The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1881-04-12 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

WAS. Th • p stare from New Zealand, ..nder hali.an-ounc; would be 61. The mark on the bill •• as not an ALIA one. Oa December 8 h there was a chaee.• of it. on the bill. but there wee Dot one of 84. On Do, We t• ere was no bili as is was a special delitery, being Chr smuts Her. On Web. let there was a &tugs of 61. 11•1 ploVed edCeilieel the registered latter f. om Weymouth on December 8 h in • sealed letter I, ig, and hauling it 5. the prisoner. The mark oa was so• official, and the rr.son-r h to. risht to chane Si. all it ; and it ne tied ercrienled for it it would have leen 'leered on the bill. There were no chaise I letter. •n De 24th. Tucker's I -de- eharee wino t offity at The mark on L registered letter was not official. On Felritary 10th. in COD/011uenes of certain imam tints. he spoke t • th• pris we,. He first spoke to him abut the sixpenny o: erg. on Mr. L ihe's letter, end asked him if be had hod a b.r..k packet charged 61. He said no, but he hal ha I toe- chat.; d letters, one 4.1. and the other 21., one for Stsffor I and the other for Stinefmd. He 111111%• him the envelope (product.'). and ask el him bow he arc tinted for the charge of 6'. on It, lie said that WU the same charge which bad been 'nt. red on his lett v bill of that foaming. Witnees told bins this could not mosibly as he had jut: told km that there heel been 1.1) 1. tt .re eirxed. Ile then q o,stioned him as to the 81. charge on I) weenier Bh. 11-. adte t him to explain it, and Ile add It Was nt wed on tho letter bill." Wanes, praluced tha bill, and showed him there was no entry of 81. on it. Nest he asked him an..ut Ellen's bill. He said that, to'. was entered; but witness refuted that by showily.; him the 1011. Hu made it number of statements in each cis.. .10 told him he should mamma him end Tete r: 'he case to the .urveyer. Ile asked if he should to allowed to go again, and wdmess replied "Certainly not. un• il I get instructi tuti from Luoloo." He also told him he believed be hod been telling him a lot of tat and h., then Raid "1 ca'.'t think what made me illi,b?tn will confess to it. I can't think what made me so stupid," or words to that (Mot. Prisoner asked a number of qms'ions in a rambling way, sal alluded to the recent coerce of suicide against him. Mr. T.nn plar remarked he had not mentioned anything &boot rm. Ile w advised by the Court not to bring it op. Ch 40.11 lied say said be wait clerk in the D vehester Poet.OMoe. Ile despatched the prom:tar on his journey on Augase s!h. It would have been his did. to sign the bill whlch e I the amount t rollect.ei. He signed the bil: (p.l, ;need) which lain charge of let on It. in- Ii L ...ranee Ler: mold he WV% a clork in the Dore. ,toe Post-012.e. On the evening of Augo‘t sth prison. r deliv•-red 111., and the bill was duly Mg' ed. He did n d hand in lt. Bi. 01 December Bth he received 14. which was entered on the bill There was no charge of 8d on it neither did be aecount for It. T iimsa Ralph (lollop said he was a clerk in the ' Doe-hooter Fo4-041c% On Decembs r Bth he handed the ' Prism. r the bill. The only. chatzu which he was ant' ormed to r •oeive and which was math. d on the bill was 1.1. On February 6th he handed the prisoner the bill. , an lon that day he had to collect the gum of 61.. but not ri•gietred 1. ter. He raid 61. on the following , m0...ih.. If ibis 61. had to be received on a registered thv it wfluld have been mocked on the usual green itc•itt.. There Was n, such mark on it. Soper;niendent (iide proved apprehending the prisoner. ch•trced him w.th obtaining ed by false pretence , fr. rn Ms. Line. He asked If she was in here. He said o•teh..i the wow as he want-el to g.O it of his mind. Ile .o 'd e knew he had foolishlv done it. , Pri. m v sel ireset the jury saving although they had ar.l no.ch ethane, azainst him, a great deal of it tale,. Ho male a very laws defence and denied false moo eni-et. The I) tputy-Chairman haying summed up the evidence, % the Jur v in- few minutes returned a ver,liet of " Guilty," hat ;tended him to mercy on account of Ilia long LlH•ws sentenced to twelve mottheimprisonmentwith burl Latour.  Peinitit (le Psoretossas.-Last Saturday I ehearn y, navy. sod merchant pensioners were pal t the Guildhall. Ahem £6OO in gold, silver, an i brunet we dispensed, the distiibution occupying 166,10 five hoe"), par of which some ~f the men sought to pass in the pliblichous.s near. Mercurius -Me bicycle e.`ub hell their annual etieg w., kat the Guildhall. Mr. 11. Wiliam., seam ch.sen bon. secoetary, Mr. v. J eleeted capt lin, Mr. G. 1 mutiny aulreaptein. and Ma. Wo dward, chef, man of the meeting, was eh'wen huger The balance sheet showed some poundis in hand; • el memle re are going for new nisch'e as, and am', new inensbera fowl. Brow •41.-A grey-haired old man. named Thomas Jarvie was !nought up on Tuesday, before the Pa. r nigh maiebtrans. foe begging in St. igeniani's-terrac P.C. Bull., found hits there last night, and when searched, 24 was fonod on him. -lb fondant said he was 'banging by lowing, but trying to gee work. He was a weaver, and get a little, but very little, to do at Chard; but that wan seven or eight weeks ago. -The Chairman said ire doubt he was living by begging, and eentence,l him to even days' hard labour. iinirento Nows.-ArrivaLi : Brighton, Fall', Jerree general • Great Western, Blampial, Cherbourg, general; 'Vulture, Pe me, 'harbours, general; Jessie and Emily, W , Southampton, nil ; Elisabeth and Mary, Maher, Southampton, ail ; Harmony, Attwooll, Hartlepool, coal; hli.nnaid. Le Meander. Arbroath. potatoes; Fanny, Supper, Portsmouth. Government sires; K via Harrisa. Harrison, Hamburg, potatoes; Ara-mull, Green, Po. tland, : Great Western, Blampied, Cherbourg, general • Vulture, Pearn, Cnerbourg, general; Brighton, Falk, Jersey, general.