl during the
Defendant said, "What do you want of my
,name ?"
past 4 or 5 years, till within the pad twelve months.
but one hone. I rent sor 6 acres of land. My eon Mr. E. Col said. "You are the man who drove over
had three horses before he became bankrupt about a year my father." lie paid "The man who drove over
ago.—"Waa not everything which your son purchased of your father is gnus another way." 1 said, " You
Mr. Brown brought to your hornier "[can't ny." "Wu are the man who was picking up Mr. Cot when I
not thus £2O of goods brought Myrna howler "!can't more to you." He said " Ycs.' Defendant is the
nay whether they were or not. They might have been, isms mai, who was driving the cart. Ile told Mr.
I don't recollect my eon going to Mr. Brown's chop IL Cox if he wanted the name it was on the cart.
with the hor-e and trap in question to purchase thus v
I am positive defendant n the man who drove over
goods. [Several letter, were here shown to plaintiff.
Can.
sThis witness was cross-examined at some
and after fencing with the questions put to him, at last
admitted that he believed the hand-writing of one of length by Mr. Jolliffe, and re.ezamined by Mr.
them to Mr. Brown was his daughter-in-law'.. It was Manley. —Mr. Elise Cox said : On 22ud November
to the effect that the plaintiff's eon asked him to gin I went with last wittiest to the quay, where fish were
time for payment of the Recount • that he had • nnin- being taken in. I saw defendant there. Last
b-r of pigs out feeding in the woods, and when nutting ! Witnalanid "That', the man that knocked down your
time was over be should have them to dispose of.] His father. I asked defendant his name, he hesitated,
daughter-in-law lived *ill him, and "erred in the shop and I asked • second time, he.did not answer, and I
and kept the hooka. The pigs were his, not his son's. Iliked a third time end he went towards the cart
Hie son sold them for him in October. If his son wrote Ilse name was not visilde; he rubbed the dirt off, and
to Brown and said lie had a lot of pigs it was false.
His son's wife wild the pip; he had the money, and he the nem. appeared" Edward Sweet, Merriott."
gate it to his ton. His nonchanged a cart iii Salisbury The last witnem accused defendant of driving over
market about twelve months before hie hcniumpier, my father; 1 did not. He denied being the person
No name was on that cart. 1 had another hone when who drove over father. I have found out that Edward
the one in queetion was seized. I have it now. I Sweet is not his natne.—Mr. Lawrence 541 b-en said:
sent it by my son to buy goods of the defendant, I reside at the harbour. On 22nd Nov. I was coming
II was in the trap, about half • mile from hem., when to the town from the harbour, I met Mr. John Cot
the plaintiff seized it. He came and took hold of the going towards the harbour Anna 400 er 500 yards
horse's head, and with the assistance of a policeman from Mr. Swain's house. I saw the carts comings
dragged me ult. I told him it was my trap and horse.
I I did not previously threaten to beat out his brains,
they must have been GOO or 7./0 yards from Mr.
Swain's house. The carts were going towards the
but! might have held up my crutch. They handle
me very mughly.—ltiehard Isaac said he had lived with harbour. One of the carts was driving very fut,
the plaintiff, on and off, for 18 years, and knew that I There was one cart which passed before this one
be had kept a horse for 20 years. Ple also knew that j there might have been two or three before I watched
the horse which plaintiff shopped with Omm be had had I the cart which was going so fast for about 400 yards
for 15 years. The trap he purchased from Adams hr towards the harbene. There was only one person
also exchanged with Orain.—Croewavimined : I worked driving the cart. Cross-examined by Mr. Jolla.:
for the plaintiff last awing in the field.. Plaintiff bed The carts may have been '2OO yards from Mr. Swain's
two horses. Thomas Warren worked about for his
house when I saw them last —By the Court: It was
father. Could not nay if he brought back my pigs
about two o'clock in the afternoon whoa I Raw the
when the exchanp of horses was maile.—Thomas
carts.—The defence was that Mr. COI was knocked
Warren said: I live with my father. I was made a
bankrupt in this court the latter part of last year. My down accidently sad not through careless driving.
' father keeps a shop in Handley. His father's statement Mr. Jolliffe called several enthuses, and the cue
as to the horse, trap, and harness belonging to him was lasted a considerable time. The Bench fined defen-
true in every particular. At the time of my bankruptcy dant Its. andi L 2 15a costa, or, in default, 21 day's
my father had the grey horse. I got my discharge imprisonment.
December 7th. I had the goods from the defendant
two or three months after my bankruptcy.—Cree.-
examined : I will not undertake to swear that I did not
go for the goods with this very horse and trap. Mr.
Brown might or might not reinark about the hone being
a good one. leant say whether I told Mr. Brown it
was my trap. I cannot remember if I told Orem the
hone I exchanged was mina. Oa the question being
put, withers, who gave his evideues very contradictorily,
said when he chopped the horse he said if his father
liked the horse he would keep it. I said I should have
the pigs, and father the hone.—[The Judge here
stationed witness to mind what he said.j—l live with
my father sometimes. I dealt with Mr. Brown. The
witness was then shown one of the teeters to Mr
Brown, and said, I asked my wife to write that letter.
I toll her to write.—Mr. Atkinson: Then you actually
told your wife to sit down and write a faleehood, and
that the pip were yours? "Yen." I sold the goods I
had from Mr. &Wan at different pima. I might
have taken mine to my father's home.— His Honour :
You must answer this queetinn. Did you Put the good',
in your father's hi.useT—Witnews "Yes." Slone this
year 1 have bought one side of Immo of Mr. Brown. I
I have never, to my remembrance, toll Mr. Brown the
horse and trap belonged to me. I said it was my
own. I know a woman, named Harding, living at
Gunville. I will not undertake to swear that I t
her the bone was mine; that it was quiet in harness,
and that I would not take £2O for it as my wife could
drive it. I had no pigs of my own when I told my wife
to wits to Mr. Brown I had some.—His Honour
inquired if the horse and cart were in the bankrupt's
schedule, to which Mr. Chitty replied they were not.
—Mr. Atkinson then addressed the Court, anti
in the course of his remarks ex preened his
belief that both the plantiff and hi. eon
had conspired together to defraud the public. If the
father's effects were claimed then the hon said they were
his, aad if the son'. then the father claimed them. Ile
then called the defendant, who etated that about the
latter part of last year the plaintiff's son called upon
him and bought a ditch of boson, which he paid for is
the January following. He came in • trap drawn by a
grey horse. Ile could not nay when be had • trainers.-
lion with him about the horse, but it was before the
debt was contracted for which he sued him. I said,
"This is • very nice hone and trap you ban, Mr.
Warren." He answered, "Yes, it is, and it cost inn a
great deal of money." It was in consequence of his
having so good a horse that 1 gave him credit. I con-
sidered he was a reepeetable man and well able to pay
me. I received several letters from him by post The
one geed bearing date September 7th, I received. It is
signed "Thomas Warren." Warren purchased butter
and cheese of me, and previously to his bankruptcy
always paid me, generally ready money. I did not
know he was • bankrupt—Mr. Chitty, having ex-
pressed surprise that a tradesman living at Wimberne
did not know when a debtor was made a bankrupt in
the Blandfbrd County Court, his Homer said he quite
believed it. Notwithstanding Vint the benkruptcy was
published in the newspapers, tradesmen would not take
the trouble to read them.—Jentes Cram, of
neat Ontsbegue, said be recollected @nehmen kV,

SYMONDSBURY.

ON Saturday week, as some of Mr. Pitfield's
labourers were about to remove from Mowerbury-
lane some tops of trees, the trunk of one of thew
toppled from the gide of the bank, and completely
filler, up the centre of the road so as to impede all
traffic,. Most providentially all esospe.l with their
lives, but unhappily the fork of the tree caught the
forehead of one poor fellow, William Hodder, and
completely scalped it. Re is still very ill, but we
trust is not in a dangerous state.