The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

September leek—Prisoner pleaded not guilty.—Mr.
Poole prosecuted.— The shirt which was hanging with
another of the mune snake and quality at prose-
cutor's door, sae sieved on the day in ques-
tion and • similar one TM mold by prisoners at
Gillingham to an herbalist named Treas., for
2s. Gd. whose wife delivered it up to the polies
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constable. Prosecutor did not ohs the shirt kill the
following Wednesday sorning.—The prisoner said the
shirt he sold st Gillingham he bought in • little town in
Hereford, the name of which he forgot, and he war forced
to sell it as he was "hard up," and was snaking his way to
Portsmouth. He gate 7s. &L for Ik—i verdict of
guilty was returned. He was ordered to be kept to
bud labour for three calendar months.
Thomas M uvh, 20, maks, was indicted for haring
'Wee a nember of gold and Slyer 00jaag of
the value of about £24, the property of Jae*
Northover, at Posserstock, on the 4th °sober last.—
Mr. /looks prosecuted and Mr. Barker appeared for
, prisoner.—Prosecutrix, an aged person, keeps a beer
shop as Milton, in the perish of Powerstoek, and bed
between £24 and C'ES in • box in her bedroom the night
previous to the 4th inst., and the next day it was gone.
Prisoner had been working st the house. and on the day
In question was seen by John Brown to leave
toes house in the afternoon. The old lady
Carr footsteps between two and three o'clock
,in her bedroom and afterwards saw some white foot-
marks in her bedroom. P.O. Dewland found the bag
of money about 150 yards from the beer-shop, with
about baildneb of dirt over it, and seine the Prisoner
told him to go with him to a gate 30 or 40 yards from
where the money was found, and his boot corresponded
with a boot track found there. The prisoner acknow-
ledged going over the gate at the time. Prisoner, when
taken to Bridport, saki "I don't see how they can hurt
me, as they did not lind the money on me. —Kr.
Banks addressed the jury on behalf of the prhioner.
—Thome Brown wee called on behalf of the de-
fence, and said be had worked with prisoner
for the last six months but never bad found
anything wrong against hina—Mr. Weeks then ad-
dressed the jury, and the chairman summed up. —The
jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him
to mercy on amount of his age. —Sentenced to six
calendar months' bud labour.
Robert Barnes. 26. butcher, was charged with steeling
a lead pump. value £l, the property of Rchard Talbot,
at Organford. Mr. Bankes prosecuted- The pump was
lying in an outhouse on prosecutor's premiss. and
prisoner, who had been working there, was found offer-
ing It for sale to a marine store dealer at Poole. He was
found guilty, and sentenced to six months' bard labour.

George Oliver she spoke of the good therester
prisoner Hodges bore.
The Chairman then summed up, ia the mum of
which be mentioned that the arguments had bees
urged with great ability and judgment, at mine Meek
though not longer than the nature of the crime ne..
(mired, and likewise spoke of the reckless manner in
wire& Pyppen had made statements, which proved to
be totally false, and drew the attentio• of the jury to •
few of the mast Important potato of the ease.
The fury could not agree, mid were locked up. In
about • quarter of an hour they returned into Court
with a verdict of guilty aided both primmer", but re-
commended them to the hadesey of the court oa
account of their good character.
The Chairman addreeeng them, said it wee not an
ordinary ems of army or elm the sentence might have
been more severe, and they were also willing to take
into :eonsideratiou the recommendation of the jury.
They were eacS sentenced to three celeadarl menthe'
hard labour.
DrodUa Grainger and Mary Ann Wakeley were
brought up for ludimeut. The Chairman remarked
, that It wim a whJleeia. robbery, el Om property stolen
wee Very great. It wee not a general osaa in which
servants succumb to temptation. Drusilla Grainger was
, sentenced to hard labour for six calendar months, and
Mary Ann Wakeley to low Woad& month, of limiter
punish sent.
Thu concluded the bushels' of the Sessions, and the
Courtrai) at three o'clock.

BLLNDFORD COUNTY COURT, Ocrosu 15.
(Balm R. Evgairr, Esq.)
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Between GO and 70 original plaints were entered, bat
only 38 came on for hearing, and of them the greeter
part were devoid of public interest. An application was
made by Mr. Rallies, mune-seller, Blandford, for •
judement summons against Kr Brooks, formerly
organist and schoolmaster, at Bturnsinster Marshall, sow
residing in the Isle of Wight. It animated that the deo
feridant had laid 10s. the last court day, and Promithd
the remainder by El monthly instelments.—Application
greeted.
James Vincent r. H. Alford.—ln this cue Mr.
Atkinson appeared for the plaintiff, who mks& for •
judgment summons. The debt was contrasted about six
years ago, and the defendant went to gaol on • judgment
summons, since that time, aceordlig to client's state-
ment, he had thine into the poseession of property.—
His Honour decided that proof must be gives that such
was the use, and the bearing was adjourned till the
next court day.
Joseph Strange V. Jonathan Paddock. —Claim Rb
This was an adjourned case to give plaintiff opportunity
to produce attesting witness to so agreement. —Mr.
Chitty for the plaintiff, and Mr. Atkinsoe for the
defendant. —The parties reside at Hthelbury Brien, and
the claim was for five years' rent. An agreement
under which this sum was to be paid as mot was pro-
' dosed, in support of which the following seldom° was
given :--Elizabeth Tapp said that the agreement pro-
duced was signed by the defendant In her presence.
Her husband, who wee then a schoolmaster, prepared
the agreement. Could not my if it was signed on the
day it bore date. The agreement WM reed over
several times to the defendant —Mr. Atkinson said his
Moot had been in possession of the cottage foe the past
50 year., and had never paid any rent. The terms of
the agreement having been read, his Honour said it was
clear that • mortgage bad been effected on the property,
and that the defendant agreed and did for some time pay
interest; but, that having failed to keep it up, and
owing the plaintiff in 1854 • *amnia sum, be became
tenant eff the mortgagee at the annual rent of El
In reply to the Judge, Mr. Chitty said that they
elahned rent for the pad five yeara—Mr. Atkinson
having remarked that he weld not sontrovert the
evidence of the attesting withers, said that his client
must have signed the agreement in error, believing that
It was an agreement on his pert to pay interest for the ,
money due to plaintiff, and not an agreement to pay
rent. Under these circumstances be was prepared to
coy the five guineas due for rent, provided the this
deeds were given up to his client. —Mr. Chitty: You
pa. 7 down the money, we will soon produce the deeds.—
His Honour said that according to the terms of the
arreetnent he could not do otherwise than tire • verdict
folt the plaintiff, but on being told by Mr. Atkinson
that the defendant was =needed by the parish, he
remarked it did not matter moth what order he made,
for the law would not allow a man to be sent to prison
furs debt who was receiving parochial relief. Order
for the amount claimed at 100. per month.
John Adams,. Richard G. Hatcher—Claim £6 18a.
The plaintiff is a butcher, and formerly kept the Union
Arms Inn, Child Okeford. The claim was for meat,
beer, and spirits. Defendant pleaded • set-off, and the
ease WY adjourned to allow him to prove it
The same v. O. Shepherd.—. Claim El Bs. 90.—1 n
this cue the defendant, in addition to pleading • Pet-off.
dated that he had paid several of the items charged.
His Honour, haring very carefully pas through the
disputed sums, and allowed se. to defendant for appear.
log es witness for plaintiff at the fiturminster Petty
Seething. gave verdiet for the plaintiff for its. 91., to be
paid forthwith.
Willies's Young e. William Brown and William
Young.. dtickley.—Both of these were undefended
eases, and for anal amounts. Judgment was Liven at
3e. a month. We only
They notice them to call attention to
the remarks of the judge. were for debts coo-
treated by the wive' olabouring men and without
their knowledge. His Honour said this was the old
game, and tradesmen must be careful to let husbands
know what debts their wives contracted, or else they
would not be able to recover.

FIRST COURT, THUBSDAY.
(Before J. FLOYER, Req., Deputy Chairman.)
Henry Cook and Joseph Hodges, two young men,
surrendered to the bail, on a charge of realioiously
setting fire to a certain building, the property of Mrs.
Mary Heeler Stem* at Charosouth. Mr. Collins,
instructed by Mr. A. Tucker, prosecuted, and Mr. W.
Nooks, instructed by Mr. Jelliffe, defeeded
On the previous evening the ewe was the subject of
some discussion between the Court and the ciounsel
engaged in it, the Chairman raising the question
whether b. building burnt was not such • house as to
make the Cale one for the ceder.; but the attorney for
the prosesution satisfied the Court that it was not •
hones within the meaning of the Act, and, therefore,
that the charge could be tried at this Court.
The two prisoners, with • young man named Simeon
Fyppen, steward in the service of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company, were together on the night of the
lith September, and early on the morning of the 7th.
They went to several public houses, where they had
something to drink, and shortly after 11 o'clock they
went out into the village, doubtless something the
worse for liquor, and Mem unhanging gates. As they
proceeded along the street, carrying on their stupid
"lurking." they came to the George Inn, where they
went in, and had two quarts of beer. While in that
how., by agreement, they salked of having been at Moe'
combelake, to prevent empicion of the gate unbenging
falling upon them. After that they went over fields
and garden. in very erratic fashion, and in • garden at
the back of the premises which Imre burnt, Fyppen
lost a gold ring. Ultimately they came to some
large gates of Mr. Hodges's. This ends the preliminary
rt of the story, and we will relate the remainder, which
cress the subject of the present chugs in the word, of
Fyppen, who gave evidence for the prosecution. He
says :—When we were at these gates Cook said, "Sem-
mes we go down and burn that old home," (referring to
Mrs. Stuart'. home, which was an uninhabited tbstehed
and partly pulled down, so that the rooms were
easily seeessible.) We went down the field and got
over the wall, which brought us just at the beck of the
Hodges got up on the landing, and then I
got up. We helped each other up. Then Hodges tried
to light the thatch with some paper be had Ignited with
mate es. Cook was stopping at the door watching.
Hodges did not fire the thatch, but told Cook he was
not tell enough to reach it. Cook then CAW. up and
tried to set fire to the thatch with some paper be lighted
with matches Hodges gave him, but could not, and we
then tore off some of the papering from the wall.
Cook held It up to the thatch and just ignited
It, and we left the thatch smouldering. We
then got down from the landing, and all left
the building. I went home. leaving Cook and Hodges
outside the promisee. Thls was about half -past t
Cross-examined : This was not a very cremtable night
in my history. I had been playing and drinking from
seven in the evening to eleven, and might have bad a
gime or two previously. Had such an evening that my
memory Is not very emirate about what occurred. Pre-
viously to my going before the magistrates, I went to
Mr. Tucker, solicitor. He mid he believed he had
sufficient evidence to connect Cook and Hodges .I.h
the fire, and, therefore, I had better make • clean hewn
of it. I made a statement to him to semen myself.
When I said this before the magistrates Mr. Jolliffe
added "And to throw the blame apes others," but I
can't say whether or not I said "yes." I also said "I
wanted to show I was drawn into it, and that mv object
was not reward." Previously to going to Mr. Tucker'.
I might have said in the prmeme of Board, Hodder,
and Rudder's son, "So help me God, I know nothing
whatever about the fire." If I did it was a delibe-
rate falsehood. T should have had nothing to do
with the matter if I had not been asked
to do no. I may have said. I was in such • state that I
did not care what I did. I have said in the presence of
ibis polio', I knew nothing whatever about the fire. I
told Hodder the police C. 42111 to look at my boots. and
I may have said they were of no use, but I dont recollect
It. nes ends Peppin's story. rhe building wee entirely
burnt down. When the prisoners were apprehended they
gave contradictory amounts of where ty were that
night, and of the time they went home. Footprint.
were tracked in the pleas Fyppen said they all went
that night, and several policemen spoke to their corres-
ponding with the boots of the two prisoners, and in the
warden Fyppen indicated • constehle found the ring he
losl there. Cook wanted to get his boots from the poliee,
and when he was refused them, he said. "If I had
known what you wanted the boots for, I would have
got them tapped first, and that would have screwed yen
up for footmarks. I was wearing those boots all over
the time last night, so those you have found are of no
J.:ltnew then addressedthe jury for the protect:lLitre
and Mr. Ffooks next addressed them on behalf of the
defence. He said his learned friend had concluded his
remarks by saying if there was any doubt they would
give the prisoner the favour, but did the prosecution
feel that everything that ingenuity, practice, and ex-
perience could suggest had been urged in the moat
vehement manner, and yet the learned counsel thus
wound up. Having remarked further ?pen the charge
of feloniously setting fire to the house, the learn, 4
/Avocets entered fully into the facts of the ease.
first maintained that it had not been proved as Meted
by the cowbell teethe prosecution that the man Fyppen,
or either of them was drunk. He had certainly been
drinking on that day. Mary Board, the landlady of the
lan. where they had drink,lhad been called, and no
question bad been asked of either witnesses, whether SALISBURY.
the men were &mt. Fyppen left the beer-house alone
still o'elock. He then reviewed carefully the eviderice The Loan Bisifor or &weaver and Mrs. Heal!.
of Fyppen, and of UP manner in which he had perjured lcalt hate left the Palace for Devonshire. It is in-
himself . first, by denied upon oath that he had anything peeted that his lordship will be absent from his
to do with the fire, and then admitting it. During the oesis for nearly two month&
whole abiikagthoned ou." me bwwWWw, "'et h"llh° HEALTH Y STATR OF SALISBURY.—NOI only has
heard PA accomplice act in the way be had done, and the .
jar, Ard a man guilty. Simply to semen himself did kms le city enjoyed • freedom from cholera during the
object," be present epidemic,' but the deaths from all ceasewere
sa°*yme s
s "it nomatkfeorthree Italawardn", bet to Ito° attrow the blame on nnlY 35 for the quarter ending Sept. 30th, e.. at
others. The finding of the ring was no confirmation, and the rate of but 15 iu 1000 per annum. The births
the chairman would also tell them that the ring had no during the quarter were 64, or nearly double the
bearing whatever with regard to corroboiation. Baron number of death&
Martin end others had given their decisions in favour of
this. Then the next thing was the footmarks. The ElTRAollfrillinT KIDNEY. —On Saturday week
policeman had traced foot-marks in the street, cones- Messrs. Snook and Sons, of the Butcher-rows, took
pending cookie hoots. Suppose he hod, „i.e., uom en ox they had slaughtered • kidney, which,
was working shout there all the day and the night ; and with the suet, was of the extraordinary weight of
es
it was in the publle street, that could be no proof 62Iba, and measured 49 Moises in oiromnfereses.
that he HY at the fire. The wilful damage, B• urged, There were no indications of any kind of disease.
mud have been done to the trees by some other people, The other kidney wee only slightly over the average
salt had not been proved that the prisoners had been weight__ebout
in the garden. He was not straining this matter, but
be hoped ho war putting it b«fore man and man as SALISBURY CHORAL SOCIRTY.—The performing
priest strangers. Before the magistrates and again to- members of this society gave the third onooert of
lhay, 'men and one of the policeman had spoken of the mason to the subecritiers and the public at the
two footmarks, but afterwards said he saw three, and dasembly-romos, on Tuesday evening. The at-
P.B. Batty said there were three. Now were theretwo teediume was not so numerous as could have been
°ether.? He defied them to say upon this which they desired, the endless's consisting chiefly of =b-
ought tobelieve. If there were only two Fyppen had nobs scribers and friends. The programme was varied
oestradisted hireselL He had never been prosecuted, and attractive, and oonsisted of secular music.
although he had made en admission of guilt. A meet
elstesed thing was that they had not had any satiates- AOCTDINTS. —On Saturday week, • man named Wm.
tory insmarandum. It would be most essential and fieprell went into the market to get some greens for
satiefastory for the memorandum of what occurred his rabbits, when as he alleges, a cart was tilted
when prisoners were apprehendedt° have been pro' over upon him breaking his right mak' and b •
his ribs. —On Monday, Frederick Youen'g, a sawyer,dosed. Hs thoughtthat whrn prisoners were appre-
hended, very often Inducements were made by the police
for the pram soak. y men ts, and living in Winchester-street, was chopping wood,
preetiedly would not be evidence. A greet when the axe slipped, and inflicted • serious wound
▪ dlow.ops=e, the evidence were plainly brought just below the knee.—Both sufferers were taken to
outby the form of cross-examination. Dignity, the Salisbury inallllllll.
Impartiality, and generosity in our law has. been the ST. .4•ItTI/el NATIONAL Sonoma —The annual
admiration of many foreign writers, and it was with examination of these schools by Her Majesty's In-
justice that the administration of law was .Tied
as that could they finds man guilty on such e took plsoe'on Wednesday and Thursday week.
Rut evidence
Fyppen?of
DM Hedges run away when the constable Zcri.day, the children were treated to • tea in the
came to him? Did the jary think Mot amen who bad open-air, in Mra Fowler's park ; the weather being
wwessitted a crime which at one time Nu visited with floe, the scholars and their teachers enjoyed a
a penalty of death, would have stayed about by the 1,4 pleasant afternoon. Tea was afterwards provided
mast, where he could have easily made his °rape, or in fm the teachers in the girls' sobool-roorn, and a
the 'gage where the fire took place, till apprehended ph:mount evening was spent. The pupil teachers of
Ile asked if the testimony of Fnmen had he,o sirrob- the various schools in this city were examinod on
orated. There must have been some indignation and Saturday.
Inalisimis feeling to hay° actuated the setting fire to
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this house. In oonclusion he spoke of the conduct and
iridium* of Fyppen, as reprobate, and called for the in our Met, an inmate of the "lama's, °meld'
defence John Norris, broke out on Monday evening and as •
Robert Trait, who said there were more than 60 diver watedMerd belonging t° 1.1" Gat". Cite'',
people at the fire at half-past three, and a great deal of the porter, been stolen a week previously,
excitement was created. He never saw Fyppen the suspicion fell upon him. its was emeirdinell &PM.
whole time. At about half-pact two there was a very handed at the Ship Inn, and charged with the
bard storm. He maw Cook in the momisz, and eaw him robbery, whioh he bonfassid, adding that be had
trying to stop the firefroin spreading to Wylie. lii „i.en the wt.,' to hie mother. He wee brought
had a long pole with him, but knew not where he got it. w'
before the Mayor on Tuesday, and remanded until
He saw some people shoat the railbap before spoken of,
Satuy. or rda F reasons which did not transpire, the
but saw no one in the
Mary Board, landlady of the George Inn, said the Penenmem de°ll"d to °Frew, and the Prisoner MB
prisoners 44014 10 her hones about ten n'eloek on the disobarged.
night In question, mid had • quart of beer. They were
watchmaker,
.111wiaT •bfirwoutt7ols Bope...—:leorha nandlkionnesabitturdiry,
Saturday
there about 20 minutes. She had known Hedge, for boy who had been in the employ of Mr. T 81
y.
seem time.
For the proof of good character Mr. Ffoolp called keg.. T. W. Gil
' Daniel Board, who keeps the George Inn, ised Who tuse week,Eaq. charged with haring
' lived in the parish 18 or 19 years, and who lam known stolen two florins from his master's till. He W 44
Cook the whole time. He hid never beard anything as apprehended by Mr. Supt. Caldow, to whom he
all against hies. He knew Hodges, too, haying mittsiel this theft, and also acknowledged that he
'Measly been oue of his pupils at his school and luid had stolen a silver watch belongine to Mr. 81y. He
deeps heard him spoken of as wellmondusited offered the watch in pledge to Mr.lBewell. paws.

Tiia—ely;:picy.---:Pilllis-usT;li;reham, whose case was ad-
journed from the last court to amend statement of
amounts for the ath mouths previous to bankruptcy,
now appeared, supported by Mr. Atkinson, and his
statement being deemed setisfeetory by his lionour, his
diaeharge was granted,