Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1876-11-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE POLICE.  John .Ifalon:t, a marine, of If. MS. Warrior, was brought up for assaulting P.C. Barter, in the execution of his duty at Portland, on Wednesday, Oetob.ir Itith. Witness said he received a description of twelve men breaking their leave, and a warrant for their opprehension.—Defendant was one of them.—Witness awl Miller, a fellow constable, went in search of them, and found prisoner and another marine, in the closet at the hack of the Terminus Hi iteL They forced the door, and Miller took the other, Hatt, when prisoner struck at him with his hift hetet ; but witness caught the blow, when prisoner drew froth his breast a stone in a habilkerchief, and struck witness on helmet, knocked it off, and then struck witness on the head with the stone : the blood flowcd down over his face. With the assistance of others they took him to the police station, prisoner resisting ail the way.—Witness produced the battered helmet, and the blood-marked coat —Prisoner said he knew nothing abaut it ; he was drunk at the time.—P.C. George Miller corrotated, giving a it scription of the struggle. Prisoner said he would kick their legs off and they were obliged to take off his beets and call on two of the military police to take him to the police station. where they were obligee to carry him. He was not so much in liquor }entreat he knew what he etas about. When in the police sirOlf a be said that if he over had the chance to come ashore again at Portland, he would do for him.—The chairman told prisoner that if the blow had fallen on another part of the constables heal, he (prisoner) might have beau tried for murder.— Barter was off duty about a week. Dr. Allen McLean. of Portland, seoke to Barter's coming to his house for medical assistance. Ile was pale anti cold, suffering from slight giddiness, and with vonaiderable pain on the right side of the head. He had a contused wound, about three inches long, over the right side of the head ; but there Was no injury to the skull. The blow was a severe one, and a little lower it might have been a fatal one. He dressed the wound, and gave instructions to the sergeant that Barter was not to do any duty till he thought tit. This was to prevent any after consequences arising from the wound. The wound healed quickly, and the man was tit for day nit Tuesd iv last.— P.C. Roper said that on the day after the assaule he conveyed the prisoner from the come to Dorchester Gaol on remand. On the road he said "This is all through drink: they had better discharge nee from that ship er I shall kill some of the —in there yet. It is lucky for them they did not take me off to the ship that night, for I would have 'drowndeir one of them out of the boat. I am never going to be taken without having a break out for it.' —Prisoner : Every word of that is false. —ln cross-examination witness denied having said "You'll get hung at the finish."—Prisoner: "Yon ought to tell the truth; if I had not had the hanilcutts I tell you straight you would not have said it again."—Witness went on to say that what he answered the prisoner wag when he was asked what he would get, that it depended on how the constable got on; if the man died prisoner would be hanged for it —Prisoner : "It is all false; the look of him is bail enough—worse than my look."—The Chairman said this was a most serious case. They were at first thinking of sending prisoner to the assizes, but hail decided to deal with him fur at, assault on the police, and sentenced him to six months' hard labour, hoping that it would have a greed effect upon him. -Prisoner (gratefully) : I am ver: much obliged to you, gentlemen, indeed. He was then retuoveil.—Sergt. Ambrose Berridge produced a parchment containing an account of prisoner's conduct, from which it appeared that he was a very insubordinate man. Out of three years' service he had spent :IN days in prison ; but when he joined the Warrior, and had not been thwarted or ordered about much, his character was "very rood "