The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1865-10-24 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ASSAULT.—James Bartlett, a pugilistic. £203 last year, and that during the last 15 or 16 fears looking pefsenage Mal brought before the magistrates they had gold off property in fee to the amount of on Thursday on the charge of sessult. According to guile £lO,OOO, for the purpose of building tho present the evidenoe of P.S. Hunt he wall rent for about Townhall, And new he was told that they would get the nine o'clock on the previous night to go to the money required for building the New Corn-Exchange-- defendant's house. On arriving there, he looked in he called it ball-room— et the window, and saw defendant strike his wife Mr. PROUD: That's not original. down. She eried out murder, and he went in and The Maims: Why should you speak of it in that way? picked her up. he wee n a dreadful state and Mr. PROUD: He has a parpose to acres, bleeding very much. While he was holding her up, defendant tried again to strike her. He subsequently Mr. ANDREWS said he learnt that in the middle of the . ball-room there was to be iron pill erected and a took up the tongs and tried to strike the policeman tremdedr ha the Car, but Where were the retiring on tbe head, but the constable warded off the blows rooms? He thought that lie had, shown why they with his hand and arm. He then took him into ought not to seal the contract, which would infolee, an ensitody.—The Bench told the prisoner that had his expenditure of from £2,000 to £3,000 for • building wife appeared against him he would have received a whith was really not requisite in his opinion. The plan very severe ptinilinnent, as it was he would be fined for a building that was first laid before them gave all 20s. and costs for assaulting the pollee, or be corn' the accommodation required for £9OO, and now they nutted for a monbh. were going to expend from £2,000 to £3,000 for a ballroom they did not require. They could "badger" him Ceuta IN Pooez. —Snperintendent Gifford hal as long an they liked. He had no party to serve, he had Presented his annual statistical returns of crime in no interest to aggrandise, and he would ask them, before the borough of Poole for the year ending September they taxed the toen for the ereetion of the proposed 27, in acoordanoe with the instructions of the building, to consider those hard-wdrking men *lid *ere Secretary of State. During the year 292 persons now struggling for a subsistence. hid been profteded against summarily. Of those Alderman Eason seconded the amendment, and 188 were confided, end 124 diaoharged. Those directed attention to to the "financial dimmed" which convicted were disposed of SI follows i —Three has afflicted the town for several years past, rendering months end above two, 2; two mouths and above the premised outhay highlyempollitio, and,oediumnting on one, 4 i one month and Above fortrteen days, 16 ; the abstirdity of supposing that the Corn Exchange fourteen ditys Mid tinder, 5113 •to reformatory school, when built could ever be used for a ball-room. 1; fined in various stilts, 100 1 find sureties and Mr. Loos entered into a personal explanation why he reoognizaooes, 2; delivered over to the army and should not vote upon the question. He thought the navy, 5; other punishments, 15. Of those convicted present building sufficient for all requirements for l5 were . several years to corns: 72 male and Ates, 3 mailesuamale and pio iou characters, ctal temevagrants,andlu Mr. Getz g said he felt somewluti in the sante posi. tine 00 Mr. Trek, be% if tee and 7 females, oharaoten unknown. There had the matter camp to the Totes he been 17 indictable offences reported to the thduld be Itetre& 8f the !ageing of fhb tiontrecti for wholeaathpetaaoa raf t questionaoaahtradaatadavaadnci:cc,lws Med for trial at the assizes and of laairt,manwdeladapeaartiOnumieehad. been zepreb.ended,. eleven. to sign it. He appealed to them whether, after certain sessions, making a total of aO7 persons proceeded tatl!eybjaclstallf:l ti be se formally proceeding,' had been taken, it was not ill-timed and against. Of the 15 apprebended ou indictable illordtrised, for members to come forward at the list offenoes, 11 were committed and 4 discharged. Of Mager to Moven) the tompletien of the Works deter- the 11, three were known thieves, 7 suspicious Mined optin. He vrottld rather terrain from entering iiliirsoters, and one previous goad character. into details as to what Mr. Andrews and Alderman —.-F,nsor bad Lid before them, for fear of pro- CCM IfFS