The Poole Telegram. — 1884-06-27 (Poole, Dorset, England)

STEALING SHIRT3.—At the Shirehall, on Saturday, physical features, and the varied pepulation to be before Robert Williams, Esq., Peter Mulvale, John met with. The speaker, who as a genuine missionary, Moore, and Thomas Turner, privates in the Cheshire dealt with his subject with great earnestness and Regiment, were charged with stealing four shirts, feeling. On one occasion he took a number of his the property of William Downton. at West Chickerell, students for a trip up the Demerara river, in the on the night of the 17th inst.—Julia Rolls said she missionary district, of which ha had ohs, ge, reed in the gathered a congregation together at one of the little was a married woman living at Charlestown, parish of West Chickerell. On Tuesday, June 17th, chapels. At the back of his " parish" were no less she had some clothes hanging oat in the garden—two than 300 miles of very dense forest, and he could not flannel and two top shirts. She saw them about nine help wondering where the congi eeatien came from. o'clock, and the next morning at six o'clock they There in that out of the way spot were representatives were gone. There were marks in the garden of some- of all nations of the earth—from Europe, Asia, Africa, one having got over the wall.—P.C. Andrews said on and America, and he only wished some of the people Wednesday morning he received information from at home, who talked about missione in the light, the prosecutor that four shirts had been stolen flippant way that they were accustomed te do, could from the garden during the night. He went have been present. They would have seen a picture, and examined the place, and found several footprints as it were, of what would one day take place all there and considerable damage done to the garden. through the world. Very often people did not take Hearing there ha i been a shirt sold rat Abbotsbury, on home to themselves the results which arose from the the next day he trace i the three prisoners, and found work, and he asked every contributor to the society's one of the shirts in the possession of a man named funds to identify themselves with every good res ilt, Briar, who had purcha ed it of the prisoner. Witness and thank God they had been partly instrumental in traced the prisoners to Weymouth Barracks, and found bringing it about. They would then, he believed, take another shirt in the possession ef Turner. In corn' courage and do more for the future. He then gave an play with Sergeant Wills he apprehended them.—Mr. account of the first planting of the gospel seal in the Supt. Gale said the prisoners were brought to the colony. When the Dutch settled there their trap station at Dorchester on Friday on the charge of actions with the natives were charecterie dby the same stealing the four ehirts. Retold them he should have unscrupulous anti bed treetne mt whi. bh. I a' Len led to get them remanded, as two of the shirts were net their settlement in every other pl tee. leTather the recovered. Moore said "We sol t them af a public- Hindus or the negroes had the slightest knowledee if house at Abbotsbeey to three men who were having the truth till the English settled there, 'nil, t i the their bream este, one of the other pri-oners said honour of our nation be it s sal, no sooner "That is right enough—it's no use telling any lies did they settle there than they began to take about it."—The Superintendeut asked for a remand steps to instruct the poor heathen ire the knowled re of In order to complete the evidence, which was granted. the blessed gospel. There Was a highly diversified population there, thousands of Hindoos and Chinese having been introduced by the Ilaet3re on account of the laziness of the natives. At least half of the Indians were Christians, and such had been the influence of their conduct on the others, that they had renounced the worst of their old berbarous rites. The two flagrant crim a which in dye gone by were so common—religions murder and the "religious rite" of intoxication—had been almost entirely renounced, At the present time they had not one single African who was not a Caristian ; 70 or 100 years ago thee was not one. He admitted there were among these said Christiars some of the greatest vaeabonds on the face of the earth. They had had an i good alike, as they had at home, hut he might say they had a very large number of Christians aineog these humble blacks who would pus many in this country to the blush.