The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-07-07 00:00:00

SHOP ROpigfir AT IyErMOPTII.

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Irvine alian Herrin, 34, late railway porter was
with breaking into the shop of Mr, F. N. White,
4 at Weymouth, April 14, and stealing l&—Mr.
) prosecuted, and said the chop wits an outlying
without any dwellimphouse, consequently it was
It without any occupant at night. Mr. tihaddock, Ur,
'Me'. manager, who took charge of this chop, noticed
mer loitering about on the evening just before closing
!, and at 11.1.31 at night ?dm and Ulm lloneybun caw
leaning against the chutteni. Next morning the
was found to have been broken into. On the inner

. were mirko—of ;Chisel, and aloo the leanied counsel
rughtof a knife. A portion of the frame would beheaded
them, and they could judge for themselves. The gold
i silver was taken away every night, and only coppers
Of these there was shout 30. 410., including a
sr halfpenny. A sardine box was also broken
irdonostion wao given, a constable sent in
and he WAS arrested at Chideock. He mentioned
t away a soft hat; witnesses would speak to his
It : and a policeman going to the spot he
Ound the hat. In his porketo were found a box of
celebrated Waverly matcher, free from smell."
:h. were Scotch matches, of an unusual kind, and the
re sort as were in Mr. White's shop. When charged
the constable, he said "Here are the °imperil," produc-
• over :la worth from his pocket. On the premises was
il a hit of button and on the coat worn by prisoner
was a broken button which this little piece exactly
.. The constable who arrested him walked about 30
a, and his conduct setimed to bin, to have been highly
itorious.
r. Shaddock, manager to Kr. F. N. White. of the shop
mostly% spoke to seeing prisoner loitering about the
on the afternoon in question, and telling James
ley to watch him. Nobody skpt at the *lmp. On the
of the 14th he left about 4s. in coppers in the tilL
of the hell-penny'. he knew particularly having had
turned by three or four customer.. There were also
e or four Jersey coins. [ln the coppers hamlet to him
les. identified the .pecial half-penny.) On the morn-
of the 15th he found the door had been forced, meat
he drawers pulled out, and the coppers taken out of
till except the farthinga A sardine box was also
- open. The match-box produced was a common
,ner to the learned counsel: You're rather am-Kited
, ain't you
a-examined by prisoner, who had a lung written
Would not swear the half-penny was the same
it it was,
_vet not from any peculiar mark but it's
eti state. 'The piece of button was found by Supt.
v, ry and Martlett. Did not tell the police how
he . ought the place wata entered.
James Tierney said Kr. Shaslslock called his attention
to prisoner luiteringabout the shop between four and live
in the afternoon of the day in question.
George Heater, watchmaker, of Park-street, also spoke
to Seeing prisoner near the shop about tea-titue the seine
day. About one o'clock next morning he heard a noise in
I was oimply looking
Mr. White's shop.
CrC"4lSiito:exiMr li'nutudh'earY,vugenweretlemenlwia. ng
about.
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about.
Mrs. Honeybuo said about 11)010 p.m. on the ni ht in
question, she saw prisoner Inanieg against the s4utf.erl UI
the eheO• Had seen him before in the day•thne.
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